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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by masklinn on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:23PM (#11973155)
You've got your roles exactly inverted here. The UK left screaming, huffing and smashing the door but apparently expecting the same benefits they enjoyed beforehand, as a rational person the EU would have no reason whatsoever to entertain that behaviour let alone reward it.

The EU has no rational reason to be especially sweet on the UK, and looking internally and at the future it can't even be seen as that as it would bolster eurosceptic movements inside the Union.

There's no point of view under which being soft on the UK is rational.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by RickHull on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:27PM (#11973623)
> The UK left screaming, huffing and smashing the door

Huh? This is your characterization of a referendum on membership?

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by jpdus on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:38PM (#11974347)
Well, actually it is a good characterization of the leave campaign, which won the vote and thus a valid analogy.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by RickHull on Friday June 24, 2016 @09:14PM (#11974682)
If that's a valid characterization of the internal debate, of what concern is that to the EU? So far, I don't see the UK screaming, huffing, or smashing doors with respect to the EU.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by akoncius on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @02:03PM (#12038275)
well, look at "Leave" campaign: racist party [1] spreads false information about almost every aspect - "let's fund NHS instead" was false and Farage almost instantly rejected that it was a proper promise; said that UK lost their borders, which is false - UK is not a member of Shengen zone;

there were constant phrases from "Leave" party that relationship with EU is abusive, UK is like slave.. it doesn't look for me like intelectual debate with polite arguments.

[1] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-claims-...

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by tomp on Friday June 24, 2016 @07:40PM (#11974351)
It's an equally good characterization of the remain campaign as well, so I'm not sure that's a good argument...
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by tomp on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:37PM (#11973272)
Well, yes, I guess being mean is rational, and being nice irrational.
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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by masklinn on Saturday June 25, 2016 @03:06AM (#11975531)
> Well, yes, I guess being mean is rational, and being nice irrational.

You're the one who brought on the rationality argument, and while things differ across conflicts, in this specific instance yes being "mean"[0] is rational.

[0] if "not bending over to the whims of an asshole" is considered mean these days

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by TheOtherHobbes on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:29PM (#11973638)
But hey - that's capitalism.
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