#Brexit Remainers Chimpout

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Online Violence said:
Yes, that is another little statistical trick they will no doubt employ. Since 3/4's of the youngest age bracket that did vote voted Remain, this clearly means that this proportion is replicated throughout the entire bracket, abstainers included. There's no way of knowing which way the abstainers would've voted or their reasons (or lack thereof) to abstain in the first place. The narrative will, for the moment, do it's best to pretend people like you don't exist and are statistically insignificant, the same way they've completely erased the older voters on the Remain side.
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Indeed. These remainers <s>of all teenages</sneed> seem to fail to realise that in London and places along the south coast, a vast proportion of the remain camp was actually the elderly. My grandmother who's in her 70's voted to remain, while my grandfather didn't.

Either way, the demographics of the vote aren't as simple as what the remainers like to think they are.
 
The articles and news about Leave voters' regret are just good ol' false flags and no one actually regrets their choice.
The vote is secret and nobody can prove to me these aren't SJW Remain shills.
 
I don't think they're shills, I think they are just cherry picked. There could be a thousand articles about a thousand different people who sincerely regret voting for Leave and it would still be statistically insignificant.
 
TowinKarz said:
It's apparently impossible that any of those old folks actually thought this was right for THEIR children, perhaps? Or even GRANDchildren? There's other reasons influencing the votes of people who are "gonna be dead" when the effects kick in....

The entitlement/selfishness of the average millennial, ladies and gents, can't think of any reason someone would do something unless it directly affects THEM.
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To turn their "logic" around: shouldn't we discount the votes by young voters because they have more opportunities to vote again in the future?
 
I'm sure there are Remain voters who only voted Remain because they honestly thought there was no conceivable way Leave could win, as well as Leave supporters who regret their decision.

Plus, I'd also like to add that the turnout for young people was absolutely miserable, meaning that the MAJORITY of young people did not feel that they would be better off in or out of the EU and simply didn't care.
 
That's what really gets me, had these people gotten off Twitter for 10 seconds and voted, maybe they'd be celebrating. The margin of victory was awfully close when it was all said and done.
 
I've been seeing a lot of gloating about the google searches just post-results, mostly from Remainers who are absolutely convinced, somehow, that this must be Leave voters finally getting informed after the fact. Mostly so they can gloat about how stupid and dumb these inferior plebs are, the game-winning strategy that got them where they are today, because people respond so well to utter contempt and disdain.

These searches were obviously the abstainers who got woken up out of their political apathy/commas by social media and news going apeshit about an event they probably did not even know was happening and were not informed about in any way. I suppose the simplest answer isn't always the most satisfying though, especially if you can use it to further the completely undeserved sense of superiority of a bunch of easily manipulated morons.
 
I'd love to see what would happen if we do it their way, and then further see what happens when one of these righteous self-appointed defenders of democracy get turned away from a poll for "being too old" and we can't have you "Making decisions you won't live to see" you said so yourself, see, we have your Twitter archived...

I don't think they'd graciously step aside and let the new generation in to run things, somehow
 
Lorento said:
Why would you vote on such an important decision as a joke?

WHY?
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Insert mandatory joke about the US Presidential Election here. Seriously though, the EU has always been the biggest joke of them all.

This whole incident is more than just a salt mine of which the Farms can draw nourishment for months - it's pretty much the beginning of the end for one of - arguably - the worst ideas in history as far as the EU goes. Every single bit of data I've dug up on the EU indicates that the whole thing was based off an insane desire to create a sort of giant superpower out of Europe, and not giving a single solitary fuck if it absolutely fucked up the entire thing in the process. It ultimately was a project that was on borrowed time even if it got completed.

The entire thing comes across as a shameless power grab executed by what has to be the stupidest motherfuckers in politics. The only thing that the EU has ever had as far as keeping people from leaving it was blatant fearmongering that would have made early 2000s Terrorism fearbaiting look subdued in contrast. How the fuck does one even manage that?

Greece was the canary in the fucking mine on this one. Christ.
 
Well, these generations are some of the first who are going to have every ridiculous little thought they've ever put online immortalized, at least so long as the internet continues to exist in a similar format. I know if I were presented with some of my political musings when I was, say, 15, I would cringe so hard it may physically cripple me.
 
Jaimas said:
Insert mandatory joke about the US Presidential Election here. Seriously though, the EU has always been the biggest joke of them all.

This whole incident is more than just a salt mine of which the Farms can draw nourishment for months - it's pretty much the beginning of the end for one of - arguably - the worst ideas in history as far as the EU goes. Every single bit of data I've dug up on the EU indicates that the whole thing was based off an insane desire to create a sort of giant superpower out of Europe, and not giving a single solitary fuck if it absolutely fucked up the entire thing in the process. It ultimately was a project that was on borrowed time even if it got completed.

The entire thing comes across as a shameless power grab executed by what has to be the stupidest motherfuckers in politics. The only thing that the EU has ever had as far as keeping people from leaving it was blatant fearmongering that would have made early 2000s Terrorism fearbaiting look subdued in contrast. How the fuck does one even manage that?

Greece was the canary in the fucking mine on this one. Christ.
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The funny thing is, the EU was an American project if I remember rightly, as part of the Marshall Plan. They wanted one market to trade with rather than many.
 
I still remember the fear mongering that went on over on my side of the pond when the EU was forming, and how if the US didn't do something, FAST, we'd all be begging for coins from Uncle Deiter by the time we were 30 because they'd have all the money..... of course, cooler heads eventually prevailed, but it was funny while it lasted. I wish there had been an internet back then, because you had to be a bit articulate and reasonable with your Doomsday scenarios for Time or Newsweek to publish them and they wouldn't print this current salty goodness..... but how much of it must've piled up on the editor's desk unseen, I don't envy him/her.
 
The thing that astonishes me every time is how myopic and provincial the millenial protesters tend to be. There's zero recognition or awareness that not only did the world exist before they were born, it actually managed to function just fine without their brilliant input.

The arrogance of youth is a constant, so it's not solely a millenial thing, but if you're aware that all your thoughts are broadcast to the world and memorialized, you'd probably want to put a little more actual cognition into them.

PS: get offa mah lawn
 
Probably late here, but the official Parliament.gov petition website had a petition open that as neither side got over 60% on a 75% turnout, there should be another vote.

Those with more than 10'000 responses get an official response, and those with 100'000 or more are considered for debate.

Since yesterday, it's gotten 1 723 164 signs (and by the time you read this it'll be even more). That's a lot of salt.
 
wifflypuff said:
The thing that astonishes me every time is how myopic and provincial the millenial protesters tend to be. There's zero recognition or awareness that not only did the world exist before they were born, it actually managed to function just fine without their brilliant input.
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Kids are pissed that they'll have to wait for twenty minutes to get their passport stamped when they head over to Amsterdam.
 
Sable said:
Probably late here, but the official Parliament.gov petition website had a petition open that as neither side got over 60% on a 75% turnout, there should be another vote.

Those with more than 10'000 responses get an official response, and those with 100'000 or more are considered for debate.

Since yesterday, it's gotten 1 723 164 signs (and by the time you read this it'll be even more). That's a lot of salt.
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It's been proven that the whole petition was created as a joke by the petition's creator. See my earlier post.
 
Sable said:
Probably late here, but the official Parliament.gov petition website had a petition open that as neither side got over 60% on a 75% turnout, there should be another vote.

Those with more than 10'000 responses get an official response, and those with 100'000 or more are considered for debate.

Since yesterday, it's gotten 1 723 164 signs (and by the time you read this it'll be even more). That's a lot of salt.
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Here's how the debate will go.

Speaker Of The House: Shall we have another referendum on our membership to the EU?
Parliament: Lolnope
Speaker: Great, now onto actual problems...
 
That's the same faulty logic that pervades every US Presidential election when nobody gets the popular vote.... fundamentally misunderstanding the rules don't require it.

Unless stated otherwise, referendums are first-pass.

if 40% vote A, 20% B and 37% C.... then A wins, even if 57% didn't want it

If you're wondering why in that scenario, B and C couldn't resolve their differences to vote down A, congratulations, now you know why most democracies boil down to two-party systems in the end.
 
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