Quote from: Duncan on June 25, 2016, 01:23:27 PMThis was not, by and large, a decision arrived at through critical thought and weighing of the issues.
No decision decided by vote ever is. We do encounter the usual problem when people explain to us how stupid referendums are, though. That is that many of the folks now telling Europe that this is a horrible example of democracy run amok are:
a) democratically elected themselves, which may in fact prove their point. If Great Britain or other Europeans are too stupid to decide if they want to be part of the EU or not, obviously they are too stupid to elect representatives, and we should revert to monarchy. That statement is 51% sarcastic, if that.
b) assholes in general. The main argument for Brexit in retrospect, to me, is that it has been condemned by every asshole on the planet.
In my opinion, the European Union could be a good thing if it secured its borders and represented Europe's geopolitical interests, rather than those of the US. At this point it does neither, and the stupidity of its leaders is beyond belief. IF you want to create an "open market" and profit immensely off of the working classes + the intelligentia of Europe, giving a few I-phones back in return, then kindly don't ruin the places where we live. Many of these cunts now lecturing the "xenophobes" of Britain for ruining the economy have themselves spent tens of thousands of Euros to buy homes well away from the "diversity." Why the FUCK do they expect working class whites to care about a loss of a couple of hundred quids in their monthly family income (which, apocalyptic and masturbatory revenge-fantasies of the Guardian comment section aside, is likely to be the absolutely most extreme result for most poor Britons even in a worst case scenario) to achieve the same result?
I don't mean this in any overtly radical way (i.e. "everyone who won't pass my special blood test will be killed or shipped back"), but I also don't mean it in any overtly retarded way (i.e. "well, the problem is that we don't do enough to integrate them" or "the real problem is radical Islam and that some of these new citizens don't like gay pride").
Either way, since I think a discussion of the moral value of immigration would send the forum ballistic, I will limit myself to this observation: if Europe had kept its borders secure and limited immigration to a reasonable level, none of this would have happened. While some may have voted brexit because they believed the EU fee would go towards health care or whatever other completely uninteresting retard issue the media is now pretending was very relevant to people's decision, the vast majority voted because they don't want to go outside and be met by the "oppressed Other" scratching his crotch and staring at them in a hostile fashion.
And before anyone goes all "well in fact" on me, I am well aware that the forces behind Brexit most likely will not limit immigration, since the neoliberal right never wants to. Still, the campaign pretended to, and the worse the situation in Europe gets, the more that strategy will pay off.
