Took me by surprise, though not as much as Cameron I figure.
I was probably swayed by all the Brits I know, who are almost entirely under 50 and working in science or education. Seeing some of the social media comments from them and replies today, I realise they're not necessarily representative.
Yeah, not the best legacy he left behind now. Imagine if Scotland had left under his rule as well, which I'm betting is a much higher probabiltiy now.
Same here. I only know british business people, so I was very misguided as for the popular opinion as well (but the polls also showed favour of staying).
It's a sad day for a lot of british scholars though. Some of the best (including the best) EU scholars that exists, are british - like Sue Arrowsmith. I wonder what they feel about their job position now.
I also wonder if the EU is going to keep english as an official language now?
The french have been fighting tooth and nail for years, to make their language the primary one in the EU. I guess I might as well just start dusting off my old french language books.
Yeah, this facebook style posting is a relatively recent thing. The War Room was never exactly a pinnacle of intellectual discourse, but it's managed to fall a long way regardless.
I was thinking of that poster specifically. I have never seen him post anything else than what you mention. Lowbrow "meme" pictures and idiotic videos, and he doesn't even add commentary to it, he just post it en masse. He went apeshit on me, because I pointed out how retarded a video he posted was. I don't think he even watches them himself.
The decline of the WR, is probably because of the increasing popularity of idiotic right wing topics.
So, is that equation the right wing dystopia or is there something more. Could be worse, IMO.
It's a step by step.
But yes, if Trump becomes president and Front National wins in France. Then our future will look very different, than what was probably predicted 8 years ago, where everything was following a stable liberal agenda - of social and economic progress. Living standards have been increasing, GDP have been increasing, we have lived in the most peaceful times in human history probably etc. No one could have predicted that such a large segment of the national populations, would suddenly want to tear the whole shit down.
Could you see the Greek Leave-campaign spinning debt-reduction or -erasure from creditors if they were to leave? And you reckon their position outside the EU will present them with leverage in realising that or just the opposite? Germany has been so strong on not reducing that I worry the Greeks will believe anything at this point to hope for the contrary; I fear an independent Greece would also revert into a developing country.
I'm actually not that educated on the situation in Greece, or their debt situation.
I think it would be bad for them to leave the EU. But I certainly think they should leave the Euro. One of the primary reasons their economy has grown stale, is that they're not even able to devalue their currency.
A Dane wanting Kalmaru. back? Nah, sarcasm bless.
Bring back the glory days
This time we just have to keep the fucking swedes in check. Apparently cutting the heads off was not enough the last time around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath