Well, ok, I don't like it but at this point I've got too many insanity inducing things on my plate already...Until proven otherwise, I would suggest to always consider such a post as sarcasm. That will do wonder with your sanity.
Well, ok, I don't like it but at this point I've got too many insanity inducing things on my plate already...Until proven otherwise, I would suggest to always consider such a post as sarcasm. That will do wonder with your sanity.
Here's the thing, the heads of Brexit are actually undergoing their own Trump-Russia style inquiry right now... and given the information we've got for Cambridge Analytica and the fact this has been shaping up to be a complete shitshow...Brexit didn't need Russia to make it a hilarious fuck up, British politicians are quite capable of doing that by themselves
Here's the thing, the heads of Brexit are actually undergoing their own Trump-Russia style inquiry right now... and given the information we've got for Cambridge Analytica and the fact this has been shaping up to be a complete shitshow...
Yeah, no. While not some grandous conspiracy like in novels, Brexit is raising eyebrows given the reveal that Cambridge Analytica has some pretty prominent ties to Russian oligarchs and Putin. Given that Cambridge came to mentioned oligarchs to help them with their own electioneering and the fact that during the presidential elections in 2016 that Russia -via Wikileaks, genuine hacking, having real life 'Red Sparrow' into the mix, social media, and Cambridge- manipulated the election...The facts are pretty simple, one side lied a lot, the other side had no clue what it was actually doing. That's pretty much it, it doesn't need to be the result of a grand conspiracy, it is the result of lies and obfuscation.
It's so much easier to blame everything on one obviously and irredeemably evil group, that way you don't have to question yourself as everything will go better if you destroy the evil McEvil evil people.The facts are pretty simple, one side lied a lot, the other side had no clue what it was actually doing. That's pretty much it, it doesn't need to be the result of a grand conspiracy, it is the result of lies and obfuscation.
Problem is with the evidence provided so far. Russia had at least a hand in the entire situation, using the Brexit leaders as useful idiots. All it takes for leaders to go with the unthinkable is enough push from individuals or groups to push things over the edge outside of other factors. History tells us that rather explicitly and especially in the modern era.It's so much easier to blame everything on one obviously and irredeemably evil group, that way you don't have to question yourself as everything will go better if you destroy the evil McEvil evil people.
Imagine for a second if you had to face the possibility that you fucked up on your own, that would be horrible.
It also gives the people involved an "out" to stop the stupid that they are doing without losing as much face if we can get them to say "Russia manipulated me, I should have known that was a bad idea, let's fix it". So, yes blaming Russia can be a good thing even if they were only making the already bad worse.It's so much easier to blame everything on one obviously and irredeemably evil group, that way you don't have to question yourself as everything will go better if you destroy the evil McEvil evil people.
Imagine for a second if you had to face the possibility that you fucked up on your own, that would be horrible.
Yep, blaming everyone else but oneself for the failures leads to very bad juju.The truth is simply that the winning side but sentiment and emotion over facts, and the losing campaign fumbled and failed despite everyone assuming they would win. If that sounds like a mirror of the US elections then that's exactly right. Complacency and confusion of how to proceed is the root cause of both screwups. Like Rufus says it's easy to look outside for blame, or to attack the system, but the truth is that its a mix of dishonesty on one side and incompetence on the other. Now it sucks for everyone because the people we allow to be in charge because we don't vote enough are largely worthless and spectacularly out of their depth.
No. As Muldoon said, this thing is the result of decades of societal fuck-ups of an inbred political system and a quasi-caste society in which everyone has a share of guilt and the only way to solve these issues is to fucking acknowledge it. But that'd require turning the entire Oxbridge system on its head as well as acknowledging that the Empire is deader than dead.It also gives the people involved an "out" to stop the stupid that they are doing without losing as much face if we can get them to say "Russia manipulated me, I should have known that was a bad idea, let's fix it". So, yes blaming Russia can be a good thing even if they were only making the already bad worse.
Until proven otherwise, I would suggest to always consider such a post as sarcasm. That will do wonder with your sanity.
Though I do mock earnestly Aaron for his 'Aye. There's no living with the duck if you take all his words as said. The sarcasm is strong in that one.
But Belka did nothing wrong though.Though I do mock earnestly Aaron for his 'BelkaRussia did it!' attitude for pretty much everything, because it does lead to the good ole' 'Stab in the back' myth we all know and love.
And neither did Russia!But Belka did nothing wrong though.
I'm not denying that the MPs of Britain are at fault, what I'm not denying is the fact that we've got evidence that Russia at least tipped the scales in Brexit's favor.
This should help, a chart of polls regarding the British public's views on Brexit for the last 40 years
The fluctuations are easy to see with leave sometimes prefered, other times it is stay, but there is usually not much variance between them and you can see how they shift back and forth a hell of a lot.
... Rufus, you are being an ass, the company in question showed up as inside the Steele Dossier and has major ties to Russia thanks to what has come out of the Trump-Russia investigation.
In addition to helping Trump and Co, this company also helped Brexit which is a connection that can't be ignored.
No, it simply needs the Queen to be fed up enough to do so, and despite everything I think the Queen will be starting to get displeased at the shenanigans of Parliament soon enough.
So by the looks of it things are heating up in North Ireland. Car bomb yesterday, 3 more bomb alerts so far.
WHO COULD OF THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN WHOOOO!!!!!
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The Guardian view on Brexit and Ireland: a danger to peace
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Why do humans got to be such massive dicks to each other... smdh.
I lost a like! This is unconscionable!This mean I have to wag my finger and scowl at terrorists again? Pesky technical issues