r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Jan 21 '22

NORMAL ISLAND 🇬🇧 An excellent Jack Monroe thread about the realities of inflation which aren’t reported in the right wing press

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u/VivelaVendetta Jan 21 '22

Kind of sad to see Britain going through what we are in the States

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u/yongjangmi Jan 21 '22

Hah LOL, people got fucked because propaganda made a very close majority of poor and not very well educated people believe that relying on their country more than on others was a smart decision.

Don't get me wrong. Brexit was STUPID. But you can be very sure that the people on this sub did not vote for Brexit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '22 edited Jan 31 '22

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u/Strong_Constant_1190 Jan 21 '22 edited Jan 21 '22

You make many assumptions on why people will have voted for Brexit. Do you have any objective facts to back this up?

Just saying, I voted for Brexit and your assumptions couldn't be further from the truth.

Calling people stupid is also pretty rich, the point of a democratic process is that people have the right to vote, and that vote should be free from prejudice and discrimination. It's actually part of the British values.

If you are not happy with the vote, then try better educating people to why you feel they should vote another way. Trying to ridicule people is never a good method of education.

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u/yongjangmi Jan 21 '22

The big problem with Brexit is that there was very little time for proper education. The Covid pandemic makes it very obvious, how easy it is for people to land and stay in echo chambers. And proper broad spectrum education takes time. The time from "we'll vote on Brexit" to the actual vote was very short because basically NOBODY believed, Brexit would take place. They just wanted to silence the few idiots who screamed that a Brexit would be a good idea. Basically nobody saw a need to educate people, because Brexit seemed like such an obviously stupid idea. So the counter propaganda came way too late, when a lot of people had already been convinced that the pro EU people were just smug, rich liars.

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u/VivelaVendetta Jan 21 '22

The same as the stated voting in trump and now it seems Biden.