The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

Quinns murder is a post conflict IRA murder. there is no justification for it.

SF will face more and more of this and we will see more and more SLAAPS, and more shinnerbots and more excuses. They already look jaded. BY the time an election comes they will be knackered.

The IRA killed gardai, postmen, census workers, women, children, irish army soldiers, prison officers, and many catholic civilians. SF was the IRA political wing. Its utterly naieve to think this won´t be brought up more and more as SF inch closer to at least being able to form a coalition. Maybe if SF drew a line under it all and moved on. But they can´t they have to play to the hardened Republican gallery. It won matter how many Notre Dame educated Rathgar or WIllow PArk educated southsiders you put on the front line the middle class waivering and thinking maybe, will soon realise what a mistake voting SF will be. Morally and politically.

The IRA were bank robbers, murderers, rapists, wife beaters, drug dealers. Maybe a little bit of freedom fighting and Catholic defence at the start. but those who think they are the justice and spiritual descendants of 1922 and wrap their violence in the flag of our nation, quickly slipped into the same patterns as the oppressors. their justice and judgement came from the barrel of a gun and semtex. And SF as the political wing will always have to answer for that.

iḿ talking about people who wavered last time and are considering now. I know a few middle class people already talking maybe SF. When the narrative is brought back to what they did (without really dealing with it) then alot of people might be swayed. What the IRA did in many cases is truly despicable. And until they truly deal with that, then all bets are off regarding it. IN fairness Unionists are calling out the hypocrisy but then again they were part of it so only have themselves to blame.

And thats before you even get to their delusional policies. Many of which will actively self harm the country.

its laughable you don´t understand voter behavior or politics. voters get swayed ALL the time. some people voted in the past may not vote at all, they may be dead. they may have lost all interest. Many people have no idea what happened. theres a huge way to go. SF will now have to deal with all of it. Stuff that possibly FF and FG wanted to let lie, for peace. Its politics, its going to be messy. what do people expect FF or FG to do? not mention the war? its SF´s job to bat as hard as some of the shinners on here. You can be sure tho they won´t be able to victim blame like alot of you lads.

some people here really have no sense. there is probably a good few million people on this island who DESPISE the IRA. its SF´s job to convince those people.

its actually laughable how politically naive some of you shinners are. its going to be hilarious watching you try to explain away a FF coalition.

I can admit Sf will give it a good welly and definitely win more seats. but there isn´t a hope of a majority. the last one we had was in 1987. that isn´t going to happen for all the reasons outlined on this thread. the only laughable thing on this thread are the fantasies of the shinners

who said anything about deciding factor? i said it will definitely sway some people not to vote SF.

and of course you don´t have a problem with it....lol. absolute hypocrites. SF would sell their own mother for power. FF will be hypocrites too if they do it after spending an election talking about the IRA etc.

this is more to argue against the people who think this is off the table or something. its not this will be constant. so you might as well accept it. sure you don´t think it will be decisive, then who cares right. if the widow of Jerry McCabe wants to question the murder of her husband then let her. it won´t affect SF right...

i mean we could always ask instead why a wife beating scumbag was connected to Ferris etc..why was he okayed to rob a bank to fix up his gaff in Limerick, why was a person involved in criminality in Dowdall involved..nothing in the grand scheme in elections. i mean i better be careful tho SF had nothing to do with the RA

these are the questions going to be put to SF. but yeah it won´t matter at all. it will affect nothing right