• yeah@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    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.

      • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social
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        1 day ago

        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.

        • IratePirate@feddit.org
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          1 day ago

          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.