• Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    They will try again in a bunch a months.

    That’s how the right wing nutjobs do it in Europe. Just keep proposing referendums until one passes and then if you don’t like the outcome just hold another and another until you get your way.

  • UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last couple decades, it’s that about 1/4 of people are thoughtless fools, easily caught up in whatever bullshit is shoved in their face the loudest.

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    8 hours ago

    Shocker /s. it’s almost like all polling outside of the provincial number had voters at a consistent 75% to outright disagree with leaving.

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    I don’t know why anyone takes the civil war / secession-obsessed people seriously.

    It’s a small, loud minority that thinks it’s a majority because they mainline algorithmically-content all day, every day. That holds true in Canada and here in the US.

    They’re a bunch of fucking clowns.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      I mean, just look at Brexit.

      You take these things seriously because they can have adverse consequences, and that minority may not be as much of a minority as you might think.

      If you’re in a room and a quarter of the people in that room want to burn the room down, do you not take them seriously because it’s only a quarter of the room?

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      because a small bunch of clowns can sway public opinion their way in the right circumstances.

      the algorithm is most folks reality now, they don’t live outside of it.