Leavers beginning to realise EU states see EU *fundamentally* differently from how Leavers see it. THREAD 1/9

Some Leavers believe UK’s economic/political interests/qualities are fundamentally different from France & Germany. But this is so daft & so close to obvious extreme nationalism it never explained the EU’s existence for them 2/
But if UK isn’t fundamentally different from Germany & France. How to make sense of German / French EU membership? 3/
One Leaver coping strategy was “EU is bad idea for all EU states”, just they haven’t realised yet (not as clever as Brits ssh) and their bad establishments are suppressing bold independence movements 4/
But hoped-for Brexit copycats haven’t arrived. Greece seems determined to stay even as its economy improves. Anti-EU forces don’t win, or win but don’t try and leave. Remember how Hungary & Poland were going to back UK? Anyone? 5/
Another theory is EU as a Germanic (+ Frankish) Empire, exploiting. But instead of throwing Ireland under a bus (remember Irexit?) Leavers are mostly struck dumb at the solidarity. 6/
Leavers are all out of non-daft arguments for why 30 states want to keep Single Market so much they’ll take the economic hit of not letting UK cherry pick. 7/
Leavers will keep at it: “Germany France tried to make UK a vassal state”. But UK won’t be a vassal. Just 98% outside the SM (N Ireland *waves*) 8/
But, if No Deal happens, millions of Leavers will be thinking about this. Why is there a GB-EU border - but no FR-DE border (or even an NI-IE border?)

Millions will find new answers... 9/9

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Tomorrow, January 6th, MAGA chuds, Proud Boys, and white supremacists are planned to descend on Washington D.C. to contest the election. Among them will be NSC-131, a New England based neo-Nazi organization. Let's welcome them by saying hi to one of their members, Eddie Stuart!


Edward Stuart, from Chester, New Hampshire, has been a member of Nationalist Social Club (NSC) since the very beginning and is a staple participant in their actions. He is known in NSC chats as "Carl Jung" and is well connected in the New England Nazi scene.
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NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi group that was started in Massachusetts in early 2020 by Chris Hood. You can learn more about NSC and it's members in these threads:


Eddie describes his ideology as "Esoteric Hitlerism" which is an occult form of Nazism that literally worships Adolf Hitler as a god, or, specifically, as an incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. Here is Ed holding the RigVeda with some of his occult Nazi pals. Interesting Ed!
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Much of this ideological insight was gained from Eddie's Twitter, where he originally used his "Carl Jung" persona and reposts explicit neo-fascist content and racist memes. In one edited picture, Eddie can be seen at an NSC event in late June 2020 holding a Nazi Sonnenrad flag
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