Tensions and dissatisfaction have been building all over the country over the last year [primarily among people outside the state apparatus] over these disastrous policies.
A Roma gypsy was convicted last week of murdering an Irish woman in broad daylight in a small town in the Midlands, so emotions were already running high. Ireland is a still a small country with a historically low murder rate so incidents like these tend to capture the nation's attention.
People have always grumbled about the hypocrisy and self serving nature of the political class in Ireland, but between this, covid policy, one of the worst housing markets in Europe, climate policies negatively affecting the farming sector, and a dysfunctional health service, more people are starting to see the state as actively hostile to its native citizens and their reasonable concerns for the future.
The bizarre aspect of it is the Irish state's political formula is still rooted in an ethno-nationalist revolution against the Britain Empire in 1916, and people of all ages and social backgrounds still unapologetically sing songs about those times, but government policy bears no relation to this whatsoever.
Also, Ireland never had colonies so the post colonial arguments for replacement migration make no sense either. It usually defaults to "we need more labour to keep the line going up".
Anyway, everyone is mining this incident for political capital but this has never happened before in the history of the Irish state to my knowledge. It's sickening.
> The bizarre aspect of it is the Irish state's political formula is still rooted in an ethno-nationalist revolution against the Britain Empire in 1916, and people of all ages and social backgrounds still unapologetically sing songs about those times, but government policy bears no relation to this whatsoever.
Yes, I suspect part of Ireland's problem is that Irish identity is wrapped up in resisting British colonialism. Now that the British have been gone for over a century the Irish are faced with a Morton's fork identity crisis. They can double down on the traditional source of their Identity, which implies solidarity with other "victims of British Imperialism" or they can reject their traditional identity in which case they are left without one so the vacuum gets filled by whatever the fashionable international identity is.
There's an element of that, Ireland is probably the most pro- Palestinian cause country in Europe, some of it is the usual third-worldist signalling, and some of it is seeing analogies with the issues in the North. [The British aren't gone btw]
Ethnic cleansing and "settler-colonialism" was a thing in Ireland as well.
And said solidarity doesn't imply a position that Ireland should admit infinite Indians to the country.
Ireland benefited in many ways from the British Empire (and suffered too, as did the poor people in Britain itself)
That said, patriots of all our Nations will have to stand together or be crushed totally under the Globalist behemoth. Past conflicts have to remain in the past
TBH I had always assumed the shrill cries of "Trump will start WW3!" or "He'll be worse than Hitler!" was just a manipulation to make Democrats vote even harder, or to make partisan hacks feel not so bad when ballot box stuffing, signature forging etc.
Well said Prude.
Tensions and dissatisfaction have been building all over the country over the last year [primarily among people outside the state apparatus] over these disastrous policies.
A Roma gypsy was convicted last week of murdering an Irish woman in broad daylight in a small town in the Midlands, so emotions were already running high. Ireland is a still a small country with a historically low murder rate so incidents like these tend to capture the nation's attention.
People have always grumbled about the hypocrisy and self serving nature of the political class in Ireland, but between this, covid policy, one of the worst housing markets in Europe, climate policies negatively affecting the farming sector, and a dysfunctional health service, more people are starting to see the state as actively hostile to its native citizens and their reasonable concerns for the future.
The bizarre aspect of it is the Irish state's political formula is still rooted in an ethno-nationalist revolution against the Britain Empire in 1916, and people of all ages and social backgrounds still unapologetically sing songs about those times, but government policy bears no relation to this whatsoever.
Also, Ireland never had colonies so the post colonial arguments for replacement migration make no sense either. It usually defaults to "we need more labour to keep the line going up".
Anyway, everyone is mining this incident for political capital but this has never happened before in the history of the Irish state to my knowledge. It's sickening.
> The bizarre aspect of it is the Irish state's political formula is still rooted in an ethno-nationalist revolution against the Britain Empire in 1916, and people of all ages and social backgrounds still unapologetically sing songs about those times, but government policy bears no relation to this whatsoever.
Yes, I suspect part of Ireland's problem is that Irish identity is wrapped up in resisting British colonialism. Now that the British have been gone for over a century the Irish are faced with a Morton's fork identity crisis. They can double down on the traditional source of their Identity, which implies solidarity with other "victims of British Imperialism" or they can reject their traditional identity in which case they are left without one so the vacuum gets filled by whatever the fashionable international identity is.
There's an element of that, Ireland is probably the most pro- Palestinian cause country in Europe, some of it is the usual third-worldist signalling, and some of it is seeing analogies with the issues in the North. [The British aren't gone btw]
Ethnic cleansing and "settler-colonialism" was a thing in Ireland as well.
And said solidarity doesn't imply a position that Ireland should admit infinite Indians to the country.
Ireland benefited in many ways from the British Empire (and suffered too, as did the poor people in Britain itself)
That said, patriots of all our Nations will have to stand together or be crushed totally under the Globalist behemoth. Past conflicts have to remain in the past
> That said, patriots of all our Nations will have to stand together or be crushed totally under the Globalist behemoth.
How very Universalist of you.
Simple. No more brothers wars. The idea of Nations is anti globalist. Flag waving jingoism doesn’t help
> The idea of Nations is anti globalist. Flag waving jingoism doesn’t help
Read those two sentences again. See if you can spot the contradiction.
TBH I had always assumed the shrill cries of "Trump will start WW3!" or "He'll be worse than Hitler!" was just a manipulation to make Democrats vote even harder, or to make partisan hacks feel not so bad when ballot box stuffing, signature forging etc.
Feature, not a bug.
Making each conflict of democracy existential, all things from violence to rigging is justified.
Fences make good neighbours
Evil races attacking as always.
There is really no possible of friendship between the races.
Tell me if I got something wrong by the way.
very well put together
I discuss similar issues in my recent article
https://open.substack.com/pub/birbantum/p/the-vampiric-nation-state?r=36m69v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true
Political control is indeed the greatest threat to our people's.
Without it there would be no immigration and no barrier to securing the nation.
We must show the system to be entirely illegitimate. A foreign imposition managed by traitors and loyal servants of the banks.
Once nobody sees their laws and taxes as legitimate, mass noncompliance can take hold and the countdown till the end of the system begins.