These numpties will flee at the first suggestion of a consequence for their actions.
They have been trained to expect none over years.
Turns out, inaction in the face of far-right action also has a price.
The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.
You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.
Having to explain to mental health professionals that the drones your loved one is complaining about are in fact real, as you live in Dublin 15 on their flight path despite asking them to stop; is a hell of a thing.
Yes there are drones flying over our house when there shouldn't be
So the NYT is so committed to shitting on trans people that when the AMA tried to correct their reporting, they responded by saying they know more about the AMA's position than the AMA itself. That's zealotry.
Gamma Rays strikes again
A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.
Getting a dog is pretty much always a good decision
Headlong into ethnonationalism
I think political influence of the far right former Tory administration is the main thing that created that situation for trans people originally.
I think we need fundamental reform of the NHS to take it out of the hands of politicians so that kicking minorities isn't something they can use it for
The zoo is in trouble for using a fella in drag in a promotion for their Mother's Day offer.
One of the comments: "if it was a promotion for elephants, would you use an elephant or another animal dressed as an elephant?"
Imagine thinking that thought & typing it out like you're the normal one
If what the President said was obviously wrong, why is the cabinet minister remaining anonymous? Why don't they proudly step up and defend the indefensible? Because Catherine Connolly isn't wrong. She's speaking the truth and cowards are afraid we'll piss off the liars.
If they are hitting water infrastructure in Iran, that’s a crime against humanity on an enormous scale. I planned to publish something on Iran’s water crisis this week but it obviously got bumped. Iran was already in a critical state pre war, destroying water infrastructure will kill innocent people
So the Irish government is now being outflanked and morally one-upped on this issue by the postfascist Italian government
Nice to be clamping down on refugees just when we’re participating in a war that will create hundreds of thousands of new refugees.
Useless.
our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor
Sir Keir supports whatever illegal shit the US tells him to
The most unpopular prime minister since records began stands resolutely behind the unprovoked attack on Iran by the two countries that are actively carrying out a genocide in the Middle East.
But please, do elaborate more about "extremism on the Left", Mr Human Rights lawyer KC.
just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism
LOODER CONVENTION
X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.
These are a bit less watery
No idea. I suspect they may have a FB page.
McDowells
It is always worthwhile to fight injustice, whatever the odds of victory. When we stand up for each other, we are asserting a positive vision of what it means to be a human being, protecting each other and ourselves from the despair and cynicism our enemies seek to normalize.
crimethinc.com/wefight
That's great. Would be good to include that inchicore place that is building up quite a local gig scene.
ahoy there! Updated Dublin event listings spreadsheet! New gigs include Napalm Death, GOAT, The Handsome Family, "Elvis Presley" in an Indian restaurant, Kirkos things, and Gil Scott Heron collaborator Brian Jackson.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#speirgorm
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
