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[JoshuaFH]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

[Doomblade187]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

Bad architects. :3

[Loud Whispers]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

Bad architects. :3

Post-modernist architects can't for the life of them use stone or right angles, of course they can't build a wall - you need to design it to be made of glass, in oblong shapes overhanging the sea for no reason

[Jopax]

Just get some chinese to do it (tho be wary of those gosh darned mongorians while you're at it)

[ChairmanPoo]

What's the point of it all
If you're building a wall...

[Loud Whispers]

All in all, we're just another hole in the wall

[scriver]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

I'm guessing from your conclusion that you've watched an extremely biased video.

[JoshuaFH]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

I'm guessing from your conclusion that you've watched an extremely biased video.

I don't really have an opinion on Brexit, European politics is more impenetrable to your average American layperson than even American Politics; so I can't really judge what's going on over there as it all seems steeped in tradition and history that isn't at all obvious to anyone on the outside. Maybe there's a good reason for wanting to break away from the EU, but to uneducated ol' me it just seems like reactionary isolationism.

[smjjames]

There may be a bit of a culture clash involved, but 90% of it is definetly the same reactionary isolationism and right wing nationalism that we've been seeing on the rise in the US and in Europe and elsewhere.

In other Brexit related news (besides the impending vote today), when I saw this, my first thought was 'Whatever happened to the IRA laying down arms and making peace?', but it sounds like maybe it's a new group that has co-opted the IRA name.

[Kagus]

my first thought was 'Whatever happened to the IRA laying down arms and making peace?', but it sounds like maybe it's a new group that has co-opted the IRA name.

There are at least 4-5 different IRAs at any given time. They're all the real IRA, including the Real IRA.

[smjjames]

I didn't know that. I'd only heard of the one which laid down arms and made peace years ago.

I've been seeing on The Guardians liveblog and maybe the BBC liveblog from at least two different sources that May could lose the vote by 100 to 150. Not as bad as the 220 or so last time, but still, ouch.

edit: And now they're voting.

[Kagus]

I didn't know that. I'd only heard of the one which laid down arms and made peace years ago.

Don't worry about it; it's difficult even for the Irish to keep track of. I'm pretty sure the members themselves aren't entirely sure which kind of IRA they're in half the time.

[TD1]

Yea, still an issue. I had a few off-days at school because of local bomb scares.

[scriver]

I watched the CGP Grey video about Brexit and... what is it with English speaking first world countries struggling and failing to build a wall around themselves?

I'm guessing from your conclusion that you've watched an extremely biased video.

I don't really have an opinion on Brexit, European politics is more impenetrable to your average American layperson than even American Politics; so I can't really judge what's going on over there as it all seems steeped in tradition and history that isn't at all obvious to anyone on the outside. Maybe there's a good reason for wanting to break away from the EU, but to uneducated ol' me it just seems like reactionary isolationism.

There may be a bit of a culture clash involved, but 90% of it is definetly the same reactionary isolationism and right wing nationalism that we've been seeing on the rise in the US and in Europe and elsewhere.

Well, to begin with, you are equalling wanting to have a sovereign country with isolationalism, which is like. Literally imperialist logic.

[Il Palazzo]

So, how much sovereignty have you guys actually lost by joining the EU, and what do you need it back for?
(it's a serious question)