Sinn Fein, the old IRA-linked left wing political party, just won big in Irish election

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They seem very aggressively Socialist but also don't like the government telling them what to do and are somewhat of a tax haven... It's a very odd mix.

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Its called having your cake and eating it too and it doesnt work

You can have freedom or you can have a nanny state but you cant have both

They won’t be able to form a government I heard. I don’t get that. How a majority party can’t form a government, you’d think they’d be able to cut deals. I guess not enough votes in parliament and bombing people are still frowned on.

I've never understood Irish politics and I am 100% Scots Irish, Ulster Irish and Black Scot.

As my daughters like to say, "we're whiter than white" especially after they got their DNA results that I bought for them for Christmas because they didn't believe our old family tree stuff.

What the Irish side of my family always says is that Irish politics are whatever the opposite of British politics are are the time. You're right, the island has been pro EU since Brexit started but that may be changing. In the meantime the Scots are wanting to do their own thing as well and now rumblings are starting among the Welsh thanks to Harry and his hooer American concubine.

Come Out Ye Black and Tans!

I'll go home and call the TV stations. Give them what they want. Let them take their cameras into my daughter's hospital room - put it on the evening news. I don't give a shite whether you did it or not, and neither will anyone else. But I will put such a strangle hold on your gun money that you'll be out in the street throwing rocks! I will fricking destroy you. I will make it my mission in life.

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I have lots of Irish blood in me, but I just never understood Irish politics. They seem very aggressively Socialist but also don't like the government telling them what to do and are somewhat of a tax haven... It's a very odd mix.

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This right here.

My father is Irish by birth (American by choice and the grace of God), and I’ve spent a lot of time in Ireland.

Ireland, like the Philippines, has an overwhelmingly Catholic, very conservative majority of people who for reasons unbeknownst to me continue electing leftist socialists, and have for as long as I’ve paid attention.

The only explanation I can come up with is that the citizens of those countries seem to have much more trust with regard to mass media. The innate skepticism present in so many Americans seems to be lacking in the aforementioned places.

It really makes me appreciate someone like Rush, who said the opposite of everything I’d heard on TV and read in the newspapers (regarding opinion pieces and translation of facts with news — I was a news junkie by age 6). How many Americans have a better understanding of mass media and it’s primary purpose being the advancing of agendas and political narratives as opposed to news thanks to Rush?

I like to think I’d have figured it out regardless, but he’s a large part of the reason I was more astute than most democrat elected officials by the time I was 12.

I have wondered what the political makeup of those countries would be if they had true freedom of expression and someone like Rush to point out all the bullshite imposed on everyone as news.