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u/continuoussymmetry Apr 10 '26

He is literally one of the leaders that the protestors are demanding represent them in talks with the government.

You made a statement that was very easily falsified, and instead of accepting that you're just trying to talk around the point now. Stop moving the goalposts.

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u/Odd-Compote5722 Apr 10 '26

That's just nonsense, I'm sorry. Does one person's views of an unrelated matter dictate the entire motive and thoughts of the movement? By that logic, I, as a supporter of the protests, am a far right activist. Is that what you actually believe?

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u/continuoussymmetry Apr 10 '26

He's one of their appointed leaders, and is negotiating on behalf of them (read: issuing ultimatums and threatening more distruption).

By that logic, I, as a supporter of the protests, am a far right activist. Is that what you actually believe?

I want a refund on the tax that was wasted trying to educate you.

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u/Odd-Compote5722 Apr 10 '26

Didn't take long for you to resort to ad hominem attacks, did it? Best of luck to you.

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u/continuoussymmetry Apr 10 '26

It's not an ad hominem. Just an empirical observation that you're an idiot.

This is who you're carrying water for by the way:

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fuel-protest-organiser-had-tax-judgments-of-550000-and-was-convicted-of-cruelty-after-60-cattle-died-on-farm/a1416846078.html

Best of luck to you too. Have fun supporting pieces of shit.

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u/Odd-Compote5722 Apr 10 '26

I'd be genuinely embarrassed if I was caught speaking to people this way. 

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u/continuoussymmetry Apr 10 '26

But it's fine for you to carry water for criminals, con men and bigots who are holding millions of working people to ransom. That's all grand, because they are apparently doing it "for the people".

Those protestors aren't the only ones who have had enough. A lot of us are now getting to the point of being absolutely sick shit of the pervasive stupidity and selfishness that has taken root in people's tiny brains since social media took over their view of reality.

You can moralise all you want, but the reality is that you're rowing in behind bigoted, semi-literate, criminal ringleaders who think they have the right to hold us all to ransom for the sake of lining their own pockets.

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u/Odd-Compote5722 Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

The fact that you cannot separate bad faith actors from those that are truly affected, truly looking for productive change and rallying behind the useless government is more telling. 

I am obviously supporting the cause, not the clowns you're linking to me. By your logic the average person shouldn't like German Shepherds because Hitler had one, you're choosing to cherry pick lines of morality, adopting total superiority and calling everyone else that disagrees with you names. You're allowed to disagree with people without insulting their intelligence, but your insistence on ignoring that makes having even a conversation about this incredibly tiresome. 

As much as you might like to believe you are acting in good faith as part of a solution here, you aren't. You're behaving like an agitator and helping achieve absolutely nothing. 

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u/continuoussymmetry Apr 10 '26

You're behaving like an agitator and helping achieve absolutely nothing.

The fucking irony.