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You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Absolutely abhorrent.

    Sick of these people causing trouble.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Shag all will be done.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    At least a person who has made dozens of death threats against politicians and has harassed lgbt people and people involved in vaccine administration was arrested this week. Not posting details (as per site rules) as it is before the courts.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Well it must have been in the media?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    "Galway nut..." - they don't mince words over at Galway Beo!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    We used to lock up far too many people in mental hospitals, now we lock up too few.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    Not disagreeing but doing so could kill this site going by the immigration and similar threads



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Happy to take the chance. Although it'd be better if we sent them back to school for critical thinking and research lessons.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    To be honest it doesn't look like school worked the first time for them, I wouldn't hold out hope for a second bite of the apple.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    “This will be the year of the dead TD; this is getting out of control. The abuse now is chronic. Something stupid is going to happen this year. I am convinced there is going to be Jo Cox. That’s my real fear,”

    I think they are absolutely correct in this analysis. The abuse and violence is growing all the time.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Absolutely no doubt about it, and it'll be someone out on bail or a suspended sentence too. These judges don't have a breeze and don't have to live among the violent criminals they release on a daily basis.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,970 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ...some load of sh1te electricians in this country!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    That's awful.

    My late mother suffered from dementia and was a resident there for ten years, the staff were wonderful, she died in Feb 2020 just before all the covid restrictions kicked in. Disgusting what these nazis are up to, shame on them, none of them deserve to be called Irish.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,439 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    But none of them are being caught. The guards should be going after these arsonists and throwing the book at them. It's only a matter of time til a firefighter loses their life in one of these attacks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,640 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Gotta love how the 'reasoning' is, 'immigrants will bring crime' so we'll commit heinous crimes to prevent them coming.

    Is that 2 dozen fires now in the last few months? Pretty sure it's over 20, RTE should keep a tally online!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Yeah. It's roughly 24 in last 6ish years and most of the 24 happened recently

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,230 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Absolute scumbags. Racist, conspiracy theorist, paranoid narcissists.

    "we can't accept refugees, we've nowhere to put them, quick, let's burn down all the places where we could put them"

    "immigrants are taking buildings that Irish people could live in, so let's burn those houses down"

    "immigrants are all criminals, so let's become violent criminal arsonists to stop them"

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,804 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Theres a "protest" today in the Garden of Remembrance. Usual thickos attending.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Odd that the sentencing range is so wide - actual sentence to be determined later - but she will serve at least four years.

    Kids who go to school have some hope of being able to confide in someone they trust about an abusive home life, but kids who are homeschooled can be in effect imprisoned.

    Worth noting that YouTube were fine with the vile content she was putting out, they didn't delete her channel, she did.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    ^^ How is any of that , including the post you quoted, related to the thread?

    Are you saying paedophiles and child abusers are all right wingers or what?



    edit:typo

    Post edited by AllForIt on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,216 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Why is it when someone posts "some A did X" someone is guaranteed to post "why are you saying that only A do X" or "why are you saying that all A do X"

    ?

    I was replying to a post which mentioned her and it is 100% relevant to this thread. The Christian fundamentalist movement in the US is right wing, powerful, and completely nuts. Did you read the Salon article? Nope, thought not.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock



    There's a certain element of "spare the rod and spoil the child amongst right-wing chlidcare philosophy, but that's me playing devil's advocate to be fair: I'm not justifying Hotback's inclusion of the post, nor am I accusing conservative parents of unnecessarily physical chastising their kids!

    She was broadcasting her advice under the pretense of her abuses being good conservative parental practices, so there is grounds for a "danger fro the right" there, although I'm not entirely sure convinced that what she was doing to her own kids was what she was advising other parents to do.

    Pedophilia isn't at play here because there was no mention or accusation of sexual motives.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,439 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    She was also accused of being homophobic and transphobic, which definitely comes stronger from the right.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,782 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    That ape Ross Lahive charged with six counts of assault over an incident where a children's storytelling event in Tralee library was stormed by him and several others last year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭I.R.Y.E.D


    That is an insult to apes, they actually have intelligence



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,640 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose




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