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kleinbl00  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brexit looks likely.

    kleinbl00 mk You guys need to step back and look at this in perspective.

'k...

    What you are going to see next is people preparing and making motions to leave. This will cause all sorts of panic and uncertainty in the financial markets and trigger swift corrections in the British economy. The process in general will be very painful. Unemployment will go up, the pound will crash, prices on imports will go up, EU member countries will refuse further negotiations and all sorts of doom and gloom talk will happen.

Uhhh... here's what I said:

The world will not end. Dogs and cats will not sleep together. HOWEVER a whole bunch of people who firmly believe they have better shit to do are now going to have to burn a shit ton of blood and treasure on treaties and trade agreements and boring shit like that while the rest of the world aren't.

If you're going to accuse someone of losing perspective, perhaps you should champion a position more moderated than them, rather than less.