r/ireland • u/indicator_enthusiast Sax Solo • 15d ago
He has completely lost the plot. Christ On A Bike
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u/BigDickBaller93 2nd Brigade 15d ago edited 15d ago
whats the logic behind the "Bio weapon" from the Covid vaccine? its been 3 years now, am i like a sleeper agent now or something? is Simon Harris gonna come on RTE one day and say "Blueberry muffins" and i kill everybody or whats the deal with that conspiracy?
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u/Business_Abalone2278 15d ago
I was told magnets would stick to my arm but it's simply not happening. I yearn to live as a fridge door.
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u/AbsoluteMuck 15d ago
They also said I'd broadcast 5g! Living in the back arse of the country I wish that was true
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u/SavageTyrant 15d ago
My data connection speeds have never been higher since I got the 5G vaccine chip to be honest. Full bars nearly everywhere I go now.
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u/ceybriar 14d ago
Mine was starting to lag a bit. So I got the flu vaccine yesterday to get back up to speed.
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u/No-Objective7265 15d ago
The annoying 5g mmwwaves wirelessly vaccinating people without permission in 3d
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u/UnknownXIV 15d ago
I work with machines with very strong magnets and when thr magnetised people shite started spreading people were turning on thr huge magnets to see if we would stick to them.... we didn't :(
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u/Dr-Kipper 15d ago
How do you know that hasn't already happened and you were programmed to forget?
Execute project rosemary.
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u/odaiwai Corkman far from home 15d ago
Execute project rosemary.
I'm all out of Rosemary, can I execute project Oregano instead?
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u/askscreepyquestions Resting In my Account 15d ago
Give it thyme.
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u/dustaz 15d ago
Very sage advice
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u/seanreidsays Kildare 15d ago edited 15d ago
Herb and spice puns? I didn’t see that cumin.
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u/HyperbolicModesty 15d ago
You and that nut, Meg. You scally, unbecoming of you to turn merit-based core. He and her parse elite. Arrogant.
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u/HighDeltaVee 15d ago
whats the logic
He's gone all the way down the rabbit hole of right-wing loony shite from the US. There is no logic.
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u/ScepticalReciptical 15d ago
I love when they give themselves away by using US terms like 'illegals' that have no context in Ireland. It shows they haven't got a shred of common sense.
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u/Reddit_5_Standing_By 15d ago
Another thing that gives it away is when he talked about how the government was in power for 4 years, which is true in America but not here
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u/Spare-Buy-8864 15d ago
It hosts the Progenitor virus from Resident Evil, stays dormant for a few years but ones it wakes up we're all fucked
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u/TomRuse1997 15d ago
It's hilarious that the same people who complained that the virus wasn't worth the Government's response are now the ones that can't just move on from it.
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u/StellarManatee its fierce mild out 15d ago
I don't know now. A taxi driver told me all his wife's skin fell off after the covid vaccine. Nothing like that happened to me so I definitely think I got the sleeper agent one. Can't wait.
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u/sexmachinefinburn Fingal 15d ago
i think the logic is that covid is a bio weapon, and the vaccine is made of covid or theres some covid in the vaccine or something?
i wish i could explain better, but no one else is answering
i dont know what a fuckin vaccine is, but someone smart could fill in the blanks here
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u/PopplerJoe 15d ago edited 15d ago
All vaccines for the most part are a way of introducing viral RNA into the body in a controlled way, how they introduce the RNA can vary. Some might use "dead" viral particles, others may use low doses of live virus, or traditionally a similar virus (e.g. injecting people with cowpox virus being used to prevent infection of smallpox). Modern mRNA vaccines basically tell your own body's cells to create a sample of the viral RNA signature, not the actual functional virus.
After any of the above approaches once viral RNA is detected in the body it then produces antibodies to fight against that type of infection, so when the real virus turns up the body can respond quicker, and more effectively.
Edit: As for how vaccines are bioweapons I can only assume it's because these people don't understand how vaccines work on a most basic level. Vaccines don't offer total immunity, so they see people still getting sick after being vaccinated and go on a conspiracy hunt. Also, some people can show symptoms resembling an infection after vaccination (nausea, fever, etc.), even though there is no viral infection.
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u/omegaman101 Wicklow 15d ago
I mean most vaccines are a milder form of the virus, but the Covid Vaccines had to be created in a different way because that wasn't feasible when it came to covid, so the S protein of the virus was used instead to strengthen the immune resistance to the virus. It's also why it only ever offered temporary immunity unlike other vaccines.
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u/NoGiNoProblem 15d ago
I've been wondering that too. I've also had my boosters, and no magic powers of any kind.
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u/AnarchistPineMarten 15d ago
which one of them wrote it?
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u/Immediate_Radio_8012 15d ago
Ivor I'd say.
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u/bigfatnsmellyer 15d ago
If Damo wrote it it would be ALL IN CAPS WITH NO FULL STOPS OR PARAGRAPHS
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u/Immediate_Radio_8012 14d ago
Damo strikes me as too smart for this nonsense. He knows full well it was immigrants that introduced him to spice boxes and cans of karpackie, doesn't want to lose that.
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u/dmullaney 15d ago
I blame the yanks for normalizing absolute lunacy
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u/KobraKaiJohhny A Durty Brit 15d ago
Actually yeah.
They've reached a level of entitled where they've just decided they're entitled to their own reality.
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u/gwy2ct 15d ago
Well not all yanks. Mainly just the MAGAs
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u/DonaldsMushroom 15d ago
I think we have to stop excusing non-Maga Americans,.
They have done nothing in the face of the complete corruption of American democracy, sat on their arses and done nothing as public education and healthcare systems were decimated.
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u/RespawningAsMe2023 15d ago
I agree, but we shouldn't stop there. We should be focusing on our own gobshites that are eating these shit sandwiches as a priority. I read somewhere that just over 50% of Americans have the literacy of a 12 year old, but what's our excuse over here? It's a small percentage here following this crap but still, I think it was Feynman that said; stupidity is the most contagious desease. (Can't remember the exact quote) So we can't sit back and blame other countries for our own idiots and let that be it. It's true that we all had our village idiot spouting shit in the local, but they were often told to shut up and have there shit talk ignored. Now we are in the information era and sadly most of it is not vetted and everyone is a self professed doctor, scientist, lawyer, etc. The village idiots are now able to connect in groups, and its never smart to underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups, even if they are in different locations across the globe. Pointing the finger of blame elsewhere doesn't stem the bleed we have from our own cuts.
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u/DrOrgasm Daycent 15d ago
The Internet is the village that all the idiots found for themselves.
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u/RespawningAsMe2023 15d ago
Agree but I'm an advocate of education. A car parked in a driveway is not dangerous, but with an idiot driving it's a weapon. So like cars, we should have a process to ensure users are licensed. I know this hasn't stopped idiots entirely from driving but it has certainly made roads somewhat safer. People don't understand how it works or the risks so when they constantly see shit in their feed they think it's the whole worlds view, rather than the internet and search engines doing their job by marketing techniques of showing you things of similar interest to what you searched for. That's how we quickly find our family members wearing a tinfoil hat, in what seems like overnight.
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u/DarkReviewer2013 15d ago
Thankfully, the far-right don't seem to have amassed the same kind of electoral appeal here as they have in the US. Tons of MAGA supporters in the US - or at the very least people who enable them and are willing to align with them in order to beat the Dems. Whereas our crowd garner very limited levels of support when it comes to elections. They're noisy, disruptive and infuriating, but seemingly incapable of entering the political mainstream.
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u/RavenAboutNothing 15d ago
Not true! Many of us have gone completely ignored by our peers as we raise alarm after alarm after alarm after alarm after alarm after alarm after alarm after alarm about the endless streams of heinous bullshit
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u/AnotherOperator 15d ago
What do you want them to do? Really though?
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u/dkeenaghan 15d ago
Turn up and vote would be nice. Rather than moaning about how the Democratic candidate isn’t a perfect representation of their ideals, or is uninspiring.
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u/dmullaney 15d ago
Well, they need to fix their broken election system too. If the idiots who voted third party, had just supported the democratic candidate, he'd have lost the popular vote... And still won 🤷🏼♂️
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u/dirty-curry 15d ago
Doesn't it suck that the third party isn't viable though? Like let's not kid ourselves the Democrats are far only left in terms thst they're closer to the center but still fundamentally right. The whole electoral system over there is batshit insane to me
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u/dmullaney 15d ago
It is, but knowing that the single vote isn't transferable, voting third party is literally equivalent to spoiling your vote.
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u/tweedledoooo 15d ago edited 15d ago
I blame social media, American politics is just the loudest echo chamber on it.
With all of the positive effects of social medial we neglected to realise that the lunatics would assemble and convice themselves they are the majority.
Reading that post hurts the head, not a singular shred of even dubious evidence to back his claim.
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u/Medium-Ad5605 15d ago
There was a time when the morons knew their place, they would have spouted shit down the local and gotten torn apart or mocked to death. Now they post it on social media and anyone with an ounce of cop on doesn't engage so they only see support and likes. We should copy Australia but go further and block having a social media account until you have finished the leaving cert and you have to have the number of points you got in the Leaving as part of your profile pic.
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u/dmullaney 15d ago
We could at the very least make a "social media license" that's as hard to get as a dog license or a marriage licence. i.e basic literacy.
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u/Medium-Ad5605 15d ago
But what about the free speech/won't someone please think of the children/yada yada etc etc, fucking morons.
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u/sure_look_this_is_it 15d ago
I blame the Russians for pushing the online rhetoric that turned the yanks against each other.
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u/colinmacg 15d ago
I blame the Americans for being thick enough to fall for it, and then export it in volume
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u/Important_Farmer924 Westmeath's Least Finest 15d ago
Only said this the other day, it's scary the amount of people over here who parrot yank nonsense and try to apply it to ireland. Total brain rot.
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u/squishypingu 15d ago
That's exactly it, this is garbage anti-democratic rhetoric that the US is exporting globally.
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u/MistahFinch 15d ago
They've absolutely poisoned the entire Anglosphere. It makes me wish we all just spoke Irish and I barely passed foundation.
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u/VisioningHail Dublin 15d ago
The real people to blame is Russians for spamming the internet full of so much nonsense
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u/magkruppe 15d ago
Not elon musk who owns Twitter, spreads conspiracy theories, let's far right flourish on the platform and donated 250 million to trump campaign?
Elon alone has had a much bigger effect than the Russians
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u/dkeenaghan 15d ago
You forgot to mention the bit about it being the Elon Misk who has been in regular contact with Putin.
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u/magkruppe 15d ago
He is just a weirdo obsessed with avoiding nuclear war and feeling important. That's my take anyway
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u/PodgeD 15d ago
Because it's easier to blame somewhere else than admit fault within.
The US is the target of destabilization, Ireland is just collateral damage to propagandists. And let's face it, Ireland's history is to be conservative.
In the 90s every one hated Sinead O'Connor because she spoke up against the church. Now people act like Ireland is this beacon of light while most people still have marriages/baptisms with the same church who denounced Sinead O'Connor.
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u/SecretPrinciple8708 15d ago
Allow this American to apologize for our latest horrifying export: MAGAts.
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u/Time_Ocean Donegal 15d ago
Right there with you. Been over here over a decade now, starting to lose my accent. Never going back, honestly.
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u/relax_carry_on Resting In my Account 15d ago
Bit of a smorgasbord of conspiracy theories in there. Difficult to see how people like that can ever find their way out of the multitude of rabbit holes they've gone down.
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u/SitDownKawada Dublin 15d ago
It's a pity the way conspiracy theories have gone. I used to have a good time reading about bigfoot and aliens and all that
Now there are actual conspiracies out in the open but the loudest voices are the ones focusing on things that aren't conspiracies
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u/lifeandtimes89 15d ago edited 15d ago
Yeah the ones like that were fun, bigfoot, Alice in wonderland & dark side of the moon syncing, area 51. These don't hurt people.
These kind of ones this eejit is spouting are actually hurting people and need to be stopped
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u/FiachraDePaor 14d ago
Around 2016 someone realised you can co-opt conspiracy theorists into your political movement and were so successful that they're now driving the entire thing. Now all the stuff about the earth being hollow and the moon being a hologram are gone, and it's all focused on calling a politician you don't like a satanist pedophile.
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u/hesaidshesdead And I'd go at it agin 15d ago
If he'd mentioned 5G I'd have a full bingo card.
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u/indicator_enthusiast Sax Solo 15d ago
I'm pretty sure he has before, he's also put up a few posts about chemtrails.
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u/SpooferMcGavin 15d ago
A former friend went down the rabbit hole, deeper than this guy at this point. All attempts, by friends and family, have failed to bring them back even an inch. They'll occasionally be convinced to give up one of their theories, only to double down on what remains and branch out from there. It seems that there's no conspiracy theory these days which just exits on its own, they all have a seemingly infinite network of offshoots, each with their own infinite network of offshoots, each with their etc... I remember all the 9/11 conspiracy theories, and I remember talking to quite a lot of people over the years who believed in one of them or another, but then the rest of their views would be fairly normal stuff. Now you get people who see 5G towers, trans people, contactless payments, the war in Ukraine, GMOs, and the size of Mars bars as one big interconnected conspiracy. Used to be able to have a fun conversation about space aliens and UFOs without somebody bringing up the fucking Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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u/hesaidshesdead And I'd go at it agin 15d ago
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u/aecolley Dublin 15d ago
Foil! I went nearly a year without hearing the song that it's parodying. It's a great work.
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u/robilco 15d ago
He’s so far down the American propaganda rubbish that he didn’t even think to correct the “last 4 years” part.
It’s 5 Andy, we’ve had the last government for a 5 year term.
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u/CiarraiochMallaithe 15d ago
The Irish election system must be one of the most transparent in the world because of paper ballots, PR-STV, and the tally system. Like you would need a Nobel prize winning algorithm to rig the thing.
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u/DanBGG 15d ago
I never understand the claims of election fraud in places where different political parties win every few years.
At this point if election fraud were happening in Ireland it would be on both sides and at then it just cancels eachother out?
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u/jackoirl 15d ago
This genuinely seems to be mental illness. I wonder is he suffering with paranoid schizophrenia.
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u/bulbispire 15d ago
A bit too coherent for that. More likely has shot his frontal lobe with drugs and is now susceptible to all this conspiracy shit
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u/DanGleeballs 15d ago
Is this fucking tool married to Rosanna Davidson?
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u/Reasonable-News-5739 15d ago
"Hi, I'm famous for ripping off Ross O'Caroll-Kelly. Here’s why I think a disease that killed millions is a hoax..."
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u/DC750 15d ago
So this is what a massive trust fund turns you into then.
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u/Life_Procedure_387 15d ago
Nah, Andy's self made. Sells racing pigeons online... https://www.instagram.com/andy_quirke_pigeons?igsh=MW13Y2FuMWR0YWU3OQ==
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u/blipblopthrowawayz 15d ago edited 15d ago
Eurgh, this is the shite I'm looking forward to hearing from the family when I go home for Xmas this year. Their brains are so melted like this from social media they were legitimately terrified of the recent auroraborealis because when they heard the word "radiation" they associated it with 5G and were seriously considering trying to somehow go underground to dodge it.
It feels like there's no way of pulling people back from this particular stage, everything is a conspiracy and facts aren't real.
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u/Inside-Bunch4216 McGregor's at it again 15d ago
This fucking imported yank conspiracy theory bullshit...
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u/DuckMeYellow 15d ago
they've already decided there has been election fraud and will do anything to find evidence to prove themselves right. awful way to go ahout something
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u/ducklungerun 15d ago
They won't look for evidence at all - people in the conspiracy mindset just know they're right; it's the facts that are wrong.
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u/A-Hind-D 15d ago
A brain eating parasite would starve in his head
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u/Silent-Detail4419 14d ago
If a hungry cannibal were to crack open his skull, they'd not find enough inside to cover a small water biscuit (Blackadder, paraphrased).
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u/lamahorses Ireland 15d ago
This genius is going to inherit millions. He's actually quite privileged in having these delusions
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u/Brisbanebill 15d ago
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.
The world is rudderless. Alan Moore
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u/Churt_Lyne 15d ago
I saw another post on Reddit from him this week where he suggested all the asylum seekers were possibly UN soldiers invading Ireland.
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u/Femtato11 15d ago
Why the fuck would the UN invade Ireland? What, send a platoon of our own peacekeepers in to invade ourselves?
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u/Intelligent_Hunt3467 15d ago
This is really the harrowing tale of that time I got injected with a bio weapon and didn't get super powers.
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u/justbecauseyoumademe 15d ago
Remember. If your party wins.. then its all a 100% above board.
Fairest election ever, if your party loses however.. its election fraud and unfair.
SMfuckingH
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u/RayoftheRaver 15d ago
Hey! The government brought in restrictions to stop people dying and no-one* died!! How dare they??
*obviously people died but not to them
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u/ducklungerun 15d ago
The classic I'm hearing even from otherwise sensible people is that because the worst didn't happen in terms of the healthcare system getting completely overrun there must never have been any risk of it happening and therefore the measures taken to prevent it from happening were unnecessary.
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u/WeirdlyGentle 15d ago
This has pandemic rabbit-hole written all over it. Once a person begins to doubt reality, comes to believe that journalists working for competing news organizations are somehow colluding to deceive the masses, then every fringe theory becomes plausible and worth considering and few theories are dismissed immediately as being ridiculous. This is how QAnon came about and how 30 million Americans came to believe at least one QAnon-based conspiracy theory by the end of 2020. Even very smart people can come to believe extremely outlandish things if they first start to doubt that journalists, real ones, are doing anything other than trying their best to spread the truth. The notion that real news is fake, and that 'alternative facts' might be true, is an insidious psychological poison.
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u/Lemon_McGee 15d ago
“The government flooded Ireland with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants”
D’ye know what we call an illegal immigrant with government permission? We call them an immigrant.
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u/accountcg1234 15d ago
This guy has a legit mental illness, that is not very well understood.
It's very easy to make fun of these people, there is a new post on him monthly at this stage.
Rabbit Hole Syndrome;
There is mounting anecdotal evidence that some individuals fall into conspiracy “rabbit holes” causing harms ranging from social isolation to violence. We propose a hypothetical Rabbit Hole Syndrome in which some individuals' subscription to conspiracy beliefs is initially inadvertent, accelerates recursively, then becomes difficult to escape. This proposal is distinguished by a person-centered and dynamic perspective on conspiracy beliefs. It aims to provide a theoretical foundation for research that (a) illuminates the rabbit hole phenomenon, (b) is pluralistic, spanning diverse subdisciplines (e.g., social and clinical psychology), and methods (e.g., qualitative, longitudinal, and case studies), and (c) informs theory and practice by uncovering discontinuities between committed believers and other populations in the causes, consequences, and “remedies” of conspiracy beliefs.
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u/ishka_uisce 15d ago
This is a proposed syndrome, not a diagnosable mental illness. The whole issue of conspiracy theories is very tricky to define psychologically. There are times it absolutely crosses into delusion, but it also often doesn't co-occur with other symptoms of psychotic conditions like schizophrenia. So it would be a kind of culturally-bound, limited delusional disorder, if it is ever defined as a disorder.
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u/Cearnach 15d ago
In my experience it seems to affect people who have suffered a trauma or who hold a significant grievance, whether real or exaggerated.
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u/bulbispire 15d ago
Probably more likely to be a background paranoid personality disorder superimposed on some other mild causative factor (head trauma, drug-induced damage, low baseline IQ, environmental exposure; major stressor) that pushes most people into it
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u/HighDeltaVee 15d ago
That's just what the American Psychological Association want you to think.
Did you know they share the same office building as the Trilateral Commission?
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u/Even-Builder8092 15d ago
I don’t know how anyone who worked in RTE could come to the conclusion that a government organisation is competent enough to pull this off!
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u/DarkReviewer2013 15d ago
This is just a copy-and-paste of right-wing American propaganda amended to appeal to an Irish audience. In other words - sheer nonsense.
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u/iamronanthethird 15d ago
The Irish Government are incompetent and incapable of doing anything. Also, the Irish Government are committing a massive conspiracy against the Irish people.
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u/Bens_Universe 15d ago
My favourite thing with conspiracy theorists is that they have so much faith in the government like they genuinely believe the Irish government can orchestrate a massive election fraud cover-up but couldn’t cover up golf gate - space cadets
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u/HelenRy 15d ago
As someone who was a healthcare worker throughout the pandemic and who caught Covid from a patient (causing cardiac and lung problems, joint pain and lingering effects ) AND had a brother-in-law die from Covid, I am extremely p*ssed that this ignoramus dismisses the pandemic, the deaths and the aftereffects as a hoax. Also dissing the vaccine is moronic and a disservice to the thousands of immunologists who worked so hard to protect us all.
Ask my grieving sister if she thinks Covid was a hoax...
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u/dragonmynuts88 15d ago
Imagine having to listen to him gon these rants bad enough it pops up on Facebook but imagine having to listen and entertain that. Does anyone know him or what he is like IRL
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u/Sad-Fee-9222 15d ago
It isn't fraud; it's club votes,parish pump politics, and old-fashioned lobbying.
As abhorrent as FFG are, if you've got no real viable alternative that can do the same lobbying, then it's FFG forever.
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u/mybighairyarse Crilly!! 15d ago
This guys fathers business made €15m last year.
Lads. Why would you bother
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u/micar11 15d ago
The father died a few months ago
Dr Quirky's in Phibsboro was recently sold.
The Directors, one of which Andrew Quirke is one. were each paid €900k in 2023.
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u/Cp0r 15d ago
Fraud is a lot easier in other countries... postal ballots, electronic voting, etc. all expose the system to risks, we don't have those risks. Postal ballots are reserved for overseas diplomats, soldiers and members of AGS on duty the day of an election. There's heavy enough security and all parties are in the count centres watching along with members of the public... we have one if the most secure election systems in the world, despite people trying to add in room for fraud (ie expanding of postal votes, etc.
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u/snazzydesign 15d ago
On a serious note, I blame a huge amount of this on the algorithm - all he sees on Instagram is other fruitcakes supporting and believing this and believes there is huge majority support
Social Media is the virus
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u/Marty_ko25 15d ago
He's an absolute gobshite, born with a silver spoon up his hole, and raised you have the intellectual capacity of a tea bag. This is what happens when your kids are spoiled brats who sit on YouTube all day.
"A bio weapon" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/brianregan09 14d ago
More Mindless parroting of American right wing conspiracy theories , absolutely mind-blowing stupidity, and its always the same types failed media folk likes of this fella, Eddie hobbs your one off that rte fashion show was at it aswell and that dope that was on big brother dj spiral
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u/Mescalineflood666 14d ago
When he says 'election fraud', who does he reckon actually won? Do these people think the Irish people came out in droves to vote for Malachy Steenson and Hermann Kelly? That would require a severely insular life haha.
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u/Doitean-feargach555 14d ago
What happened was many people went "shur look what'd my vote change anyways" and all the loyal diehard FF and FG voters just voted again. Simple as no fraud at all
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u/dudeirish 15d ago
I always find it hilarious when people suggest the government can carry out and deliver on a large scale..... Nope nope nope....