Brickbat: Stoking Eire

In Ireland, Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan recently warned against flying the Irish flag as a means of intimidating migrants or "to suggest that this is exclusively an areas that belongs to indigenous Irish people." At the same time, the Dublin City Council is seeking help from the national police after complaints about flying the flag in public spaces.

Comments

[Vernon Depner]

Has there been any scholarly research about why Western Europe has a death wish?

[Mickey Rat]

You can look into Thomas Sowell and Douglas Murray.

[charliehall]

Homicide rates in most of Western Europe are a small fraction of what they are in the US. It isn't Western Europe that has the death wish.

[Rossami]

Way to not understand the comment.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Some people are deliberately retarded.

[Wizzle Bizzle]

Reluctantly but strategically retarded.

[Trollificus]

That's unrational. How the fuck do you conflate disintegration of a nation-state with individual homicides? Is it beyond your understanding that these are two very different things, or is your incomprehension feigned for the purpose of making a weak argument?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Self hate (or at least hate for some delusional vision of personal heritage) is the cool thing for progressives. My guess is a combination of Marxist indoctrination and daddy issues.

[Rick James]

Yes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ireland has a rich history of not standing up to the antisemites.

[charliehall]

Actually Ireland has had almost no history of anti-Semitism. Its one "pogrom" cost the lives of zero Jews.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Woosh!

[Rick James]

Well, except for that part where IRA officials literally cavorted around with Nazis.

[Seamus]

Right. That's why they elected Robert Briscoe as Lord Mayor of Dublin.

[Mickey Rat]

A further sign that the governing class hates the indigenous population of their countries and would rather ignore the problems of having to integrate immigrants from cultures with wildly divergent mores from the native population.

[Jerry B.]

You think that the governments there are trying to integrate immigrants? Well bless your heart.

[Mickey Rat]

Not really, but noticing such things gets you labeled "racist" and "fascist".

[Chumby]

The only Irish that seem to support that cuck view are Patrick Fitzmichael and Michael Fitzpatrick.

[SQRLSY]

Well, there's also Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick. Butt shit is nothing to go into fitz about; shit all fitz together rather swell!

The Germans have their ways ass well... Twat we call "Vaseline", they call "Veiner-Schlider"!

[Kungpowderfinger]

A Irishman man walks into a bar early in the afternoon in Cork and sits down next to another patron, who is quite drunk already.
“Me friend, look alive. Let me get you a pint. What are you having?” asks the first.
“Argh, Guinness if you please” says the other man.
“Ahh, Guinness, me favorite! Barman, bring us two Guinnesses!” says the first man.

The two men have their pints, and the first asks the other, “So where are ye from, me friend?”
The second replies “Why I’m from Clonakilty”.
“Clonakilty? That’s where I’m from! Barman, more Guineness!”.

Now the two have a grand old time, and are getting down to some serious day drinking. The first man then asks the second “So now tell me, where did you attend college?”.
“Why, St Francis Reformatory” replies the second.
“St Fran’s, that’s where I went my boy!” yells the first, “Barman! This calls for whiskey, bring us our Powers!”.

The boys are really starting to get steamed, having a great time. One of the other patrons at the bar asks the bartender, “What’s up with these two?”.

The bartender says “Ah, the O’ Malley twins are just getting drunk again”

[charliehall]

Ireland has almost no government run public k-12 schools. They are almost all run by religious groups, and generously funded by the government. 88% of the schools are Catholic. There are a number of Protestant schools, a few Muslim schools, and one Jewish school. Libertarian heaven.

[Chumby]

…and generously funded by the government.

NOT libertarian.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Charlie isn’t very bright.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

I used to think "Queers for Palestine" was just about the most absurd self-delusion hypocritical concept I had ever heard.

Then I got wind of Britain making it a hate crime punishable by jail to fly the national flag, while protecting illegal immigrants flying their home country flags.

And now it's spread to Ireland, who theoretically at least hate and despise the British.

It's a mad mad mad mad world.

[Neutral not Neutered]

I fly a flag, how can someone say why I am and be able to stop me?

I fly my flag for love of country. Reason enough?

[Trollificus]

Well that just won't do, as it makes their new uninvited neighbors feel uncomfortable. Though this discomfort is entirely irrational and unjustified. YOUR discomfort is disregarded, see? THEIR discomfort must be respected, or racism.

[Uncle Jay]

Q: What is the most common name for new born males in Ireland?
A: If you guessed Mohammad, then you get what's behind door number three.

[Groovus Maximus]

Hmmm, definitely a case of, "Erin go Bragh-less," here...

And so it goes....

[MatthewSlyfield]

"to suggest that this is exclusively an areas that belongs to indigenous Irish people."
Which is exactly what it should be.

[Uncle Jay]

"In Ireland, Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan recently warned against flying the Irish flag as a means of intimidating migrants or "to suggest that this is exclusively an areas that belongs to indigenous Irish people."

Now flying the Irish flag in Ireland is considered politically incorrect because it might offend an invader.
Who says fascism is dead in Europe?

[BYODB]

AHAHAHAHA fucking Ireland of all places.

The island that has just about never won a war, and been subjugated by nearly every foreign army that ever crossed over into their territory, is now bending over for yet another group of foreigners.

Color me shocked.

And yeah, I'm well aware that part of Ireland 'won' their independence from Britain. That's one of the few they 'won', but only by ceding half the island. That cold war is still going on today, too, by the way. Hilarious.

[AT]

Prime Minister Conor McGregor.

[Chumby]

Think he had a puncher’s chance?

[AT]

Only if he gets in the ring and starts throwing haymakers.