Now it's official: "Ireland needs a new right wing party".

Sounds very US-style dog-eat-dog individualism to me. Not sure if I like that idea.

To me, the big thing the government needs to do is to put social issues aside for a while and work on the issues affecting society as a whole. Housing, crime, health, and a huge expansion of public services and resources to facilitate the expanding population. I feel like we're still trying to run the country on the same resources we had with 3 or 4 million people, let alone what we have now.

The problem is you don't know where it fits into the discussion.

Libertarianism is quite delusional in its lack of understanding of the way modern societies work. Its just trying to recreate a frontier dynamic in an urbanized complex densely populated country. It really doesn't deserve any serious consideration and it's prominence in America is a sure sign of that countries path to decay.

It gets asked repeatedly cause nobody who uses the word ever answers.

You don't know what it means and are unwilling to tell us whatever the hell you've decided it means. Just like the others.

You have been involved in that left vs right discussion too.

But your suggestion on the thread title change is not a bad idea .

So you feel upset by the attacks on the right.

Though you said we need to get away from the left v right mentality anyway?

The tone of your previous posts would disagree.

Both sides serve a purpose. The centre is the sweet spot, but we need both sides to get there.

Off topic I know. But there is so much in your posts regarding autism that is so off the mark it's laughable.

To understand autism takes more than a cursory Google and lazy tropes.

So you start off by saying autistic people can't function or engage with people but then talk about the Autistic Spectrum making your second paragraph null and void.

Your third paragraph is a big copy paste of something in the Internet and then so you can't be challenged you try to say we should not talk about Autism. All because you have no idea what you pasted.

Why not try and explain it without using big fancy words to make you look like your more intelligent then us mere mortals

You have no idea about autistic people BTW

Wow, not a very nice post !

I didn't copy or paste anything.

I don't have to . I studied it nd work with people with autism as well as in my own family .

Let's see , accusations ..used too many big words .conflicting statements ..copy and paste from the internet ...trying to make myself seem more intelligent ...don't have a clue !

It was all in clear language to a poster who was discussing at a similar level .

If you have been reading the thread and the posts before that I was replying to, you will see I was asking the other poster not to be bringing Autism into the conversation politics for the precise reason that it was not appropriate , in my view.

I knew people would be upset having Autism discussed here ad-hoc linked with negative traits in politicians.

And I wanted to avoid people being upset by that .,

The fact that you said all this to me in the way you said it , and nothing regarding all the other posts that were discussing it away , makes me question if this is just you having a bit of a go, at me , really isn't it ?

Sorry if you were having a bad evening and ithe thread annoyed you but if it makes you feel better I am upset about it and sorry too .

Autistic people aren't deficient in empathy. Studies have shown that people with autism generally have more empathy. They feel things stronger than neurotypical people.

The problem with autism is that they don't display it in the same non verbal ways that others do. So at first glance they may talk about something bad that happened to someone and appear unfeeling, but the truth is that they probably feel far more than a neurotypical person. And there may be times that they don't pick up on the hurt someone else is feeling because they don't read the non verbal cues, but once they are aware of it, they do feel empathy.

The problem with autism isn't no feelings, it's too many feelings that are too intense. Autistic people need to learn how to regulate their emotions to prevent outbursts and for their own mental health.

So both of you should drop this because it's clear that neither of you know what you're talking about. Both of you said that autistic people can learn to feel empathy. The people who don't feel empathy are sociopaths and psychopaths, not autists. Autistic people may learn how to display empathy, or they may need to learn how to control their reactions from emotional spikes caused excessive empathy, but they don't need to learn how to feel.

To your credit you did say multiple times that you felt it was an inappropriate topic. I do hope you learned something about autistic people.

Unfortunately practically I know too much about it( won't say more , am sure you can guess ) but literally rushed into a post saying the wrong thing .

No credit to me at all . I feel very bad about it and am deleting my posts . Oh I can't but the others are correct anyway .