Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
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Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#2This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ?
It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in the EU
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#3This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in…
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Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#4The tech cynicism that’s growing in me is just waiting to see if it was fakenews on Twitter, or Russian ads on Facebook, or Macedonian teens with clickbait, Nazis or something entirely new to blame these elections on. It seems there is always a “reason” to lose elections now.
I don’t know when everything had to become a scandal and “well, it seems less people agree with me than it took to elect the side I preferred” became an unacceptable thought.
Edit: even a thought about that thought is unacceptable to some here :)
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#5This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in…
What do you reckon the impact on the international and national startup ecosystems will be?
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#6This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in…
It seems these days like every time someone sees an election that doesn't go their way, they assume that the voters on the other side were clearly all imbeciles voting for their own destruction.
That's an incredibly naive and narcissistic view of the world.
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#7As a Brit this is utterly heartbreaking. The Conservatives tried every trick in the book in the last parliament and fought a dirty campaign that has set an awful precedent for future politics in the UK.
That remain-backing and second-ref parties actually got the majority of votes makes it even worse. First past the post is not fit for a modern democracy.
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#8It’s amazing to me that tech people can see that monoculture makes systems fragile in security yet long for it in geopolitics. Brexit should happen. Catalan independence should have too.
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#9This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in…
It seems these days like every time someone sees an election that doesn't go their way, they assume that the voters on the other side were clearly all imbeciles voting for their own destruction. That's an incredibly naive and narcissistic view of the world.
I'm tired of this radical subjectivism anytime people vote for something stupid. Sometimes people cut off their nose to spite their face. Reading convoluted reasoning about how it was really actually rational from their perspective because reasons and values never adds anything, either.
Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament
#10This has bigger and impact on startup ecosystem worldwide than say a new framework etc but no one is discussing this. I wonder if people gave up on the idea that tech can help make informed decisions ? It looks like people voted off their emotions and based on what they would like to happen (UK being a sovereign empire again) and not based on what is realistic- a bunch of trade deals that are worse off than being in…
It seems these days like every time someone sees an election that doesn't go their way, they assume that the voters on the other side were clearly all imbeciles voting for their own destruction. That's an incredibly naive and narcissistic view of the world.
What would be the pros to Brexit?