lunar_solstice

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[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

say the line, bart

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 6 points 15 hours ago

The antidote is –

  • The person needs to understand that status quo bias is a thing. What is 'extremism'? It's basically just 'that which differs from the status quo'. If you're in a certain period of history and you say "gladiatorial games should be outlawed" or "it's ok to touch dalits", those are extreme views. We now live in a day and age where "it's ok to kill 100,000 Palestinians using thirst, hunger, bombs, and disease" is a moderate, centrist view.

  • Then the idea that "communism killed 100 million people" or whatever, which is what makes communism seem extremist. A) you can chip away at the truth of it, because it's not true, but more important is B) there is no alternative which hasn't killed tens of millions of people. Economic systems kill to protect their existence. The British Empire killed 100 million in just one country (India) in just 40 years (1880 to 1920)

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

intimated that fascism is just like socialism, “they’re both bad extremes”

This is a really common view, if you did a survey

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago

That's a proper international sound that is.

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml -2 points 16 hours ago

didn't know that was still running

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

This is good for Ireland in the long run, because it distances us from Atlanticism

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is English culture allowed?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fun watch. Not a horrifying horror but it fits the theme of spooky season.

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

No. Calcium carbonate and bioviable sources of calcium are as different as chalk and cheese.

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

His poems show he pronounced it the Cork way. You'd think you'd get this right before writing a song.

http://lib.oto-usa.org/crowley/poetry/the-convert.html

[–] lunar_solstice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Donald Trump is philosemitic

 

The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.

Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.

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Republican-Socialist reading list (anti-imperialist-action-ireland.com)
 
 

It would help overcome our colonial legacy, like the way you can overcome bullying by becoming a bully yourself.

We can turn the Azores into an Irish holiday destination and ban English hen/stag nights.

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