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I don't need Google translate to tell me that's a chuckyarelaw right there
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Dec 8, 2022 20:07
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Free state day was last Tuesday?!
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Dec 8, 2022 20:41
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wow, what a oval office lol
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Dec 8, 2022 21:13
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https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1601105539966144512 It's a sorry state of affairs when this man will be Taoiseach in a few days, having cleared himself of wrongdoing using the Trump/Nixon defense of "when a president does it, it's not illegal". I wonder will any journalist or politician try to revisit what happened in light of recent events. I recall at the time people were questioning the nature of his relationship to the man he leaked documents to, given that they had attended pride festival together. At the the time it was homophobic to insinuate that as Varadkar was in a committed relationship. Yet now when he was caught kissing another man, it's homophobic to say he was cheating as he's in an open relationship. His relationship to his partner seems fluid and takes on whichever form can be used to deny Varadkar of wrongdoing.
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Dec 9, 2022 15:11
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Lads it was an open goal, it was a free joke to make at Fine Gael's expense!!!!
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Dec 9, 2022 20:47
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creepy meat thermometer bastard 
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Dec 11, 2022 20:11
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https://twitter.com/irishexaminer/status/1605500602364354565 Someone tell the HSE chief that covids over
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Dec 21, 2022 15:51
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Never stopped wearing my mask, if i'm going shopping or anywhere enclosed on it goes.  Three years without a cold, flu or Covid has been loving brilliant!
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Dec 21, 2022 19:45
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Unfortunately I have kids so avoiding them bringing stuff back from school is impossible unless I mask at home. Since October there's been a flu or flu like illness just making its way around their classes like an ouroboros. The HSE used to give free anti-gen tests for schoolchildren but they cancelled it over the summer so no ones seems to care if it's covid or flu and will load their kids up with cough medicine and send them in.
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Dec 21, 2022 20:16
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Just Another Lurker posted:Never stopped wearing my mask, if i'm going shopping or anywhere enclosed on it goes.
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Dec 22, 2022 00:42
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Last minute app came in yesterday for piercings. Phoned today, she's smotherin with Covid. Of course she wasn't masked up either. Sat next to a test in work, gonna have to test to see if I can see my 92 year old Granny and my brand new niece over Christmas
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Dec 22, 2022 16:17
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I urge anybody who intends to post in this thread to keep their wits about them and to wear comfortable shoes
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Jan 10, 2023 12:02
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Literally everyone decided to head to the office on the one day I have to go in. Of course the person with the worst cough sits right next to me (same thing happened a month and a half ago). I'm double boosted for COVID, but haven't gotten the flu shot and have only just heard my area is inundated with RSV, whatever the gently caress that is. gently caress my life.
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Jan 10, 2023 14:43
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School Nickname posted:Literally everyone decided to head to the office on the one day I have to go in. Of course the person with the worst cough sits right next to me (same thing happened a month and a half ago). I'm double boosted for COVID, but haven't gotten the flu shot and have only just heard my area is inundated with RSV, whatever the gently caress that is. gently caress my life. Why didn't you get a flu shot?
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Jan 10, 2023 14:46
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Failed Imagineer posted:Why didn't you get a flu shot? Got the COVID booster like two weeks before Christmas so didn't want to be floored around the Holiday. The boosters have given me the worst fevers of my life, but luckily I can get the flu shot today at my local pharmacy.
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Jan 10, 2023 15:16
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School Nickname posted:Got the COVID booster like two weeks before Christmas so didn't want to be floored around the Holiday. The boosters have given me the worst fevers of my life, but luckily I can get the flu shot today at my local pharmacy. I got both on the same day & ended up with hideous Diarrhoea. You made the right choice
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Jan 10, 2023 15:24
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Shoehead posted:I urge anybody who intends to post in this thread to keep their wits about them and to wear comfortable shoes
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Jan 10, 2023 20:10
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If you are wearing your shoes on your head it is probably extra important for them to be comfortable and ensure they do not impede your wits.
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Jan 10, 2023 20:12
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forkboy84 posted:I got both on the same day & ended up with hideous Diarrhoea. You made the right choice Nah it's fine
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Jan 10, 2023 20:51
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Got my booster on Monday and it made me loopy as poo poo and my arm stopped working which is funny cos I've had 3 others and was fine. But also my psychopath boss is walking around work coughing on everything and chomping on antibiotics that don't seem to be working and if I can help it I'd like to be as protected as possible from her. Plus I managed to have several close calls over Christmas, not just the one I posted about 
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Jan 10, 2023 23:18
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I guess the constant scandals and just having FF/FG in government has broken most people. It's been quiet here despite the spate of recent scandals. I'd say the current one has legs to take down the government but they seem better able to deflect from scandals than past governments could.
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Jan 31, 2023 18:30
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At this point Leo says something, a leak appears that proves him a liar, and we all just go "ah yeah, there it is so" and move on. There seems to be gently caress all mechanism for actually forcing a new election beyond individual TDs deciding to leave parties.
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Jan 31, 2023 19:27
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In my experience, people have mostly given up on the government and are just waiting for the next election. People seem numb to how bad they are and kinda know they can't do anything, so there is no real point getting angry. On top of that there isn't any major party that is racist enough to win over the people who seem to be the most angry - those whipped up by English and American culture wars. The groups that are attempting to exploit this seem to be too right wing on other elements (abortion, LGBT issues) to appeal to the general population. There would be major space for a party that held anti-immigration views but was socially liberal on other social issues. I feel like FF are going to attempt to triangulate to this after Martin goes, but I don't think it will stick.
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Jan 31, 2023 19:44
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To be fair, the groups whipping up poo poo on this issue are the same groups that whip up poo poo on every issue since the 80s. It's always Justin Barrett (whose surname I momentarily brainfarted on and remembered via googling "Justin nazi Ireland"  ) and Hermann Kelly, with support from John McGuirk, and Dave Quinn. Once in a while Niall Boylan throws some shite out and every now and then Peadar Tóibín remembers he exists, checks the party Twitter feeds and slowly abandons any pretense of being a left-wing party to shite out something that gets mocked. The angry ones are thankfully an incredibly small minority, as proven by how many of them are "local" to every town in the country when there's an opportunity to get in front of a camera at one.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:05
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Oh absolutely. Ireland has only been saved from a far-right party because those who are organizing are so loving bad at it.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:19
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And the opinion, which I have probably expressed multiple times previously itt - that SF with all their ideological wish-wash and pretensions at soft left populism are an effective safety net to keep nationalist head-the-balls from being captured by the fash
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Jan 31, 2023 20:22
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Yeah I can see that being the case, but I've noticed a few early 20's lads who grew up watching PewDiePie and Sargon of Akkad getting sucked into thinking that Sinn Féin were never involved with the IRA because the real IRA wouldn't put up with socialism and feminism and suchlike and there's a secret Qanon-like IRA just waiting to fix everything any minute now. The party name literally just being two pronouns probably broke their minds.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:35
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Provisional Qanaon A few years ago I had to take down a bunch of IFP posters that were plastered around the college. They've been trying really hard to get that crowd but I think in an Irish context they aren't going to get that far. They're not recruiting from a sympathetic crowd. Hard to argue that foreigners are the problem when a solid 30% of them are going to be emigrating.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:44
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The anti-immigrant crowd seems to be gaining a bit of ground. Mostly spurred on by the governments inept handling of the Ukraine refugee crisis. I see a lot of people being susceptible to that kind of rhetoric if they were more articulate. Just before Christmas I heard quite a few strangers complaining about how the government can magic up homes for 50,000 refugees but can't house 10,000 homeless. Which should show that homelessness is a government choice driven by their lack of interest in solving it. But I fear if the opposition doesn't focus on the government choosing to not fix homelessness, it leaves space for the far-right to turn it from a government failing to bollocks about their great replacement, NWO agenda.
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Jan 31, 2023 21:08
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Yeah that talking point was doing the rounds when I was home for Christmas, but it generally ends sharpish when you ask when they last heard the people making it talking about the need for helping the homeless. Most of the time because they suddenly realise that they also have done gently caress all for the homeless and actually give a poo poo about looking hypocritical.
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Jan 31, 2023 21:15
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Man, Enoch has being a creep on lock. How has no one talked him down from going to the school each morning?
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Jan 31, 2023 21:30
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PowerBeard posted:Man, Enoch has being a creep on lock. How has no one talked him down from going to the school each morning? Talked him down? His hosed up da drives him in. His whole family are like this
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Feb 1, 2023 00:02
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PowerBeard posted:Man, Enoch has being a creep on lock. How has no one talked him down from going to the school each morning? He doesn't have mates I'd say, just co-conspirators and his mental family of subhuman turds
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Feb 1, 2023 00:17
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Media aren't helping by showing up everyday to give him the attention he craves. Stop filming him and giving him interviews I bet he stops going.
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Feb 1, 2023 00:31
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PowerBeard posted:Man, Enoch has being a creep on lock. How has no one talked him down from going to the school each morning? Yeah reiterating the point his family are all just like that. I think his sister attempted to sue her employer a few years ago because they weren't catholic enough or something. Apparently they're loaded and can fund this kind of stuff themselves.
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Feb 1, 2023 00:54
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Skull Servant posted:Yeah reiterating the point his family are all just like that. I think his sister attempted to sue her employer a few years ago because they weren't catholic enough or something. Apparently they're loaded and can fund this kind of stuff themselves.
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Feb 1, 2023 03:39
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Failed Imagineer posted:And the opinion, which I have probably expressed multiple times previously itt - that SF with all their ideological wish-wash and pretensions at soft left populism are an effective safety net to keep nationalist head-the-balls from being captured by the fash yeah, a really good analogue here is the SNP in Scotland, who captured the soft left populist vote late in the 2000s, early in the 2010s, and they've recently prevented a right-wing nationalist party (Alba) from making any headway in Scotland by virtue of not being reactionary dipshits granted, they are also full of 'ideological wish-wash', not least because they aren't doing anything about the transphobes in their ranks, but when the unionist opposition is full of far-right wingnuts and liberals, it's clear that we could be doing a hell of a lot worse lmao anyway, don't expect an SF government to govern dissimilarly to the SNP government in Holyrood, ie. they won't try for a 32 county Ireland with any haste and they'll just spend their time doing standard European social democratic poo poo, which I guess is better than whatever the gently caress FFG have been doing for the past hundred years lmao
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Feb 1, 2023 10:52
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Probably wasn't a great idea to go threathening the Garda station where you live, Graham. https://the-beacon.ie/2023/02/01/armed-gardai-arrest-far-right-agitator-graham-carey/
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Feb 1, 2023 19:06
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https://www.ontheditch.com/abp-internal-report/ OnTheDitch received and has released the october ABP report that the housing minister squashed. It's only 38 pages but the dry, legal style of writing so it's a bit hard to get through. Highlights seem to be that most decisions were made by the same 2 person team. And that developers started withdrawing applications the Ditch started publishing exposes. Seems to indicate there were dodgy dealings with Paul Hyde and they were trying to withdraw them to leave no evidence.
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Feb 2, 2023 00:34
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