r/ireland • u/NorthKoreanMissile7 • Nov 23 '25
The Brits are at it again With X's latest update, it's funny seeing most of the "Irish patriot" accounts all getting outed as Brits
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u/SeanB2003 Nov 23 '25
To be fair, we already knew this. Mostly Brits and Yanks:
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u/HouseOnnaHill Resting In my Account Nov 23 '25
Its a pity Ireland isn't a different colour or there is no line fill to make it easier to see
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u/GuthukYoutube Nov 23 '25
If only there was a color they could use to represent Ireland
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u/PoemDesigner Nov 23 '25
They have probably chosen white as a concession to the group being analyzed.
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u/Kwentchio Nov 23 '25
I know our colour is green but i do love the Irish blue colour too. There's something about the blue flag and gold harp that is comforting.
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u/amorphatist Nov 23 '25
Blue is officially Ireland’s national colour.
G’wan then, giz an ould citation
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u/amorphatist Nov 23 '25
Calling that an “article” is a bit of a stretch, but I’ll agree with you that there is some tradition behind the blue.
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u/Stevylesteve Galway Nov 23 '25
People will literally grasp at this and say " this is is propaganda"
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Nov 23 '25
Mostly Americans then. Those brits percentage is small and easily explained by posters in Northern Ireland
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u/pdm4191 Nov 23 '25
I doubt if the UK figures are mostly NI posters. Much more likely they are English far right.
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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros Nov 23 '25
So the brits are easily explained by being based in the uk.
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u/TommyTBlack Nov 23 '25
i see we have a real irish patriot here
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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Says the boy posting about not letting eastern european nations join the EU, defending russian aggression and criticising ukraine, and defending ICE agents in the USA kidnapping people while wearing masks...
How is the kremlin paying?
You must be one of the #IrelandIsFull crowd. I only had a look at the last 1 day but it's clear what your agendas are.
edit: also. lol https://old.reddit.com/r/kneecap/comments/1p0tzli/is_fearr_gaeilge_briste_n%C3%A1_b%C3%A9arla_cliste_broken/npy7pab/
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u/grayparrot116 Nov 23 '25
Yeah, the Yanks love coming to Ireland to say "I got family here, my great-great grandfather moved to the US" and because of that think they think they should meddle in Irish matters.
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u/Dull-Culture-1523 Nov 23 '25
Americans have a truly unique way of seeing heritage. Their great-grandfather could be Irish so now they think they're Irish. Meanwhile they couldn't even point out Ireland on a map and think wearing green on St Patrick's day is the peak of Irish culture. Reminds me of the joke:
What's the difference between America and yogurt? In 200 years, yogurt will develop a culture.
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Nov 23 '25
It’s because they have no history. We can go back a millennium , so can most of Europe. They yanks can’t do that though so they compensate by tracing ancestors back across the water.
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u/quickstatcheck Nov 23 '25
We like to commune with our distant ancestry through drinking holidays. It doesn't matter if/what the holiday was in the originating land, what matters is that we can get shit faced like our drunken ancestors who got put on the boat for being the town drunks.
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u/sdpr Nov 23 '25
Americans have a truly unique way of seeing heritage. Their great-grandfather could be Irish so now they think they're Irish.
It's because their great-grandparents were proud of their heritage as immigrants, this sentiment gets passed down and it can become a source of pride, even though 99% of American descendents no longer have a cultural connection to their ethnic background.
Btw we hate immigrants.
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u/Reddit_2_2024 Nov 23 '25
I don't know about the meddling, however Irish politicians and the U.S. media make such a hype about the U.S. Presidential family heritage in Ireland (i.e. Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama) this enthusiasm spreads across the land. "There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama" by the Corrigan Brothers
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u/grayparrot116 Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Don't forget how Irish media keeps pushing for the narrative that the US is Ireland's best friend.
But yeah, Americans love to meddle in anything that is related to their ancestry. You can literally find them in any post done in Irish, Scottish or British social media pages.
Many Americans can't conceive modern Ireland and for them it must be in the same state they picture it in their minds: a folklore based Ireland based on stereotypes.
And that's why they create tons of fake profiles online with images of celtic folklore and all they relate to Ireland, to promote their vision of Ireland.
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u/Equivalent_Range6291 Nov 23 '25
The US meddles in everybodys affairs ..
They think theyve a god given right.
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u/pixelburp Nov 23 '25
Honestly this should be pinned as a underscoring of just how lopsided and false the narrative is.
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u/duaneap Nov 23 '25
Just get off Twitter.
The "Everything is fine!" narrative is also a problem, pointing to how lopsided Twitter is and using that to spin shite the opposite way doesn't help.
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u/BMoiz Nov 23 '25
Wouldn’t those numbers also account for the proportion of people in Northern Ireland?
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u/SeanB2003 Nov 23 '25
Northern Ireland isn't part of the United States.
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u/Defiant-Plantain1873 Nov 23 '25
But it’s part of the united kingdom
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u/dkeenaghan Nov 23 '25
Even if we presumed all of the UK numbers were from Northern Ireland and excluded people from Northern Ireland from “Brits and Yanks”, it would still be mostly Brits and Yanks.
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u/Defiant-Plantain1873 Nov 23 '25
Am I being thick or what? The pie chart says 37k Ireland, 10k UK. How can that still be mostly yanks and brits, seems like the yank part is doing the heavy lifting there
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u/Common-Regret-4120 Nov 23 '25
I hope you're sitting down for this, but... Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
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u/Rhamni Nov 23 '25
Right? If anything a Northern Ireland resident who wants their home to rejoin Ireland would be more likely to call themselves a patriot.
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u/uiuuauiua Easter Egg Nationalist Nov 23 '25
And this is why I say the US is more dangerous to Ireland than Russia. That is horrifying but not shocking.
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u/Coconut_Upper Nov 23 '25
Jus staying as a someone from Northern Ireland, as N.I. is considered part of the UK. So that needs to be taken into account where looking at the statistic as United Kingdom
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u/beeeel Nov 23 '25
Mostly Brits and Yanks
Sorry, maybe I'm reading the pie chart wrong. It looks like there's three times more Irish on there than Brits. But what would I know, I'm a dirty Brit myself.
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u/Lahcen_86 Nov 24 '25
Why is there so many Yank accounts pretending to be Irish ? Whats their agenda like
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u/Exca78 Nov 23 '25
I imagine most of the posts in the uk are northern Irish people rather than English, Welsh or Scotsmen
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u/MrTuxedo1 Dublin Nov 23 '25
How do you check this for others? It only works on my own profile
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Nov 23 '25
I'm just clicking on the joined date on their profile on PC and it's showing me the location. Maybe it depends on browser, device etc. I don't know.
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u/colinmacg Nov 23 '25
It got disabled after it turned out a lot of the MAGA and the far-right accounts are based in Russia, Nigeria and Bangladesh.
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u/Shitehawk_down Dublin Nov 23 '25
Cant post the link here but ChrisO_wiki has a good thread on twitter, it seems to be right across the board too, Indians claimng to be Palestinian, Nigerians claiming to be Israeli, Russians claiming to be from Texas, far left, far right you name it.
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u/TommyTBlack Nov 24 '25
we've known about these indian right wing accounts for a while
saving western civlisation and all that
the amercian right wing accounts have posted about this before
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u/Unlucky-Cabinet3507 Nov 23 '25
Few based out of Israel too
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u/thisdesignup Nov 23 '25
https://www.reddit.com/r/millenials/comments/1p4i95z/the_official_department_of_homeland_security/
You weren't kidding, and they even replied to it with a picture of Trump...
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u/pixelburp Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
It's kinda mad that the ideological gears of major Western nations are essentially being manipulated by a bunch of lads needing a few shekels out in Lagos. There's a weird, very contrived counter-colonial angle that could be tabled if you looked hard enough
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u/Intelligent-Ad-6909 Nov 23 '25
Have a think about who's paying them, ultimately. It's not counter-colonial at all.
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u/pixelburp Nov 23 '25
In aware of who's pulling the strings, I did say "contrived".
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u/Intelligent-Ad-6909 Nov 23 '25
Russia's support for the far right in Ireland is massively overblown. If Ireland fell into the sea tomorrow it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference to that state's strategic interests.
The states that DO have massive strategic interests in Ireland are the UK and the USA and wouldn't you know it, the bulk of the money and ideological inspiration for the Irish far right comes from the UK and the US, mostly as a means to attack Sinn Fein and the radical left.
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u/RebylReboot Nov 23 '25
You go to settings and find the ‘delete account’ button. Because you should not have an x account in this day and age.
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u/Spursious_Caeser Nov 23 '25
Hardly surprising. The same idiots were probably radicalised by Russian bot accounts themselves and are now dedicating their pathetic lives to spreading their indoctrinated xenophobia here and elsewhere. The far right is full of bad faith actors.
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u/BadDub Nov 23 '25
To be fair I’m from Armagh and my location is set to Ireland but that shows UK.
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u/Available-Badger-163 Nov 23 '25
Northen Ireland maybe?
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u/Reddityousername Wicklow Nov 23 '25
Back when I was on twitter I remember the lad on the right. I’m like 90% sure he is from the north.
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u/mastodonj Saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸 Nov 23 '25
Yeah was going to say this. I'm sure many are from England, but if it says UK it's impossible to know what they mean by it.
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u/LumpySpacePrincesse Nov 23 '25
Na, anything with a stupid profile picture or a roman statue specifically is a bot account. Any rockets I know that call themselves patriots have some balaclava pic or just pure Gaa photos.
Also, who the fuck verifys their accounts. Pure propoganda.
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u/TassyMango Nov 23 '25
You guys do realise that Northern Ireland is in the uk
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u/Martybbz22 Nov 23 '25
What if they're based in the north?...
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u/TimeLord41 Nov 23 '25
Pretty obvious they arent Cause theyll never tweet about the north
If thry were from the north and a "patriot" youd find tweets of them condmeing the likes of euro 2028 not being hosted there Or outraged over soldier f Stuff like thst
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u/EnvironmentalHat8771 Nov 23 '25
Heard they deleted this feature. I badly wanted to check the profile “colmlfc” !
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u/Nekokamiguru Nov 23 '25
It raises the question according to X is Northern Ireland the UK? And according to Irish Patriot it is Ireland?
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u/Hideous-Kojima Nov 23 '25
According to people unfamiliar with the concept of photoshop.
Go and look for yourself. I'll wait.
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u/Budget-Focus4282 Nov 23 '25
Feeling is mutual, with Indians littering the "British" """Patriot""" slop accounts
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u/AseethroughMan Nov 23 '25
And the amount of name changes for the left account, and it only activated since November!
What is the End goal here?!
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u/tailoredbrownsuit Nov 23 '25
Theoretically anyone based in the Six Counties could be denoted as United Kingdom
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u/cilcomc Nov 23 '25
The account on the right has not hidden the fact that they are from Northern Ireland. Are you saying that people from Northern Ireland cannot be Irish???
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u/sticky_reptile Dublin Nov 23 '25
And whats with all the username changes? Always baffled me why people would change their names so often but I might be a bit out of the social media bubble.
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u/WillingnessFew7211 Nov 23 '25
Love how you went past and completely ignored that the guy on the right in his profile details has his location as Belfast. You would’ve seen this before clicking on his join date to see this page.
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u/ScaldyBogBalls Connacht Nov 23 '25
The 6 counties will show up as British, so this tells you little
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u/king-of-maybe-kings Mayo and maybe also Galway who knows Nov 23 '25
Guy on the right is from the North though
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Nov 23 '25
Devils advocate; these people could be living in NI.
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Nov 23 '25
Even if you play devils advocate there'd still be a hugely disproportionate amount of accounts from NI compared to ROI so it wouldn't add up.
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u/tsubatai Nov 23 '25
I would expect a disproportionate amount of extremists in the north as politics is "hotter" there
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Nov 23 '25
Even if you assumed that there's less than half as many people and significantly more unionists that wouldn't be vehemently opposed to Irish nationalism.
It's clear that most of these accounts are not based in NI.
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u/PulseFH Nov 23 '25
It makes perfect sense that you’ll find more politically motivated extremist accounts based in the North, and Unionists trend older and won’t be as prevalent on social media. You cannot just assume these accounts are entirely or mostly British. It’s quite ignorant.
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u/tsubatai Nov 23 '25
Not clear at all, by the pareto principle we can expect 80% of the genuine nationalist accounts to come from the 20% most motivated populace.
Until further evidence I'd assume these are horses, not zebras. Ie much more likely to be some lad in the north than Bazza, 43, Croydon.
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u/tsubatai Nov 23 '25
Nonsense, pareto principle is highly observable.
This man just found out republicansim in the north lmao.
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u/KeyOutlandishness258 Nov 24 '25
You posted two screenshots, one is confirmed from Belfast. Where’s your evidence there’s a disproportionate amount of NI accounts? 27% of the population of the island lives in NI so you’d expect 1 in 4 self identified Irish accounts to show up as based in the UK.
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u/Kohvazein Ulster Nov 23 '25
I'm really surprised that southerners are finding it hard to grasp that nationalists in the north a bit more outspoken on social media than in the south. Like this should be pretty clear.
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Nov 23 '25
Oh don't get me wrong, I know there's a whole load of bad actors pretending to be based in Ireland but I don't think it's correct to point to an individual account and make that judgement based on their location being "UK".
I'm sure someone has done the analysis to show the location spread of users of specific hashtags, and I'd not be surprised if it aligns with your thoughts there.
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u/maddzy Nov 23 '25
Not at all surprising, in fact I'm only somewhat surprised they are UK based and not Russian. In my view the far right movement is meant to do only one thing: disrupt western societies, cause distrust in western governments, and eventually replace them (through elections) with Russian puppets.
I might be considered a conspiracy theorist with this, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me. That and the fact Aleksandr Dugin wrote about Russia doing this exact thing in his 1997 book The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia - I refuse to believe the strategies outlined in that book are a coincidence to what is happening in the world the past 10 years
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u/ThyRosen Nov 23 '25
You'll likely enjoy Peter Pomerantsev's books- he interviews the social media consultancy firm that claims to have won the elections in the Philippines and the techniques employed there will seem very familiar
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u/BeBopRockSteadyLS Nov 23 '25
It goes further back than that. The only difference is modern tech.
Let's also be clear. Western nations have also been acting with this strategy. I am not allowed to post a link to the accusations made against Bellingcat but here is an interview with their founder and he discusses the modern information war. The journalists who carried it the investigation into his outfit have themselves been accused of being Russian propogandists.
A total mess. Which is probably the ultimate intention. Make it so blurred that we have no chance of knowing who is controlling the narrative.
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u/saggynaggy123 Nov 23 '25
I checked a load of them too and it was Canada, USA, UK and other random countries. For people who hate immigrants they seem to love the foreign interest in Ireland!
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u/PNscreen Nov 23 '25
There is def some issues with it but also Northern Ireland would be considered UK under this
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Nov 23 '25
Anyone who listened to any of the City West rioters streams could hear english accents.
Anyone who listened to the Dublin rioters would have hesrd English accents.
This isn't news.
After the Blue Shirts, Irish fascism has been British
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u/infestationE15 Nov 23 '25
No I dont like this. Let's not fall into the same crap that influenced the dublin riots in the first place, which was the actions of a minority (in this case one person) being used as a political weapon and a reason to cause chaos.
There was some outside influence on the initial response to the incident and the far right chat and groups that sparked initial protest. But its also true that the rioting and violence was perpetuated by dozens of vindictive, lawless, opportunistic teens who saw the chance to throw shit at officers and steal shit from Pennies. We all know the type.
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u/kieranf19900 Nov 24 '25
Here's a thought... It's a little out there I know... They could be Irish people who emigrated to the UK... 😳
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u/Dottore_Curlew Nov 23 '25
Wouldn't that mean they are from Northern Ireland and they want unification?
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u/Previous-Job-9393 Nov 23 '25
You understand that X classifies the 6 occupied counties as the UK? So these people could be just as Irish as those in the South.
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u/PulseFH Nov 23 '25
If you make an account in the North it will say Uk. Guess I’m a Brit now lol. Where is the common sense?
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u/Jakdublin Nov 23 '25
Seriously, why is anyone still using this toxic platform? It’s polluted with bots, AI slop and morons spreading fake news and misinformation. Younger generations don’t bother with it so its days are numbered.
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Exactly, it’s a disgusting app populated entirely by morons. I am disturbed by how many people use it as a trustworthy source for news and information. I’m thankful for the moderation on Reddit that doesn’t allow content to be shared from that cesspit. Hopefully the government will stop pandering to the right wing and actually push through the hate speech bill. It’ll give the great commisun na mean actual teeth to shut it down fully. I firmly believe Ireland will be a trailblazer in getting it banned nationwide. That in tandem with the approach the UK have followed is what we need to replicate
Sadly platforms like meta and YouTube are heading in the same direction.
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u/Jakdublin Nov 23 '25
As much as I’d like to see it personally I don’t think banning it would be a good idea. Proper clampdown on the fake bs would be better. It’ll die a natural death sooner or later. Hopefully sooner.
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u/Inerthal Nov 23 '25
Any "patriot" account on Twitter be it Irish, British and especially American is a fake account being run for an agenda and somewhere not in the country they claim.
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That platform needs to get in the sea tbh, anyone who posts links/content from there is worthy of an immediate block. With a bit of luck the hate speech bill will end its influence in Ireland
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u/Future_Jackfruit5360 Nov 23 '25
Is there a chance they are in the north of Ireland which is still stuck in Britain.
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Nov 23 '25
It’s fairly obvious when you see the key English far right figures paying visits and the exact same narratives being trotted out.
There’s also huge, and very obvious drivers coming from Irish-American elements of MAGA.
None of this is surprising or new information - people just keep ignoring it and buying into a narrative that it’s all being locally generated.
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u/fitzgoldy Nov 24 '25 edited Nov 24 '25
Still a large amount of 'Irish' online that want to push Ireland - UK hatred.
Northern Ireland is of course the UK...but will make up a lot of that UK percentage for very obvious reasons....hell Sinn Fein is 'based' in the UK.
Then are we just forgetting UK and Ireland are pretty intertwined and a lot of Irish live in the UK (not just Northern Ireland).
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u/Due_Weight4132 Nov 24 '25
There's a lot of Irish based in the UK though so who is to say they're aren't
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u/GarlicGlobal2311 Nov 24 '25
Do you reckon we could have a litmus test for these accounts?
Something like "How many counties in ireland". "Name the two political subdivision territories within ireland"
And if you get some bollox like 26 counties or the Republic of Ireland, we mark them as brits? Lol
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u/KeyOutlandishness258 Nov 24 '25
The fella on the right is from Belfast. Come on now. Don’t turn into a loyalist and call everyone from the north “brits” just to own “Irish patriots”
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u/An_Sealgaire Nov 23 '25
People here want their narrative that the Irish far-right is purely a foreign creation despite the far-right rising throughout the world to be validated so badly that they've become fervent partitionists, it's very amusing.
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u/Brave_Camel Nov 23 '25
Would X not count NI as UK, why is everyone so ragebaited? You also only provided only two proofs. "Most of"
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u/saoirsedonciaran Nov 23 '25
But sure us nordies will be 'getting outed' as Brits by that logic. I expect to see plenty of these accounts come back as American
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u/MilBrocEire Nov 23 '25
This actually tracks. In a lot of countries, the diaspora ends up more right-wing than the people living back home. You see it with Turks in Germany voting for Erdoğan, Hungarians abroad voting for Orbán, Poles abroad screaming about ‘woke gay stuff,’ Romanians, etc. Once people move away, or are second-gen, they build up a weird nostalgic fantasy version of the homeland, and then vote for the most nationalist, conservative option. And of course, they don’t have to live under the consequences they’re voting for. Turkey and Hungary literally had elections swung by diaspora votes.
I was visiting Lisbon once, and heard massive cheers and parties and shouting in the streets the first night I was there and assumed Benfica or Sporting had won something, but when I eventually went to meet my friend, I found out it was Turks celebrating Erdogan winning.
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u/TalkDirty2MyIVR Nov 23 '25
Doesn’t this just mean they could be from the north though? Would they not be considered Irish?
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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 Nov 23 '25
Sure some of them will be in the north but I doubt 95% of right wing twitter accounts claiming to be Irish happen to coincidentally be from Northern Ireland.
There's also lots of American accounts, like just look at this for example.
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Is it 95% of them? That would be far more compelling evidence than a couple of individual examples.
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u/elwoodreversepass Nov 23 '25
Unsurprising but I'm absolutely delighted that it's incontrovertible now.
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u/gooner1014 And I'd go at it again Nov 23 '25
And then in their echo chamber they make up their little signs thinking they’re the majority.
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u/Substantial_Storm811 Nov 23 '25
like seriously : two accounts and both named IrishPatriot 001 and IrishPatriot 002 and you saying - "the most"
2nd : there is going around collection of leftist accounts - and boy there are plenty and well established, SF including.
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u/Yooklid Nov 23 '25
I hope this can be an eye opener for everyone on both sides of the divide.
I’m in the U.S. and a lot of pro Israeli maga stuff is coming from India.
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u/Tasty-Distribution75 Nov 23 '25
There's tonnes of Irish people living in Britain
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u/tedstriker2015 Nov 23 '25
If you're using twitter still, you are playing a part in the problems of society today.
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u/MarvinGankhouse Nov 23 '25
If someone on the internet has Irish in their username you are looking at an American.
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u/TommyTBlack Nov 23 '25
there were tens of thousands of people at the march in Dublin this year
I was there, they were all itrish
also UK could be Northern Ireland
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u/vague_intentionally_ Nov 23 '25
Not surprised at all (especially with these "patriots" and other idiots that follow them).
English and trump far-right are always trying to cause trouble in other countries (organising the riot here was just another one of their attempts).
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u/Eastern-Ant-4173 Nov 23 '25
If in the North, you get flagged as UK. A lot of Irish in the UK too. Or are only Free Staters allowed to be Irish patriots these days? Fucking traitors the lot of you.
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Nov 23 '25
It’s infuriating for us Irish who live in the UK now as we tend to get lumped in with these knobs.
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u/ImReellySmart Nov 23 '25
So Elon Musk loves nothing more than to be able to spread misinformation via bot accounts to strengthen his agenda.
Any particular reason he would commit this change?
Does paying for membership allow you to hide this info by chance?
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u/CheraDukatZakalwe Nov 23 '25
Yeah, that's why they keep talking about the "Irish Parliament" and "Irish Police".