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19. Behold, the highly-educated masses!

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 09:25 PM

Jun 2016

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.

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New Yorker Nails Brexit [View all] kpete Jun 2016 OP

Yup. Agschmid Jun 2016 #1

I don't get why that would be so. David__77 Jun 2016 #2

no, that is silly, but it doesnt need to dissolve, just reform swhisper1 Jun 2016 #3

The british can't cut their own deal with the EU.. dubyadiprecession Jun 2016 #5

They were putting in, way more in, Aerows Jun 2016 #20

Yes, it absolutely would. anigbrowl Jun 2016 #9

I don't know much about it. David__77 Jun 2016 #13

The EU and the Euro-zone are not the same thing. brush Jun 2016 #14

Oh my God,that's perfect. nt sufrommich Jun 2016 #4

That doesn't mean the masses are right anigbrowl Jun 2016 #10

Yeah, they've got those New York values, right? Wednesdays Jun 2016 #15

Behold, the highly-educated masses! NuclearDem Jun 2016 #19

Oh, I think we do... Shrike47 Jun 2016 #8

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!111111 jpak Jun 2016 #11

+1000! mcar Jun 2016 #12

K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Jun 2016 #16

From Monty Python "School Of Silly Walks".... Grassy Knoll Jun 2016 #17

Online friends in the UK loved this Warpy Jun 2016 #21