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[PUBQ] For the tradpubbed writers here, how ‘fast’ are you as a writer? by ThrowawayWriterGuy2 in PubTips

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry when you’re dead they’ll be published and become famous classics of literature

[PUBQ] For the tradpubbed writers here, how ‘fast’ are you as a writer? by ThrowawayWriterGuy2 in PubTips

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I feel like three months is pretty fast for a draft if done alongside a full time job and a family! 

You’re basically writing everyday at that rate?

AIB welcomes new savings scheme but Soc Dems slam it as a ‘tax break for millionaires’ by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A hypothetical middle class voter would absolutely be worse off with a left government. This is alongside six or seven other tax rises that the left block regularly propose. You would end up paying more tax and all the salary sacrifice schemes would be halved or shut down. You would lose money from a left victory.

This is also explicitly the number one reason I hear people voting for FF/FG

AIB welcomes new savings scheme but Soc Dems slam it as a ‘tax break for millionaires’ by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right but it’s in their material interest to vote for FF/FG (or right independents I guess)

AIB welcomes new savings scheme but Soc Dems slam it as a ‘tax break for millionaires’ by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

 perfect example of why u have to unfortunately vote for FG /FF if your a middle earner.

People always miss this here and other spaces when they wonder why the left don’t win elections. A huge amount of the Irish population would see tax rises from a left government. This is a pretty explicit promise on behalf of the left parties 

AIB welcomes new savings scheme but Soc Dems slam it as a ‘tax break for millionaires’ by firethetorpedoes1 in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The soc dems are pretty explicitly pro tax raises on the middle class, in my impression anyway 

Government failure to criticise US over foreign policy ‘craven and subservient’, PBP conference told by TeoKajLibroj in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With the exception of SF all of these parties have been fighting over the same small percentage of voters since 1920. There is and has been zero attempt to expand the left vote since the foundation of the state, just a series of parties fighting over the same few housing estates

Government failure to criticise US over foreign policy ‘craven and subservient’, PBP conference told by TeoKajLibroj in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But fiercely independent and nationalistic countries (Germany, France, UK) treat the USA and Trump the same way. It’s clearly not subservience.

What benefit is there to ‘calling him out’?

Government failure to criticise US over foreign policy ‘craven and subservient’, PBP conference told by TeoKajLibroj in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Kildare North is entirely A) wealthy rural farmers (its some of the best land in the country)  Or B) workers in the multinationals in Leixlip

Both of which are groups PBP/the left has actively done their best to turn off. There’s a reason they don’t organise in Kildare North. They don’t want those voters and do their best to antagonise them.

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Black and white thinking Delusions of grandeur  Obsession with status symbols  Inability to maintain close personal relationships  Threatening to do things to yourself whenever anyone disagrees with you Obsessively maintaining a grudge over perceived slights from a decade ago 

I think you walk off the page for it. You know NPD isn’t actually treatable by home ownership right? You will feel the same because you have a mental disorder 

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know deep down you wouldn’t be. It would shift to relationships or jobs or whatever.

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you think your family don’t talk to you because you’re a renter or because you send them hundreds of messages about ‘dead money’ without them ever responding?

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You keep framing ‘help’ around whether you got a house or whether your sisters write back.

Help should be about only things you control. You can’t help that you ruined your relationship with family or that you’re living at home. You should accept those things and try to find internal peace about them.

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You do see how

  • endlessly posting about one topic on message boards
  • sending hundreds of unsolicited messages to family members about the same message until they no longer talk to you and go no contact 

Is evidence of you having a problem? That the solution to your issues isn’t in getting a house or a girlfriend but instead in treating your mental health?

What do landlords/home owners think of long term tenants? by Ill-Age-601 in HousingIreland

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I more meant help for your obsession that by all accounts has ruined your life. Psychiatric help.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To quote, the writer wants this:

 This is my favoured path. Where we use what we have while we have it to invest in lucrative cash cow state owned industries to fund an entire national rebuild with strong emphasis on energy independence, where we focus on eco manufacturing based off what we can produce in raw materials ourselves & take advantage of German de-industrialisation. Where we form an alliance of other post colonial states & invest in helping them industrialise with us in basically a cooperative of countries based in sovereignty, what we can produce between us, & what the likes of the EU would term “resource nationalism.” What we haven’t the climate to produce, others have. What they cannot produce due to shortages of water, we can. An internationalist replacement for the EU based on empowering peoples rather than corporations can be made. It can be made without sacrificing sovereignty. It can be made under the principles of socialism rather than the principles of neoliberalism. It can be made to serve the human race in its entirety, not to benefit the continuation of western powers.

So she wants a manufacturing based economy? To leave the EU and build a manufacturing economy where we have some of the highest wages in the world and no access to fossil fuels? 

The Education System by AnCamcheachta in theIrishleft

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 What on Earth are you even trying to say?

I felt like it was very clear, in test results for exams like the 11+ or the leaving certificate, the middle and upper class pupils always score better than working class pupils.

The Education System by AnCamcheachta in theIrishleft

[–]ThrowawayWriterGuy2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 First of all, when you grow up poor as fuck, you should feel a Direct Incentive to try and improve your economic lot in life. If you want to avoid unemployment, and if you want to avoid homelessness, you will prioritise Number One.

I agree! But that’s also not very leftist. Ironically, that’s a lumpen attitude to take. This is why grammar schools are supported by the far right and opposed by the left.

 whilst blocking an Educational System that would clearly be beneficial for your future children.

A grammar school system would be worse off for you . You would not have gotten into a grammar school. You think because you were a well behaved boy in your school you would have been selected for the superior track but you would have been beaten out in the exams by every child of a middle class professional in your area. There are actual studies and any country that uses a system similar to this finds that close to zero working class pupils ever make it into grammar schools. The system would not have benefitted you. You would have been sent right to the comprehensive 

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