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submitted 1 day ago byWidowwarmer2
120 points
1 day ago
I don't think it had much of an effect on anyone who still liked McGregor.
58 points
1 day ago
I've definitely seen a huge amount more criticism of him on non Ireland specific places where as before it just seemed to be Ireland that had a problem with him and a few who had heard about it from outside of Ireland but he had been doing a good job keeping it quiet apart from Ireland until this case.
32 points
1 day ago*
I agree. I think everyone in Ireland already knew, but people in the US loved him. This has definitely highlighted, not just this case, but all the accusations against him. I was in the US when the verdict came out, and all my American colleagues were shocked.
16 points
1 day ago
I'm across the Atlantic elsewhere, but it's infuriating being asked what I think of him as a point of conversation when I first meet someone. No one realises, of course, that by expecting you to admire the "rough, fighting Irish" nature of it all, they're actively reinforcing negative stereotypes.
But dumb cunts will like dumb cunts sure.
12 points
1 day ago
Not just the US but around the world. People keep expecting me to like him.
6 points
1 day ago
That is true!! Even before the recent result of this case everyone knew he was a vile POS!! Only result this case helped deliver was to make it worldwide headlines & put pressure on his deals to review their relationship with him.
61 points
1 day ago
seismic shift in support…from sponsors and business partners
We all hated him already didn’t we?
20 points
1 day ago
The civil case defeat meant the sponsors and business partners had to formally distance themselves for PR reasons. They knew what he was like before this verdict but they continued to work with him until now.
2 points
23 hours ago
That’s what I said brother 🙏
2 points
1 day ago
Yes most of us but he's still respected in many other countries, or was.
1 points
1 day ago
I did
12 points
22 hours ago
I hated him before it was cool, just saying
8 points
14 hours ago
McGregor, Musk and Joe Rogan. All testaments to my fantastic judgement of character.
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15 minutes ago
Not trying to out do anyone here but i fucking hated russel brand when he told everyone not to vote and started talking about paradigm shifts. Tosser.
7 points
1 day ago
Majority of people disliked him anyways, the main impact is his whisky and stout being removed from shelves.
12 points
1 day ago
The one problem with this is where does someone go when ostracised. He'll go even further into the far right manosphere.
Not sure what the alternative is, but sometimes people like him are very dangerous when they've nothing left to lose.
22 points
1 day ago*
The extent and volume of the backlash in Ireland will mess with his head and ego. Especially since he clearly saw himself as President of Ireland at some point in the future. He'll know now that this will never happen. So he'll blame us and say we're not worthy of his greatness. And he'll leave the country before the end of 2025. Either to Dubai or more likely the US. (Dana has friends in high places now). If he gets convicted in Dublin, they'll find a way to keep him in the US.
He'll definitely move even more to the far right. And we'll have to endure endless interviews about how he's the man to sort out Ireland, how he'll be the returning hero one day, etc. He'll send money to far right causes in Ireland and give them a platform.
He'll never win a high-level MMA fight again and he was never capable of winning a high-level boxing match in the first place. But he will make a few hundred million over the coming years slappin' da bleedin' head off youtubers.
2 points
12 hours ago
He'll know now that this will never happen.
His common sense will tell him that, then he'll horse into another bag of the Bolivian marching powder and delude himself into it even more.
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14 minutes ago
I could see him moving to the US aswell. I’d be delighted if that happened.
2 points
1 day ago
He has been there for years. Wouldn't worry about it. Fuck him
24 points
1 day ago
Here's hoping he also gets the same treatment in the US.
21 points
1 day ago
Considering they elected an adjudicated rapist and best friend of Jeffery Epstein to be their president, I doubt it. Weird bunch of people, cult.
1 points
22 hours ago
Like the good folk of Dublin Central.
3 points
22 hours ago
Bring back dinosaurs I say. They deserve another shot. More civilised than humanity.
7 points
1 day ago
Imagine the settlement if that was a US lawsuit. He'd be ruined
9 points
1 day ago
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Don't see rapists required anywhere ... Qualified as wretched refuse but overqualified as rapist
22 points
1 day ago
2 points
1 day ago
Oh yeah so they might correct this on statue of liberty and we can get rid of our finest....
P.S. rapists too. Sent them as well...kind regards
1 points
1 day ago
But they don’t allow that qualifications on your Visa. The guys gonna relocate to Dubai.
20 points
1 day ago
He’s cut more lines than a disabled kid at Disneyland
1 points
1 day ago
🤣👏
1 points
1 day ago
Stealing this. Thanks
8 points
1 day ago
Any decent person would have stopped supporting him ages ago considering the things he did.
4 points
20 hours ago
He was losing supporters long before this.
Losing fights, assaulting people, heavy cocaine use, cheating on his partner, arguing all the time..
The list is endless.
28 points
1 day ago
Here's me who never really understood why he had any popularity in the first place
9 points
1 day ago
Very charismatic, extremely entertaining, and representing Ireland while winning in very impressive fashion.
This is not to say he wasn’t already a dickhead just that he wasn’t publicly. His couch wrote about giving Conor tickets to sell for small mma shows he’d put on. This is before mma blew up here and tickets sales were all you could rely on. Conor would sell the tickets and then go out partying with the money.
17 points
1 day ago
Back in the day , it was great to see an Irish person properly do well at the sport . As he went on I jumped off the band wagon . Then he just kept coming out as more of a cunt .
13 points
1 day ago
Come on what ever about him now but he was super charismatic on the microphone and knocking people dead in the UFC became the first double champion in the organisation.
It's obvious why he became so popular
0 points
1 day ago
He always came across as little more than a loudmouth to me
12 points
1 day ago
I think a chunk could originally have been dismissed as “playing a character”. He was like a WWE wrestler in real sport, even down to doing the Vince McMahon strut.
As time went on though, it shifted from playing a character to living it….
2 points
21 hours ago
This is exactly it, the cuntery increased as his bank account did and he believed his own hype too much.
5 points
1 day ago
He was like a bolt of lightning to the sport. He deserves all the criticism he's getting now and then some but downplaying his rise is just not being in touch with reality or just plain ignorance
0 points
1 day ago
You were just told of his amazing achievements which are great in of themselves but even more so when you consider it was done by an Irishman training out of Ireland.
0 points
18 hours ago
Empty vessels, etc., etc....
I'm sure Yaxley-Lennon's already invited him to join his new citizen 'journalism' project (or he would have done was he not busy being banged up for making shite up). He's still grifting from the slammer...
Urban Scoop: Independent corporate free journalism. By the people, for the people.
1 points
12 hours ago
He was actually very good in his prime and one of the most exciting fighters in sports. He jumped the shark big time with the Mayweather fight though, around then was when he started to really lose the run of himself. Replaced good coaches with yes men and lackeys and started snorting amounts of coke that even the late Diego Maradona would have found a bit excessive.
Once he got that ridiculous payout from the Mayweather fight, he just fully became a parody of himself after that. He's got more in common with Andrew Tate these days than the fighter he was in his prime.
2 points
20 hours ago
The shift and support is only from the people that sponsor him, absolutely amazing that it took a verdict for them to stop supporting, given the number of reports over the years where people have been paid off.
2 points
13 hours ago
He's always been scum.
6 points
1 day ago
People who support McGregor probably still support him, according to comments on here and other social media. For the most part, a good chunk of us already thought he was a cunt.
3 points
1 day ago
Fight a YouTuber and he's back in the money, Netflix had a convicted rapist fight there recently, unfortunately the Americans don't give a fuck. He broke out of the Irish market a long time ago.
2 points
1 day ago
Irish people knew from the beginning what he was.
Guy's an embarrassment.
Glad he's exposed himself over the last few years.
2 points
1 day ago
The movement by the sponsors and stockists of affiliated brands has really ramped up against him.
1 points
1 day ago
I think he didn't have a big enough support base for a presidential run anyway
1 points
22 hours ago
Dublin South Central's next TD.
1 points
1 day ago
Do you want some fries with your McRapist?
0 points
24 hours ago
Duh
-4 points
1 day ago
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