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meanwhile, Irish Twitter and TikTok have been absolutely ablaze with celebration...

sph 4y ago
Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world. It's like wondering what 4chan thinks of this.
- JAlexoid 4y ago
  Average person don't care... All kinds of republicans(anti-monarchists, not American republicans) are content.
- BitwiseFool 4y ago
  >" Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world." For now, at least. I think we are all underestimating just how much Twitter impacts public perception. Not just on topics, but how people feel, act, and interact with others. Twitter seems to have a cancerous negativity it inflicts on its users.
hackerlight 4y ago
The hashtag #IrishTwitter that artificially gets pumped up by Twitter's recommendation algorithm does not equal Irish Twitter, and it certainly does not equal Ireland.
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MrRiddle 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. That's not allowed here, and you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110385). If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
talideon 4y ago
That's more a matter of what circles you're in. Most people I've encountered have been much more moderate, separating the human being, who deserves to be mourned, from the institution.
disgruntledphd2 4y ago
Speaking as an Irish person who hates inherited titles, those people are effing assholes. What part of don't speak I'll of the dead did they miss out on?
- hackerlight 4y ago
  They're probably not Irish people. https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056 https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056 Either your typical bottom-up social media fake news, or the usual MO of certain intelligence agencies to sow division in the anglosphere.
- NoraCodes 4y ago
  I've always gone by the motto that if the dead didn't want us to speak ill of them, they shouldn't have been bad people during their lives.
  - disgruntledphd2 4y ago
    Totally fair and I don't entirely disagree but the whole don't speak I'll of the dead thing is very much ingrained in Irish culture. Also, Liz 2 was presumably a reasonably decent person, and can't really be blamed for the actions of the British government.

sph 4y ago

Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world. It's like wondering what 4chan thinks of this.

JAlexoid 4y ago
Average person don't care... All kinds of republicans(anti-monarchists, not American republicans) are content.
BitwiseFool 4y ago
>" Twitter is an echo chamber of edginess and not indicative of the average person in the real world." For now, at least. I think we are all underestimating just how much Twitter impacts public perception. Not just on topics, but how people feel, act, and interact with others. Twitter seems to have a cancerous negativity it inflicts on its users.

hackerlight 4y ago

The hashtag #IrishTwitter that artificially gets pumped up by Twitter's recommendation algorithm does not equal Irish Twitter, and it certainly does not equal Ireland.

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MrRiddle 4y ago

dang 4y ago
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments. That's not allowed here, and you've been doing it repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110385). If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

talideon 4y ago

That's more a matter of what circles you're in. Most people I've encountered have been much more moderate, separating the human being, who deserves to be mourned, from the institution.

disgruntledphd2 4y ago

Speaking as an Irish person who hates inherited titles, those people are effing assholes. What part of don't speak I'll of the dead did they miss out on?

hackerlight 4y ago
They're probably not Irish people. https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056 https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1568157931538989056 Either your typical bottom-up social media fake news, or the usual MO of certain intelligence agencies to sow division in the anglosphere.
NoraCodes 4y ago
I've always gone by the motto that if the dead didn't want us to speak ill of them, they shouldn't have been bad people during their lives.
- disgruntledphd2 4y ago
  Totally fair and I don't entirely disagree but the whole don't speak I'll of the dead thing is very much ingrained in Irish culture. Also, Liz 2 was presumably a reasonably decent person, and can't really be blamed for the actions of the British government.