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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The official vote, and thus the will of the British people

Yeah, because that particular referendum isn't notorious for SPECTACULAR amounts of disinformation from far right groups both domestic and foreign! Everyone had all important information available to them, none of it buried in a mountain of deliberately fraudulent garbage!

To say that’s wrong because people didn’t understand what their vote meant or weren’t shown how they should register really speaks more to how poorly the remain campaigns communicated the seriousness of the referendum and what it would mean to cast a leave vote or to not vote at all.

Wow, way to victim blame!

Yes, the Remain campaign dropped the ball, but to put the blame entirely on the voters and the ones trying inexpertly to avoid disaster and none on all the crooks successfully gaslighting the public is fucking asinine if not deliberately obtuse.

But official elections are the source of truth in the democratic processes we have and to claim the results are false is dangerous whether it’s for brexit in the UK or for a president in the US.

With apologies to Matthew Perry, could you BE any more of a "never doubt the system, the system is flawless or nothing matters" neoliberal?! 🤦