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The rise of fascism in the 21st Century

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Try_harder wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    Makes more sense than your opening post.:D

    Edit 27 thanks now your only digging yourself in deeper.


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    Another thread that shows what a joke this site has become. A politician who loves torture, wants to drive minorities off their land and has threatened to hunt down political opponents is elected as president of one of the world's largest countries. The reaction on this forum? "Stop calling everyone fascists!"

    Its reality. I can only speak for myself, but Ive tried to explain the reason for this big turn.

    The only thing of relevance is WHY such a thing is happening, not the WAY it is manifesting itself. You want cures you have to understand the WHY, you want to plead ignorance you focus on insufficient band-aids.

    The case is pretty clear cut.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭QuintusFabius


    Try_harder wrote: »
    No, I explained why, but carry on your false narrative

    go have a lie down petal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    Ah, so you don't care whether or not it can be proven that travelers are a race? If you don't care, how do you think anybody is going to take you seriously?

    You got to pick your battles kill16bhoy.



    I was clearly talking about the hurler.




    I think you should look at jonatan pie about how trump won the election - particularly the bit about how insulting people generally tends to make them be less disposed to agreeing with you. Also, if you are going to insult someone, at least get halfway decent at it for fcuk sake.
    Travellers are an ethnic group.

    Peter Casey's comments about Travellers clearly fall under the UN's definition of racism.

    I've spelled out it out for you above in black and white. Whether you choose to acknowledge that is your own choice.

    Here is documentation of Casey's anti-semitic comments.

    https://www.businesspost.ie/news/casey-embroiled-anti-semitic-row-old-interview-resurfaces-426837

    https://twitter.com/colettebrowne/status/1046389236600098816?lang=en

    If you're not capable of forming your own opinions, as you seem to be admitting, it isn't my problem.


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Populism ftw eh?

    Ignorance is yesterdays news.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭QuintusFabius


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Travellers are an ethnic group.

    .....
    BOLLOCKS


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Here



    OP made a grad sweeping statement saying that Trump Brexit and the god-damn Brazilian election aren't only connected, they are part of a trend of, and I quote, fascism on the rise.

    People criticize that statement, oh good golly, they must all have voted PSL on Sunday.

    But I never said everyone who disagreed with me was a Bolsonaro supporter. You are seeing something that simply isn't in my post.

    Trump has spent his entire campaign and presidency engaging in dog whistles to fascists.

    Bolsonaro is literally an apologist for a military dictatorship.

    But apparently the real problem is somebody calling them out on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,394 ✭✭✭1800_Ladladlad


    Another thread that shows what a joke this site has become. A politician who loves torture, wants to drive minorities off their land and has threatened to hunt down political opponents is elected as president of one of the world's largest countries. The reaction on this forum? "Stop calling everyone fascists!"




  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    But I never said everyone who disagreed with me was a Bolsonaro supporter. You are seeing something that simply isn't in my post.

    Trump has spent his entire campaign and presidency engaging in dog whistles to fascists.

    Bolsonaro is literally an apologist for a military dictatorship.

    But apparently the real problem is somebody calling them out on it.

    But why is all this happening in the first place?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    I do apologise to board users if the standard of my replies in this thread are not great but with such a silly thread I can only work with what we have.


    Jesus OP the rise of fascism boards is certainly getting more out there.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    mammajamma wrote: »
    But why is all this happening in the first place?

    Something like this presumably.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    I do apologise to board users if the standard of my replies in this thread are not great but with such a silly thread I can only work with what we have.


    Jesus OP the rise of fascism boards is certainly getting more out there.

    If you want to call it fascism.....WHY is it rising everywhere?

    Why?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    I do apologise to board users if the standard of my replies in this thread are not great but with such a silly thread I can only work with what we have.


    Jesus OP the rise of fascism boards is certainly getting more out there.

    Apparently you've been living under a rock for at least two years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Travellers are an ethnic group.

    Peter Casey's comments about Travellers clearly fall under the UN's definition of racism.

    I've spelled out it out for you above in black and white. Whether you choose to acknowledge that is your own choice.

    You know the funny thing about conspiracy theorists? They think believing something makes it so.

    Proof is all I seek. Nay, nay, not so much. Evidence. Anything other than someone simply stating that travelers are a race or separate ethnicity.
    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Here is documentation of Casey's anti-semitic comments.

    'Jewish people “basically live in the White House”'

    Is this an anti-semitic comment? Is it the location that makes it bigoted? I don't think the White House has particularly negative connotations.

    Anyway, this tweet wasn't made during the presidential election, and didn't feature during the presidential election. This is the first I've seen of it, and I'd say that'd be true for, well, anybody not desperately searching for something to show how terrible Casey is. I don't agree with it, but I don't really much to it beyond that.
    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    If you're not capable of forming your own opinions, as you seem to be admitting, it isn't my problem.

    Look, you've got to up your insult game. This is garbage. I don't even know what you're referring to - are you saying that my opinions are.. that of Casey? Or that I'm easily swayed by online opinion? You'd have been better off editing it out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    Something like this presumably.

    3ghfzeeefts11.png

    That hyperbole is working against your position, ie pointing out zero answer.

    So real question again, why is all this happening?

    Or would you just bemoan reality without understanding it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    mammajamma wrote: »
    If you want to call it fascism.....WHY is it rising everywhere?

    Why?

    Think you are a little confused I think the opening post of this thread is beyond silly.:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    Think you are a little confused I think the opening post of this thread is beyond silly.:)

    Quoted wrong person :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Populism ftw eh?

    Okay, you've got the first bit. General opinion doesn't matter. Next you should say that people that don't agree with you are less educated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Okay, you've got the first bit. General opinion doesn't matter. Next, you should say that people that don't agree with you are less indoctrinated.

    Fixed your post for you.;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    No but the doctors, nurses, engineers, and tech workers are fulfilling a skills shortage. If a nurse comes to Ireland because we have a massive staff shortage in the HSE, and their husband/wife comes too should they be excluded from working if they happen to not fall into a category on the highly skilled occupations list? Why shouldn't they take a job in a petrol station or as a taxi driver? If Irish people are abusing the welfare system that's not the fault of immigrants. Similarly why shouldn't foreign students who come here to study be able to take up part time work. If there is work to be done and they are willing what's the problem?

    Marriages tend to be between similar types of people in similar situations. Professionals will typically marry fellow professionals and low income earners will tend to marry other low income earners. It's fairly basic demographics. Fact of the matter is the HSE can't retain indigenous Irish staff due to poor pay and conditions and other factors such our high rents etc. When did I mention our generous welfare system is anything to do with forgeiners. I don't blame forgeiners I blame our government for not doing enough for our own. It also wouldn't surprise me if the qualifications held by persons coming from third world countries are of a lower standard than Irish/Western qualifications.

    The problem we can't be fully sure of these people's backgrounds particularly from migrants coming from countries whom our government dosen't have ties with but also ideologies and cultures coming into our country which aren't compatible particularly coming from the religion of Islam.
    Your estimation of what immigrants are entitled to is pretty fantastical, the processes involved in getting a visa to enter the country and a permit to work in it are rather complex and take a long time.
    Saying that Irish people could just do the jobs that are being done by foreign workers is incredibly simplistic. If that were true or possible why would we even have a highly skilled occupations list or a process for critical skills work permits? We could just pop down to the dole office grab a few people out of the q and send them off to the Rotunda to start delivering babies, we could have a word with Zuckerberg and ask why doesn't he just set up a recruitment stand in the post office on a Wednesday morning instead of hiring all those highly skilled foreigners.

    I didn't say these people could work in jobs that require qualifications they could however work in petrol stations, in shops and as taxi drivers. Fact most coming in with qualifications would be from first world countries which are easier to assimilate into our culture than those from those from the third world. Fact of the matter is it is easier for Pierre an IT developer from France to integrate than Ahmed with no qualifications from Bangladesh.




  • Facism :pac: Jesus OP you’re reading too many scare pieces.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    mammajamma wrote: »
    Yes, they are all part of a pyramid scheme. They displace local workers, use housing, use healthcare, use all facilities. They don't exist for a job in isolation. There is more than a fair chance they will stay here, grow old here, send children into schools here, require pensions and sustenance here. Never mind the social effects.

    A strong argument would be bringing in foreign workers to train local workers where there is a GENUINE lack of skills. It should be timestamped and when the worker has been trained, there is no need for the foreign worker. But of course, that would be far too sensible, and never happens. You either have a country that works for ITS people, or not.

    Side point, what good is a huge international company that pays fractional tax, employs 40 to 70% plus non-irish people, and can be gone in the blink of an eye...exactly how great is tying ourselves to that kind of setup? Its not, is the answer.

    Sustainability is the name of the game, and if an industry cannot survive in a country without gigantic outside reliance, then it is quite simply a bad idea in the first place

    Generally speaking, a pyramid scheme. And don't forget, we have plenty and plenty of irish people qualifying as nurses doctors etc....where have they gone? To get higher wages elsewhere because the pay here isn't good enough? Would that be related to the fact that imported health workers are paid less? Are they connected?

    Do the irish people educated here on the back of irish people paying tax going to cause the same problem for another countries indigenous population of healthworkers?

    Its a big old swindle, the whole shebang. Observed reality, as I said earlier, hence the growing anger everywhere.
    Which Irish workers have been displaced by those at Google and Facebook?

    Google, Facebook and all the other multi-national corporations feed a large number of ancillary businesses and jobs.

    Ireland derives much of its tax take from multi-national corporations. Now it's perfectly fair to argue that those multi-corporations should pay more tax, which I would argue.

    However, they do still provide a hefty whack of tax receipts to the exchequer, which help to pay the wages of healthcare workers.

    Under your plan, the state would be denied these tax revenues altogether.

    Ireland can't build a wall to stop its healthcare professionals leaving. If they want to go elsewhere to get higher wages, that's their choice and good luck to them. To entice them to stay at home on such grounds would require an explosion in the health budget. Money does not grow on trees, as you appear to think.

    If you think things are bad now, you won't have seen nothin' yet if you get your way with your laughably simplistic economic ideas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    Facism :pac: Jesus OP you’re reading too many scare pieces.

    I think the OP is halfway through this.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    mammajamma wrote: »
    So real question again, why is all this happening?

    Manipulation of social and other media to divide the population.

    It's increasingly well documented. E.g. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-facebook-elections




  • I think the OP is halfway through this.

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    All makes sense now


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    BOLLOCKS

    Tip: try and debate on facts, not your feelings, which appear to be hurt, for some reason.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    You know the funny thing about conspiracy theorists? They think believing something makes it so.

    Proof is all I seek. Nay, nay, not so much. Evidence. Anything other than someone simply stating that travelers are a race or separate ethnicity.



    'Jewish people “basically live in the White House”'

    Is this an anti-semitic comment? Is it the location that makes it bigoted? I don't think the White House has particularly negative connotations.

    Anyway, this tweet wasn't made during the presidential election, and didn't feature during the presidential election. This is the first I've seen of it, and I'd say that'd be true for, well, anybody not desperately searching for something to show how terrible Casey is. I don't agree with it, but I don't really much to it beyond that.



    Look, you've got to up your insult game. This is garbage. I don't even know what you're referring to - are you saying that my opinions are.. that of Casey? Or that I'm easily swayed by online opinion? You'd have been better off editing it out.

    It's ironic you mention conspiracy theorists since you appear to have the reasoning and rationale of one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Tip: try and debate on facts, not your feelings, which appear to be hurt, for some reason.

    What facts?
    Here is the opening post of the thread again.
    With such a silly opening post it is a bit unfair to pick on any of the replies.:confused:


    Try_harder wrote: »


    Following the election of a far right leader in Brazil, and Trump and Farage's behaviour, even boards displays it, is fascism on the rise, I say so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    What facts?

    The facts that i) Travellers are an ethnic group and that ii) what Peter Casey says was, according to the UN definition of racism, racist.

    I like facts and tend to agree with them.

    I did rather think that typing "BOLLOCKS" in oversized, bolded capital letters was an actual and obvious attempt at a shout down, by the way.

    There you go, Casey supporters, shouting others down.

    Tut tut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Travellers are an ethnic group.

    Peter Casey's comments about Travellers clearly fall under the UN's definition of racism.

    I've spelled out it out for you above in black and white. Whether you choose to acknowledge that is your own choice.

    Here is documentation of Casey's anti-semitic comments.

    https://www.businesspost.ie/news/casey-embroiled-anti-semitic-row-old-interview-resurfaces-426837

    https://twitter.com/colettebrowne/status/1046389236600098816?lang=en

    If you're not capable of forming your own opinions, as you seem to be admitting, it isn't my problem.

    If someone admits to being jealous of/admiring the success of a defined ethnic group, and aspires to achieve the same, how in god's name is that racist or anti semitic....that is bonkers...bonkers!

    Did the Jewish council contact Collette Brown or did Collette Brown contact the Jewish council do you think?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    The facts that i) Travellers are an ethnic group and that ii) what Peter Casey says was, according to the UN definition of racism, racist.

    I like facts and tend to agree with them.

    I did rather think that typing "BOLLOCKS" in oversized, bolded capital letters was an actual and obvious attempt at a shout down, by the way.

    There you go, Casey supporters, shouting others down.

    Tut tut.

    I am not shouting you down I am going to bed.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Which Irish workers have been displaced by those at Google and Facebook?

    Google, Facebook and all the other multi-national corporations feed a large number of ancillary businesses and jobs.

    Ireland derives much of its tax take from multi-national corporations. Now it's perfectly fair to argue that those multi-corporations should pay more tax, which I would argue.

    However, they do still provide a hefty whack of tax receipts to the exchequer, which help to pay the wages of healthcare workers.

    Under your plan, the state would be denied these tax revenues altogether.

    Ireland can't build a wall to stop its healthcare professionals leaving. If they want to go elsewhere to get higher wages, that's their choice and good luck to them. To entice them to stay at home on such grounds would require an explosion in the health budget. Money does not grow on trees, as you appear to think.

    If you think things are bad now, you won't have seen nothin' yet if you get your way with your laughably simplistic economic ideas.

    Its a pyramid scheme. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't be here and we should be doing something else. A fundamental observation. And trying to state that "something is better than nothing in the short term" wont win anyone over anymore.

    And don't forget, im not here to provide some magical solution (as if thats a great reason to dismiss everything out of hand), its to simply point out the sheer inadequacies of the current band-aid solutions to economic "empowerment"

    Again, observed reality is the instigator for this backlash.

    As for "laughably simplistic economic ideas", what are you expecting, a full 500 page policy? Or is it just a quick way to bail out of the obvious?

    You start at the start of a problem, the basics. Then you work up. People who like to get involved at the dithering end of stuff have a tendency to talk and walk in circles. If you cant work from first principles, you aren't worth a jot in your profession.

    Heres the basic: international mega corporations that pay fractional tax while hiring vast majority non-indigenous people are a bad foundational economic pillar for a country. Simple as that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    If someone admits to being jealous of/admiring the success of a defined ethnic group, and aspires to achieve the same, how in god's name is that racist or anti semitic....that is bonkers...bonkers!

    Did the Jewish council contact Collette Brown or did Collette Brown contact the Jewish council do you think?
    What Casey said was a variation on a theme of the shrieking loonies shouting "George Soros" and their "globalist" dog whistles.

    Saying "Jews live in the White House" is an obvious anti-semitic comment.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    mammajamma wrote: »
    Its a pyramid scheme. If it doesn't work, it shouldn't be here and we should be doing something else. A fundamental observation. And trying to state that "something is better than nothing in the short term" wont win anyone over anymore.

    And don't forget, im not here to provide some magical solution (as if thats a great reason to dismiss everything out of hand), its to simply point out the sheer inadequacies of the current band-aid solutions to economic "empowerment"

    Again, observed reality is the instigator for this backlash.

    As for "laughably simplistic economic ideas", what are you expecting, a full 500 page policy? Or is it just a quick way to bail out of the obvious?

    You start at the start of a problem, the basics. Then you work up. People who like to get involved at the dithering end of stuff have a tendency to talk and walk in circles. If you cant work from first principles, you aren't worth a jot in your profession.

    Heres the basic: international mega corporations that pay fractional tax while hiring vast majority non-indigenous people are a bad foundational economic pillar for a country. Simple as that.

    You're certainly not providing any magical solution, but you sure are proposing the opposite of a magical solution, which, I guess, is a magical economic disaster.

    I have news for you - in economic crashes, one of which we experienced not long ago, Irish people leave Ireland in their droves.

    You've shoehorned some nice meaningless phrases like "the basics" and "first principles" in there though, so well done on that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    What Casey said was a variation on a theme of the shrieking loonies shouting "George Soros" and their "globalist" dog whistles.

    Saying "Jews live in the White House" is an obvious anti-semitic comment.

    It isn't anti semitic, if someone in Scotland decided that Irish people get way more influence in the White House than the Scots, that wouldn't make him racist....come on this not that hard!! Of course, the media could whip up a media storm out of it and the morons would swallow it hook line and sinker!

    I admire the Jews because they dominate numerous lucrative industries...is that anti semitic?


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    Goodshape wrote: »
    Manipulation of social and other media to divide the population.

    It's increasingly well documented. E.g. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-facebook-elections

    Sorry, I don't buy that wholesale. The very idea relies on the supposition that people are pig-ignorant and stupid. They don't like that, believe it or not.

    And division is inherently, inseparably part of "diversity", NOT a known mantra of the supposed fascists.

    Further, that would mean that people who were perfectly content, have been lulled by the big bad "manipulators" into hateful caricatures. Would you say main stream media is really THAT far-right leaning?! ;)

    No, there are ACTUAL reasons that cant be dismissed out of hand by blaming the boogeyman. Lets state the most basic of basic: people aren't happy.

    Even if you tried to defend the manipulator angle, then youd still need to acknowledge that said manipulation is on both sides.

    This whole dismissive hand-wringing is just turning more and more people against the status quo of today (or should that be yesterday?). There seems to be no desire, perhaps even fear, to recognise the WHY's behind it all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    It isn't anti semitic

    Look, mate, you're just wrong on this. It's a textbook anti-semitic comment.

    But I suppose you're probably one of these people who thinks that saying Jews are good with money is praise rather than anti-semitism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    It isn't anti semitic, if someone in Scotland decided that Irish people get way more influence in the White House than the Scots, that wouldn't make him racist....come on this not that hard!! Of course, the media could whip up a media storm out of it and the morons would swallow it hook line and sinker!

    I admire the Jews because they dominate numerous lucrative industries...is that anti semitic?

    Jewish people having undue influence in business and politics is a well known anti-Semitic trope and Peter Casey isn't living in a vacuum.

    It's an anti-Semitic comment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    Look, mate, you're just wrong on this. It's a textbook anti-semitic comment.

    But I suppose you're probably one of these people who thinks that saying Jews are good with money is praise rather than anti-semitism.

    Good f##king jesus.

    There are many parts of many different nations and races that I find fascinating and am intrigued by, and yes, there are a lot of different aspects of Jewish Culture and history that I really admire.

    Who knew that made me a racist and an anti semite.

    You need to relax on the koolaid mate!




  • hill16bhoy wrote: »
    The facts that i) Travellers are an ethnic group and that ii) what Peter Casey says was, according to the UN definition of racism, racist.

    I like facts and tend to agree with them.

    I did rather think that typing "BOLLOCKS" in oversized, bolded capital letters was an actual and obvious attempt at a shout down, by the way.

    There you go, Casey supporters, shouting others down.

    Tut tut.

    The UN defines racism in part as an unfair attitude towards an ethnic group, however I find that nothing said has been unfair & has been entirely based on real life interaction with said group. So you, sir, are full of shít.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭mammajamma


    hill16bhoy wrote: »
    You're certainly not providing any magical solution, but you sure are proposing the opposite of a magical solution, which, I guess, is a magical economic disaster.

    I have news for you - in economic crashes, one of which we experienced not long ago, Irish people leave Ireland in their droves.

    You've shoehorned some nice meaningless phrases like "the basics" and "first principles" in there though, so well done on that.

    So you don't know what first principles means eh? It means a fundamental understanding of a system. Example: I can tell you WHY a machine outputs a certain number, whereas you can only READ a number. One person is a lot more useful than the other.There you go.

    Where is this thing I have proposed that will equal an economic disaster?
    I haven't made any replacement suggestions, but you're so fixated on my logical attack on the current system, you're literally dreaming up situations I haven't mentioned!

    That's fear of the unknown. Someone preferring to 100% walk off a cliff, as opposed to even questioning a deviation from the plan. Its like that bit from that batman film, something like "no matter how crazy it is, if its a plan, people will go along with it".

    Mad stuff :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    Good f##king jesus.

    There are many parts of many different nations and races that I find fascinating and am intrigued by, and yes, there are a lot of different aspects of Jewish Culture and history that I really admire.

    Who knew that made me a racist and an anti semite.
    Not me - you're just making stuff up now.

    It was your denial that Casey's obviously anti-semitic comment was anti-semitic that made me suspect you had a problem understanding what anti-semitism is.

    Innocent ignorance on this subject can be forgiven, but ignorant digging in is not a good look.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    The UN defines racism in part as an unfair attitude towards an ethnic group, however, I find that nothing said has been unfair & has been entirely based on real-life interaction with said group. So you, sir, are PRONE TO MISLEADING STATMENTS

    Suggested edit if you want to avoid a ban.
    Attack the silly posts, not the posters just some friendly advice.
    Let us all try and keep posts civilised.

    And now I really am off to bed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭PapaOscar


    Very few people give a fuk about travellers and rightly so. Peter Casey is a hero saying what 90% of the country thinks. Most travellers are con artists and thieves. They live happily on the fringes of society and refuse to integrate. Fuk them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭hill16bhoy


    mammajamma wrote: »
    So you don't know what first principles means eh? It means a fundamental understanding of a system.
    A system which you have proved you haven't the faintest understanding of.

    We can stop there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭CinemaGuy45


    PapaOscar wrote: »
    Very few people give a fuk about travellers and rightly so. Peter Casey is a hero saying what 90% of the country thinks. Most travellers are con artists and thieves. They live happily on the fringes of society and refuse to integrate. Fuk them.

    Agree with your post but the bits in bold why?




  • hill16bhoy wrote: »
    A system which you have proved you haven't the faintest understanding of.

    We can stop there.

    are you talking about people lacking understanding while misquoting the UNs definition of racism to suit you’re own agenda?

    Pot.. kettle...


  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭PapaOscar


    Agree with your post but the bits in bold why?

    Because its quicker than *. And you get my point.

    Sorry im new around here :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    mammajamma wrote: »
    Sorry, I don't buy that wholesale. The very idea relies on the supposition that people are pig-ignorant and stupid. They don't like that, believe it or not.

    It has nothing much to do with being stupid. Group thinking
    and mob mentality just has a way of snowballing, and the methods used to manipulate opinion are highly sophisticated.

    No, there are ACTUAL reasons that cant be dismissed out of hand by blaming the boogeyman. Lets state the most basic of basic: people aren't happy.

    Yes, people are unhappy. There's corruption in politics and business. The rich are unthinkably rich while the rest of us stagnate. And for that we're blaming... The poor and the even less well off?
    Even if you tried to defend the manipulator angle, then youd still need to acknowledge that said manipulation is on both sides.

    The existence of "sides" as you put it is the fiction I'm referring to. We're fighting amongst ourselves for some scraps from the masters table.


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  • Agree with your post but the bits in bold why?

    Thought you were going to bed?


    :pac:


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