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IT BEGINS posted:Is there a good unbiased rundown of the Brexit situation overall somewhere? I'm a US goon that started paying attention to this way too late and everything I'm looking at either seems really partisan or has very little information other than 'this is good/bad'. David Cameron promised a referendum on leaving the EU so racists would vote for him, they didn't actually plan on this passing and now Cameron is going to resign as prime minister. The idea is that leaving the EU means the UK can be truly sovereign and say "no thanks" to the dirty immigrants and refugees taking their jobs. The reality is the UK will need to re-negotiate trade deals with the EU and obviously that is going to require the UK to accept immigrants and refugees. There is no benefit whatsoever, and since the UK is a financial hub it is loving the global economy as well.
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Jarmak posted:So if Scottland and N. Ireland vote to gently caress off from the UK and stick to the EU does that mitigate the global ramifications at the cost of turbofucking England/Wales, or does it just make the whole thing worse? probably a huge mess, as mentioned Spain in particular will block their entry into the EU because it sets a precedent and they do NOT want Catalonia voting on an independence referendum this not only weakens the UK it also is really bad news for the stability of the EU
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for all the US posters tuning in, this is basically like if all those dumb loving debt ceiling / government shutdown stunts actually resulted in the US defaulting no one thought this was actually going to happen
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the dying breath of the British Empire is not a noble and dignified peaceful death in bed it's a particularly wet and raunchy fart directed at immigrants and refugees
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Jun 24, 2016 08:49
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you thought it was just a little gas, but then you poo poo your loving pants
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Paul MaudDib posted:Germany up 19% looks like Hillary and Angela gonna be best friends, while whomever replaces Cameron as PM of the shitwreck that is the UK will be very sad and lonely
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Crabtree posted:Uh, excuse me, but we classified ourselves with the Great Apes. Thank you. what do you have against gibbons, their padded butts?
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Jun 25, 2016 19:05
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pillsburysoldier posted:In all seriousness, chimps are evil strict male dominance hierarchy and inter-group warfare makes u think
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A Pale Horse posted:Bonobos are the best (if you can ignore the ape pedophilia). They just lounge around and eat and gently caress all day. Its just a 24-7 ape orgy basically. Unsurprisingly, they don't really have the energy for violence. also a matriarchal society, the status of a male is dependent on his mother  thankfully chimps don't swim very well so they might not take over the world after we wipe ourselves out edit: also I'll take ape pedophilia over chimps murdering infants Spoondick posted:I suspect we are hardwired to fear each other to a degree. Humans have been ruthless killers of each other and other animals for as long as we've been able to keep track. We are also certainly susceptible to manipulation, and we are manipulated to distrust each other so effectively it could appear our distrust of others is innate. The conservative v. liberal cultural foreverwar gripping our democracies is a trap set by manipulators. They keep us divided and set against each other, because unified we have the power to make substantive changes to improve our quality of life at the expense of the manipulators. ah yes,  humans are also capable of meta-cognition so your point is moot. even if we are programmed to be racist/tribalist, we're also able to recognize our racism and that it is bad. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 19:52 on Jun 25, 2016 |
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