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Re:Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain by headmelted on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:08PM (#26606842)
Which begs the question what did this person think they were voting for if not that?

I get that sometimes people aren't sure what the fine details of something might be on a complex issue, but it's right there in the slogan: "out of the EU"

Re:Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain by Spooky23 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:21PM (#26606920)
They are people driven by the same bullshit nativist propaganda.

I live in a very democratic city. My neighbor down the block is a ~45 year old retired first responder due to a disabling knee injury. He’s mostly at home watching cable news during the week and transformed into a die-hard “conservative”, with the flags, stickers, etc.

Great guy, but deluded by propaganda. We usually talk fishing and baseball, as our sons play together. I avoid political talk at all times as the irony of a young, disabled former unionized government employee with free healthcare is both anti-gov and anti-union is too much for me.

Re:Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain by nobodyandproud on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:08PM (#26607605)
You have some discipline. At some point I would open up that Pandora’s box, kids or not.
Re:Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain by JoBrad on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:18PM (#26606906)
It’s always the “others”.

Someone I know recently lamented that their daughter (who has a physical disability) would no longer qualify for certain subsidies for a prosthesis because they don’t have a job. However the daughter’s husband does have a full time job, and the daughter home schools her daughter. They still qualify for some SNAP benefits (food stamps). The idea that The State wouldn’t make an allowance for this situation was galling to them. I agreed. But within 5 minutes they were back to complaining about welfare queens who don’t have jobs.

Re:Brits head home to avoid being deported as illegals in Spain by andremedeiros on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:11PM (#26606858)
I like that you assume they were thinking.