https://x.com/rtenews/status/1725955758070616092?s=46
Watch the comments underneath this. So sad what Ireland is becoming.
Twitter ≠ Ireland
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Using innocent children to spew their hate, thats fairly twisted even for the far right headbangers
Tone, Childers, McCracken, Parnell. All celebrated by Sinn Fein. All Protestant or Presbyterian. Sean Mac Stiofain, chief of staff of the Provisionals, a protestant. Don’t get lost in Thatcher’s crazy Irish catholics fighting crazy Irish protestants narrative, you’re smarter than that.
The absolute worst thing Sinn Fein could do is go in with FF. FF would tank the economy as usual on their own, and SF are aware enough that they’d be made take the fall for it. I believe there’s a contingent of people in Ireland who’d love to see SF fail no matter what, and I really can’t fathom where their minds are going to go if they go in without FFG and it ends up being a success.
Scary piece on Rte today about the far right take over in Ireland.
https://x.com/BBCArchive/status/1726510691182338440?s=20
A lot of highly intelligent Irish people in this clip, running rings around the interviewer.
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The last fella with the issue of a ‘moral debt’ fairly floored that interviewer I’d say
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Yes. And the first Irish man to speak, even just by his vocabulary, was exceptionally bright and nuanced.
Before Donagh O’Malley pioneered free secondary level education in the mid 1960s, many of Ireland’s brightest and potentially best had to take the boat. A lot of them drank out of frustration. Meanwhile, back at home, the thickest of the thick, so long as from a certain background, did fine and better than fine.
Fine Gael and elements in Fianna Fáil, supported by many of the Catholic Church’s top brass, vehemently opposed the free education initiative. To his eternal credit, DO’M, a Clongowes alumnus, outwitted and outflanked this opposition. He remains the Irish politician I most admire. He had the courage both to realize that all many people want is an opportunity and to accept that this granting of opportunity would undermine his own caste’s preeminence (and ultimately the hold of authoritarian Catholicism). This reality was what terrified, at the time, the more thoughtful right wingers.
There is a reason why many members of my parents’ generation detest Fine Gael. During the 1960s, Fine Gael wanted everyone to stay in their established place, nice and quiet. Tom Garvin’s Preventing the Future: Why Was Ireland So Poor for So Long? (2004) was an eyeopener. But I already knew, long since, the truth of his case.
The manner in which scumbags such as Derek Blighe have been psychically colonized by neo Imperial mindsets makes for cold amusement. For the Irish gene pool, it was a tragedy that most of those Irish people interviewed in that early 1960s BBC report did not get to have children in Ireland.
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All very articulate and insightful. In a time when you had to seek out information and knowledge from books and radio and newspapers.
1961 was when Ireland was emptied out. Our lowest ever recorded population 2.8 million.
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Ireland was a great country back then, no foreigners
Would you be of the belief that the lower social classes in Ireland today are genetically inferior in terms of intelligence?
A lot of people who went to London came back in the seventies as things had got a bit better. Population by mid 70s was about 3.2m.
I’ve posted before about it. My folks went to London. Most of my mothers’ family went to America. America was seen, she said, as a better and less rough place to go than England.
How happy is the moron,
He doesn’t give a damn.
I wish I were a moron,
By God, perhaps I am.
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“we redistribute the money to help the poor”
“how does that help the poor on less than 50k”
Great post @Malarkey
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Yeah I spoke too soon on that. Definitely happening again today. First time it’s happened whilst I’m here in a few months
No. Not in the slightest. A repulsive belief, both factually and spiritually.
Some of the smartest people around are born into the so called underclass and become, like Curtis Warren, an initially successfully criminal. Some of the most sociopathic people around come from the upper (middle) class and make highly successful corporate executives – a phenomenon well established. Or highly successful politicians. I give you Boris Johnson, today exposed for being unable to grasp the difference between simultaneity and sequentiality.
If you know anything about genetics, you will know that the further apart two genetic lineages are, with the exception of thoroughbred horses, the greater the chance of exceptional offspring. Lay person’s terms, the key dynamic is breeding out of a narrow pool. Non mingling of the different social classes is a hinderance is many ways and not least in genetic terms. Anyone of my age or so from rural Ireland will likely recall the fact of a line dying out in a local farm being explained in these terms by your elders: ‘Sure, there was no one good enough to marry any of them…’
The colloquial truth of this genetic reality can be seen in the entertainment and the modelling industries. An extraordinary (and statistically disproportionate) amount of Irish people considered exceptionally goodlooking and attractive are of mixed blood. Staying close to home, you could instance Nadia Forde (half Italian, half Irish), Aisling Franciosi (half Italian, half Irish), Ruth Negga (half Ethiopian, half Irish), Andrea Roche (quarter Indian, three quarters Irish) and Georgia Salpa (half Greek, half Irish). Further afield, you could instance Helena Christensen (half Danish, half Peruvian) and Myleene Klass (half Austrian, half Filipino), There are loads more examples – to a completely disproportionate extent in quantitative terms.
The dynamic is not merely looks orientated. I have also noticed over the years that a high proportion of the young lads who become a King’s Scholar at Eton or a Scholar at Winchester are from a similarly mixed background. Boris Johnson’s mixed ethnic makeup, himself a King’s Scholar at Eton, would be a perfect case in point.
So I believe class has scarce little to do with intelligence and potential. Stupidity is caused by stupidity – but bad decisions are not just made, and bad things are not just done, because of stupidity.
I will leave you with two poems. Bernard O’Donoghue’s ‘Gerund’:
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