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It’s because we need to say “I fucking told you so” every time someone suffers for making a stupid decision like brexit.

• dijit 8y ago
  I think it's more that people felt quite bitter about being smeared with the tepidly disgusting "project fear" soundbite when criticising what brexit was hoping to achieve before the referendum was held. Expect to hear every time "project fear" was right, because, despite the fact that nobody who voted leave will change their mind it's still incredibly cathartic to hear it.
  • gotocake 8y ago
    People who voted leave probably still feel that way, but given the demographics of the vote many of them will have died, just as many people who were below voting age no longer are.
    • yzrh 8y ago
      The "old people should not be able to vote" argument should die already. If anything, the weight of the vote of someone who's spent his entire life living in a place and paying taxes should be higher.
      • dijit 8y ago
        than the people who have to live through the consequences of said vote? What's to stop the older generation soaking up the entire wealth of their generation and the current one? I can very easily answer that: nothing. That's exactly why in the UK (state) pensions come in at more than twice the budget that's used for the NHS and why almost nobody under 30 can afford their own place.
      • gotocake 8y ago
        The "old people should not be able to vote" argument should die already. If anything, the weight of the vote of someone who's spent his entire life living in a place and paying taxes should be higher. I didn’t make that argument, in fact it’s not even orthogonal to what I did say. I suppose you could say that if I took any position, it was that children and dead people can’t vote, but that still feels like an observation, not an argument. All I did was state how demographics have shifted, that is all.