Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

Why do you think they were looking for anything? Or indeed, that they have a plan. They don't! That was not the point of Wednesday, though this poster was shared at the time. They're a bunch of fascists who mostly roll from one hot topic to the next. If the government kicked out every immigrant and housed everybody here they'd still find causes to wreak havoc. That's what they do.

Calling for murder? No

Says a lot that you laugh at violent fascistic calls for murdering politicians.

if you can make your point without dramatic props, you will. If you can't, you'll bring dramatic props.

(In a sense, I agree with you - but on the other hand, that mob is most certainly capable of turning violent)

Iv'e no idea what these protesters are looking for but it seems to have annoyed our political and media class no end so it's all good in my book.

Hilarious the outrage over this given the state of the country at present.

Why if there is so much wrong with the country could they only muster 200 people max?

Agreed, calling for death for crimes committed and murder are 2 very different things though

Actually could both events be different aspects of the same problem emerging?

Lack of enforcing the law, and a poorly functioning justice system, full to bursting prisons etc.

Most of those "protestors" should have been carted off in some paddy wagons IMO, but I suppose there may not have been enough Gards available to shut them down like that safely (effectively using force, with risk of much greater violence erupting) and creaking/stressed justice system might have had a cunnuption dealing with a mass arrest of 50-100 of these "protestors"...

This is genuinely the first iv'e heard about that incident. That's absolutely horrible to read.

Just looked into it a bit further. I now see why the story wasn't front and centre.

hmm, perhaps in some ways, in others not.

The IT, Independent, Virgin Media and RTÉ all have backing from car companies and they routinely take a right wing stance when it comes to personal car ownership and are almost always providing a strong anti-public transport/cycling narrative at all times.

There's also strong anti-union sentiment in the media, strong support for property-porn and real estate bubbles, again right wing. Virgin media posts a lot about lgbtq pride but that's now a corporate event and therefore right wing.

In fact I'm struggling to see what the media aren't right-wing on. You could say they all left leaning in the sense that they support high rates of immigration, but is that 'left wing' any more? It's supported by the wealthiest part of our society and the beneficiaries of large scale migration are a small set of well connected families, many with otherwise struggling businesses, who are paid by the state to house and feed undocumented migrants. As part of these cozy arrangements, the state has even bypassed it's own planning laws in the rush to enrich a select few. The people who suffer are the working class who's communities are ghettoised and who's homes are devalued by the practice, sounds pretty right wing to me tbf when you look at who benefits and who looses.

Well, the joke answer is because the rest are all working in high-paying jobs and don't have time :) - but having a protest on a Wed lunchtime wasn't a wise idea.

There is a point though - the reason there isn't representaion in the Dial for this lot is either becuase they aren't bright enough to form an party, contest elections and take their issues where it matters, or they simply don't have the numbers.

Depends on the issue. I'd be left-leaning on most social issues (live and let live - who am I to say they can't?), but more center-right on economic.

I;d say the mass media is pretty centrist, maybe slightly left - with the except of the tabloids which are most certainly center-moderate right-leaning.

In the Ireland of the past most delusional/conspiracy protestors would have been committed into psychiatric hospitals. That's part of the problem with current underfunded mental health services, the system was so abused in the past as a dumping ground that no one seeking election want's to be associated with that past, so the service remains underfunded.