America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland
America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland
Following last week’s riots in Dublin, an alliance between far-right, anti-immigration influencers in the US and Ireland continues to grow.
Right before the whole country wakes up and laughs at the notion, let me just get this out of the way.... Nobody here gives a fuck what Bannon and his ilk want.
The recent riots started with the stabbing of children followed by some mentalers riling up a tiny number of agitators. At the scene folks were understandably very upset but it was a Brazilian who stopped the attack (bless his soul) and a heap of money has been raised for him.
What then happened was a bunch of scumbags jumping on the bandwagon so they could rob new Nikes from Foot Locker and cause a bit of mayhem. That's it.
The political spectrum here really runs from left to centre right (and by that I mean around the democrats in the US). There is no right spectrum party.
So... Anyone calling for civil war here can fuck right off tbh. Absolute nonsense of the highest order.
It kind of pisses me off that the article doesn't mention the Brazilian person.
Yeah what an absolute champ he was. Fast and decisive.
I'm pretty sure Ireland still remembers what a civil war is like, and nobody who knows wants one. Bannon and the American right wouldn't know Troubles if they came up and bit them in the face.
Succinct and entirely correct. All Irish “conservatives” want is farm subsidies and no inheritance tax
Some people in Ireland obviously do. Thankfully, it appears to be a tiny minority.
The problem is really the same as the right wing loonies in other countries: they are using modern media, perhaps with the assistance of foreign agents, to amplify what they are saying and make the movement seem larger than it really is.
Then loonies get a lot of disgruntled people to sign on to single parts of their agenda. When you're struggling to get by, it's a lot easier to support someone who claims to have easy answers, even if those answers are designed to never be achieved. These loonies will always have out-groups they want to ostracized, and some people may go along, not realizing that they may be next. (And not realizing that the total Nazi-lite agenda doesn't include the plebs at all, other than to get them to vote against their interests.)
The political spectrum here really runs from left to centre right
Wasn't abortion completely illegal until like yesterday?
2018 sourceish.
I wouldn't call "5 years" ago yesterday, and efforts to ammend the constitution were happening since 1992. But you do you.
Okay, Ireland will do a civil war if America's far right can find it on a map without Googling.
Hint: look for the green part
I was going to type this as a joke, but on reflection I think it's 100% unironically true:
The only reason they care is because Ireland's right-wing hooligans are actually willing to physically mob up and attack immigrants and police, whereas a lot of the right wing in the US is too skeered to get into the streets and do the same un-stochastically ever since Ashli Babbit. They wish their followers here would do the same and can't wait for it to start to happen.
Ireland should do a civil war against America for whatever the hell was going on in that weird parade scene in the Fugitive where they’re all dressed as leprechauns.
Make the Chicago River run red? A very Charlemagnian solution.
Tucker Carlson, who now broadcasts his show on X, told his millions of followers that “the Irish government is trying to replace the population of Ireland with people from the third world.”
Former White House adviser and 2020 election conspiracist Steve Bannon, who is currently strategizing for former US president Donald Trump, responded to Carlson by declaring: “Ireland is a powder keg.”
Elon Musk, who this week told X advertisers to “go fuck yourself,” also weighed in, claiming on X that the Irish prime minister “hates the Irish people,” and agreeing with another far-right influencer who posted on X saying Ireland needed McGregor to run for office. “Not a bad idea,” Musk wrote in reply.
What in hell do they hope to gain from stoking these fires?!
Bunch a cunts.
Since Ireland still hasn’t gotten Northern Ireland back, they’re basically still in a civil war.
That's a weird way to frame things given that a sizable majority of North Irelanders don't want to reunify.
Two graphics on this topic from: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/12/03/poll-shows-northern-ireland-rejects-unity-by-large-margin/
I get where you're coming from, but to say that its akin to a civil war when there's a unilateral mechanism for unification and there's been lasting peace for decades... Feels a little reductionist.
Can...can they even find Ireland on the map?
Ireland - "You first"
Also America's far left are supporting known terrorists in the Middle East