On the EU Referendum · 2:46am Jun 25th, 2016
My jimmies are fucking rustled.
Like.
Really, seriously, 100% from concentrate with no added colours, flavours, or preservatives rustled.
You seriously don't understand this level of rustled. I'm more triggered than a tumblr feminazi in the local subjected to the chant of, "Get your tits out for the lads!" on an unending loop. My ANS is probably a fucking wreck right now; I've been stuck in fucking fight or flight mode since 11AM. Every single time I almost calm down I think of the result again and the cycle begins anew.
As some of you who have spoken with me via PM might know, I'm not a particularly nice guy to speak to, for the most part. I'm not openly hostile to most people, but I'm an opinionated prick with serious issues respecting people who I feel are unworthy of my attention.
So, as is to be expected, I'm absolutely fucking disgusted by the referendum result. I won't even give my opinion on the people who voted leave, because in the town I'm from literally every second vote was down to nothing but pure, unadulterated racism.
"But, Mike, that's just bullshit because-"
Shut. The fuck. Up.
I have spoken with dozens upon dozens of people from all over my hometown and literally the only reason people voted leave here was down to a hatred of people of a different ethnicity. People literally told me to my face they planned to vote out because they are racist. To my eternal shame, some of those people were family members of mine. I'm avoiding them for the time being to avoid causing any unnecessary shit.
From what my friends in other towns and cities across the country tell me, they've observed very much the same phenomenon, especially amongst those with a poor education (as I also observed, what a coincidence). Of course, I'm taking their word for it, since I can't verify such independently, but I have no reason to doubt them as of yet.
Personally, I plan on finishing my degree (which, as luck would have it, will happen in 2 years) and leaving the country to live and work elsewhere in the world, unless my estimates for the future do turn out to be exceptionally pessimistic, which I suppose is possible.
It's sad really. It might just seem as if I'm chucking my toys out of my pram here, but my faith in this country and over half of its voting population has been irrevocably shaken. I know exactly what I'm planning on doing here: Bailing out. Giving up the ghost. Whatever you want to call it. Some might call me a scum bag for doing so, given all the taxpayer money that has been invested into my generation's healthcare and education and whatnot, only for me to bugger off elsewhere with all that investment.
Well, that education has given me the intellect and the foresight to know when something is going to go terribly fucking wrong, and I don't want to be around when it does. There's a reason our old pal Dave is planning on resigning instead of sticking through the process of leaving the EU when we actually get around to the divorce process; even pig fuckers don't want to bear the brunt of a shitstorm when it can be avoided.
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I can't structure a proper, rational argument right now. My hands are shaking and no matter how hard I try I can't stop. It's making typing a bitch seen as though I'm deleting mistakes every three or so words. Maybe I'll put up a separate post when I eventually do clam down, but idk.
More salt flows through my veins at present than through Lot's fucking wife, and I'm not even a religious man.
Ravioli ravioli cosplay the Dead Sealioli
- Mike
Jesus, how could a country screw up this bad?
I'm living under a rock. What's happend?
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The elderly, the gullible, and the racists comprising 52% of the UK population voted for our severance from the European Union. We have 2 years from the point where our Prime Minister tells the EU we're leaving until we must leave, during which time we have to sort out an unimaginable amount of issues.
Reasons for the leave vote primarily seem to be as follows:
Elderly: Jaded to the EU and blame it for problems that our own government are responsible for
Gullible: Were promised that we would gain far more money by leaving than we pay for remaining (which, as was revealed literally the morning the result was announced is a flat-out lie)
Racists: Bottom 20% of the nation's IQ. Enough said.
I have to ask, aren't you annoyed by the fact that things like quotas are controlled by Brussels and not London?
>Tfw I look back at this rant the next day and feel embarrassed to be alive
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To an extent, I feel the EU is broken in this regard, yes. Furthermore, they clearly didn't take the possibility of Britain leaving seriously and thus didn't give us any leeway in negotiations on the matter.
I'm not going to argue that the EU is some perfect paradigm for international organisations that is beyond fault, but despite issues such as refugee quotas and the like, I still feel that the benefits being an EU member state brought far outweighed the drawbacks.
I suppose it doesn't matter either way now though. :/
4048585 It can still go the other way. News said Parliament has to approve the vote and the vote itself is non-binding. This could be used in negotiations to remain in the EU or if they ignore the vote to show how little the majority voice will be heard or counted.
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Part of me hopes that Parliament will decide against enacting Article 50, but honestly, I don't think it would be right; at least, not without another referendum (since many leave voters have apparently changed their minds after learning of the drawbacks AFTER they voted).
Whilst I firmly believe we should have stayed in the EU, a democratic vote determined that the majority of the electorate wanted to leave. I hate it, and I honestly feel it's a downright dangerous course of action but... it's democracy in action, as shitty as it might feel for me to admit it.
4048743 While I don't have a dog in this I have to say from an outsiders point of view thst I think it's good Britian is leaving the EU. Most of the benefits in membership barely affected the common Brit. And even seperate most are still doable with a little paperwork. New trade possibilitys are now possible and certain oversights your country had to deal with can be ignored. Plus and for me this is highest, your destiny is your own again. Not beholden to unelected buerocrats in Brussels.