McGregor, Fuentes stated, wanted to “salvage the nation as a result of it’s both going to be the Irish or it’s going to be the blacks … just one aspect goes to come back out of this alive.”
Some far-right influencers within the US have additionally pushed components of the nice substitute concept, a conspiracy claiming {that a} globalist elite is working with Western governments to drive out native populations by means of immigration.
Tucker Carlson, who now broadcasts his present on X, instructed his hundreds of thousands of followers that “the Irish authorities is attempting to exchange the inhabitants of Eire with folks from the third world.”
Former White Home adviser and 2020 election conspiracist Steve Bannon, who’s at present strategizing for former US president Donald Trump, responded to Carlson by declaring: “Eire is a powder keg.”
In the meantime, Catturd, the massively influential pro-Trump account on X run by Florida shitposter Phillip Buchanan, instructed his 2 million followers to make the hashtag #IrishLivesMatter pattern—which many duly did.
Elon Musk, who this week instructed X advertisers to “go fuck your self,” additionally weighed in, claiming on X that the Irish prime minister “hates the Irish folks,” and agreeing with one other far-right influencer who posted on X saying Eire wanted McGregor to run for workplace. “Not a foul concept,” Musk wrote in reply.
McGregor, who, simply 24 hours earlier than the riots broke out, posted “Eire, we’re at conflict” to his 10 million followers on X, has turn out to be a lightning rod for worldwide and native far-right help. McGregor has not fought an MMA struggle for greater than two years and has since spent a lot of his time exterior of Eire, together with in his house in Florida. His social media posts over the previous yr have turn out to be more and more political and have been straight influenced by lots of the identical far–proper figures who inspired their followers to fulfill within the heart of Dublin forward of the riots. The Irish police are at present investigating the riots, and McGregor is one in all many at present below investigation for alleged incitement to hatred.
In far-right Telegram channels, poorly-generated AI photos of McGregor proliferated, displaying him in numerous poses starting from standing patriotically in entrance of a burning bus to debating in parliament, in addition to ones of a bare-chested McGregor holding a rifle and main a mob of similarly-armed Irishmen. “Rebel 2023?” wrote the operator of the far-right Telegram channel who posted a picture.
