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I'm not without sympathy for the family, but this headline is a pick-me-up. The Irish are alive. (archive.is)
posted 1 year ago by The_Shadow_of_Intent 1 year ago by The_Shadow_of_Intent +58 / -0
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– BandageBandolier 30 points 1 year ago +30 / -0

If they're that much of a dumbass they didn't know what they were doing I don't see how they ended up with "buy a hotel" money. Unless it's not the first time they've taken the easy government/NGO money to betray a community, in which case they're long overdue a comeuppance.

The metaphor's a little too on the nose maybe but if you want retards to learn not to play with fire instead of constantly having to supervise them, you're gonna have to let them get burned occasionally.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent [S] 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

The metaphor's a little too on the nose maybe but if you want retards to learn not to play with fire instead of constantly having to supervise them, you're gonna have to let them get burned occasionally.

Agreed, that's exactly what happened.

If they're that much of a dumbass they didn't know what they were doing I don't see how they ended up with "buy a hotel" money.

Husband is a doctor and they put their whole net worth into the property, so that would be easily within reach. You don't even need to be rich if you're buying a small rundown hotel either.

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– BandageBandolier 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

I know medical cert standards are slipping but it still is stretching plausibility that the MD didn't have the mental capacity to understand how he was assisting to exploit and damage the local community in exchange for payment from a higher power.

If you knowingly make the choice to damage someone for personal benefit, I have no sympathy if they manage to damage you back in retaliation. Only if it comes out the Irish gov coerced them into it instead of bribing them into it with wads of cash will I feel bad for them. But so far the visible trend over there has been all carrot and no stick for the hotel proprietors.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent [S] 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Lol in my experience that doesn't stretch plausibility one bit. Just because you know how to treat cancer doesn't mean you have a clear understanding of politics. Intelligence is not wisdom. Engineers can be flat earthers, nuclear physicists can have Trump derangement syndrome.

Reading the article, the wife claims they started to lease the hotel to a company that then brought in the migrant program. But then she doubled down on supporting migrant housing, so shrug

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– BandageBandolier 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Eh, I see what you mean, but I guess I differ in what I consider mental capacity and what is just a mental habit.

My experience with those kinds of otherwise capable rubes is that their incongruous opinions are all purely belief based, they eschew the rational processes they can apply in the rest of their lives because they would rather chose to cling to that particular belief like an emotional blanket. They're perfectly capable of having a better understanding of the world, they just chose to fight against it, and whilst they're free to make that choice they aren't as free from the implications of that as if they were truly mentally incompetent.

That or they don't believe it and know what they're espousing is false, but are doing it anyway for ulterior motives and benefits derived from playing with people's trust. Aka grifters and traitors, who doubly deserve no sympathy.

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– Benevolentdictator 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

I know medical cert standards are slipping but it still is stretching plausibility that the MD didn't have the mental capacity to understand how he was assisting to exploit and damage the local community in exchange for payment from a higher power.

Most American MDs still believe the entire slate of COVID agitprop.

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– Happygo 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Regardless the fool purchased a hotel in Ireland and was going to profit from the forced replacement of the locals. Top tier stupidity

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– HallucinatoryBeing 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Husband is a doctor and they put their whole net worth into the property, so that would be easily within reach. You don't even need to be rich if you're buying a small rundown hotel either.

Doesn't matter how smart you are as a doctor if you let your retarded artist wife handle all of your finances. You're only as smart as your weakest link.

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