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@jf_cole @philippilk Wow! They actually found the remains of infants when they dug up a graveyard? That's mad.

@philippilk Can't think of a single reason why people would think badly of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Further 36 sets of infant remains found at Tuam site share.google/rtjd56mzXjy3Ax…

A country taught by foreign powers to hate its past, its identity and its history. Sad to see. But the people fell for it themselves. 🇮🇪

@BigMattSays @TomOHanlon17 If wanting to remember our history is your goal, surely reviving the older name would be best - a name that refers to a holy well most have forgotten exists.

@TomOHanlon17 Because we aren't all woke leftards trying to deny our history.

Dublin was liberated over 100 years ago yet we still have one of the main streets in the city, Nassau Street, named after the foreign dynasty that introduced the Penal Laws against us Why has the original historical name “St Patrick’s Well Lane” not been reinstated?

@mement0_m0riiii @Siyabashaya @ThabisoGoba2 @billyx2010 Travelling freely meaning displacing the indigenous of southern Africa. But speaking more seriously, while the borders are obviously the result of European colonialism, how could there not be phenotypical variety by region in Africa when it exists eveeywhere?

@Siyabashaya @ThabisoGoba2 @billyx2010 very often, the “phenotype” you lot describe is just being dark-skinned. these borders were invented by the white man at random, it’s stupid to think that each african country has their own phenotype when we were all travelling freely across this continent before colonisation.

It’s absolutely amazing observing South Africans trying to explain to western journalists how they can differentiate between an African immigrant and a local; just by simply looking at them.

@haravayin_hogh @jiejieneesan Gaelic is too imprecise a term as it could refer to Scots Gaelic or Manx.

@jiejieneesan "We speak Irish not Gaelic"

"stop using [mispronounced endonym] that's a colonial term! Decolonize and use [foreign exonym] or [foreign exonym] instead!"

@levantophile @JonathonGr31934 Why were the Druze mostly aligned with the Sunnis?

Aounism, which at its peak had the support of maybe 70% of the Christians, was animated by these sentiments: 1) Christians were desperate to claw back some relevance in the state after being banished from politics in the 90s and early 2000s. And allying with a “friendless” Hezb was the easiest way back in. It was polarizing enough, though, and Aounists’ support would dip to 40-50% of Christians in the years after the alliance, before eventually collapsing after the 2019 economic crisis. 2) Strong distrust of Sunnis (and Druze). The main poles across from the Shia-Aoun alliance was the Hariri-Jumblatt one. Sunnis were distrusted because they were seen as the driving force behind opposition to Christian dominance in Lebanese politics before/during the civil war, and they became the most powerful community in the country from 1990-2005 (when Christians were banished). The Druze were mostly aligned with the Sunnis throughout, but especially after 1990. The rise of Sunni extremism also enhanced those fears, especially since that became a major security challenge in Lebanon itself (Nahr el Bared conflict in 2007, rise of Ahmed al-Assir in the 2010s, conflict with ISIS on Lebanon’s eastern borders, etc.) Tl;dr - It had little to do with their opinion of Israel and much more with internal Lebanese dynamics and security concerns.

This is an interesting video and may seem surprising to some outside observers, but it wouldn’t surprise anyone intimately familiar with the Lebanese peoples (emphasis on the plural). I recall stirring a bit of controversy a while back when I argued that the vast majority of Lebanese Christians were, in fact, supportive of normalization, and that, in the past, the most candid reflection of their views could be seen in spontaneous moments, like the leaked video of Christians in an apartment in Beirut cheering as Israel bombed Dahieh in 2024, rather than in polls or surveys. The reason no poll, no matter how rigorous its methodology, captures these sentiments has to do with the fact that Lebanese Christians lost the civil war in 1990 and then spent more than three decades under first Syrian, and later Hezbollah, occupation. Yes, occupation. The latter may not have been a formal military occupation, but for many non-Shia Lebanese, it was very much experienced that way - politically, socially, and even psychologically. That’s why what people are willing to voice openly, on camera, today is something they wouldn’t have dared express even in anonymous polls before 2024. This is not to say that most Lebanese Christians necessarily like Israel. Opinions range from positive to negative, with most somewhere in between. What the vast majority do believe, however, is that the Arab-Israeli conflict - and specifically the PLO, the Assad regime, and Hezbollah as political actors - destroyed Lebanon, and they would do whatever it takes to disengage from that conflict. (These three actors are, accordingly, far more disliked than Israel itself.)

@PangurBn10 @DJLeapCard @timo_tea Is this true? I so want it to be. Please let it be true.

@DJLeapCard @timo_tea Does him saying he can’t cut the Éire cake because he doesn’t want to partition it count

Dev cooked here after it blew up

What the Taoiseach doesn’t acknowledge is that the culture war is state imported and state funded, with every state institution waving flags and giving training on how to think.

@micheal_olainn How is that extreme right? The standard seems to be that anything that dissents from the party line is beyond the pale.

The ineluctable path of Eoin O’Malley to the nether regions of the extreme right continues apace.

@THFCThom @Bedil_Khushabi @JosieStratman *does

@Bedil_Khushabi @JosieStratman All of them have more of a claim than my country do

Mayor Mamdani, pressed on what he would say to King Charles if they talk later: “If I was to speak to the king… I would probably encourage him to return the Kohinoor diamond,” Mamdani says, referring to the gem in the British Crown Jewels, which taken from India.

@CCGordon33 @razibkhan Usually yee wait till the president dies, no? And this is offical U.S. government stuff rather than private individuals.

@razibkhan America has had dozens of personality cults its very much part of our history.

MAGA/right-wing influencers complaining about behavior that is "third-world-coded" or "brown-coded" should stfu if they don't object to this cringe cult of personality crap. you don't care

@cybwrcommander @Eccanz @FreeGuy0111 @josh_avraham @bryancsk They're humans who are with God.

@Eccanz @FreeGuy0111 @josh_avraham @bryancsk your friend is not dead, the other persons are. you cannot ask mary or saints for prayer, how would they get your message? or how do they know your language? this gives them attributes, that are beyond human

When reading the Quran as a non-Muslim you start wondering what kind of esoteric Jewish and Christian cults there were in the Arabian peninsula in the 7th C. What do you mean the Jews say Ezra is the Son of God? What do you mean Jesus brought a table a food from the sky?

@FreeGuy0111 @GregoryPCA1 @josh_avraham @bryancsk Papal infallibility doesn't mean the Pope can't commit any mistakes. That's a misunderstanding. He is infallible when speaking ex cathedra.

@GregoryPCA1 @josh_avraham @bryancsk Incorrect. I said even the Prophets can have errors in their own personal judgement. God protects the revelation and Prophets literally can not do any mistake since the message they are spreading is not theirs but given to them perfectly. Also I told you pictures are haram.

@EO_Halloran @Alan2026249228 You seriously don't think a substantial number are enjoying being able to live abroad without normal visa restrictions while being given freebies?

@fearchonnacht @Alan2026249228 Nowhere else in Europe is experiencing daily drone attacks in urban areas I think that's a pretty reasonable model to go by Most Ukrainians want to actually be home

I guess the rational gimmick can't hold up when emotions get in the way huh She got a job when she found her feet. Visiting Ukraine does not mean it's universally safe Just no theory of mind for how other people can miss home and not have wanted to flee a war

@MulatoMacchiato @LaiciteStan Compared to the Levant, yes...

@LaiciteStan …really successful Mediterranean countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece, etc.

Arab Christians are categorically different, the Arab Christian diaspora is one of the world's most successful diasporas. The Christian areas of Lebanon are different too. Islam separated the Mediterranean parts of the MENA from the historical trajectory of the rest of the Med

@Less_is_more12 @bmoreopensource @JustAFamilyMan_ How do the 7% make their lives tougher, specifically?

@bmoreopensource @JustAFamilyMan_ There’s nothing to gain because they’re retarded. Bunch of cowards who won’t even go after 7% of the people who actually make their lives tougher while they make up 80%.

Black South Africans seem to have beef with everyone, even those who are just visiting their nation. At a certain point, maybe you should look inward and start to see that you may be the problem.

@mochagrandeeee @RayMcGrath Why would we want any more British culture in Ireland, whether black or white? I don't single out black British. I dislike it all.

@RayMcGrath Okay maybe you can unite with the racists you’re pandering to in the replies to remove any trace of Black British culture in Ireland. Wish you the best x

Keep hearing Irish teenagers saying "Oh my days". Where the fuck did that come from?

@CilComLFC @RayMcGrath I don't think it'd be any better if it was from "proper" England either. All Anglicisms are to be resisted.

@RayMcGrath If this has been imported from Black Britain, I am not a fan, but if there’s none of that “stuff” going on, and it was imported from “Proper” England, then what’s the “Deal”???

@decodetears @RoddyBMurray2 @RayMcGrath Because it's sad when people lose their national and local idiosyncracies and replace them with London speech.

@RoddyBMurray2 @RayMcGrath “unfortunately” what’s so wrong with saying “oh my days”

@TullamoreJew_ I get that you ideological commitments mean you can't stand them as they're clearly ideologically different, but I don't think we're well served by what passes as political journalism in this country. Part of that, I believe, is the tendency to go along and not upset people.

@TullamoreJew_ I don't endorse everything they do, but they're useful in providing balance in the Irish media landscape.

you do appreicate Martin's insistance on giving Gript the respect they deserve (i.e. none)