@TheEconomist So many don't have jobs - huge fiscal drain on Germans
And Syria is safe -- so they should return
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DB Cooper
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Friedrich Merz has suggested that 80% of the Syrians in Germany should return home within three years. That is not remotely plausible and would not be in the interest of an ageing country with acute labour shortages economist.com/europe/2026/04…
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@AnMailleach As the Minister would say, it's malinformation
And then he'd tell CnaM to invetigate you
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Is this serious?!
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
Minister Patrick O'Donovan has said he will be asking Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ and others' coverage of the fuel protests. He suggested that coverage was "lopsided" in favour of the protest and that "carte blanche was given to some people". jrnl.ie/7011275t
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@MiquelVilam That's the E.C's primary objective - centralisation of power. Anyone working in the Commission knows this - its not a secret
Parliment has indulged the E.C too long and too much in recent years - EC is bloated and misfiring
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Politics is about power not policy. The EU can momentarily modulate its tone on issues like immigration, competitiveness, energy or defense, as long as all solutions point toward greater centralization and generate opportunities for the Commission to push its agenda later on
POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen waited less than a day after Hungary voted Viktor Orbán out of office to call for the EU to get more power over national governments to force through foreign policy decisions. politico.eu/article/ursula…
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@Ben_Scallan Careful Ben, you may be spreading 'Malinformation' - O'Donovan may get Comisiun na Mena after you for reporting facts
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Astonishing intervention.
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
Minister Patrick O'Donovan has said he will be asking Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ and others' coverage of the fuel protests. He suggested that coverage was "lopsided" in favour of the protest and that "carte blanche was given to some people". jrnl.ie/7011275t
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@thejournal_ie The Govt pay piper, they want to call te tune
Remember Roderick O'Gorman calling NGOs to heel?
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NUJ Assistant General Secretary Séamus Dooley said the comments this morning from Minister Patrick O’Donovan were “sinister and deeply disturbing” and an interference in editorial independence.
thejournal.ie/patrick-odonov…
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@john_mcguirk The Govt pay piper, they want to call te tune
Remember Roderick O'Gorman calling NGOs to heel?
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When the state funds the media through Coimisiún na Meán, the state expects to get what it paid for. And if it is not getting what it paid for, it may not pay any more.
Exhibit A.
This is the threat Irish journalists now work under.
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
Minister Patrick O'Donovan has said he will be asking Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ and others' coverage of the fuel protests. He suggested that coverage was "lopsided" in favour of the protest and that "carte blanche was given to some people". jrnl.ie/7011275t
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Minister Patrick O'Donovan has said he will be asking Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ and others' coverage of the fuel protests.
He suggested that coverage was "lopsided" in favour of the protest and that "carte blanche was given to some people".
jrnl.ie/7011275t
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@brhodes @BabakTaghvaee1 He dealt with Iran - you enriched them and let them terrorise the Middle East
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In the best case scenario, Trump struck a deal to reopen a Strait that was open before the pointless war he started, with the IRGC demonstrating its control over the Strait and potentially extracting fees plus sanctions relief. Thousands of innocents - including hundreds of children - dead in Lebanon and Iran for no reason. U.S. troops killed and wounded. U.S. embassies and bases in the Middle East badly damaged. U.S. standing in the world obliterated. U.S. munitions badly depleted. Hundreds of billions spent. Prices up everywhere. More global economic fallout to come. Putin strengthened and enriched. Just a catastrophic situation even in the best of circumstances. A profoundly shameful episode in American history no matter what happens next.
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@RichardHanania see their tweet edit history - US wrote their tweet and are using them as puppet to negotiate the extension
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@htall10 @an0n_Nic Possibly. The votes are in loading up debt and spending like mad - politicians happy to oblige
The hard-won fiscal norms re: spending from 1980s died during Covid-19.
Every economist turned 1960s-Keynsian - so we must relearn old lesson re the fiscal instincts of democracies
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@SeanMcShaney @an0n_Nic Yes but eventually will collapse I think within 5-10’years as cost of the benefits are more then tax receipts and growing every day eventually it will become unaffordable and system will collapse.
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Starting to think this isn’t so much a political issue as it is a cultural one. Huge parts of Britain feel entitled to state handouts and vote for it.
Ducky 🇬🇧 🇺🇦@veryfathomer
Around 50% of us pay for the other 50% to live. Those that pay don't even get a thank you, if you try and save a few quid off your tax bill your treated by Labour like a criminal. I'd like the bottom half to actually appreciate what the top half does.
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@TOR_EuroCon They won’t - their leaders will pivot to multiculturalism too
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Within 10 years could see Ankara calling home diaspora to plug gap, Morocco not far behind.
You already see beginnings of this in Brussels.
All the 2014-era talking points re Islamisation by Euro Right lack nuance.
do'o kappa@viprabuddhi
Turkey's TFR is about to drop below 1.0 DESPITE high religiosity 🇹🇷 Just imagine how worse it will be for Muslims when religiosity starts dropping Muslims are religious and materialistic simultaneously (same phenomenon even in countries like Indonesia 🇮🇩) At least with others, there is a possibility of a rebound. These people are crashing in TFR even when under Sharia (eg Iran + Aceh)
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@LawtonGamst @CameronYardeJnr Aren't they trying that again? Hopefully the CMA dont stop them. And aren't they all on Freely anyways
Cameron what do you make of PSBs moving to YouTube? Shouldn't they all go solot, try integrate with Netflix etc
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@CameronYardeJnr Yep, no foresight whatsoever when it was blocked. It was all ready to be rolled out too. Gave an open goal to American big tech companies to take all the market share from British broadcasters. Doesn’t look like they’ll ever recover the lost ground. Insane decision.
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A history of divvy decisions have hurt British broadcasting. Project Kangaroo, which would've had a joint BBC/ITV/Channel 4 VOD service, being axed. The junk food ban killing advertising & therefore budget for CITV, the 1990 Broadcasting Act, BBC3's linear Chanel closed. Ruinous!
Scott Bryan@scottygb
What is clear is that the collapse of linear advertising (incl junk food advertising) has caused children’s television funding to collapse in the uk. With streamers not really interested in investment it is just the BBC keeping it going.
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This thread is a great walk down memory lane. Some of these feel like they happened a couple of years ago.
True Discipline@TruueDiscipline
1/ Thread. Relive the major events of the 2010s online culture war. White girl cancelled for rant about Asians in the library:
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@ZackPolanski He’s forcing his wife to wear a burqa - his mum didn’t wear one even
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@RichardHanania There are issues in Spain Richard, you just don’t follow the news
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Young men in Spain have gone to the far right.
Given that immigration to Spain has caused much fewer problems than elsewhere, this is good indication that it’s not about actual grievances, but young men turn right because they’re just kind of stupid.
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@s8mb It's been that way for ages Sam - it's very stable politically. This is widely known - but dismissed as a declasse belief. Like negative views of the level of immigration.
Note there are lower rates for UC for broadband and energy also.
The UK is a very socialist country.
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Britain is vastly more generous to people on benefits and punitive to people on high incomes than it appears and most people believe.
Scott Goetz@ScottGoetz_
Had a look at the Zoo tickets out of curiosity, more than 4 times more expensive to go if you aren’t on universal credit. Not sure who decided the unemployed should be subsidised to spend their time looking at lions rather than getting a job.
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@Jtgw1981 @baytifirasik @dsasdas00283030 @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa In Ireland, a lot of lefty types want to differentiate from
being a white person, and be more ethnic/indigenous
So to achieve that they
-make speaking a near-dead language core to their identity
-use a more exotic Irish version of their surname
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@baytifirasik @SeanMcShaney @dsasdas00283030 @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa You’re right. I think fundamentally it’s because as long as Zionism was seen as, and saw itself as, a liberation movement it naturally attached itself to the left. But now it’s about defending what they already have - which is basically a right wing project.
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Irish has been a moribund language for over a century now. Its last monolingual speakers were born in the 1910s and died in the 80s & 90s. Less than 5% of Irish citizens have any solid knowledge of Irish. Ireland's independence precipitated the death of the Irish language. ⤵️
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@Jtgw1981 @dsasdas00283030 @baytifirasik @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa Except its the government teaching the kids in public schools, not the parents choosing to attend Sunday schools
And it dates back over a hundred year - to a nationalist project
Current Irish language advocates would run a mile from being called a nationalist!
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@SeanMcShaney @dsasdas00283030 @baytifirasik @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa I mean sounds like the way most American Jews think of Hebrew - somethings their parents make them learn in Sunday school but which they never use most of the time.
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@dsasdas00283030 @baytifirasik @Jtgw1981 @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa Fair play to them - it's lovely to hear it spoken
I mostly have an issue with the current Govt policy towards pushing it in
->schools (half kids haven't Irish parents, nvm Gaelgoir parents)
->broadcast (so many ads on english speaking channels now due to Govt policy)
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@SeanMcShaney @baytifirasik @Jtgw1981 @razibkhan @Agamemnonuwa Yes, but they're a good model of how to preserve and potentially increase the amount of speakers in the future. My extended family lives in a gaeltacht and all of them speak Irish as a first language and as their default in conversation and at home.
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