I was asked (separately via pm) to comment on one of my (Ireland's) politicians: Clare Daly. To make things simple here is a wiki about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Daly
broadly she is an active campaigner and universally loathed by the established media in my country. However like all people she will sometimes say something relevant. She is generally regarded by mainstream as dangerous.

As mad as it may sound i would compare her to Jeremy Corbyn in England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn who is also regarded by mainstream as dangerous. There are several good books about him to support this mainstream view.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 10 2022 07:52am

I just found this .
It's a 2 min speech

she is a nut job but i agree with everything she said there. the man beside her is mick wallace, also irish. he's pretty good (but also not liked by mainstream media).
who was the trash that walked out ?

/e yes, i said trash. thats what I will call anyone that is not able to take a roasting. you dont walk away from an arguement you talk about it. thats what politicians are meant to do.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 10 2022 08:09am

Wasn't he free to decide? By your opinion, he wasn't.
Didn't Russia proclaim it's independence the same day and tried to join Nato in 90s? Where's the result? We don't speak about who's is guilty. The answer is obvious. The answer is doing fine in his 70's. Better than you and way better than me. Gas still flows. Grabbing a 90 mio yacht from a billionaire and filming it on a drone, my ass. It's like McDonald's guy steals your power bank when you shit your cheeseburger out and put it on YouTube.

We are not in US, we are in Europe.

I sometimes sit and wonder what life would be like if Corbyn won. We'd probably be supplying weapons to Russia right now

She is claiming that Russia is get surronded by NATO, but the question is WHY countries near Russia are asking to be integrated in NATO ...
Because they had a taste of USSR and with Putin, over the last 20 years, they understood it could come back, and they don't want that.

There are so many terrible things about Boris Johnson. However, if I was in England and had to choose between him and Jeremy Corbyn, I would vote Boris every time. Its not Jeremy's foreign policy that is dangerous, its his domestic policy. Boris is leader of england because they dont have an alternative that would win them the election. Much like how Trump is still relevant.

steering my comments back on topic, I thought it would be Yulia Tymoshenko and not Zelensky that would be the new leader but the world is a funny place and political position can change in a heartbeat.



i would argue that her 2 minute speach was that we should step forward with diplomacy rather the step forward with weapons.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 10 2022 08:33am

october 2014



This post was edited by Djunior on Apr 10 2022 08:33am

I watched that but there was nothing new there. I do like Gorbachov though. the one take away for me was the picture in the thumbnail at the end of the video of the hot girl with the neck choker - which prompted me to take this screenshot



full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzO7gIT5GYU

DISCLAIMER: I have not watched all of that video but it probably has propaganda in it.
/e ok watched that video, its quite relevant.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 10 2022 08:56am