The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Do you think this is a way to be going on in the Dáil?

Mr Healy Rae ... claimed that Mr Murphy and his fellow PBP TDs "voted for the carbon tax and you said it actually was not enough".

When Mr Murphy replied that they did not [which is true: PBP did not vote for the carbon tax and have actually called for it to be abolished], Mr Healy Rae replied: "What do you know? Sure you do not know whether your own baby is a boy or a girl."

Mr Murphy then told Mr Healy Rae to "fuck off".

I also happen to think Paul Murphy's thing with his kid is nonsense, but it's quite obviously Healy-Rae who was in the wrong here.

[astfgyl]

Oh no it's not a defence of Healy-rae at all, it's just the ideological pickle Murphy finds himself in by saying it's offensive. He's just an utter utter tool

[Caomhaoin]

Both gimps. And why oh why does your pal (and mine!) Mattie have him in that fuckin' flat cap sat next to him? Takes away a bit of the man's aura.

[astfgyl]

And the cunt is making a fortune off the IPAS as well the bollix

[John Kimble]

Murphy is a detestable prick. Can't stand the cunt. He was delighted to have a rent-a-mob for the Jobstown protests, and was equally quick to turn on them for the anti-immigration stuff. I'd have very limited sympathy for him in any given scenario but yeah, that comment was a bit petty. That said, if you knew the way Kerry people are, it's no surprise that Healy Rae came out with that comment. Can't remember if it was him or the brother that looked for a higher drink driving threshold in the kingdom, you know purely to accommodate the local lad who absolutely needs to have eight pints of Guinness before getting behind the wheel.

[astfgyl]

   

He fuckin did and all!!

But it didn't work

 

Edit: Murphy plays the far left poster boy very well, to the detriment of centre leftism as a whole in this country. Much the same as Justin Barrett does for centre right viewpoints.

Pantomime villains who only further the cause of the big two, year after year.

[Ollkiller]

Both gimps. And why oh why does your pal (and mine!) Mattie have him in that fuckin' flat cap sat next to him? Takes away a bit of the man's aura.

We passed mattie on the motorway a few weeks ago. A battered early 90s berlingo or the like with shite all over it 

[Caomhaoin]

Page one of how to be a cute hoor - don't let on!

[astfgyl]

I see there's a new social specifically for people who are offended - Bluesky.

Saw a few threads of it posted on twitter. What is it with supposedly educated people loving the echo chamber so much? Are they really that fragile?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Musk literally added a feature whereby users could pay to have their voice echo louder. Or rather, he replaced a feature which used to serve to make signal stand out from noise into a feature which amplified echo into noise. Share some of the posts you saw on Twitter, I don't have a Bluesky account but I'd be curious to see what the Musk fanboys (and anyone who thinks Twitter is better under Musk is surely a fanboy) are coming up with to smear it.

[astfgyl]

I'm not on it. Just search the bluesky hashtag and see for yourself. Again, what is it with educated folk loving the echo chamber so much.

"Oh people disagree with me here, it must be they who are wrong"

The Guardian is the best example, leaving Twitter because it's too political. Absolute state of it.

Also, for the record, I think Twitter has gone down the pan altogether with Musk and the blue tick crowd but the point still stands about the echo chamber.

Another example is Truth Social for the trump crowd

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Couldn't care less what The Guardian do. But regarding "educated folk", 'Academic Twitter' used to be absolutely thriving, effervescent even, but after Musk's take over many researchers simply found it less and less beneficial having to deal with absolute mooks whose inane comments were automatically placed up top because of their blue ticks, not to mention the explosion of bots, porn accounts, crypto shite. People like that, who do want to have broad but intelligent interdisciplinary exchanges with a minimum of interference from trolls, what would you recommend they do if not seek somewhere that resembles the Twitter most of them started out on? I don't know if Bluesky is an echo chamber, but I do know that Twitter is becoming more and more of a cesspit, so I don't blame anyone for leaving. I've seen several academics (including Trinity neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell who happened to be on Blindboy just there this week) talk about a kind of responsibility to stay on Twitter, to not abandon it to pseudoscience quackery, so that perspective is definitely represented among "educated folk" too. But I think the rest are more exhausted with bullshit than fleeing "offense" per se. And the amplification of utter bullshit, beginning with Musk and his hand-curated own account-hyperamplifying algorithm, is just that: exhausting. 

[astfgyl]

Blindboy has me blocked on Twitter and I am almost certain I've never interacted with him. That's his right though and he will never have to see my dissent so what's the problem?

Look, if I leave a post on here and everyone disagrees do I head over to burning metal where people will agree with me or do I just get on with it? It's public fucking social media like.

Musk is a tool who bought himself into government for 44 billion dollars. I'm not a fan. Anyone can curate their own timeline. There is a "Following" tab and all the tools anyone could need on the "for you" one to sort it out. Nobody complained when the likes of covid dissent was beaten down out of existence because academia thought it was fine.

Going back a long way on here I complained when David Icke was banned from Twitter even though I think he's a pure stook but now nobody seems to be getting banned and people don't like that. It's weird to me because free speech doesn't have to mean I like what is being said or agree with it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You're presuming people are leaving because they can't cope with being "offended." I'm saying I don't think that is the case, not for the most part anyway.

[astfgyl]

So, they're leaving because they think that too many people of a lower intellect are interacting on their posts?

It's hurting their narcissism, like?