Conor McGregor announces run for Irish presidency on anti-immigration platform

The post comes just days after McGregor, 36, appeared at the White House with Donald Trump on St. Patrick’s Day, where he became the latest European ally of the US president to promote anti-immigrant sentiment – drawing controversy and censure back home.

“Ireland is at the cusp of potentially losing its Irishness,” McGregor said Monday, claiming the government had “abandoned the voices” of Irish people and that rural towns were being overrun by immigrants.

Once the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Dublin-born McGregor was the first fighter to hold two UFC belts simultaneously and, according to Forbes, was the world’s highest paid sports star in 2021.

Now he can rape Ireland.

Unqualified celebrities running for high office of countries. Have people lost their minds by substituting knowledge and experience with notoriety?

It’s a ceremonial role. He’s been accused of sexual assault multiple times. However, it’s a real issue and he claims he’ll ask for a referendum on immigration. Again, failure to deal with the problem could lead to a right wing leader in an unlikely place.

Oh look - a dumb sexual predator and abuser of women with no experience in government running for head of state.

What could go wrong?

There's a lot of rage in Ireland towards the government for it's feckless incompetence. The kind of incompetence that allowed in a Gyanese man who raped and imprisoned a girl after a few days in the country. And the government will lie brazenly and say there's nothing wrong when something involving an immigrant seems to happen everyday. Our country is at the edge of the abyss with abominable housing prices and free for all illegal and legal immigration. McGregor is a rapist yes but he's also possibly the only high profile Irish presence expressing the forbidden thoughts of the populace. He also comes from working-class Crumlin, for Americans that would be a ghetto. We shall see what happens.

R4, the President of the Republic of Ireland is an apolitical ceremonial role that doesn't have many political powers and certainly not over migration policy. It's rarely filled by politicians although most presidents are distinguished in other areas.

I would be willing to bet that he'd win. He's not out of step with European reactionary populism and anti-immigrant sentiment.

Would you vote for him, r8? Especially as he plans to undermine the Irish constitution and politicise the role of president.

Apologies, r10 is for r7. Would you vote for McGregor, r7?

Looks like he's had his head bashed in quite a few times.

[QUOTE] Looks like he's had his head bashed in quite a few times.

You wouldn’t hesitate to drop to your knees for him.

[quote] Unqualified celebrities running for high office of countries. Have people lost their minds by substituting knowledge and experience with notoriety?

It's the age of the influencer, all the time.

The EU migration pact actually strengthens checks and monitoring of migrants and asylum seekers. The Guyanese man r7 mentions didn't enter Ireland under the migration pact or even under any EU rules. He was not even a migrant but a holiday maker who entered Ireland for a few days from the UK. Not implementing the EU migration pact would have had no impact on whether this convicted rapist could enter Ireland or not as he entered Ireland from the UK thanks to the common travel area which Ireland has with the UK and which lies outside of EU law. Is McGregor suggesting ending the common travel area with the UK too?

[quote] It's rarely filled by politicians….

Hmm. Michael Higgins, Mary Robinson….

[quote] Unqualified celebrities running for high office of countries. Have people lost their minds by substituting knowledge and experience with notoriety?

If he’s the only one willing to speak truth to power, there wouldn’t be alternatives, right?

Which "truth to power" is McGregor willing to speak, r17? He's not saying anything beyond regurgitating a few garbled tropes. How would he perform his main roles of being a unifying figure for the people of Ireland, representing Ireland to the world and protecting the Irish constitution, especially when he's proposing to undermine it by intervening in government policy?

It's already heavily politicised r10 by a man who used a Holocaust memorial speech to speak about Palestine. Higgins does not give a fuck about temperance or holding in his opinion when he acts like the nation's loveable crotchety grandpa and his fans enjoy that because they agree with his politics, but if McGregor wins nobody can say that precident wasn't already broken. Maybe he should win if the platform is based on who's more entertaining or outrageous. Higgins can tell people that was his legacy for Ireland. I'll tell you who I voted for if any of this actually happens.

The thread's a bit short r15 but the act determines migrant intake by GDP which for Ireland is a problem because among other dubious factors high rent drives up GDP, so you can imagine the implications. Ireland didn't need it, we could have just adopted the migrant policy of a country with a functioning government.

Where is an Irish Valerie Solanas when you need her?

I promise this is my last post, the 'truth to power' McGregor speaks of is that our country exists as an engine to funnel as much money as possible to as few people as possible, and the very cold knowledge that Irish people come last in Ireland.

R19, was Higgins speaking against government policy?

Speak of your desperation to someone else, R13.

Not enough hard-right Irish to get this absolute gobshite elected.

The funny thing is the Irish were absolutely hated when they first started migrating to America. They were thought of as dangerous, wild barbarians. So, it's ironic to see McGregor in the US on St Patrick's Day and appealing to the descendants of those Irish migrants by saying the same thing about migrants to Ireland today.

Rapists hate the idea of foreign rapists targeting prey they consider rightfully theirs.

if europe keeps accepting arab and sub saharan immigrants in large numbers , you can be sure that in 10 years all liberal democracies will disappear in the continent and say good bye to gay rights.

Is new immigration the problem or is it the effects of all the people they already admitted?

I would say “publicity stunt,” but ….

The biggest mistake of the EU was to allow citizens to move and work within the EU relatively easily. That's really the issue why the UK left. They had projections of a certain amount of immigrants and ended up getting 5-8x as many.

Having a common currency is one thing - and the trade. But the movement of citizens and ability to work in all of these different countries is not a good idea. It makes the poor countries poorer with the brain drain.

And yes - people WANT to keep their cultural identity. What's wrong with that? Thousands of years of shared traditions, language, food, etc. - people are still tribal - particularly in Europe where you have such a distinct mix of languages and cultures so close together.

He won't win - but politicians need to start listening to people about immigration concerns.

Europe is just getting its karma after years of colonialism and invasion. You can’t spent years sucking resources from countries and then get mad when they show up at your doorstep.

I’d still eat his ass.

[quote] You can’t spent years sucking resources from countries and then get mad when they show up at your doorstep.

The issue is not them showing up. The issue is the government letting them in. The U.S. is now showing how to handle people who show up uninvited at the doorstep or who somehow make it in.

R31 - obviously that is true, except 2 things - Ireland didn't have any colonies, it was a colony of Britain and misused/abused for centuries.

Second - European colonies undoubtedly took resources and raw materials from other countries. But - they also brought in a lot of technology and advancements as well. They came in with money to invest in the country. Yes - the profits of which were taken out of the country - we know that.

That's different than having people show up to live without money or education at your doorstep and you're now on tab for providing healthcare, education and housing for them.

He's a vile human being AND immigration to Ireland is out of control. Both are true. McGregor is not the person to deal with the issues Ireland faces.

R30, the UK left the EU for idiotic moron reasons. The rest of the EU is perfectly happy with freedom of movement. Every country in the EU is proud of its own heritage and culture. The EU in fact protects the various national heritages.

As usual, those saying immigration is out of control are unable to explain just how the EU migration pact, which actually controls migration, will have negative effects. Nor are they able to say what McGregor's counter-policy would be.

[quote]The U.S. is now showing how to handle people who show up uninvited at the doorstep or who somehow make it in.

Interesting point, r33, but completely irrelevant to the EU migration pact whereby migrants are processed and migration is controlled and governments agree to take them in

R36 - how does "The EU in fact protects the various national heritages."?

The ability to freely travel is one thing - but the ability to work in any country seems short-sighted and, as we've seen, shows a flow of younger people and immigrants from less developed countries to more developed countries.

That's not going to raise up the 2nd or 3rd tier countries with the brain drain. Secondly, it makes the middle and working classes of the more developed countries bitter about having to compete against people who will work for less.

The whole 'immigration is great for the economy' is a lie if the benefits of the economy is tilted toward the upper 1-5% - and that's what has been happening the past 20 years. If everyone was benefiting from the economy, it may be true - but that's not the case.

People are rightfully upset.

No one is upset about freedom of movement, aka the right to live and work in other EU countries, r39. No EU member state wants to change that, neither the countries of net outflows nor the countries of net inflows. It's not accurate to say there's a significant brain drain either. Any outward migration would have been far greater without EU membership to bolster the local economy.

That isn't even what McGregor is on about.

Good for him.

He looks like an uncut penis.

R40 - Any outward migration would have been far greater without EU membership to bolster the local economy - what do you mean?

I agree that's not what he's talking about - but it's a broader discussion of people feeling their cultural identities being dissolved by EU and non-EU immigration and asylum.

Michael D. Is going to be hard to replace and it certainly won’t be the likes of that scum above getting the nod.

[quote]The funny thing is the Irish were absolutely hated when they first started migrating to America. They were thought of as dangerous, wild barbarians. So, it's ironic to see McGregor in the US on St Patrick's Day and appealing to the descendants of those Irish migrants by saying the same thing about migrants to Ireland today.

^^This argument is whataboutism and completely irrelevant.

[Quote] The issue is not them showing up. The issue is the government letting them in. The U.S. is now showing how to handle people who show up uninvited at the doorstep or who somehow make it in.

Yes, the U.S. is certainly a shining beacon.

Creates conditions of poverty and lawlessness in countries to its south

Desperate people who wish to protect themselves and their children from the resulting extreme violence and poverty migrate to safety

Country that created these conditions won’t let them in

👏👏👏

[quote]And yes - people WANT to keep their cultural identity. What's wrong with that?

Nothing at all, as long as the people in question are non-white. If they're white, it's racist and they're worse than Hitler.

[quote]Europe is just getting its karma after years of colonialism and invasion. You can’t spent years sucking resources from countries and then get mad when they show up at your doorstep.

So when is Turkey going to get its comeuppance for all the centuries of pain and misery the Ottoman Empire inflicted on the world?

See how that argument works?

It’s not Whataboutism, stupid at r45. It’s the same fucking people in the before and after.

And your Italian ancestors did and are doing the same exact thing.

The weekend starting early for you I see. Taking time out from your agenda of photographing covered bridges all alone, coming here to post racist hatred?

R47 is fine with rapists as long as they're white

That's why you guys support McGregor, Trump, and Hegseth

R48 accuses people who are not committing Whataboutism of whataboutism, then ten seconds later commits Whataboutism for real himself.

No r50 I am not MAGAT at all. I hate Trump. But the Left has its own problems.

r49 again you sound ridiculous. BTW I'm not even Italian. Braying "BUT BUT BUT THIS happened too!" is whataboutism. What the West is dealing with presently is a population beholden to a backwards, Medieval way of thinking who do not respect their Western host countries and do not assimilate. They love the benefits and relative safety, but they are hostile to everything about Western culture, society and ideals. Comparing them to the European populations that came to the US well over a century ago is a fallacy. This is a completely different situation and a direct threat to the cohesiveness of Western Civilization.

But all assholes like you can do is point your finger and scream "racist!" as if that's going to do anything. It's simplistic, uninformed and frankly downright ignorant.

r51 I guess you don't understand sarcasm.

Oh god. We're going to start having 80 Conor threads a day aren't we?

R49 - but you can't draw the same parallels of immigration from 19th and early 20th century to today. The US needed more people with the expansion in all the states - it was a new country. The racisim against Irish was a hold over from the English that was adopted here - a long with a healthy dose of anti-Catholicism.

To be certain, there is a need for IT and healthcare workers.

But that's not what I believe Conor is talking about. Look I don't support this rapey motherfucker anymore than the next guy - but all Western countries need to get a grip on immigration or it will be continued to be a wedge issue in elections.

You can't just call anyone with concerns xenophobic or racist. There are genuine concerns - particularly when middle and working class are struggling and the housing market is out of control and they aren't building enough housing.

When middle and working class people are stressed about housing and food, then best believe they don't want more coming in.

I’m not the frogfaced troll, I hate Trump! I also don’t pretend to be a black oereon here!

Oh and I was just being sarcastic!

Go to bed r56. The adults are talking.

[Quote] Braying "BUT BUT BUT THIS happened too!" is whataboutism.

Not if the same people are involved in both examples, you hideous frogfaced piece of shit.

Maybe one day you’ll make an honest argument on the DL, by accident, the whole stoped clock thing.

Weekend desperation already setting in, froggy? Feeling that loneliness that your day trips to take photos can’t wash away?

You’re alone because you’re an awful person, as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.

How do you say frogfaced troll in Italian-American? I think it starts with a D.

r58/59 you're not making any sense, just ranting. Come back when you can make a coherent, sensible argument. Until then, enjoy your weekend!

I’ll enjoy my weekend because I won’t be alone, unlike certain photographers we could name 💔

[quote]but you can't draw the same parallels of immigration from 19th and early 20th century to today. The US needed more people with the expansion in all the states - it was a new country.

That's the point all of these virtue-signaling assholes who can only scream "racist!" and make whataboutism comparisons always miss. Back in the late 19th century during the huge wave of immigration during the Ellis Island period, the US was in full swing with industrialization, there weren't enough people to fill all the factories, build the railroads etc. Also, the Civil War killed 700,000 young American men. The loss of life was staggering. There was a critical shortage of young able-bodied men who could work in jobs that were desperate to have them. It was a VERY different time.

R63 - yes - and after WW2, European countries needed male workers to immigrate as well.

Look - the point is - Millennials and Gen Z and a lot of even Gen X and Boomer Americans have felt left behind. The Gen Z and Millennials are almost resigned themselves to doom and a not so great life. We have highest percent of people 18-30 still living with their parents since the Depression.

People are resentful of ALL immigrants when it seems the gvt cares more about them than they do their own citizens. It's hard not to feel that way. When are THEIR opportunities going to become available? How come THEY can't get the training needed for all of these IT and healthcare jobs?

When people are struggling themselves how do you expect them to support bringing more people in? I don't give a fuck if they have a PhD - let them get a job in their own country.

How much does it cost to bring in immigrants and provide them with social benefits - why don't we use that to train our own people for better jobs?

It's one thing to have immigration when there's such a labour shortage - but when people can't find jobs nowadays, or anything that pays well, and prices have gone up - why the hell should more come in?

[quote]How much does it cost to bring in immigrants and provide them with social benefits - why don't we use that to train our own people for better jobs?

Exactly. The money could be spent on Americans.

R65: migrants do jobs that others won’t do. The gain to the economy and “benefits” is generally positive. It’s not difficult to find information on this. Low information people like you are why we’re stuck with Trump,who will definitely take away any benefit you think you have.

r66 if those jobs paid living wages Americans would do them. Greedy pig companies (who are Trump voters) take advantage of migrants. I just love that anyone who has any common sense is a MAGA according to you idiots.

BTW, the above poster made a very good point about health care and IT. The money could be used to train Americans in those fields.

R65, this isn’t even about Americans, but everyone knows that a right-wing government, no matter where it is, will never spend money to help anyone but the rich.

R4 People expect politics to be entertainment nowadays. It's like the gap-toothed retards on DL who use the phrase 'I'm getting out the popcorn' when referring to certain political situations.

r69 we've become a nation of Influencers and reality show morons. It's sickening.

And you know what was one of the causes of the dumbing down of our culture? AIDS. I've posted this before but Fran Lebowitz really explained it. Starts @ 1:00.

Irish Twitter comedian Garron Noone deleted his social media accounts because he gave the mildest of agreements to the notion that immigration is an issue in Ireland and people branded him a racist.

Garron Noone.

McGregor looks hot.

R71, this is why Ireland is fucked. If immigration is an issue to people, calling them names means their only outlet is the right, Ireland may think it’s immune to the right wing but it isn’t. Opposing immigration is not even a left/right issue because in the past many labor unions and socialists opposed it as well. It was considered a threat to higher wages for working people.

R72 linked to a right-wing account

R64, unemployment is like 4%. Most people who want jobs have jobs

If Gen Z males want higher paying jobs, perhaps they shouldn't listen to right-wing influencers who tell them that going to college is woke and gay

But I guess it's just easier to be racist and blame immigrants for everything you don't like

R55, you think it's immigrants buying up all the houses? ROFLMAO.

You guys say they're all on welfare, now you say they're rich enough to buy their own homes

Maybe you shouldn't listen to JD Vance

Bless your heart r76

[quote]you think it's immigrants buying up all the houses? ROFLMAO.

If by "immigrants" you mean piece of shit foreign scumbags who pay in cash, then yes? Are you truly that ignorant to what's been going on for at least two decades? Half of Vancouver's housing is in LLC's from China FFC.

Cool! In return can we keep the Irish out of our countries?

We are very much over them flailing around Australia beaches, leaving cigarette butts, smashed beer bottles and puddles on vomit in their wake.

That's true. The low Irish taxes are why so many companies have headquarters there, and if you let them, they would plow and plunder the spoils of Ireland and chuck you away once they have eaten through your carcass.

That's the nature of colonialism, the nature of greed and selfishness. They will take the shirt off your back without a thank you, so you have to say enough is enough and protect your piece of the world from selfishness and corporate greed.

Like Australians aren't doing the same thing. You were the dregs of the Empire, honey.

Did you read the article. In 2023 Ireland a country of 5 million saw 140,000 immigrants enter the country. The equivalent for the US would be around 10 million in one year. Those numbers are very high.

[quote] Like Australians aren't doing the same thing

Shows how little you know. Australians don’t tend to litter on beaches, there are 50 years and hundreds of dollars spent on anti-littering education. It is tourists and the newly arrived migrants who treat our landscapes like a tip and publicly dump rubbish.

[quote]I’d still eat his ass.

You’d have to. He’s the kind you’d have to flip over to find a use for him.

Not when I've been there r84.

R84 if Aborigines wanted to cover Uluru in an Andy Warhol-like heap of trash to make a statement, or give it as a present to the stars or simply because they fucking wanted to, are you going to say they should mind litter laws?

You do know there wasn't litter there when it was just them on their giant continent island. Then you fucking people had to come in with your litter.

So you don’t live here and have no clue what you’re talking about R86.

Glad we have settled that.

[quote] if Aborigines wanted to cover Uluru in an Andy Warhol-like heap of trash to make a statement

Out the straw man down. Your analogy makes zero sense. They don’t want litter on Uluṟu. They don’t want people’s FEET on Uluṟu.

So take your pills, stop talking shit and don’t come to Australia and treat it like a Tipperary outhouse.

r88 observers often have a diamond-clear assessment.

Australians observe Irish trash embarrassing themselves all over their country too.

Are the Aboriginals still a problem? Terrible.

R71 in the US, you’re branded a racist, bigot, and MAGA if you oppose even illegal immigration.

Selena Gomez in tears on social media because Trump rounded up illegal immigrant rapists and child predators his first week in office and sent them back to their country and the left was outraged.

That’s why the left is losing right now.

I’m branded MAGA on this board as an American because I am pro-American any sense of dignity and pride I have is basically considered alt right / MAGA / pro-Trump. You can’t be pro-gay, pro-multi-culture, pro-women, you have to hate the US and be pro-everyone else in order to be seen as liberal today. Burning the American flag and wanting to leave is liberal today.

I don’t know how drastic it is in Ireland today with liberalism but I’m wondering if it’s as toxic as the US’s left wing liberalism.

Cause in the US, Trump won, Democratic favorably is at all time low since 1999 and people are sick of the looney liberal. And the US is still generally liberal but what is considered moderate today is true blue liberalism and not the anti-American liberalism you see on DL or Twitter.

R93 correction I mean all time low since 1990, not 1999.

R93 why listen to Selena Gomez on politics? Why listen to Conor McGregor on politics?

Focus on what is important.

I hope the Irish are smarter than Americans

All that verbal diarrhea from R93, when he could have just shown us his MAGA hat...

Most people in Ireland hate him and think he's a scumbag.

R97 It’s just like I said in my post!

Opposing illegal immigration and being pro-America is considered right wing / MAGA.

Thank you for proving my point.

This is an huge issue with the US right now. Liberals are as looney as the Evangelist and Alt Right.

R93 They're not important but they’re a reflection of society and the narratives which IS important.

R91 Oh please, to hell with the Australians. Those colonizers have such high skin cancer rates because they still can’t adapt to the sun there. That land is for melanated people. They’re like penguins in a safari. Slip Slop Slap is what they say.

All the more reason for Irish trash to keep out.

[quote] Irish Twitter comedian Garron Noone deleted his social media accounts because he gave the mildest of agreements to the notion that immigration is an issue in Ireland and people branded him a racist.

Garron Noone: you can’t have political discussions on TikTok, it takes an at least an hour to scratch the surface

Also Garron Noone: proceeds to have a political discussion on TikTok.

FAFO.

Blaming society's problems on a minority group is just about as right-wing as a person can get, r99

R104 I’m sorry, illegal immigrants are a minority group?

Illegal immigrants are literally effecting American and legal minorities.

R105 legal immigrant minorities*

30-45% of undocumented immigrants have home ownership in the US. 45% of Black Americans have home ownership in the US.

But oh let me stop, this is such a right wing thing to talk about.

The posters here blindly foaming at the mouth over immigrants are - not surprisingly - completely overlooking the specific issue that McGregor has a problem with, namely Ireland's decision to participate in the EU migration pact.

First of all, the president of Ireland cannot call a referendum. Second, the EU migration pact is a control on migration and involves the strict processing and even repatriation of potential migrants and asylum seekers. Third, the majority of the elected Irish parliament voted to join the EU migration pact. Sinn Fein voted against it. Perhaps McGregor should support Sinn Fein in the next parliamentary elections, because the things he says he wants to see happen or be prevented are outside the powers of the president.

Pointing out McGregor's hypocrisy isn't "whataboutism", r45.

He raped a women so violently that her tampon had to be surgically removed with forceps.

The man should have his head on a fucking pike.

Garron’s statement was completely harmless. I have followed him on Instagram -he is very funny and not political. . I guess this is what JD Vance was talking about regarding free speech in Europe. .

R107 that’s a made up statistic. You’re full of shit.

[quote]He raped a women so violently that her tampon had to be surgically removed with forceps.

Maybe he's a Muslim?

[quote]The man should have his head on a fucking pike.

Which is exactly what Eastern Europeans did to the Ottomans in the late Middle Ages. And thank your lucky stars they did, or Western Civilization would've been over.

[quote] Second, the EU migration pact is a control on migration and involves the strict processing and even repatriation of potential migrants and asylum seekers.

And they're doing such a bang-up job of it! Useless fucking bureaucrats.

r109 that argument was a classic example of whataboutism.

Who the fuck is defending Islam? Are you really gay men or trolls?

They didn’t have tampons in the late Midfle Ages, you dolt.

^^They rolled up rags and stuck them up their cunts,cunt.

Dummy, they used rags like a sanitary pad not like a tampon.

Good bye Irish culture! Goodbye Irish potatoes!

Actually! Potatoes are NOT native Ireland! They are an AMERICAS native food. Make Ireland great again! Get your own cultural food! Stop pilfering the Mexican potato!

Yes, it's true that potatoes are not native to Ireland. They originated in the Andes Mountains of South America, mainly in what is now Peru and Bolivia, and were domesticated by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago. Spanish explorers brought potatoes to Europe in the late 1500s, and they eventually became a staple crop in Ireland due to their high yield and nutritional value.

The Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852) was caused by Phytophthora infestans, a fungal-like pathogen that led to potato blight, destroying crops and causing mass starvation. The problem was that Ireland relied almost entirely on a single variety of potato, the "Irish Lumper," which had little genetic diversity and was highly susceptible to disease.

While Mexico does have a rich history of agriculture and biodiversity, the specific Andean varieties that first came to Europe were already limited in genetic diversity. If a more diverse selection of potatoes had been introduced, particularly ones that co-evolved with blight-resistant traits (such as those found in South America), Ireland might have fared better.

Italians stole the tomato too!

I can't stand this guy's moronic schtick. He walks around like an absolute stuck up arrogant cliche.

[quote] Garron’s statement was completely harmless. I have followed him on Instagram -he is very funny and not political. . I guess this is what JD Vance was talking about regarding free speech in Europe. .

I guess you are who they are talking about when they say people who listen to J D Vance are morons. No one’s free speech was violated.

Noone was completely free under Irish law to say what he said. Hundreds and thousands of people, in turn, have spoken without limitation in defence of him. There has been absolutely no infringement of free speech.

Noone himself temporarily chose to withdraw from social media because of the response of members of the general public to what he said. He did so because of his commercial interests or his unwillingness to deal with the honest responses of members the public that he invited by making his statements.

His statement was generally anodyne, but there was one key statement that was not. He said crime was not simply an immigration issue. If you don’t understand why that is offensive, change the statement to “crime is not just a catholic issue” or “crime is not just a gay issue.”

If he has solid evidence immigration increases crime, he should be encouraged to say that. But that is not what he did. It is also perfectly permissible to oppose immigration purely on principle. But he also did not make that statement. Instead, he chose to blame a group of people on a claim for which he has no evidence. The fact that the government doesn’t prevent people from criticising him when he makes unfounded criticisms of a group of people is not a sign Ireland no longer respects free speech. Quite the opposite.

I typically side with the Irish over the English in everything, but the Poms have two good points - the Irish are desperate to be liked and are enormously self-pitying.

'God bless Ireland': Conor McGregor attends anti-immigration protest in Dublin city centre

I don’t think a crude racist pig with a history of assaults will gain as much traction in Ireland as here.

Here we have Fox News so Trump has an entire propaganda network behind him. I don’t think they have the same rightwing bullhorn in Ireland.

I'm new here and pondering the complaint of the poster who wrote that celebrating cultures is fine except if you're white.

I like to celebrate my whiteness with white foods, and I mean the color. Lot's of mayonnaise, whipped cream, white wine and cheese. Sometimes it's hard to know what your white culture is when one of your parents is from Finland, the other England. Now they are both pretty white countries so I figure I can eat Karjalanpiirakka and call french fries 'chips' and potato chips 'crisps'.

The puzzle is how I tease out these immigrant cultures and figure out my own white culture. That brings me right back to the white foods. I guess I could add assassinating presidents, shrieking about American exceptionalism, and meth, lots of meth.

[Quote] I'm new here

R128 I meant new on this thread dear. But I like this white girl!

[quote]a crude racist pig

You could've just said "Irish."

[quote]The puzzle is how I tease out these immigrant cultures and figure out my own white culture.

All you have to do is go to Whole Foods.