The thing I’ve noticed amongst young Sinn Fein voters though is that the vast majority of them vote Sinn Fein because of their support for LGBT rights and their more liberal stances towards refugees and immigration etc very rarely do they talk about a United Ireland and when they do it’s usually not at the top of the…

Yeah I meant it in a technically possible but not going to happen hypothetical way like Sinn Féin abandoning abstentionism and helping out Jeremy Corbyn, sorry I didn’t make that clear it was a long day. The DUP’s agreement with the Tories is just an additional layer of complication in an already overcomplicated…

Really can’t see that happening. We haven’t been in that place for a very, very long time. An abortion referendum certainly wouldn’t be the catalyst for that kind of thing. It’s in neither the Republican, nor the Loyalist wheelhouse. Loyalists are too consumed with their racketeering, drug dealing, DUP cosy-ups, and…

If the DUP weren’t supporting the Tories staying in government the easiest thing would be to have Westminster change the law via direct rule bypassing the assembly completely, it’s less democratic but probably much more representative of what the average Northern Irish person wants. Unfortunately with the DUP’s…

I hope you get your say soon.

At least some British politicians are mentioning it now but without an assembly not much is going to happen and if same sex marriage and an Irish language bill can’t get through the assembly I sincerely doubt any abortion legislation will. It’s terrible that the people of Northern Ireland are effectively held hostage…

People are already turning their sights onto Northern Ireland, somebody gave Michelle O’ Neill and Mary Lou McDonald a sign saying Northern Ireland next. Unfortunately with Teresa May being propped up by the DUP it’s unlikely there will be much headway soon.

I’m in Cork East constituency, I voted before half 8 yesterday morning and they didn’t release the official results for us until half 6 this evening. It was a fantastic turnout everywhere I’m so happy that it was such a decisive victory, I was worried there were a lot silent Nos but it seems the people staying quiet…

Not to be too awkward on this but the situations are slightly different.

The RTÉ exit poll has just been announced and it’s almost the same: 69.4% Yes with a 1.6% margin of error. I think we might have actually done this!! My feet are killing me from canvassing, my ears are ringing from the stuff that was shouted at me, my eyes are tired from crying, but I hope to sleep very well tomorrow…

The kid was clearly radicalized and spouts the white supremacist talking points well, however misguided they are. He is clearly a follower and unoriginal but that makes for a good

Isn’t that the same argument that was used in the thread about UWS parents fighting against de-segregation of NYC schools? The “I’m not racist I just want what’s best for my kids” while they fight for segregation policies? Is it time maybe for us to acknowledge that we live in a society, and there are consequences…

Fuck me, that was terrifying. “I’m not a Nazi, I’m just a mother who loves her son!” says the woman who wore Nazi regalia, shouted a Nazi slogan, made a Nazi salute, and gave her land to an outspoken Nazi to train Nazis.

https://www.nbcnews.com/leftfield/leftfield/look-behind-scenes-documentary-white-supremacists-ncna866541 Watch this documentary, it’s about him, his “unit” or whatever you could call it and his parents becoming more radicalized. It’s chilling and so frustrating and if you can handle it (it is truly upsetting) well…

I’ll see your married lesbian minister and raise you a married, black, lesbian Rabbi.

Wakes don’t tend to be a big thing here. At least not that I’ve seen. Open coffin ones, would be a definite no. Far too tempting for the deceased’s mates to mess with the corpse.

I don’t think that the parents helped themselves when they started throwing around the 10 Commandments and calling it murder. That attracts the fringe groups, and can alienate people that might have sympathy for them.

They would never let things like facts get in the way of them trying to defend their own deeply flawed system, by attacking ours. It’s just like the right-wing media claims of “no-go-zones” in the UK, where only Muslims can go. Despite the fact that non-Muslims are in those areas on a daily basis.

This quote shows how they are deliberately misrepresenting the situation: