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    someuseforanameJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:32am

    This is such a bad move, I’m so ashamed of my country. This move shows how hate can motivate people to make stupid decisions. Please remember that very nearly half of us didn't make this decision. I feel sick...

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      speccy4isomeuseforaname
      6/24/16 2:07am

      I’m waiting for that shitbag Farage to use the phrase “Mandate from the Masses”, when 52% of the 72% that turned out voted Leave. It’s roughly 37% of the country that voted out and whilst it’s impossible to speak for those that didn’t vote, I hardly think that 28% were rabidly pro Brexit.

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      someuseforanamespeccy4i
      6/24/16 2:20am

      Words cannot describe how awful that man is. I wish the vote was open to 16 year old like the Scottish one was, they're the ones who have to live with this the longest. By all accounts it was the older generation who swung the vote.

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    BrightEyesJE Reich
    6/24/16 2:01am

    It is mind blowing that people think this is a good thing. I am just sitting here stunned. The markets are reacting terribly, good luck with trade, Scotland is going to leave the UK for sure while Ireland made rumblings a few hours ago that they will explore their options as well. The whole thing is just jaw dropping.

    I saw this on Twitter a few moments ago. Yeah, maybe it’s time that countries put a maximum age limit on voters. People who have little vested in the outcome because they won’t be around to see the decades long ripple effect this will have have no business voting on something so staggeringly important. Yeah, I know, can’t and won’t happen but man am I angry about this right now.

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      Bokbunzajoo1BrightEyes
      6/24/16 2:09am

      Wow. That chart is bonkers! Also provides weight to the idea that the older people get, the more conservative they become! And given how fast the world population is aging, it is scary that they are determining the future for the rest of us!

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      ohstewardessBrightEyes
      6/24/16 3:20am

      I was reading the comments on some article the other day and a woman commented that if Bernie didn’t get the nom she would vote Green Party before she would vote for Hillary and another commenter took her to task saying you know, you and other Bernie supporters will be the reason Trump is elected if you all do that and don’t you care about the Supreme Court, etc. And the woman replied that she was in her 50's and nothing that happened with the supreme court would affect her anyway so she didn’t care. And I was so staggered by that. We all know or suspect that people think this way but for her just to come right out and say it - I don’t give a shit if all you young women are fucked because I’m past my reproductive years so it doesn’t matter to me - it’s eye opening. I really feel for young people whose futures are being altered by old people who just do not fucking care who they screw over.

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    SnookitinaJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:53am

    I was laughing when some British politician on CNN was telling Christiane Amanpour that Britian had the 5th largest economy in the world so they will be just fine. He seemed very sure of himself and quite smug about it. Unfortunately for him, he’s going to get a very rude awakening when Britian starts losing jobs and people start running on the bank. You can’t be the 5th largest economy and chose to isolate yourself, it doesn't work that way

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      BrightEyesSnookitina
      6/24/16 2:15am

      The had the 5th largest economy. They just shot themselves to hell on that one with Brexit. Their economy is very much based on trade with other EU countries. It is absolutely laughable for anybody to think that the remaining EU countries will feel generous in doing large amounts of business with the likes of England after this.

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      jinniSnookitina
      6/24/16 2:21am

      Were California a country, we would have the sixth largest economy — surpassing that even of France. And yet we somehow manage to happily remain a part of the United States. Crazy, huh?

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    Mimzy_MapsJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:21am

    Well I guess this means that when we vote in Trump, America will just be able to claim we were following the UK’s lead.

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      Unabashed AppliantologistMimzy_Maps
      6/24/16 1:28am

      I’d be more worried about certain states thinking about how great this idea sounds again.

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      jinniMimzy_Maps
      6/24/16 1:30am

      You mean when California secedes?

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    EldritchJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:33am

    We are so fucked.

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      Fighter of the NightmanEldritch
      6/24/16 2:09am

      Living in Wales, we are totally fucked. I knew a decision like this should never have been decided on by the British public.

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      BrightEyesFighter of the Nightman
      6/24/16 2:47am

      Cameron’s legacy is going to go down as one of if not the worst in GB history. He sacrificed his country so the Tories could stay in power and then played a game of chicken with the British public and lost.

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    MartinisAreLovelyJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:27am

    Next up, Scotland leaving the UK. Global politics, from the US to Europe to Asia, in catastrophic flux right now. Concurrent with catastrophic flux of the climate and the planet. Wonder what the historians will name this era in history. #PlanetaryShitshow? #EndtoEndExtremistSmackdown? #BecauseEverythingsAHashtag now.

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      moopidooMartinisAreLovely
      6/24/16 1:35am

      Yes, this is what I thought! If the UK can leave the EU, then Scotland should be okay to leave the UK. This is particularly true if this little move tanks the pound and the euro starts to look like the better currency.

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      DontBeSuchaBoobPunchTinaMartinisAreLovely
      6/24/16 1:42am

      What historians?

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    gamingwithbabyJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:24am

    So, the British equivalent of our TEA Party morons got their way? This doesn’t bode well for our chances of avoiding Orangutan-In-Chief.

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      Batist85gamingwithbaby
      6/24/16 3:38am

      that is insulting to the beautiful animal Orangutans. Especially comparing them to that orange toxic waste of a man.

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      oldscrumbygamingwithbaby
      6/24/16 4:13am

      The Brexit vote was direct democracy; US presidential elections are not. The GOP was at a disadvantage in the electoral college even before the most polarizing candidate in modern times steamrolled his wave to the top slot.

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    SarsAttacksJE Reich
    6/24/16 3:45am

    This is shameful beyond all belief. I genuinely can’t believe this fucking blood-in-the-streets bullshit people swallowed and are endorsing. Are those fucking contradictions high enough for you now, assholes? Enjoy your fucking backwater. Why the fuck you had to doom innocent people to wallow in it with you I have no idea, but sincerely and well and truly: fuck you.

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      SarsAttacksSarsAttacks
      6/24/16 3:50am

      Fuck your fucking grievances if you honestly think UKIP give a good goddamn about you. You’re all just plebs and chavs to them, anyway, but I guess that’s better than being pakis or whatever fucking passing bogey they’re trying to pin the blame on this week. Sickening.

      And fuck Labour and SNP, too, for Treading Lightly and handholding the racists for their vote.

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      bisquitineSarsAttacks
      6/24/16 6:54am

      yup, immediately farage is there saying “i never said the £350 million sent to the eu would be spent on the nhs, i said it -could- be spent on the nhs” ... how people are still so dumb and trusting of politicians in this country is beyond me.

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    ILikeThunderstormsJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:32am

    Until the end, I really didn’t think it would happen. I guess I was just being naive.

    God, please please please let the US not follow the UK’s lead. Never Trump, Never Trump.

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      IrisJILikeThunderstorms
      6/24/16 2:00am

      Not just you! Most “experts” predicted the same. Big lesson in all this: No one knows shit.

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      violetmoonILikeThunderstorms
      6/24/16 2:13am

      I dont think we’ll have to worry about it. Not that I’m not scared of him winning over hillary, I’m hoping enough of the US will stand against him and life will go on.

      But because if he does, we’ll probably self-destruct in a year and it won’t matter. Or he’ll piss off enough people they blow the entire country to ribbons... I’m hoping the latter.... I’d rather a quick ending then a slow agonizing collapse as the poor and middle class are utterly shattered (If you think the middle isn’t entirely dead yet, it will be then), and the top 5% move and laugh all the way out of the country as riots and looting cover the streets.

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    AcesNinesJE Reich
    6/24/16 1:22am

    The BBC world news is shitting itself right now. I’m sure tossthis will embolden our own isolationist politicians here in the U.S. as well.

    I’m getting more and more nervous about November’s elections...

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      Mimzy_MapsAcesNines
      6/24/16 1:28am

      I am too. I though that Remain was a shoe in and now I’m concerned about the jobs of my sister and her boyfriend. She’s an American working in London and he’s Irish in Manchester. Depending on how quickly things change they could both be out of a job, not to mention all the other EU citizens in the UK or the UK ones in the EU. This could really impact a lot of people’s ability to work.

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      KathDayKnightMimzy_Maps
      6/24/16 1:41am

      This will impact a lot of working class Britains, the people who voted to leave.

      That’s the crazy thing, the message that if their European employers leave Britain they are out of a job just didn’t get through to them.

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