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Listen, I know that the cost of living is insane and our government are mostly absolutely useless. I know there are huge issues to solve.

But I also know that it is beyond crazy that we are all being held to ransom by like 40 dudes and their big trucks. All 5.5 million of us at the mercy of them.

Arrow?

Who called it "AI theft" and not "six finger discount"?

Notable as the Muslims Sisters went out of their way to be non-threatening to the protesters beforehand.

It really does only take a handful of people to cause huge problems, but as long as the protesters tolerate that handful, that is entirely their fault and they shoulder responsibility.

I cannot understand why the protesters are still being allowed to block fuel depots. It was reported yesterday that they “facilitated” some fuel to go because it was for emergency services. Like who put them in charge? This situation is beyond farcical now.

That worked out well.

When a company with its European HQ based in Dublin can run the world's biggest CSAM website and tell the government of the day to fuck off when they are asked to explain themselves that's a signal. Whatever the patriot crowd lack in intelligence they can smell fear and weakness a mile away

The hollowing out of the state for profit to the extent some random clown sitting in a stationary John Deere on the M50 has as much influence on government policy as any cabinet minister

Just the perfect mix of successive government failure on just about everything, the authorities/media treating the worst people in the country like they are somehow representative of everyone, mollycoddling the far right and outright refusal to put manners on the social media companies

And this all started by government/city/county councils turning a blind eye to Irish flags being mounted to every lamppost…

such weakness in the face of fascism…

Resharing this because

(a) apparently the Insta version “is going viral within government” (folks, have you maybe considered trying to explain this yourselves?)

and (b) it illustrates how hard it will be to offer some other tangible costcutting that can convince the blockades to stand down

There's "handling a situation badly", and then there's "handling a situation so badly you expose the police force, the army, the justice department, and the office of Taoiseach as effectively useless"

"Creative Cross Model Figure Accessories Scene" aka LEGO JESUS

Sadly just a bit too late for easter.

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Despite the difficulties Muslim Sisters of Éire managed to feed those who needed their help tonight.
Only to be verbally abused by racist arseholes who are so stupid they can't conceive that Irish born and bred people can also be Muslim.

#SpéirGhorm

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Let's not forget classics like this, big part of the problem was the constant minimising of it

"You've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, you've overreacting, you're overreacting, OH SHIT WAIT YOU WERE ALL RIGHT!"

One of these days, these fuckwits are going to find a charismatic person with a relatively clean background and an ability to think on their feet, and they will wipe the fucking floor with 99% of journalists and 100% of politicians in Ireland.
This is only the beginning.
#speirgorm

The self-appointed "leaders" of the Fuel Protests are truly scum of the Earth.
Why our media choose to interview the likes of Duffy here re the protests is beyond me. Do they really think he cares one iota about anyone but his own self?

Not the first or the last to make this point, but the protests really lay bare who is considered a “worker” by many people. Lads who run plant hire companies ✅, but Deliveroo drivers and women doing the admin in offices are the liberal elite

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My favourite stage of any right-aligned movement is when the circle of men that inevitably position themselves in leading roles get even the most surface-level coverage of their backgrounds and immediately go

"HERE WE GO THE MEDIA SMEARS AND LIES BEGIN"
and it's just facts about their crimes

Imagine what the left could achieve of we all chipped in and bought Richard Boyd Barrett a Massey Ferguson

Sorry, what now?

You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes.

Right so.

Have to admit, going public with your demand for several taxes to be cut while having a public record of not paying tax is a fantastic bit

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks

Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments

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This fella is one of the nominated representatives of the protest group. Should the government meet with him, do you think?

The guy going into Leinster House to negotiate for the fuel protesters is on Liveline and just said this is going to change Ireland forever, they are running the country not the government, the Taoiseach needs to resign immediately, and the Dail has to be recalled immediately. His actually words

Everyone who says they support the fuel protests should be forced to listen to the interview their “PRO” just gave on national radio. Absolutely deluded, facebook-brained nonsense.

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