Fuel protest about prices

if the government/gaurds go too hard on the protestors there will be nothing delivered in the country - they have huge public support far more than is being acknowledged on here - the optics are very important - the government havent even met with the protestors - they are off on holidays, at the races, down at weddings in west cork - their first inclination was to call for the army instead of addressing genuine grievances - the numbers of protestors could swell this weekend depending on the weather people are pissed at how poorly the government are managing the country and we have no genuine proper opposition so there is a massive void

Sunshine protestors then?

The water cannon will make sure the weather is bad.

Tomorrow has to be the day. Whitegate first and then we will see what sort of stomach the rest of the scum have for a fight.

A horrible,disgusting, treasonous, low blow on our Country. something only an enemy intent on destroying a Country would do. I hope they are all dragged from the gates of our fuel depots.

And a 20yr mandatory jail sentence should await anyone who attempts such an act in the future.

Don't forget the bad weather means there won't be a lot of farming done so excuse the pun but it could be the perfect storm.

Upright creatures with two bendy, bony legs evolved from neanderthals to human beings, but now we have another species emerging through the miracle of evolution.

Facebook people.

Facebook people are more similar to neanderthals than to humans. They look down, down, always down, down into their mobile smartphones, which are smarter than they are, much smarter.

Facebook people seek out dumb Facebook groups in the way koalas seek out eucalyptus leaves to eat or cows seek out grass to eat or dogs seek out lamposts to (attempt to) pee against. Facebook people need dumb information like humans need oxygen. I suppose you could say it is their oxygen, especially since their primitive smooth brains find it difficult to get actual oxygen.

Facebook people love slogans. They love saying "but people are on their knees". "People are on their knees, sometimes abbreviated to "ppl r on der kneez" is like the Hail Mary of Facebook people. It's the new "U OK hun?" Hail Mary, ppl r on der kneez. It's like mass.

"There's unbelievable anger out there" (Ders unbaleevible anger out der) is a slogan beloved of angry male Facebook people. The Our Father, if you like. Don't know what the Glory Be would be. Probably some shite about immigrants. NGOs. IPAS. Da woke mind virus!

Facebook people hate facts and hate context, because that risks that they might have to think, which could cause them to shrivel and die, like a bird which has ingested rat poison. Survival instinct kicks in. So they avoid thinking like normal humans might avoid walking in front of a speeding bus.

You shall be able to identify a Facebook person only if you have a human brain. A human being knows it is a human being, a cat knows it’s a cat, a shark probably knows it’s a shark, a fly seems to know it’s a fly, but Facebook people are not aware they are Facebook people. They do naturally gravitate towards other Facebook people, but at no stage are they aware they are Facebook people.

Facebook people think they are human beings, in the same way completely fictional American children think they are cats, but they are not.

Conversely, some real humans, many real humans, use Facebook, but they are not Facebook people.

The problem comes with the interface between Facebook people and actual people. Trouble is inevitable, like the interfaces between Catholic and Protestant areas in Belfast. But there’s no peace line in this case.

Us humans are the Catholics. Though you can have Protestant Catholics too, in the same way you can have Catholic Muslims and Protestant Muslims and Catholic Jews and Protestant Jews.

Facebook people mentally proceed like fellas in union jack shorts with sunburnt faces and torsos and an orange Rangers away jersey rolled up in their hands, who are getting water cannoned by the PSNI as they dance on top of an abandoned car near an interface on July 13th, as a heavily overproduced and objectively terrible trance track with sound very similar to a cat screaming plays very loudly from somewhere.

Us humans do not know what to do about da Facebook ppl. But they are spreading, like zombies, and they shall devour us all, and this fuel protest fookwlttery proves it.

You are on an adult forum now.

it's quite hard for most men people in general to throw a thump. anyone throwing thumps or kicks at Gardai will be minimal if at all. They will certainly be dealt with swiftly.

like what are you saying?

if they don't back away peacefully when told to do so… YES TOLD. then i hope they are dragged away from our fuel depots. and in future if anyone tries to attack and destroy our Country with blockades like that again…then a 20yr mandatory jail sentence should be their faith.

Every Irish citizen is entitled to their view on this situation, tbh from people I speak to day to day be it in work, friends or family the majority are very supportive of this protest including myself. I think we're all frustrated, some more-so than others depending on circumstances.

It's a lot of factors that have led to this….the condescending manner of govt responses, the "get back in your box" attitude, the realisation of how controlled we are by the EU…on top of general dissatisfaction with the govt since their re-election (no housing progress, dare to mention more delays in the childrens hospital, immigration etc etc etc)

Even if an agreed outcome comes tomorrow, there'll be a lot of f**k you to the system groups who wont give up so easily. It's a peaceful protest but I dont see it ending that way

but that’s not happening because the hauliers running well run businesses are all still working because they are tax compliant and in receipt of fuel subsidies from the Government.

You can’t get them if you haven’t paid your taxes. A lot of the protestors in tipper trucks and rigids are I’d wager not very good at what they do.

A lot of the agri contractors are the same and if this was in another 6 weeks wouldn’t be there because they’d be too busy. See they’ll only put themselves out when it suits them.

Any sign of the scum getting their state sponsored wash yet?