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There's a certain cognitive dissonance effect that wasn't covered in the list of reasons to leave: "If we leave, the public will have to suffer under 3.14 boon
by VLM 10y ago
There's a certain cognitive dissonance effect that wasn't covered in the list of reasons to leave:
"If we leave, the public will have to suffer under 3.14 boondoggles worth of economic punishment" where boondoggle is an imaginary but comparable measurement of economic mismanagement and suffering.
and then in the next story on the nightly news
"The general public in the EU member country of Greece are suffering under an permanent and unimprovable EU enforced burden of 14152 boondoggles worth of economic punishment and the response from Brussels to the Greek people is F you, you suck and should suffer even more"
Given those two parallel news stories, the best bet to minimize suffering is to get out while you can. Basically the scaremongering about brexit doesn't reach the level of the journalist reports out of Greece and whats happening there today is coming to the UK unless they start running now.
I mean whats happening in Greece right now is awesome if you're a rich shareholder in a German bank. But a majority of UK people know who's going to get screwed and who's going to do the screwing when its time to squeeze the blood from the UK rock once they're done with Greece.
If the EU is so great, why aren't those UK citizens in support of it, emigrating en masse into Greece?
- bostik 10y ago> If the EU is so great, why aren't those UK citizens in support of it, emigrating en masse into Greece? Now that's a straw man and I'm sure you know it. Let's turn the snark to 11: If you were planning to emigrate to the Mediterranean climate and were short on funds, why wouldn't you aim for the cheap places - such as Egypt or Syria?