Well, Dublin is burning

[Cheetodust]

After an incredibly tragic knife attack at a school where 3 children and 2 adults were injured, anti-immigrant rioters have proceeded to assault police, destroy businesses, burn out police cars and public transport. All less than 24 hours after Conor McGregor tweeted that "we are at war".

Recently there was a violent riot outside of Leinster House.

Honestly I am very fucking nervous. A lot of my friends and family live near the areas the riots are happening in. And I'm disgusted. For years now vile men like Justin Barrett have been using a handful of violent attacks carried out by migrants to whip up hatred, saying our streets aren't safe. Silent on all of the violent crime carried out by our own, silent on tourists who have been violently assaulted by native Dubliners. And now these fucking scumbags are destroying our capital city while saying it's the foreigners we should be afraid of. Also, to be completely clear, the attacker may or may not have been a migrant. Nothing official has been released yet. But even if he is the amount of publicity and screen time given to attacks carried out by foreign nationals absolutely dwarfs the amount of coverage of the regular violent attacks carried out by Irish citizens all the fucking time.

 

[Eacaraxe]

Don't you just love it when corrupt idiot politicians and public figures divert blame onto immigrants, for the massive economic clusterfucks they caused and the severe austerity policies "justified" by it?

Lest we forget people are pissed, have been pissed for a very long time, and are right to be pissed -- but placing blame where it isn't due.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Don't you just love it when corrupt idiot politicians and public figures divert blame onto immigrants, for the massive economic clusterfucks they caused and the severe austerity policies "justified" by it?

Hey, if it's guaranteed to work, and there's no consequences for you that you can't ignore (for the time being), why not? Sure, maybe a few years down the road fascists are in power, but you still get to sit around and ask "How did this happen?" instead of taking any blame.

People in Athens some 2,300 years ago were saying similar things about the metics, non-citizen residents.

 

[Eacaraxe]

Hey, if it's guaranteed to work, and there's no consequences for you that you can't ignore (for the time being), why not?

Well, on one hand, I get it. Exploiting economic southern labor pools to suppress economic northern wage growth is a ************. But, that's not immigrants' fault but rather multinational corporations -- and the politicians they bribe to perpetuate human trafficking by any other name. It's just insanely easy to redirect blue collar workers' frustrations to immigrants and refugees to prevent solidarity, and let populists devour their own infighting over identity political issues.

 

[Gergar12]

Calm restored to Dublin streets after 34 arrested for riots

Calm was restored to the streets of central Dublin on Friday night amid a heavy police presence after 34 people were arrested following rioting the previous night that was triggered by the stabbing of three young children in the street.

www.reuters.com

Man found guilty of murdering Ashling Murphy in case that shocked Ireland

Jozef Puska faces mandatory life sentence over January 2022 killing of 23-year-old teacher

www.theguardian.com

Uh, oh Farage is going to have a field day with this.

 

[Cheetodust]

Conor McGregor has already been using the Ashling Murphy case to whip people into a fury. Posting about how we're at war. Encouraging the behaviour on Thursday and then, presumably after a call from his solicitor, quickly disavowing the riots on twitter yesterday.

Calm restored to Dublin streets after 34 arrested for riots

Calm was restored to the streets of central Dublin on Friday night amid a heavy police presence after 34 people were arrested following rioting the previous night that was triggered by the stabbing of three young children in the street.

www.reuters.com

Man found guilty of murdering Ashling Murphy in case that shocked Ireland

Jozef Puska faces mandatory life sentence over January 2022 killing of 23-year-old teacher

www.theguardian.com

Uh, oh Farage is going to have a field day with this.

Farage can go fuck himself. But the association between far right "nationalists" and people like Tommy Robinson and Farage who have shown open contempt for the Irish really demonstrates how little they actually give a fuck about nationalism. The fact that hardly any of them can string together a cúpla focail beyond asking if they can use the bathroom, are openly opposed to a united Ireland and openly denigrate Irish sports and culture makes it very clear when they say "Irish" they just mean white.

 

[Cheetodust]

Aaand after many incredibly racist whatsapp/telegram groups have been made public of course the people involved are now claiming that it was all a false flag orchestrated by leftist groups to make them look bad. Sorry guys, but I fucking hate that America has completely poisoned discourse

 

[Gordon_4]

the people involved are now claiming that it was all a false flag orchestrated by leftist groups to make them look bad.

Oh like they need our help to do that.

 

[Ag3ma]

Farage can go fuck himself. But the association between far right "nationalists" and people like Tommy Robinson and Farage who have shown open contempt for the Irish really demonstrates how little they actually give a fuck about nationalism.

There is always an irony of global nationalists encouraging and celebrating each others' successes despite the fact that they all turn on each other like rats in a bag when they take power. After all, that's what their brand of nationalism is: I got mine, fuck you; and if I don't got mine, I'm attacking you.

 

[Cheetodust]

There is always an irony of global nationalists encouraging and celebrating each others' successes despite the fact that they all turn on each other like rats in a bag when they take power. After all, that's what their brand of nationalism is: I got mine, fuck you; and if I don't got mine, I'm attacking you.

There is a particular irony with Irish nationalists associating with British nationalists of all people.