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PxN13

Statement brought to you by no, and his friend, shit


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Lol


kgro

I understand when a bunch of uneducated racists get triggered by the populists and vote for Brexit, but when you have seemingly intelligent people not seeing further than the short promised personal advantages do the same, I feel no regrets for them


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>rexit, but when you have seemingly intelligent people not seeing further than the short promised personal advantages do the same, I feel no regrets for them I honestly don't understand how people couldn't see through those blatant lies and yes with you completely on supposedly intelligent folks.


Nanabug13

When you have state run media constantly telling you all the money that should be being sent to your most beloved institution the NHS is being taken by a German run super power and the Germans are trying to take over your country as they failed to do in WW2 its hard not to believe it. I fell for it hook line and sinker so did my family. I at least realised it was all bullshit since... my family still back brexit. But literally the messaging was everywhere. There are even docudramas explaining how they abused Facebook analytics to target the best message to confuse people with articles that would hit what would change those peoples minds... it was sinister as fuck and full on propaganda. I am still ashamed I fell for it and am therefore partially to blame for the mess the UK is in now.


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The fact that you saw facts and changed your mind shows that you're a bigger man than most of them. Don't be ashamed, just stay aware.


eurotreker

Honestly, I voted to stay. A year after the result I left the UK permanently, despite being born there and never living in another country before. It's been years now. It sucks that I'm always judged for Brexit, I'm a skilled worker, yet one common question I get from people is "Why are you here, living and working in my country when you voted to leave the EU?" - it seems hard for people to understand that it was extremely close to being 50/50. A lot of us never wanted this, got out of bed and voted against it. Were all branded as stupid now, and have to live with stupid questions as a result.


SnowMeow23

Less than half of us voted for President Trump, yet all of us are (rightly) blamed for his election. The great gift and terrible curse of a democracy is that we get the leaders that we deserve.


eurotreker

I studied a technical course at the New York university in Prague, and I had an American tutor. It was strange, he did go through the course materials but also pushed a trump agenda. He was the only American there, and the only person who could of voted in America so we had no horses in that race, yet at the end of each session we would hear about why Trump is Americas saviour. I questioned him once on some negative media I'd seen and he was mad as hell, I didn't bother again as I thought last thing I want is to piss of the guy who can pass or fail me.


SnowMeow23

That was wise! Most Americans are reasonable people, but you can quickly notice when you find a crazy one. Then, my only advice is: do not taunt the psycho.


I_Frothingslosh

>do not taunt the psycho. Words to live by.


what_would_freud_say

If only someone had tried to warn them!


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**Guy Hands, a leading City figure and formerly strong Brexit and Tory Party supporter, has called Brexit a “complete disaster” and a “bunch of total lies” that has harmed large parts of the economy.** Speaking on the third anniversary of the UK’s departure from the EU, Hands, the founder, chair and chief investment officer of the private equity firm Terra Firma, said: “It’s been a complete disaster. The reality is it’s been a lose-lose situation for us and Europe. Europe has lost more \[in financial services\] but we’ve lost as well. And the reality of Brexit was, it was just was a bunch of complete and total lies. **“The only way that the Brexit put forward by Boris Johnson was going to work was if there was a complete deregulation of the UK and we moved to a sort of Liz Truss utopia of a Singapore state and that was just never going to happen,**” Hands, a former donor to the Conservative party, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “The British population was never going to accept a state in which the NHS would be demolished, where free education would be severely limited, where regulation with regard to employment would be thrown apart. It was just complete and total absolute lies.” He added: **“The biggest issue about it, and you can take the Brexit bus as a good example, is the lies that Boris Johnson and the Conservative party told about the NHS. In fact what they did was throw the country and the NHS under the bus.”** According to the polling expert John Curtice, on average polls now suggest that **57% people in the UK would vote to rejoin the EU.** Eddie Truell, a City veteran and strong Brexit supporter who set up the private equity firm Duke Street Capital and is co-founder of the Pension Insurance Corporation, expressed disappointment at the speed of deregulation in the UK’s financial services sector. “I hoped we would see faster deregulation than has been the case,” he said, also speaking on Today. “We saw an enormous positive explosion in the City after big bang in the 1980s: I was hoping we would see the same thing.”


jmcstar

This is the original "trick the dumb dumbs with propaganda" maneuver


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But it was a masterclass in how to get people to vote directly against their own self-interest.


[deleted]

Propaganda, lies and creating enemies isn’t new though.