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I’m not one to defend the mass killing of the Gazans if they are deemed to be war crimes but you defend Russia as if it is better than the Israelis.

Whatever you might argue about the potential micro genocide of a population within a small area such as Gaza the prolonged tortuous and freezing conditions in Russia led to far more sinister and premeditated evil than in Gaza. And in the sub zero temperatures there was far greater suffering than in an environment where freezing to death isn’t possible.

The suffering in Russia was prolonged over decades. It was a slow tortuous elimination and colonisation of populations. Israel is nowhere near that level yet. You best put on your Torino jersey and jump into bed with Mick. You seem to have a similar lack of morals and jump on the only bandwagon you can to try and stick it to the establishment and elevate yourself above people trying to stop such actions.

If your post had any relevance to my or the poster I replied to post I would entertain explaining myself. He was referring to Wallace. Neither my post nor the poster I responded to has mentioned anything to do with Carbery. Deflection, gas lighting and straw man all rolled up into one disinforming repsonse by you.

Edit I see you are replying to a previous post I made re Carbery. In relation to Nina Carbery let’s see what she does, Ni Mhurchu did very little more than her.

She should be held to the same character assassinations as Carbery. She is a product of the entertainment industry. Why haven’t people been highlighting that fact and focusing the light on Carbery.

One debate my whole. She’s done very little more than Carbery and relied on the same high profile exposure to be elected.

Da Kingdom is certainly a law onto itself.

Still seems to do well for itself though when it comes to public money going in their direction.

it’s reductive insofar as the geographic area and population reduction is on a far smaller scale than the evils of Russia since the inception of communism.

I do not seek to diminish the appalling death going on in Gaza in any way other to say that Russia has done in its history worse on a larger scale. And that people who jump to its defence and condemn western foreign policy are misguided and quite possibly evil.

But that’s it for you, argue semantics to deflect from the appalling defence of Russia and the disinformation of the Russian imperial project since its inception.

They went for the contrarian anti establishment vote but they went too far. Luckily, and I didn’t see this coming, the people from WexFord and Ireland south hate Dublin and Brussels slightly less than Moscow since it invasion of Ukraine.

Perhaps the influx of Ukrainian refugees insured that. A short sharp dose of tragedy on their doorsteps stopped them taking the piss out of the Dubs.

And what a wake up call it was for many of the Nessas and granny’s around the country. Devs ireland looked a lot less attractive when peppered with a dose of foreign displacement.

I think it's interesting how the European elections attract "celebrity" candidates when the local or general elections don't. Is it because someone with little or no political experience can enter politics at a high-level, gain the cachet and salary without having to worry about close scrutiny or Mrs O'Donnell endlessly phoning to complain about the pothole at the end of her road?

You are largely correct and it is a direct consequence of the variant of PR that we use. Were we using one of the various party list PR variants, there would probably be more emphasis on the policies / political (ie ideological) positions of the parties in the elections and much less on issues such as whether person X or Y is a nicer / better person to elect…