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i don’t think some americans understand the degree people outside their borders have to watch US domestic politics because of how US decisions can have significant consequences for us. i hope we can reach a place where we don’t have to worry about that, in the way americans never do about us.

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What do you guys think this whole day set Soros back? Must've been like a hundred mil

submitted 14 hours ago • 70 comments

Very strange reporting, given that the State's position is that only "serious offences" justify imprisonment Surely releasing nonviolent drug offenders to make space for violent offenders is a broadly good thing under the current asserted justifications for prison in Ireland

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The Dallas Express, which sued me (and lost) for calling it right wing propaganda, published an article suggesting in the form of a question that the assassination of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota could be "Democrats kill[ing] their own so they could turn around and blame Republicans?"

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playing 'fortunate son' at your military parade is like playing 'every breath you take' as your first dance song at your wedding

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

The Democratic Party, sucking up all the energy of the US antiwar movement in 2007-8 and converting it into support for over twelve more years of Afghan War, a conflict they had been told two years earlier was doomed and pointless.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

The damage caused by liberalism is in precisely this dynamic: they absorb all the oppositional energy that emerges in the population naturally in response to the impact of conservative policy, and then throw it away, leaving people even more frustrated and bitter.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Getting serious "Pope visits Ireland in 2018" vibes from the Trump parade photos (derogatory)

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

You can blame online misinformation all you want, but as long as you have a justice minister boasting about deportations, and far right groups are setting up stall outside schools to harass foreign students and parents to little pushback, no misinformation is needed for the racists to do their thing

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Unclear why the proprietor of Killarney's 28th-best-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor (down from 14th) is being quoted in the press about loyalist rioting. Plenty of celebrity chefs in NI, including in Ballymena.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This sort of prejudice against Irish is exhausting from The Economist. It's not the first time. The Irish language is no more or less "unfathomable" than French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese etc. All languages are "fathomable" when you take the effort to learn them. Cc @shashj.bsky.social

submitted 20 hours ago • 30 comments

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

submitted 21 hours ago • 196 comments

The violence reported is that two people drove their cars into protesters.

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Executive order making it illegal to comment on the attendance at the birthday parade

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

See the thing is that the US Army is first and foremost American, and they get all whiny like a kid at bedtime if theyre asked to walk anywhere instead of drive

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

the way the far right is blatantly lying and trying to blame the assassination of democrats on democrats is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

it is, again, intensely funny that the entire country threw a massive "fuck that guy's birthday party" party in response to trump's birthday party

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

“The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” @msnbc.com reporter #nokings

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

Rome not pulling any punches

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🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 14 hours ago • 100 comments

Triumph of the Won’t

submitted 10 hours ago • 30 comments

The family didn't apply nearly enough pressure

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

@ityslmemes.com

submitted 18 hours ago • 10 comments

I have always been annoyed by adults who mention when their birthday is, and worse, throw birthday parties for themselves. But this is the God tier of that.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

this was my favorite sign from today

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

“when an accident does happen it would be catastrophic, so you do not want that facility in an area close to any kind of habitation. I personally wouldn’t want to live next to any facility” [I just want to make money from it] #SpeirGorm #ShannonLNG

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Leaders in the Christian community need to explain why and how this happened, and what they’re going to do to change their culture so it’s a culture of life.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Can’t be terrorism if it’s done by white guys apparently. Then it’s just sparkling politically motivated assassinations.

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Incorrect, Israel's main rival is paediatric oncologists

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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has that dude had his little birthday boy tank man parade yet? it’s hard to tell because the only thing the news is showing right now is how much people around the country hate him

submitted 17 hours ago • 222 comments

see this is why dictators normally force people to be at their rallies. if no one shows up to your fascism parade you just look like a loser who couldn't even graduate from bozo college. authoritarianism 101 really

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

lmaoo never gets old

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

genuinely hilarious compared to the scale of the protests nationwide huge loser energy from mister tough guy

submitted 17 hours ago • 40 comments

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

submitted 17 hours ago • 241 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 22 hours ago • 366 comments

It's a real problem that as an English-speaking nation we get most of our ideas from the US and the UK because they haven't been sending their best recently

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Sad to see so many newspapers pushing extreme diets so people can have "Blooms ready" bodies. You don't need to be stately and plump to get a hand job on Sandymount Strand.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Every tour guide and historian quoted in the article is completely against “Brendan”.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Tapped the screen so hard when I saw this my thumb went right through

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Yep. The very second you decide it’s okay to take rights away from trans people, you’ve decided that taking rights away from anyone is an okay thing to do. A precedent will be set - either human beings deserve human rights or they don’t. Only naive dipshits think they can pick and choose.

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It's so funny when you see the "Ireland is Full" crowd spin this idea that we're letting immigrants in and handing them houses and benefits like candy then you listen to the tangible reality of our immigration services and you wonder how the fuck ANYONE moves to Ireland at all

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People love to make fun of Greta Thunberg and Paul Murphy for being “sanctimonious” or doing “publicity stunts” and it always baffles me because they’re literally acting on their values and beliefs and actually trying to do something as opposed to columnists who do literally fuck all.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

"If violence starts at a protest, simply sit down and don't move" is such bad advice that it reads like a comical shitpost

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