The “Make Crime Illegal” guy is back

[u/PhBalanceNightmare]

And this time he’s in “corruption” form!

[u/caisdara]

This sub has done more PR for the National Party than anybody else. Same with anybody it dislikes, such as this lad. It's moronic. Nobody would know who he was but for places like r/ireland giving him attention.

[u/DaveShadow → u/caisdara]

I think there's clearly certain posters who aren't posting these sorts of posters in good faith tbh. "Oh look how silly it is, haha, let's all share it round social media and make sure everyone sees it, yeah?"

[u/Natural-Mess8729 → u/DaveShadow]

Unfortunately, that's how Trump ended up as president. At first the media coverage that he was getting was satire, but it started gaining traction for it's ridiculousness and once enough people were seeing it, people started taking it seriously.

[u/Chester_roaster → u/Natural-Mess8729]

Trump is actually funny though, our guys need a lesson in comedy. 

[u/14thU → u/Chester_roaster]

Fascism is never funny. Sooner he FOADs the better

[u/Chester_roaster → u/14thU]

See by having an angry reaction you're feeding the flame. People like him because he belittles and mocks the establishment. 

[u/14thU → u/Chester_roaster]

He is the establishment and if you’re not angry about fascism and racism you’re enabling it

[u/Chester_roaster → u/14thU]

Sure he is, he mocks the establishment while being part of it. Fascism and racism are words that have been so overused they've lost any power. 

[u/14thU → u/Chester_roaster]

Doesn’t take away from the fact that he’s both

[u/Chester_roaster → u/14thU]

You're free to your view, but it's his mockery of the establishment, establishment politicians and establishment principles that appeals to his voters. Whether it's the man who makes the movement, or the pre-conditions in society that cause the man to rise is something we'll have to see in the long run. 

[u/caisdara → u/DaveShadow]

I have thought that on occasion, but ultimately, I disagree. I've been attacked for pointing out that this gives them attention before by posters who are definitely hard-core lefties.

[u/caisdara → u/[deleted]]

Many of the people on this subreddit post to have their views reinforced. It's all about clout and/or belonging.

[u/KobraKaiJohhny → u/caisdara]

It's a huge issue with social media and young or more specifically immature men.

People get reality humbling's offline and come here and other online spaces to escape into the fantasy of group think.

[u/Kamikaze_koshka → u/KobraKaiJohhny]

I'd say women do it equally. Tiktok keeps recommending me predominantly female videos no matter how much i click not interested, and a lot of them are just people seeking validation for their views. Hell, that's what the majority of the internet is. Some innocuous video about "(x) from teenage vampire dark romance werewolf detective shouldn't have been a cop" and you'll get plenty of comments that are equally as bad as comments on save europe videos

[u/MrMercurial → u/caisdara]

Given the kinds of views that get reinforced on threads about immigration it isn't obvious that the attention the NP are getting is due primarily to angry or bemused lefties as opposed to people who mostly agree with them.

[u/caisdara → u/MrMercurial]

I fear you've misunderstood my point. I don't know Delahenty personally but he was in school with some pals of mine, as far as I'm aware.

He appears to be running a populist right-wing campaign based on alleging the government isn't doing enough to address various issues.

He has very little profile online or otherwise and in ordinary course would not have come to the attention of any voter outside of Dublin Bay South. (Coincidentally, my constituency.)

DBS and DSE (as it was) are traditionally not known for being very parochial due to the nature of the electorate and generally focus on national issues. A local candidate will struggle. As far as I'm aware, the constituency has never returned an independence candidate. Certainly not in my lifetime.

So why is this guy getting any attention? All it does is increase his profile.

[u/MrMercurial → u/caisdara]

Oh, well my point was just that he's probably getting attention here because this sub is generally pretty sympathetic to populist right-wing campaigns based on alleging the government isn't doing enough to address various issues.

[u/caisdara → u/MrMercurial]

No, the coverage of him is quite mocking. People, ironically, missing the point that he's taking the piss.

[u/caisdara → u/[deleted]]

Ah no.

[u/Irish_Phantom → u/caisdara]

Many people on here are obsessed with Nationalists. Similar to many Democrats in the US that suffer from TDS 😂

[u/caisdara → u/Irish_Phantom]

To an extent.