Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?

• Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. And the rerendum wasn’t even legally binding.

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The whole thing still boggles my mind, it was something like 52/48 on a non-binding vote, and everyone is just like, “Ok, I guess we’ve got to do it then,” even though it seemed to be the most obviously stupid decision in the world. The 2000s have just been filled with so many epic, unforced face-plants across countries and companies, it’s like we’re living in the Age of Idiocy. Either that or Russia had its tendrils everywhere and somehow convinced a great number of people to make the stupidest decisions ever, to which they took advantage of that… by doing their own epic face-plant.

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    • Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think humans tended to do such epic face plants for a lot longer. But these days every idiot and their dog has a smartphone to record everything and an internet connection to share it to the world. You look a lot more silly with your epic face plant if it’s captured in 4K and broadcast to the world.

      Random side note: if you want to hear about a rather epic historical face plant there’s a good video on the Erfurt latrine disaster on YouTube.

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