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The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
#23383098 - 06/26/16 06:34 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The whole world is reeling after a milestone referendum in Britain to leave the European Union. And although leaders of the campaign to exit Europe are crowing over their victory, it seems many Britons may not even know what they had actually voted for.
Awakening to a stock market plunge and a precipitous decline in the value of the pound that Britain hasn't seen in more than 30 years, voters now face a series of economic shocks that analysts say will only worsen before they improve. The consequences of the leave vote will be felt worldwide, even here in the United States, and some British voters say they now regret casting a ballot in favor of Brexit.
"Even though I voted to leave, this morning I woke up and I just — the reality did actually hit me," one woman told the news channel ITV News. "If I'd had the opportunity to vote again, it would be to stay."
[The critical fact Trump forgot in his viral speech on Brexit]
That confusion over what Brexit might mean for the country's economy appears to have been reflected across the United Kingdom on Thursday. Google reported sharp upticks in searches not only related to the ballot measure but also about basic questions concerning the implications of the vote. At about 1 a.m. Eastern time, about eight hours after the polls closed, Google reported that searches for "what happens if we leave the EU" had more than tripled.
The run-up to the vote was marked by a bitterly divided campaign, one that was as much about immigration fears as it was about the global economy.
But despite the all-out attempts by either side to court voters, Britons were not only mystified by what would happen if they left the E.U.— many seemed not to even know what the European Union is.
"What is the EU?" is the second top UK question on the EU since the #EURefResults were officially announced pic.twitter.com/1q4VAX3qcm
What is the E.U.? To be fair, that question will now take on a much deeper significance than perhaps Google's users realized when they typed that into their browsers. 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/
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23383117 - 06/26/16 06:48 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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This shouldn't surprise anyone. Most people make their voting decisions based on propaganda leaflets posted through their doors and prints in the Murdoch press.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: YeOlde]
#23383144 - 06/26/16 07:07 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Media powerhouses are frantically trying to bias worldwide opinion against decentralization of currency just hours after one country votes do so.
The most spectacular irony of the Brexit controversy fallout has been watching self-proclaimed leftists, anarchists and Marxists openly take sides with international finance capital over the voice of the working class. I can't say I have a truly informed opinion on this matter, but be honest, American public: neither do you.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: morrowasted]
#23383166 - 06/26/16 07:16 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Media powerhouses are frantically trying to bias worldwide opinion against decentralization of currency just hours after one country votes do so.
The most spectacular irony of the Brexit controversy fallout has been watching self-proclaimed leftists, anarchists and Marxists openly take sides with international finance capital over the voice of the working class. I can't say I have a truly informed opinion on this matter, but be honest, American public: neither do you.
Decentralised a currency? We haven't done that at all. I'm sure it would shit the banks up something rotten if that was to take hold.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23383180 - 06/26/16 07:24 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: The most spectacular irony of the Brexit controversy fallout has been watching self-proclaimed leftists, anarchists and Marxists openly take sides with international finance capital over the voice of the working class. I can't say I have a truly informed opinion on this matter, but be honest, American public: neither do you.
how is this ironic, it's what they always do
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LobsterSauce said: The run-up to the vote was marked by a bitterly divided campaign, one that was as much about immigration fears as it was about the global economy.
I believe it was actually liberal decrying anyone that opposed staying in he EU as racists even though it was more about the globalization of an economy which resulted in the countries with wealth to pick up the debt for those with crippling debt
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: morrowasted]
#23383188 - 06/26/16 07:29 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Media powerhouses are frantically trying to bias worldwide opinion against decentralization of currency just hours after one country votes do so.
The most spectacular irony of the Brexit controversy fallout has been watching self-proclaimed leftists, anarchists and Marxists openly take sides with international finance capital over the voice of the working class. I can't say I have a truly informed opinion on this matter, but be honest, American public: neither do you.
Liberals always take the side of the "international finance", they're just too stupid to know it.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: qman]
#23383523 - 06/26/16 10:15 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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qman said:
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morrowasted said: Media powerhouses are frantically trying to bias worldwide opinion against decentralization of currency just hours after one country votes do so.
The most spectacular irony of the Brexit controversy fallout has been watching self-proclaimed leftists, anarchists and Marxists openly take sides with international finance capital over the voice of the working class. I can't say I have a truly informed opinion on this matter, but be honest, American public: neither do you.
Liberals always take the side of the "international finance", they're just too stupid to know it.

Fucking right. They then proceed to attack the working classes, calling them ignorant and stupid, because their choice doesn't fit their perspective.
The real truth is, they hate the working classes, hence their attempts to try and destroy them in every single Western country on the planet.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85]
#23383533 - 06/26/16 10:19 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Adolin]
#23383549 - 06/26/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Some thing funny? The working classes are being attacked left right and center here in the UK by the Liberal crowd for voting to leave the EU. Fuck them!
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85]
#23383553 - 06/26/16 10:26 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Bubbles85 said: Some thing funny? The working classes are being attacked left right and center here in the UK by the Liberal crowd for voting to leave the EU. Fuck them!
yeah.
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The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
if its not true and people really arent searching for what the EU is... well... shame on google. or whatever.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Adolin]
#23383561 - 06/26/16 10:29 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gresh said:
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Bubbles85 said: Some thing funny? The working classes are being attacked left right and center here in the UK by the Liberal crowd for voting to leave the EU. Fuck them!
yeah.
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The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
if its not true and people really arent searching for what the EU is... well... shame on google. or whatever.
Wow, some anecdotal evidence printed by a Tabloid. MUST BE TRUE
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85]
#23383581 - 06/26/16 10:33 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The 'tabloid' is reporting on it, but that tidbit came straight from google.
https://twitter.com/GoogleTrends/status/746303118820937728
Edited by Adolin (06/26/16 10:33 AM)
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Adolin]
#23383617 - 06/26/16 10:42 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Still proves nothing.
Were the people asking the question on the side of Leave, or Remain? How many times was the question actually asked?
17.5 million people voted to leave, was it asked 17.5 million times? since this biased shit is clearly pointing toward leave voters as the main group asking the question.
It has absolutely no factual information at all.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85]
#23383629 - 06/26/16 10:46 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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This is what happens when you let the stupid vote. Look at trump. You think someone that stupid gets the nomination unless the retarded are motivated to go to the polls? How do you motivate retards to vote? Show them pictures of scary brown people.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85] 3
#23383647 - 06/26/16 10:50 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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i still think its funny that enough people don't know what the EU is to make it show up on trends sorry dood. I see your from the UK, so you're probably not quite as used to being laughed at as us 'muricans are. but don't take it personally
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: koods]
#23383664 - 06/26/16 10:54 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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You're never going to let this crap about scary brown people go are you 
There are countless reasons above your narrow minded perspective to vote leave. Not that you're interested in any of them, because you can't attack people or call them stupid for those reasons.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Adolin]
#23383674 - 06/26/16 10:56 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Gresh said: i still think its funny that enough people don't know what the EU is to make it show up on trends sorry dood. I see your from the UK, so you're probably not quite as used to being laughed at as us 'muricans are. but don't take it personally
Well, there are clearly people on both sides of the fence who have absolutely no clue what the hell they're voting for. You will always get that unfortunately.
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: Bubbles85] 1
#23384138 - 06/26/16 01:21 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Bubbles85 said: You're never going to let this crap about scary brown people go are you 
There are countless reasons above your narrow minded perspective to vote leave. Not that you're interested in any of them, because you can't attack people or call them stupid for those reasons.
 Countless reasons
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: koods] 2
#23384148 - 06/26/16 01:25 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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how is this ironic, it's what they always do
it's ironic because Marxist ideology, to which leftist ideology is more closely related, claims to be the redeemer of the working class. in the case of anarchist ideology the irony should be obvious
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Re: The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it [Re: koods] 1
#23384200 - 06/26/16 01:43 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said:
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Bubbles85 said: You're never going to let this crap about scary brown people go are you 
There are countless reasons above your narrow minded perspective to vote leave. Not that you're interested in any of them, because you can't attack people or call them stupid for those reasons.
 Countless reasons
Like i said, you'll never let it go. Dismiss all of the very legitimate reasons to leave and focus on this shit, like it was the only reason to vote leave You have a very tiny mind my friend!
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