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Kurtofan posted:What does Fail means in Irish. Don't worry about it, the English meaning works much better.
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Captain Gordon posted:Maybe I am an idiot, but the Dail exchanging (yet again!) the shower of shites that is FG for another tested and proven shower of shites that is FF, is just yet another reason why I don't want to live on our gay corruption island anymore. You know, I used to be all 'gently caress this lovely country, I'm outta here!' for a long time too, but having lived in Australia, Britain and America for a while actually made me appreciate that Ireland ain't anywhere near that bad.
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Captain Gordon posted:
I guess I don't see the great difference in that regard between Ireland and most places? Politicians are always cynical assholes, but good god living in England was a loving eye opener, crazy expensive, social services that seemed increasingly hosed up and underfunded and that arrogant, xenophobic atmosphere that you always got in England that seemed taken to an extreme around the time of Brexit. America was interesting but I really missed the little aspects that I never considered before, stuff like being able to operate easily without a vehicle or not being beholden to your job in so many ways. I also had a bad experience with a gun I don't think I would have gotten elsewhere. Australia was the best but living up north in Queensland had a lot of the same problems that America had in terms of infrastructure and gently caress me, you really got acquainted with Australia's painfully obvious racism problems there. Melbourne is very nice though. Point is, Ireland's not bad at all on the whole, even if the politicians are chancers I always get the feeling there's a greater understanding that certain aspects of the welfare state aren't to be touched than in other parts of the Anglosophere.
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Bryter posted:The British commentariat are taking the election results well gently caress me, I hope the UK fractures into fifty nations while I'm still alive.
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Kurtofan posted:whats the penalty for blasphemy Damning your immortal soul to the fires of hell.
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I want to get something off my chest, god I loving hate this country and its pathetic kowtowing tax policies towards giant multinationals. And I most of all hate the way other Irish people think its some genius national policy to make the country the Cayman Islands of Western Europe, on reddit some guy said this to me: 'Im irish and i think its genius, as my moderately well paying job at a multinational underlines'. The worst part is the way that the government and people who support this kind of thing keep on trotting out the insipid rhetoric of 'Poor little Ireland must protect it sovereignty from the mean ol' EU and fight for its right to allow gigantic faceless megacorps to give loving nothing back to society because they grease the hands of the right people and everyone else believes the dumb propaganda, just as James Connolly envisioned :cryingGuinnesspint:'. I hate that whinging nationalist bullshit enough already and seeing it being exploited to suck the dick of international capital is beyond pathetic, what the gently caress's the point of being independent if noone in this country has enough dignity to hold such forces to any sort of accountability?
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Oct 1, 2017 12:34
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Ora Tzo posted:Just wondering about how the environment was surrounding your marriage referendum? I don't remember it being particularly negative. The worst stuff I'd hear from people like my dad, who in principle had no problem with gay marriage, complain that the campaign was being hijacked by Sinn Fein (yes, before anyone says anything I heard a lot about "those murdering bastards!" when I was growing up). I believe only one county overall voted against it. The Abortion referendum will be far more divisive.
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Yanis Varoufakis weighs in on Ireland. This resulted in lots of salty comments on Reddit about poor little Ireland being bullied about being a Neoliberal money pit.
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