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Sinn Fein appealing to the lowest common denominator

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  • #32
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    Biggins wrote: »
    When people are thirsty in a desert, they might be tempted even to drink the sand!

    Do you speak in soundbites in real life too biggins?


  • #33
    celticcrash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    No lets keep our current goverment there, so we can have no accountability.
    WELCOME SINN FEIN


  • #34
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Varied wrote: »
    Do you speak in soundbites in real life too biggins?

    Yes, no, maybe.


  • #35
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Hopefully they are'nt going to try something as crass and dishonest as "NO FOR JOBS"

    I mean srsly, lowest common denominator or what loike?


  • #36
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,583 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Dudess wrote: »
    They've got their right-on, "we love the gays" thing going on too. :)

    They've been a fairly socially liberal and pro-individual rights for a lot longer than any other political party in this country. You can't really accuse them of using that as a means to garner votes, when at the time of setting out those ideals, it would most likely have cost them votes.


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  • #37
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Well they target macho lads who would have no time for gays, so it's a bit confusing...
    Fenian Army wrote: »
    You forgot to mention Jerry McCabe and Jean McConville, slipping up there.

    I object to the things you mention, just because someone supports SF it doesn't mean that they support those things.
    Never said it did. But it is the reason a lot of people distance themselves from Sinn Fein, not because they're like Jedward's retarded cousin or whatever.
    Varied wrote: »
    Both tragic losses
    Atrocities too.


  • #38
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Well they target macho lads who would have no time for gays, so it's a bit confusing...

    Where do you pull this ****e from? I'm involved with Ogra Sinn Fein/republican youth and if anyone was in the slightest way homophobic or racist etc they would be out on their arse sharpish.

    So dont talk rubbish, generally you have a decent grasp on what you are talking abut but you are waaay off the mark with this.


  • #39
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.


  • #40
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    I'm involved with Ogra Sinn Fein/republican youth and if anyone was in the slightest way homophobic or racist etc they would be out on their arse sharpish.
    Ok but they hold huge appeal, for instance, to those delightful youths who rioted for Love Ulster (I'm not a fan of Love Ulster either). I'm not saying all involved with/supportive of SF are yobs, but they do greatly appeal to many yobs.


  • #41
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.


    We're did Fianna Fail come from FFS


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  • #42
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,639 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Hootanany wrote: »
    We're did Fianna Fail come from FFS

    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.


  • #43
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.

    Who did Sinn Fein bomb in the south?


  • #44
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.

    Who did Sinn Fein bomb in the south?

    Yeah!! Cause the nordies and brits don't matter!!


    Wtf


  • #45
    Hootanany
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.

    Their area was occupied would you just roll over if some people took over your area.


  • #46
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.

    Must be nice living in a bubble.

    Try being Irish or a catholic in Northern Ireland in the decades before the troubles. Then spout your tabloid cliches.


  • #47
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Varied wrote: »
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Not quite the same as bombing people in the North (and South) for decades.
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.

    Must be nice living in a bubble.

    Try being Irish or a catholic in Northern Ireland in the decades before the troubles. Then spout your tabloid cliches.

    My father in law was both. Never felt the need to murder children and pensioners though. Funny that.


  • #48
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    summerskin wrote: »
    Yeah!! Cause the nordies don't matter!!


    Wtf

    What?

    We know about what happened in Northern Ireland and we know how tragic the troubles were on both sides.

    I'm just wondering who Sinn Fein bombed in the south?


  • #49
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    summerskin wrote: »
    My father in law was both. Never felt the need to murder children and pensioners though. Funny that.

    Yes because the sole aim of the resistance of persecution and oppression was to kill children or pensioners.

    Seriously.


  • #50
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    gerryo777 wrote: »
    I'm just wondering who Sinn Fein bombed in the south?

    Martin McGuiness dropped a bomb on Sean Gallagher on live TV.


  • #51
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,583 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    summerskin wrote: »
    Yeah!! Cause the nordies and brits don't matter!!


    Wtf

    Are you joking or just hysterical? I didn't the above suggested in the post you quoted.


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  • #52
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Martin McGuiness dropped a bomb on Sean Gallagher on live TV.

    Ah yes, Gallagher, the FF bagman.:D


  • #53
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Martin McGuiness dropped a bomb on Sean Gallagher on live TV.

    Maybe thats why gallagher squinted so much.


  • #54
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I disagree with SF on almost every one of their policies but of all the political parties in Ireland now I think they are the only one working to change Ireland in a way they think it better.

    The other parties are killing the country with apathy, which I think is far more harmful because it is damnably persistent.


  • #55
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Varied wrote: »
    Must be nice living in a bubble.

    Try being Irish or a catholic in Northern Ireland in the decades before the troubles. Then spout your tabloid cliches.
    My mother and her mother before her were Irish and Catholic in Northern Ireland.

    Both opposed Sinn Fein with every bone in their bodies, and there's many more like them.

    The party of pipedreamers, populists and sh1tstirrers.
    And that's just the mild ones.


  • #56
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,168 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.

    Yeah, cos FF and FG with their rampant corruption and the way they sent off all those kids to be raped and tortured by the scum in the RC church are way classier. :rolleyes:


  • #57
    Varied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Varied


    Where To wrote: »
    My mother and her mother before her were Irish and Catholic in Northern Ireland.

    Both opposed Sinn Fein with every bone in their bodies, and there's many more like them.

    The party of pipedreamers, populists and sh1tstirrers.
    And that's just the mild ones.

    Lucky them.

    Funny that, my family and a lot of my friends familys were.


  • #58
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    humbert wrote: »
    I disagree with SF on almost every one of their policies but of all the political parties in Ireland now I think they are the only one working to change Ireland in a way they think it better.

    The other parties are killing the country with apathy, which I think is far more harmful because it is damnably persistent.

    Fair enough but I never hear any realistic solutions from them, just that their against every single thing that the governement are doing, seemingly because it's the government doing it. They are the classic opposition party with nothing to offer but loud noises.


  • #59
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    There is no way on God's living earth I would ever vote for Sinn Fein. They are a cynical bunch of vote targeting b&stards, even worse than any other political party we have. It sickens me the way they have targeted communities where (fair enough) no one else bothered with and manipulate them to support their agenda.

    In case no one else remembers, they are the POLITICAL WING OF A TERRORIST ORGANISATION.

    I can't even remember what this thread is about, just that I had to open my gob when the Shinners fanciers came in.

    Which?


  • #60
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Varied wrote: »
    summerskin wrote: »
    My father in law was both. Never felt the need to murder children and pensioners though. Funny that.

    Yes because the sole aim of the resistance of persecution and oppression was to kill children or pensioners.

    Seriously.

    Growing up in an Irish catholic family in England I grew up wanting a united Ireland, which got me into much trouble at school etc.

    As I've got older I realise that what Ireland needs is not to be united, as most of the nordies want to stay British for whatever reason, and with the prejudices i have encountered from many of them I'd rather they were neither British nor Irish.

    What Ireland needs is a separate county or three, or even a country, for all the shinners and all those republicans in the north who want a republic so dearly that they can't be arsed moving 30 miles down the road as it means they'd lose the NHS and their other benefits.

    Then the rest of the country could get on with life without all the bull**** sprouted by students etc who have "bobby sands" in their usernames but weren't even born in the 80s and now see themselves as "activists" and then prance around in man united shirts.

    Still, at least the IRA bomb in Manchester resulted in us getting a decent city centre at last....


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  • #61
    pconn062
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,370 ✭✭✭pconn062


    They main reason I fear Sinn Fein getting into power is down to their policies (Ih have no party allegiance). I have read their manifesto on their website and most of it (especially the economic areas) is absolute nonsense, down right laughable at times. Putting aside their past and involvement with unsavoury characters, their lack of any sort of viable plan when it comes to running an economy should be enough to put any one of voting for them. I live in Louth and Gerry Adams called round to my house to canvas I questioned him about his party's economic plan (at the time, their big line was about rejecting the bailout), I asked him how they would fund the country and his only line (and I repeatedly picked him up on this) was "the national pension reserve". That was it. He had not one other suggestion, the rest of the time he just spouted the usual populist stuff that we hear every day from his party and the United Left at which point I stopped listening and he soon went away. That's why I hope they never get into power.


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