Die Bösewichte des Internets verzerrten die Treibstoffproteste schnell in ein Narrativ, das von der Realität abweicht
https://www.thejournal.ie/internet-diaries-fuel-protests-distorted-social-media-7007479-Apr2026/
Von Inevitable_Wasabi574
Die Bösewichte des Internets verzerrten die Treibstoffproteste schnell in ein Narrativ, das von der Realität abweicht
https://www.thejournal.ie/internet-diaries-fuel-protests-distorted-social-media-7007479-Apr2026/
Von Inevitable_Wasabi574
16 Kommentare
And some of the main characters of the protest allowed it to happen
It’s very generous of people to start pretending this wasn’t what these protests have been the entire time, to try and give some misguided people an out to be able to say oh no it’s just some bad actors
It’s stupid and it allows them to ignore growing right wing sentiments, but it’s generous
edit: downvote this all you want, all the evidence of who organised these and what they stand for was available from the beginning
Did McDermott want to make any comments about the narrative pushed by the protestors?
-Representing the people of Ireland.
-The blockades were not the protestors fault.
These flag flying patriots have cost the country close to a billion maybe? Please ban these cnuts from ever waving the Irish flag again.
(600 of 1,500 filling stations run dry, major motorways including the M50, M7, M4, M6, M8, M9 and M20 closed, and 200,000+ workers disrupted, generated an estimated €280–485 million in direct economic damage across fuel retail, logistics, hospitality, healthcare, public transport, and policing which, combined with the Government’s €505 million support package, brings the total cost to Ireland to approximately €785 million to €990 million)
Some of them turned up and attacked Sinn Fein members instead of the government.
Imagine giving out about people who you said weren’t doing enough and when they throw full throttled support they get abused.
Useful idiots for government is all they are.
If you asked 10 people what the protests end goal is, you’d likely get 15 different answers.
It’s a mishmash of unhappy people who are all angry at different things who, in general, feel ignored.
Everything from fuel to cost of living, to housing and immigration. They have every right to be angry amd frustrated by a lot of these issues to be fair.
It’s why these protests could never really end with them being satisfied, there’s no real answers in the middle of all that anger. They want „someone“ to do „something“ whether it’s realistic or not.
And that’s were your typical right ring grifter slithers in and whispers in their ear that they’re the answer somehow.
Right now I’m seeing a lot of lads who made a bit of buzz yelling and shouting at a protest or two amd got posted up and shared on social media.
The rants are typical rants I’ve heard in every other pub since the last global recession but now they’ve gained their 5 minutes of fame they’ve decided they’re bloody braveheart, taking „freedom back for the Irish“ against the government. That we voted for.
The entire thing was very stupid. Crash the economy and a lot of people would have lost jobs. The whole idea of it being hijacked is nonsense. Again, the issue is foreign wars and only so much can be done.
As if the protesters weren’t the type to make homophobic or misogynistic jokes on Facebook all day
Even if it wasn’t hijacked it was still a right wing protest in the first place. An anti tax demonstration carried out by asset owners that attempted to socialise their losses after years of making private profit.
The whole thing was maddening.
Shouldnt that say „*RTE/Newstalk quickly distorted the fuel protests into a narrative divorced from reality*“
I think the main isssue I have taken from this is what’s going to happen when either tax returns dip or corporate tax receipts fall off.
Post Covid the minute sometimes goes wrong is a hand out to the government.
In this case there is a war going on that can not be controlled. Food prices will increase along with gas and oil. It can’t be stopped
It wasn’t that quickly at all, Was clear to see for days and was pointed out numerous times by myself and others. Everyone too busy sticking it to the man to see how easily lead they actually are
Lots of keyboard warriors who are annoyed and not interested that so many farmers and haulers are doing it tough
Social media allows them to communicate…..lies & false information flooding everywhere……
Jesus the pro government bots are flat out today!!
We can go on all day about the protestors being eejits and the far-right fascist scum element but also the govt has appeared horrendously weak and also completely out of touch.
I genuinely don’t know anyone in Ireland who isn’t deeply pissed off about something.
People who aren’t that well read see headlines about huge budget surpluses and then they see everything going up and they just feel like they’re being raised in the arse.
This is when the far-right rats slither in and whisper their lies.
Perfect ple do give off at populism but a government does need to be somewhat popular to survive and the Ireland these wankers in power have built is just slowly destroying people.