• @HowManyNimons
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    1008 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      154 minutes 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.

    • @Zorque
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      173 hours 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      64 hours ago

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

    • Kushan
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      256 hours ago

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

      • Kallioapina
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        5 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          52 minutes ago

          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.

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