Things that trigger the right?

05eaftqbrs9jlh · 14-02-2020 2:16pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGAAhzreGWw

Tony EH · 14-02-2020 3:10pm

rustynutz wrote: »

I'd agree with this, it always baffled me why there was such an uproar over water charges (which is a service, which costs money to provide) but property tax was introduced with little resistance

The water charges debacle was more to do with Irish Water and privatisation of the service. People don't want a private, for profit, quango with their fingers on their taps.

As for the LPT, there was resistance. But once revenue got involved, there really wasn't that much that people could do about it.

Assetbacked · 14-02-2020 3:26pm

Mary Lou calling FF and FG an old boys club as a reason for not wanting to go into power with SF will get them going.

Zebra3 · 14-02-2020 3:28pm

elli21 wrote: »

Human rights

And the daddy of them all.

The ECHR. :pac:

TuringBot47 · 14-02-2020 3:29pm

elli21 wrote: »

Human rights

Using commercial and political blackmail to force companies, politicians and the public not to criticise or even question some minority groups own agenda.

nkl12xtw5goz70 · 14-02-2020 3:29pm

Assetbacked wrote: »

Mary Lou calling FF and FG an old boys club as a reason for not wanting to go into power with SF will get them going.

Mary Lou is ten years older than Varadkar. So who is she calling "old"?

Zebra3 · 14-02-2020 3:31pm

Nova Dead Trolley wrote: »

Mary Lou is ten years older than Varadkar. So who is she calling "old"?

She was referring to the parties.

I would've thought that was obvious.

14-02-2020 3:35pm

When they're being forced to become immigrant black disabled transgendered lesbian muslim single mothers on benefits.

And also when it's pointed out to them that it's not compulsory.

Zebra3 · 14-02-2020 3:40pm

"White genocide".

Raconteuse · 14-02-2020 3:58pm

The mere suggestion of climate change.

Women over 35 who don't have children.

(In the case of the Israel fans on the right): criticism of the Israeli government and military. Saying that's anti semitism is like saying criticism of today's feminism is misogyny.

Raconteuse · 14-02-2020 4:11pm

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Pride events.

What about straight pride?!

Black Music Awards - what about white music awards?

Woke Hogan · 14-02-2020 4:11pm

biko wrote: »

Things that trigger the right?
Antifa beating the living daylights out of people.

Fascists aren't people.

TuringBot47 · 14-02-2020 4:49pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Women over 35 who don't have children.

I don't think you've quite got the hang of "right wing" there....

If anything I'd say the leftie unemployed "give me everything for free" types are more likely to be breeders.

GooglePlus · 14-02-2020 4:52pm

This whole left/right thing is getting stale.

I understand it in politics but when everyday people brand themselves either one, I just think they're boxing themselves no?

Are we not more complex than left or right?

Better Than Christ · 14-02-2020 8:53pm

The very notion that there might be a difference between their opinions and actual facts.

Arghus · 14-02-2020 8:55pm

Nuance.

Das Reich · 14-02-2020 8:59pm

Americanism on all its forms.

Junkyard Tom · 14-02-2020 9:10pm

GooglePlus wrote: »

This whole left/right thing is getting stale.

It's a bit like the Celtic/Rangers thing - it becomes a kind of tribal your-side-v-my-side thing. I daresay if you sat down a person who self-identifies as 'right wing' and put a questionnaire to them they be surprised to find out they're not really right wing at all.

Propagandists are very good at inducing fear/anger in our 'lizard brain'. The Muslims/Jews are plotting against you, the immigrants are taking your women/jobs, the women are cheating on you, the elves are stealing your socks and so on.

Raconteuse · 15-02-2020 12:21am

TuringBot47 wrote: »

I don't think you've quite got the hang of "right wing" there....

Because of one thing I wrote on this? What about the rest?

If anything I'd say the leftie unemployed "give me everything for free" types are more likely to be breeders.

Vast gulf between childless over 35 and being a "give me everything for free" type (not sure they're always lefties either).

"Right-wing" is a broad term. I'm assuming the OP means the "alt right" types as their voices are pretty prominent on the internet.

And it has become popular among them to slate women who don't have children/don't have them by a certain age.

Geuze · 15-02-2020 12:41am

Wibbs wrote: »

I'm generally highly suspicious of what "sensible people" agree with, as what is considered "sensible" can be as variable as the wind.

I also don't see how property taxes are the best kind of tax. They're more out of the control of the individual. If someone wants to pay less income tax they can choose to earn less income. If someone wants to pay less VAT they can choose to buy fewer things that attract VAT. If someone wants to pay less road tax they can choose to buy a car that attracts less road tax. And so forth. Housing and I'm speaking of primary homes, not extra properties(I'd tax them alright), is different in a few ways. It's far more permanent, often for a lifetime. Property tax based on value has issues. Someone buys a house in an area that was cheap that then becomes gentrified twenty years on and values soar. Or property becomes an investment bubble. That is out of the control of the homeowner. Oh sure they could "downsize" but it's not like swapping out a 3 litre Merc for a Prius. Never mind that large chunk of tax they've already paid on their decades long mortgage.

The vast majority of economists (who often disagree) agree that property taxes have advantages over other taxes.

This is a settled issue.

That is why so many countries have property taxes - they are better than other taxes.

I refer you to Mirrlees:

https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/mirrleesreview/design/ch16.pdf

Church on Tuesday · 15-02-2020 12:44am

Compassion.

BeerWolf · 15-02-2020 6:00am

Attention seeking lefties such as the OP I suppose.

Wish this whole "left vs right" tripe stayed in the US, not everything is black and white...

woohoo!!! · 15-02-2020 6:35am

1,000,000

Query on have they any children

Election results

ILoveYourVibes · 15-02-2020 6:38am

jews
muslims

When muslims say people should be nicer to jews. The alt right goes INSANE!

Being told they can't wear nazi costumes ...again drives the alt right insane.

Silentcorner · 15-02-2020 9:27am

BeerWolf wrote: »

Attention seeking lefties such as the OP I suppose.

Wish this whole "left vs right" tripe stayed in the US, not everything is black and white...

You'd imagine that everyone would no problem with that...but since Social Media I find certain types insufferable....they nearly put me off voting to Repeal the 8th and Marriage Equality...it's like some people have succumbed to a combination of narcissism and/or hysteria!!

ILoveYourVibes · 15-02-2020 9:48am

It really doesn't take a lot to trigger the right. Breathing will do it.

Cody montana · 15-02-2020 10:21am

BeerWolf wrote: »

Attention seeking lefties such as the OP I suppose.

Wish this whole "left vs right" tripe stayed in the US, not everything is black and white...

Starting threads about the right!

15-02-2020 11:34am

Going by some of the posters on boards

1. Going off their meds.

2. Being angry because of people who were discriminated against for their race, sexual orientation or religious beliefs are now more accepted in society and somehow or for some reason that offends them.
Not much can be said other than there's no cure for being a c^nt.

3. The realisation that everyone isn't as greedy as they are.
It's tax folks you pay it but don't get to decide what is done with it and abolishing our health, social welfare systems or what ever else you don't like doesn't mean that your going to pay less tax.

4. Something some person on social media said that has nothing to do with Ireland and it's society.
Both sides of the "divide" are guilty of this, put the fu%king phone down and go outside.

biko · 15-02-2020 2:13pm

Things that trigger the right?
Oikophobia: Western Self-Hatred

EmmetSpiceland · 15-02-2020 2:21pm

Sweden.

Urethral Buttercup · 15-02-2020 2:43pm

Explaining why equality of opportunity is not the full answer.

EmmetSpiceland · 15-02-2020 7:25pm

Airline ads.

15-02-2020 7:29pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Airline ads.

Their uniforms or at least pictures of them also (different airline of course)

1o059k7ewrqj3n · 15-02-2020 7:52pm

Taxing the wealthy and super rich -

"But they will leave the country!/They provide jobs!"

Millions sitting in bank accounts or offshore, for what? The rich hoard money, they actually take money out of circulation of the economy by doing so. The rich don't create jobs - demands for products do.

wakka12 · 15-02-2020 8:02pm

Overweight women with even a shred of self confidence

Cody montana · 15-02-2020 8:07pm

Young people being allowed to vote.

Redneck Reject71 · 15-02-2020 8:31pm

In the US, it is Native American rights. Both the left and the right has stolen and **** on us.

BalcombeSt4 · 15-02-2020 9:04pm

Palestinian statehood

Nelson Mandela

Bernie Sanders

Mary Lou

Democracy

Noam Chomsky

Norman Finkelstein

George Galloway

United Ireland/ Irish Republicanism

Civil Rights campaigns in the US & Northern Ireland in the 60's

The rise of Sinn Fein

IRSP

People Before Profit

Pointing out the fact the US & other Western powers supported military coups & proped up fascistic dictators in the Middle East, Central America, South America & south east Asia. Thatcher herself protected General Pinochet, one of the most blood thirsty dictarors of the 20th century

Pointing out the fact that the US supported Saddam Hussien & Osama Bin Laden in the 1980's, because of the flawed logic that "my enemies enemy, is my friend".

John Pilger

The British government sayin sorry for Bloody Sunday 1972 in Derry & saying it was unjustified & unjustifiable.

The fact the most popular peace-time British government was the one headed by Clem Attlee right after WW2, who introduced the welfare state, public housing, the NHS, nationalizing of key industries, a safety net, all this when Britain was pretty much broke after WW2.

Tony Benn (when he was alive)

George Orwell remaining a Democratic Socialist until his death.

Martin Luther King JR being a Democratic Socialist.

When a person on the right says "see what bad things happened to Venezuela when they became Socialst", and you point out to them that the majority of Venezuela's economy is privately owned, and Chavez introduced light reforms to help poor people.

Better Than Christ · 15-02-2020 9:18pm

When someone from a privileged background has the decency to espouse socialist politics.

biko · 15-02-2020 10:08pm

That Facebook has 58 gender options

biko · 15-02-2020 10:11pm

When white over-privileged people claim to be a "person of colour", like Elizabeth Warren or Rachel Dolezal

Quantum Erasure · 16-02-2020 12:47am

biko wrote: »

That Facebook has 58 gender options

heinz

Capt'n Midnight · 16-02-2020 12:54am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

heinz

And that makes 59.

16-02-2020 12:59am

Better Than Christ wrote: »

When someone from a privileged background has the decency to espouse socialist politics.

If you're poor, you're jealous.

If you're rich, you're a champagne socialist.

Celticfire · 16-02-2020 12:27pm

Puberty blockers.

Neames · 16-02-2020 12:34pm

All the people on the right?

.......boogaloo

nthclare · 16-02-2020 12:55pm

A day out hunting game birds, nothing like a noble cock pheasant who's colours are as radiant as the most beautiful sun set over a forest... rising up into the air and you cock your trigger and he's in full flight.

You pull the trigger and he's ready for the pot...

Another thing that triggers the right are trout, nothing like being on a spate river and fly rod in hand, the floods dropping and that pesky sea trout is attacking the fly but he's not getting the hook....

That's triggering might I add.

EmmetSpiceland · 18-02-2020 3:39pm

Being labelled “right” or, indeed, “far right”, when appropriate.

Raconteuse · 18-02-2020 3:55pm

Saying there is no such thing as free speech and there never has been.

Criticising misogyny (unless by muslims/non muslims who are black/Asian).

Things that trigger the right?

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