Protest outside Roderick O' Gormans home - read OP before posting

fair enough, i was off the mark regarding sinn fein. transfers were from bruton. i still believe that he hasnt a hope in hell of getting reelected. some mad independent will get in

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i dont know about that… there are going to be some nutjobs banging around the next dail elected on anti immigration etc

Ahh you have all sorts going for election now, one person thinks after "millions of views" on TikTok means they have the support of the population to go for election

Like most they are great hurlers from the ditch, don't seem to have any real policies or how they would help people in the area

If it's nonsense to say that Jobstown is the one example then you should be able to give plenty of examples to the contrary then right?

He is now - he wasn't at the time of Jobstown. He was Socialist Party (branded as "Anti-Austerity Alliance or Solidarity at the time, and part of a wider PBP-AAA/Solidarity electoral pact).

He then left the Socialist party to form RISE - which was also part of the PBP-AAA/Solidarity pact - but then RISE folded into PBP.

And he then wonders why some people refer to the Irish hard left as alphabet soup.

Those protests had current TDs within their number.

You're shifting the goalposts to try and avoid admitting that PBP and SF (among others) have plenty of form for this sort of protest also.

The far right are pulling on many of the same goons that the far-left whipped into a mob during the anti-austerity and water protests. Remember the "water protesters" harassing meter installers, and posting names and address of Gardaí on social media?

Very similar behaviour to the scrotes we see harassing librarians and healthcare workers now - and likely plenty of overlap amongst the perpetrators.

You are literally agreeing that violence and thuggery aimed at threatening/intimidating politicians you don't like is OK. There's 2 words for that. Far Right.

3 examples from 15 years ago and we could list dozens of examples from this year alone. Yeah dead right to call this out earlier as false equivalence.

Are you seriously trying to claim that PBP picketing outside a ministers house - as putting out press releases to brag about doing so - isn’t even a tiny bit similar to what we’ve seen the far right groups doing now?

Throughout the austerity and water protests the hard left were thrilled to take on support from any scumbag that would tag along for a protest.
Now it turns out that there was a sizeable cohort within those protests that don’t actually share many of the values of the hard left after all, but they continue with the same tactics that were once the preserve of the PBP and their fellow travellers.

Horsehoe theory playing itself out

I'm saying 3 protests 15 years ago is not equivalent to all the violence and intimidation that we are seeing from the far right now and this is about some sort of one upmanship to deflect from all the current far right violence and intimidation

Oh you have though, continuously found things to go 'but whatabout the left", continuously tried to minimise threats and danger from far right.

I'm not a politico by any means but I spent a little time wondering about these incidents having witnessed various characters/agitators/"protestors" in action locally and in town over the last couple years now.

there are a few things I sense…it's not disorganised or random, not a naturally occurring direct action social protest, not a trendy social media viral fad thing, not a hobby for someone bored. Harnessing the irrational pure bats thinking of a few no-marks and amplifying it. a manufactured chaos. It seems to me there is some indirect operator behind these activities, sponsoring them. That means money, effort, time, resources spent…which only ever happens if there is a someone or something who stands to gain from it

so who or what in the soup stands to gain from all of this effort?