Iโve had two Pfizer shots. Iโve probably already had covid . I got a bad reaction to my first shots and donโt want a third . Unvaxxed and vaxxed can both catch and transmit the virus . Iโve decided there is no clinical or public health reason for me to get boosted , so Iโm out .
โWeโre Irish , we relate more to the Palestinians who - like us - are oppressedโ . Iโm Irish and Iโve never been oppressed and I see much more to admire in Israel than any of her (agressive, nihilistic) neighbours
@SimonHarrisTD
This is vacuous virtue signalling and has only downside for Irish people and businesses. And it's nauseating that you would reward Hamas for their diabolical attack on Israel on 7/10.
To see the Irish left squeal in delight at footage showing savages bundling a teenage girl into the back of a van tells everything you need to know about their world view . Evil is a thing and itโs alive and well in Ireland in 2023 .
@truthandfiction
I think for a large number of non-Jews , the oct 7 attacks were different and marked a point after which things canโt be the same . For some it was the first time to understand the nihilism of Hamas and Israelโs existential security concerns .
@hazechu
@DubTrans
@GCNmag
What do Lenin and the Hammer and sickle have to do with transphobia ? In Ireland we have a culture based on free speech and robust exchange . Do you support this and how does that square with your characterisation of people who disagree w u as fascist and transphobes ?
Ireland was a better place to live in the 1990s than it is now in just about every way I can think of. The "golden age" of liberalism in Ireland was really from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, before the socialists really started messing everything up.
@hexhibit
people in charge had two years to develop effective early clinical intervention to keep people out of hospitals and increase ICU capacity. Instead they put everything on a vaccine that didn't even come close to what was promised. This disease is now endemic meaning u cant stop it
Just imagine an Ireland with 150,000 fewer sociology lecturers, trade union reps, charity bosses, commissioners, regulators and bureaucrats, and 150,000 more nurses, teachers, surgeons, builders, engineers and entrepreneurs .
Higgins is sure that there is anti-Muslim prejudice but that there is NO antisemitism in Ireland.
If it looks like a communist who hates Jews and quacks like a communist who hates Jews.....
RTE will do a report on a flooded driveway in New Zealand before reporting on anything that will undermine official narratives . Have they done a single piece on Dutch farmers or the impact of ECB QE on inflation ? Pure propaganda .
@FitzgeraldFrncs
Sorry Frances but FG have been openly lying and gaslighting the irish public since 2011.. You've allowed the State to be taken over by people who've done all the leg-work to ensure we have a culture war, if not an actual civil war. Normal people hate FFG guts with a passion,
@JohnOBrennan2
@theresareidy
In fact John this is a sloppy piece that creates more heat that light.. here is my (quick) response:
(TL; DR : if your aim is to improve politics and the political conversation, stop insulting people and ignoring their genuine concerns)
Here is my (quickly drafted) response to Theresa Reidy's article in the Irish Examiner yesterday: "Far-right conspiracy theorists are having a hugely destructive effect on the Irish political system"
The first couple of paragraphs are fairly innocuous.
I haven't seen a single person on here defending Paddy Cosgrave. It's like he doesn't have a single friend in the world or a single bridge he hasn't burned .
@KonstantinKisin
@elonmusk
Jon Haidt talks about the reorientation of the โtelosโ of media and academia from (respectively) inform and educate to โsave the worldโ which comes down to channeling everything you do through the filter of your personal values . Put simply , they donโt know how to do their jobs
@s8mb
they expose playlists in an API . This is fairly normal for data interoperability. If you think there's a demand for a service that exports playlists as txt or csv or json or xml or whatever, you can build it and sell it.
It wouldn't make sense for spotify to support a standards
He doesnโt understand the difference between multiculturalism and pluralism . Pluralism means respecting the hostโs culture and norms and living within that . Multiculturalism implies multiple parallel systems with no shared norms or values living side by side, eg Rotherham ,
He grew up in a wealthy family in Castleknock and went to Kingโs Hospital and Trinity ; there are people that live within 2 km of his gaff that experienced more discrimination because of their accent than he ever did because of his skin colour .
There were candles and flowers laid as a tribute outside the Israeli embassy on the 7th Oct . The crowd that marched the next evening (before the bodies had even been counted ) destroyed it.
A lot of good people of the left must be making mental notes about their more extreme fellow travellers . Iโm still shocked that in Dublin a coalition of Marxists and apparent pro Palestinian extremists marched on the Israeli embassy , not to offer condolences but to scream for
@JohnOBrennan2
@theresareidy
Is that your best response to my thoughtful argument? Ireland is a small country and I fear political reprisals for my views, so I remain anonymous. What's the problem with that? Why can't you do better than just insulting and lashing out? You're supposed to be a professional
@SimonHarrisTD
@FineGael
I got 30 seconds into this.. FG enterprise "policy" has been written by the trade unions for the last 12 years. Successive FG-led govts have been waging war on the private sector, small businesses, entrepreneurs, employers, investors and savers since 2011. FG = posh socialism
@paulmurphy_TD
โObjective sex edโ doesnโt teach โgenderโ and other completely manufactured and political word-concepts .Leave children alone. Nobody wants or values your input here
The Irish cognoscenti are incapable of discussing the causes and implications of the riots in Dublin . For 40 years so-called sociologists have been pushing welfarism as an alternative to the nuclear family. The scrotes that rioted yesterday are the natural output of three
Here is my (quickly drafted) response to Theresa Reidy's article in the Irish Examiner yesterday: "Far-right conspiracy theorists are having a hugely destructive effect on the Irish political system"
The first couple of paragraphs are fairly innocuous.
@gavreilly
If you get a chance, maybe ask him why he is spending all of his time on a conflict he won't be able to solve, and if he's thought about the things that won't get done while he's focussing on this?
Good riddance. Most divisive and dishonest person in Irish politics in 50 years. Sold himself as a libertarian with a conservative bias, turned out to be the most left wing Taoiseach in our short history. Politics have never been in worse shape.
Any truth to the rumour that.
@Paulmurphy_TD
is preparing a statement in which he will offer himself up in exchange for hostages held by Hamas ? I think itโs a good idea . Letโs get behind him .
@BrigidLaffan
@OHanlonEilis
I'm confused Brigid. You're worried about democracy being under threat in the US but Brexit was a very pure expression of democracy and you looked down your nose at them too. Could it be that you should just despise oiks who won't get in line?
PS i think a good definition of
@cynimhurchu
I never heard of you before last week and to be honest I think I preferred it that way (PS leave the internet alone, you know nothing about it)
I used to regularly donate to Wikipedia until I found out what Wikipedia Foundation does with the money . Turns out
@jimmy_wales
โlibertarianโ values were a bit of a sham .
The German language
@Wikipedia
site describes the
@gbdeclaration
as "anti- science", a fringe view. Left unexplained is why German all cause excess deaths in the covid era is higher than Sweden's.
Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy is a joke.
I live in D4 and we donโt have any emergency accommodation for asylum seekers . Surprising that the postcode with the largest number of Irish Times reading social justice warriors doesnโt walk the walk .
@AnMailleach
Sold himself as a libertarian reformer, torcher of quangos , bane of unions, scourge of the nanny state, champion of the hard-bitten business owner and the private sector worker. He delivered exactly the opposite of all of this, and undermined trust in politics in the process.
Controversial opinion but I think the outrage about the protest outside OโGormanโs house is way out of proportion. In another time and place in history OโGorman would by now have been chucked out of a helicopter . Heโs an intrinsically destructive and dangerous weirdo and is a
Ireland has benefitted hugely from liberal capitalism without ever embracing liberal ideas in cultural terms . Since 2011, the State has grown in cost and span of control to the extent that we have a fully socialised economy thatโs propped up by about 20 companies , none of which
This is a very important point : the point of 99% of wokist and comme extremism is the reaction . Worked perfectly in Ireland where the story became about โbook banningโ and not teaching 9 year olds about hook up apps and fisting
Looked at as a provocation to given the Left the "book banning" narrative arc, the porn books in school libraries is a brilliant mid-level violence provocation. The Left successfully got normal people branded "book banners" while they "decolonize" the curriculum and catalog.
@Casey5122dark
Weโve seen a big increase in our population since 2004 and most of these new people have added to our society , culture and economy . For example , over 120k Polish people have come here and I think the country is a better place for this . But the questions of who comes here and
@LindaClondevitt
Maybe the simplest explanation is the correct one : they are nasty people . These people try to convince themselves and others that their rage stems from a sense of injustice and empathy with the downtrodden but itโs really just resentment and hatred .
In the last 2 weeks ,
@JohnBurnsST
, Brenda Power , Ciara Kelly and
@McConnellDaniel
have all written pieces on the perils of cancel culture and groupthink . This would have been a brave stance to take 3 or 4 years ago , now it feels like people are moving with the times.
You ever just step back and think, Fuck, Ireland's self-styled edgy political commentariat have barely read a book between them and seem to believe that specious nonsense is a substitute for an informed, reasonable opinion..
@JohnOBrennan2
@theresareidy
Franco didnโt have the technology to keep receipts and maintain lists like our current leftist overlords . PS why another insult ? Why canโt you stick to the subject (which is the alleged - but poorly argued - threat of a Nazi takeover, when ALL of the authoritarianism is on
#cuttingedge
person more or less just said to Niamh H, your opinion has no value because you don't have kids. Audience claps. That's pretty awful stuff
Amazing how little outrage there was among our wonderful press corps when Kevin Myers was branded a holocaust denier by RTE . Also amazing that so many of them enthusiastically jumped on the fake IDF hospital air strike story without so much as one retraction between them. Itโs
@oconnellhugh
@Independent_ie
Amazing work there guys , be proud of what you do. We wonโt make any progress as a society until every last soul has exactly the same set of views .
Simon Harris is the epitome of hyper-feminised , vacuous, conviction-free soundbite generation machine that Irish politics has been producing for the last 15 years. I've heard him described as an excellent communicator, yet I've never heard him make a single clear argument on any
โIt was perhaps not language that I would normally use.โ
Justice Minister Helen McEntee responds to criticism of her use of the words โthugs and scumbagsโ in the Dรกil.
#DublinRiots
Irish Times and RTE hacks will hear about Javier Milei for the first time over the next few hours . They will both describe him as โfar rightโ. He is not far right . Heโs a libertarian .
@stellaomalley3
@Glinner
We're lucky to have people like him who put everything on the line to do the right thing. Most of us (me included) keep our heads down.
@RoisinMichaux
The good stuff and bad stuff about men comes from the same place : male aggression and capacity for violence and willingness to take risks or make big bets are some of the reasons weโve come so far as a civilisation. Sophisticated cultures find ways to contain male behaviours
Cutting taxes is absolutely the wrong thing for Ireland.
We have massive deficits in housing, childcare, education and health. And the electorate seem to understand this better than many politicians.
Met Eireann can't predict 12 a snow storm hours in advance but they can tell us with certainty that it was caused by climate change and if we want better weather we have to increase carbon tax or something.
Do I have this right?
The culture war is a thin veil that covers a collapse in epistemology: we donโt agree about how knowledge and truth are discovered . Itโs impossible to talk to people who donโt attach any value to reason , people for whom emotions are the primary inputs for their decision-making
@gavinsblog
@ClaireByrneLive
you got through that whole thread without actually saying why hobbs is bad (he's blocked me btw and i didnt watch the show). but why shouldn't he be on? (i know v little about him)
Ireland's lavishly funded (overwhelming left) NGO sector has spent 10 years searching high and low for the "far right". Turns out it's about 12 blokes , none of whom are very bright. Meanwhile, we have a hard core of revolutionary Marxists and Islamofascists who hate everything
@SenatorKeogan
His whole schtick is undermining the system and causing chaos wherever he goes . Back in the day they wouldโve sent him to the army to straighten him out . Nasty and useless Individual.
@paulmurphy_TD
The most amazing thing about our liberal capitalist democracy is that it even facilitates people like yourself who contribute nothing , build nothing , hire nobody , provide no service . Itโs almost like capitalism is too successful . Now if only there was some way to cut off
@paulmurphy_TD
People following your advice will face problems in the future if they want to lease or buy a property or take out a car loan . Why would you do this ?
@realWokeyLeaks
@timmydooley
@Mickmac3210
Timmy wants govt to fund and control local radio stations and newspapers; he tried recently to get Spar to fire Kellie Harrington because she liked a Tweet . Heโs a low quality person , and a very typical FF spoofer .
@FergalBowers
@rtenews
Fergal, every covid measure and official "scientific" advice was 100% political and driven by vested interests and not public health.
This was obvious from the very start. We told you!
@drsjcostello
@DouglasKMurray
Itโs very obvious that heโs referring to Ireland having bottled it against Hitler and (quelle surprise) we are siding with the bad guys again. This is incontrovertibly true .
Theresa goes on :
"A very small group of voters is enraged now, hostile and aggressive to all but a few extreme candidates who share their animosity for the political system and beliefs in a collection of strange conspiracy theories about who runs the world, immigration and
Irish political party ideological leanings based on policy platform :
FG - Social democrat
FF - Social democrat
Sinn Fein - Socialist (Marxist)
Labour - Socialist
AAA - PBP - Socialist (Trotskyite)
I4C - Unknown
Social Democrats - Socialist
Green Party - Social democrat
Israel is now the most hated state in the world. They have their government to thank for that. They knew for months that an attack was coming. They let it happen. They allowed their own citizens to be killed and captured. They wanted this war. They wanted an excuse for genocide.
Migrants could soon be accommodated in repurposed warehouses, as the State scrambles for more beds - with the job being potentially handed over to a new standalone public agency, as the work is too much for a Gov department to do. Yesterdayโs News at 5:30:
@benshapiro
Itโs almost like we donโt need new convoluted word-concepts to describe something that has been around for longer than the language we use to describe it !?
Bollox . When the State had a monopoly on phone lines it took 8 months to get a phone line (unless you knew someone). When the State had a monopoly on air travel it cost 2 months wages to fly to London. And Denis OโBrienโs corruption was enabled by State and political actors!
Why the rich love
#privatisation
of the state - because its what makes them rich - citizens subsidise the wealthy who then argue against taxes that pay for public services - privatisation & the wealthy broke the social contract not trade unions via
@rte
@MarlaBLovesYou
@NiecyOKeeffe
Dear Mick,
Judge Martin Nolan hands down custodial sentences for possession of weed and creative accounting, and suspended sentences and fines for child p0rn and violent psychopaths.
This is highly offensive and he is a clear danger to society.
Make it stop now.
Regards
Antigen tests are now part of the official strategy . The senior NPHET member who described them as snake oil has since be moved to be head of a government agency with an 800 million euro budget.