"business groups" are featuring in the credulous Irish Times, discussing the traffic plan for Dublin. Business is increasing with pedestrianised streets, but these groups are not business groups, they are car park owners. And are entirely out of touch with public sentiment
I feel like I've completed my training and am now ready to live a life of leisure, insulated by large cash reserves, but not necessarily astronomical amounts.
I just need to know where to send in my application form for this
Well son, back in my day, we used to call that 30 mins. Yessir, 10 minutes followed by another 20 was what we called 30 minutes. But, I guess it's all different with you youngsters nowadays. Maths just ain't what it used to be #cooking
This article on the Journal is infuriating. We have seen this disinformation going on for years, and we did nothing, prepared nothing. Now it has swung political discourse towards immigration, needlessly. Ireland was grossly unprepared, with our Garda chief making jokes about fire emojis. https://www.thejournal.ie/x-irish-anonymous-accounts-influence-operation-6385526-May2024/
Lower taxes and breaks for the wealthy, division between groups, smaller governments, less regulations and oversight. Why do the conservative right, who loudly proclaim their national pride with flag waving antics, always want their countries to be weaker?
I'm reading about the end of the bronze age around the Aegean, Middle East and Egypt. The Bronze age in these areas was a time of alliances, trade and prosperity. Extreme weather conditions and displaced warriors brought an abrupt end to this. Luckily it's a history book with absolutely no scary echoes for now #climate#peace#war#foodSecurity
I also saw a candidate proposing an independent Ireland, calling it "common sense politics" He's an idiot obviously, and common sense is shorthand for non PC, conservatism. The kind of people who look back on 70s humour with fondness
I just drove across Ireland. In the last election Aontú got 1.9% of the vote. So how do they have twice the number of posters than anyone else for the upcoming elections?
I've been in business since 2002 and I've never known a time when there weren't very wise talking heads telling us about the "current difficult trading conditions" or "today's challenging business environment"
Well, yeah, obviously. Because there's a global system in place that is created by, and for the exclusive benefit of, the wealthy and their powerful large organisations. And it's a system that holds politicians in thrall.
It's not impossible to do well, but you do have to be "in"