Post #1437184
2026-04-09 12:51 UTC
@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.
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@ciaranmak@mastodon.ie 2026-04-09 12:56
@ownohmanny @psneeze @goibhniu And protest is how you communicate the failings of policy. I work in cyber security, I'm extremely familiar with the concepts of policy and process. When you have a right to protest, you raise them flags early because otherwise you are facing collapse or compromise. Reacting too slow, not making the problems visible etc, OVER AND OVER is how systems fail.