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gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Greens will probably never break the Top 10 in my vote preference ever again. A party of bourgeois NIMBY cranks with no serious commitment to match the scale of what we're up against. If you wanna go Green, go Red

This is the same everywhere, green parties in general exist to sap energy from people tempted to go left due to them being a little less "let's destroy the planet as quickly as possible".

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gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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How on earth do you end up worse than england on trans healthcare, seriously
https://gcn.ie/trans-healthcare-ireland-national-emergency/

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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https://twitter.com/danobrien20/status/1452203547752284160

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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It's so weird that the Irish treat covid like a bad thing and don't want lots of people to die as the UK is very aptly demonstrating is the superior way, just what on earth is going on?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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I'm a british refugee living here about 4 months now, is there any leftish news media that's not completely captured by neolibs that people would recommend?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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A strong endorsement, thank you.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Blut posted:

A shocking amount of leading Irish journalists literally have FF&FG TDs in their immediate families. Hugh O'Connell, the Indo's leading political analyst for example is married to Kate O'Connell of FG's sister (and parliamentary assistant). Ryan Tubridy is the paternal grandson of FF TD Seán Tubridy. His maternal grandfather was one of DeV's close associates. He has two uncles, and two first cousins, who were FF TDs. etc

The social linkage is endemic. Its a big reason why RTE, the Indo and the Irish Times are all so completely in line with establishment views at all times. Even aside from government pressure, or leverage of advertising budgets, the journos just aren't ever going to write hit pieces about their friends and family members.

Is there a non-paywalled version of this anywhere? I'd be curious to see his argument.

Oh believe me I am familiar with this problem.

And I can't find one, even on the wayback machine, but it is only 50 cents for 1 week, but also gently caress 'em so I'm certainly not going to pay it.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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I just got my PPS number after a month and a half since starting the new job. My brothers are waiting months and months for their FBRs. Mine wasn't too bad but I sent it off the day of the brexit vote and seemed to have gotten in before the rush.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Do note that if you're aiming for Ireland itself you can still move/get a job/whatever without your FBR being completed. Irish citizenship is irrelevant for all that, just UK is fine.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Have they said it's airborne yet?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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at least people here are still 99% wearing masks in shops, every time I go back to the uk mask wearing is down to like 30% or something poo poo

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Southpaugh posted:

When we're totting things up in a couple of years I think there'll be a bit of this

Good.

If only voters could consistently perform this calculation too

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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https://twitter.com/Toibin1/status/1465393582676791316?s=20

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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PowerBeard posted:

The new restrictions feel way too late, especially for theatres.

I see one person disagrees
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1466844984804528131
https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1466844422994341894

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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It was him saying something along the lines of "cases going up despite this Vax % what a joke now the EU wants to do more mandates the money train has to stop at the red Irish wall" and "it's time to think about Ireland leaving the EU"
They weren't very coherent and because I'm not Irish (in every sense other than legally) I didn't really get the expression about the red wall either. Is that a common phrase?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Marenghi posted:

It seems like Martin is going to successfully blame Omicon for his inept handling of covid.

Cases were already on an upswing coming into the bank holiday weekend, schools were having cases since term started and they stopped contact tracing to hide that.
Everything was going the wrong way and we would have had to roll back openings anyway, Omicon just forced their hand and gave them something to blame and media are buying that.

https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1467455301020487680?s=20

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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As far as I can tell the only people actually pushing Irexit are literal Tories in England who are very annoyed that the EU is protecting Ireland from them

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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I mean we've all had this conversation a thousand times on the other side of the Irish sea. The EU really loving sucks as a neolib power enforcer and actively punishes any attempt at any of its members being slightly too socialist as well as completely locking them out of any internal governance. If any country was leaving in order to be more left, then great. However wouldn't you know it but none of the people discussing leaving have that plan.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Arquinsiel posted:

A left-wing coalition might work if anyone can stomach Labour long enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkY88kvkdvU

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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The Question IRL posted:

After Alan Kelly's speeches about how "they will go through the middle" it's very obvious what sort of party they are with him in charge.

Let's just check how well this is working out for Kier's labour again,

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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the north is still over 40s only, and here is still over 50s, (with exceptions for vulnerable people/healthcare workers ofc) it's only england itself that's gone to over 18s at walk-ins. as far as I can tell wales isn't doing walk-ins at all. not quite at the state where I'd fly just to get it. oh well.

e: could drive through wales and make a day of it I suppose if I get really desperate, it's at least much safer

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1470123702364913673

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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hmm it's almost as if the suffering of mental health over the last 2 years has more to do with a massive loving pandemic killing lots of people than measures to combat it

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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kustomkarkommando posted:

Just back from getting booster in Derry and the big vaccination centre was practically empty, in and out in about 5 minutes. Not sure if there's just low walk-in volume cause people think it will be packed out because the appointments are all gone, or just because Sunday lunchtime isn't exactly peak hours.

Up North we just extended the walk-in system to anyone over the age of 18 as well as of like lunchtime today.

Believe me I'd be there if they'd let me

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1472571955886931972

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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I phoned my gp and they were running a walk-in, neither them or HSE contacted me but I'm in 30-40 so I wouldn't have expected it from HSE yet

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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hmm what proportion is 3% of 10% again and is it more or less than 20% of 100% somebody help me I don't have a big journo brain

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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it's the season

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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That sounds super rough

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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Hmm maybe I should have thought about getting some snow tires at some point. This is like the 1 week of the summer where everybody says "hmm maybe I should have thought about finally getting AC"

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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it's starting to come down properly now

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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East Kildare

My camera is shite but they're really thick flakes and here's me still needing to fetch some firewood.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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thanks they're plastic

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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christ how are things more hosed than england here


turns out the virus can reproduce before 8pm after all

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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https://twitter.com/1Hildegarde/status/1480966224603672578

the massive lorries all going through the center of towns is definitely the worst part of my experience moving to Ireland, I can take or leave the private bins in comparison

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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sounds a lot like the Jed Foster case, cops just rolling up on the nearest convenient minority petty criminal and making sure his face was in all the papers to look like they're doing something
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/19/charges-dropped-against-man-accused-of-pc-andrew-harper
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/25/man-wrongly-detained-over-of-pc-harper-to-sue-police

gonadic io fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Jan 14, 2022

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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there's the lady that spends her time screaming at people in central dublin for sinning

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

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OwlFancier posted:

Also wouldn't... wouldn't quite a lot of the people moving to Ireland in 2019 be... brits? Who are presumably leaving the other horrible north atlantic island where nothing works and you can't afford a house?

can confirm. also planning on buying here, sorry.

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