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1. Eugen 🎄 (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 10:28:12 UTC Eugen 🎄

   I'm worried about the upcoming election. Before Brexit I thought that sanity would prevail, surely something as stupid as the Leave campaign couldn't win in the 21st century? It was a very unpleasant surprise the next morning. The lesson is, you can't take sanity for granted. I think a lot of people in the UK thought the same, and so only something like 38% participated in the referendum.

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   • Katie Bishop of the Nightfall (katiekats@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 10:42:39 UTC Katie Bishop of the Nightfall

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     @gargron 
     I...look I say this as someone who lives in the UK and voted Remain here, wife voted leave. Don't be a judgmental fuck. I'm not saying the leave campaign, least what was showed on TV, was perfect, far from it, the remain campaign has not been either. But it is little wonder you don't seem to at all understand the reasoning as to why people chose to leave, when you come across as not at all willing to care for anything they may say.
     
     One of the worst parts of politics is how it alienates people, makes people fond of insults and exaggerations, prone to clinging to their side and all their pre-conceptions, it can tear apart friendships for little reason, make people despise eachother, provoke anger, irrationality. One should take care to not add to that if they can.
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   • Bob Mottram (bob@gnusocial.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Nov-2016 10:50:42 UTC Bob Mottram

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     • Katie Bishop of the Nightfall
     @katiekats @gargron The very emotional reactions were a surprise to me. I didn't even bother enough to vote in the EU referendum. To me it was just a choice between one giant bureaucracy and another. Mothra versus Hedorah.  I didn't want either of them.
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