What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

thefallingman

Chris de Burgh has some good tunes

Tombo2001

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119803978#Comment_119803978

Get the f88k out and dont come back....

😜

Brid Hegarty

Sinn Fein are gangsters who will immediately sue any journalist who asks them a difficult question.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119803787#Comment_119803787

"You get the government you deserve" I could also call out as what you described.. because it is..a lazy assed tagline. everyone simply deserves better... we have a constitution where huge swathes are being ignored by politicians and it is almost a non democracy we are sneaking towards...

People do protest but unfortunately many people also have responsibilities and at this rate we could be occupying the streets en masse for xx time without success..

The political classes are no longer as democratic....

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804199#Comment_119804199

...a different type of gagsters i guess than the alternatives, next government should be interesting!

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119803689#Comment_119803689

What you espouse is support for a punishment for success tax

naturally socialists believe that the state should have a greater standing than the family lineage when it comes to distribution of personal estate’s, if you hammer inheritance, you decrease the power of the family unit and afford the state more power

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119802479#Comment_119802479

Anyone who believes just doesn’t understand the British, they never had anything like the same affinity with the EU that we do , more Labour people voted Brexit than supported remain

griffin100

Ireland doesn't have a significant far right problem, just because someone doesn't agree with the Twitter / RTE agenda does not make them right wing.

However I believe we are sleepwalking into future strife by allowing into the country unlimited numbers of unvetted migrants from a country with significant and endemic far right tendencies (i.e. Ukraine) at a time when we are also becoming more ethnically diverse. It's also happening at a time when we have ongoing social issues around housing and health provision. To me that is a recipe for the rise of a genuine populist far right movement in Ireland, and that worries me. I think in years to come we will look back at this time and wounder wtf we were doing.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804270#Comment_119804270

oh the extremes are always waiting in the wings, by not seriously addressing our most critical of issues, theres a very good chance we ll lurch to the right post sf.....

the reasoning for this is more to do with us continually fcuking up with addressing these issues, i.e. housing, health care etc etc, and very little to do with the usual scapegoat's, i.e. the welfare classes and the 'scary' foreigners!

havent listened to this yet, but......

https://player.fm/series/your-politics/is-irish-politics-lurching-to-the-right

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804270#Comment_119804270

Ireland has taken in around 55k Ukrainians, which is around 1% of our population. Just say each and every one of them (including the children) was a far right fascist, are you saying they would be organised and influential enough to create a far right problem? Not buying it tbh

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804224#Comment_119804224

Punishment for success? Not at all. If the person is dead, how can they be punished?

What I advocate for is meritocracy. The clever, hard working people should rise to the top and stupid, lazy people should shuffle to the bottom. What about that do you disagree with?

Sleepy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804224#Comment_119804224

Well done, you've just described the problem with dynasties perfectly. The power of the family unit should never be more powerful than the state. That's how you end up with the likes of Prince Andrew walking free or Celia Aherne getting lucrative publishing deals...

griffin100

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804478#Comment_119804478

That's 55,000 this year, what about next year and the year after and the year after.....this war isn't ending soon. We also have yet to see the influx of those who fought on the front line.

At the last GE right wing parties got less than 2% of the vote, yet we are warned continuously about their rise. Unchecked immigration is grist to the mill for these groups. That's combined with large scale immigration from a country with some degree of a far right culture.

I'm starting to see a hardening of attitudes to Ukrainians (and to some degree other immigrants) in work colleagues, friends, etc. who are normally very open to 'new Irish'. I'm only one person but I'm sure others are seeing the same. I don't see it ending well, but it's one area I hope I'm wrong on.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119804511#Comment_119804511

No what you oppose is families becoming what you see as to independently wealthy through generational effect, people would inevitably be more state dependant under you’re proposals what with a deceased persons asset’s largely going to the state

walshb

Irish people don't give a fiddlers about the plight of the Palestinians no matter how many flags they fly or how may social media posts they like.

walshb

Females in general (despite the constant pushing) are not suited to positions of power. They are far too emotional

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119805213#Comment_119805213

Nail on the head there mad_maxx - it is not good for society to have one class of people who are largely at leisure, living off grandads success 80 years ago, while others who were not so lucky in the grandfather lottery to be working and paying taxes for pesky things like schools and hospitals.

Galwayguy35

I hope Elon Musk lets Trump return to Twitter.

Anyone who comes to A&E for alcohol related accidents should be made wait until last.

Extinction Rebellion protesters deserve to get roughed up for blocking traffic.

No amnesty for overstayers, they broke the law and should all be deported.

Travellers get everything for free and are always complaining.

Anyone who voted for either Wallace or Daly are idiots.

Snickers Man

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119805990#Comment_119805990

"Anyone who voted for either Wallace or Daly are idiots."

Ah come on! That's fairly mainstream, isn't it?

ISN'T IT?

thefallingman

del

eggy81

Liv golf is actually entertaining.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119806188#Comment_119806188

Not getting the controversial angle here. Golf is golf is golf!

thegame983

Men shouldn't chop their dicks off.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119805990#Comment_119805990

On alcohol related a&e…

1) You’d need the same for anyone having a drug overdose, if they are in that bad a condition and die ? Fairly inhumane.

2) you could have a person drunk who was in a car accident, the doctors generally won’t know who is driving, could be an innocent passenger unless they can get info from the likes of the Gardai who won’t have time nor is it their remit to be contributing to decisions on who receives healthcare and when.

Galwayguy35

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119806198#Comment_119806198

I'm not asking anyone to agree with me.

I had the misfortune of spending a Saturday night in A&E a number of years ago and the place clogged up with twats pissed out of their heads shouting and roaring demanding attention because they were either in a fight or fell over because they were blind drunk.

eggy81

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119806192#Comment_119806192

True. It’s getting pilloried in a lot of quarters is all. Maybe more cos of who’s backing it.

Larbre34

You're 100% correct about drunks and junkies in A&E.

There are drunk tanks in cities all over the World for a reason, just not here, so people who have had actual accidents and medical emergencies have to deal with all that shyt on top of their injuries.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119805253#Comment_119805253

I'd have to disagree with you there. Worked in a few different depts in my career with women over me.Most were professional and set aside their emotions to do their job. Surprisingly it was a few of the men who couldn't keep it together at times when needed.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119806246#Comment_119806246

Good, because debate is healthy. 😉.

I’ve been in the same situation…

but as I said, you’d need to apply the same parameters to drug users etc….

Psychlops

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119806089#Comment_119806089

No, Daly & Wallace are mongs of the highest order & Russia Fanboys.