Ian

Maturing is realizing that we are all sIaves to the bottom 20 percent of society, far more than we are to the top 1 percent.

@MakingSenseInfo Very evident from Harris’ remarks during the haulier protest. A self organised organic protest from a grass routes beginning is deemed illegitimate in the eyes of the governing elite. No rep to offer a senior promotion, a deal for the boys, a future promise…scares them

The Stakeholder State laid bare. Ireland in 2026: Stakeholders ➜ Government & Media ➜ Corporations ➜ NGOs (11% of GDP see post below‼️) ➜ Supranationals (EU/UN/etc.) Non Stakeholders ➜ The People —— Senior public servants call the shots. They are like air traffic controllers, deciding which policies are allowed to come in to land and when arrived, distributing them through the ‘NGO mill’. Senior Public Servants alone are responsible for aligning domestic policy with undemocratic/anti-sovereign globalist frameworks like the migration pact and the SDGs. In this system, Organizational Prestige overrides Public Interest. For example, Ireland becoming a model country for the SDGs is more important than the impact this policy is having on Rural Ireland - the decimation of agriculture and reckless migration. (Watch as this goes on steroids as we assume the EU Council presidency.) This political pathology is also why unelected faceless bureaucrats can opt us in to the Migration pact before hoping on their e-scooter and going home to whatever gentrified part of Dublin in which they live. It’s why the SDGs, a suicide note to Ireland, is dutifully implemented despite only 12% being adopted on average globally. Other countries see it as a template for totalitarianism. We see it as an opportunity for a photoshoot. We need to press STOP 🛑 before the Stakeholder train drags us all over the cliff - e-scooters and all. (Actually, take the e-scooters)

One of the most extraordinary graphs I have ever seen.

@Arnoldbenneton @BoyneNews Says the bot

@BoyneNews “You’s do fuck all for us” screams woman from the free flat she was given.

A Sinn Féin representative gets a rather "warm" reception in the Flats in Dublin.

@EoinLenihan We’ll look back at this paper prosperous times and wonder how it was all squandered and why EU directives were considered priority over policies that benefited the citizenry of the country. IPAS fraud, high speed rail that was never built, reliance on US companies, borders…

Ireland is so rich 40% of working people under the age of 35 live in their childhood bedroom without hope of buying or renting their own home. Ireland is so rich that each month it sets new homelessness records with 17,500 people being homeless in March. Ireland is so rich that 3 out of 5 Irish people under the age of 25 want to emigrate and 81% said they'd have a better quality of life elsewhere. Ireland is so rich that Irish people - not high-earning non-Irish FDI tech multinational (Indian) workers, and not no-earning false asylum claimants - will at best be able to move into a garden shed out the back of their parent's home. Ireland is so rich that when it snows elderly people across the nation - particularly in the west - are left without heat and electricity because of archaic infrastructure outside of the capital. Ireland is so rich that hauliers and farmers recently braved being pepper-sprayed by police to try and bring notice to the fact that they are living paycheque to paycheque. Ireland is so rich that groceries cost the second-highest in the Eurozone - 12% above the EU average. It has the highest electricity costs in Europe (excluding inflationary government subsidies). Ireland is so rich it routinely tops the most expensive lists for hotels, dining, internet, phones, postage etc. Ireland is so rich...on paper. 👇👇👇

@aymoncaff @EoinLenihan How many of the 4 out of 5 are in circumstances they would otherwise chose not be in. How many of those remaining 4 out 5 can buy a home. How many of those 4 out 5 has any savings. The 1 out 5 stat is a cop out. Rubbish. Spin. Political puke they give to make us think otherwise

@EoinLenihan Bit of cherry picking with this post, firstly only 1 in 5 over 30 live at home. Its not uncommon to live at home for your late teens into late 20s.

⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it. The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts. But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build. 272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market. The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills. The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction. And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them. The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price. That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third. And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth. That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral.

The migration problem in countries such as the Netherlands can be summarized as follows: The state actively and aggressively imports hundreds of thousands of single male migrants annually who are then awarded permanent housing, welfare, and access to free medicine, if not also free driving lessons and free public transportation passes. The migrant men are then legally allowed to bring over many family members, on average at least three or four. At the same time, hard-working native men in relationships cannot get on the housing ladder and have to pay for everything themselves. This is a total collapse of the social contract between a people and its government. Either the state sees its people as the enemy, or the people start seeing the state as their enemy. In the long run, this could be considered an act of genocide against the native peoples, namely by systematically denying them housing and, therefore, denying them family formation. Indeed, West European people list housing shortages as the number one reason that they're not having children. The state then uses this as an argument to bring in more immigrants. It is a vicious cycle of national self-destruction.

@fiannafailparty @MichealMartinTD Putting the world before Irish people? That’s the problem right there. Your mandate doesn’t include changing the world or importing it into Ireland. Maybe focus on fixing your own party policies. So out of touch with the general public sentiment. Just look at the comments here…

"It is our challenge now to be Ambitious, Imaginative and Creative about changing the World and changing Ireland for the Better." An Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD speaking at the Fianna Fáil National Councillors Conference in Mullingar.

Don't know who this man is, but OMG. Long time since I heard anyone speak the truth with such passion. We need to be shouting this from the rooftops. We need to wake drip fed sheeple...

@_The_Prophet__ Quality assessment

⚡️This “professor “ asking “where are the servers” in 2026 is like a medieval cartographer asking where the edge of the earth is in 1520. The question reveals that the person asking it hasn’t updated their model of reality despite overwhelming evidence that the old model is wrong. Bitcoin has been running for seventeen years. It has survived the shutdown of Silk Road, the collapse of Mt. Gox, a Chinese mining ban, multiple 80% drawdowns, regulatory assault from every major government, and active hostility from the entire traditional financial system. If the CIA built it they built the most resilient piece of infrastructure in human history and then let it be attacked repeatedly by other arms of the same government. That doesn’t hold up for five seconds under basic scrutiny. But the CIA theory isn’t really about the CIA. It’s about the desperate need to locate an authority behind the thing. Because if there’s no authority then every assumption about how power works, how money works, how systems work, comes into question. And for someone whose entire career and status and identity is built on understanding how systems work, that’s not an intellectual problem. That’s an existential one. The real thing happening in that clip is a man protecting his worldview in real time. The question “where are the servers” isn’t curiosity. It’s defense. If the servers can be located then the system can be understood within his framework. If they can’t be located then his framework is incomplete. And admitting your framework is incomplete when your framework is your career is something almost nobody will do voluntarily. This is why Bitcoin adoption follows generational lines more than intelligence lines. It’s not that older people are dumber. It’s that they have more invested in the existing model. Decades of career. Status built on expertise within the current system. Reputation staked on understanding how things work. Bitcoin doesn’t ask them to learn something new. It asks them to accept that something they spent their life mastering is being replaced. That’s a fundamentally different ask. Learning is easy. Unlearning is almost impossible when your identity is built on what you know. The “where are the servers” question will be studied in the future the way we study people who rejected the heliocentric model. Not as stupidity but as a perfect example of how paradigm resistance works in practice. The evidence was available. The system was running. The proof was on the blockchain for anyone to verify. And he looked at all of it and said “but where is the building.” There is no building. There was never going to be a building. The entire point is that there is no building. And the people who need a building to believe something is real are going to be the last people on earth to understand what happened. By the time they get it, it will have already restructured the global financial system around them. They’ll be standing in the rubble of the old model still asking where the servers are while the new one runs on sixty thousand nodes they never bothered to look at.

@mattwhittingham @HodlMagoo Exactly what I was thinking! If he’s so wrong on this, what other crap is he saying.

Get a load of this retard.

@ahysi92 @BitcoinArchive How do you ask an address to send coins exactly? Put an ad in the paper or via a request on X. “Anyone know who owns that wallet, could you let them know we need them to do XYZ”. Freeze an address by what authority? This is yet again another power grab. They are compromised.

@Ian41429756 @BitcoinArchive Devs might ask for adresses to send the coins on quantum resistent adresses for a period of time , if they fail to do so for lets say 4 years then the old adresses can be frozen. Doesnt look that unreasonable to me.

Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp and other Bitcoin developers propose BIP-361 to freeze quantum vulnerable wallets. This could lock dormant BTC like Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1M coins, now worth $74B, before quantum computers can steal them.

@ThomasByrneTD There’s plenty the gov have done and continue to do for which they have no mandate. These actions by gov have prevented citizens from being safe on the streets across the country. The majority are standing with the protestors. They represent the people. The gov no longer do.

This is the reality of the blockade. Healthcare put at risk. Businesses damaged. The vulnerable made more vulnerable. Ordinary people prevented from going about their daily lives. And with no mandate to do so. It has gone too far - it has to end.

@Witkacy101 Great point

For many people in Ireland the state is not something they pay into. It is something they live off. Salary, pension, grant, subsidy, contract, career. The net flow is always toward them. They may pay some tax but they extract far more than they contribute. And like any business owner they will fight to protect it. Vote to protect it. Organise their entire politics around protecting it. Ireland didn't drift left. It was bought. Slowly, quietly, salary by salary, grant by grant, until enough people had enough to lose that reform became impossible. For the person on the other side it means a bigger burden every year. Income tax at 52%. Everything taxed to the hilt. Policies they didn't vote for and can't afford. And when they push back they're told they're selfish, or worse. Farmers and hauliers on the motorways for four days. Peaceful. One ask. Stop taking so much. The government's answer is to send the army. Not to negotiate. Not to listen. To send the army against the people who grow the food, move the goods, keep the country running. The people who get nothing from the state except the bill. That is not democracy. That is a protection racket. That's the two Irelands. One Ireland the state works for. One Ireland the state works off. It doesn't get reformed from within. The people who would need to change it are the people it is enriching. It ends one way. Collapse. 🇮🇪

🎙️Woman on #liveline destroys presenter with facts and gets cut off when talking about #fuelprotest