“We love the royals and William and Kate and it’s so exciting they are moving to Forest Lodge. It’s clear this car park closure has not come from them, but is down to security concerns.”
Sometimes I think republican is just an empty word. But it's really an important state of mind.
I honestly think we need a certain level of neurodiversity to prioritise time in our lives for high level concepts like “the left”. Everybody else gets pissed off like you’re wasting what little free time they have for something that feels so alien.
Bar the perpetually online. “The right” don’t call themselves that. They go on they’re neither right nor left. They get upset when you apply the label. They don’t revel in how they need corporatism or monarchism to win. They just find stuff that taps into peoples darkest psyches, cheat as much as possible and win elections. Influencing centrists and opportunists for further gains.
A lot of us know on this site what is needed. It’s like the formula for making concrete. Practice disciplined democratic centralism and squash factionalism at every occurrence. Co-opt people’s nationalism to build support towards a worker’s state. Give them a clear program of minimum maximum demands based on their desires and pace accordingly.
She said he was great TD (you know from 2012 to 2019), rightfully mentioned some of the good work he did on the Gardai as a TD. But there is an implication there that he fell from grace as an MEP from 2019 to 2024. A time where he and Clare gained interational notarity railing against NATO, defending AES and speaking up for Palestine. She herself is a more a career politician who only left Labour years ago because they ran Michael D instead of her. Mick and Clare while being trots where a blaze of glory for the Irish left.
Correction: Mick Wallace was more aligned with the CPI then any of the trot groups towards the end. Clare Daily was in a trot party - Socialist Party (CWI affiliated back then) but kicked out for working with wallace.
Feeling it with a presidential candidate in Ireland and her throwing fellow leftists like Mick Wallace under the bus. The only thing that can motivate me to vote is to send a clear message to ruling powers that isn’t some skewed poll or ignored demonstration.
It looks like anti-migrant rage bait, it probably is. But Ukranians are treated so much better then other migrants with full welfare and a right to work. Come from anywhere else outside the EU on you are either in a glorified concentration camp or sleeping on the streets waiting out your application. Centerist politicians will excuse it because of their European christian heritage.
Every step will be made a excruciatingly slow as possible because they hope you somehow have money to make the flight home to warn everybody there. Meanwhile stormtroopers on the streets will constantly verbally abuse you, set fire to your tents, glass you or beat you to a pulp. If somebody volunteers to help you, they are doxed and piled on by bots 24/7, their family are piled on. These volunteers often have to scrub their online identity and flee the country themselves.
If you don't have the money the fly home and you have no possible way to raise it then you will be forcibly deported with your family. Their school mates will watch your kids be bundled into vans by what might as well as be sexual predators. You will be surrounded by police boarding the plane, the same police who ignored the years of abuse you got and probably engaged in some of it off-duty. This multi-million euro single deportation of you and your family will be heralded by countries most likely next leader as "value for money".
This is in Ireland. One of the countries idealised on hexbear because our spineless politicans made some uncomfortable meaingless noises about Palestine to cynically distract us from the fact that they are letting kids get crushed by their own spines. Their supporters have peak redditor energy, all they think about is national defense from a country that has to tow it's aircraft carriers. And some integral part of that national defense is not patrolling our seas but sending soldiers without UN approval to fight Frances wars in Africa.
How big are these soy beans?