Extinction Rebellion Ireland

Thelonious Monk

MrMusician18 wrote: »

We are not all in it together. By effectively pricing carbon out of the reach of the masses only the poor are in it together.
The wealthy won't see a change in living standards. In fact just opposite the story on extinction rebellion on rte is a story about how they're is a global shortage of private jet pilots.

Yes some people are far too rich. Is it better wealth distribution you’d be down with? Heavily tax the rich?

Micky 32

MrMusician18 wrote: »

We are not all in it together. By effectively pricing carbon out of the reach of the masses only the poor are in it together.
The wealthy won't see a change in living standards. In fact just opposite the story on extinction rebellion on rte is a story about how they're is a global shortage of private jet pilots.

Correct me if i’m wrong wasn’t there a little wage increase in the Dail recently? Probably to offset the up and coming carbon taxes.

Fr_Dougal

"Janina, 21, would like to have children"

Save the world by adding to overpopulation...:rolleyes:

is_that_so

Micky 32 wrote: »

Correct me if i’m wrong wasn’t there a little wage increase in the Dail recently? Probably to offset the up and coming carbon taxes.

That was part of the general PS pay increases. Some people opted not to take it.

Woke Hogan

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yes some people are far too rich. Is it better wealth distribution you’d be down with? Heavily tax the rich?

Heavily taxed to begin with. I personally believe the ultra rich should be killed. I genuinely consider the existence of billionaires to be a form of treason against the human species.

seamusk84

Any word on traffic disruption later?

Wanderer78

Woke Hogan wrote:

Heavily taxed to begin with. I personally believe the ultra rich should be killed. I genuinely consider the existence of billionaires to be a form of treason against the human species.

Should be interesting to see what happens when we get our first trillionaire then

Ush1

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Should be interesting to see what happens when we get our first trillionaire then

I'm sure there are already. I mean Putin effectively has most of the wealth of Russia. Hard to quantify just how wealthy some people are.

Wanderer78

Ush1 wrote:

I'm sure there are already. I mean Putin effectively has most of the wealth of Russia. Hard to quantify just how wealthy some people are.

Maybe, it's hard to know, I have considered this idea myself. Putin, shur more can you say, other than, scumbag

is_that_so

seamusk84 wrote: »

Any word on traffic disruption later?

There are "up to" 500 of them so it might be limited.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/1007/1081515-extinction-rebellion-protests-dublin/

gozunda

Always amazes me how these kind of protests bring out the the old Fench Revolution fevour in some. Viva la revolution eh? Down with the bourgeoisie and that type of thing - nes't-ce pas non?

suicide_circus

does the state own any water cannon?

El_Bee

Eat Bugs
Never Travel
Pay Carbon Taxes
Live in cramped company owned workhouses
Stop having children

If we can all do that, then China and India can breathe easy.

SeanW

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Unfortunately it didn’t work out but yes we probably need to lean towards some kind of communism instead of infinite economic growth which isn’t possible.

I would call 100,000,000 dead corpses (Communism killed 100,000,000 people in the last century) more than "it didn't work out" but thanks for proving that this is more pushing Socialism than anything else.

Wanderer78

El_Bee wrote: »

Eat Bugs
Never Travel
Pay Carbon Taxes
Live in cramped company owned workhouses
Stop having children

If we can all do that, then China and India can breathe easy.

hahahaha, people are fcuking mad!

TCM

Riot police should be used to shift these Ext Reb wasters from the capital.

griffin100

RoboCop is on standby.

is_that_so

griffin100 wrote: »

RoboCop is on standby.

That's nearly 10 years old!

MrMusician18

gozunda wrote: »

Always amazes me how these kind of protests bring out the the old Fench Revolution fevour in some. Viva la revolution eh? Down with the bourgeoisie and that type of thing - nes't-ce pas non?

Down with the bourgeoisie? More like down with the hoi polloi.

These protests are essentially saying that the good things in life should be limited to the few.

Thelonious Monk

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Down with the bourgeoisie? More like down with the hoi polloi.

These protests are essentially saying that the good things in life should be limited to the few.

Well... they should be limited. Like do people want things like air travel to just keep growing and for everyone to have 2 cars?

Nation 98

SeanW wrote: »

(Communism killed 100,000,000 people in the last century)

Communism didn't. Evil tyrants did.

_Brian

Nation 98 wrote: »

Communism didn't. Evil tyrants did.

Don’t be pedantic, communism facilities such people to have uncontrollable power and to be unchallenged by any rival.

Communism is a solution to nothing, and those giving any standing to it do a disservice to the many humans around the globe firmly under the foot of communist systems.

It’s easy and hypocritical to live comfortably in a modern democratic country and idolise communism in any form. Stupid people !

MrMusician18

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Well... they should be limited. Like do people want things like air travel to just keep growing and for everyone to have 2 cars?

Presumably everyone wants the good things for themselves and don't care for it to be denied to others.

But when the cost of living is ramped up to ration resources, to deny people things, we end up with homelessness and poverty.

Mr. teddywinkles

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Yes some people are far too rich. Is it better wealth distribution you’d be down with? Heavily tax the rich?

If they just pay the same tax percentage wise as a paye worker. It would be a start.

gozunda

MrMusician18 wrote: »

Down with the bourgeoisie? More like down with the hoi polloi. These protests are essentially saying that the good things in life should be limited to the few.

I was of course taking the pizz. And parodying the sentiment a la Charlie Haughy 'that we are all living beyond our means" as voiced by a couple of posters in the thread. Btw the definition of the bourgeoise being "the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes"

I reckon some of the protest supporters dont have a clue what they are really asking for and even if by some miracle they recieved it - they certainly wouldnt be happy campers once they discovered what it will entail.

Calhoun

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Tax them to the hilt...yeh...then when the price of your medicines and goods and services go up what happens?

De govermint r robbers

The funny thing is the people impacted the worse are going to be the poorer in society, as long as they aren't afraid of the cold then its something we can do.

The government is already half ****ting it over raising the carbon tax and we have SVP and other services come out and basically condemn them for it.

I find the whole climate thing fascinating, if people really understood what it meant and would accept the medicine that came with it then fair enough but we all know that wont happen.

Jimmy Garlic

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Unfortunately it didn’t work out but yes we probably need to lean towards some kind of communism instead of infinite economic growth which isn’t possible.

Didn't work in Russia, didn't work in Cuba, didn't work in eastern Europe, didn't work in Africa, Didn't work in South East Asia, didn't work in China. What makes you think that watermelon communism will work?

Thelonious Monk

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Didn't work in Russia, didn't work in Cuba, didn't work in eastern Europe, didn't work in Africa, Didn't work in South East Asia, didn't work in China. What makes you think that watermelon communism will work?

Don’t think it can work, would be great if it did though.

Micky 32

I found amusing an article from Denis Naughten how worried he is the carbon taxes are going to affect rural Ireland, acting sooo concerned . Last year he was for higher fuel costs and if fuel cost rose for whatever reason he was going to make sure they wouldn’t go back down. He clearly is now covering his own ass sonhe won’t get any blame..

vriesmays

Bunch of dopes marching down Grafton Street, most students, hippies or older ones who've never worked.