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@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar "The GFA deals with the border. So Ireland ABSOLUTELY has rights on this"
I notice that you're changing the subject. Or, as people say on the Internet, moving the goalposts.
I notice that you're changing the subject. Or, as people say on the Internet, moving the goalposts.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar You've attempted (unsuccessfully, of course) to make the case that migrants have the right to go wherever they please, and that the Irish have a right to coerce compliance out of the British in this area because they're still angry about the potato famine of 1845-1849.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Can you find some fine print in an old-ish treaty that will allow Dublin to force London to take in a few more Pakistanis, just for the sake of a little schadenfreude? (If you don't know what word means, ask some of your German friends).
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Then the treaty is an unreasonably bad deal for Britain, and Britain should abandon it. Yes, despite your ignorance to the contrary, countries can walk away from treaties. They are not binding for all time.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar One can only have legally binding contracts in the presence of a system of law. Nations exist in a Hobbesian state of nature, self-serving German blatherings about "international law" to the contrary notwithstanding.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar "You must be able to buy PhDs in walmart these days"
Though there are not even 15 million Jews in the world, about 20% of the Nobel prizes have gone to us and more than a few have gone to Americans.
Though there are not even 15 million Jews in the world, about 20% of the Nobel prizes have gone to us and more than a few have gone to Americans.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar An Irishman trying to engage in intellectual snobbery at the expense of either the Jewish or American people is going to end up looking foolish.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar "The GFA deals with the border. So Ireland ABSOLUTELY has rights on this"
Not when you use it as a tool to shut down Britain's attempts to leave the EU. You're trying to use the fine print to do something unsavory, and as I've pointed out, treaties are not contracts.
Not when you use it as a tool to shut down Britain's attempts to leave the EU. You're trying to use the fine print to do something unsavory, and as I've pointed out, treaties are not contracts.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar You don't get to play sleazy lawyer games with them.
"Stick your nose in what you know."
Says the man (and I do use that word loosely in your case) who got so much about Indian and American history wrong in another tweet.
"Stick your nose in what you know."
Says the man (and I do use that word loosely in your case) who got so much about Indian and American history wrong in another tweet.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar Were you hoping for a more passionate response, instead of the well-deserved take-down you got?
You really should have read my profile a little more closely.
You really should have read my profile a little more closely.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar An attempt to slip a series of logical fallacies past a mathematician (even just a mathematician-in-training) will not end well for you.
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar But if it will make you at all happy, little man, I'll be happy to point out that you look like a pig, complete with snout and just the right complexion for that species, and that this seems rather fitting in your case.
Did that help?
Did that help?
@ChrisCurran_IRE @LeoVaradkar I wouldn't want you to walk away completely disappointed.
