this dude is the brains of the operation
https://twitter.com/randompadd80784/status/1730360629335056812
One of the TFK Awkward Squad?
This Colm Parkinson chap on the nose with his comments, thanks for posting mate
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The awkward squad get their opinions from America.
“Ireland is on the brink of civil war,” white nationalist Nick Fuentes declared Monday during his show on Rumble. “It’s going to be ugly.”
Ireland is not on the brink of a civil war, but riots did break out in Dublin last week following a stabbing outside a school that left three children and two adults hospitalized. Despite an unknown attack motive, the situation spiraled.
Ireland’s far-right community quickly claimed that this proved immigrants pose an inherent danger to Irish society: Within minutes of the stabbing, far-right Telegram channels lit up with questions about the attacker’s ethnicity. It was eventually reported that the attacker was a naturalized Irish citizen who came to Ireland from Algeria in 2003. Less than two hours later, well-known figures within the Irish far-right community were organizing their followers to meet up in Dublin’s city center that evening. The riots quickly turned violent with police cars, buses, and trams set on fire. Dozens of shops were looted, and a number of police officers were injured. In total, 34 people were arrested on November 23.
Ireland’s own far-right community, like the far-right in the US, has been fueling anti-immigrant sentiments in the country for years. And this dark international alliance of far-right, anti-asylum American and Irish influencers is unsurprising. During his show, Fuentes, the leader of the America First movement, said that Conor McGregor, an Irish MMA star who called for war in Ireland in response to a report that noncitizens could vote in Irish elections prior to last week’s Dublin riot, should “rise up.”
McGregor, Fuentes said, needed to “salvage the country because it’s either going to be the Irish or it’s going to be the blacks … only one side is going to come out of this alive.”
Some far-right influencers in the US have also pushed elements of the great replacement theory, a conspiracy claiming that a globalist elite is working with Western governments to force out native populations through immigration.
Tucker Carlson, who now broadcasts his show on X, told his millions of followers that “the Irish government is trying to replace the population of Ireland with people from the third world.”
Former White House adviser and 2020 election conspiracist Steve Bannon, who is currently strategizing for former US president Donald Trump, responded to Carlson by declaring: “Ireland is a powder keg.”
Meanwhile, Catturd, the hugely influential pro-Trump account on X run by Florida shitposter Phillip Buchanan, told his 2 million followers to make the hashtag #IrishLivesMatter trend—which many duly did.
Elon Musk, who this week told X advertisers to “go fuck yourself,” also weighed in, claiming on X that the Irish prime minister “hates the Irish people,” and agreeing with another far-right influencer who posted on X saying Ireland needed McGregor to run for office. “Not a bad idea,” Musk wrote in reply.
McGregor, who, just 24 hours before the riots broke out, posted “Ireland, we are at war” to his 10 million followers on X, has become a lightning rod for international and local far-right support. McGregor has not fought an MMA fight for more than two years and has since spent much of his time outside of Ireland, including in his home in Florida. His social media posts over the past year have become increasingly political and have been directly influenced by many of the same far–right figures who encouraged their followers to meet in the center of Dublin ahead of the riots. The Irish police are currently investigating the riots, and McGregor is one of many currently under investigation for alleged incitement to hatred.
In far-right Telegram channels, poorly-generated AI images of McGregor proliferated, showing him in various poses ranging from standing patriotically in front of a burning bus to debating in parliament, as well as ones of a bare-chested McGregor holding a rifle and leading a mob of similarly-armed Irishmen. “Rebellion 2023?” wrote the operator of the far-right Telegram channel who posted an image.
Some experts believe that all of the attention that US far-right figures are giving to Ireland’s far-right community is now emboldening Irish figures to continue pushing their rhetoric. “In Ireland, this international attention appears to have been largely welcomed by far-right communities here who see such attention and promotion of their cause as a positive, and are drawing on this attention as further support for their campaign to target asylum seekers and migrants based on lies and falsehoods,” Ciarán O’Connor, a senior analyst with the Institute of Strategic Dialogue think tank, tells WIRED.
Irish far-right influencer Keith O’Brien, who is known online as Keith Woods, has maintained relationships with the far right in the US. O’Brien has become a leading figure within the Irish far-right movement in recent years, and spoke at a notorious white supremacist conference in Tennessee this summer. Over the past 12 months, his profile has grown internationally too, thanks in large part to both Fuentes and Musk. Fuentes has hosted O’Brien on his online show several times, while Musk has responded directly to O’Brien on X, particularly around a new anti-hate-speech law that is set to come into force in Ireland soon.
O’Brien, who did not attend the riots in person, told his Telegram followers that they were the government’s fault. “They flooded our country with unsustainable levels of migrants, planted small communities with migrant centers, responded to legitimate concerns by labeling all opposition ‘far right,’ and passed the most draconian hate speech laws in the world to shut us up,” he wrote. “When you deny people an outlet to express concerns they know are reasonable, you make them desperate.”
While two of the children injured in the stabbing attack have been released from hospital, a 5-year-old girl is still there with critical injuries.
MHR is trying to make the point that people are concerned about asylum seekers arriving in ireland after passing though multiple other European countries and that they tend to lose documents when the plane lands on rte one now. He is quickly shot down and moved on from before he finishes
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There’s an Irish Twitter account which has posted the most ludicrous conspiracy theory about why Helen McEntee is trying to bring in hate speech legislation.
The person behind this account person was a nobody, but because of the ludicrous, hurtful, hate filled nature of their post, they have gathered considerable attention online. People have reacted to it. And because of this, now the person behind that Twitter account is a somebody. They have gained attention. Just by being a king sized fuckwit.
This is how the far right propaganda game works. Gain attention by saying hurtful, hateful shit. Engage in ludicrous conspiracy theorising. Gain followers, build profile. That’s how the world works now, sadly.
The name of the Cracker episodes with Albie Kinsella in them was “To Be A Somebody”. We have lots of mini-Albie Kinsellas in this country.
This looks very much like hate speech from the Marxist agitators. He is unhinged calling for a democratic nation to be torn down.
https://twitter.com/incmonocle/status/1731279109450355194?s=46&t=K27wQ5SlUD1o1nD3wyFPgA
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The filthy tramp should be jailed for that speech
https://twitter.com/davincentjames/status/1731401519508140234?t=nZugtWXjsvlDPBDWCNTSvQ&s=19
Jesus wept
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Isnt his family making money on this?
Is anyone else’s Twitter feed like 90% mental far right shit or have I just been clicking into too many of the lunatics posts to laugh at the comments
There was a lot of discussion about the far right at other voices this weekend in dingle.
We should be very worried about what these people are going to do to our country.
Yeah I get Bryson, Ben Scallan, Fatima Gunning, John McGuirk, Sharon Keogan etc. regularly appearing on the “For You” section. Ironically enough, I would also be viewing, not following, a lot of accounts sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but these don’t seem to be platformed to the same extent
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I’d say pretty much everybody’s is at this point. The way the internet works is people look at deliberately incendiary opinions and batshit crazy stuff, because how can you not. Therefore the algorithm keeps flooding the zone with bullshit, and an increasing number of people start to believe it through endless repetition.
Yep everyone has the same complaints. You are just bombarded with far right rhetoric all day every day on it.
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