Geopolitical impact of Brexit

[Hazir]

There are no preconceptions here, you've been vocal for years. It is true that you're more mainstream now, but that isn't from you changing in the slightest. Rather it's from everyone else acting like the Brits actually voting to leave was like them collectively pissing in your cereal. Such a strong undercurrent of "how dare they," in all of your guys' posts now.

And none of it would be related with the utterly ludicrous ideas about the future relations as expressed in the opinions of leading politicians in the UK of course. You're seriously a joke in your faux non-taking sides role. I don't quite know what makes you such a bum buddy with the Brexitanians, but it could be that your media never looked beyond London when trying to report from Europe.

[LittleFuzzy]

And none of it would be related with the utterly ludicrous ideas about the future relations as expressed in the opinions of leading politicians in the UK of course.

And what do those matter except how they'll ensure you'll get what you want?

You're seriously a joke in your faux non-taking sides role. I don't quite know what makes you such a bum buddy with the Brexitanians, but it could be that your media never looked beyond London when trying to report from Europe.

I'm taking a side on here. Against the massive hostility directed at the Brits for daring to vote Leave. I don't have a dog in the fight which is why the sudden turn toward massive vitriol by almost every non-Brit on here has been so shocking. You I expect (it's completely irrational considering your stated desires, but that's not unusual for you) Khend sure. Aimless was a surprise. Loki and the US left-leaners here were a surprise. I was expecting reactions closer to Tim's.

[Loki]

I'm taking a side on here. Against the massive hostility directed at the Brits for daring to vote Leave. I don't have a dog in the fight which is why the sudden turn toward massive vitriol by almost every non-Brit on here has been so shocking. You I expect (it's completely irrational considering your stated desires, but that's not unusual for you) Khend sure. Aimless was a surprise. Loki and the US left-leaners here were a surprise. I was expecting reactions closer to Tim's.

Because you fail to see it as part of a broader trend of anti-expertise, anti-globalist nativism that's been embroiling the Western world, and to which Brexit provided renewed vigor. The problem was less the vote itself (dumb, but tolerable) than the tactics used by the Leave supporters, tactics that would be put to good use by the Trump and Cruz camps here, and now being adopted in Italy, the Netherlands, and much of East/Central Europe. Brexit was the nativist version of the Tunisian uprising.