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  If only somebody, anybody could have seen this coming.
context: After finding out how much of a sweetheart deal they had, I can only continue to wonder why? >
  
  Basically in the UK the news just skewed it all towards "Kicking out all foreigners". Of course the racist aging population ate that shit up and voted to leave. >
  
  I remember going into work the day after and seeing my Asian coworker get told to go home four times in one shift. 
  She was clearly not from the EU, so if they had one brain cell between them, they'd have realised that Brexit made literally no difference to her. But overt racists aren't renowned for their intelligence, I guess. >
  
  A big % of the british asian community voted for brexit. >
  
  Not true. Asians and nearly all minorities voted against Brexit by a considerable higher than average margin. You may be thinking of certain specific places and some early inaccurate news / polling which were later corrected. >
  
  I mean, I guess by some metrics 33% counts as a "big %" but your own source shoes Asian Brits voting nearly 2 to 1 in favor of remain. >
  
  1 in 3 voted brexit, that's a big amount. >
  
  Or to flip this around: every non-white demographic voted 2:1 (or very close) in favour of Remain. 
  A 2:1 majority is sufficient to accomplish basically anything in most democracies, even where a simple majority isn't deemed sufficient as a mandate. >
  
  lol get BREcked >
  
  Brekt >
  
  The right has some messed up policies, but they are good at selling them. >
  
  Why are the right so much better at that? It's so frustrating. >
  
  It's because the right understands what the left never seems to get. 
  
  
  Most people do not get engrossed in global, national, or regional politics
  
  
  Most people dont plan. They are just trying to work their 9-5 until the weekend so they can either party or relax with their family.
  
  
  Most people, even though they are barely getting by, are still happy the way things are, because they understand it and they can envision their future.
  
  
  Most people fear change because it means the future they envisioned is different
  
  
  Ever hear the song "AA" by Walker Hayes? Go read the lyrics. This is most people, the majority of the population... just trying to keep their daughter off the pole and their son out of jail, trying to make a little love and bring home enough money to buy their wife some Levi's. People are not complicated. The idea that everyone is a racist or everyone has some grand desire to screw over others, it's all baloney. The reality is a lot more apathy.
  But the left doesn't get any of this, because for whatever reason, the left tends to attract people who are not as apathetic so they dont get apathy.. Policies are always framed around how they will help some future version of you, or help the population aggregate. That is not what most people care about. The average person wants something that will help them today in a measurable way, not 12 months from now as part of a collective. >
  
  Tldr most people are small minded and selfish >
  
  Wrong. You obviously don't understand anything about what I posted. This attitude is exactly why the left so often fail to get their point across, the attitude that anyone who prioritizes their current urgent needs is "small minded". >
  
  Prepare for Bre-entry >
  
  I'm all for the UK coming back to the EU.
  In 20, maybe 30 years.
  They want to flip us the bird and slam the door on the way out fine, claiming they never needed us and that we were taking advantage of them, but to come back a few years later when it inevitably bit them in the ass and expect us to just welcome them back with open arms? FUCK NO.
  And i would bet money that they're going to demand, DEMAND,  not ASK, for all their special conditions to be restored as well for the "privilege" of them rejoining the EU.
  Let the wankers stew for a couple of decades, really put that stiff upper lip of theirs to work. >
  
  That's not really how politics works, what you're proposing makes it sound as though Britain is a single person; it's like a webcomic version of world politics where all the countries have their own distinct and monolithic personalities.
  In reality Brexit was a hugely polarizing issue with a 50/50 split of the population, largely divided along generational lines. This means that it was by and large voted through by many people who are already dead, and so what you're proposing is akin to making people who already disagree with Brexit pay long term for their stupid elders' racist nonsense. I'm sure you'd be fine with it if I assumed that your grandparents' worldview reflects your own and treated you accordingly. >
  
  To be completely honest, tough cookie, if we let the UK back in so soon then the EU will be less of a union and more of a revolving door, if any country can just skip out whenever racists act up and then jump back in when sane people get control of the wheel again (which still hasn't happened in the UK), the EU will not only look weak, it will be weak.
  And with so many sharks circling, that simply cannot be allowed to happen, if we don't stop Europe from being torn apart between China, Russia and the US as they all try to get a piece, we're going to end up being the new Middle East, and not in the Arabic golden age type of way.
  The UK is simply going to have to deal with the consequences of their actions before we can start talking about reentry into the EU, otherwise they could just do it all over again whenever they get upset about immigrants. >
  
  I don't think it's particularly realistic for the UK to re-enter the EU anytime soon, it's just that your comment was a bit vindictive in a misplaced way, and I was trying to shine some light on that. I understand you may feel angry at the entitlement of the Brexiters, they are an inherently frustrating group of knuckle-draggers, but you need to have some perspective on the specifics of the situation and who exactly were the architects of Brexit.
  Ultimately I think the UK will re-enter but it will have to be after a painful process of the British public adjusting to the inescapable idiocy of the decision, as you said. This process is already well underway if you look at polling data, but there's some way still to go. >
  
  Right wing bullshit personified for the whole world. >
  
  The torries should have never listened to the Brussian money influence >
  
  Jonson made the son of an ex KGB agent a lord. >
  
  And accepted £2 million+ in party donations from the wife of a former Putin minister. However I’m sure that has no influence /s >
  
  How come Russia is so focused on Britain these days >
  
  Not just Britain, any democratic country that they can destabilize is fair game for them. They have just had the best success in the USA and GB >
  
  So many leopards. 
  Eating so many Bre-gretful faces. 
  But glad yall are coming to the realization eventually >
  
  Plenty of us are absolutely livid with Brexit. The whole campaign made me sick - Fucking morons eating Torie shit. >
  
  And a crappy Remain campaign; caused by complacently assuming that that many people couldn’t be that fucking stupid. >
  
  We had a similar issue here, in which we assumed not enough people would be dumb enough to vote Trump...but they did (tho he lost the popular vote..) >
  
  in both cases everyone was caught off guard by the impact of social media propaganda >
  
  Very true, but we can't dismiss the role that Russia played in this whole affair. Frankly, that really needs to be addressed moving forward and if this Ukraine thing extends on my hope is that Russia is Thoroughly defeated and brought to answer for its crimes against democracy across the world. 
  Perhaps too hopeful but we can dream >
  
  yes, and their role was mostly in the form of social media propaganda. But it shouldn't be overstated either. I wouldn't say for example that Putin played a larger role than Farage, or his ilk. >
  
  I have what I like to call: 
  Bre-fucking-told-you-all-loudly-and-often-this-was-the-dumbest-shit we-could-possibly-do >
  
  So you are bresentful! >
  
  Bregret:
  Noun
  It didn't hurt the right people. >
  
  Brits got bamboozled by their 0.1% elites who mobilized their political/media machines to convince enough populace/sheep to vote 'leave'. All because those elites didn't want to be subject to the EU's 2016 Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.
  Russians also helped the 'leave' movement. >
  
  Is that where the whole voting on the matter came from? I don't really follow politics so to me the whole "let's vote on Brexit" seemed to appear from nowhere. 
  I also wonder why exactly such a complex matter with huge ramifications was left to the public to vote on? >
  
  It was just a tactic to sway some right leaning voters to vote Tory instead of a relatively small nationalist party.
  They didn't believe that we'd actually vote to leave.
  The polls said we'd stay.  Unfortunately, polls only measure the voting tendencies of people who respond to polls. >
  
  On top of that polls also make people feel either compelled to vote if the result doesn’t align with their desires, or safe to not bother with voting because of a prediction that their desired outcome will happen regardless. >
  
  Brunts, more like. 
  (Go back and properly investigate Russian interference in the campaign, which the Government declined to do). >
  
  They declined because they’d have to reveal just how many of their ministers took money from Russians. >
  
  Bretards. >
  
  I prefer brunts >
  
  Brextremely bloody stupid >
  
  Bridiots >
  
  You got everything you wanted for the advertised costs. >
  
  Seems painfully obvious I don't know why I didn't think to use it until now. >
  
  Because it's extremely stupid >
  
  More like Brekt. >
  
  Get brekt. >
  
  Brenter Brexit Bregret Brepeat >
  
  Brechnologic >
  
  The Boomers who voted for it will never have to experience the true damage they have done. Boomers never have to. Experience the most privilege in human history and then shit everyone who has to clean up their mess. >
  
  Sorry, I think you dropped your R while mis-spelling broomers. 
  It's broomers, ok? Get with the program or we shall have to taunt you a second time >
  
  May I call all boomers broomers from now on? Even though I live in the US? Broomer is so much funnier and less appealing than boomer. >
  
  Only if you follow it up with a swift explanation on how its leviOsa, and not levioSA >
  
  The issue is most of them are too stupid to regret it, they blame eveyehting on the EU >
  
  The issue is most of them were lied to. Recent polls show a change of opinions. >
  
  Not to be confused with Briegret, which is the feeling you get after eating an entire Brie in one sitting >
  
  i don't know what Brie is, and i am afraid to ask. >
  
  You made your bed now sleep in it >
  
  Don't you mean Bred?
  Ok, they don't all work. >
  
  We need to stop bretending this is a good pun >
  
  This entire thread is golden >
  
  *brolden >
  
  'Non, je ne Bregret Rishi.'
  Great song - not too sure about the message. >
  
  This right here, is the best one. >
  
  Br-i fucking told you so dad-exit >
  
  Don't regret. Do fucking better in the first place.
  We tried to fucking tell you. Urgh >
  
  The UK should just rebrand itself as Eastern Ireland, problem solved. >
  
  Danelaw >
  
  PLEASE after fucking  phrases like remainers and brexiteers, we dont need any more of these cringy ass fucking phrases. Fuck right off.  
  Edit: Goddamnit guys lol, I shoulda known xD >
  
  Arse.  We’re British, not American. >
  
  I am very bresappointed in you for not making a pun >
  
  I'm breally sorry to be the brearer of bad news, but these arent puns. >
  
  More a bruchering of the English language. Brich bris brar bror bre brourse bror brus >
  
  I feel like I’ve just watched Bo Selecta >
  
  These portmanteaus are getting out of hand >
  
  brits sure love their jargon. >
  
  "Rethuglicans" and "Demorats" show it's around the English speaking world at least. >
  
  Demon rats thank you very much
  Also I've never heard of Rethuglican, that's incredible