Post #1437183
2026-04-09 12:47 UTC
@ciaranmak @psneeze @goibhniu the state is doing something: the state is you and me and all of us here and the configuration of that state is to defend market values above all, pay obeisance to multinational capital and provide some modicum of welfare.
The colour / size / shape of The State is not incidental to this broader struggle.
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@ownohmanny@mastodon.ie 2026-04-09 12:51
@ciaranmak @psneeze @goibhniu I'll happily have a broad and detailed discussion about the nature of the Irish state and as we all well know; those who protest high fuel prices know this too and demand access to policy change with little or no understanding of what a slashing of a commodity's cost does to larger revenue not to mention class positions. This is why we have public servants and unions and others to do this. We cannot always trust them blindly but policy is a process, not a thing.