New Yorker Nails Brexit

[kpete]

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[Agschmid]

1. Yup.

[David__77]

2. I don't get why that would be so.

Have the countries of the EU really gotten to a point that they cannot leave that institution without having breakdowns? Would the dissolution of the EU be akin to the dissolution of the USSR in terms of the socioeconomic decline it caused?

[swhisper1]

3. no, that is silly, but it doesnt need to dissolve, just reform

[dubyadiprecession]

5. The british can't cut their own deal with the EU..

so they left.

[swhisper1]

7. you need to do your homework It takes two years to actually divorce the EU

and trade will go on, but they can make deals with individual countries at any time, if they actually file for divorce. You can bet the EU is scrambling to stop the bleeding today as Italy and Spain are wishing a divorce referendum(announced today)as well.

England is not in any danger

[Aerows]

20. They were putting in, way more in,

than they were getting out of it.

Expect France to follow in the not so distant future.

[anigbrowl]

9. Yes, it absolutely would.

I am not certain the EU will exist in 10 years, and consider large-scale war within the same timeframe a distinct possibility. The people here saying it's not a big deal are demonstrably ignorant.

[David__77]

13. I don't know much about it.

I certainly have not understood EU to be an actual sovereign state; rather, as something more like UN members who have ratified mutually binding treaties. I suppose I don't get why unilateral withdrawal from such an arrangement would necessarily create such adverse impacts.

Also, I understand that the state that are parties to EU haven't fully surrendered their national sovereignty, which is one reason that states are free to unilaterally leave the organization. I can imagine that additional states may opt to leave under certain conditions.

[brush]

14. The EU and the Euro-zone are not the same thing.

The EU will probably have to make compromises on currency in order to survive.

[sufrommich]

4. Oh my God,that's perfect. nt

[Ex Lurker]

6. The premise that the New Yorker's demographic know what's good for the masses

is one of the things the masses are rebelling about.

[anigbrowl]

10. That doesn't mean the masses are right

There's a reason teachers are in charge in schools.

[Wednesdays]

15. Yeah, they've got those New York values, right?

nt

[TeamPooka]

18. The premise is that the New Yorker knows what's good for the masses not their demographic.

The demographic doesn't publish the magazine.
But yeah maybe the New Yorker does know better.
Because sometimes the masses don't know stuff, like proper grammar.

[NuclearDem]

19. Behold, the highly-educated masses!

The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/24/the-british-are-frantically-googling-what-the-eu-is-hours-after-voting-to-leave-it/

Sorry, I don't buy the populist and anti-intellectual nonsense that every voter is somehow a special snowflake and just as smart as people who study these fields for a living.

[Shrike47]

8. Oh, I think we do...

[jpak]

11. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!111111

[mcar]

12. +1000!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

16. K&R nt

[Grassy Knoll]

17. From Monty Python "School Of Silly Walks"....

Nailed It!!

[Warpy]

21. Online friends in the UK loved this

when I ganked it and posted it to them.

Thanks for posting!

[HuckleB]

22. Living in the Age of Stupid: How to comprehend Brexit, Trump and the Anti’s

https://risk-monger.com/2016/06/25/living-in-the-age-of-stupid-how-to-comprehend-brexit-trump-and-the-antis/