augustgael

like the classic trope where the socially repressed jock kinda respects that the anime kid doesnt gaf what people think about him or closeted gays who finally come out - there's often a huge overcorrection where to cope with the nonconformity they act mega gay (which is not always their TRUE self)

@PaulSkallas Checked out of mass culture, checked in to Mass culture

Men have mostly checked out of mass culture. Find a niche YouTube channel. Scroll on twitter while at work. Just live in your own world.

@LeoVaradkar If any other politician did what you did in that nightclub video, their political career would have ended that week. We don’t want your opinions anymore, Mr Gay Privilege

I signed the order establishing this new public holiday. It clearly states that it is both St Brigid's Day and Imbolc venerating both an Irish christian saint and our own ancient new year when we had our own gods and godesses (1/2)

@IrishTimes he's the one desperate for Irish people to feel guilt over the 'Original Sin' of slavery. I'm sure most of what's chipping away at him is his own self hatred

Blindboy: ‘I’ve been called a pr**k every day for 20 years by a stranger. It chips away’ irishtimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

@IrishTimesOpEd You apparatchiks at the IT and Indo have never risked unpopularity for conviction, so you can't fathom doing something unpopular just because it's the right thing to do. The same blind spot is why you miss political change, and write self-righteous drivel where you act surprised

Liam Kennedy: Why is Steve Bannon so determined to find an ‘Irish Trump’? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@8Frankreich @tafphorisms Tell that to Crean and Shackleton

@tafphorisms Idk about the irish 😂😂

If you have ancestors in this circle, you understand the penguin.

@clashreport You would think his having held an Irish passport would mean he wouldn't leave out Irish. What does he think the Harp on the red ensign represents?

Carney: Our country was built on the bedrock of three peoples: Indigenous, French, and British. Long before the battle on these plains, long before the first French ship sailed up the St. Lawrence, Indigenous peoples were the original stewards of this land. They built nations, trading networks, and systems of governance that spanned the entire continent. The Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Wendat, and the Innu shaped this land and were shaped by it. Then the French came. They built a new society adapted to the realities of North America, shaped by the river and forest, by trade with Indigenous nations, and by the determination to survive and flourish in this land. When the British came, that civilization did not disappear. It endured and now it thrives.

@TheNotoriousMMA An Bord Pleanála will have a conniption. Let's do it

I have a dream to construct the largest statue of Jesus Christ in Ireland! A massive monument to our nations faith. Armenia are currently constructing the world’s largest and it looks magnificent! Bravo Armenia! 🇦🇲 LET’S GO IRELAND! 🙏 🇮🇪

@ChrisWillx Pathologize why you don’t correct podcasters when they call you ‘Chris Williams’ lmao Instead you just sit there and go red Call it the Deferential Namecuck Complex or some shit 🔥 Would go so hard for fellow browbeaten tomato faces lol

*starts pathologising your skill issue*

@ChrisWillx Chris, your whole schtick is now pathologizing everything into some ‘complex’ or quote. Not everything needs a label. Half your content is just you polishing some guy’s knob for a quote he said and going omggg so relatable

The Atlas Complex.

Conor McGregor is a deeply flawed messenger, but the reaction to his visit by the Irish political and media establishment speaks volumes. ‘It’s an insult to the country’, ‘it shouldn’t have happened’, ‘how dare President Trump invite someone we disapprove of’. They should get over themselves, as if they should have a say on who the President of the United States allows visit the White House. The Irish establishment has for years manipulated and controlled debate on immigration, bullied people into silence with vicious smear campaigns, calling them racists, xenophobia, far-right, and even-Nazis for having the temerity to protest policies affecting their own communities. Today an Irishman, perhaps more famous than any other, called them out for their policies and failures in front of an international audience. Over 20% of the Irish population is foreign born. Our political and media establishment almost universally support maintaining and even expanding an open border policy regime. In which case, it’s very possible and likely probable that the Irish will be a minority in their own country within decades. Many support this, while they never openly acknowledge that goal. They call you a racist for pointing it out to them, but it’s true nonetheless. It didn’t have to come to this. For years many ordinary, decent, hard working people tried to have their voices heard on these issues and were swatted away and slandered into silence. Even though opinion polls showed upwards of 80% agreed that immigration was too high, the 20% who support it dominate all media outlets and airtime. Today the Irish establishment got a taste of that in return, the helplessness of being unable to defend themselves or their views in an equal setting, and it clearly infuriated them. They had it for a day, try having it for a decade. Things could change, but they won’t. They have the power, the ability to dictate terms of debate around immigration into Ireland. It will be back to slander, insults and attempts to silence ordinary people who try to have their voices heard in this debate, while praising the politicians responsible for the situation as ‘common sense’ when they eventually adopt many of those same positions months or years later than those they attack.

@Arisv_Avgvstvs_ “60 retweets a day is actually not that many” Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us simple minded peasants 🙏🏻

@Arisv_Avgvstvs_ @wotancore A 4 month old account with 7400 posts. That’s minimum 60 posts a day. You’ve spent the equivalent of a full-time job calling everyone retard. Don’t know what justification you can conjure up for that. Please, emerge from your childhood bedroom and start living 🙏🏻

A “distinct people and cultural group” is a meaningless tautology - distinct from what? Defined by what? Europe’s identity isn’t some vague, self-referential notion. It’s rooted in history, and that history is inseparable from Christianity. Without Christianity, what philosophical, moral, or legal framework shaped Europe? Tribal paganism from scattered warbands? The Roman Empire, whose later cohesion was inextricably tied to Christian doctrine? Even the Enlightenment, which itself was an outgrowth of Christian morality - not a rejection of it If you strip away Christianity, you don’t get a “distinct people and cultural group”, you get a fractured continent of disparate tribes with no unifying moral order, legal tradition, or cultural coherence. But happy to hear your evidence to the contrary?

@daraobriain Dara, you’ll have the audacity to claim naivety on this. When the data were available to you. You and other public figures like you are complicit in the deterioration of our capital.

Dublin is a little… intense tonight.

Edict of Milan, Council of Nicaea, Fall of Rome, Coronation of Charlemagne, Crusades, Reconquista, Protestant Reformation, Thirty Years’ War, Age of Exploration. Europe’s entire cultural, political, and moral framework is deeply rooted in Christianity. Trying to separate ‘Europe’ from ‘Christianity’ makes no sense. Without Christianity, what is Europe? What is Whiteness? What traditions, history, and culture bind it?

@Apolitical3678 But this is in retaliation to Ireland and Spain openly NOT supporting Israel, is it not?

@Angry_Staffer You’re so close to getting it

This is legitimately the most pointless trade war in history. Economics 101 for the MAGA crowd who doesn’t seem to get it. We are a net importer. That means we BUY more shit than we sell. Import tariffs mean that US COMPANIES PAY MORE TO BUY GOODS. The money goes to US customs. When US companies pay more to buy goods, they sell them to US consumers (that’s you, reading this post) for more money in order to maintain their profit margins. Guess which countries we buy the most shit from? Canada, Mexico, and China — the countries he just tariffed for absolutely no reason.

@creation247 It feels like people knowingly taking advantage of the ‘Worker of the Last Hour’ parable. Almost an “it’s OK if I sin because I know I’ll eventually repent completely”. While the means produce a good end, I think it’s blatantly deceptive

Is this a Win?

Something revealing about using examples that are 50 years out of date. I bet a huge proportion of foreigners will never know who they are. Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath were integrated into a virtually homogeneous Ireland and a cohesive culture. The average black kid in Ongar Dublin with an Afro-London accent doesn't know or care about Thin Lizzy, Italia 90, Johnny Logan, Gay Byrne, or indeed Michael Collins. They don't recognise the Irish mammy stereotype, but the African "auntie" figure. They don't really identify with Ireland and thus don't know or care about Phil Lynott, Pope 79, Stardust, Bobby Sands, 1916, an Gorta Mór, Battle of Kinsale, or the Children of Lir. That is our lore and history, and they are understandably not interested.

This summarizes things in Europe really well