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As a 'normal person' what do you think of Current Affairs/IMHO

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  • #122
    xxxxxxl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭xxxxxxl


    I find it fascinating. People complaining about CA While inhabiting CA but now In AH complaining about CA. No offense meant. 🤔



  • #123
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,138 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119890857#Comment_119890857

    All of that negativity, the back and forth arguing, the reporting of posts and long threads in Feedback. Would it not do your head in caring about it all?

    Yes, and no. Being involved in these discussions isn't rewarding or entertaining, but it doesn't occupy my mind too much outside of here. I believe that the world (and it least the parts of it I inhabit) has been significantly negatively impacted by the events around Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK. And I believe both of these experiences came about because of a growing tolerance of a particular brand of rhetoric.

    I don't think Ireland is at risk of a similar brand of hatred emerging immediately or anything, but there are enough there who would like to see it happening. We saw it briefly around the last Presidential election when Peter Casey was what we needed in the country according to many on here. Boards is a small corner of the internet in a small island on the edge of Europe but it is a window into Irish conversations and a place where opinions are shared and formed and can grow. And I have no wish to just stand by and let that happen to the extent that we are then looking around saying 'how did so and so get in to power' or whatever.

    And like I said, I saw a particular mindset grow significantly on here. Got to the point last year where there was at least 1 thread a week was being started solely to give people the opportunity to vent in a particular and consistently negative manner. And I am not saying those threads shouldn't have been allowed to be started, but I wasn't going to just leave them to their echo chamber. I don't post in them to change opinions, but so that others who read them will see an alternate view.

    I'd sooner do that than just close my account and walk away, and at least, this way, I'm annoying the right people in my view. Maybe some day I'll be logging in just to take part in a best biscuit competition again or taking part in a discussion about our favourite song when going out years ago. We will see.



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