The folks who have and will be profiting from brexit spent quite a bit of money convincing folks to vote against their best interests and leave. How can providing “boring” facts an interested party must search for be nearly as effective as an advert if they never become interested? Of course it cannot be as effective.

For our part it’s fine to feel superior cuz it’s a natural and necessary human emotion, but putting that frustration online like this is leaning into it. It feels nasty to me, and it makes me think of the low, the lowest quality comments i have seen in right wing spaces.

This meandering reply’s only point is to say if we really want to dehumanize the opposition we had better take a fucking hard look at what that means and why