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Rowan Croft the gran torino

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  • #52
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    I've asked this before, but what mental illness do these "leftist creeps" have?


  • #53
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    I've asked this before, but what mental illness do these "leftist creeps" have?

    I somehow doubt that you'll get a rational answer to that question from Mr Pumpkin...
    pumpkin4life wrote:
    I don't get this whole "yeah but he's crazy because he believes this one odd thing/thing I don't agree with" thing that some users here have.


  • #54
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    I somehow doubt that you'll get a rational answer to that question from Mr Pumpkin...

    Yer Da sells Avon is not rational enough to see clear scenes of mental illness in a video clip I posted.


  • #55
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Yer Da sells Avon is not rational enough to see clear scenes of mental illness in a video clip I posted.

    I just don't get this whole "yeah but they're crazy because they believe this one odd thing/thing I don't agree with" thing that some users here have.


  • #56
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    RTE should give him a chat show - The Hate Hate Show.

    Brilliant!
    It's actually the far left side he's up against that's full of hate


  • #57
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    I just don't get this whole "yeah but they're crazy because they believe this one odd thing/thing I don't agree with" thing that some users here have.

    Not really, it's a pattern of believing conflicting things.
    Not listening to any civilized arguments - just trying to muscle the person out of the area and blocking cameras.


  • #58
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Yer Da sells Avon is not rational enough to see clear scenes of mental illness in a video clip I posted.

    I just don't get this whole "yeah but they're crazy because they believe this one odd thing/thing I don't agree with" thing that some users here have.

    I think your dealing here with someone with incredibly extreme beliefs.


  • #59
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »
    I just don't get this whole "yeah but they're crazy because they believe this one odd thing/thing I don't agree with" thing that some users here have.

    I mentioned it in the Gemma O'Doherty thread. She believes crazy things but it doesn't mean she's crazy. I'm sure a lot of the people we see like Rowan Croft might be nice to meet in a pub so long as they don't talk politics.

    The problem is that their "politics" isn't rational. It involves conspiracy theories and quite often racism.

    many people believe crap like this, from anti vaxxers, to alternative therapies, to the very religious etc. Their beliefs aren't based on a rational interpretation of facts. And they tend to see opposition to them as part of the actual conspiracy. If you're not anti refugee / anti vax / anti medicine / secular then you must be benefiting from it or you've been brain washed.


  • #60
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Grayson wrote: »
    The guy has gone so far down the alt-right rabbit hole that he's lost it. Sorry if he's your friend but he's right up there with Gemma O'Doherty.


    I don't debate anything you say there, all I'm saying is that he commits fully to what he believes in. That's not a mental health thing :)
    A rational run of the mill conversation can be had with him besides what you see on his channel or in the looney side of media. :)


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  • #61
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Brilliant!
    It's actually the far left side he's up against that's full of hate

    Notice how people on the extreme of anything have so much in common be it far left or far right.


  • #62
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    Brilliant!
    It's actually the far left side he's up against that's full of hate


    yeah and your end of the spectrum is all about the love.


  • #63
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    20Cent wrote: »
    Another grifter cashing in on gullible alt right q anon types.

    That's exactly what he is. He has/had a crowdfunder/kickstarter to build an office/granny flat out his mother's back garden to keep his 'videos' going.

    https://twitter.com/newsworthy_ie/status/1098929577525678083

    https://twitter.com/newsworthy_ie/status/1098942762114826241


  • #64
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    He has an Irexit conference on his channel. About 15 people in the audience at the conference. Apparently the health service, people on trolleys, suicide, mental health issues, immigration and fluoride in drinking water are all the EU's fault.

    And the description has 7 different ways to give money to Rowan Croft.


  • #65
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I don't debate anything you say there, all I'm saying is that he commits fully to what he believes in. That's not a mental health thing :)
    A rational run of the mill conversation can be had with him besides what you see on his channel or in the looney side of media. :)

    I direct you to the post directly above yours. That's what happens when we both reply at the same time.

    Although, I would disagree with you when you said committing fully isn't a mental health issue. It could be. If he believes in something factually false and demonstratable untrue, and commits to it, it could be a sign of some kind of mental illness. I'm not saying he is mentally unwell, I'm just saying that committing fully doesn't disprove anything.


  • #66
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    WinnyThePoo wrote: »
    I think your dealing here with someone with incredibly extreme beliefs.

    Nice to see youre on your meds Winny.


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  • #67
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    WinnyThePoo wrote: »
    I think your dealing here with someone with incredibly extreme beliefs.

    Nice to see youre on your meds Winny.

    I suppose l leave the mods to this like before.

    Good luck.


  • #68
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    WinnyThePoo wrote: »
    I suppose l leave the mods to this like before.

    Good luck.

    Lol. User who makes snarky mocking comments to other posters and about other people, always fails to address anyone's points and then cries to the mods when someone does the same thing to him. :pac:


  • #69
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Lol. User who makes snarky mocking comments to other posters and about other people and then cries to the mods when someone does the same thing to him. :pac:

    A right crybaby. Winny should do a cycle of some winny.


  • #70
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Cienciano wrote: »
    About 15 people in the audience at the conference.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti57BTLjr0k


  • #71
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Boggles wrote: »
    Cienciano wrote: »
    About 15 people in the audience at the conference.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti57BTLjr0k

    And not even bloody Sue Cook


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  • #72
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Lol. User who makes snarky mocking comments to other posters and about other people, always fails to address anyone's points and then cries to the mods when someone does the same thing to him. :pac:

    This gran Torino guy demonstrably has extreme beliefs. If you only think one of them is so, it is because you agree with the other extreme beliefs. Which means you hold some extreme beliefs.

    If your only response to that is a personal attack on someone, let's just say it doesn't really do much to disprove their assertion.


  • #73
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    Billy86 wrote: »
    This gran Torino guy demonstrably has extreme beliefs.

    Him and about 5 billion others could be described as having extreme beliefs.


  • #74
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    Billy86 wrote: »
    This gran Torino guy demonstrably has extreme beliefs. If you only think one of them is so, it is because you agree with the other extreme beliefs. Which means you hold some extreme beliefs.

    If your only response to that is a personal attack on someone, let's just say it doesn't really do much to disprove their assertion.

    Two things:

    1: The comment "extreme views" is rhetoric. It's meant to dismiss the lad making the comment, rather than address the comment itself, which is that, despite Torino's views on certain things, he has done good work; some great interviews and filming the migrant scandals that are occurring across the country.

    2: Winny addressed me. He didn't have to. Otherwise I wouldn't have replied to him. Also he has a record of calling multiple posters who didn't agree with him: snivelling little shìts.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=109424754&postcount=342

    The original comment seems to have been deleted though? Hmm.


  • #75
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    This is all your own doing pumpkin. This second you've done this now. The first time didn't work out for you.

    As I said goodluck with your future endeavours.

    You do have extreme views. You post boards for all to see.


  • #76
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    WinnyThePoo wrote: »
    This is all your own doing pumpkin. This second you've done this now. The first time didn't work out for you.

    As I said goodluck with your future endeavours.

    You do have extreme views. You post boards for all to see.

    Cowardly posting from yourself, your well able to abuse posters when it suits you. But when it happens to you, you start crying about it. Man up.


  • #77
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,580 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Nice to see youre on your meds Winny.

    Banned.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #78
    GinAndBitter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 746 ✭✭✭GinAndBitter


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Banned.

    lol


  • #79
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Birneybau wrote: »
    And not even bloody Sue Cook

    Did they get a free wagon wheel?

    Did he give himself the nickname?


  • #80
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭batgoat


    pumpkin4life wrote: »
    Nice to see youre on your meds Winny.

    QAnon conspiracies are not something intelligent people believe in. Torino subscribes to the bat**** conspiracy.


  • #81
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    batgoat wrote: »
    QAnon conspiracies are not something intelligent people believe in. Torino subscribes to the bat**** conspiracy.

    Only a matter of time before some idiot goes looking for the basement in a basementless-pizzeria here. Or something to that effect anyway.


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  • #82
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Clint Eastwood would wipe the floor with him.

    I really think he would :)

    474011.jpg


  • #83
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Anyone willingly filling their heads with that charlatans nonsense or giving him money probably need an emergency intervention from family and friends.


  • #84
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I know Rowan. He's not a nutter. He's just very commited to what he does.

    Maybe not a nutter. An extreme hatemonger though.

    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



  • #85
    SKILFUL
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23 ✭SKILFUL


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Maybe not a nutter. An extreme hatemonger though.

    The liberal elites are afraid of Gran Torino


  • #86
    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    SKILFUL wrote: »
    The liberal elites are afraid of Gran Torino

    Elites? I doubt they know his name.


  • #87
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    SKILFUL wrote: »
    The liberal elites are afraid of Gran Torino

    They are afraid of everyone who disagrees with them. Illiberal liberals.


  • #88
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    statesaver wrote: »
    They are afraid of everyone who disagrees with them. Illiberal liberals.


    Why would anybody be afraid of somebody that nobody had heard of before this thread started?


  • #89
    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    These guys only exist in Social Media like this- no one important gives a Fcuk who they are


  • #90
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    lbc2019 wrote: »
    These guys only exist in Social Media like this- no one important gives a Fcuk who they are


    Most of us unimportant people dont either.


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  • #91
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Why would anybody be afraid of somebody that nobody had heard of before this thread started?

    I had to google the fecker.


  • #92
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Grayson wrote: »
    I had to google the fecker.

    Let me guess. You got lots of Clint Eastwood, Gemma O'Doherty, Rooskey and Soros is destroying the globe in a jewish one world order flouride and vaxes cause autism conspiracy.

    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



  • #93
    corminators
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭corminators


    What's he done wrong exactly?

    Yesterday Varadkar said we should welcome back isis fighters.

    Surely we need some balance here to stop idiocy like the above?

    That woman in the Rooksey video who kept touching him clearly doesn't know the definition of common assault. Kept it cool, though.


  • #94
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    corminators wrote: »
    What's he done wrong exactly?

    Yesterday Varadkar said we should welcome back isis fighters.

    Surely we need some balance here to stop idiocy like the above?

    That woman in the Rooksey video who kept touching him clearly doesn't know the definition of common assault. Kept it cool, though.


    This type of post typifies all that is irritating about these alt right types. Disingenuous claims, Varadkar said nothing like that, then go annoying people, getting in their faces to provoke a reaction. Then cry and claim assault when someone stands up to them.


  • #95
    corminators
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭corminators


    But sure if he did the same thing like keep touching then he'd be done for it. Aggressive behavior by lefties is ok?

    And Varadkar should do everything he can to stop isis fighters coming back including canceling their passports of they have other citizenship. You know, basic state security stuff.

    I'm sure Gran Torino has a view on the above. Must check out his channel.


  • #96
    20Cent
    Registered Users Posts: 8,939 ✭✭✭20Cent


    corminators wrote: »
    But sure if he did the same thing like keep touching then he'd be done for it. Aggressive behavior by lefties is ok?

    And Varadkar should do everything he can to stop isis fighters coming back including canceling their passports of they have other citizenship. You know, basic state security stuff.

    I'm sure Gran Torino has a view on the above. Must check out his channel.

    Victim complex, uninformed opinions two more. These guys should at least get some training in journalism before they go calling themselves journalists.


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  • #97
    corminators
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭corminators


    20Cent wrote: »
    Victim complex, uninformed opinions two more. These guys should at least get some training in journalism before they go calling themselves journalists.

    Unfortunately the majority of journalism in this country is controlled by one individual. Surely you are aware of this?

    That's why we need people like Gran Torino out there on the ground asking the questions, covering events live and rattling cages.

    Otherwise we'd be overrun with immigrants because quite a lot of people make lot of money from feeding/housing/clothing/educating/defending them inncourt so of course they want to keep the cash flowing by importing more.


  • #98
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    What is it about having extreme left or right wing views and being a complete fûcking arsehole as a result??


  • #99
    corminators
    Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭corminators


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What is it about having extreme left or right wing views and being a complete fûcking arsehole as a result??

    What's with the labeling people with moderate views 'extreme' at the drop of a hat? And the passive aggressive name calling?


  • #100
    dingledosser
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭dingledosser


    What's most interesting is that Rowan Croft was in the British Army for years. He obviously doesn't like to advertise it, it doesn't go well with his 'Keep Ireland for the Irish' mantra.


  • #101
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,316 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    corminators wrote: »
    Unfortunately the majority of journalism in this country is controlled by one individual. Surely you are aware of this?

    That's why we need people like Gran Torino out there on the ground asking the questions, covering events live and rattling cages.

    Otherwise we'd be overrun with immigrants because quite a lot of people make lot of money from feeding/housing/clothing/educating/defending them inncourt so of course they want to keep the cash flowing by importing more.

    So this is a conspiracy by Tesco/Daft.ie/Top man/Trinity/lawyers?

    Seems legit.


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