Following last week’s riots in Dublin, an alliance between far-right, anti-immigration influencers in the US and Ireland continues to grow.
  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    542·
    7 months ago

    Okay, Ireland will do a civil war if America’s far right can find it on a map without Googling.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    442·
    7 months ago

    I was going to type this as a joke, but on reflection I think it’s 100% unironically true:

    The only reason they care is because Ireland’s right-wing hooligans are actually willing to physically mob up and attack immigrants and police, whereas a lot of the right wing in the US is too skeered to get into the streets and do the same un-stochastically ever since Ashli Babbit. They wish their followers here would do the same and can’t wait for it to start to happen.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      191·
      7 months ago

      Most of the American right is afraid to travel to any large city without a gun.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          5·
          7 months ago

          I love chatting with 2As online. They all swear that they are responsible gun owners who keep their weapons locked up, and go to the range to keep up their skills. They also hate the idea that insane people might be denied guns for any reason.

          • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
            81·
            7 months ago

            That’s what makes me sad. I know people in the north that have intense weapons closets for maintaining humidity and security. Meanwhile relatives in the south have loaded guns in the closet next to the umbrella and waving them around the house. So irresponsible.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
    31·
    7 months ago

    Ireland should do a civil war against America for whatever the hell was going on in that weird parade scene in the Fugitive where they’re all dressed as leprechauns.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    302·
    7 months ago

    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.”

    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.

          • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            7 months ago

            Let’s not pretend that Ireland hasn’t been US aligned since forever. Sure we’re neighbours and the US has a huge Irish diaspora. Hell we even used taxpayer money to refuel USAF jets on their way to the gulf wars despite being “neutral”.

            I never met a single person here during the cold war that thought the USSR was anything other than an authoritarian hole that might wipe us off the map because we are next to the UK.

            • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              I always felt that Ireland remained “unaligned” all that time not because they really had no preference between the US or USSR, but because they could, under no circumstances, be seen as being aligned with the British.

              • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                7 months ago

                Ha! Those days are behind us thankfully and we’re very friendly with the UK these days, even going as far as to renounce our constitutional claim on northern Ireland.

                It was a large part of the thinking when the state was formed and neutrality was decided on if I remember my history correctly.

                We have sent supplies to Ukraine and trained their sappers though. I mean you can’t really not pick a side on this one.

                I would call us semi neutral, but way less than the likes of Switzerland.

                • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  7 months ago

                  Oh yes, I understand, I’m an American of Irish descent who prefers Guinnness unironically. Things are so much different now than they were back then, and that’s a good thing.

                  I went to Ireland in the 90s and had a wonderful time, but never did go to the North. I hope to go back at some point and see Belfast, no matter whose flag is flying. How much of a twist would it be if Ireland reunited not after more violence, but for economic reasons after a poorly executed Brexit?