McGregor, Fuentes stated, wanted to “salvage the country because it’s either going to be the Irish or it’s going to be the blacks … only one side is going to come out of this alive.”

Some far-right influencers within the US have additionally pushed components of the great replacement theory, a conspiracy claiming {that a} globalist elite is working with Western governments to power out native populations by immigration.

Tucker Carlson, who now broadcasts his present on X, informed his hundreds of thousands of followers that “the Irish government is trying to replace the population of Ireland with people from the third world.”

Former White House adviser and 2020 election conspiracist Steve Bannon, who’s at present strategizing for former US president Donald Trump, responded to Carlson by declaring: “Ireland is a powder keg.”

Meanwhile, Catturd, the massively influential pro-Trump account on X run by Florida shitposter Phillip Buchanan, informed his 2 million followers to make the hashtag #IrishLivesMatter development—which many duly did.

Elon Musk, who this week told X advertisers to “go fuck yourself,” additionally weighed in, claiming on X that the Irish prime minister “hates the Irish people,” and agreeing with one other far-right influencer who posted on X saying Ireland wanted McGregor to run for workplace. “Not a bad idea,” Musk wrote in reply.

McGregor, who, simply 24 hours earlier than the riots broke out, posted “Ireland, we are at war” to his 10 million followers on X, has grow to be a lightning rod for worldwide and native far-right assist. McGregor has not fought an MMA battle for greater than two years and has since spent a lot of his time exterior of Ireland, together with in his house in Florida. His social media posts over the previous 12 months have grow 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 of many at present below investigation for alleged incitement to hatred.

In far-right Telegram channels, poorly-generated AI photographs 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. “Rebellion 2023?” wrote the operator of the far-right Telegram channel who posted a picture.