Article 50 Salt. - Triggering in more way's than one.

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Curt Sibling said:
My hometown was crushed by the luftwaffe, so I have no reason to love the krauts.
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I feel ya. My grandpa wasted half his 20s bombing the Germans back in to politeness when he could have been home making more money for less bullshit
 
crownthefempire said:
I ain't saying that, but I'm thinking that out of the people who voted Brexit, there's enough people who regret it to swing the vote back if there was another referendum.
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No there isn't. The idea of vast swaths of regretful leave voters is complete fiction, several polls like this one indicate that support for Brexit has gone up since the referendum. You can also sense this just by observing any conversation about this topic on TV or online forums, the people of the UK haven't become anymore fond of the EU then they were before.

Remainers are doing the same thing anti Trumper's are doing in the US. They constantly go on about approval ratings completely ignoring the fact that his approval ratings were lower at almost every point during the campaign then they've been since he's become president. So overall more people have actually come to terms with his presidency than jumped ship.

And in my opinion, with both Trump and Brexit we're only going to see these trends continue.
 
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76LD910 said:
No there isn't. The idea of vast swaths of regretful leave voters is complete fiction, several polls like this one indicate that support for Brexit has gone up since the referendum. You can also sense this just by observing any conversation about this topic on TV or online forums, the people of the UK haven't become anymore fond of the EU then they were before.
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I was gonna bring this up too, but I guess I was too distracted by the silliness of the 'it was just a protest vote' argument.

I think a lot of this is thanks to the toning down of mass-propaganda since the referendum's end. (Which both sides were guilty of, but the remain side was undoubtedly more absurd about it). Project fear is almost basically dead at this point, but during the lead up to the vote, it was hard to avoid the constant ''if we leave, we're DOOOOOMED!'' hysteria radiating from the msm. And now it's over, people have had time to breathe, and many have used this time to find a second opinion, without the presence of overwhelming media bias. Since the remain side's hysteria has been the most OTT, this has naturally had the bigger blowback.
 
TiggerNits said:
I feel ya. My grandpa wasted half his 20s bombing the Germans back in to politeness when he could have been home making more money for less bullshit
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He done good work. Both my grandfathers were tommies and bayoneted many an axis rat. They would have voted "no" also.
 
Curt Sibling said:
He done good work. Both my grandfathers were tommies and bayoneted many an axis rat. They would have voted "no" also.
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Makes me wonder how many people voted to get in the EEC or whatever in the 70's voted leave last summer.

TylerRVG said:
''if we leave, we're DOOOOOMED!''
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I read this in Private Frazer's voice, and I've got no regrets about that.
 
TylerRVG said:
Project fear is almost basically dead at this point, but during the lead up to the vote, it was hard to avoid the constant ''if we leave, we're DOOOOOMED!'' hysteria radiating from the msm.
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It was utterly absurd, and it went far outside of just Britain - I live in Australia and after the brexit vote I know far too many people who were almost in tears because the sky was falling. Funnily the Au market took losses after this article 50 shit started too, but this time people waited a day before declaring it a new depression, saw the market bounce back higher and kept their doomsaying to claims about culture and other uncountable claims.
 
It's pretty funny that the Lib Dems are taking the hardest anti-Brexit position considering their recent history:
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XYZpdq said:
Is that intentionally looking like a mail-in offer for some crap from 1985? It should be selling me FOUR COMPUTER GAMES ON CASSETTE!!!!
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Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg: "Ever since I started following the CHARLES ATLAS patented workout technique, guys have been asking me my secret and girls keep inviting me to the dance! My mum and Dad have never been so proud!"
 
the UK would do far better as a few separate states within the US than an EU member and I for one would welcome their addition because the English speaking world needs to get on the same fucking page
 
TiggerNits said:
the UK would do far better as a few separate states within the US than an EU member and I for one would welcome their addition because the English speaking world needs to get on the same fucking page
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I fully support this if it means we get proper Mountain Dew. I don't what this shit is:

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But it's definitely not Mountain Dew.
 
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TiggerNits said:
the UK would do far better as a few separate states within the US than an EU member and I for one would welcome their addition because the English speaking world needs to get on the same fucking page
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Nah. We'd be so distant that we would basically be another Hawaii. Besides, there's always the commonwealth if we're talking about the Anglosphere.
 
D.Va said:
Nah. We'd be so distant that we would basically be another Hawaii. Besides, there's always the commonwealth if we're talking about the Anglosphere.
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Hawaii owns though and unlike them you'd have enough agriculture and educated locals to feed yourselves so food prices wouldn't drive the cost of living to $Texas
 
Another point for the UK joining the US, imagine the no-shit terror int he eyes of the Irish when they realize if the Troubles start up again they'd be dealing with an English commander being given a full carrier group and JSOC support to deal with the problem
 
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