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Socialist throws a smoothie on Varadkar

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  • #152
    Open the Pubs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 396 ✭✭Open the Pubs


    AMKC wrote: »
    The big difference between that horrible person you mention and Leo is that Leo is a good person and knows what he is doing so did not deserve it. That other person do did deserve it because he is just a horrible nasty person and I am glad he does not get any airtime anymore. Thankfully I would just skip by a horrible person like that anyway because I am able too.

    I doubt Farage cares of your opinion of him, but it is pretty hypocritical to say he deserved it. You don't actually know Farage or Varadkar to say they are a horrible or good person, just their public political persona.

    And Farage gets plenty of airtime still in Britain. He had a national radio show until July on LBC.


  • #153
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,059 ✭✭✭kirving


    Given how common acid attacks are becoming in the UK (and to a lesser extent Ireland to be fair), throwing any liquid at a person needs to be dealt with extremely seriously.

    It could very well be psychologically damaging for the victim as they wouldn't know for some time what had been thrown.


  • #154
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    From a lot of the comments people must think they are living in America


  • #155
    golfball37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,715 ✭✭✭golfball37


    The silence from the shinners speaks a 1000 words. Get well soon Tánaiste


  • #156
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Underground wrote: »
    Do we know the person in question is a socialist?
    All socialists run like eejits :D


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  • #157
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    golfball37 wrote: »
    The silence from the shinners speaks a 1000 words. Get well soon Tánaiste

    In the whole hour since it happened, he hasn't been shot dead


  • #158
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    This lady is a piece of ****.


  • #159
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Guaranteed she's from a well off family.


  • #160
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,125 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Open the Pubs wrote: »
    Here's another from a woke left Author. These types are in the majority on Irish twitter:

    https://twitter.com/griffski/status/1306986845528641538

    Being progressive now is nearly a class thing.

    Nearly always middle class but the overriding sense that they alone are holy righteous and good and all others are sinners, vulgar proles.


  • #161
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Kevin Irving wrote: »
    Given how common acid attacks are becoming in the UK (and to a lesser extent Ireland to be fair), throwing any liquid at a person needs to be dealt with extremely seriously.

    It could very well be psychologically damaging for the victim as they wouldn't know for some time what had been thrown.

    100%. At best, you could say she's probably too stupid to realise how traumatic that experience could be.


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  • #162
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There's a vast difference between an espresso and a milkshake.

    Different solar systems.

    It's the act - who knows what's in a liquid fckud into your face.


  • #163
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,125 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    dalyboy wrote: »
    Looks staged to me. Wouldn’t surprise me with this shower (Leo & co)

    Nutter.


  • #164
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,495 ✭✭✭Underground


    I'll reserve judgement until she's identified..... But... it's going to be your stereotypical crusty far left underachiever angry at life because she wasn't popular in school, isn't it?


  • #165
    MoonUnit75
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭MoonUnit75


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Guaranteed she's from a well off family.

    Radicalised at pony camp no doubt.


  • #166
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Open the Pubs wrote: »
    I doubt Farage cares of your opinion of him, but it is pretty hypocritical to say he deserved it. You don't actually know Farage or Varadkar to say they are a horrible or good person, just their public political persona.

    And Farage gets plenty of airtime still in Britain. He had a national radio show until July on LBC.
    While I'd agree on Varadkar, Farage on the other hand made his career out of hate speech. So when that's the the political persona that you choose to adopt, it's fair to view him as a horrible person.


  • #167
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    MoonUnit75 wrote: »
    Radicalised at pony camp no doubt.

    Herself, Paul Murphy and Rich Boy Barrett.


  • #168
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd have chased after her and tripped her up, hopefully she takes a heavy fall from that.


  • #169
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Could have been anything in that cup, water, acid, urine, covid laced liquid, excrement.
    I don’t care about anyone’s political persuasions, nothing justifies doing this to anyone.
    I hope we see a Leo’s law to make attacks like these punished harshly.


  • #170
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    I've had hot coffee thrown in the window at work, the Gardai were given the reg and van type and even a witness came forward.... Yeah you guessed it they did nothing.....


    It of course will be different here....


  • #171
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I have no time for Varadkar but he's the second in command of the state, he should be better protected. What if she'd had a knife?


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  • #172
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Cowardly thing to do. And you just know if the roles were reversed she’d be crying all sorts of assault.


  • #173
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,484 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    I think they epitomise the pathetic man-child/woman-child that society seems to be churning out more & more these days.

    Most are probably close in age to me so I feel comfortable saying it - middle class upbringing, never had a job in school or college, half arsed leaving cert, doing any degree they could get into in college just to stop themselves from having to be a grown up.

    The cohort of society who dont think they are an adult & dont really behave like one until they are 30 yet are baffled that they dont have a house or a high paying job by 30.

    The kind that will put up posts on twitter about wearing masks & put up facebook frames about nurses but have a house party with 40 people cos they have to live.

    Essentially idiotic, childish, underachieving, hypocritical goons.

    Thats what the skateboard means to me when I see a person of adult age (18 & over) with one

    How has this so many thanks. Anti-skateboard. Jesus wept.


  • #174
    MoonUnit75
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭MoonUnit75


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Herself, Paul Murphy and Rich Boy Barrett.

    When she asked Pops why Sara's daddy had a bigger 4x4 with leather seats he replied that it was capitalism. Ever since that day she has vowed to tear down the system by any means necessary.


  • #175
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    How has this so many thanks. Anti-skateboard. Jesus wept.

    You're just in the pocket of 'Big Skateboard' - I would say jog on but it would be ironic


  • #176
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    The people defending Varadkar or Martin or anyone in government here are the disgrace. We are being absolutely destroyed left right and center by this government, everything is taken away from us while they party it up golfing breaking every last one of their rules, and you are outraged at coffee? Joke.


  • #177
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    Underground wrote: »
    Do we know the person in question is a socialist?

    No, but it fits the profile. Probably wears a Che Guevara t-shirt. Occasionally has dreadlocks. Profile picture of a black square on Facebook. A tag line that say something like “Feminist. Activist. Human.”

    I’d imagine her boyfriend is someone who tells you the wonders of socialism whilst sitting in a tent at an Indy music festival, sniffing ketamine off of a cracked IPhone 5 screen.


  • #178
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    I think they epitomise the pathetic man-child/woman-child that society seems to be churning out more & more these days.

    Most are probably close in age to me so I feel comfortable saying it - middle class upbringing, never had a job in school or college, half arsed leaving cert, doing any degree they could get into in college just to stop themselves from having to be a grown up.

    The cohort of society who dont think they are an adult & dont really behave like one until they are 30 yet are baffled that they dont have a house or a high paying job by 30.

    The kind that will put up posts on twitter about wearing masks & put up facebook frames about nurses but have a house party with 40 people cos they have to live.

    Essentially idiotic, childish, underachieving, hypocritical goons.

    Thats what the skateboard means to me when I see a person of adult age (18 & over) with one

    What about those of is who have worked hard every single day of our lives, gotten degrees, studied, achieved things, improved everything they can improve, yet are still paid like absolute dog sheit with no prospects? All the while the rich get richer in this country without hardly breaking a sweat?

    You know nothing of hard work and injustice. Nothing.


  • #179
    s1ippy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy


    Open the Pubs wrote: »
    Gardaí have launched an investigation

    https://twitter.com/11SchillRob/status/1306986019292667905

    https://twitter.com/JohnMooneyST/status/1306972212268871680
    What a waste of resources, I wonder will it go the way of Joan's brush with mortality (AKA the consequences of her own actions).


  • #180
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Poor_old_gill wrote: »
    I think they epitomise the pathetic man-child/woman-child that society seems to be churning out more & more these days.

    Most are probably close in age to me so I feel comfortable saying it - middle class upbringing, never had a job in school or college, half arsed leaving cert, doing any degree they could get into in college just to stop themselves from having to be a grown up.

    The cohort of society who dont think they are an adult & dont really behave like one until they are 30 yet are baffled that they dont have a house or a high paying job by 30.

    The kind that will put up posts on twitter about wearing masks & put up facebook frames about nurses but have a house party with 40 people cos they have to live.

    Essentially idiotic, childish, underachieving, hypocritical goons.

    Thats what the skateboard means to me when I see a person of adult age (18 & over) with one

    It's a skateboard...


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  • #181
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    The_Brood wrote: »
    What about those of is who have worked hard every single day of our lives, gotten degrees, studied, achieved things, improved everything they can improve, yet are still paid like absolute dog sheit with no prospects? All the while the rich get richer in this country without hardly breaking a sweat?

    You know nothing of hard work and injustice. Nothing.

    You know nothing of me. Nothing.

    Also if a cv with your above standard of English arrived where I work- they’d burn it.

    You haven’t gotten improved as much as you should be gotten improving


  • #182
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    The_Brood wrote: »
    What about those of is who have worked hard every single day of our lives, gotten degrees, studied, achieved things, improved everything they can improve, yet are still paid like absolute dog sheit with no prospects? All the while the rich get richer in this country without hardly breaking a sweat?

    You know nothing of hard work and injustice. Nothing.

    Probably should look for another job. Most degrees are useless in the job market, everyone knows that.


  • #183
    ExMachina1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭ExMachina1000


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    They still don't justify doing it so it's not exactly s horrifying statement. Meanwhile you actively downplayed an attack where a person ended up with stitches in their head. So your rhetoric it's coming across far worse.

    I'm not overly concerned about your interpretation or opinion to be honest Protonmike.

    I'd rather discuss this incident and the reaction around it.
    Thanks


  • #184
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    Interesting to see the people downplaying this.

    She deserves to be prosecuted. No question about that.

    Will anyone attempt to claim this was just a ‘peaceful protest’?


  • #185
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    s1ippy wrote: »
    What a waste of resources, I wonder will it go the way of Joan's brush with mortality (AKA the consequences of her own actions).

    Hopefully does. This is an appalling display. Varadkar despite everything has done a reasonable job.


  • #186
    happyoutscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,103 ✭✭✭happyoutscan


    I'm well over 40 and skate all the time, been doing so since I was 6.

    The sad thing about this girl is I'd bet she couldn't ride that thing for 5 ft without milling herself.

    Especially with the way she runs, not a hope can she skate.

    Pure poser.


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  • #187
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Interesting to see the people downplaying this.

    She deserves to be prosecuted. No question about that.

    Will anyone attempt to claim this was just a ‘peaceful protest’?

    No, because this type of thing is encouraged by those dickless lunatics known as the Connolly Youth Movement.


  • #188
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Hunky Monster wrote: »
    You want a prison sentence for someone throwing coffee on someone else. What if someone threw coffee over you, do you think they’d go to prison.

    Scalding Coffee is capable of scarring someone for life.

    Please answer me, if someone threw coffee at you and it scarred you for life, would you be happy if they avoided a prison sentence?


  • #189
    landofthetree
    Registered Users Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭landofthetree


    The_Brood wrote: »
    The people defending Varadkar or Martin or anyone in government here are the disgrace. We are being absolutely destroyed left right and center by this government, everything is taken away from us while they party it up golfing breaking every last one of their rules, and you are outraged at coffee? Joke.

    The left want a harsher lockdown ffs.

    https://www.pbp.ie/our-lives-or-their-profits/


  • #190
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    AppleMaggot wrote: »
    Probably should look for another job. Most degrees are useless in the job market, everyone knows that.

    Right, so why then do some of us spend 4-8 years of our lives fighting for a degree? If it's all for nothing, all a complete waste of **** time (it is indeed, it's not a question) then the government that defends the university institutions in Ireland need a hell of a lot worse than coffee thrown in their face. The fault is not with young people fresh out of school who get fooled and caught in nets of lies, the problem is with vultures and thieves in academia who then are defended and directly supported by the government.


  • #191
    DeanAustin
    Registered Users Posts: 3,855 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    The_Brood wrote: »
    The people defending Varadkar or Martin or anyone in government here are the disgrace. We are being absolutely destroyed left right and center by this government, everything is taken away from us while they party it up golfing breaking every last one of their rules, and you are outraged at coffee? Joke.

    What a f**king stupid post. Were Varadker or Martin at that golfing break? Did they pressure those who were there to resign their positions?

    Yeah, we're all having to sacrifice a bit at the moment. Some more than others and a lot more than me. You'd be fairly dumb to think that they are doing it in anything other than what they believe to be best for the country though.

    You may disagree with their decisions, that's fair enough. But inferring they're making them to control us while they're off playing golf is just ignorant.


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  • #192
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    landofthetree wrote: »
    The left want a harsher lockdown ffs.

    https://www.pbp.ie/our-lives-or-their-profits/

    PBP want an eternal lockdown. It’s Boyd-Barrett’s wet dream to have everyone on the mega dole, picking their arses all day.


  • #193
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,222 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I sincerely hope that this woman has no children.
    Imagine having that low life for a mother.


  • #194
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    The_Brood wrote: »
    Right, so why then do some of us spend 4-8 years of our lives fighting for a degree? If it's all for nothing, all a complete waste of **** time (it is indeed, it's not a question) then the government that defends the university institutions in Ireland need a hell of a lot worse than coffee thrown in their face. The fault is not with young people fresh out of school who get fooled and caught in nets of lies, the problem is with vultures and thieves in academia who then are defended and directly supported by the government.

    8 years to get a degree? I managed a masters in three while working full time


  • #195
    shamrockvilla
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭shamrockvilla


    StevenToast wrote: »
    Where was the security? Could have had a knife...

    Could have had a gun or a bigger gun or a packet of Tayto or a tank or a rocket launcher............


  • #196
    Open the Pubs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 396 ✭✭Open the Pubs


    https://twitter.com/philipoconnor/status/1306972340048277504

    There is always whataboutery from the left when this happens. This guy was Soc Dem candidate and is a supposed journalist.


  • #197
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Absolute scumbag. The era of "it's ok to physically assault people we don't agree with" is beyond f*cked up. I hope she gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but I have little faith in that happening when you consider the literal rapists and violent burglars who get suspended sentences in this country...


  • #198
    Humberto Salazar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Humberto Salazar


    Unnecessary, wanton act, as was the one on Justin Barrett. Watch the hypocrites react to this.


  • #199
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    The_Brood wrote: »
    Right, so why then do some of us spend 4-8 years of our lives fighting for a degree? If it's all for nothing, all a complete waste of **** time (it is indeed, it's not a question) then the government that defends the university institutions in Ireland need a hell of a lot worse than coffee thrown in their face. The fault is not with young people fresh out of school who get fooled and caught in nets of lies, the problem is with vultures and thieves in academia who then are defended and directly supported by the government.

    Because we have the freedom to make our own choices. What you think that we should only offer regimented college courses which are useful to the job market?

    I’ve a feeling you did a degree that’s not very useful and now you’re sour about it. Try springboard, they offer ICT conversion courses to make job seekers more attractive to prospective employers.


  • #200
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    Stheno wrote: »
    8 years to get a degree? I managed a masters in three while working full time

    Same. I am including 4 years bachelors beforehand.


  • #201
    AppleMaggot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭AppleMaggot


    Stheno wrote: »
    8 years to get a degree? I managed a masters in three while working full time

    I’m working full time and starting a masters next week actually. Should have it done in 18 months.


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