Is Derek Domino a real person?

SupaCat95 · 02-06-2026 10:11AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517777#Comment_124517777

Read again, "native people in the country" not "people in the country". Derek turns out one or two videos a day. I cant keep up with all of them. Sometimes I just stay for the first few minutes to understand what is going on.

Hotblack Desiato · 02-06-2026 10:22AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517882#Comment_124517882

You're talking complete and utter bollocks. You don't need a minibus licence to become a bus driver and it's extremely doubtful that anyone who went to the trouble and expense of getting a PSV licence ever even wanted to become a bus driver. Driving a taxi is a lot more flexible and arguably a lot more lucrative.

DB and Go-Ahead only require a car licence, they provide full training and always have.

You can apply away, doesn't mean you'll get on the training course, or pass it, or pass the driving test.

Graduate? You might as well be going back to the days of when driving jobs were scarce and many conductors were driver hopefuls. Yeah, that's how many decades out of touch your post is

Hotblack Desiato · 02-06-2026 10:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517933#Comment_124517933

More bollocks.

You know well that the term "DEI hire" is racist abuse to imply that the person is not competent by virtue of having non-white skin.

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 11:13AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517882#Comment_124517882

You do know that you just don't get to drive a bus straight away. One of DBs issues is they are alot stricter than other bus companies, with a full training course and minimum standards to hit before going out accompanied.

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 11:17AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517938#Comment_124517938

You could, but that would take time and effort of which most people on a discussion forum have better things to do. I took a small sample of the commenters, many have no other contributions or interactions. So I can assume that either Mr Domino is so engaging that these people have decided that there one and only contribution to youtube is one of his videos with a generic, AI sounding soundbite that doesn't even tell you if they watched the video at all or they are a bot. Occams Razor is how I choose to view it, if you wish to vet all 88k followers though, have at it.

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 11:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517946#Comment_124517946

Again, that doesn't really change my point. Unusual that is the issue you have with my comment though. What difference does that make to my point?

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 11:27AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517989#Comment_124517989

Well used in the US youtube **** stirrer commentators. The implication always that somehow a person got the job without meeting the standards required. DEI does not do that, no different than a bus driver, if they are driving with DB, they have to have a license, completed all of their training courses, done a minimum amount of hours under supervision and so on. It is like that Charlie Kirk fella claiming he couldn't trust a pilot of colour because they are probably a DEI hire. Even if they were, they still have to get their hundreds of hours of experience under their belt, sit as second chair for years, be fully licensed etc. It is a nonsense point from people that falls apart under even the most minimal of scrutiny. No different than college access programs that third level institutions use for students from underprivileged areas because it is recognised they are likely to be not as available to study compared to students from more affluent urban areas. You still have to get the entry requirements to get in to the University, they don't just let you in.

SupaCat95 · 02-06-2026 11:55AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517973#Comment_124517973

But you could see the danger of just dropping someone who had a questionable driving lisence straight into a bus drivers position where they had just arrived at? I mean my father had a truck drivers lisence, came up through the paces of car to van to truck. He had an ex-British army instructor with British Rail who was ruthless. Still got his lisence and held it.

SupaCat95 · 02-06-2026 12:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518173#Comment_124518173

No, no, you made the claim that some or many were bots. I did not. BTW my day job is not making bots. I view for content not because he has N viewers. I view for content not for popularity. It is your job as you made the claim to substaniate it. I would have no idea of how to vet N number of bots and real regular viewers.

SupaCat95 · 02-06-2026 12:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517989#Comment_124517989

No where do I mention "race", DEI can also suggest you come from an impoverished background or you have a minor disability. You Sir are a "race baiter", looking to make conflict where there should be none.

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 01:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518322#Comment_124518322

I took a small subsample of his commentators, Derek himself should be able to see what countries his subscribers are from but I cannot. I looked very quickly at 30 commentators. 27 appear to bots, 3 could be bots but there commentary could simply be of a very low quality (random statements that don't really say anything or engage). This would give a rough 75 to 95% of the entire commenting population on his latest video are bots.

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 01:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518301#Comment_124518301

But that's not what happens, you still have to get a license, it is the same for all drivers, DB goes above and beyond what most companies require to drive a bus, with extra training, X amount of additional training and supervised time.

SupaCat95 · 02-06-2026 01:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518495#Comment_124518495

"A small subsample"? that is not very scientific. Should you not be looking at a larger sample to minimise error? That is first year science/statisitcs stuff? Good stuff so you got the answer you wanted to achieve. How many of them bots were racists? Like genuine racists bots not fake racists bots. Did their mammy bot raise them to be racists or was it more due to an absentee father bot figure?

Rocket_GD · 02-06-2026 01:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518301#Comment_124518301

No one just gets dropped in, they have over 6 weeks of training.

You do not need to go “up through the paces”.

Respectfully you haven’t a clue what you are talking about.

pjohnson · 02-06-2026 01:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124517933#Comment_124517933

Do you actually belueve this guff?

pjohnson · 02-06-2026 01:38PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518301#Comment_124518301

good news no danger as doesn't happen.

Ash.J.Williams · 02-06-2026 01:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518578#Comment_124518578

Yeah i work in it

CramCycle · 02-06-2026 01:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518527#Comment_124518527

I am not going to look at the number required for a 99% CI. If you want to minimise error you could look at every single one, but that is unrealistic as you well know. You said some or most. We have established the some. For most, we want the stats that over 50% are most likely bots, we would need a minimum of 300 totally random, and I'm just not bothered. I could probably scrape the data but again, better things to be at. I am confident that a reasonable number of them are bots, you want proof and that's your prerogative but I am not wasting anytime to do it. This said, if we use the knowledge of the 30 already randomly picked, we can infer between 74% to 95% will be bots using the Wilson Score Interval.

Hotblack Desiato · 02-06-2026 02:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518301#Comment_124518301

What's questionable about their driving licence? It is either accepted here or it is not. Your anecdote is of no relevance.

Do you read posts before hitting reply at all? The car driving licence is just the minimum requirement to get on the training course not to be let out driving a bus, ffs.

If anyone already has a bus licence (and it does happen, GA going to DB for instance) they're still going to have to be trained and evaluated and passed (or failed) by the company. And then drive specific routes under supervision before they're allowed out on their own.

Hotblack Desiato · 02-06-2026 02:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124518353#Comment_124518353

This thread is about an internet race baiter, and here you are using a well known race baiting term, yet playing all innocent.

Nobody is buying that crock.

There is absolutely no way the term "DEI hire" gets applied to a driver who is white. And you well know it.

Another poster, now banned, made disgusting racist comments and then you decided, out of nowhere, to up the ante by blaming bus drivers for fatal incidents on purely racist grounds. You brought up that topic out of nowhere purely to race bait. Now you're floundering around trying to defend yourself and failing miserably.

Madd Finn · 02-06-2026 08:57PM

Dear oh dear. I seem to have smoked out a few fans of this odious little dweeb. I got an answer to my original question: he does exist, or at least someone of similar outlook and bearing the same silly name chaired a gathering of nutjobs and consipiracy theorists in Mayo some time ago ( the Kalergi Plan and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion!! In this day and age? Please)

Heartening to see so many people can see through the pathetic negativity espoused by this man and his ilk. And depressing to see that there are some gullible fools who buy into it. (You know who you are)

Thanks folks.

SupaCat95 · 03-06-2026 04:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124519753#Comment_124519753

Are you suggesting Richard Couvenhove Kalergi did not exist? The brain child of the EU doesnt even get a mention in the School books.

pjohnson · 04-06-2026 02:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124521557#Comment_124521557

He exists sure. The dribble that makes up the "Kalergi plan" is utter shíte.

SupaCat95 · 04-06-2026 03:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124523962#Comment_124523962

Actually he is dead. Is the Kalergi plan shite? Do we not have an easily "governable population"? Have you your smart phone on you? Remember Enda Kenny saying and having to apologise later at a dinner party "I wish we could microchip travellers like dogs". Who here doesnt have their mobile within 3 foot of them?

You have seen the rise of CCTV cameras in the streets? Much like Orwells 1984?

Who here doesnt rent or have a mortgage? You would be in serious trouble if you lost your job? like Dont pay your rent for a week and your landlord is on top of you. After 3 months non paying your mortgage, your house is gone? Then there is credit card debt, most cars are on finance.

You would agree that violence is up and we now live in a low trust society? My parent usen't to lock the doors at night when we were teens in the 1990's when we were out in the town at a Disco. Now look how things have changed.

You have phrases on both sides of the political spectrum "Not my president/King/Leader" polarising political opinions. Before people just agreed someone won and someone lost and get down to the business of forming a plan for government and running the country for 4 years.

It certainly looks like the Kalergi plan.

Rocket_GD · 04-06-2026 03:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524042#Comment_124524042

The Kalergi Plan, sometimes called the Coudenhove-Kalergi Conspiracy, is a far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalergi_Plan

Maybe you were looking for the conspiracy forum with this nonsense?

pjohnson · 04-06-2026 03:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524042#Comment_124524042

Loosen the tin foil.

SupaCat95 · 04-06-2026 03:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524053#Comment_124524053

Have you read it yourself? Also you are smarter than to quote Wikipedia as a source try harder.

Rocket_GD · 04-06-2026 03:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524062#Comment_124524062

I tend to ignore anything that mentions "Great Replacement".

All just far right conspiracy nonsense.

SupaCat95 · 04-06-2026 03:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524067#Comment_124524067

Is it happening? Are birth rates across Europe in terminal decline in the native population, like less than 1.8 (Germany 1.35, UK 1.39, France 1.56, Italy 1.14)?

In Fairness to me I read articles on both sides. I am also aware of agent provocateurs working on both sides.

SupaCat95 · 04-06-2026 03:51PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124524067#Comment_124524067

That post proves my point "You are wrong and I am right" without looking at both sides.

You have fallen into the pit head first. The Truth is not far right or left but somewhere inbetween. If you dont listen to both sides of the debate then you have a polarised society.

I mean I will read mad far out stuff like Agenda 2030, Sustainability Goals, Potsdam, Marx. I will entertain the ideas and some I will agree with until I factor in the human element. Then it fails, the difference is you dismiss it without trying to understand it.

Is Derek Domino a real person?

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