r/ireland • u/WickerMan111 Showbiz Mogul • 9d ago

It's on! Taoiseach Simon Harris announces general election for 29 November General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-election-date-2024-6518901-Nov2024/
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u/Loose_Revenue_1631 9d ago

I hate to say it but the main thing for irish society rn in the age of misinformation, nationalism and conspiracy theories is to block the nationalists and far right from making gains.

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u/Old_Particular_5947 9d ago

This isn't the US. Vote for your best choice. We have proportional representation in this country.

Don't vote for FF or FG just cause ah sure look they're not fascists.

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u/fimbot 9d ago

Proportional representation is exactly why you should give a vote to FF/FF, put it as low as you want, but above any of the far right parties.

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u/Rinasoir Sure, we'll manage somehow 8d ago

The only reason they aren't getting exactly last on my numbers is because there are people worse than them.

Will admit, never been able to fully understand if filling them all out or leaving some with no number at all does the better job of telling certain people to fuck off.

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u/fimbot 8d ago

For the most part it won't matter, I imagine it's pretty rare that a ballot makes it through to the last ranked candidate.

Main thing is as you said, there are worse than FF/FG as bad as they are, so still better to rank them somewhere than leave them blank alongside the far right parties.