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Your thoughts on the fuel protests? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/ireland@lemmy.world

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Everywhere I look online, the comments section seems to be extreme in both directions. Some people calling the protestors selfish, others calling them misinformed, protestors pushing for anti-immigration, etc.

RTE seems to be mostly in the pocket of the government (again), so there's nothing but "Whitegate is the only Irish oil refinery", as if that's supposed to pull weight?

I'm supporting the initiative myself, I do think fuel costs should be seen to, as it's becoming way more expensive to live, even in the past week or two alone. I'm however, not in favour of pushing the anti immigration propaganda.

I do feel like places like Reddit, YouTube, and news sites with comment feeds, there's a lot of astroturfing being done. Feels like people I actually talk about this, who also live and work in Ireland, have very sane takes, and practically everyone I know support the protests, whereas online it seems to be a forest fire of a dichotomy.

I'm wondering, is this really the current discourse online. Or is there some sort of toxic nature to regular people going online and pushing for one thing or the other.

What's your opinion on the matter?

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[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i wish they were happening at a time when the dáil was in session, to affect the people who most need to be affected by this.

that said, fair play to them for organising a protest that actually disrupts things & happens during the week, rather than a weekend protest that gets ignored.

it being almost immediately hijacked by racists & anti-immigration bigots is awful, and i fear it's going to make more people support the dangerous precedent of the army being called in.

i feel that the bigger picture isn't being looked at or talked about beyond fuel prices, at least by our media:

non-renewable energy sources will always be at risk of shortages, so we need huge government investment in renewables yesterday.
in the meantime, we need to be able to ration the fossil fuels that we have, and only having the right to request working from home isn't helpful for that.
we need a bigger push to break ties with the u.s. & israel who started this war; even a bare minimum of keeping u.s. planes out of shannon airport & enacting the occupied territories bill would be such easy wins for the government.