I’m actually fed up looking at Conor’s face at this stage
Pretty obvious it has been happening since he bought Twitter, you could see it pretty clearly during the local elections if you were paying attention basically the week before the locals it started pushing far right hashtags artificially even if you said not interested or never interacted with that content before and the key part was after our election was over they switched over to heavily promoting Farage specifically, like I’m obviously not in the UK, I never liked a Farage tweet, don’t follow anyone that follows his or his followers so suddenly getting “Farage will fix the UK” or “I’m voting for Farage to fix our immigration issues” after a week ish of Irish far right 200 follower accounts with 1 like in my “for you” feed was pretty obvious what was going on.
Get off Twitter guys
Does he have any assets on Ireland? Seize them. Any companies doing business earning profit in Ireland? Ban them.
There’s no reason to think he’ll only do this shit in America. Cut off his legs now before he can really get started.
Twitter should be banned, everywhere, tbh
None of his wealth will ever make the likes of Derek Blighe and Philip Dwyer electable. I’m not worried.
all the worst people working together
Stop using Twitter . Stop buying Teslas and stop using Starlink . That’s easy to do. And please God 🙏 McGregor does something stupid, and he gets jail because he hasn’t the brain power to stay out of trouble. McGregors kids will grow up knowing their daddy’s a rapist some man for sure.
Anyone remaining on twitter is part of the problem. Why wait for the government to ban it when you can leave it immediately.
Who’s accusing him?
Boycott Twitter. It’s shit anyway.
Why does Musk give a flying fuck about Irish politics? We’re nobodies on the International stage.
Maybe I’m giving the Irish people too much credit but we’re not stupid enough to listen to anything that mong has to say
An absolute menace to humanity.
Can we please get off twitter? There are endless Irish public bodies, including ones that attract a lot of views, using Twitter/X as a primary means of communication, usually because they’re too lazy and inept to do a proper job on their own websites — there is enormous inertia and slow movement to put info in a more open source kind of way to other platforms. I shouldn’t be seeing X as the go to destination for updates from Iarnród Éireann / Irishrail for example, or any other public body.
Meanwhile most of Irish journalism, unlike many other European countries btw, has made no clear stance on X and on opening up to alternatives. Just lots of inertia and acting like it’s still 2015 online.
And politicians keep staying on that platform, fighting with shadows and basically just feeding the monster. Keep feeding the trolls! Well done!
All I see is moan, moan, moan about Twitter by people who continue to keep posting content on it and referencing it elsewhere. You’re not going to win some ideological battle against Musk on his own platform yet they’re just feeding content to it and keeping it active and relevant.
For a lot of the population Twitter/X isn’t even all that relevant anymore — the big drivers are TikTok and Instagram, but there’s a bubble of commentary on that platform talking to itself…
There are a few very much holier than thou older influential types that won’t leave too — not sure what to make of them other than they fear loss of followers more than the rise of fascism or imagine they’re somehow taking on musk by making witty statements, but either way it’s pointless and counterproductive.
It’s like the zombies in the casino that keep pulling the lever on the slot machine — they can’t stop and the platform is never going to improve. Twitter died several years ago —you’re posting on Musk’s X.
This is why we so badly need the full fat hate speech bill passed (which will be passed shortly). Musk & X are one thing but other platforms like Meta and YouTube are headed in the same direction. Their refusal to moderate and fact check content is abhorrent.
Ireland will be the first state in the EU to ban these platforms.
We’re getting poked and prodded to the extreme right just like they tried with Germany, the UK, Greenland/Denmark, France and others.
It’s time to harden up and push back in earnest. This is only happening because the oligarchs are rattled about something.
Fascism is their immune response.
Ban twitter and tax teslas. Fuck musk
I am all out of fecks for Elon and as for the other gobshite in the photo with him.
How by owning a social media platform? Can’t the same be said for all social media platforms including this one.
I don’t particularly care for McGregor for his antics. But this is about the message not about the man. It’s not like Musk is making up the information he is sharing, some of the sentiments McGregor expressed are shared by a large number of people.
The more I think about it having McGregor at the White House on Patrick’s day was bad enough, but then letting him take the announcers podium from the White House was more or less the Trump administration sticking two fingers up at the Irish government.
It’s not worth throwing out the baby with the bathwater, having somebody mention the plight of the average Irish citizen could hopefully tone down the beating the Trump administration are going to give us economically on April 2.
There is a large Irish diaspora in the United States, most don’t really care about the roots for some are completely evangelical about their “Irishness”. Hopefully Trump and the Republicans will be mindful of that before the absolutely wreck our economy.
It would definitely be bad but hopefully not disastrous.
Is it right that Musk wields such power? No, but he does and there is very little that the public can do about it. People can accuse the man of shining a spotlight on the cracks in the Irish government but it’s their forking fault that the cracks are there in the first place through their own ineptitude, moral flexibility and refusal to deal with certain issues.
The hate speech bill was a prime example, a totally needless own goal on the part of the last government. They were hellbent on ramming this over the line. But then suddenly Elon started to comment on it, it received international attention and condemnation and it was shelved.
What the government is really afraid of is criticism from abroad and the spotlight being shone on them internationally. Musk can do this better than anyone else.
He is. We need to ban twitter in the EU and stop allowing him to profit off of his election interference.
The Times – a Murdoch outlet – has interfered in Irish politics, and spearheaded the red-baiting used to end the career of several Irish politicians.
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Ban him!
I’m actually fed up looking at Conor’s face at this stage
Pretty obvious it has been happening since he bought Twitter, you could see it pretty clearly during the local elections if you were paying attention basically the week before the locals it started pushing far right hashtags artificially even if you said not interested or never interacted with that content before and the key part was after our election was over they switched over to heavily promoting Farage specifically, like I’m obviously not in the UK, I never liked a Farage tweet, don’t follow anyone that follows his or his followers so suddenly getting “Farage will fix the UK” or “I’m voting for Farage to fix our immigration issues” after a week ish of Irish far right 200 follower accounts with 1 like in my “for you” feed was pretty obvious what was going on.
Get off Twitter guys
Does he have any assets on Ireland? Seize them. Any companies doing business earning profit in Ireland? Ban them.
There’s no reason to think he’ll only do this shit in America. Cut off his legs now before he can really get started.
Twitter should be banned, everywhere, tbh
None of his wealth will ever make the likes of Derek Blighe and Philip Dwyer electable. I’m not worried.
all the worst people working together
Stop using Twitter . Stop buying Teslas and stop using Starlink . That’s easy to do. And please God 🙏 McGregor does something stupid, and he gets jail because he hasn’t the brain power to stay out of trouble. McGregors kids will grow up knowing their daddy’s a rapist some man for sure.
Anyone remaining on twitter is part of the problem. Why wait for the government to ban it when you can leave it immediately.
Who’s accusing him?
Boycott Twitter. It’s shit anyway.
Why does Musk give a flying fuck about Irish politics? We’re nobodies on the International stage.
Maybe I’m giving the Irish people too much credit but we’re not stupid enough to listen to anything that mong has to say
An absolute menace to humanity.
Can we please get off twitter? There are endless Irish public bodies, including ones that attract a lot of views, using Twitter/X as a primary means of communication, usually because they’re too lazy and inept to do a proper job on their own websites — there is enormous inertia and slow movement to put info in a more open source kind of way to other platforms. I shouldn’t be seeing X as the go to destination for updates from Iarnród Éireann / Irishrail for example, or any other public body.
Meanwhile most of Irish journalism, unlike many other European countries btw, has made no clear stance on X and on opening up to alternatives. Just lots of inertia and acting like it’s still 2015 online.
And politicians keep staying on that platform, fighting with shadows and basically just feeding the monster. Keep feeding the trolls! Well done!
All I see is moan, moan, moan about Twitter by people who continue to keep posting content on it and referencing it elsewhere. You’re not going to win some ideological battle against Musk on his own platform yet they’re just feeding content to it and keeping it active and relevant.
For a lot of the population Twitter/X isn’t even all that relevant anymore — the big drivers are TikTok and Instagram, but there’s a bubble of commentary on that platform talking to itself…
There are a few very much holier than thou older influential types that won’t leave too — not sure what to make of them other than they fear loss of followers more than the rise of fascism or imagine they’re somehow taking on musk by making witty statements, but either way it’s pointless and counterproductive.
It’s like the zombies in the casino that keep pulling the lever on the slot machine — they can’t stop and the platform is never going to improve. Twitter died several years ago —you’re posting on Musk’s X.
This is why we so badly need the full fat hate speech bill passed (which will be passed shortly). Musk & X are one thing but other platforms like Meta and YouTube are headed in the same direction. Their refusal to moderate and fact check content is abhorrent.
Ireland will be the first state in the EU to ban these platforms.
We’re getting poked and prodded to the extreme right just like they tried with Germany, the UK, Greenland/Denmark, France and others.
It’s time to harden up and push back in earnest. This is only happening because the oligarchs are rattled about something.
Fascism is their immune response.
Ban twitter and tax teslas. Fuck musk
I am all out of fecks for Elon and as for the other gobshite in the photo with him.
How by owning a social media platform? Can’t the same be said for all social media platforms including this one.
I don’t particularly care for McGregor for his antics. But this is about the message not about the man. It’s not like Musk is making up the information he is sharing, some of the sentiments McGregor expressed are shared by a large number of people.
The more I think about it having McGregor at the White House on Patrick’s day was bad enough, but then letting him take the announcers podium from the White House was more or less the Trump administration sticking two fingers up at the Irish government.
It’s not worth throwing out the baby with the bathwater, having somebody mention the plight of the average Irish citizen could hopefully tone down the beating the Trump administration are going to give us economically on April 2.
There is a large Irish diaspora in the United States, most don’t really care about the roots for some are completely evangelical about their “Irishness”. Hopefully Trump and the Republicans will be mindful of that before the absolutely wreck our economy.
It would definitely be bad but hopefully not disastrous.
Is it right that Musk wields such power? No, but he does and there is very little that the public can do about it. People can accuse the man of shining a spotlight on the cracks in the Irish government but it’s their forking fault that the cracks are there in the first place through their own ineptitude, moral flexibility and refusal to deal with certain issues.
The hate speech bill was a prime example, a totally needless own goal on the part of the last government. They were hellbent on ramming this over the line. But then suddenly Elon started to comment on it, it received international attention and condemnation and it was shelved.
What the government is really afraid of is criticism from abroad and the spotlight being shone on them internationally. Musk can do this better than anyone else.
He is. We need to ban twitter in the EU and stop allowing him to profit off of his election interference.
The Times – a Murdoch outlet – has interfered in Irish politics, and spearheaded the red-baiting used to end the career of several Irish politicians.
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That photo makes me feel physically ill. Two poster boys for ignorance and stupidity around the world. Disgusting.
That big fat fucking ball bag is building himself up for quite the land, isn’t he. Can’t wait to see it.
Might I suggest moving to mastadon or bluesky instead of Twitter?
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