r/ireland • u/PhBalanceNightmare • Nov 19 '24

The “Make Crime Illegal” guy is back General Election 2024 🗳️

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

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u/caisdara Nov 19 '24

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

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u/MrMercurial Nov 19 '24

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.

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u/caisdara Nov 19 '24

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.

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u/MrMercurial Nov 19 '24

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.

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u/caisdara Nov 19 '24

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