I know what you're thinking. "OMG, how could Ireland get more based!?" But I regret to inform you that they did not in fact imprison someone for life for transhobia. They didn't even make him face the firing squad.
This is the most ridiculously fake claim I've ever seen, but it looks like conservatives are actually sharing despite the article being fake. The actual source appears to be this Facebook post.
This kind of bullshit always triggers my ADHD hyper focus, so I couldn't help but find out what the actual story was.
So needless to say, Enoch Burke (an appropriate name as berk means twat in UK slang) was not imprisoned for transphobia, but for contempt for court.
You can find the details on Wikipedia, but here's a summary.
Enoch Burke is a member of a family of evangelical activists, who appropriately come from County Mayo.
He was fired from his job as a teacher after refusing to use they/them pronouns for a student because he: 1: Interrupted a school event to go on a transphobic rant. 2: Harassed the head teacher so aggressively other teachers had to intervene in order for her to leave. 3: Brought his sister along to his disciplinary hearing and kicked up a fuss rather than act like an adult.
The school then had to hire security to prevent him from trespassing, and had to involve the police. He was told multiple times he had to leave them alone, and refused each time. He has been imprisoned multiple times, and others claim that all he needs to do to stop going back is to agree to follow the court order. He says he will never agree, so people are claiming he's been imprisoned of life when all he needs to do is stop being a dick. Even Westboro Baptist Church literally said he went too far, so you know he's unambiguously in the wrong.
I honestly thought there had to be something more complicated behind his. I thought maybe reactionaries were making fake photos of themselves falling for obvious lies so they can claim some kind of own. "LMAO, leftists are so dumb. They actually think we have the media literacy of a toddler." But no, some people are really that gullible.
the way I've kinda come to see it is that some things can be true; but what mostly happens in human interactions, especially relations of power or politics or economics or whatever, is that we are accepting a story, and what's true is dependent on the narratives we've internalized. A liberal's truth is one thing, a fascist's is another, leftists have many. This kind of "truth" isn't mutually compatible because it's only "truth" in a diegetic sense i guess? As these understandings diverge sufficiently, reconciliation becomes impossible. An up becomes a down. A left becomes a right. Right becomes wrong. That inevitably leads to conflict until someone can assert their narrative truth from a place of dominance i guess?
im really on a kick of seeing the world as intersecting, interconnecting stories and narratives. In that framework, truth has never really mattered. A true thing can be re-interpreted with narrative, and that narrative reinterpretation is usually exactly where people interface with power/politics/etc. - so it stands to reason truth was never a serious consideration. The truth of the narrative you're immersed in is what matters, and that can literally be "turning the frogs gay" tier nonsense, or it can be something more grounded in what is like dialectical materialism is supposed to illuminate - in both cases though, the truth of narrative trumps any kind of scientific attempt to derive what's "true"