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The ISF Party

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    #2
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    “The politically homeless” the ISF page is incredibly left leaning, its just another left splinter explaining policies in memes for millenials with 5 second attention spans. Nothing new at all


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    Sin City
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Sin City


    remove the rock of shame
    and attach the rock of triumph :D:D


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    #4
    Achebe
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭Achebe


    These Sinn Fein splits are getting a bit ridiculous now.


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    #5
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I've liked to page out of curiosity to see where it goes. I enjoy the ISF group but have no intention of actually supporting it in any way politically. I imagine there's a lot of people in the same boat.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    King of Kings
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    pjohnson wrote: »
    https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/19/ireland-simpsons-fans-started-political-party-give-voice-politically-homeless-10772665/


    A meme page has started a political party. In 24 hours it has already gained more popularity than two actual established parties Renua and Aontu.

    Thats gotta hurt any of their voters/euro septics/anti-abortionists. A joke is more preferable than their parties.

    shouldnt politics be about beliefs and ideas and not popularity.
    only sheep go with the herd and all that.

    As Principal Skinner would meme "pathetic"


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    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,630 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    I think a few of the original founders might have been student union types so it's not a huge surprise really.. better that they go on their own too that join a party youth wing and selling out straight away


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    #8
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    You can laugh this stuff off but things like that could get traction. Look at the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy - he was basically their version of Des Bishop before he turned to politics.


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    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Bit of harmless fun that will inevitably annoy a lot of over-serious bores.

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    #10
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    We'll see where it goes but a Facebook group doesn't make a party.


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    #11
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,517 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    biko wrote: »
    We'll see where it goes but a Facebook group doesn't make a party.

    I'm sure many ex Cambridge Analytica employees and many elected officials would strongly disagree ;)


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Interesting. Please name some parties that started as Facebook groups.


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    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    The memes aren’t even good.

    Liked by people who won’t bother voting and have 57 accounts for liking stuff that backs their views.

    Will be laughed out of the place when tv debates and backing up your points come into play.


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    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    It's good satire?


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    #15
    noodler
    Registered Users Posts: 26,251 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    I'm left leaning enough but the mods lock anything that doesn't agree with their ultra liberal viewpoints.

    They've kind of disappeared up their own arse imo.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    e10.jpg


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    #17
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Most right memes are ****e too. Not a lot of humour in the po faced American culture wars.


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    cms88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭cms88


    So it'll be another Nazi party then..


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    #19
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,227 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    Most right memes are ****e too. Not a lot of humour in the po faced American culture wars.

    Both sides are equally ****e.....so......a mile ground they can build on?

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    Do they give any solutions to the many problems facing our country or is it just click bait virtue signalling nonsense ?

    rhetorical question


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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,517 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    statesaver wrote: »
    Do they give any solutions to the many problems facing our country or is it just click bait virtue signalling nonsense ?

    rhetorical question

    All solutions are final!


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    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,517 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    biko wrote: »
    Interesting. Please name some parties that started as Facebook groups.

    Are you asking me?
    I never said any did.
    However its quite commonly accepted that Facebook and other social media channels and the inappropriate use of the data gleaned from those channels.

    Allowed sustained and targeted advertising and campaigning that swayed a significant portion of the electorates in recent plebiscites and elections.

    By covert and tailored campaign ads, maybe the IFM party are just gonna be open about their left wing spam campaign?
    Who knows


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    #23
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Over 800 people sign up to Irish Simpsons Facebook page political party

    The Irish Simpsons Fans Facebook page, which has rapidly grown in popularity in recent months, now has over 104,000 fans.

    Admins/leaders
    Jack Leahy, former deputy president of the Union of Students in Ireland
    Paul Laughran, ran for People Before Profit in Belfast’s Botanic ward
    Mr Leahy said the party’s philosophy was “progressive, critical, and a bit direct” and “in favour of an inclusive united Ireland”.


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    #24
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    Truly they have jumped the shark.


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    #25
    Dyr
    Registered Users Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    It's pretty funny how thin skinned the ISF page admins are when it comes to their own sacred cows


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    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,827 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    In 24 hours it has already gained more popularity than two actual established parties Renua and Aontu.

    That's not really that difficult. Several venerial diseases would be more popular than both of those parties put together.


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    normanoffside
    Registered Users Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭normanoffside


    I see they are going full out in favour of trans rights and attacking ‘TERFs’.
    That’s a real vote winner alright.


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    cms88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭cms88


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5EdrrN5xWI


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    #29
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    A leftist echo chamber that bans people who post memes they dont like.

    Should find plenty of support from people who never set foot inside a polling station.


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    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    pjohnson wrote: »
    Thats gotta hurt any of their voters/euro septics/anti-abortionists. A joke is more preferable than their parties.

    How will the ISF, a left leaning political movement on social media, hurt Aontu or Renua? The founders of the ISF are from the PBP party and the USI.
    statesaver wrote: »
    Do they give any solutions to the many problems facing our country or is it just click bait virtue signalling nonsense?

    Of course not, just like the rest of the political groups and parties on the hard left.


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    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,187 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Berserker wrote: »
    How will the ISF, a left leaning political movement on social media, hurt Aontu or Renua? The founders of the ISF are from the PBP party and the USI.



    Of course not, just like the rest of the political groups and parties on the hard left.

    can you tell me what solutions have been offered by parties that you dont consider hard left?


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