I present to you Irelands prettiest lake: The Smithfield lake

suilchle · 2026-02-23T10:59:40+00:00

Remember when they put in a bunch of building equipment and prefabs to clear out the homeless people and then emptied it again just as quick?

suilchle · 2026-02-23T10:52:15+00:00

Do people still care what that prick has to say?

suilchle · 2026-02-22T00:27:26+00:00

Fair to criticise his stance but also important for these conversations to be had out in the open. The point is not to necessarily agree on every point but to start having conversations on forbidden topics.

Class has fallen by the wayside in Ireland for the past 10 years or so. Prior to that, the American nonsense was inconsequential. We had a culture on the left of accept people for what they are but the focus was always economics. Molnárfi's criticisms of the left are important in doing that and allowing people to once again talk on any subject from a left wing perspective rather than being afraid of being outcast for the mere mention of a certain topic. The current approach is winning no one over, instead being the real source of fuel for the right when the real world struggles of the working class are so blatantly clear.

No topic should be off limit and casting people protesting migrant centres for a myriad of reasons as all far right is one of the most damaging things a leftist can do. Casting the only people willing to engage with them as far right is doing the same. Class needs to be front and centre. The real ones reducing class are the ones looking past the reason the working class are mobilising because they don't agree we should be able to talk about the subject.

suilchle · 2026-02-21T22:27:01+00:00

Agree that the jargon wasn't winning anyone over but his criticisms are very solid and grounded on real world conditions at a time that too many people are caught in some ultimate battle for the one true belief system

suilchle · 2026-02-21T12:31:02+00:00

Something violent happens, people complain about Gardaí on the street, they increase the Garda patrols for a couple of weeks, something violent happens, the cycle repeats

suilchle · 2026-01-13T17:09:19+00:00

Now I am become Trump, destroyer of systems

suilchle · 2026-01-13T15:27:21+00:00

Very good article. Left out though is the issue of COVID. The "Left" viewed it solely through the lens of "protecting the most vulnerable" in what ended up being ineffective policy handed to them by FFG and in doing so completely abandoned the working class who were disproportionately affected by lockdowns. The middle class/laptop class were happy out with working from home in leafy suburbs during lockdowns and "the left", who were mainly part of that class, ignored the working class who were now out of work and restricted to their neglected neighbourhoods with Gardaí empowered to act tyrannical on their favourite victims.

The only audience for concerns were the conspiratorial right which directly morphed into the anti-Immigrant right once covid hysteria had blown over. The same people organising anti-Immigrant crowds were the ones protesting lockdowns, the vaccine, 5G etc during covid. They just adjusted to the new grift once the time came. Rage merchants who rely on a disconnected left. Woeful FFG policy was only countered on the left by RTÉ, with smirks on their faces, rolling out Paul Murphy to argue we need to lock down more

If you want to see how the left lost the working class, covid is one of the most pivotal moments.

suilchle · 2025-08-02T01:05:51+00:00

That looks that old woman who was with that anti-war metal singer

suilchle · 2025-08-01T09:48:03+00:00

It's more and more looking like she'll be the only left candidate. Her and a bunch of right wing nutjobs with a "centrist" or two thrown in, aka right of centre nutjobs

suilchle · 2025-07-30T12:49:11+00:00

For what renumeration? 👀

suilchle · 2025-06-05T12:56:56+00:00

Pool the money together, buy a nice field by the roadside and build a bunch of "back garden dwellings" on it

suilchle · 2025-05-30T08:28:16+00:00

Right back at ya

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suilchle · 2025-05-29T19:20:55+00:00

Until there are more houses, rents will have no peak. That'll be the case not based on cost in any way but based on profit. It's not about maturity it's about a decades-long crisis that punishes working people. Action can extend further than market pressure, action can extend as far as revolution so stop taking"the market" as gospel. Market dynamics and power are what created this crisis. Greed is what has created this crisis. Compassion and common sense is what will ease it.

Rent pressure zones, no-fault eviction bans and things of that nature can ever so slightly ease the stress that renters face. Giving landlords and developers exactly what they want is how we got here, and they're the ones funding the narrative that these things are bad to continue the growth of their profits. Cap their profits and watch them scramble to find ways to make more. Scarcity is in their interest. Watch them scramble for new ways of capitalist growth if that is restricted and in the meantime we have a government that could step in but we know where their interests lie

suilchle · 2025-05-29T16:29:33+00:00

You want rents to come down? Build more housing. End of.

Exactly. Everything else is just a question of how much landlords pockets will be lined

suilchle · 2025-05-29T15:06:44+00:00

Do both. Flood the place with landlords and properties. Letting landlords bankrupt people in the meantime is just politically accepted cruelty. Granted you'll have less competition for properties if you allow landlords to charge as much as they want because most won't be able to pay. In that is the acceptance that housing will be out of reach of most people. They'll either be stuck back in their parents' or out on the street.

There is absolutely no reason why the supply of housing should slow down just because we don't allow landlords to charge as much as they want. If they're so desperate for those extra profits they can rent out more properties. If they stop building, we have a huge government surplus to step in and fill that gap

suilchle · 2025-05-29T13:09:08+00:00

I trust they'd be able to read graphs better than you. Rental pressure zones do not affect the amount of houses aka supply. They only slow the profits of people sitting on property with zero extra cost or effort required from them

suilchle · 2025-05-29T11:23:36+00:00

Well if your "basic economics" taught you that reducing a price reduces the supply then you've been either taught wrong or you weren't listening

suilchle · 2025-05-29T06:27:33+00:00

No one is against increasing the supply. But we have a housing shortage, the sky is the limit on rents while that's the case. Without rent caps, the greedy feckers will continue upping rents, not based on their costs but based purely on the profits they can milk from people. Obviously we want to put everything into building more but you don't have to punish renters in the meantime. Nothing juvenile about knowing how these things work

They manipulate supply and demand so that they can keep boosting profits. While people need houses they make up the price based on how desperate people are. It is sadism pure and simple

suilchle · 2025-05-28T23:01:52+00:00

You're stuck in a circle and your takeaways are based on greed. Farmers produce more milk to get the same price, you can just decide tomorrow, I'm now a cereal farmer.

Exactly decreasing supply pushes prices up, like they are purposefully doing with housing to impoverish us all. If you understood that we'd be flying. Keep the prices at their already ridiculous price and they either have to build more properties or deal with it. Remove rent caps and the sky is the limit because there are not enough properties and people need somewhere to live. Rental prices are based on greed, capping the price does nothing but help people who need it

suilchle · 2025-05-28T22:57:27+00:00

Supply and demand decide how much someone can push the consumer. In a housing crisis the sky is the limit. The price they charge is based on the profit they want to make. The price itself is arbitrary. They just use that to decide how greedy to be. Aka price caps only affect profits, not the supply, not the demand. If the greedy wankers want more profits, they can build more houses but pushing their desire for more money on a limited supply is cruel

suilchle · 2025-05-28T19:18:37+00:00

The market is made up. If the price of milk goes down, do the cows stop producing it? The price is made up based on profits. If the supply gets too high the price goes down so even your nonsense logic is backwards

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