The Irish Republic, where people of all creeds and beliefs, can make their political points without hindrance or fear.
(Unless of course it is the Love Ulster crowd and they run into a mob of drunken Celtic supporters. But Iām sure this Orange Order crowd calculated that theyād be safe enough in leafy Dublin 4 on a wet Sunday morning before the pubs opened).
Somewhat disappointed that @Tim_Riggins couldnāt have tucked in his shirt for the day that was in it.
Shaaaaarp
Just saw a little nerd wearing one in the halls of Mary Immaculate Collegeā¦ Iāve no picture to verify
was it henry martin
Henry is dead to me.
Did you put your head down and resumed mopping?
Is that an attempt at humour? You huns are as unimaginative in those stakes as you are in commemerating your dead.
Presumably if itās alright for a person in the UK not to wear a poppy for whatever reason as an expression of free-will and as a stand against poppy fascism then the reverse applies here i.e. if a person wants to wear one they should be allowed to?
If they are happy fuelling the militaristic nationalism that goes with it and brain washing another generation that war and death is ok and in doing so spitting on the graves of those poor cunts sent off to die in WW1 and WW2 then that is their choice, yes. I donāt see why someone in Ireland would want to fund the British legion tho.
Slagging off Poppy facism works only one way with these boys
Isnāt there a wreath usually laid in Pery Square?
There is, pal.
A flawed analogy. The correct comparison is would it be allowed on the mainland UK for the descendants of Nazi sympathizers,(and there are plenty of them, including most of the royal family) to wear the swastika. It wouldnāt as it would be regarded as a hate crime or at the very least an incitement to violence. The same should be true of poppy wearing in Ireland, it is an affront to the dignity of any Irish person with the capacity to think for themselves rather than behaving like sheep. Walking around wearing poppies in a country where hundreds of thousands are buried in mass graves when the cunts they are remembering with their poppy not just facilitated but enforced the horrendous deaths these misfortunes endured. Lock the fuckers up and starve them for a few weeks and see how devoted they are to the symbol of genocide.
But individuals are entirely free to be poppy fascists if they so wish.
I despise the red poppy, but Iād defend to the e-death your right to wear it and your right to call me a barstool Republican bonehead for despising it, as well as, of course, my right to call you a soup taking, quisling shit for wearing one.
Nazis. Really?
Are your sure you didnāt want to start off your point with āThe Oxford English Dictionary defines poppies as ā¦ā
I agree with that but lads on here on the one hand are criticising the overzealous policing of the poppy fad whilst on the other giving blow by blow accounts of people wearing them or not on the tv.
Yerra let them at it. I have no problem with this. Theyāre not causing any trouble in this particular instance. Their colour is on our flag too.
Is there a specific time period over which this ostentatious display of brit fuelled nationalism takes place? It seems to take up months of the year now and getting longer with each passing year. Itās an unmerciful pain in the fucking hole. People wear them here in Aus, but thereās nothing like the poppy facism that seems to be prevalent in Britain.
Does it all end on November 12th and everyone fucks them in the bin, to go off and find some other minority to oppress?
