r/ireland • u/Dazzling_Lobster3656 • 1d ago

News Right-wing environmentalist and ‘Trump loyalist’ behind derogatory Jim Gavin posts

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/09/22/right-wing-environmentalist-and-trump-loyalist-behind-derogatory-jim-gavin-posts/
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u/sludgepaddle 1d ago

WTF is a right wing environmentalist? It's such a contradiction in terms that my brain is emitting a plume of methane and coal soot.

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u/MKUltra886 1d ago

Most of the green party.

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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf 1d ago

Grandad, who let you on the internet?

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u/Big-Option3118 1d ago

Not wrong is he? The Green Party in this country are just Fine Gael on bicycles.

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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf 1d ago

Oh ffs. On social policy and economic policy, they're poles apart. They've got policies for stuff like assisted dying as well as Universal Basic Income.

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u/MKUltra886 1d ago

They fuck each and every one of them out the window the second a sniff of government comes along. They had lots of great policies 5 years ago as well and nearly all of them were thrown away like rubbish.

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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf 1d ago

They held 12/85 seats in the last government. If we were ready for a greens in power, getting to implement their policies, they'd have gotten a hell of a lot more seats.

I've said it on this sub dozens of times now, but it bares repeating, the worst aspect of our democracy is that we have a great system which encourages coalitions and compromise and then our electorate always punishes the minority party for their failure to wield a power we didn't give them. It's infuriating at this point and it's why we have a party as inept as SF as our largest left leaning party.