Is Ireland committing genocide?

Twenty Grand

61,000 troops through Shannon in 2017 apparently.

This thread is a trip..

VinLieger

realitykeeper wrote: »

They are counting passengers. Airlines generally fill every seat on every flight so if some passengers don`t book, others get their seats. Military aircraft do not carry hundreds of passengers like commercial flights so even if there are any US military aircraft landing in Shannon (or Dublin for that matter), their passenger numbers would be insignificant.

Was on a flight over the weekend that was 50% full and its far from the first time its happened to me...... as always i think your name suits you perfectly

Timberrrrrrrr

VinLieger wrote: »

Was on a flight over the weekend that was 50% full and its far from the first time its happened to me...... as always i think your name suits you perfectly

Same here, i dont know how many times have been on flights that were half empty.

realitykeeper

Paulzx wrote: »

The National Childrens Hospital.

The clue is in the name.....

Well perhaps Dublin would like to be home to the National landfill site, the National incinerator and the National direct provision center as well.

yesto24

realitykeeper wrote: »

Well perhaps Dublin would like to be home to the National landfill site, the National incinerator and the National direct provision center as well.

From a quick search (10 seconds on Google) I found there are two incinerators licensed in Ireland. One in Cork and one in poolbeg in the middle of Dublin City.
You are just embarrassing yourself now.
But please do keep going
Your reality is keeping me amused.

realitykeeper

JayZeus wrote: »

More evidence that you are struggling to understand reality and the world around you. Generally fill every seat? If you flew on anything other than holiday charter flights or a quick hop across the pond, you'd realise how wrong you are. But not to worry, the rest of us know, so you can go on living in la-la land.

Also, troops regularly fly in 'normal' passenger aircraft on contract to the US armed services. Not every military flight takes place in a C-130. You should read a few books instead of taking what you see in movies and read on oddball websites as being real.

Or take those pills you're supposed to be taking. And stop taking the ones you're not supposed to be taking.

Yes EU law eroded that practice a few years back (good for consumers/bad for the environment) but competitive carriers still succeed in filling every seat with the except of course of where you have passengers who missed their connecting flight. So you travel on charter flights. Lanzarote? How exclusive.

realitykeeper

Twenty Grand wrote: »

61,000 troops through Shannon in 2017 apparently.

Apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5TGN7eUcM

Fuddyduddy

For anyone who is interested in learning the actual - all encompassing - definition of the word 'genocide', please read Raphael Lemkin's book 'Axis Rule In Occupied Europe'.

Raphael Lemkin is the person' who coined the phrase 'genocide'.

New conceptions require new terms. By "Genocide" we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. [...]

Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killing of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of the essential foundations of the life of the national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of individuals belonging to such groups.

[...]

Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern of the oppressor.

The author goes on to explain the various ways in which "genocide" takes place.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005077436;view=1up;seq=11

realitykeeper

yesto24 wrote: »

From a quick search (10 seconds on Google) I found there are two incinerators licensed in Ireland. One in Cork and one in poolbeg in the middle of Dublin City.
You are just embarrassing yourself now.
But please do keep going
Your reality is keeping me amused.

You seem to be struggling with the term national facility. If as you suggest, a national facility can be in two places nearly 200 miles apart, then how about building half the children`s hospital in Cork and the other half in Athlone.

yesto24

realitykeeper wrote: »

You seem to be struggling with the term national facility. If as you suggest, a national facility can be in two places nearly 200 miles apart, then how about building half the children`s hospital in Cork and the other half in Athlone.

No. I thought when you asked that question you were implying that Dublin would never have an incinerator in Dublin as you grouped it with a landfill and direct procession center, things you really wouldn't want as a neighbor.
Your whole argument seems to be that Dublin takes all the good from the nation and dumps the unwanted crap out into the country far away from Dublin, like any other "genocidal" regime.
Anyway, I was just pointing out that there was an incinerator in Dublin. One of only two in the country (there may be more, as I mentioned it was a short few seconds spent researching incinerators in Ireland). Regardless of the number there is one in Dublin, undermining the point you were making in your post.
And about your post, I would think that when the quarry in Belgard in exhausted that may become a big landfill and I would say that Dublin had more than its share of refugees.
But as I said keep that reality going.

batgoat

realitykeeper wrote: »

You seem to be struggling with the term national facility. If as you suggest, a national facility can be in two places nearly 200 miles apart, then how about building half the children`s hospital in Cork and the other half in Athlone.

It makes absolute sense to have a national children's hospital in Dublin. It's not realistic to operate more than one facility of that quality in more than one location in such a small nation. I'm totally pissed by how it's managed but it still should be in Dublin. It makes it accessible for everyone in the country and there are direct routes to it, throughout the country.