Blindboy
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1,520 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Blindboy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's been direct action housing protests such as Frederick Street in 2018 where housing activists decided to occupy abandoned property.
And then masked men showed up in balaclavas and unmarked cars and beat the shit out of them in front of police.
The police stood back.
and let it happen.
So when the social net erodes around us and we can see it then the social contract starts to erode and then you start to see a type of protest that is highly disruptive.
That's when you start to see people blocking fuel depots and now you can't get petrol in your car.
That's when you start to see that type of protest when the social net is no longer evident.
So that's what I'd say to people who are
pissed off at those farmers for for blocking roads and I say this as someone who very nearly had to cancel a gig last week I almost had to cancel my Limerick gig because we didn't know whether people were going to get to it or not and despite that I still support those protests and
If you want to get pissed off with something, get pissed off with years of neoliberalism, that's what leads to that.
Neoliberalism erodes the social contract.
It erodes...
public institutions and the social net and when that happens it erodes the conditions under which a society believes that collective action can work you become hopeless you become pointless protest doesn't work voting doesn't work nothing changes anything taxes don't even work this is hopeless that's what neoliberalism does because it's a fucking scam
Ultimately, it's just a way to siphon public money into private pockets.
And then all of us go, where's the money gone?
I don't see any houses being built.
I don't see healthcare.
What's happening here?
Where's the money going?
It's going into the pockets of private companies that have now taken over public services.
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