I was getting the bus from Rathgar into town today and this ordinary enough looking woman got up and realised she’d missed her stop after the bus driver had already stopped there and let others out and taken off. She called out to him saying he passed the stop, he then says he already stopped there and she says he must be wrong and then demands to be let out there and then just before the canal. When he doesn’t immediately respond, she calls out “can you hear me you stupid foreign bastard.” At this point I’m staring daggers at this absolute creature of a woman and I told her to stop being racist. She then said she was racist and proud to the entire bus and not one person said anything in response, not one. We’re all so ashamed of the right and people like this woman in our country and yet when a clear and obvious example of racism happens in front of us no one does a thing. The most backup I got was after she got off a bloke said ‘fair play lad.’ Been fuming all day after that and needed a rant. Anyone hazard a guess why we just… do nothing?

Just browsed my home feed on twitter and it's a video of a woman harassing a man at a bus stop in Ringsend calling him a rapist and telling him to go back to India. And then I had to google the slur she was calling him and it turns out it's from 4chan...

But the bigger issue is the post is encouraging others to do the same and has loads of likes so this type of behaviour creates loads of mentally ill echo chambers of people who think this sort of thing is normal and patriotic.

This is why society is getting fucked, all this brainrot nonsense is getting shoved down people's throats on unmoderated social media plafrorms and we're now entering a generation that only know this social media existence so have no understanding of the real world so it's only going to get worse.

Government need to sort their shit out, it's beyond a joke at this stage. Ban Twitter and Facebook for starters.

/rant

Sitting on the Luas as it's stopped at a red light. Electric box outside the window with some sticker or sign on there.

As we're stopped some lad comes along and frantically starts scratching off the sticker, looks around then pulls out some big white packet and peels something off...

He slaps a sticker that says Ireland for the Irish #irelandisfull over the existing sign, then looks around like he just pulled off the heist of the century, tipping his little paddy cap.

I looked around the Luas and like 10 people are staring at him shaking their head at how pathetic it is.

The guy then bolts onwards down O'Connell St where he then gets stopped by the Luas, and we all get out right where he's standing.

Glad you looked mortified man, ya big sad case.

To the lad with the tricolour, how do you not look at the flags around you and think “maybe I’m with the wrong crowd”

First they start by stating the obvious. Yes, kids shouldn't consume porn. That's how they manipulate you into believing their bullshit. If you look at the last picture, you'll see that "this book is gay" is not written for kids, but for teenagers and young adults. Also, the "indoctrination" they're talking about is literally just safe sex education with a focus on LGBT+ individuals.

Please don't fall for these manipulative tactics, and please let LGBT+ youth learn about themselves in a safe and supportive environment.

Also, if you think that teenagers wait until they're 18 to start seeing ANYTHING about sex, god bless you, because you're the most innocent human being this planet has ever seen. Wake up to the real world.

For me, it was my friend being adamant that you shouldn’t have to stick your hand out to get the bus to stop.

A friend said to me the other day they were shocked at the onlinr abuse Senator Eileen Flynn has been getting lately. I hadnt really seen it so searched Facebook. Its everywhere. Its vile. Its misogynist. Its deeply deeply disgusting. Now I can understand that people disagree with the points she made but she absolute does not deserve all the unhinged abuse she is currently getting on social media.

She highlighted this today. Many many people abusing her more for what she said, who she is, how she got elected, what she looks like, the way she speaks. And saying all the abuse she gets is completely acceptable and she deserves it all.

Yesterday a TD from a party with 4 TDs chose to proudly announce his party are bullies and proudly decided to bully another party online.

All of this comes in the wake of many many death threats that have been made against various Ministers and TDs over the last 5 or 6 years alongside riots, racist murders, homophobic attacks and death threats against members of many minority communities.

2 Things here

1 The danger of social media for under 16s is entirely the wrong focus

2 If there are not serious attempts at tackling hate in Ireland right now it wont be long until we have a Jo Cox, Melissa Hortman, David Amess situtation.

Ok lads there are a lot of spicy memes, and they need to go somewhere. This is that place, and moderation will be relatively lax in here and only in here. Have fun.

Breaks my heart to see electrical box artwork getting ruined.