So lads.
Is it warm up north?
I think @Sidney has really upped his game here. He’s stepped away from the massively long posts that no one could be arsed reading and that reeked of a poster on full tilt and instead has calmly and snappily laid out his arguments. Kudos.
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Ive been disappointed in sid lately. He’s lack of passion towards the recent lakeside championship was very unlike him.
Since @Sidney is incapable of dazzling with diamonds he opts to baffle with bullshit. A couple of cheerleaders here ought to know better.
Snow there 2day .
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I would like to see a united Ireland.
However, I suspect my vision for a united Ireland would be rather different from the vision for a united Ireland that a lot of people here have, which, to me, seems to be based on a sort of ethno-nationalist “stick it right up 'em” quasi-revenge mindset.
For instance, I couldn’t give a shit what the flag is, I couldn’t give a shit what the anthem is, and I’d have no problem essentially just reversing the roles of Ireland and Britain from the current situation.
I would consider myself an Irish republican, but not an Irish nationalist.
Those two terms really should be swapped, as they make no sense in the current widely used definitions of the terms. Irish nationalists in the commonly used sense of the term nowadays are really Irish republicans, and vice versa.
Regarding a hypothetical future border poll, I’d be happy to wait a bit before it’s held, at least until there’s a situation where opinion polls consistently show a unification vote will pass and everybody has time to come to terms with the inevitability of the situation. That may or may not be during my natural lifespan.
A 50% +1 vote in favour of unification would be a terrible outcome as it would likely precipate a return to violence. The Good Friday agreement was a great thing, but it did store up a bit of a time bomb in terms of a future border poll and the tensions which could potentially spill over from such.
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I dream of an economically socialist, socially conservative Catholic Ireland.
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What a pencil necked servile lackey of a lickspittle. You’re like some unloved offspring fathered by Ruth dudley edwards and mothered by eoghan Harris.
Thankfully there’s a dwindling number like you mate, religion and socialism are insane ideologies that have had their day.
Another comment befitting of an eejit at pub closing time.
Thankfully?
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Yes, humans need to continue to evolve past insane ideologies, whether dreamed up by sheepherders on acid thousands of years ago, or people who still think it’s 1850.
Of all the posters here who exhibit a “religious zeal”, by far the worst and most inflexible and dogmatic (except when you contradict yourself, which is very frequently) is yourself.
I suppose it’s no surprise that your ideas are most fervently held by evangelical “Christians”.
I am the most rational poster on here by a country mile mate.
You are very intolerant of those with religious beliefs.
Your reply is absolutely consistent with your comments on Politics.ie that I linked to.
You are clearly a united Ireland absolutist.
United Ireland absolutists have no problem with an immediate war of extermination against Protestants and Unionists.
Because anything short of that necessitates a “however”.
Thankfully, there are pretty much none of such people in existence.
However, we look to have found one in yourself.
I’m not, I fully respect people’s right to hold religious beliefs as individuals. It is the concept, which you support, of imposing those beliefs on others I object to. That’s why I am so opposed to Islam, as in most Muslim majority countries their beliefs are imposed on everyone, and there is zero tolerance for any opposing views.
You’ve just completely contradicted yourself within three sentences.
Why weren’t Protestants exterminated during the troubles then, if there are so many of these absolutists about?