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Incident at Roscommon hotel (asylum seekers)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,009 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Yeah I know all that, I just don't understand why "fighting age" is the term used. They're not coming from warzones so why not say 18-30 year old males.


    "fighting age" = 'be scared of scary scary scary muslims'.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    They're not coming from warzones so why not say 18-30 year old males.
    Hang on, they're not coming from war zones? I thought that was why so many were applying for EU(the rich part) asylum and refugee status because they were fleeing war zones. Maybe the EU have added the category of "well it can get a bit sticky in summer" as a space on the form for refugee application.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,009 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    jmayo wrote: »
    Food was not really that good.



    Still spouting this shyte I see.

    Yep nothing like adding a bunch of totally incompatible people, probably with questionable skills and education, dependent on state handouts to kickstart a revival in a part of the country where even the indigenous population can't really survive.




    You know what people are being sent there? Do please share with the rest of us.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Odhinn wrote: »
    You didn't. There are over a million in Jordan, a million in the lebanon, and certainly two million in turkey.n
    You note I mentioned that someone would be along with Turkey and Jordan. I must be psychic but fair play you did add Lebanon. And as I also said that's where the vast majority of ME "refugees" into the EU transit through. You seem to have quietly dropped the other ME countries you were cock sure were paragons of asylum friendliness.
    Churning out that 'where are the women' trope is inaccurate, ignores previous migrations patterns and is plain intellectual dishonesty.
    Oh do tell O, please explain. I could in turn accuse you of intellectual dishonesty, but I fear one of the words would be wrong.
    Odhinn wrote: »
    "fighting age" = 'be scared of scary scary scary muslims'.
    The men from Africa aren't Muslims for the most part.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,009 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Wibbs wrote: »
    You note I mentioned that someone would be along with Turkey and Jordan. I must be psychic but fair play you did add Lebanon. And as I also said that's where the vast majority of ME "refugees" into the EU transit through. You seem to have quietly dropped the other ME countries you were cock sure were paragons of asylum friendliness.


    I couldn't be arsed putting pearls out for the unappreciative, seeing as they were ignored the last time as well. The numbers are accessible via the UN and other sources for those interested.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    So that would be a no then. Just now I'm doing quite a good not shocked meme, if I say so myself. As usual you tend to be long on reactive rhetoric from your position, but disappointingly short on arguments and fact reinforcements of your position.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭VeryTerry


    Wibbs wrote: »
    You note I mentioned that someone would be along with Turkey and Jordan. I must be psychic but fair play you did add Lebanon.

    What other Middle Eastern countries do you expect to take Syrian refugees out of interest? The 3 stable countries that border Syria are doing their part. Iraq and Palestine are hardly in a position to take them.

    Your earlier point that they're "transit" countries to the EU is nonsense as well. Jordan has generations of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees living there.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    VeryTerry wrote: »
    What other Middle Eastern countries do you expect to take Syrian refugees out of interest? The 3 stable countries that border Syria are doing their part. Iraq and Palestine are hardly in a position to take them.

    Your earlier point that they're "transit" countries to the EU is nonsense as well. Jordan has generations of Palestinian and Iraqi refugees living there.
    You may have missed the part where I said; in particular fair play to Jordan. However and on the rest, you seem to think the Middle East is all a war zone. Do you consider Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait etc, all extremely wealthy nations and one the very founding centre of Islam, to be war zones, to be "hardly in a position to take them"? Yemen or Saudi are a lot closer to Syria than Sweden, or Germany and certainly Ireland.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭VeryTerry


    Wibbs wrote: »
    You may have missed the part where I said; in particular fair play to Jordan. However and on the rest, you seem to think the Middle East is all a war zone. Do you consider Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait etc, all extremely wealthy nations and one the very founding centre of Islam, to be war zones, to be "hardly in a position to take them"? Yemen or Saudi are a lot closer to Syria than Sweden, or Germany and certainly Ireland.

    Things aren't exactly going swimmingly in Yemen like.

    The Saudis aren't going to take any refugees and Syrians can't reach the rest of the counties you mentioned without traversing Saudi.

    There's a reason they're largely going to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and a lot of that reason is geographical.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    Why can’t Russia take some, jeepers, share them out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    tretorn wrote: »
    Why can’t Russia take some, jeepers, share them out.

    Same reason as Poland or Hungary^ - they simply don't want them.

    Hungary this week, offered their native ladies (that have 4 or more kids) tax-free work... for the rest of their lives! That's an incentive to boost their native population, if ever there was one.

    As for folks asking the relevance of 'working-age' young men...

    Aside from the obvious possible risks, this group is the 'single most likely' to suffer from 'human resource redundancy' as automation replaces the unskilled in this 4th industrial reveloution.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Same reason as Poland or Hungary^ - they simply don't want them.

    Hungary this week, offered their native ladies (that have 4 or more kids) tax-free work... for the rest of their lives! That's an incentive to boost their native population, if ever there was one.

    As for folks asking the relevance of 'working-age' young men...

    Aside from the obvious possible risks, this group is the 'single most likely' to suffer from 'human resource redundancy' as automation replaces the unskilled in this 4th industrial reveloution.

    Fighting age was the term used not working age


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Fighting age was the term used not working age

    Maybe it was (not by me, although can understand this point also).

    The fact remains that all young men will face issues finding work going forward. Even nationals with moderate levels of education and high levels of literacy/fluency.

    By 2030 upto 50% of all current roles will be replaced by automation, Males of 18-25 face the highest risk, of any group.

    Thus except in rare cases it's unlikely to see these AS aiding to the economy in any meaningful way, after processing and entering the economy as jobseekers in year/decades to come.

    That's fair enough, if they are 'genuine' cases, and it is considered 'goodwill' or 'charity' to help these people, again if fully genuine cases.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    Maybe it was (not by me, although can understand this point also).

    The fact remains that all young men will face issues finding work going forward. Even nationals with moderate levels of education and high levels of literacy/fluency.

    By 2030 upto 50% of all current roles will be replaced by automation, Males of 18-25 face the highest risk, of any group.

    Thus except in rare cases it's unlikely to see these AS aiding to the economy in any meaningful way, after processing and entering the economy as jobseekers in year/decades to come.

    That's fair enough, if they are 'genuine' cases, and it is considered 'goodwill' or 'charity' to help these people, again if fully genuine cases.

    50% of ALL current roles replaced by automation in 11 years time? Doubtful.

    I agree they will struggle to get work, they mightn't want to work seen as they can live the high live (compared to their own countries) on the dole!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    50% of ALL current roles replaced by automation in 11 years time? Doubtful.

    I agree they will struggle to get work, they mightn't want to work seen as they can live the high live (compared to their own countries) on the dole!

    (upto 50% for OECD group), some countries will manage better than others, 37.5% is probably a better expectation. Even France/Italy will be 40% Slovakia 44% for both sexes.

    Ire fairs slightly better, but with Males still looking at 35% replacement across all industries. However for low-skilled 'and' medium skilled, it's 38.5%.

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    In typically male dominated industries such as manufacturing it's 60%. Retail 45-49%, transport as an industry may be severely affected, later towards end 2030s.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Grayson wrote: »
    Zorya wrote: »
    Well, anyone who disagrees with open borders for economic migrants has been openly called a racist on this thread, good going. How does one continue with such a disgraceful epithet hanging over one's head....

    How does one continue with a discussion when people like you are making sh1t up.

    The irony of who has thanked your post 😉

    I openly disagree with open borders and have been called a racist for it, this is indeed a disgraceful lie which was made by one who cannot debate facts. Unless of course Timberr would like to quote one single racist post I have made in any forum, I am confused though, said poster claimed my entire post history consisted of nothing but racist statements, when called out on this lie they have been completely unable to provide one quote... but this was two days ago, and I might assume this particular poster has no shortage of free time to scour my post history yet has produced nothing.

    The games up, all the name calling and baseless accusations can no longer obfuscate the debate on the correaltion with muslim migration and the increase in sexual violence.


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,816 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    In Freiburg in Germany a bunch of Syrians gang raped an 18 year old girl outside a nightclub. Dragged her into the bushes and raped her. And then the quisling scumfuk German politicians announce a few days later they still won't deport Syrians, no matter what crimes they commit.

    Being an asylum seeker does not automatically make you a good person.

    Ah but many here believe it automatically makes you a rapist

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,816 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Kivaro wrote: »
    I see we have the usual pro-open-borders supporters on here making fun of the issues that other countries have with asylum seeker integration and their adjustment to western norms e.g. respect for women etc.

    It always amazes me how people who never ever gave a sh>t about womens rights suddenly jump in to advocate them. But then I look and it gets couched in a mysogynistic narrative of "our women" where they feel they own them.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Yeah I know all that, I just don't understand why "fighting age" is the term used. They're not coming from warzones so why not say 18-30 year old males.

    So why are they allowed into Europe and why should we even countenance giving them asylum?


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,625 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Nothing you have read eh? You seem to want to ignore what's there in black and white, but let me cut down this seeming confusing clutter of words:

    There was a greater degree of gender inequality for asylum applicants who were 14–17 or 18–34 years old, where around three quarters of first-time applicants were male,

    Yeah, I read that but unfortunately for you putting it in bold still doesn't back up your claim.

    Which was
    Wibbs wrote: »
    The same EU policy has let over five million in since 09. Nearly 80% of whom were men of fighting age.

    So nearly 4 million out of the 5 million were males between 18-34, that is your claim correct?

    The stat you keep referencing which I assume is accurate, states 75% of 2 specific age categories are 75% male. Only one of those age categories are what you define as "fighting age".

    So how do you we get to the real number?

    You take the number of refugees who are of "fighting age" and express that as a percentage of the total amount. Correct?

    So according to the Eurostat link you provided. From 2008 up until last week.

    Total No. of Refugees = 6.121 m
    Total No. of "Fighting Age" = 2.4m

    That's not nearly 80% is it? It's actually just nearly 40%.


    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and we will write it off as you being confused by maths.

    But this is the exact sort of tactic the likes of the Daily Mail uses, they take a perfectly accurate figure and embellish it to get their headline.

    80% of Refugees are of Fighting Age

    The term fighting age of course is to nicely paint the narrative of young males in fatigue with AK47s invading Engeeerland!

    Of course your average Daily Mail loves it, because they love a little bit of racist scaremongering.


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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Boggles wrote: »
    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and we will write it off as you being confused by maths.
    You seem to be more than a little confused by the oul maths yourself Ted. Like I said earlier maybe a picture will help?

    08ba2369b65a53da7755be5967737ed200801ad3.png

    40% eh? Clearly women are in the majority. If one is colour blind maybe, or reside in cloud cuckoo land. Meanwhile back in the real world the consistent year on year significant majority of migrants officially recorded coming into Europe are male. That's before we get to the numbers that are illegally passing through safe countries on their way to the better countries for social welfare.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Boggles wrote: »
    .........

    Of course your average Daily Mail loves it, because they love a little bit of racist scaremongering.

    The open-border types just cannot stop themselves with the racist cry, can they.
    They really dumb down anything they said previously with their hysterical insults.


  • Registered Users Posts: 39,625 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Wibbs wrote: »
    40% eh?

    Yes, the simple maths are broken down and explained to you quite clearly above.
    Wibbs wrote: »
    Clearly women are in the majority.

    Nobody claimed that.

    Again your claim was.
    Wibbs wrote: »
    The same EU policy has let over five million in since 09. Nearly 80% of whom were men of fighting age.

    That's clearly not true, correct?

    Reposting that graph won't make it any truer.

    Your welcome by the way.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Kivaro wrote: »
    The open-border types
    Well I wouldn't class them as "open border types". The vast majority of people outside of a few nutters - funny enough on the extremes of socialism and capitalism - aren't calling for open borders. I would class them as believing in the multicultural ideal. Which is laudable enough, on the surface. Unfortunately it doesn't work out too well. While monocultural societies have social problems, multicultural societies have more social problems on top and this has been demonstrated over decades in European societies that have run this experiment, or brought it upon themselves because of imperial pasts. Yet Ireland which has so far not had such problems because we weren't a multicultural society, nor imperial powers like the others are supposed to now import this idiocy? Makes no sense to me.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,299 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    They seem to be having a bit of trouble across the pond with second generation muslims born in the UK who went off to join ISIS and now want to come back, also in countries like France and Belgium it's often muslims born in the country who are the ones who carry out the attacks.

    And yet it seems we have learned nothing from this and want to bring thousands of them in, we're setting ourselves up for a lot of trouble in years to come I fear.

    Actually only for the information MI6 are passing on we wouldn't know the half of what is going on in our own country, we should be upgrading our security here and not sending off millions to tin pot countries who are not our responsibility.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Zorya


    Kivaro wrote: »
    The open-border types just cannot stop themselves with the racist cry, can they.
    They really dumb down anything they said previously with their hysterical insults.

    To be fair there is a certain (and large) segment of the population, especially among young people, who seem to have very idealistic ideas about ''One World'', and they are genuinely feeling these open borders sentiments, and also genuinely feel that old fogeys resisting the New One World are racist and backwards.

    I know this because a couple of my own young adult sprogs have told me so to my face :D

    I am not sure exactly how this idealised version of what the planet is came to be implanted in their heads - but then there is so much ridiculous propgandising that has gone on in the past couple of decades, and if pressed I would have to inadequately explain it by blaming the cynical promotion of globalism.

    This idea has been fostered, this Star Trek type thinking, as if we have leap-frogged political evolution, as if we have sorted out the MAHOOSIVE differences between cultures and civilisational ethos - which we simply have not.

    Worst of all this idea is purely an economic one - there is nothing philosphical, idealist, or progressive about it at all - it is a fake ideal whereby elites make endless money and gain power - cheap labour, flattened barriers, annihilation of workers rights, neo-feudalism, endless hedonic consumption and consumers, etc.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,076 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Boggles wrote: »
    Yes, the simple maths are broken down and explained to you quite clearly above.
    OK then, so let's take your figure of roughly 40% are males of that age range. Cool. What is the normal average percentage of males of that age range in a population? I had a look at marketing site looking at "millennials" in the US, roughly if handily defined as between 18-34. 18-34: 76.0 million (23.3%). That's already nearly half of the migrant percentages. Oh and that's men and women, so it's more like around 12% are men of that age range in an average population, yet the migrant population demographics are just over three times that figure.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭tretorn


    I do feel sorry for young teenage girls who were radicalised in the UK by older men. They left thinking there were going to help fight some cause but in reality they ended up as brood mares and then couldnt get out.

    One who left at fifteen is now nine months pregnant and she wants to be allowed back to the UK, if these twats were over eighteen I would say they made their bed let them lie on it but really a fifteen year old is just a child. The pregnant woman had two children already and she is only nineteen now, both these children died and this woman has probably had a terrible few years.

    The problem is if the child she is carrying is male will he grow up to try and behead fellow Londoners in the streets or plant bombs on buses. This is the crux of the issue and if this child and more like him put my family at risk then I dont want him growing up anywhere in Europe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Well I wouldn't class them as "open border types". The vast majority of people outside of a few nutters - funny enough on the extremes of socialism and capitalism - aren't calling for open borders. ....

    I am constantly hearing Wibbs, from Sinn Fein representatives on television and especially RTE radio programs advocating for open borders ..... and I'm talking about complete open borders along the lines of their passed Ard Feis motion i.e. Sinn Fein will work for the achievement of the optimal position of no restriction on immigration to Ireland and deplores all attempts to limit the numbers of political and economic refugees into the country. RTE never challenges them on this stance, which should not shock anyone.

    This view has never changed since 1998, but it doesn't surprise me though. This is the same party who support the Venezuelan dictator, much to the detriment of the millions of poor people suffering at the hands of the dictator's policies and death squads.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 39,625 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Wibbs wrote: »
    OK then, so let's take your figure of roughly 40%. are males of that age range. Cool.

    I's not my figure, it's not my opinion, it's not something I pulled out of the air, it's not something I misinterpreted on a Wikipedia page.

    It's the actual percentage take from the eurostat link you provided.

    Wibbs wrote: »
    What is the normal average percentage of males of that age range in a population? I had a look at marketing site looking at "millennials" in the US, roughly if handily defined as between 18-34. 18-34: 76.0 million (23.3%). That's already nearly half of the migrant percentages. Oh and that's men and women, so it's more like around 12% are men of that age range in an average population, yet the migrant population demographics are just over three times that figure.

    I haven't a scooby. :confused:

    I would suggest though if you are looking for a more accurate number, look at the population make up of the countries where the refugees are coming from.

    I would imagine some constantly war ravaged country in Africa or the Middle East would have a different make up to the richest country on the planet.


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