Time for a zero refugee policy? - *Read OP for mod warnings and threadbans - updated 11/5/24*

Theres a fairly popular video game where you simulate running a country called tropico.

Here's a question and answer on the game

my population is 1000 already!! and there are like 200 homeless !!!

What should i do ?

The Answer:

The obvious solution is to build more housing space. Having 200 homeless isn't insurmountable. You've got apartments now. Edict: Urban Development -> bunkhouses for the poors, apartments for the well-offs+. Until you get it back in line at least. Then you can do housing developments to increase housing happiness.

Additionally, if you really can't keep up with the population curve, you can build the Immigration Office and cut your immigration policy to "Tropico First" which reduces incoming pop by 80%. I would suggest not forgetting you did that and leaving it on for the rest of the game though.

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Some people in this country just refuse to accept the reality of the situation. Nobody is going to slur or chastise their way out of this disaster because there is just no way on earth this type of reaction in coolock is going to calm down or go away. It's going to get bigger and nastier and more widespread. You'd be as well trying to baton force your way out of national starvation.

When a simplistic videogame has a better grip on reality than a real life government, we're in deep trouble.

In the midst of the worst housing crisis in the history of the country, with not a finger being lifted to alleviate it, with more and more people arriving, you're going to get increasingly loud and violent reaction. Not to mention all the other infrastructural deficiencies.

Banning protest is, as I said above, as useful as using a baton to beat the starvation out of someone.

Less than useless, actually, it will only enflame.

Lets see how it works out.

Nope, I didn't quote an earlier post.

Immigration on a large scale does put a strain on housing supply. How many landlords in Dail Eireann want the status quo maintained because it keeps rents at a high level?

And majority of emigration is largely people leaving their family homes. And in a lot of cases it's because people feel they have no choice but to go for a decent quality of life.

Govt always try to put large numbers of IPA in Disadvantaged areas and locals who already feel abandoned feel they are veing pushed out. These areas are crying out for large scale social housing and other investment but it never comes

Coolock overrun by scumbags today.

Someone in this thread asked a few months ago, if this issue would really kick off somewhere over summer, we have our answer.

you would have to wonder why the powers that be picked such a potentially flash point area for an IPA centre.Is this a battle they wanted,to demonstrate no local area can object once a decision is made.This is a battle the Gardai cant afford to lose ,they have a right task on their hands and if they fail to get the Centre up and running the blue print for objecting will be established.

It's always coolock, finglas, ballymun etc

Its never dalkey or ballsbridge etc.

The pitch in Alfie byrne park is a mess. Poor drainage. needs 30-40k spent but answer always was no

But millions was available for the former ESB building to convert for IPA. You create a disconnect and you get this as a result.

And not a single member of Gardaí visible there today wearing a bodycam.

They won't . . . . As the recent elections show it'll be SF who'll get the hammering. That's why FF/FG keep placing refugees in working class areas.

They have no choice but to be frim. Looks a litte ott but not much

I f**cking love Tropico.

Watch the full video. I've other videos of what looks like the same guy throwing stuff at gardai earlier. They didn't even look at the other guy in the clip who minded his own business and walked on by.

Of course they are not affordable at that price . I agree .

However there were many more affordable houses and apartments built but they are further along the Oscar Traynor Rd.

Couldn't agree more. I'd gladly send those lads off to Africa, and replace them with asylum seekers.

Bs the anti immigrant fascists were humiliated in the recent local elections despite claiming the spoke for the real Ireland