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And I think if we have a work colleague or a brother or somebody who believes falls into that, that we don't abandon them. We don't immediately start calling them a Nazi and whatever that we try to talk them around with. But look, I suppose the thing is there is hope and everywhere these people have organised, there have been anti-fascists there to meet them.
I think we need to get better at planning that on a national scale. Of course, on the left, you always get this factionalism and infighting. I'm not standing beside him. He's Trotskyist. Well, I don't like his views on the north, whatever. We need to kind of say, as long as we're fighting with each other, the fascists are winning.
I think we need to get better at planning that on a national scale. Of course, on the left, you always get this factionalism and infighting. I'm not standing beside him. He's Trotskyist. Well, I don't like his views on the north, whatever. We need to kind of say, as long as we're fighting with each other, the fascists are winning.
I think we need to get better at planning that on a national scale. Of course, on the left, you always get this factionalism and infighting. I'm not standing beside him. He's Trotskyist. Well, I don't like his views on the north, whatever. We need to kind of say, as long as we're fighting with each other, the fascists are winning.
Thankfully, none of these people have ever gotten more than 2% in an election. They have nobody elected in our national parliament. They only have 4%. or five, maybe six, councillors elected in the entire of the southern part of the country, and that's out of 949 councillors. But we can't just laugh at them.
Thankfully, none of these people have ever gotten more than 2% in an election. They have nobody elected in our national parliament. They only have 4%. or five, maybe six, councillors elected in the entire of the southern part of the country, and that's out of 949 councillors. But we can't just laugh at them.
Thankfully, none of these people have ever gotten more than 2% in an election. They have nobody elected in our national parliament. They only have 4%. or five, maybe six, councillors elected in the entire of the southern part of the country, and that's out of 949 councillors. But we can't just laugh at them.
We can't worry this is a threat, because when the Nazis stood for election the first time, I think they only got 2% of the vote as well, and look how that turned out.
We can't worry this is a threat, because when the Nazis stood for election the first time, I think they only got 2% of the vote as well, and look how that turned out.
We can't worry this is a threat, because when the Nazis stood for election the first time, I think they only got 2% of the vote as well, and look how that turned out.
you know cauterized right like that's and that's that's kind of the challenge in front of irish anti-fascists right now is ensuring that that cauterization happens absolutely and uh i mean look if you think of this you know elon musk has tipped mcgregor for president and we're all laughing at it now but uh you know it wouldn't be the first time that elon musk has tipped a reality tv star with a questionable sexual and criminal history for high office and they got there right
you know cauterized right like that's and that's that's kind of the challenge in front of irish anti-fascists right now is ensuring that that cauterization happens absolutely and uh i mean look if you think of this you know elon musk has tipped mcgregor for president and we're all laughing at it now but uh you know it wouldn't be the first time that elon musk has tipped a reality tv star with a questionable sexual and criminal history for high office and they got there right
you know cauterized right like that's and that's that's kind of the challenge in front of irish anti-fascists right now is ensuring that that cauterization happens absolutely and uh i mean look if you think of this you know elon musk has tipped mcgregor for president and we're all laughing at it now but uh you know it wouldn't be the first time that elon musk has tipped a reality tv star with a questionable sexual and criminal history for high office and they got there right
Yeah, well, obviously, I'm not on ex-Twitter or anything like that. I don't have a sub stack or anything. So just the main thing I want to plug is my book, Burn Them Out, A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland. It is published by Bloomsbury, head of Zeus. So it should be available to order via any bookshop.
Yeah, well, obviously, I'm not on ex-Twitter or anything like that. I don't have a sub stack or anything. So just the main thing I want to plug is my book, Burn Them Out, A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland. It is published by Bloomsbury, head of Zeus. So it should be available to order via any bookshop.
Yeah, well, obviously, I'm not on ex-Twitter or anything like that. I don't have a sub stack or anything. So just the main thing I want to plug is my book, Burn Them Out, A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland. It is published by Bloomsbury, head of Zeus. So it should be available to order via any bookshop.
Obviously, if you are going to support a bookshop, support a small independent one rather than Barnes & Noble. And if you are buying it online, obviously buy it direct from the publishers, Bloomsbury. Don't buy it off Amazon if you can, because God knows Jeff Bezos has enough money. Yeah, there's certainly plenty.
Obviously, if you are going to support a bookshop, support a small independent one rather than Barnes & Noble. And if you are buying it online, obviously buy it direct from the publishers, Bloomsbury. Don't buy it off Amazon if you can, because God knows Jeff Bezos has enough money. Yeah, there's certainly plenty.
Obviously, if you are going to support a bookshop, support a small independent one rather than Barnes & Noble. And if you are buying it online, obviously buy it direct from the publishers, Bloomsbury. Don't buy it off Amazon if you can, because God knows Jeff Bezos has enough money. Yeah, there's certainly plenty.