We have smug self-entitled wealthy ladder pullers over here in America too. They’re called Baby Boomers. Watching that patronizing fart-sniffing dignity burglar Tim Meadows gaslight that kid gave me ALL the rage strokes. Christ what an utter asshole. What a pompous, pompous asshole.

Don’t undersell yourselves. You’re historically the first major culture to be racist on a society-wide scale. Romans didn’t necessarily love darker North Africans but you managed to turn Spaniards and Moors into non-humans. Just because you didn’t end up being Nazis doesn’t excuse you and your country from the fact…

Germany and France don’t get any “preferential treatment” beyond the natural consequences of being the member states with the first and 2nd largest populations (and thus number of MEPs), the first and 3rd largest GDPs (Brexit will bump France back to #2) and, very importantly, political establishments that take the…

Imperialism is just another from of racism. Just because Brits use bigger and better words to describe their prejudice doesn’t mean its not the same thing. Brits have not lost the idea that they are somehow better and should be telling everyone else how to live. That notion played a big role in Brexit.

Side note (that no one discusses) - when the EC was created, NO ONE imagined that states like Wyoming or Alaska would even exist, much less that there would be a state (California) that is SIXTY EIGHT times the size of the smallest state (Wyoming). (At the time of the revolution, the largest state - Virginia - was a…

“I just think the island nation, ex-empire thing is more of a factor.”

Counterpoint: the UK can re enter the EU faster than the us can be rid of a couple supreme Court justices.

Yep, our electoral system says that your vote counts for more the fewer neighbors you have. It’s never been completely clear to me why this is a good idea. Simply living out in the country doesn’t make you a better informed voter.

To be fair, i can see why the UK could have a problem with the EU. The UK doesn’t really get as much preferential treatment as Germany and France do as the big guys of the EU.

Brexit is Trump. Trump is Brexit.

Much of that anti-EU bullshit seems to be built on a foundation of racism. Just as much of the “America First” rhetoric is not inherently racist until you look at it closely and realize, oh no, it’s all about racial prejudices and fear of the other.

Not voting is a vote that says “do what you want, I don’t care”.

Remember how marginal Trump’s rhetoric (and how unlikely his victory) seemed, right up until 63m people voted for him?

Deplatforming worked extremely well in the case of Alex Jones - with no mainstream channels of distribution to lend his hellish rantings any credibility, he’s actually been RE-EXPOSED as the batshit lunatic party clown he always was. Watch clips of his show now when they bubble up on Twitter: It’s fun to laugh at him…

Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was right to tell Ben Shapiro to fuck off.

This is why deplatforming works against people like Milo Yiannopoulos, Richard Spencer, Alex Jones and Sargon of Akkad.

As I’ve previously mentioned on here, it’s sad that only 1 in 3 of the electorate (or 1 in 4 of the UK population) actually voted to Leave - but we’re stuck with ‘what the British people called for’? Actually, it’s only what some of them called for on that specific day, without knowing the facts. 

Racism is overstated as a cause of Brexit. It’s definitely in the mix but the main cause has been the constant anti-EU bullshit in the press, and our willingness to believe it. They’ve gone on and on about “EU overreach” - with new fake stories appearing every day for decades - to the point where our continued EU…

“full flowing feminine fountain” really?