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Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

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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.

That's a very convoluted way to say you aren't interested in debate or having an open mind. So be it.

The parent comment was condemning people for deigning to criticize sacred cows like Brexit. People are free to have stupid, wrong opinions, but they shouldn't whine when people point out they're stupid, wrong opinions.

Debate is great! But you really need a thicker skin and can't demand safe spaces to protect every intellectual vanity you hold.

Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

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What would be the pros to Brexit?

Power being more local and closer to the people. This is the fundamental advantage from which all others flow. The EU is a highly centralising project. In many ways it's more centralising than the US federal government is, because the USA has a constitutional balance of powers (in theory) and has a tradition of state's rights. EU ideology recognises neither: there is no limit to the extent to which EU federalists wis…

> Some of them have talked about reducing national parliaments to the status of tourist attractions.

Cite?

Re: Brexit: Conservatives winning majority in UK parliament

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But what would be the pro?

Apart from not being part of the beurocracsy, corruption and propping up a failed experiment alongside Germany and France?

Ah, okay that makes sense. I hadn't heard of any corruption in the EU, do you have examples?
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