The establishment viewpoint seems to be that snide recrimination coupled to rampant emotional predictions of doom is news. I don't get it.
The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
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#102Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#103"People of $MY_IDENTITY believe a thing, so I'll vote for it no matter what $OTHERS say!" I thought before reading that story that the above was a bad caricature, but holy shit. How can you not know what the EU is if you're in a member country and can read? It's like an American not knowing what Congress is!
Pretty sure like 30%+ of Americans don't know what our three branches of government are.
Master, release, and develop?
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#104Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Washingtonpost is extremely biased so I kind of scoffed at the headline. It's all in the "implication" with them.
Do you disagree there's a big implication here? Normally I'd agree with you.
I actually agree that the title is purposefully bait-y and has an implication.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary, the fact the EU had enormous power over British people, yet barely anyone knew what it was, what it did, or why it was important, was a compelling reason for the UK to leave.
I'm genuinely curious how someone living in an EU state does not know what it is and some of the stuff the org does day-to-day. How does this happen?
The EU is an utterly bewildering bureaucracy.
Barely anyone fully understands what it does.
Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wanting to know and in many cases regretting it. It seems obvious many had no idea what they were doing, and many were just "mucking about".
How do you know that they regret it "in many cases"?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eu-referendum-man_uk_5...
https://twitter.com/louisa_compton/status/746279848180592640
No evidence for many cases, but some.
Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#108Here's a Leave fellow who says he just did it as a protest vote thinking it wouldn't actually pass. https://twitter.com/AdamWSweeney/status/746269140915208193 I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The most important international agreement in the UK's history torn up because people thought this was a Buzzfeed poll.
On the contrary, the fact the EU had enormous power over British people, yet barely anyone knew what it was, what it did, or why it was important, was a compelling reason for the UK to leave.
How should the ordinary UK citizen know anything solid? Their newspapers are downright bonkers.
Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#109Isn't that expected? People who voted for the establishment status quo want to know what might happen in the years to come now that the vote has gone against them. Voting to stay meant no change, therefore they knew more or less the outcome, but now that the outcome is opposite their votes, they want to look into the repercussions --this informs that it's likely they stay vote didn't investigate the alternative befor…
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Re: The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#110Or, you know, this could be an uptick from the percentage of people who did not bother to turn out to vote. Spin the narrative however you like.