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[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 points 9 hours ago

Your collective choice as a country is to currently fuck around for four years. You are committed to that. It's not like there's an option like insurrection or

[-] bfg9k@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago
[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 15 points 22 hours ago

I learned early on as a child that you might as well participate in the fucking around because you're just gonna get lumped in with the rest of them when the finding out happens.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

If Nato fails and Russia attacks, I'm not going to fight. All those xenophobic extremists nationalists in my country that fell for the Russian propaganda can clean up their own mess they caused.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

If Nato fails and Russia attacks

That already happened back in 2022 (arguably all the way back to '08). NATO didn't do shit because it's just the US military wearing a dozen different European baseball caps. And after the US finished scrubbing out of both Iraq and Afghanistan, it didn't have the logistics to launch another Asiatic land war (while keeping China at gunpoint in the Pacific and Iran in check in the Middle East).

American slippage is already apparent across Latin America, Africa, and the South Pacific. Things are only going to get worse for DC going forward.

You would have to be suicidal to stick your neck into that mess, at this stage of the game.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

I feel like I didn't fuck around enough to help...

[-] Yessssssx@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Oh really .

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Ha ha

Too bad

It's been chosen to fuck around and find out on behalf of our entire society

The innocent, the guilty, doesn't matter. We're all going to find out.

I hope everyone involved in bringing this down on us is happy with themselves. I'm sure most of them will be fine, of course.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Also there's no opting out if you didn't fucking vote. You can't be complicit in opting out.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

With the electoral college and FPTP, even opting in is of dubious benefit.

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 128 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately the world often does the fucking around part for you, and you're stuck finding out with them. Sincerely a Remainer being forced to find out on Brexit.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Boy, what a reversal we have now. Around when Brexit finally happened, the US kicked Trump out of office. It felt like we were going in the right direction and the UK wasn't. Now the UK has put Labour back in power while we're going all-in on fascism. Fuck. We should have just stuck with the monarchy.

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Don't worry - I'm sure in a few years time when our next election comes up, our population will have forgotten about the previous decade of getting fucked by the Tories, and immediately put them, Reform-UK, or some other alt-right party into power for round 2 just like you guys

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Probably. The apple doesn't seem to have fallen far from the tree.

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Instructions unclear, now the US is installing a new monarchy

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

No, not like that!

[-] pyrflie@lemm.ee 56 points 2 days ago

Finding out is universal, fucking around is optional.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

My only British friend is apolitical (and a bit of a dumbass, if I'm being honest). What's brexit like for your average Brit? I can't imagine having the right to just move (almost) anywhere in Europe and getting that ripped away from me, but I'll admit, I don't really know any of the other repercussions of leaving the EU.

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

To borrow @goatbeard@lemm.ee words, an economic disaster. The price of basically everything skyrocketed overnight, even basic essentials, which pushed swathes of people below the poverty line, and even today is putting increasing pressure in foodbanks. The effects of the Tories' complete mismanagement of Brexit, the Covid19 pandemic, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine only served to compound the damage.

This cumulative Brexit damage and mismanagement is what finally got the Tories kicked out (which they should've been years ago if you ask me) - and while the economic effects have slowed down somewhat recently, prices are still going up substantially, and I think we're gonna be feeling it a while longer.

It annoys me to no end that we knew this would happen, economists literally predicted this economic shitshow during the referendum and +50% of our population decided to just put their fingers in the ears and shout racist rhetoric instead.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 23 points 1 day ago

It totally ruined a lot of people's lives. They had plans to go work somewhere in Europe maybe even live there. Now they can't do that.

The whole point of the European Union was it was supposed to be a bit like the United States without having to actually form a single nation. All of the countries would effectively act like States in one nation - they even setup Interpol to act like state troopers. Imagine if you suddenly couldn't move between states. Utterly stupid outcome, and 100% predicted.

Just like any government the EU council did do some brain dead things, but that wasn't a good reason to leave.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Imagine if you suddenly couldn't move between states.

This has already become reality for all the women I know that are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I can’t imagine giving that up. As an American I once wanted us to join the shengen as one of my long term political pipe dreams.

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[-] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sometimes we all just have to find out, if there's to be any chance of getting them to stop fucking around. 😐

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Jon Baker

Jon Baker

Ban Joker

🤯🤯🤯

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Me too thanks

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