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I say! Smashing machine old.chap!

this is a bit like trying to transform a Formula 1 race into a marathon while the cars are still on the track

Formula 1 races are about 300km, whereas a marathon is only 40 (i am very intelligent)

The article gets worse than the headline:

• "Ms Humphreys also did not say whether she supported a plan to commemorate members of the British-sponsored Black and Tans at Glasnevin National Cemetery that her Government had initially backed in 2020." (Come out ye Black n Tans, and Fine Gael will shake yer hands)
• "Initially, Ms Humphreys, who is a Presbyterian, attempted to portray her background in a light-hearted manner, proudly alluding to the fact that her grandfather had signed the Ulster Covenant in 1912, which sought to violently resist Home Rule and keep Ireland under British Rule."
• She herself Orange parades as a child, says she stopped when the Troubles started.
• Her father was also in the Orange Order
• "Ms Humphreys said the Good Friday Agreement was the basis for any discussion about Irish unity.".... but then she says "We don’t want to end up in a situation like we had with a referendum in the UK on Brexit and 51% said no and 49% said yes." which flies in the face of the Good Friday Agreement.

May I suggest revolution?

Gotta hit that gym to catch up with your partner: https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/article21161137.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_JS201982061.jpg

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0911/1532957-rte-eurovision/

Crimes against music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_semilanceata

There are no 'bad people', only people with stronger delusions.

Everyone has Buddha-nature, and additionally everyone (except the awakened) has ignorance.

What you are calling 'bad people' are people who you've seen habitually act under the influence of delusions like anger, grasping, jealousy, wrath, etc.

If you believe in beginningless time, those same people have acted benevolently countless times in the past, as well as harmfully countless times.

So much for 'bad people', now how should Buddhists react to death? Death comes to us all and the only thing that persists after death is the karma. If someone has acted under strong delusions in this life, then they have karma that will carry them into an unpleasant rebirth. For a Buddhist, it's always bad when beings suffer; there's no such thing as "good! they deserved it!". So it's regrettable for someone to die with a lifetime of bad karma to carry them into a hellish rebirth.

If you think "they deserved it!" just think about how suffering feels bad. Like when you have a toothache, that feels bad. Why do you want inherently bad mental states to exist anywhere? An ignorant person will say, "Because this person is 'bad' and bad people should get suffering!" but that shows that you are reasoning from the (deluded) view of separate individual existences. Ideally nobody should get suffering. The delight in the suffering of others is itself a nasty delusion that will create bad karma for you.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=kKwZM8TDEa0

Are there downsides that arent realy known?

That is not known.

enough poo = black hole

The article is basically correct: everyone's got a better life than their grandparents.

However, a few notes:

• He over-relies on Fintan O'Toole, who is a centrist tool. You can't read one book about a country (any country) and repeat it as gospel, that's poor journalism.
• Things appear better on paper than they are. Even using modified GNI gives a bloated number compared to how wealthy real/normal people are. By AIC [actual individual consumption] we are comparable to Estonia or Portugal.
• We are completely completely incapable of building infrastructure. Our political system can't act decisively and go build a railroad or a Children's Hospital.

And a positive he missed: we are arguably the best welfare state in the world, measured by taxing the rich and redistributing to the poor.

what is it?

the most ethical diet is eating the rich

lol

Isolate Israel

Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.

There's some interesting discussions to be had of Marx's writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.