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Brits had the best deal in the EU, and because of some rascist folks and Russian propaganda they decided to leave it all, thinking they won somehow.
It's like MAGA Americans, working against their best interests because they are too angry to stop and think.
These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Greed And Stupidity Are What Will End The Human Race - Stephen Hawking
Anyone who asks what's the weirdest part of being an American immigrant in Britain, I tell them "the similarities". I make sure to hit 'em with a thousand-yard stare while I'm at it.
Im just happy they havent gone full maga like we thought they were, they seem to be coming back from the brink thank fuck
They need to stop with the israel support and privach overreach though
I wouldn't bank on it, Starmer is incredibly unpopular and is practically handing over the title of prime minister to Nigel Farage.
MBGA, the final outcome of all this stupid.
Cant say im a hiye fan given my above couple of points but I think he is doing a decent job in bringing stability to foreign affairs and a national level. He is fucking up on the smaller scale, "real feel" bits with cost cuts and privatisation.