Your concern for @Locke is touching. He’s a hoor to traverse terrain though, you could do worse than lease another Berlingo and appoint him Regional Manager for Munster in Juhniallio Enterprises.
He’s well able to adjust the Power Rankings to suit the area of a Monday morning….#adapting
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Cheasty:
In the US I could think of a good few charlatans who identify as “left” and have reasonable followings and serve as subtle chaos agents, but none of them are mainstream figures in the way right-wing demagogues are.
All them are pro-Russia.
Krystal Ball
I wouldn’t count any of the above as good faith operators, they’re chaos agents, fakes, deplorables.
In the UK you have some very mildly prominent media figures of varying toxicity on the left, but none have a serious following.
The “leader” of what would be broadly termed “the online left” in the UK is Gary Lineker, who has assumed that position because everybody knows him and he’s spent six or seven years putting out tweets which effectively say nothing much more controversial than “let’s be nice to other people”. As soon as he got in any more interesting than that, the UK Government tried to cancel him.
Cosgrave is aiming at an Irish version of the market those US figures are aiming at.
The likes of Art Foley, who believe in nothing but want “the system” to crash and burn, and the world to burn, effectively. Cosgrave is appealing to nihilists.
A real who’s who of bogey men on the jimmy dore show tonight
Irish twitter is a nawful place.
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Micheal is still seething that Robert Troy’s and Damien English’s corruption was exposed by the ditch. He only wants to allow journalism that is nice to ffg.
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Tim_Riggins:
That will make his day.
The starting point for any discussion about Cosgrave is his ego. Mostly he just wants attention.
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The establishment are sick twisted bastards. Paddy’s family don’t deserve this.
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Cheasty
April 27, 2023, 2:09pm
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Paddy Cosplay seems to have decided to model himself on Marcus Sweeney.
As someone says in the comments, have we our own budding John McAfee before us?
neilld
April 27, 2023, 3:09pm
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McAfee had a bit of talent though
It would seem Paddy is in Rio on an important business trip, but is spending his entire time furiously tweeting
Sounds like a productive trip
Could be interviewing Ewan for a job at The Ditch
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Cheasty
April 27, 2023, 3:33pm
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tallback:
It would seem Paddy is in Rio on an important business trip, but is spending his entire time furiously tweeting
Sounds like a productive trip
Somebody told him Amazon wanted to buy Web Summit so Paddy immediately legged it to Brazil.
What’s the Ditch, I’m guessing it’s a Gript style news website? There must be great demand for headbanger news
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Gman
April 27, 2023, 3:46pm
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where is the compulsive liars thread when you need it?
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