When angry Irish people who hate Israel react spitefully to the idea of a boycott on Irish products by falsely claiming that doing so would deprive you of a national supply of potatoes with which to produce all manner of potato based products. Potatolighting is considered a highly specialised form of gaslighting and is particularly popular among followers of Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit, and Sinn Féin.
"How's your day going Daniel?"
"Up and down, ya know. TBH I'm getting a lot of potatolighting over on Twitter/X and it's doing my head in."
"Up and down, ya know. TBH I'm getting a lot of potatolighting over on Twitter/X and it's doing my head in."