colm-1916.bsky.social
Politics (mainly 🇪🇸🇨🇮🇺🇲🇬🇧).
Big fan of Hozier/Bright Eyes/Taylor Swift, photography, comics, and brutalist architecture.
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Its an amazing show but also kinda narrow, it follows the provisional IRA but shows very little of other irish factions or anything about the british/loyalist side
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You can be a cool person without being a decent person, i.e Patrick Bateman, Darth Vader, Taylor Swift
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I think this Starmer goverment is the UKs last chance to prove to Scotland that the union makes sense, and I don't think it's gonna work out.
Scottish Independance in the next 10 years seems likely to me. You can't perpetually keep a progressive country inside an austerity-conservative union
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I only ever listen to these 3 songs from it, but the fact that they released 2 such different albums on the same day (and the other was the best album of all time) was such a flex
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Lol Podemos muy obviamente quiere arrebatar el protagonismo de la izquierda, y no pasa nada, es lo que tiene sentido que hagan, que otra estrategia tendrian? El 15m ya no existe, nadie esta en modo pueblo unido vs casta, Podemos esta luchando por el espacio de IU y les va bien
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Im having an identity crisis right now and im listening to them intensely again after a few years of only being a casual listener.
It helps me feel like myself, discovering them at 14 molded my brain and now their songs bring back all the feelings of my adolescence
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The acoustic version is much better than the album one
youtu.be/l_ywjV-woGk?...
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Where do the 30 and 16 years figures come from
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Other than the first few seconds I really don't think there's a difference if you arent looking for one
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To be fair they aren't worse versions. A lot of good stuff has came out of the "from the vault" songs, and i don't remember any of the re-done songs sounding worse
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Why GH5 over A7iii for video? I have a GH5 and assume the A7iii would be better for both outside of some specific circumstances
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Not sure this is about trans people, i assume it's about an "ungirly" girl, but still an interesing lyric from 2005
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And again, i respect your organizations history and I do want the legacy celebrated, but it just doesn't seem relevant to the present. The Dáil is nowadays considered legitimate by the masses and by the mainstream of republicanism, so do we not have an obligation to contest for power in it?
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What does Ta Power have to do with anything? He was killed 40 years ago.
I just don't see how you can be the "vanguard of the working class" when you are a marginal irrelevant organization. "Sound bites" can have issues but you can't expect to reach the masses with 100 page PDFs and gun displays
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I guess im asking why does the organization still exist at all instead of just merging into People Before Profit, it just seems like a role play to still be doing masks and guns in 2024 when times have changed and a mass movement is needed
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I have huge respect for what the IRSP was, but behaving like this in 2024 seems like counterproductive role-play. There is no armed struggle anymore, so why aren't you just members of People Before Profit? Also, it seems like illegimate appropriation to call yourselves the movement of Conolly
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The protestant working class of the North need to feel that their class interests are better served by a united ireland, both for us to win and also because thats the whole point of this cause
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Yep. While the south is a tax haven without a national health service, there is no path to a united Ireland. People in the south need to get a left wing block (SF + socdems, especially) into power and really reform the state before there will be a mass movement for unity
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Yeah as a HUGE hozier fan i think his two hits (take me to church and too sweet) are his 2 most out of character songs, but atleast Take me to church is good.
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God im so jealous, you also get to Listen to Lifted for the first time
Btw, with bright eyes, be careful not to listen to the "companian versions" of their albums, they are mostly terrible
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It's their best but everything they put out between 98 and 2005 is incredible.
-Lifted
-Fevers and mirors
-Letting off the happiness
-Every day and every night
-Digital ash in a digital urn
A legendary run of albums
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I wish i could experience listening to that album for the first time again. I remember listening to it at 14 and getting 3 songs in before texting my friend saying i have a new favourite band (and they still are 7 years later)
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Well i assume their members care about left wing policy goals, and i believe this strategy increases the chances of those policies happening. Also, a quota of TDs/goverment positions
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Greek left is a good contender for most absurdly split left in the world
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Its neither an intro to the issue (assumes you already know a lot of context and is mostly about internal strategy debates in the palestine movement), nor do the authors actually say anything that interesting. It's also very much a product of 2014 and is dated. Though this prediction was accurate:
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I didn't like "On Palestine" tbh. Nothing new in it if you have a basic understanding of the issue, basically just 200 pages of "BDS good, apartheid bad".
(Not commenting on the merits of the viewpoints in the book, just that it's not the best use of your time if you wanna read about palestine)
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Thanks
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I will never forgive Cassadaga for how bad the album version of "I must belong somewhere" is compared to the acoustic version
Generic hipster folk music (youtu.be/nGu_J1SyBt4?...) vs adolescence-defining masterpiece (youtu.be/l_ywjV-woGk?...)
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And in fairness, @paulmurphy.pbp.ie, @richardboydbarrett.pbp.ie and @pbp.ie were the only party proposing an electoral alliance (of PBP+SF) this election cycle
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And yes, fuck Labour and the Greens, but after 100 uninterrupted years of centre-right goverment my bar for what im willing to accept to get ANY kind of left wing goverment is low
(Idk how Bluesky works but if you are an irish politics account please interact so i can find my people)
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led by whichever block comes out on top (would be SF)
Having 5 left parties + indpnds is just too much, we aren't able to get a message across being so splintered. The 4 year strategy of the irish left has to be so consolidate and look like an alternative rather than a menu of harm reduction buttons
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the left by refusing to support a FG-FF goverment (leave goverment formation to collapse or be an unstable mess), and from there merge Labour+SD+Greens into a centre left coalition, and SF+PBF+left independents into a populist left coalition, and have those 2 coalitions agree to form a goverment
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But obviously the centre-left parties (Labour, Socdems, Green) have to make a choice about wheter their goal is harm reduction with centre-right goverments, or being part of a Sinn Fein lead alternative block. The best path forward for the irish left imo would be for Labour to regain the trust of
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It's so beautiful
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Exiting the EU was a historical position on the irish and british radical left, that lots of people in that generation had (Corbyn, Benn, Workers Party in Ireland, etc).
The concrete project of Brexit was a reactionary movement but it's not weird for a 60yo socialist to be anti-EU
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Why are the proportions so low in the north? Because the starting point was already more Protestant?
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I love Rayne!
I once made a girl full on cry by reading The Pain Gap out loud to her
internetprincess.substack.com/p/the-pain-g...
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Someone had the bright idea of giving me a Harmonica when i was like 3 and it was my personality for years
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Neeeeeeed
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Like which of these is more tasteful for a thirst-trap Hozier edit, you know?
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Controversial but Hozier's sexiest songs are stuff like "Blood" and "Wasteland, Baby"
I think the songs most people simp for, like "Nothing fucks with my baby", or "Talk" (origin of "imagine being loved by me") are un-sexy, because they are trying too hard. Worst case of this is "Eat Your Young"
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The IRA did all go woke and thats good!
(Also it took me a minute to realize the second tweet is saying he thinks the IRA would expel inmigrants and not that it would attack Israel)
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I mean i oppose the house of lords/the current labour goverment, but this is a silly argument. Their 2024 manifesto did not include abolishing the Lords.
Also, until its abolished, even a left wing gov would need to fill it with their people. There lots of valid criticisms to make of Starmer!
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Obligatory Bernie ad appreciation
youtu.be/2nwRiuh1Cug?...
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Siento esto como un logro personal, me pasé 2021 acosando a Bright Eyes por redes diciendoles que vengan a Madrid. Pero ojalá fuera un concierto normal y no un festival