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Posting on the ground floor of this here Ireland thing. Also obligatory @iresimpsonsfans from the last election. 
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Blut posted:This was absolute gold from the debate last night. Its the top story on the Irish Times today, and front page in a couple of the newspapers. The best analysis I've seen is Leo wasn't panicking because he had taken drugs in the past, he was panicking because he couldn't remember what lies he'd told previously about his drug taking. If he'd just been honest and owned it would have been much much better, instead he just comes across panic-y and skeezy.
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Jan 23, 2020 15:26
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Skull Servant posted:Irish people are, without a doubt, racist. All you have to do is look at how popular Casey was in the Presidential campaign after his comments on the Traveller community. I'd compare it to anti-indigenous racism in Canada/Australia/Latin America in terms of the "but I'm not being racist, I'm just saying things that are true" statements that you get from even supposedly intellectual people. Skull Servant posted:On the flip side, however, I've also seen people laud over immigrants because of their work ethic. This is mostly said about Indian and Asian immigrants, but I have also heard it about black people specifically in the HSE, which I find a little odd considering the general racism around black people in the rest of Ireland.
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Jan 23, 2020 21:56
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I think he might be a racist.  I wasn't thinking him in specific, just that people will tolerate (or come out with) some hardline awful level poo poo about Travellers "not being fit to be part of society" and "should be rounded up and put in camps" and stuff that they'd never say or even think about another ethnic or faith group, and there does seem to be a mental divide between racism against, say, Africans or Asians and bigotry against Travellers among a lot of otherwise tolerant metropolitan types.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:40
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Green passports are better than blue or burgundy ones so this might be the one thing ever I agree with them on.
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Jan 26, 2020 14:49
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My uncle used to get stopped every time he got off the ferry in NI. Apparently it was because he 'looked like someone on the list' but as they'd never tell him who he was supposedly hiding from being I think they were just being pricks. That was on a UK passport.
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Jan 27, 2020 01:02
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I would never use the N word, I say seconds after having said it.
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Jan 28, 2020 14:23
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Have they considered building a giant crane on Manx to literally steal houses from English Express readers and deposit them as newbuilds in Meath?
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Jan 28, 2020 18:34
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Azza Bamboo posted:Is this a true independent or is it one of the wacky "we're not a party but a group of independents working together" things?
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Feb 3, 2020 22:33
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So hyped for Elizabeth II to be the NazBol Queen of the United Vatican Republic of United Ireland.
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Feb 4, 2020 15:10
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OwlFancier posted:
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Feb 4, 2020 15:43
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V. Illych L. posted:on a somewhat related note, gerry adams definitely ordered some killings back in the day right
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Feb 10, 2020 00:10
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quote:Today I am ashamed of my country, a vast number of whose voters have intentionally or unwittingly just endorsed a fascist party. This reminds many who know Sinn Fein as puppets of the IRA Army Council of Germany in 1932, when the Nazi party became the largest in parliament: Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 and wasted no time in establishing his brutal dictatorship. Failed Imagineer posted:Yes we use STV, not FPTP, and it's good
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Feb 10, 2020 12:02
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Jonathan Bardon's A History of Ireland goes back to the end of the Ice Age then all the way to the 90s peace process, is that far enough back? Obviously in a pop history way through snippets, that's the only way to do that without hundreds of volumes, but if you want a general interest view of the island of Ireland then it's p. good.
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Feb 21, 2020 00:44
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American multinationals only want their data transmitted across networks that can be hacked by the NSA.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:25
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Only when China does it, apparently.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:51
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Accusing them of proffering soup in exchange for voicing Nordie propaganda, or accepting same. :itisafaminereference:
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Feb 24, 2020 23:45
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A 70-90% solution of ethyl alcohol is very effective against coronavirus.
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Mar 13, 2020 21:05
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Nah, there's quite a few antisemites who are pro-Israel, either because they're wingnut religious right who believe that Israel has to exist so that Armageddon can happen, or the more straightforward reason that it's a good place to send the Jews so that they don't have to live near them. Or they're just generally racist but hate Muslims slightly more than Jews. e: ^^^ also these two posts
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Apr 14, 2020 10:21
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Jack Russell thrown at Garda Russell during 'Free State bastards' argument.
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Aug 1, 2020 11:08
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Just stick a bunch of these into schools, what could go wrong.
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Aug 6, 2020 09:57
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Standing up for the most oppressed group in society, white male middle-class landlords. https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1293663127809204233
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Aug 13, 2020 09:21
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OwlFancier posted:Leo really is a knobhead isn't he. 
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Aug 13, 2020 10:57
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It's okay, the UK just confirmed it's legal for the security services to break all laws, which has historically never caused any problems for Ireland.
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Oct 7, 2020 13:25
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The Question IRL posted:And amazingly, the legal crisis before this was the UK saying “sure we’ll just break international law.”
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Oct 7, 2020 17:29
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He's at least not going to gently caress with the House trade committees that have said no trade deal in the event of violating the GFA, rather than going for full 
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Oct 7, 2020 22:46
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Blut posted:With the distribution of a vaccine years away at this stage That's at the least shown less side effects than the other vaccine trials, so I'm hoping it's shown to be effective.
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Oct 16, 2020 17:11
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There isn't going to be a magic corona is beaten moment, but there will hopefully be a shift towards it not being so deadly among the old and people exposed to large amounts like healthcare workers, because they can get vaccinated. Even if it has to be a yearly one because it loses effectiveness, it'll be more like how the various flus are handled in places that handle the various flus properly, with masks and washing your hands, than what's going on at the moment.
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Oct 16, 2020 17:46
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kustomkarkommando posted:Never miss an opportunity to blame themmuns Sir, The "Good" Friday Agreement is actually very Bad, because it allows the shinners to pretend to be a legitimate political party and not the band of armed terrorists I know them to be in my heart. They and they alone keep collapsing and impeding the functioning of civil society by not going along with what we want to do. In times like these we need vocal and sensible politicians, such as Jim Allister. Yours, etc, Belfast (East)
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Oct 17, 2020 17:02
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Failed Imagineer posted:Choose your moon
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Oct 19, 2020 22:31
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"I've heard it said that the regular Catholics worship Ba'al. But this lot, they don't even worship Ba'al properly."
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Oct 20, 2020 10:05
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Their repeated opposition to things like the Irish Language Act, despite some of the people most historically responsible for keeping the language alive in the North being notable Presbyterians like Jeremiah O'Quin, is good proof that it's not sectarianism, it's Anglo supremacy bullshit yet again. Maybe if SF leaders just drank more of Poots' magic tea they'd not have the covid 
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Oct 20, 2020 11:02
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Maash/mung beans are the pro-tier childhood window vegetation.
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Oct 21, 2020 10:06
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Living with family to save up a deposit, if you're able to, rather than just giving the lion's share of your income to a predatory landlord at the earliest opportunity in life shows a lack of personal responsibility.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:12
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These seem to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPERpogSoP0 Less risk to them than escalating through a series of gadgets, less risk to you than allowing them to get in close, and less risk to bystanders/passers by than shooting at them from a distance, plus not much training needed for basic use, they have them in schools in parts of East Asia for use by staff. Can't do much with a knife if you're being held beyond knife reach, unless they want to try throwing it and then they've disarmed themselves.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:12
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That's why you do it in pairs or groups. Limits the ability of an individual to be a twat with the pole too.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:23
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In real life it usually goes a lot more chaotic than a demonstration scene, but that's the case for everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4z-gzkb6s4 But it's worked a number of times even in critical cases like school spree attacks, and has never ended up killing someone the other side of the street by accident, so that's another positive, and you can just leave them hooked to the walls because one person can't do that much damage with them. People in a heated moment also usually don't think to do some martial arts poo poo like sidestep around the pole, they either charge it or try to grab/attack it or place themselves somewhere that officer/teacher/shopkeeper #2 can scoop them.
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Jan 5, 2021 22:33
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Shoehead posted:Remember when GW started painting weird sad canvasses and people just decided it was OK he warcrimed and lied to the UN and poo pooed privacy rights because there's a sad man in the bath in this watercolour
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Mar 21, 2021 12:52
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Eugene V. Dubstep posted:a turnip painted like the Union Jack. 
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Apr 9, 2021 14:47
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Quite a few Mandela/South Africa themed murals for similar reasons too, which reminds me...Gaupo Guacho posted:yeah idk why im making it out to be so hard to understand, all of the above makes sense to me. I think its just cause all of these events seem relatively recent, and that they took place in Europe. it was genuinely blood boiling and chilling to learn that someone like Lenny Murphy was openly commemorated by the UVF well into the late 90s.  moments of this year for me was finding out that Wouter Basson is still practicing medicine at a clinic in South Africa. I'd got it in my head that he was either dead, went off to hide by a lake in Argentina, or at the very least turned to something more in his camp like selling meth to kids from a lovely caravan, not just wandering back into medicine like nothing happened.Understandably people are quite upset that the man who spent a chunk of his medical career trying to engineer a virus to wipe out Black people is practicing anything other than hiding in shame down a mineshaft, but it's a good example of the kinds of atrocious people that sometimes get away with it because the alternative would be the collapse of peace/reconciliation processes that would risk anything up to and including civil war.
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