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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, this is an awful submission.

It's a very short article that is essentially restating a tweet but in paragraphs instead of bullet points. That tweet simply has a picture of something that looks like it might be an article published in a journal, or something?

If you actually want to see the source, you have to read the words on the picture in the tweet and search for them. That will eventually lead you to this working paper.

I'm not saying that the article didn't summarize the tweet properly, or that the tweet didn't summarize the working paper well. But, surely we can do better than articles which summarize tweets.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Gee, if only we could've seen this coming.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Remember when Nigel Farage said he’d leave if Brexit was a failure?…

[-] lime@feddit.nu -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it's an interesting case study of a fine idea gone horribly wrong. shoring up the domestic market is good, making sure people don't lose their jobs because of foreign labor is good. but when you've got the history of an empire, that stuff was already taken care of, so they platformed on hate.

Edit: thanks for the good replies on this. valuable discussion to have.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It was never a good idea. Mark Carney tried to warn the public, but his criticisms were discarded as "political".

Now everyone is blaming everyone for the outcome of a public vote.

It was xeonphobia driven by Boomer jingoism against Europe.

The day after the vote, the top Google search was "what is brexit"? They fucked over everyone under 40.

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In no way was it a fine idea. The very concept was bound to fail. Isolationism destroys trade.

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