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America’s Far Right Is Calling for Civil War in Ireland
(www.wired.com)
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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.)
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.