I try to emphasize with all people but WTF is this guy saying? Like, is he literally being paid by the Russians buying this aluminum?
The way the captions are done, I won’t watch it. What is this facebook?
Are you ok with one word at a time captions? Does this not bother anyone else. I don’t care what you are saying, if you use these captions you are dead to me.
Should this russian war supply house be shut down?
“Oh, well, that might be a matter for the cabinet to take up, uh, at such time should they, that is, if, and there is some. . “
What if it was supplying Israel?
“Oh we’d shut that shit down so fast - man, fuck Israel, man.”
. . . Ss . . So what if they only sold to Europe and not russia, that’d be a good compromise, yeah?
“Well, I don’t know. I can’t ask anyone there. I mean, they’re all russian.”
Greetings from Ireland. Two things to note here:
- Sincere apologies about our asshole politicians, and the people who elect them. Really. Unfortunately this politician is not a one-off.
- The interviewer is not a journalist and not Irish. He takes Irish Times articles and regurgitates them as if it’s his own work. He works making videos for the British far-right.
Except for the part where he is Irish and a journalist. Makes me doubt your Irish claim. He had worked with the far right in Britain but no longer does. In fact he works to expose far right disinformation now along with reporting from the front lines in Ukraine.
He was born here, I’ll give you that. But he moved away and is a dual citizen now. Yes, he’s an Irish citizen but seen as a “soup taker” here by some.
He’s not a journalist. He repeats other people’s work and presents it as his own. He is a campaigner.
I don’t understand Ukranian but am told by someone I trust that there are some easily found posts on Ukranian Facebook of him causing significant issues for some Ukrainian journalists.
Local politician remains committed to local issues despite baiting by far-right blogger.
He hasn’t been far right for several years now.
No such thing as an ex-neo-nazi.
Fucking spineless asshole.
Spineless until he has to protect his money.
lmao: ‘It’s… a moral issue’
Morally fuck off you gobshite.
I’m so used to seeing my fellow Americans being unforgivable pieces of shit, that it’s a little weird seeing an Irish person being so horrible
It’s almost as if all people have the capacity to be shitty regardless of the arbitrary location of their birth. Weird.
I guess, as an American, I’m so mired in my own toilet bowl of horror that I forget shitty people exist elsewhere
And Ireland seems like such a lovely place…
It is, for the most part. Doesn’t mean it hasn’t its share of issues.
Yeah, well, I’m sorry to be reminded that this entire world is pretty shitty
But there is one element in capitalist society for whom war is good. It is the element that coins money out of war, that gets rich on your ‘patriotism’ and self-sacrifice. It is the munitions manufacturers, the speculators in food and other supplies, the warship builders. In short, it is the great lords of finance, industry, and commerce who alone benefit by war.
For these war is a blessing. A blessing in more than one way. Because war also serves to distract the attention of the laboring masses from their everyday misery and turns it to ‘high politics’ and human slaughter. Governments and rulers have often sought to avoid popular uprising and revolution by staging a war. History is full of such examples. Of course, war is a double-edged sword. Often it, in turn, leads to revolt. But that is another story to which we shall return when we come to the Russian Revolution.
If you have followed me thus far, you must realize that war is just as much a direct result and inevitable effect of the capitalist system as are the regular financial and industrial crises.
From Now and After by Alexander Berkman, Chapter 6: War?. Available to read for free here.
Should probably be seized and used to pay for the defense of Ukraine.
There is a legitimate discussion to be had, about how sanctions or seizure would effect working Irish people. But russia needs to be hit wherever they are, for there actions in Ukraine.
We should probably also be talking about sanctioning the US as well, even though that’s gonna fuck me somehow.
Based
Weird place to put the Russian flag but ok
There are russian interests behind him by the sounds of it.
