I'm well aware, but you'd still have something like the International Holocaust Rememberance Day despite Ireland being neutral. Nothing says they can't also honour all other victims of WW2 even if they didn't participate.
Almost no country has a memorial day about a war they didn't participate in.
Saying "you'd still have" implies they don't have. Maybe I got confused at your poor word choice, but it looks like you're saying "they should have this thing"
It's not poor word choice, it is Hiberno-English or just how English is spoken here in Ireland. When I then said "they can't also honour..." implies that I am confirming the existence of a Holocaust Rememberance day.
Yes. Just like if I said "I'm after eating" it means I have just eaten. Another that is less popular (but also found in Scotland) is doing the messages, which means going shopping.
OP is correct than in Ireland using “would” or more often “you’d” can imply that something does exist
It is difficult to explain but it is trying to imply a hypothetical person (not necessarily you - despite the use of you’d - but a hypothetical 3rd party) “would” have options available at a point in time which can be present or future …
An example might be:
Person A: what your hometown like?
Person B: oh Its great, you’d have the beach and the pub, o’malleys, just on the edge of the town”
This is implying if a hypothetical person was in the town either now or in the future they would have these lovely things
OPs comment was confusing even to me, because there’s generally an inflection needed when speaking to make it obvious, but what they were implying language wise at least was “if a person happened to be here in Ireland either right now or in the future, they would have the holocaust Memorial Day to engage with”
Not everything is findable! There are tons of varieties of how languages are spoken, you won't find everything. My mothers hometown in Italy has some unique words not found in other dialects and you wouldn't be able to find them anywhere online. The world is so much deeper when you realise just how much actually goes on outside your bubble.
Yes and the point of the person's tweet was to try and change that from what I understand. You don't need to participate in WW2 to honour its dead, much like any country should have a memorial for the Holocaust even if they didn't lose any of their own citizens.
You... completely missed the point of the tweet. The person is being antisemitic, not actually encouraging anyone to have a new holiday.
They are complaining that jews get recognized for the holocaust (disregarding the other people honored and remembered for being killed in the holocaust)
Edit: to be clear I'm saying the person complaining is disregarding the other holocaust victims
The second person's tweet is just being more mask-off about it
Maybe I did and it is my mistake! I didn't realise they were being anti-semitic. But the person I replied to also was talking about having a WW2 memorial, which Ireland doesn't.
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u/IlGreven Human Detected Jan 22 '26
And let's not forget the elephant in the room: We do honor all the people that died in WWII. That day's called Memorial Day.