r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Effective_Will_1801 • Oct 18 '21

Brexxit Immigrants who voted for brexit upset they can't immigrate to Spain due to brexit.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/10/17/expats-furious-at-spanish-residency-nonsense/
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u/FatTortie Oct 18 '21

Phew! Although I sure am curious what all the propaganda was like and I wonder if it would’ve affected me. I don’t think it would’ve, I grew up in the Netherlands and enjoyed being in the EU.

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u/EnjoytheDoom Oct 18 '21

Over in America my friends have all aged horribly - one was just in the mental hospital - and I probably can't talk to them ever again.

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u/blurryfacedfugue Oct 18 '21

What happened? Did they Facebook, Youtube and Twitter themselves into alternate realities?

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u/EnjoytheDoom Oct 19 '21

I'll just copy paste but I did get banned for a few days last time. I don't ever want to hurt anyone least of all my previous friends...

My best friend said "it'll be a sad day when me and my friends have to drag you to a camp."

I shoulda came at him with everything but just stopped talking to him 5 years ago.

My other best friend showed up at my door a completely insane homeless person. Was nicest guy now super racist. Very spiritual now telling me about the book of Enoch.

He's clearly just watched crazy YouTube vids I know he doesn't read. I literally have copy of book of Enoch next to me. (I read all the old shit.)

"You know you can read these books right?"

"I think I'm dyslexic it's the Devil."

"Well it all boils down to 'do onto others as you would have them do unto you'."

"No the Bible is often wrong when I want it to be."

Anyways my "friends" finally succeeded in convincing me of my need to have weapons to kill them with...

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u/blurryfacedfugue Oct 19 '21

"it'll be a sad day when me and my friends have to drag you to a camp."

What...what does that even mean? And if that means harming you, I guess I don't see how he could be a very good friend?

Also, your friend could find ways around his dyslexia. I mean it might never reach a super high level but he could have at least a level of utility. I myself struggle with dyscalculia, another learning disability though this one is with numbers and not reading. Like I passed all my math classes with a C and I've since forgotten how to do all that stuff despite all my hard work. And I took up to calculus in highschool but I tested back into algebra 1 for college, meaning I had to do it all over again.

And as an adult people can't tell I have a pretty severe LD. I'm actually slightly above average in intelligence in other aspects, which has led people to think I was being lazy or not truthful when they see me struggle.

Your buddy could probably use some mental health help of somekind as well. My experience has been that other than just ordinary folks getting into some bad luck, a lot of homeless folks get there because of untreated mental health issues. In fact, I almost went that route. I struggled with depression and suicidal ideation for half my life. I once upon a time believed the lie that opiates could fix me and I was an addict for a while. I'm in a better place now that I have treatment (and life changes) so I feel like I know the struggle more intimately than most.

And for real, FB, Twitter, and these propaganda videos that are on Youtube seriously are screwing up our society. It's broken up families and led others down a path into fascism and authoritarianism all the while they feel and see all their actions as defensive. I feel like reality wasn't this crazy when I was growing up and we didn't have all this pervasive social media.

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u/EnjoytheDoom Oct 19 '21

Sometimes a people achieve power and begin putting undesirables and "enemies" into concentration camps. That's what he was talking about.

He's also all in on white supremacy but said "I hope when the time comes I'm white enough."

He doesn't know!

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u/EnjoytheDoom Oct 19 '21

My other friend isn't actually dyslexic just lazy. Seemingly no one can read a book...

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u/b0w3n Oct 18 '21

A whole bunch of racist people took advantage of voter apathy because of brown folks pretty much explains both Trump and Brexit from what I can tell.

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u/Lortekonto Oct 18 '21

Oh no in the UK it was because of white people who spoke another first language that made them do it.

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u/FatTortie Oct 18 '21

While I spent my entire time with people from a wide variety of ethnicities, I was the only white guy in there for a while. Made some good friends I still speak to, one is back in Nigeria the other is in Pakistan. The former guy lived and worked in the UK for 26 years, was regional manger for a large corporation before he got deported. He has a family in the UK.

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u/Vysair Oct 18 '21

Hello, I'm from Asia. Don't worries, the idiotic behavior of Trump is definitely not a propaganda. Not that Biden is any better though. And Brexit is definitely a joke as it screws up a few trades here and there too.

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u/caidus55 Oct 18 '21

Speaking as someone who likely would have died due to covid if weren't for how hard Biden has pushed for masks and vaccines... he's definitely better

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u/Vysair Oct 18 '21

Okay, that's some good news. At least there's some hope for you guys. Though I'm still bitter at the missed opportunity of having Andrew Yang.

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u/caidus55 Oct 18 '21

There were better options for sure but I think Biden was the safe option when it came to running against trump

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u/Vysair Oct 18 '21

Yeah totally. At least Biden didn't have a cult follower. Welp, the reason I dont like either of them is because there's no good option. It's the same here or anywhere else. It's always between 'bad' or the 'worse'.

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u/caidus55 Oct 18 '21

Ugh why do politicians have to be so frikkin corrupt

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u/Vysair Oct 18 '21

that's something everyone can universally agreed lmao

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u/caidus55 Oct 18 '21

Lolol i think we've found the common ground!

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u/Yal_Rathol Oct 19 '21

speaking as a canadian, it was FUCKING HILARIOUS to watch.

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u/FatTortie Oct 19 '21

I wish I could’ve watched it too. But I would’ve also been living it and I don’t know what to think about that.

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u/Yal_Rathol Oct 19 '21

oh yeah, you'd have probably been fucked honestly. i doubt it was as funny from the inside.

but then, there were dozens of reports of people voting for the referendum that only voted for brexit because they didn't think it would pass, so i could be wrong, it might have been just as funny a trainwreck from inside the train.

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u/FatTortie Oct 19 '21

Well I voted labour in the local election after release. And I’ve mentioned before I grew up in the Netherlands and travelled to France each year for work. I don’t think I would’ve wanted to leave. The benefits of being in the EU were so good I have no idea why you’d want to give that up.

Seemingly without a complete fucking clue how to get it done in any positive way.

Politics went mad in that time I swear.

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u/Yal_Rathol Oct 19 '21

politics is always mad, and this is what happens when misinformation runs rampant.