RTE fixation with nuns voting

[Cruimh]

Who is keeping these Nuns under lock and key and only allowing them out to Vote?

What do they spend their time at?

Are any of them trafficked?

What age were they when they were abducted ?

Were they brainwashed?

Arghhhh - a rerun of the 1850s and 1860s .....

[SideysGhost]

What have nuns got to do with democracy though?

Why not monks? Or bishops? Or zoo keepers? Or models? Or plumbers? Or dog walkers? Or soldiers? Or hippies? Or something else?

Why nuns, in particular?

*shrugs*

You have to remember that Official Oireland is still absolutely controlled by old people who are products of the insular, isolationist, backward, conservative island/peasant mentality of the 1950s. The people who actually make decisions here are just as backward as they ever were. Remember Lenihan's comment about how there'd be no capital flight from Irish banks "because Ireland is an island"? That's the mentality of the Irish ruling class. Lenihan, scion of the establishment, born wealthy, every privilege, no expense spared, best private schooling and university education money can buy, and the guy was still a relic from an ancient much more primitive age. An age where information can be controlled and censored, where "foreign" influences can be kept out of Holy Catholic Ireland, where automatic deference to the ruling class is expected and demanded, where the peasants know their place and toil to line the pockets of their "betters", where laws are only to keep the peasantry under control and can be freely flouted by the connected insider class, where personal connections between a couple of hundred families keep all the power and all the money circulating within the same elite generation after generation.

Look at the boards of Irish companies, schools and hospitals, names of TDs since 1922, the management of every quango. It's the same people again and again and again, generation after generation of the same families, controlling everything with their dead conservative hand. This state isn't a republic, far from it. It's a plutarchy.

[THR]

I don't know how it is with you in Ireland but years ago I met an Aussie guy who said that when he was a child he went to a Catholic school in Australia, a school where nuns were teachers. He told me that those nuns were easily the most vicious people he had ever met and he had met some very nasty people as he was a prison guard by profession.

However, the guy was in his 50's and it was 10 years ago, probably things are not like that in Australia any more.

[Heligoland]

*shrugs*

You have to remember that Official Oireland is still absolutely controlled by old people who are products of the insular, isolationist, backward, conservative island/peasant mentality of the 1950s. The people who actually make decisions here are just as backward as they ever were. Remember Lenihan's comment about how there'd be no capital flight from Irish banks "because Ireland is an island"? That's the mentality of the Irish ruling class. Lenihan, scion of the establishment, born wealthy, every privilege, no expense spared, best private schooling and university education money can buy, and the guy was still a relic from an ancient much more primitive age. An age where information can be controlled and censored, where "foreign" influences can be kept out of Holy Catholic Ireland, where automatic deference to the ruling class is expected and demanded, where the peasants know their place and toil to line the pockets of their "betters", where laws are only to keep the peasantry under control and can be freely flouted by the connected insider class, where personal connections between a couple of hundred families keep all the power and all the money circulating within the same elite generation after generation.

Look at the boards of Irish companies, schools and hospitals, names of TDs since 1922, the management of every quango. It's the same people again and again and again, generation after generation of the same families, controlling everything with their dead conservative hand. This state isn't a republic, far from it. It's a plutarchy.

Fascinating reply, but there are pictures of nuns voting from all around the world, not just Ireland.

[Estragon]

It's their institutional Catholic bias as part of their masterplan to shove the one true faith down our blank docile throats.

For fúck sake, who comes up with this shít.

[Heligoland]

Is it just me or does the nun on the front page of nuns voting look a lot like Barack Obama?