I’m not really disagreeing but there was also a big lie in the campaign putting out “we send the EU £50million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead” some people definitely bought into the nonsense.
Amazing that none of them looked into this and realised we actually got more back.
At the time I worked with a man from north Wales, who voted Brexit cause south Wales got the bulk of the money assigned to Wales. Make that make sense.
None of them looked into it because facts don’t matter to far-right populists and the sheep voting for them. They just make up shit that fits their simple narrative of the moment and makes people angry. And when (not if) it is debunked as a blatant lie later on, they have already captured their audience with ten new lies, so the implosion of all the older lies won’t register with them.
I get that perverted ‘logic’. What confounds me is that so many people seem to be falling for this shit. I had a more optimistic idea of people’s intelligence on average. And: I don’t like what this finding means for future-proofing our democracies, if we’re going to save those.
Would it, though? Maybe things were different in the UK, but in ~2017 it felt like social media had a tight grip on folks in the US, not newscasters, and from my distant observation it seems like that was a big factor for Brexit.
It was never about economic stats, right? If the British public poured over graphs and forecasts, they would not have voted for Brexit.
In other words, if you sent this report back in time, I’m not sure it would make a difference. It’s all about personal anxieties and feels.
I’m not really disagreeing but there was also a big lie in the campaign putting out “we send the EU £50million a week. Let’s fund our NHS instead” some people definitely bought into the nonsense.
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Boris’ Bus of Lies with the caption is even in the thumbnail
Amazing that none of them looked into this and realised we actually got more back.
At the time I worked with a man from north Wales, who voted Brexit cause south Wales got the bulk of the money assigned to Wales. Make that make sense.
None of them looked into it because facts don’t matter to far-right populists and the sheep voting for them. They just make up shit that fits their simple narrative of the moment and makes people angry. And when (not if) it is debunked as a blatant lie later on, they have already captured their audience with ten new lies, so the implosion of all the older lies won’t register with them.
I get that perverted ‘logic’. What confounds me is that so many people seem to be falling for this shit. I had a more optimistic idea of people’s intelligence on average. And: I don’t like what this finding means for future-proofing our democracies, if we’re going to save those.
idk I feel like if you can fit it on a chart with red bits, it’d work ok.
might need a compoface newscaster as well
Would it, though? Maybe things were different in the UK, but in ~2017 it felt like social media had a tight grip on folks in the US, not newscasters, and from my distant observation it seems like that was a big factor for Brexit.