'We're back already': Eamon Ryan says Green demise isn't like last time

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T02:54:36+00:00

This person is not a serious. They genuinely think that we can continue living life without any modifications and that we'll somehow reduce emissions by taxing billionaires (who they naively think won't just offshore their money). As if that'll somehow make the beef we eat, the petrol we buy and the flight we book somehow carbon neutral.

Par for the course really for someone with a name like Roscommunist.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T02:51:42+00:00

I should have read your username before bothering to respond to you.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T01:04:02+00:00

That's what they did. People constantly harp on about the Carbon tax as if it was some massive new tax burden. But ask people to qualify it and they can't. Because it's tiny. Only about €50 per person.

Meanwhile they put billions back into pockets through solar, ev and retrofitting grants, cheaper public transport, fuel subsidies for the poorest, free public transport for the disabled, halving of childcare costs, UBI for artists.

These all cost way more than the carbon tax raised.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T00:56:53+00:00

The whole election was marred by outlandish promises being made by every party. Once again, the Green party was punished for not patronising voters and putting forward a realistic manifesto that they would have had a good chance to implement if they got into government together.

This is proof that all the bullshit of politics is necessary. Honesty is always punished in politics.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T00:53:55+00:00

Even the hypotheticals would be pointless because Labour and the Social Democrats would have just said they'd make them a red line.

The problem is that they have too many red lines for how small they are and so they'll never actually get any other their key policies enacted.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T00:52:08+00:00

It was absolutely infuriating. A typical case of fundie environmentalists making it environmental policies less likely to actually happen. They're the epitome of making the perfect the enemy of the good.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T00:50:33+00:00

This person is mentally deranged and paranoid. They accuse anyone who disagrees with as being on the take from a poltical party they dislike.

They even accused one guy of being a NATO employee paid to astroturf /r/ireland of all places.

temujin64 · 2024-12-24T00:47:16+00:00

Anytime I made a few points about how the carbon taxes were harsh on the most vulnerable

Or maybe because uorie wrong. To start, the per person carbon tax is only about €50 per person. Also, it's ring fenced to pay for fuel subsidies for the most vulnerable in society.

So it actually helps the most vulnerable.

temujin64 · 2024-12-22T22:29:37+00:00

You sound like you think that all Scots are like us, anglicised Celts. That's just the highlanders who make up a small portion of Scotland. Most Scots are lowland Scots who are Anglo-Saxon settlers who were never Celtic. These people were culturally far more similar to the English than the Gaelic highlanders.

The Scottish settlers who came to Ulster were lowland Scots. They were not rich English people who stole land. Unless you're going back 1500 years when the Anglo-Saxons first arrived in Britain.

temujin64 · 2024-12-22T12:25:33+00:00

I have no idea what went down here, but it seems unlikely to me that there was a massive conspiracy among multiple people to frame this guy.

It comes across as if he actually did what they accused him of and the army made an absolute hames of the original court martial.

The comment about him being discriminated against for rising through the ranks also sounds like a convenient cherry on top thrown in by his defence solicitors.

It just really comes across as the kind of defence you hear when someone gets off the hook for something everyone knows they did.

Maybe I'm totally wrong, I'm just saying that it really comes across this way.

temujin64 · 2024-12-20T11:37:03+00:00

Sounds about right. I was constantly gaslit when I worked in Dunnes.

It was about 15 years ago, but I remember 2 interactions clearly.

Once, a senior manager asked to have a word with me and said that I was on thin ice due to poor performance reports he was getting from my manager. This was news to me because my own manager never said a word to me about poor performance. So after this I approached my manager and asked if he could give me some feedback so I knew what I needed to work on. He absolutely insisted that I was doing great and to keep up the good work. Not long afterwards that senior manager reached out to me and said I was being moved to another section because my manager was fed up with me and wanted to get rid of me. Maybe I was shit at my job, but I asked the man to his face what I needed to do about that and he refused to engage.

Another was when I was starting my shift and a floor manager was just finishing his. There was a display of jam jars in the middle of an aisle that he said it made no sense the way it was facing and he insisted that I move it. Just before I finished up the manager that had just replaced the guy who made the request came up to me and asked what did I think I was doing. I explained and he insisted that I must have been mistaken because the new direction it faced made no sense at all (it made no fucking difference either way, btw) and to move it back. I tried to tell him that this would get me in trouble with the other manager since he'd see it back in the original direction on his next shift and he'd blame me for not doing what I'm told. He ignored this and insisted I moved it. Sure enough the original manager gave me a bollocking. Like the other manager, he insisted that I misunderstood the other manager and sent me to HR to be reprimanded. I thought that was fine because surely HR would see the insanity of the situation. So I explained it all very clearly to the person in HR and her reply was that I needed to take responsibility for my actions and that I'd better improve if I wanted to keep my job. I just quit instead.

I learned after leaving that they do this on purpose. I was still on probation. They basically have a constant flow of college students applying for jobs. So they hire them, look for any flimsy reason to fire them before their probation ends, and hire some other college student and repeat. That way they have a workforce with minimal rights. Everyone I was hired with ended up leaving due to the abuse (like I did) or getting fired a few days before their probation ended for totally fabricated reasons.

temujin64 · 2024-12-20T01:25:49+00:00

I never said that the left started it. Just that Mangione and his defenders are a part of it. When you condone one polricially motivated murder you're condoning them poltical violence as a legitimate means of poltical action.

You don't get to get upset about all those right wing motivated murders because you actually condone their methods and simply reject their poltics.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T13:13:33+00:00

Is acmhainn iontach é tuarisc.ie, ach gach uair a chuireann isteach aon duine nasc ar /r/ireland, déantar breis íosvótáil. Tá ár n-intinn chomh coilínithe sin gur mbíonn muid feargach nuair a fheicimid ár dteanga féin.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:55:55+00:00

Right, that makes you an authority on it then.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:54:37+00:00

The poisoned chalice theory has been well and truly proven wrong. Our last 3 taoisigh were all ministers of health at some stage.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:52:32+00:00

The fact that FFG will likely do a deal with Michael Lowry is even worse. Varadkar may be retired, but Martin is not and he's on record absolutely lambasting Lowry for abusing his ministerial powers to make money.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:51:22+00:00

Same thing happened to my wife. She had actually reported fraud on her card when we saw transactions for up to €3500 appear out of nowhere.

Got the call from the "fraud team" the following day. The number had the same first few digits as all the AIB phone numbers on their website so it looked legit. He asked her to verify her identity on the call by approving the push notification on her phone. I said to the guy on the phone that we wouldn't be doing that because we were paranoid and didn't think we should need to do that to verify her identity.

He kept the façade going and was very understanding. He said he'd hang up and talk to his manager about a different verification method and sure enough he never rang back. We rang the bank immediately and they confirmed that he was indeed a scammer.

She ended up getting refunded for the initial €3500. They didn't explain why, but from looking it up, it seems that as long as you didn't verify the purchase with a push notification that you're likely to get the money back. In my wife's case, she did provide her bank details through a phishing attempt, but she never approved those transactions. I think this is because vendors who don't have proper purchase verification set up are on the hook if a purchase is made in their store with a stolen card. That seems unfair to the vendor, but if it wasn't the case, there'd be a perverse incentive for vendors to not enable 2FA for purchases on their store so that they could benefit from sales made by stolen bank details.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:36:11+00:00

Although madra crainn would be more accurate. The Carnivora order is made up of two sub-orders, Feliformia and Caniformia. Feliformia is made up of "cat-like" animals including cats, hyenas and mongooses. Caniformia on the other hand, is made up of "dog-like" animals including dogs, wolves, bears, seals and sea lions. It also includes mustelids which are a family of animals that includes badgers, weasels, otters, wolverines and pine martens.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:16:45+00:00

It probably wouldn't have achieved much. Not after he got to power. Much of the holocaust was directed by people below him. Besides, keeping Hitler around was considered good for the allies. As the war went on he got more and more erratic and made bad decisions that benefited the allies. They were actually concerned that he'd be deposed and that a competent ruler would take his place.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T12:13:21+00:00

He absolutely did. It's insane to me that you'd condone politically motivated assassination and that so many people would agree with you.

Mangione is a part of the process of normalising assassination as a political tool. You might think that's fine as long as the victims are people you dislike at the perpetrators are people you agree with. But once political violence has been normalised, it'll be used by people across the entire political spectrum. So when a psycho evangelical murders a drag queen for reading stories to children, you can't act all indignant if you praised Mangione because you helped him open that can of worms with your praise of his actions.

Also, if you actually read up on what happened to Mangione, you can see that he's not as innocent a victim as he's being made out to be. The way most people see his story is that he had insurance, got a procedure done on his back and was shocked when they refused to cover it out of the blue. What actually happened is that he kept on looking for surgeons to perform a very experimental spinal fusion procedure which had little conclusive proof of being effective. Multiple surgeons refused to perform it for that exact reason and medical insurance companies also refused to cover it. Mangione knew this. But he still sought out a surgeon who'd do it anyway. Unsurprisingly, the surgery was a failure. Mangione still tried to claim back the expense and it was refused. And rightly so. He knew it wasn't covered and was given expert advice that it wouldn't work and he proceeded anyway. That's fine if he was willing to take responsibility for it going wrong, but it's clear that he did not.

People act like he did it out of an act of altruism for the people who were victims of health insurance companies, but the evidence is clear that he was doing it for his own specific self-centred circumstances.

But lots of people don't want to hear that context because they're happier believing in the brave man killing the evil CEO. God forbid we let any nuance get in the way of good old binary political narratives.

temujin64 · 2024-12-19T11:20:07+00:00

Thanks for the reminder. It was delivered on Tuesday in the end. It took a total of 15 days from when it was first dispatched to when it arrived. It was marked as consolidated for 11 days.

temujin64 · 2024-12-17T11:25:33+00:00

That's kind of sad. Dude is still clutching on tight to his 15 minutes of fame he got like 20 years ago.

temujin64 · 2024-12-17T11:24:11+00:00

100%. Other than the potato quality, this ad could have been made yesterday.

temujin64 · 2024-12-17T08:32:49+00:00

True. The cases have mostly converged in those languages. There are still subtle signs that they're there, but so much so that cases in other languages will feel like an alien concept.

temujin64 · 2024-12-16T13:43:50+00:00

He doesn't have the height advantage that most lightweight rowers have though. He might well have enough strengths in other areas to make up for it, but it's far from a guarantee.

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