• @[email protected]
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      888 months ago

      Do you think the UK sometimes sits up late at night with a bottle of whisky and stalks the EU on social media?

    • @Worx
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      108 months ago

      I wish people would stop going on about Brexit. It was what the people wanted. Literally every single brown “”“person”“” has left the country and we don’t have any EU overlords shoving their rules down our throats. Every other aspect of our life bring worse and facing food shortages is a small price to pay

        • @Worx
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          108 months ago

          I am being sarcastic. We have a brown person as our prime minister, after all

          • @[email protected]
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            138 months ago

            There are people who actually believe what you had posted, so without additional cues that it’s intended as sarcasm (like starting with Hur Dur or ending with /s), it’s anyone’s guess what you actually meant. In person sarcasm works better because we can easily add physical cues, but on the internet it’s best made very obvious imo.

            • @[email protected]
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              58 months ago

              There are people who actually believe what you had posted

              No they don’t. No racist person would ever say that “literally every single brown ““person”” has left the country”. If you’re not neutron star level dense, it’s pretty obviously sarcasm.

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              To be honest this was very obvious at least at the end, when they recognise life is worse. If it wasn’t sarcasm they wouldn’t admit that.

              • @[email protected]
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                18 months ago

                A recurring theme with hard brexiteers was that making “short term” sacrifices was worth it for “reclaiming sovereignty”, which would magically lead to more prosperity in the “long term”. To some, (others) being worse off than before, is a price they’d gladly (let others) pay if it would allow “their team” to score a victory.

                In the Usa there’s people cheering for Russia, for the downfall of USA democracy and for Trump to be king. These are such extreme standpoints that it’s hard to believe that they would be serious, but when you see them on camera, then it’s obvious that they are true believers and that they’re not being sarcastic. If those people are real, then I can easily imagine some spiteful british person saying unironically that being worse off now, is a sacrifice that they’re willing to make for “reclaiming sovereignty”. Especially if it’s online and they actually live and work in Sint-Petersburg.

                In a world where The Onion cannot make up news that is crazier than the actual news, irony is always going to have hard time.