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@StephanieS9999 @BallymenaM87946 @LaciCloud @PhilipDwyer_MOI For decades, New York Zionists without a trace of Israeli blood have been invited to a land grab in the West Bank. Evicting & murdering the people who have worked that land for centuries. The government turns a blind eye; that's how much they care about their own people.

@BallymenaM87946 @LaciCloud @PhilipDwyer_MOI Israel protects their own people, can i say the same for my own government? No, that’s what I want, a government that puts Irish people’s concerns first, have you a problem with that? If you do, what’s wrong with you?

.@PhilipDwyer_MOI got called out today at the fuel prices protest for his support of Israel and Ezra Levant.

@voskat555555 @haynes_wiley @griptmedia A very low BMI will raise as many eyebrows as a very high BMI. The system measures medical interventions & patient satisfaction is part of it; the interventions that fall within the normal range receive less scrutiny. It's that boring - nobody is being targeted.

@haynes_wiley @griptmedia Transition works, actually. After all, it's the medical intervention with the highest patient satisfaction rate out of every medical intervention in existence. Maybe ask yourself why OP is lying through his teeth about what the study says.

Dr Dionne Joseph said the “robust” Finnish study was the “evidence needed” to show that “gender affirming care is a disaster”. The study found a 6-fold rise in psychiatric morbidity in one cohort of adolescents who underwent gender reassignment. gript.ie/study-mental-h…

@voskat555555 @sigma7311411691 @graypepeat @NoticerNews Very normal that people can & do freely report their dissatisfaction with the results & disgust at the invasiveness of knee replacement surgery is well flagged. An invasive surgery with positive feedback raised red flags.

@sigma7311411691 @graypepeat @NoticerNews Wait till you see reconstructive knee surgery.

Adolescents who claim to be "transgender" have significantly worse mental health after being subjected to "medical gender reassignment", a large Finnish study has found. noticer.news/adolescent-gen…

@fitzfromdublin A nothing burger.

What’s really funny is the way each of them says the phrase it as though it’s just personally occurred to them as they’re speaking

twas better to die neath an irish sky

@typingduck Losing ground with a demographic tarred as a basket of deplorables is a mystery to no one but you.

Irish center right boomers are beginning to do the MAGA/ brexiteer shift. Where, as evidence mounts that their beliefs don't work, their cognitive dissonance turns increasingly radicalized. Visible on here in the RTE pundit and Irish Times Op Ed class. Sharing far right BS.

Very thought provoking essay by @1DimeOfficial open.substack.com/pub/1dimerevie…

@sapphyreblayze @alfajack01 Defending Artistic expression as an end in itself has zero merit when you only do this for your own team.

@alfajack01 If you went to a museum and saw a nude statue, would you call that sexual harassment?

No, Ethel Cain is not sexually harassing you by posting her dick. You're just transphobic and also weird about non-sexual nudity.

@deanbhoy2 @travelingflying He is making a relevant take on Marx & Engels, agreeing that the Irish were fulfilling their duty to demand Sovereignty utilising the power of Nationalism as a protection from being absorbed into imperialism driven by Capitalism - the nineteenth-century version of global capital.

@travelingflying for the fucking morons out there ,its factually impossible for the Irish to become a minority in Ireland as it is impossible for Americans to become a minority in USA and Spanish to become a minority in Spain , what hes saying is hes a racist and bases his opinion on skin colour

“Ireland didn’t colonize anybody; they were a colony. They suffered terribly. They were willing to be brutalized, occupied, starved, all of these things for centuries to defend their little slice of the world, and yet Ireland is on track to be a minority Irish by 2070. I don’t like that. People think diversity means every place in the planet should look like Jackson Heights in NYC, but that’s not diversity at all. Diversity is that when I go to Ireland, it’s Irish.”

@7StarSentinel @EamonMelia For sure

@CaillteGoMion @EamonMelia Same reason they platform the likes of PBP as well.

Why does this nobody get so much coverage. As i see it her only claim to fame is her membership of a religious cult called the Iona Institute.

"Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours" is the biggest lie of all time. This is the West Bank. No Hamas, no war, yet attacked like this daily by "settlers" backed by the IDF. A savagely violent Jewish supremacy armed by the EU/UK/US

@sappholives83 Accurate, But if he went nice to the usual designated 'paid off staff room permanent fixture', which is historically not uncommon in Ireland - there would never have been pressure on the education system to justify the formal policy on gender (If there is one?)

I’m going to get a lot of flak for this.c but I don’t care. This Enoch Burke stuff is bullcrap. I’m as anti-genderism as it gets, but there has been a deliberate effort by Burke and his supporters to present events in a dishonest light. First of all, Burke is not in jail for refusing to use they/them pronouns; he’s there because he refuses to obey the no trespassing order he’s been given. Every time they let this guy out of jail, he goes right back to the school, and I’m sorry, but that’s not the same thing as being a real prisoner of conscience. Furthermore, his wife and mother were not arrested for visiting him; they were arrested on a warrant for contempt stemming from their disruptive behavior in the courtroom last month. The jail is just where the police caught up to them after they skipped their court dates. Mr. Burke was indeed fired over an issue of conscience, but his behavior since has been inappropriate, dishonest, antagonistic, and on numerous instances, a direct violation of a court order to stay away from the school he was fired from. He has frightened children and staff, and seems incapable of understanding that he no longer works there. His presence is a deliberate disruption and in today’s world, threatening. I really don’t appreciate the dishonesty in the way Burke has presented his side of events. This is the kind of behavior one would expect from TRAs, and it makes us look bad when we support him. Mr. Burke long ago crossed the line of what is appropriate when it comes to his behavior, and until he can accept that he has lost his job and move on, jail is probably the best place for him.

@timjmb @SuzieD755164 @caitrionanolan8 We are of the Roman tradition, which is not a monotheistic faith insofar as we hold room for Saints. The Irish traditionally embraced this more than most. 'Jesus is king' is monotheistic. Nihilistic Globalisation destroys sovereign shared cultures; this is no different IMO

@CaillteGoMion @SuzieD755164 @caitrionanolan8 Irish Catholics , USA Catholics ? We are all either Roman Catholics or Eastern Orthodox Church 🤷‍♀️

Two wonderful, strong and outspoken Irish ladies, Cat Nolan @caitrionanolan8 and Maggie Stapleton, will hold a stations of the cross event on Good Friday, April 3rd. Starting at 2pm at the GPO, O' Connell Street, Dublin 1. See posters and videos below for more details. Please join them in reviving the faith in Jesus Christ at a time when we need it the most in our current struggle against evil forces that are prevalent in the world around us.

@paulmurphy_TD Your silver spoon has proven a working bypass over second-order thinking. His Da being a bus driver fits with why he would believe that the global progressive movement works to lift everyone to the middle class. In effect, the same conclusion as you.

It doesn’t matter if the Taoiseach's father drove buses, it matters that he made every working person in this country worse off in the last budget while making multi-billion euro companies even richer. We need to fight against them for an #AffordableIreland.

@RobLooseCannon @angiebeeb The 2008 global financial crisis was capitalised on to systematically bring down the authentic community-based work of great people & criminal money lenders have been on the increase ever since in areas of extreme socioeconomic disadvantage. FG have blood on their hands for sure.

@angiebeeb Your father, and all those like him who helped found and spread the credit unions, were heroes who empowered the working people. God bless them for loving people over profit 🙏🏻❤️

Moneylenders aka Loan Sharks were (and still are) a parasitic scourge on Irish families. But housewives and single mothers in particular had to deal with intimidation and extortionate rates to make ends meet. Working class Dubliners didn’t go to the bank when they were short in the 1940s right up to the current day. Dublin in the 20th century was a city run on tick. Formal credit was a fantasy for most families. Wages were low, banks didn’t want your kind, and social welfare wouldn’t stretch to shoes for the children or unexpected events like having to fix a washing machine or burying your dead. So whoever controlled the purse strings or did the family budget turned to the moneylender. Some were licensed, most were not. Some were aulones who seemed to have your best interests at heart. But it was th bleedin "interest" that would trap you in a perpetual cycle of debt. Others were more stereotypical hard chaws. Ex-prisoners, car park attendants, or self-styled “businessmen” with a fistful of cash to launder a reputation that didn’t need explaining. And they charged up to 200%, and more in their filthy usury! This was technically illegal after the 1933 Moneylenders Act, which tried to drag the whole operation into daylight.There are tales of desperate borrowers in the Four Courts records, trying to wriggle out of impossible debts. Civil cases from the 1910s, 30s, and even into the 70s where someone stood up against extortionate interest rates. But this was seldom the real victims, who were predominantly wives and mothers of working class familes.And for them, the exploitation and injustice was cemented with the social shame. Moneylending was a woman’s burden. Mammies borrowed for schoolbooks, communion dresses and coal. And also for those unpredictable incidents and tragedies that could make a family hungry as well as grieving. And it was women who had to hide with the kids behind the couch when the man knocks on the door. By mid-century, the scene had shifted. The tenement ladies gave way to men with muscle. You could findn them outside the bookies, and at the taxi ranks, or famously minding cars by the Green or on Leeson Street. I was able to find a few nicknames mentioned when I researched Lockhard Men. Loansharks had names like “The Judge”, “Big Mick” and “Joe the Parker”. And some of these lads had little business empires, protecting car parks, secondhand shops fencing gear and lock-ups full of collateral from unpaid loans. Mercifully by the 1970s the Credit Union movement, rooted in Catholic parish activism, spread like wildfire. Suddenly, there was another option with fair rates and no shame or gurries on your doorstep. It didn’t kill the loan sharks, but it started to starve them. And yet, even into the 90s and beyond, there was the Provident Man and the little army of women collecting for him weekly with their books and catalogues. Vultures who could turn a desperate families £50 loan in to a perpetual debt. If youre in trouble with debt, these are free government resources MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) Helpline: 0818 07 2000 WhatsApp: 086 035 3141 Email: helpline@mabs.ie Abhaile: Homeowners at risk of losing their home should ask MABS (0818 07 2000) for an Abhaile voucher for free legal or financial advice.

@SuzieD755164 @caitrionanolan8 I trust they are, but as I said, the (not fully unjustified) hatred of the left has led a lot of well-meaning people to accept ropey versions of their traditions creep in.

@CaillteGoMion @caitrionanolan8 I can see what you're saying, but these two ladies are genuine women and do follow christ.

@SuzieD755164 @caitrionanolan8 'Christ is King' is not authentic to Irish Catholicism; it's a totem for US-style Groyers to get behind. They believe in nothing but see the aesthetics of Catholics as giving the appearance of being rooted in tradition If they kill our traditions as a byproduct, it is what it is

@CaillteGoMion @caitrionanolan8 I'm not really sure what you mean.

@Trickstersworld @TortoiseShack Not sure if the old times you pine for, when neo-liberal capitalism was delivering, were so flawless? It may have been better today had the anti-nationalism vaccine delivered by global bourgeois institutions been met with scepticism rather than the end-of-history shoulder shrug?

Nationalism is the measles of mankind. Unfortunately we live in a time of rampant vaccine scepticism. Got a little agitated on the @TortoiseShack with El Pais’s Latin American journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal. patreon.com/posts/patron-e…