‘sup?
Saturday.
Dublin city centre.
Protesters marching from the Department of Education to Smithfield Square via Henry Street against covid restrictions and measures, including the vaccination of children.
Meanwhile…
How actual sinister is this? pic.twitter.com/EuqMeN5aNy
— Michael Barry (@Michael54325847) December 19, 2021
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Deplorables.
Look in the mirror Tom
I look good. Healthy.
They had a bongo player though.
I’m sorry I missed it now.
Why do these sorts always have this uniquely scummy appearance.
Uniquely scummy appearance … ? ‘Deplorables..? People with faces and ideas that don’t conspire with my own… euyck!
I agree entirely
Varadker is a scumbag of the highest order
I think the numbers at these will increase over time as more people refuse to sign up for subscription jabs every 3 months with no end in sight.
there was a lad i knew going to school, and he’d be late every single day. halfway through the first class i’d see him from my window seat ploughing his lonely furrow in through the door 20 minutes late. his teachers were all sick lecturing him on discipline, self-respect, his long-term employability etc. everyone knew that giving out to him was a waste of their time and it was an irrevocable fact that he would be late again tomorrow.
covid will end up like that. we’ll all just get it, get over it and let them just piss and moan in the meantime.
Fortunately, the media gave these knuckle-dragging morons feckall coverage. Good.
Meanwhile, in Switzerland, we can see how the unvaxxed are *14 times* more likely likely to die than vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1472861375139827715
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination
And how many of them were children?
There must be at least 12 people there
And 10 of them regularly post flat earth conspiracy nonsense on Broadsheet.
I’ve never seen anyone here talk about flat earth except when people like yourself mention it and try to conflate our data driven opinions on covid with it.
Pretty sure Zuppy was a great fan of throwing it out there when gearing up to a good old-fashioned rant. Of course most of their posts were regarding climate and/or abortion, but I think I recall one or two mentions.
Funny but some of their most outlandish commentary would pass for reasoned debate here these days.
There’s no more reasoned debate on here anymore Millie, its just a bunch of conspiracy theorists lead by bodger talking to amongst themselves.
Accusing someone of posting ‘flat earth conspiracy’ is shorthand for calling them an ‘anti-lockdown anti-mask anti-vax rat-licking Covid-denying selfish disease-spreading Conspiraloon fascist’, Cui Bono. Like the latter expression (which also appears with various descriptors omitted), it is intended as an insult but it says more about person throwing the insult than it does about the person they are insulting.
Children or pets should never be brought to protest’s. Only terrorist’s use children as shields.
a bit like vaccinations for healthy children
What is?
Vaccinating healthy children for a virus that won’t harm them is using them as shields.
No it’s not.
It is the worse kind of selfish cowardice and the scary part is here are parents who will line their innocents up to take it.
No, the scary part is, these so called concerned parents are bringing young children to protest’s and it’s quite alarming for the children who should not be put through this nonsense.
@ Tom J
Yes it is. It is the ‘save granny’ idea.
@ John Smith
No it’s not. Nobody has to get their children vaccinated if they don’t want to. Old people, or as you put it the granny idea, don’t have to get vaccinated if they don’t want to. Everyone is free to catch whatever diseases they want and take a treatment for it if they so wish. So there’s no real need to protest in the manner these people are doing.
Tom wants children to be brought as he was.Ignorant.
Who?
Vaccinating healthy children for a virus that won’t harm them is using them as shields.
does only apply to Covid vaccines? or do you apply that thinking to other childhood vaccines? e.g. Rubella
Up until this point, childhood vaccines were for childhood illnesses. Covid-19 is not a childhood illness. The incidence of serious childhood Covid-19 illness or death are minuscule.
@Cian, that attitude has kids still dying from measles. The antivaxx Andrew Wakefields of this world will kill more children than a vaccine will.
And especially pets dressed in tinsel, that’s just cruel
They look like they spend a lot of time passionately arguing with anonymous people online. It gives them a serotonin rush unlike any other they now experience in real life. They simply can’t get enough of it. It makes them feel ALIVE like nothing else in their humdrum lives can. It is the ultimate RPG shooter. Middle-age online sniping, it’s a helluva drug … you all know what I’m talking about, right?
Yourself?
Shocking censorship there Bodger, have you no shame?
Morons, hope the few that hlod down jobs are sportted and sacked before they can kill their coworkers
amazing what some folks can garner from a photograph. must get lessons, that way i might be able to draw my own conclusions.
Modern-day Phrenology
Suit yourself, Bodger.
Everyone on here, including me. On reflection, it’s actually really sad and embarrassing … so I’m going to stop. Not saying anyone else should, that’s just my opinion, I actually hope you all stay here and continue, it will make me feel even more superior! Best of luck with it all.
Thanks Joe.
Ah live line .. go on
Literally 10s of people there.
I’m assuming multiples of people feel the need to protest these measures for various reasons but are likely being put off by the extremist/lunatic fringe element who are guaranteed to suck any respectability out of the event.
The harsh reality is this is an unprecedented global event and we’re the ones who have to endure it, it’s natural to feel angry when you’re so helpless and events are completely beyond your control, unfortunately individuals don’t matter at times like this and some people can’t comprehend that.
Wow they really did a number on you. A form of technocratic totalitarianism is fast encroaching in countries around the world; liberal democracy under sustained attack, might be snuffed out completely, but the way you see it “individuals don’t matter at times like this and some people can’t comprehend that”.
Exactly, some people simply can’t comprehend that they aren’t at the center of the world, you appear to be one of them. Huff and puff all you like, democracy will be here long after you have shuffled off this mortal coil, the entire pandemic will be but a fraction of a blink in the history of the world, you can convince yourself all your noise means something but it doesn’t.
edit: I see you mention ‘coping mechanisms’ below, your railing against the tides of time is another coping mechanism, even if you can’t see it.
” Huff and puff all you like, democracy will be here long after you have shuffled off this mortal coil”
What will it take to shake you out of your complacency? If liberal democracy is to survive in any shape or form it won’t be due to people showing such a level of indifference as yourself. Take the blinkers off and look at how much our society and societies around the world have already been transformed. When in history have governments simple rolled back on power grabs without a struggle?
You should heed the recent words from German MEP, Christine Anderson:
https://youtu.be/_walPWEACsc?t=117 ‘
..one of the disadvantages of free democratic societies – that you always reach a point at which you believe that democracy and the rule of law and freedom are somehow God-given, that they’ve always been there and that they will survive, whereas in actual fact these are rights that have to be battled for ..these fundamental principles which are anchored in the basic law, in the constitution in Germany should not be viewed as privileges which are granted by the government and then can be withdrawn..
..we need to make it clear to the people of Europe that they should not tolerate this for a moment longer’
On Leo’s “long war” with Covid – it was my concern when lockdown first happened that health authorities were delighted with it as they had a new tool to reverse the blame for capacity and resource shortages. They got away with using it as a distraction for two winters in a row now, but with Omicron weakening Covid, the pandemic is over. We simply can’t afford to let them away with doing this to us every winter, to distract us from their health mismanagement,. It’ll be their new normal way of dealing with winter overcrowding problems if we let them away with it.
The petty bitching on this thread is very telling.
Petty bitching – par for the course, SOQ. Attack the person, not their arguments. Even when the people are pretty clearly a normal mix of the people you see in any town, you can still insult them and pretend that answers their arguments.
I’d see it as a kind of coping mechanism. It’s disturbing to be confronted with the notion that those in positions of supposed authority aren’t really there to defend your best interests or the best interests of society at large. The recent above quote from Varadkar is a stark example of this.
Rather than contemplate this uncomfortable reality, it’s easier for some to direct their anger towards the dissenting minority as a form of distraction. The dissenters threaten to break their illusion that all these measures are being imposed for the common good, therefore they must be smeared as objects of contempt and ridicule.
Totally agree
What a motley crew.
After the revolution happens, will they be our government?