• VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
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    Do these people ever reflect and think about what they’re about to do, do or have done? It’s baffling how they’re surprised.

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      No, they don’t. We had Brexit. It was a smörgåsbord of stupid like that.

      "We want freedom of movement cancelled so EU folks can’t come in here, "followed by “What do you mean we don’t have freedom of movement and can’t just live in Spain?”

      “All immigrants gone!” followed by “why are there no cheap immigrants anymore for working in the field and drive trucks?”

      “Close the borders!” and “Why is there suddenly this long line and why do we need custom checks and passports?”

      “After we made it more difficult for foreigners to come here, we have less tourists. Somebody do something!”

      “When we said you can’t fish here, we meant we can still fish over there.”

      “Yeah, I know we cancelled all cooperation but we really would like the subsidies to continue.”

      You can keep going. There were enough predictions that this was exactly what would happen, it was ignored in emotional flurry, ideologies and name calling. Of course there is a lot of “why didn’t anyone warn us?” afterwards. I conclude they’re not really thinking, just mostly reacting emotionally and going along with the peer group who has a very high “F U I got mine” content.

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        The most comical thing about “reasons” for Brexit was to get rid of those “pesky brown people”. Then Brexit uninvited Europeans, and the UK got more “brown people” out of the commonwealth to fill up the gaps.

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          They are stuck in ideology and emotional reactions. There is a concentrated effort to keep it that way with propaganda masquerading as news, usually owned by Murdoch.

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            Other people are as well but manage to stop and think about it. I’m not sure if you’re giving them too much credit.

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                Yet they think others should take responsibility for their own actions.

                Don’t get me wrong, I’m with you to a certain degree. They have been deceived and those people need to be stopped. But some of the shame should be granted to the deceived as well, as they fall over and over for the same shit.

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                  others should take responsibility for their own actions

                  While blaming anything wrong in their life to some other group, a scape goat appointed by someone else. It’s amazing how well that trick works.

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        Or how many “Family first” Republicans beat their wives or cheat on them? No.

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      Do these people ever reflect and think about what they’re about to do, do or have done?

      Right-wing media always has another scapegoat to deflect the blame.

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      People still eat meat and dairy. And they know innocent animals are killed and tortured because of it.