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I suspect he is busy like many of us have been since covid hit. Many are struggling to keep employees afloat long enough to get revenue generated.
Others are looking for work and trying to keep food on the table.
Heck I am receiving all the holiday requests for donations to worthy causes I typically donate to. This year I can still make my annual contributions, as I know plenty of people are worse off than myself.
However if things are as bad next year as they were this year, I hate to think I might need to cut back on giving back.
So while this is certainly an interesting discussion, things are fairly stable in NI at the moment, and I suspect in large part due to covid.
Brexit is still something that could unravel the GFA if they are not careful, and a vote on unification could very well be coming as well.
That said, I hope he is alright and not being personally touched by this cursed virus. I have been exposed a couple of times, and know a couple of people who have been sick and recovered, and a couple who had relatives who succumbed to it.
So to all the participants in this discussion who have not been as active, I hope you all are otherwise busy with your families health and well being.
I think he was either banned or he quit, as it says "not a member" under his name.
Oh, I didn't even look at his ID.
Between those two possibilities, I suspect he was banned, as he does not seem like a quitter. I suspect he was too caustic and finally got the hook.
On the bright side, thankfully he is not an "Eternal Member".
It is not often I agree with the hardline DUP (compared with the UUP), but the tweet by the SF Dail member was uncalled for, and shows how some politicians are tone deaf.
Worse, even if you have such thoughts based on prejudice, ego, pride or whatever was going through his mind, you do not get on the megaphone and broadcast your thoughts to the world.
It is not often I agree with the hardline DUP (compared with the UUP), but the tweet by the SF Dail member was uncalled for, and shows how some politicians are tone deaf.
Worse, even if you have such thoughts based on prejudice, ego, pride or whatever was going through his mind, you do not get on the megaphone and broadcast your thoughts to the world.
Great advice........if only Donald Dump would practice it........
Trump and all other world leaders need to be more civil, regardless of their inherent personalities.
While I do not believe in PC and pretending reality is non-existent in the face of hard to face facts, you can also be civil while expressing said reality.
So whether it be Trump or Obama on our side of the pond, or Johnson and/or Foster on the other side, everyone needs to tone down the caustic rhetoric, which only serves to coarsen our societies.
Sure in the example I used, it was SF talking about an IRA operation. But regardless of whether NI is "occupied by Britain" or not, harkening back to the deaths of soldiers decades ago, thus pulling off the scab, hardly seems productive.
People just do not think before they open their gobs, and they seem to lack empathy for others. Just imagine how upset the Nationalists/Republicans would be if a member of the DUP derided the deaths of IRA members because they were outsmarted by the Brits.
SF and others would have a fit.
So short of intentional trolling, that SF member seems to lack any semblance of empathy.
Trump and all other world leaders need to be more civil, regardless of their inherent personalities.
While I do not believe in PC and pretending reality is non-existent in the face of hard to face facts, you can also be civil while expressing said reality.
So whether it be Trump or Obama on our side of the pond, or Johnson and/or Foster on the other side, everyone needs to tone down the caustic rhetoric, which only serves to coarsen our societies.
Sure in the example I used, it was SF talking about an IRA operation. But regardless of whether NI is "occupied by Britain" or not, harkening back to the deaths of soldiers decades ago, thus pulling off the scab, hardly seems productive.
People just do not think before they open their gobs, and they seem to lack empathy for others. Just imagine how upset the Nationalists/Republicans would be if a member of the DUP derided the deaths of IRA members because they were outsmarted by the Brits.
SF and others would have a fit.
So short of intentional trolling, that SF member seems to lack any semblance of empathy.
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I don't want to derail this thread, so I'll say no more than this:
That's convenient for you, putting Trump in the same category as all the other world leaders, most of whom are respectful. I can think of maybe ten others that are in the Trump mold. Bolsonaro, Maduro, Duarte, Orban, Lukashenko, plus some African and Asian, but people who make a mistake like the SF guy, and then apologise for it, even if under pressure to do so, don't fit the Trump mold.
Trying to project Trump's behavior onto all other leaders fools only yourself.
I don't want to derail this thread, so I'll say no more than this:
That's convenient for you, putting Trump in the same category as all the other world leaders, most of whom are respectful. I can think of maybe ten others that are in the Trump mold. Bolsonaro, Maduro, Duarte, Orban, Lukashenko, plus some African and Asian, but people who make a mistake like the SF guy, and then apologise for it, even if under pressure to do so, don't fit the Trump mold.
Trying to project Trump's behavior onto all other leaders fools only yourself.
I do not defend all of Trumps behavior, and likely he is one of the worst regarding tweeting without thinking.
That said (and as you point out), Trump has nothing to do with this topic, nor has he shown any particular interest in NI from what I am aware of (unlike presidents like Bill Clinton). My point was merely that far too many politicians seem to have diarrhea of the mouth on social media.
As to the Sinn Fein politician apologizing after his tone deaf tweet, what you might not be aware of is how NI politicians seem to make stupid, and inflammatory comments (publicly) on a regular basis.
Since both the DUP & SF are polar opposites, they need to be more careful with their rhetoric, yet fail miserably.
Naturally their respective rivals via the UUP & SDLP seem more adept at conveying a message, but not being as inflammatory.
So when a SF member talks of pushing Unionists into the sea, or the leader of the DUP says they would leave NI if the unification with Ireland occurred, one wonders why they cannot see how stupid that is to say publicly.
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