tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post3477495881444291144..comments2024-03-28T10:08:05.242+00:00Comments on TPQ: Some Form Of ResistanceAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-42630088230130434562017-12-09T19:20:12.348+00:002017-12-09T19:20:12.348+00:00Steve, I agree that one must work on the practical...Steve, I agree that one must work on the practical rather than every hypothetical problem. But beware seeing our own preferences as the practical and those we don't like as merely hypothetical. One could end up a total exceptionalist, having no principles except those that suit us. Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59933773259112962882017-12-07T20:39:10.394+00:002017-12-07T20:39:10.394+00:00The bastard about Science Wolfie, is that it doesn...The bastard about Science Wolfie, is that it doesn't give two shits about your "Beliefs" regarding its veracity. Experience tells me there's no point trying to reason with you on this, your belief in magic is stronger than your belief in science. What a wonderful world you must live in.<br /><br />However, even a stopped clock is right twice a day and you raise an interesting Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-65011260582678235492017-12-06T17:39:48.790+00:002017-12-06T17:39:48.790+00:00Steve said:
'Invoking John Mitchel aye? How ve...Steve said:<br />'Invoking John Mitchel aye? How very contemporary of you. Mind you, I shouldn't be surprised given your colossal error of judgement on verifiable facts...like the Earth being only thousands of years old for one.'<br /><br />So no comment on Mitchel's principle, just a hand-wave to my beliefs about forensic science?<br /><br />OK, I understand why you wish to evadeWolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-3687481618493825372017-12-06T17:39:27.210+00:002017-12-06T17:39:27.210+00:00Steve said:
'[Or are you suggesting that the ...Steve said:<br /><br />'[Or are you suggesting that the majority nation ought to take all?]<br />I support the strange notion that if the majority of the people of my country, Northern Ireland, vote via free and democratic means to leave the Union with Great Britain and join the other 26 counties then that vote should be respected. Are you saying you don't Wolfie?'<br /><br />Yes, Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-77245514364177694262017-12-05T22:04:58.330+00:002017-12-05T22:04:58.330+00:00Wolfie,
"'Or are you suggesting that the...Wolfie,<br /><br />"'Or are you suggesting that the majority nation ought to take all?"<br /><br />I support the strange notion that if the majority of the people of my country, Northern Ireland, vote via free and democratic means to leave the Union with Great Britain and join the other 26 counties then that vote should be respected. Are you saying you don't Wolfie?<br /><br />&Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79733683071695935222017-12-05T16:53:04.849+00:002017-12-05T16:53:04.849+00:00Steve, sorry if I was too vague. Here's my ce...Steve, sorry if I was too vague. Here's my central question to you:<br /><br />'Or are you suggesting that the majority nation ought to take all? That if the Planters had brought many more over to Ireland and had outnumbered the Gaels, that Ireland should still have been British? No self-determination for the Gaels?'<br /><br />I went on to give specific examples:<br />'Maybe youWolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-83103345109384910922017-12-04T20:16:40.849+00:002017-12-04T20:16:40.849+00:00What questions Wolfie? All I read was you attempti...What questions Wolfie? All I read was you attempting Strawman arguments on me? State them clearly next time.<br /><br />And using other regions conflicts is deflection, pure and simple.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-81744497386404730512017-12-04T19:11:07.349+00:002017-12-04T19:11:07.349+00:00A question for any here who are still honest Repub...A question for any here who are still honest Republican Socialists:<br /><br />If Ireland is united in by 2021 as a Socialist Republic, will you stay in the EU? If so, how can you square that political & economic regime with your beliefs?<br /><br />Tony has given a logical answer - Irexit. What about the rest of you?Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-66030588304668184592017-12-04T11:08:53.346+00:002017-12-04T11:08:53.346+00:00Steve, your evasion of my questions says it all. ...Steve, your evasion of my questions says it all. Well, not all - I'm not sure whether you believe in self-determination for your chosen nation/s only, or you don't believe in self-determination at all.<br /><br />Maybe you would clarify - is it the majority population of Turkey that has the right to determine the future of the Kurds or the majority of the Kurds themselves? Same for Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-40725341703674178222017-12-03T20:27:28.426+00:002017-12-03T20:27:28.426+00:00More waffle Wolfie.
To be absolutely crystal clea...More waffle Wolfie.<br /><br />To be absolutely crystal clear, if the people of Northern Ireland vote in a democratic manner to leave the Union with Great Britain then no amount of bullshit linguistic gymnastics about "two nations" is going to cut it.<br /><br />If that hypothetical vote is ignored then it's not democracy but a dictatorship. You can foist as many straw-man argumentsSteve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79176876943248296682017-12-02T18:13:25.527+00:002017-12-02T18:13:25.527+00:00Steve, so you hold that a minority in any nation-s...Steve, so you hold that a minority in any nation-state has no right to self-determination. That the majority rules every time. I disagree most strongly.<br /><br />I hold that the right to self-determination is complementary to democracy; and that a democracy that overrides the national rights of its minorities is a very poor democracy.<br /><br />I hold it was the right of the Irish people to Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-35125799509623139552017-12-01T14:14:39.401+00:002017-12-01T14:14:39.401+00:00Naill, when Ireland is required to abandon its neu...Naill, when Ireland is required to abandon its neutrality and send its troops to Eastern Europe, maybe they will regret not leaving too. The EU is heading, by its own plan, towards a United States of Europe. Maybe most Irish people will like that, I don't know. But as far as I'm concerned, the UK should be re-thinking its NATO presence, never mind becoming a cog in a Fourth Reich.<br /Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-33320248580939872382017-11-30T20:09:42.548+00:002017-11-30T20:09:42.548+00:00Wolfie,
Democracy. Look it up.Wolfie,<br /><br />Democracy. Look it up.Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25235431183308756472017-11-30T17:19:34.566+00:002017-11-30T17:19:34.566+00:00There are two nations in Northern Ireland, Steve. ...There are two nations in Northern Ireland, Steve. If you refuse to accept that, maybe you will concede there are at least two communities, the Planters and the Gaels. If all the Gaels come to outnumber the Planters and vote for a UI, that is forcing it upon the Planters.<br /><br />Same principle was catered for by partition. The majority of each in Ireland got their bit. It did leave smaller Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-83914304232430170202017-11-30T12:56:27.577+00:002017-11-30T12:56:27.577+00:00Tony
we evolved of herding animals ... its norma...Tony <br /><br />we evolved of herding animals ... its normal that some people have a greater drive to merge as part of a group than others. Its a given that there's a variable but innate need to merge ... and for some that's with a national or political identity. <br /><br />Oftentimes members unquestionably swallow whole the beliefs, ideals and assumptions of the group. Occasionally Henry JoYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161613445053833181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-36409393960330426462017-11-30T07:51:26.083+00:002017-11-30T07:51:26.083+00:00I'm a remainer. No-one has yet convinced me o...I'm a remainer. No-one has yet convinced me of otherwise by putting forward an argument as to why we should leave. THe British can't even explain it and as for Unionists, we just have to take Nelson McCausland's statement on why we should leave to realise that we should definitely stay!!!!!Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013400649117430986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-45477325483138654982017-11-30T00:35:52.230+00:002017-11-30T00:35:52.230+00:00Oh Wolfie,
If a UI is democratically voted for by...Oh Wolfie,<br /><br />If a UI is democratically voted for by the people of NI then bleating about it being forced upon them is hypocrisy! <br /><br />You really don't think too much old bean, do you?Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-43007623187474178602017-11-29T21:58:49.912+00:002017-11-29T21:58:49.912+00:00"it is worth pointing out that when Britain a..."it is worth pointing out that when Britain and the Freestate joined what was then the EEC in 1973, they were joining a trading bloc, which is a far cry from what it has evolved into today".<br /><br />Please be aware that you (and many other people) are mistaken on this point.<br /><br />This type of affirmation is just brexit-type propaganda. <br /><br />Please see<br />The 1957 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-30983691582672940182017-11-29T20:18:26.072+00:002017-11-29T20:18:26.072+00:00Tony is consistent with his ideals in deploring th...Tony is consistent with his ideals in deploring the EU agenda, unlike the other republicans moaning about Brexit. <br /><br />I'm glad to be able to tell him that the UK has no intention of militarising the border - nor even hardening it. All the talk of that comes from the EU. I do hope Ireland does not implement a hard border at the EU's behest.<br /><br />That leaves the paths to a Wolfsbanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12495589127117406007noreply@blogger.com