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user-inactivated  ·  2831 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anger over 'Bregret' as Leave voters say they thought UK would stay in EU

Sarcasm doesn't travel over the internet. My original post was to more jokingly say they were behind it while simultaneously pointing out the real fact that they are clearly going to benefit from it.

They probably already had a plan to deal with EU privacy laws, much like NSA has dealt with US privacy laws by using legal arguments to make "national security" exceptions to constitutional amendments like there are free speech exceptions for shouting "fire" in a movie theater. All they really have to do is hire some lawyers to argue in their direction (which I'm sure they necessarily have anyway), since the warhammer wasn't going to come down for many years anyway they could just have 2 lawyers in office dicking around half of the time and still come up with a logical legal defense.

    Lieutenant Eacher, before entering the service, had been an expert at Contract Law, the rules by which the primates determined and marked their territories. Remember: other mammals do this by leaving excretions which geometrically define the size and shape of the claimed turf, but domesticated primates do it by excreting ink on paper. Eacher was a lawyer, an expert at proving either that the ink excretions meant what they said (if he were being paid to prove that) or that the ink execretions didn't mean what they said (if he were being paid to prove that).

-Robert Anton Wilson