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Hey lads, looks like the forums are about to implode. Is there an Irish goon discord these days?
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We should just go take over boards.ie and ruin the place.
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Jun 25, 2020 02:36
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Arquinsiel posted:We should just go take over boards.ie and ruin the place. [Infraction given] this is your last warning fella. One more mention of how landlords might be bad and you're out of here. And don't even THINK of saying anything specific about a registered trademark
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Jun 25, 2020 07:59
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Looks like someone hasn't been to Boards... The place is a nightmare.
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Jun 25, 2020 07:59
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There’s also reddit/Ireland. For those who don’t believe trans people should exist, that Fine Gael are awesome, and that the real racists in Ireland are black people.
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Jun 25, 2020 11:27
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The country is filled with people like that and it's depressing. I've been thinking of just doing a ban me lately. That facebook video that was posted in the thread about the thing is all kinds of hosed up.
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Jun 25, 2020 11:30
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I haven't been to r/Ireland or boards.ie in years. Sounds like it was the right decision to avoid them.
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Jun 25, 2020 11:33
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Liked this thread. Was good. If there is a discord for the ten of us or whatever I’d join
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Jun 25, 2020 11:37
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hey folks, feel free to check out the handy dandy discord link in the OP of the UKMT, we don't currently have an irish specific politics channel, but the "rest of the world" one doesn't get flooded too much, and if there's demand we could add an irish specific one
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Jun 25, 2020 11:38
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I was going to suggest that but I also would understand if for historic reasons irelandpol does not want to be a subsidiary of UKpol 
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Jun 25, 2020 11:40
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OwlFancier posted:I was going to suggest that but I also would understand if for historic reasons irelandpol does not want to be a subsidiary of UKpol hah
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Jun 25, 2020 11:40
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Lolling at their been a goatse spam in the Uk channel and every one in the Irish channel being banned for it
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Jun 25, 2020 11:42
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Eighties ZomCom posted:I haven't been to r/Ireland or boards.ie in years. Sounds like it was the right decision to avoid them. R/Ireland wasn’t always entirely bad. But it’s been shifting to the right over the last couple years. Took a hard shift when coronavirus started. They had a terminator Leo as the banner image for couple months, you couldn’t say anything critical of our virus response without being dog piled. And when BLM started the mods banned any discussion of race relations as they don’t want to “Americanize” the sub. Though they did take steps to stop obvious brigading by foreign fascists who were spamming racist shite during American day time hours.
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Jun 25, 2020 12:17
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Eighties ZomCom posted:I haven't been to r/Ireland or boards.ie in years. Sounds like it was the right decision to avoid them. Bad places both. Though I have a special hatred for politics.ie where they had to restrict who could post in the NI subforum because it was such a poo poo show
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Jun 25, 2020 14:27
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Marenghi posted:R/Ireland wasn’t always entirely bad. But it’s been shifting to the right over the last couple years. Reddit Ireland used to be great but got shat up like Reddit in general when Digg imploded/the mods changed. Few good sites about to post on, Boards/politics.ie are toxic waste lands these days. Where is an Irish poster to poo poo post?
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Jun 25, 2020 14:43
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Foul Ole Ron posted:Hey lads, looks like the forums are about to implode. Is there an Irish goon discord these days? Whats the context of this? The sticky at the top of the forum just says " As for the rest, well, this loving sucks." Theres no explanation of anything, its all extremely vague?
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Jun 25, 2020 14:56
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 because people are posting good ol' goatse and other shock images: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3928980Basically it has come out that Lowtax was abusing his third partner, and that he was abusing his previous two aswell. So now that no one wants to give an abusive shithead money, what happens to the forums is up in the air.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:08
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Blut posted:Whats the context of this? The sticky at the top of the forum just says " As for the rest, well, this loving sucks." This: Cicadalek posted:
Unlike the last few dramas, this looks likely to gently caress forums as who wants to enable abuse? I am not the best poster, but I would be up for joining any shared space that keeps some of what made SA great alive.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:12
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Oh right, thanks, that thread is a lot more helpful than the rather useless sticky. They should probably have put a bit more effort into it. In my 20 odd years on the internet I've never once seen a big forum like this survive a migration to any new platform. Critical mass just gets lost as people don't like the new replacement format, or just get diluted by people bleeding into too many new options. I'd imagine a far better bet would be people trying to get Lowtax to let himself get bought out or retire from running the forums. But sure we'll see.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:19
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I think I'll wait until Jeffery of YOSPOS either buys lowtax out (lovely thing to pay off an abuser) to save the forums, or sets up his own offsite with better code and hookers. Bread N Roses is always there if I'm desperate. Isn't a big part of Irish forums being poo poo that the owners/mods are terrified of being sued into the ground for defamatory comments, hence you can't say poo poo about landlords or anyone thin-skinned who can afford a solicitor?
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Jun 25, 2020 15:25
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School Nickname posted:I think I'll wait until Jeffery of YOSPOS either buys lowtax out (lovely thing to pay off an abuser) to save the forums, or sets up his own offsite with better code and hookers. Bread N Roses is always there if I'm desperate. Isn't a big part of Irish forums being poo poo that the owners/mods are terrified of being sued into the ground for defamatory comments, hence you can't say poo poo about landlords or anyone thin-skinned who can afford a solicitor? That was the big problem with Ticketmaster/McD and boards.ie I believe. If I'm remembering correctly the Irish courts judged that boards.ie was legally liable for anything posted on the forums by any user. So that resulted in pretty draconian moderation.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:28
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PowerBeard posted:Looks like someone hasn't been to Boards... The place is a nightmare. Nah, I just know that a goonrush would overwhelm the mods into shutting down new registrations.
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Jun 25, 2020 17:03
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https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1276531334152847361?s=19 1 down 2 to go
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Jun 26, 2020 16:03
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Shocker there
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Jun 26, 2020 16:17
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With only councillors it was 57/43 which was tighter than I'd thought it would be Using one member one vote it would only have been 67.8% in favour - considering the greens require two thirds and the no deal elements are more vocal that does raise an eyebrow fully expecting the greens to poo poo the bed tonight though kustomkarkommando fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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Jun 26, 2020 16:24
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I'm in tow minds to be honest. If it doesn't go through and we end up with another election FG will do far far better whereas if they end up in the FFG unity gov when the covid bounce is over and people hate them again we 've a much better shot at a true left coalition after
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Jun 26, 2020 16:38
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EmmyOk posted:I'm in tow minds to be honest. If it doesn't go through and we end up with another election FG will do far far better whereas if they end up in the FFG unity gov when the covid bounce is over and people hate them again we 've a much better shot at a true left coalition after If this deal dies and FF get bruised at the polls I'd expect Martin to get the boot, if the party changes tack in regards to working with SF (or more likely just not working with FG) as a reaction I think it would be pretty difficult if not near impossible for FG to govern by themselves even with the Covid bump - which yeah would mean a weird FF/SF/others agreement which ain't gonna be completely left wing but at least would kick FG out of power
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Jun 26, 2020 16:43
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Yeah it's so hard to see with any clarity what will happen. Guess we gotta see what the greens do. voting anocht is it?
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Jun 26, 2020 16:57
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Aye greens are counting with results expected at around 8pm or so FF should be before that
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Jun 26, 2020 16:58
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So have we sorted out the leadership of this hellhole yet?
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Jun 26, 2020 19:30
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Shoehead posted:So have we sorted out the leadership of this hellhole yet? FF seem to be on course to pass the agreement and Ossian Smyth tweeted a smiley face so big political brains reading this that the greens are on track to pass it also, confirmation at 8pm pending recounts if it's tight So get ready for foreign journalists mispronouncing micheal martin's name I guess
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Jun 26, 2020 19:33
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FF goes 74% in favour of the pfg, 26% against
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Jun 26, 2020 19:40
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EmmyOk posted:I'm in tow minds to be honest. If it doesn't go through and we end up with another election FG will do far far better whereas if they end up in the FFG unity gov when the covid bounce is over and people hate them again we 've a much better shot at a true left coalition after It’s not a unity government though. If the deal passes we're almost guaranteed a full term of the 3 of them. Momentum and the promise of an extra pension can usually keep coalitions together.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:07
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Marenghi posted:It’s not a unity government though. If the deal passes we're almost guaranteed a full term of the 3 of them. Momentum and the promise of an extra pension can usually keep coalitions together. Unless the polls at any stage indicate enough of a bounce for FG that they try and pull the plug. Or FG do something that makes FF want to pull the plug to stick the knife in. Or one of the Greens decides to take an ideological stance over something small. Don't rule out FG's ambition, FF's spite or the Green's naivety. Basically whole lot of moving parts here that can fall apart.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:10
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https://twitter.com/BalancePowerUK/status/1276600560586809351?s=20
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Jun 26, 2020 20:47
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RIP the Greens.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:51
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RIP my future here. Not wasting another decade seeing living costs increase and conditions decrease with more FG.
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Jun 26, 2020 20:57
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Marenghi posted:RIP my future here. Not wasting another decade seeing living costs increase and conditions decrease with more FG. Where you gonna go? Not being snarky - everywhere is shite
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Jun 26, 2020 21:03
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loving greens
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Jun 26, 2020 21:22
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I hope that the various lefty greens muttering about ecosocialism follow through with breaking away but also realize another tiny left party aint gonna improve things much so again just gently caress the greens Maybe if the programme for government wasnt so shoulder shrugging on key issues I could live with this but it really was just a fig leaf to let the greens join government
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