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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Egon@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

"scheming assholes at the local club have stopped inviting me to club events after i left the club".

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 90 points 6 months ago

You left the EU bruh peltier-laugh

Funniest future would be if Scotland and Northern Ireland left the United Kingdom and joined the EU lmao

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 58 points 6 months ago

I was attempting to lathe that back during brexit and I'm still trying to lathe it today. Just want the eu to let Ireland dom England for once, it's all I need.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

NI has a path through rejoining the rest of the nation, but Spain is likely to throw a wrench in the works of a newly independent Scotland joining out of anti-Catalan sentiment.

It would be cool to see the UK just become England as the sole K though.

Elevating Guernsey to a full kingdom to keep the U

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

Elevating Sealand to March status and giving them some anti ship missiles.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Watch England try to send in an application to be the 51st state in the US. You know damn well so many gammons there just dream of becoming Americans.

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

lathe-of-heaven manifesting this shit so fucking hard

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

To be fair, Ingerlanders didn't vote to just leave the EU. They just voted to leave all the obligations and limitations, not to leave all the benefits and rights.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nah the UK would sooner kill everyone in those regions than let them be independent. They're vassals.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The UK has wanted rid of NI for 60 years at least. The troubles kicked off significantly due to the UK govt's ham fisted attempts to divest themselves of it.

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 87 points 6 months ago

Inside me there are two wolves. One thinks the EU is a horrible imperialist tool for enforcing neoliberal orthodoxy. The other one thinks it is hilarious to see British gammons throw tantrums about no longer enjoying the practical benefits of EU membership after having left the EU.

[-] determinism2@hexbear.net 55 points 6 months ago

It's like when chuds complain about US funding for NATO. Like, by all means, dismantle a mechanism for laundering US power projection. Let's stop funding Radio Free Asia next, those bastards haven't been revenue neutral since they were founded.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

Let's get rid of NED, and NATO, and defund the 'woke' Pentagon, and

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

USAID should be added to this list

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago

The thing is in Britain especially you still get all the neoliberal orthodoxy except now you've also got rid of the EUs human rights convention and seeing how their dumbass country's basic laws are founded on ass-pulls like time immemorial, a tapestry and 800 year old contracts they've absolutely fucked themselves out of all the good parts of the EU while retaining all the bad parts of the EU

Exiting the EU to not do neoliberalism is one thing, exiting the EU to do even more neoliberalism is just kneecapping yourself

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 75 points 6 months ago

I didn't know this project existed. Apparently they first planned it in 1990, and they still haven's started building it to this day.

Classic neoliberal short-term goalist hellhole, please Xi come and save us.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 52 points 6 months ago

The joke of the entire EU project. Two dozen countries all yelling at each other any time someone in one of them tries to make things nicer.

The Brits complaining about this is extra funny, given how they gutted HS2 just last month.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

To be fair around half of EU wide transportation programs are basically everyone sitting on finished infrastructure that ends at the german border as this country has become absolutely incapable of building anything but autobahn

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

I've been a strong proponent of abolishing Germany for a long time, but never stronger than after reading this.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 57 points 6 months ago

Is that a France-Ireland train line?? quagsire-pog

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago

Almost certainly a passenger ferry

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

Massive flex. They should do a faroe island one just to ram the point home.

[-] RedDawn@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

It's gotta be a sea route, like a ferry or something. Can't imagine it being a train

[-] Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 months ago

They could chain some ferries disguised as wagons for fun

[-] Pili@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago

Also the Spain-Cuba train line at the south west of Spain! fidel-cool

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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

the british empire is over, the uk is not important any more, anglos get over it challenge

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wasn’t the UK govt also complaining about their tax money going into funding EU projects like this?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago

How are they going to transport their sex arses if the EU excludes them from infrastructure plans?

[-] D61@hexbear.net 43 points 6 months ago

"Shit, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that voting for the guy who ran on a platform of publicly eating live puppies was, in fact, going to publicly eat live puppies."

[-] 420stalin69@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

Petition to rename The Chunnel to The Chuddle.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago
[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Carried. God, this politics stuff is a piece of piss.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

bring back continental blockade

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[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Here's the monthly hexbear yankee weirdly pro-eu post

Hope every country leaves the EU

Edit: And the weirdly pro-eu communist replies

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago

The EU is a neoliberal abomination. Leaving the EU to get blue passports and do more racism is not going to improve things though. European countries are too small to be on their own against the powers of capital as the rapid dismantling of living standards for common people in Terf Island post-Brexit shows. It seems like the viable alternative to the EU is some kind of pro-worker European community that doesn't exist yet.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Leaving the EU to get blue passports and do more racism is not going to improve things though. European countries are too small to be on their own against the powers of capital as the rapid dismantling of living standards for common people in Terf Island post-Brexit shows.

That's not the only thing leaving the EU allows for, anything that happens in the UK now is entirely the fault of UK politicians, there's not the EU scapegoat (which is a real scapegoat) anymore which means brits are in a better position to actually change things politically and exercise their sovereignty than any EU country, and that dismantling of standards that is happening in the UK is happening elsewhere in the EU too, except here in EU countries politics can't actually be about changing that since it explicitly means going against european institutions.

It seems like the viable alternative to the EU is some kind of pro-worker European community that doesn't exist yet.

Yeah, which is not the EU. I'm just being facetious when I say I hope everybody leaves I know it's more complicated than leaving and staying, but what the comments here told me is that some, hopefully not european, leftists really think the european working class is better off with the EU than they would be if they fought it. SAD!!!

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[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

It is objectively funny when right wing people get the thing they asked for and then complain about it.

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[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

The EU is crap but it not existing isn't the better alternative tbh. I think way more EU countries would fall to fascism if the EU stopped existing, I'd take neoliberal bureaucrats over my local fascists any time.

[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

On the flip side, consider how far the rest of the world advanced after Europe imploded itself in the 20th century. Perhaps we'd all be better off if the EU imploded again and the US followed thereafter.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You are completely wrong, this is equivalent to supporting the democrats and "anti-fascistly" voting for biden.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

100-com

Living on terf island I couldn't agree more. Fuck the EU, soft brexit would've been fine. Like, not great but still not the living hell that has been occurring since hard brexit.

Either way destruction of the EU is a prerequisite to socialism in europe. It literally exists to be neoliberal and prevent it.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am not a yankee nor am I pro EU but go off king

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[-] nothx@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago

Centuries of incest has really rotted their brains…

[-] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 6 months ago

On one hand, Corbyn was right to oppose EU as it is an undemocratic neoliberal mess. On the other hand, Jezza's purged and Brexit just means more undemocratic neoliberal mess anyways.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's pretty clear imo that a left version of Brexit was never on the table. Labour would never have let Corbyn do anything anyway.

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