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@TheAkoFiles Why?

@LostExoskeleton No, that’s ridiculous.

I love Ireland. I love being Irish. I’ve always said I’d never want to leave. But what’s the point in staying? Live at home until you’re 40, or spend your life paying rent to a vulture fund? The people running this country have left nothing for anyone trying to build a life.

@TheAkoFiles Do you agree that by leaving, you forfeit your birthright?

@LostExoskeleton 50/50 I think everyone has a responsibility to their country, but also that it isn’t my job/out of my power to solve problems caused by a greedy corrupt government.

@MorgothsReview Another great read. Thank you!

@destroyourargue @DeshaySensei @grok @ConserveIrish Yes, race v ethnicity and country v continent, I see what you're saying.

its not like i dont agree with what the op said. it just that the framing she useed was wrong. going by her logic whites sold each other into slavery just like africans did but she doesnt admit that. her framing treats irish ppl as distinct ppl rather than "your own ppl". so a yoruba selling someone from dahomey would still be africans selling africans, but it would not be "their own ppl", in the way she intended to use it

The racist, anti-Irish rhetoric in Sinners is absolutely disgusting. 800 years of oppression and slavery, and we are portrayed like this?! At least we were not sold to slavery by OUR OWN PEOPLE, unlike Africans. Anyone associated with this movie should be ashamed. #Oscars

@MickOKeeffe These people have no idea where they are.

An American, a Nigerian, a South-African and a trans Chinaman discuss micro-aggressions they have experienced in Ireland. Apparently it's a micro-aggression when Irish people ask "Are you enjoying your time here?" The reality is they just don't like Irish people, they hate how we communicate or interact and they want us to change our ways. This should be something we laugh at, but unfortunately a number of these people hold positions of power in Ireland, where they are influencing young minds and managing DEI budgets. Ebun Joseph, Nigerian woman appointed as official government anti-racism specialist. Bulelani Mfaco, South African man and influential NGO activist. Briana Fitzsimons, American woman and teacher. Remember those names.

@Con_Tomlinson If an Indian family in India talked about the history of England and the culture of England and "ate baked beans for breakfast and watched Mr. Bean and read Wordsworth and Shakespeare" would it make them English?

You can no more self-identify as English than a man can put on a dress and call himself a woman. That doesn't mean we should be cruel or inconsiderate to people of other ethnicities. It simply means that the English people exist, and that feelings don't change facts.

@MorgothsReview Really good. Thank you.

New article by me, open to everyone. morgothsreview.com/p/the-retard-w…

@juleslalune This is so wonderful

my dream house is one where my backyard leads to a strange and mysterious path

@SCP_Hughes And the signage and the plastic bollards need to go too.

I know cars are useful and it is just whimsy to wish them away... but it is amazing how it improves the public space when one does so.

@Nick_Delehanty @NewstalkFM This is all just so weird.

@NewstalkFM meanwhile a massive office block beside UCD has been converted into asylum accommodation at ENORMOUS cost to the State and to the direct benefit of a BILLIONAIRE bin tycoon. Why is no one on the "left" jumping up and down about this??

The Government is to ask colleges across the country to condense student hours to reduce the number of days people have to commute into campus. newstalk.com/news/cutting-s…

@JMGreerWriter Does this count as vague-posting?

There’s a vast amount of completely pointless suffering and stupidity inflicted on people in Western societies as a result of our culture’s repression of the life force.

@varien Interested to see what next! Also by this emergent divide between artists, like Emily Youcis, who use AI as a tool to realise work they couldn't do otherwise, and those highly suspect of it.

@varien Yes to this explanation. Rather than the 70s style concept of high-tech future per se, Mark was specifically interested in how musical innovation seemed to stop suddenly, becoming endlessly remixable instead. Not sure if our innovations today have broken that mould. AI is remix.

@theraggedwood @RasberryRazz Unsure how the British/ Irish Romani relate to the very new appearance of Roma - in Ireland at least. There may be a vested interest in correlating these groups, purposefully highlighting the international aspect, thus adding another thematic layer to the themes of your article.

@theraggedwood @RasberryRazz So, I'm still looking into this because it is perplexing. Apparently there are a very small number of early (18th/19th C) Irish-Romani. Although the wiki article on Caine refers to his father as Irish-traveller, who are distinct. Anyhoo, all news to me.

@theraggedwood @RasberryRazz Interesting re the the naming tradition - Micklewhite also seems an unusual name. According to wiki his father was Mincéirí who are not genetically connected to Romani but closely related to the Irish.

@theraggedwood @RasberryRazz Great article, I really enjoyed it. The Romani section threw me a bit. I followed up to read that Michael Kane is of Irish-traveller heritage, but where did you read that he was Romani? Thanks

@xwanyex Is it openness? I'm not sure it is.

I mean, I guess not. I guess it’s just the same openness that makes them good artists that attracts them to liberal politics.

Isn’t it on some level kind of strange that artists and musicians and actors are so politically conformist?

@bjportraits Profoundly important. Erin Pizzey's work comes to mind, too.

Very good piece. I worked in women’s domestic violence shelters for years as a young woman. Women’s violence against their children was framed as male violence. Since she was weaker than him, the theory went, her reaction to the stress and trauma of being repeatedly abused by her male spouse, was to attack her children. It generated sympathy, even though we had rules in place that forbade the women from physically “disciplining” their children. Since I started writing about the men funding the gender industry, a lot of people - mostly feminists - have used that research to focus blame on men. When, more recently, I wrote about the women funding and promoting the gender industry, many of those same women were silent. And as far as boots on the ground destructive promotion of the gender industry (teachers, activists, NGO employees, parents), women absolutely lead the pack in promoting technological assaults on children’s healthy reproductive systems as progressive and as healthcare. Women’s violence and the way they act it out is too often a taboo subject, and a necessary one.