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The gif that best describes the wrongness of the pro-Brexit "left" (dialup warning; huge gif) (Original Post) Recursion Jun 2016 OP
56.2 MB? You might want to put that bandwidth warning in the subject line instead. Electric Monk Jun 2016 #1
Good call, thanks (nt) Recursion Jun 2016 #2
Love this movie, love those guys, love this gif! Feeling the Bern Jun 2016 #3
The YOUTUBE original, with sound.... MADem Jun 2016 #4
I'd been thinking it was a shame Denzil_DC Jun 2016 #5
Brexit = state's rights movement mainer Jun 2016 #6
No it's not. EU is not a country. The EU is a politico-economic union of member states. modem77 Jun 2016 #7
Pointless pedantry. Denzil_DC Jun 2016 #8
Peace is a big one frazzled Jun 2016 #9
Fucking brilliant. nt msanthrope Jun 2016 #10
K&R vintx Jun 2016 #11
 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
1. 56.2 MB? You might want to put that bandwidth warning in the subject line instead.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 01:39 AM
Jun 2016

Cool gif, though. I laughed.

k&r

Denzil_DC

(7,233 posts)
5. I'd been thinking it was a shame
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 07:09 AM
Jun 2016

Remain didn't have an ad agency canny enough to put something like this together during the campaign.

Better late than never, I suppose. Bravo!

mainer

(12,022 posts)
6. Brexit = state's rights movement
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 07:21 AM
Jun 2016

It's like Texas complaining about the federal government and all its rules and regulations and laws and how much better it would be if Texas seceded. And never considering what WAshington does for the states.

Denzil_DC

(7,233 posts)
8. Pointless pedantry.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 08:08 AM
Jun 2016

= may not be precisely the correct function, but I don't think anyone here is ignorant of the fact you've pointed out.

The parallels and similar dynamics seem clear.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
9. Peace is a big one
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 08:09 AM
Jun 2016

That we rarely talk about when we discuss the EU and Brexit. Many may forget what Europe was like as a bunch of isolated nation states before the march toward a common union after WW II.

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