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Sinn Fein appealing to the lowest common denominator

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  • #652
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    You never get tired of the lazy Celtic supporter stereotypes do you?
    Well, when it stops being appropriate, I probably will. But not until. ;)


  • #653
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    I'm not sure, to be honest - perhaps you need to ask the man who popularised the expression?


    I agree, it is offensive drivel.

    So now you're having a go at the fate of an SDLP mans wife.

    Classy.


  • #654
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    So now you're having a go at the fate of an SDLP mans wife.

    Classy.
    It takes a special kind of stupid to interpret the post that way. :)


  • #655
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    It takes a special kind of stupid to interpret the post that way. :)

    No....I stated exactly what happened with no elaboration and you came back with
    Ah well, sure nobody had a monopoly on suffering etc. etc.

    Mockery, sneering, belittling.....any number of ways of describing it.

    Why do you feel the need to have a go at a disfigured woman?


  • #656
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    Mockery, sneering, belittling.....any number of ways of describing it.

    Why do you feel the need to have a go at a disfigured woman?
    It may have been a little too subtle for you to notice, but this was a comment on SF/IRA's attitude to the victims of atrocities - a view I presume you also subscribe to?

    It's telling that you feel it was 'having a go at a disfigured woman' when I wrote it, but at the same time you probably lapped it up when it was dripping out of Gerry's mouth in the same context.


  • #657
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    It may have been a little too subtle for you to notice, but this was a comment on SF/IRA's attitude to the victims of atrocities - a view I presume you also subscribe to?
    .

    Whats that to do with the fate of Austin Curries wife?
    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    It's telling that you feel it was 'having a go at a disfigured woman' when I wrote it, but at the same time you probably lapped it up when it was dripping out of Gerry's mouth in the same context.

    So you're mocking Mrs Currie to have a go at me and Gerry adams.....Yep, classier still.


  • #658
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    Whats that to do with the fate of Austin Curries wife?
    She was a victim of the type of terrorist atrocity you think we should all just forget about and move on, and the perpetrators of which should get token punishments.
    Nodin wrote: »
    So you're mocking Mrs Currie to have a go at me and Gerry adams.....Yep, classier still.
    Well no, I'm mocking you. I'm not sure your misdirection is fooling anyone, but keep trying. :)


  • #659
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Nodin wrote: »
    Whats that to do with the fate of Austin Curries wife?



    So you're mocking Mrs Currie to have a go at me and Gerry adams.....Yep, classier still.
    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    She was a victim of the type of terrorist atrocity you think we should all just forget about and move on, and the perpetrators of which should get token punishments.

    Well no, I'm mocking you. I'm not sure your misdirection is fooling anyone, but keep trying. :)

    Mein Gott , I can't even go to the chipper without you two starting again.


  • #660
    Fenian Army
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Fenian Army


    Illuminating.

    "Those" people don't really give a fcuk about victims, only mention them when they can be used as ammunition, against republicans usually (hence the victims of British state violence rarely get a mention save for token reference to bloody Sunday) although I have to say using the victims of loyalist violence to have a go at republicans is rare enough.


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  • #661
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Illuminating.

    "Those" people don't really give a fcuk about victims, only mention them when they can be used as ammunition, against republicans usually (hence the victims of British state violence rarely get a mention save for token reference to bloody Sunday) although I have to say using the victims of loyalist violence to have a go at republicans is rare enough.

    >insert shinner boiler-plate here<


  • #662
    golden lane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    with respect to the vicims of all atrocities.........we owe to them the efforts it takes, to see there is no more......


  • #663
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Fenian Army wrote: »
    Illuminating.

    "Those" people don't really give a fcuk about victims, only mention them when they can be used as ammunition, against republicans usually (hence the victims of British state violence rarely get a mention save for token reference to bloody Sunday) although I have to say using the victims of loyalist violence to have a go at republicans is rare enough.

    Who exactly is that addressed at ?


  • #664
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    She was a victim of the type of terrorist atrocity you think we should all just forget about and move on, .

    You'll be able to find a quote or two to back that up, I trust.
    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Well no, I'm mocking you. .

    No, you derided the attack on Mrs Currie with a sneery remark. If anyone is a bit blase about the suffering of others, its you.


  • #665
    SMASH THE UNIONS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭SMASH THE UNIONS


    Fenian Army = Wolfe Tone who closed his account a few weeks ago.


  • #666
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    You'll be able to find a quote or two to back that up, I trust.
    I'm sure you'll happily publicly go on the record now and state that you think that the perpetrators of terrorist atrocities from both sides should - under any sort of justice - be forced to spend decades in prison as appropriate to their crimes? I'll happily withdraw my claim in that case.
    Nodin wrote: »
    No, you derided the attack on Mrs Currie with a sneery remark. If anyone is a bit blase about the suffering of others, its you.
    Wow, you are big on the sneering today, aren't you? I responded with an Adams-esque comment - which you correctly identified as condescending drivel. I'm wondering whether you said the same when it came directly from Adams?


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  • #667
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    Fenian Army = Wolfe Tone who closed his account a few weeks ago.
    They just can't stay away, can they? :)


  • #668
    SMASH THE UNIONS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭SMASH THE UNIONS


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    They just can't stay away, can they? :)

    "They haven't gone away, you know" - Gerry Adams :)


  • #669
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    SMASH THE UNIONS wrote: »
    "They haven't gone away, you know" - Gerry Adams
    Don't go quoting Gerry Adams, it seems to confuse the bejaysus out of the shinners.


  • #670
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Sinn Fein 'appealing to the lowest common denominator' is just plain bollocks tbh. It's just more of that generalising nonsense. If you don't agree with their policies, fine, but the lowest common denominator is too busy not giving a shit about politics and society's ills.


  • #671
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Wow, you are big on the sneering today, aren't you? I responded with an Adams-esque comment - which you correctly identified as condescending drivel. I'm wondering whether you said the same when it came directly from Adams?


    Was he addressing that to a specific victim, namely a wife of some politician who had some paramilitary groups initials carved into her chest? No, I don't think so.


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  • #672
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    Was he addressing that to a specific victim, namely a wife of some politician who had some paramilitary groups initials carved into her chest? No, I don't think so.
    So she was somehow excluded every time he spouted that piece of - what you call - condescending drivel?


  • #673
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    So she was somehow excluded every time he spouted that piece of - what you call - condescending drivel?

    I posted
    Loyalists. They carved "UVF" on her chest.

    to which you sneered in
    Ah well, sure nobody had a monopoly on suffering etc. etc.

    Its typical of the kind of attitude you've displayed throughout the thread. You can't get a few posts out with throwing in abusive comments, murmurings about "knuckledraggers" and "celtic jerseys". And to cap it all, you top off your attempts to intellectualise some deep emotional disturbance by having a go at the maiming of a politicans wife.


  • #674
    finty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭finty


    Nodin wrote: »
    And to cap it all, you top off your attempts to intellectualise some deep emotional disturbance by having a go at the maiming of a politicans wife.

    you keep repeating this but its not what he meant.The subtlety of the english language seems to escape you.


    keep saying it though....even after it's been explained to you at least twice.


  • #675
    De Dannan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 486 ✭✭De Dannan


    smash wrote: »
    Consistently they seem to target their propaganda at the weak and/or uneducated. I remember during the Lisbon treaty they had a billboard in Tallaght stating "remember 1916", which had sweet fck all to do with anything.

    Today I saw the following sign and it really annoyed me because it seems that a lot of educated people seem to be swinging in the Sinn Fein direction using the excuse of 'there's nobody better'. But ffs, talk about bullshít campaigning!

    I really hope these tools never get into power.

    Yeah like we havent had any tools in power before, like ever :rolleyes:


  • #676
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Nodin wrote: »
    to which you sneered in
    You are obsessed with sneering! :)

    You go on to vomit:
    Nodin wrote: »
    Its typical of the kind of attitude you've displayed throughout the thread. You can't get a few posts out with throwing in abusive comments, murmurings about "knuckledraggers" and "celtic jerseys". And to cap it all, you top off your attempts to intellectualise some deep emotional disturbance by having a go at the maiming of a politicans wife.
    I think you may be projecting here to be honest. Admit it, when Gerry's own words were recycled and applied to an actual victim, the fact that he was spouting 'condescending drivel' was apparent to you and you didn't like it. And rather than question your own beliefs, you prefer to attack the messenger.


  • #677
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    De Dannan wrote: »
    Yeah like we havent had any tools in power before, like ever :rolleyes:

    :)

    Here we go - classic shinner: "If you're not with us you're agin us"

    Why is it that only SF supporters have this attitude?

    Like so many people here have professed their devotion to FF, FG, Lab etc
    :rolleyes:

    Don't you get it? They just hate the idea of a party whose members include people who until very recently supported mass murder.

    Simple really.


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