• @HowManyNimons
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    1781 month ago

    Brexit is still delivering all the "I told you so"s. It’s less fun than it sounds.

    • @Zorque
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      551 month ago

      Yeah, people keep saying “This time they’ll see!” But, aside from the occasional “leopards ate my face” moment, the same people keep lining up for more of the same.

      And much of the consequences are sloughed off on the people who are fighting hardest against it.

      They’re fucking around, and we end up finding out.

      • @Aqarius
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        51 month ago

        Oh, don’t worry, on a long enough timeline, everyone ends up finding out. It’s just that if they were capable of figuring it out, this all would have been avoided in the first place.

    • Kushan
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      371 month ago

      It’s been nearly 10 years and we’re still getting fucked by it.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 month ago

      Yeah there seems to be this palpable expectation on Lemmy that any day now half of the voting public is going to have some realisation and say “oh my god what have we done”.

      It doesn’t work like that though.

      Most of the actual retarded things Trump said he would do like the tariffs et cetera will be done in performative way. Done in a way that isn’t too disruptive or harmful but still lets him say he stuck it to China.

      The more insidious project 2025 stuff isn’t applied in real time. How does the media report on the slow corrosion of quality of life and rights to privacy et cetera.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 month ago

      I was in the US for the first trump election and in Britain for Brexit. And now I’m back in the US for this shitshow. It’s like I can’t escape the crazy – it’s following me.

      Or maybe it’s all my fault and I’m a bad talisman. I dunno, just please make it stop.

      • Kallioapina
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        What does it mean and whats the context? Actually curious as an ignorant non spanish speaking EU person.

        • @[email protected]
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          In English, it’s more or less telling people to “enjoy what you (all) voted for”.

          • @kreskin
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            ah yes, the illusion of my vote mattering in my state, topped with an icing of illusion of the candidates undemocratically selected by my party representing my views in any way whatsoever. But I’m told it was on me to get off my couch and go vote for one genocider or one that was very likely a genocider, but also a complete fascist nutter. Both choices have broken laws that should have put them behind bars for the rest of their lives.

            Really, this is all my fault. Why am I so terrible?

            • @[email protected]
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              I hope you understand I was only translating the phrase. I agree with the sentiment toward the MAGOOs, but everyone else is a victim of their idiocy.

              Edit: I meant to write MAGAs but MAGOOs at least makes me laugh.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month ago

                I kinda like magoo vs maga. It feels a little like something someone’s old-world Italian uncle would have called a person in anger and disdain.

            • FlashMobOfOne
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              very likely a genocider

              There are a lot of things to be said about Trump, but we’ve actually had positive headlines regarding genocide heading into his presidency, and it’s no coincidence that the ceasefire in Gaza will go into effect when he takes office. Genocide Joe is just going to stack corpses until they wheel him out of the White House.

              I don’t say this pretending that there isn’t likely some profit in it for Trump, because we saw in his first term that every decision he makes profits him financially in some way, but grift is better than more dead civilians.

              • @[email protected]
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                91 month ago

                it’s no coincidence that the ceasefire in Gaza will go into effect when he takes office.

                It’s no coincidence like it’s no coincidence that paying extortion money avoids broken kneecaps.

                Its well documented that Netanyahu and Trump are buddy buddy. I guarantee you the timing was to some degree chosen explicitly to benefit Trump. Netanyahu is doing the kinds of things over there that Trump is just itching to do here. (or in Canada or in Mexico)

                If Trump gets any credit here it’s for being every bit as moustache-twirling-evil as Netanyahu such that their worldview and interests will tend to align.

              • @kreskin
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                21 month ago

                I’d like to argue with that, but you are factually correct.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month ago

      Still pretty fun not being in the UK. Though I do feel bad for everyone not having voted for this shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Yep, even though millions died, we are not saying I told you so cause them idiots doubled down on it and got so obnoxious that the I told you so energy died.

    • @Goodmorningsunshine
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      01 month ago

      I don’t think it’s exactly going to be fun, I just know the only pleasure that’s left is schadenfreude.

      • @Aqarius
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        51 month ago

        “Could it be the English are morons? No! It’s the Russian to blame!”

          • @Aqarius
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            21 month ago

            Oh, don’t get me wrong, they’d have to be completely incompetent not to at least try and put a finger on the scales - and I’d be fucking shocked if they were the only ones - but at the end of the day, it wasn’t Ivan voting, it was Barry. Pretending it wasn’t is just setting yourself up for disappointment the next time Barry goes voting.