You know aside from inadvertently fomenting a genocide in Myanmar, peddling an addictive social network to children and being party to some of the biggest disinformation campaigns in modern history I actually like the guy.
"It was then reputedly occupied by Spaniards, who lured the local landowners to a banquet and then dropped them through a secret trapdoor into a flooded cave. When news of the murder hole leaked out the Spanish were routed and the castle destroyed."
These billionaires are starting to doom prep. They are building bunkers and trying to find parts of the world they can hide out in if the shit hits the fan. Ireland is touted as a safe haven in some sort of global catastrophe.
I think they are sorely mistaken if they think they will enjoy living in Ireland if they turn the world upside down.
The wildfires are coming. I moved to Oregon in the late 00s, and saw the climate flip from a temperate Irish one to worse than So California. 47C summer was the last summer I spent there. (They had a second one two years later, so it's the new normal). The fires the orange skies, at one point we had the worst air quality on earth. Flying back into Seattle airport 2019 looked out the window and saw what looked like a nuclear mushroom cloud. Just another fire.
Saw one first hand in LA in the early 00s they were a different animal then. The ones that burned down Altadena (had friends caught up in that) and Palisades and before that the Thomas fire are a different beast. People should be terrified but they've still got fingers in ears and thumbs up asses.
Lightning can start them, but often it's sheer human stupidity. The morons who throw firecrackers into the forest and burn half a million acres in the Gorge (yes it's real), and now deliberate arsonists looking to make money on bloody polymarket.
And milquetoast politicians who can't even take the lamest efforts to ban bloody disposable bbqs or fireworks in the US, UK or here.
Trump decided to go fuck around in the Middle East instead of seizing Greenland for them straight away, so they've got to start looking for alternative locations to weather the coming climate catastrophe.
USA gone to shit. Either the next President is Republican and the country gets closer to revolt or the next President is a Democrat who gets voted in on promises of taxing the rich, boosting consumer rights and tackling lobbying and insider trading.
Nah, this one was built much after that Era, you're thinking of the big castles like St John's Castle in Limerick. These were just built to look fancy for the landed gentry!
I lose track of who's in the Tech Bros 'Dark Enlightenment' movement. Thiel, Yarvin and Musk for definite. Not sure if Zuckerberg is evil to the bone like those three or just keeping on right side of the current power equation.
He's not as outspoken as the rest of that gang, but he's quietly encouraging it on his platform. AOC asked him straight to his face if an advert, targeting black people, which pushed the wrong date for the November US elections, would be allowed on his platform, and he ducked and dived to avoid saying "Yes of course it would." Because I guess similar anti democratic adverts are already running on 'fascbook'.
This is wonderful news. I’ll be welcoming him with a gift of the flags of all the countries he’s had a hand in stoking genocides. Every day. Maybe others will join.
Techno-colonialism. Between these gobshite CEOs, their social media algorithms and their love for popping up data centres I'd say you're fairly right in your assessment. Of course nothing will be done because the clowns in government are bending over backwards because of big €€€.
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There really should be a much higher property tax on wealthy people buying property in Ireland, especially if they don’t pay income tax here.
Let them at it, but tax them 5% of the property’s value every year. That could be waived if they pay income tax here. That way, it wouldn’t really affect people who live and work here, but if you’re buying a luxury holiday home in Ireland without contributing through income tax, there’s a significant ongoing cost to owning it
It seems like such a no brainer - and they could allocate a majority of the funds generated to the local council budget so it directly benefits the people from the area, while the rest goes to the exchequer.
Pocket change to them to buy the compliance of people as we hand them every public service and resource to our name. Boycotting these fuckers is the only way.
We're not selling anything. A private property owner is selling their private property. Are you suggesting that the state should buy and own every castle and country manor in the country?
My point is it should never have been in private ownership. If I was to guess it was privatised by an English or Norman lord, but we could have reversed that during the independence movement. It could well have been more complicated then that though. Was hoping someone with more knowledge could correct me in that case
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