fionnrodgers.bsky.social
has written articles for History Ireland, Northern Slant, and Slugger O’Toole; has had poems published in A New Ulster, Blackbird, and Blackbox Manifold.
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Oakshott last August had an article ‘it’s time to give Liz Truss a break.’
That’s the level this woman is operating on…
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Mitch McConnell’s obituary will have not a single praising line.
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‘Ear ‘ere, surely.
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I can only assume someone got Rhea mixed up with Persephone, which is imponderably stupid.
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Because the state needs your time and energy to keep things running; money is simply a reward system that keeps people in that cycle.
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The Collected Works of Wilde.
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Sorry, I dropped this- complete accident, I was suddenly distracted, there was a dog in here… for a second.
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In the last fortnight, Vance has publicly outed himself as a moron.
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Yes, that was the reference: you win the prize.
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Would Harold Wilson have joined the Provos if he accidentally spilled Daniel O’Connell’s pint?
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For example: in 1902 a group called British Israelites (nutjobs who believed the English were one of the lost tribes of Israel) wanted to dig up the Hill of Tara to find the Ark of the Covenant. They were prevented by Marciewicz who brought children + press down to sing A Nation Once Again.
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‘Time is a country
The present moment a spotlight
Roving round the scene
We need not chase the spotlight
The future is the bride of what has been.’
- Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal
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Yes, and it’s a perfect demonstration that democracy works: vote for a fascist, get fascism.
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I have a similar level of pettiness: every now and then I check up on Liz Truss’ Instagram to leave a 🥬 on any new posts.
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Two criminals. Literally.
Anyone who denies this ought to go and join the Taliban tomorrow.
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A lot of people’s notion of sense is very much *common* and all too, at that.
For example: Tories.
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There are few things I fancy less than a chat with Giles Coren. Every time one of his articles comes up in The Knowledge it prompts me to go out on a very long walk in order to find a tree I can call a cunt.
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Richard Nixon becoming an LGBT+ icon was not on my 2025 bingo sheet.
But I fucking wish it was…
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Seek Jesus.
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It was, but I imagine it went over the heads of American Republicans of the 1950s. Even today, they are the most fundamentally witless bunch.
Worse still, was Nixon’s reelection campaign operated under the acronym CREEP.
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Putting the ‘cunt’ into ‘American president.’ Does that work?
Ah fuck it, I don’t care.
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I knew a hairless cat once: he was the spitting image of former British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. It was most peculiar for a wee naked Tory to come in from the garden and stretch himself on your sofa.
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Specifically it says she had ‘cids’ which I believe is some rank of detective. Were you in trouble with the law?
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The sad thing is RFK Jr’s position is only going to embolden these crackpots.
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I meant to get a copy of that at the Wilde dinner, but got distracted.
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No. If the media had’ve ignored Trump in 2015 we wouldn’t be in this fucking mess.
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I think we can all agree that’s Democrats will DEFINITELY be renominating Joe in 2028.
They’re less likely to learn lessons than Larry David.
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Elon Musk has very public calling out with Trump, calls for third impeachment, endorses Vivek for president; Taylor Swift comes out with a new album, Bowie-ing herself into another era, and blowing away the lukewarm reviews of the last one; Trump dies, Vance is quickly impeached.
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Moreover, conservative thinkers (in other words, people who don’t like thinking) insist that ‘greed’ is simply ‘human nature.’ If they had the merest fragment of knowledge of human history they would realise that altruism and cooperation is central to our nature. Sin é.
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‘Propaganda’ here meaning the number of war crimes committed in Gaza and flagrant breaches of international law committed in the West Bank.
And did you just assume my religion?
Drop your persecution complex and grow a fucking pair of bollocks.
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Zionism is an inherently antisemitic ideology.
‘A scheme is not a vision
And you never have been tempted
By a demon or a G-d.’
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I don’t give a fuck for your whatabouttery bullshit that you pull out to justify a pariah state flagrantly breaking international law.
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That’s basically just a Germanic way of saying Yeats’ ‘the best lack all conviction | the worst are full of passionate intensity | the centre cannot hold.’
One must remember that Yeats and Bukowski were, in different respects but in the most practical of senses, utter gobshites.
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Indeed, doubly.
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By blocking out the sun…
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I can’t help but think Trump’s solution will be the block out the sun…
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Same goes for the DUP, Fianna Fáil, the lot of them.
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That’s a misunderstanding of the Irish political spectrum: it’s nationalist-unionist, and the left-right paradigm exists within each individual movement. Sinn Féin ranges from Marxist Provos to Catholic nationalists who are strictly SF, not IRA.