personally think we'd all be better off just accepting the linguistic ambiguity of the word 'Holocaust' as referring interchangeably to either the 6 million Jews or 11+ million other victims (which I would even expand further) but sadly ambiguity has perhaps never been in lower demand

Ireland gets a lot more stick for its reasonable WW2 neutrality than its genuinely shameful refusal of Jewish refugees because so many of the groups taking shots at us have nothing but contempt for both the victims and survivors of the Shoah

These Holocaust memorial orgs are gonna get us all killed with their crabs-in-a-bucket mentality - fighting over tiny scraps of recognition while awareness falls and conspiracist Denialism from people who wanna do it all over again keeps rising

Just openly admitting they're continuing to shoot people and restrict aid for the love of the game

If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.

Humanity is such a rich tapestry

So cool how Yarvin's entire intellectual mystique vanishes into mist the moment he can't obscure his thoughts behind 80'000 words essays

How many more between now and shamrock bowl time

Recommended. Two and a half hours, much of it with the child on the phone to the Red Crescent in Ramallah, as they tried and eventually succeeded in getting Israeli clearance for the Ambulance rescue route. Then the Israelis kill everyone anyway.

Need to push back strongly against any idea that Holocaust denial is specific to or generated by a domestic Irish audience, or worse comparatively with our neighbours

If Holocaust denial exists in any capacity in Ireland it is as a comparatively less severe regional instance of a global phenomenon, which is nonetheless stripped of context and treated as a standalone Irish issue

THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE!  Dublin March for Palestine End Gaza Genocide | End West Bank Attacks | Let Aid In 1pm, Barnardo Sq (City Hall) March to Department of Foreign Affairs for a rally Enact the OTB | Arms Embargo Now | Stop CBI Funding Genocide | US Military Out of Shannon #FreePalestine

Hope it was worth getting to say slurs at the office again

These people all talk about Irish WW2 neutrality like it was the worst thing done to Jews of the whole war

Iranian leadership faces the same fundamental problem as conservative regimes worldwide: They need educated women to participate in the workforce and operate the state but this same education makes women unwilling to submit to the leadership's religious ethos

"Netanyahu and Betar accurately represent mainstream Zionism" is a thesis thousands of us have spent years making the case for and they just..... tweeted it out

Do not let the hunger strikers die! Open Letter to British Government from Irish organisations #FreeThemAll www.ipsc.ie/open-letter/...

"The idea for this cover was an ode to the post workers, couriers and delivery drivers who just (literally) carried the Christmas season on their backs," writes @selkies.bsky.social, about the image she made for the cover of our most recent print edition. www.dublininquirer.com/cover-image-...

The idea that that Iran cannot have an organic left-liberal or feminist movement unless set up as a mossad destabalisation op is literally just judeo-bolshevism

"These bosses must be held to account in the court of law... the sight of a social media company standing in the dock will send out the strongest message possible." Brian Brennan says fines aren't the way to handle this issue. In powerful question he says prosecutions need to be taken in court.

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

Holly Cairns practically begging An Taoiseach to take criminal action on the CSAM factory headquartered in our capital and getting a winding non-answer for her troubles

Yesterday, Holly Cairns directly raised the existence of an abuse image factory being set up in Fenian street with the Taoiseach. He responded by saying he didn’t know if there was any investigation into it by the polic

This is an evolving thought but why is voyeurism a key component of the modern far right. Why are they so eager to watch others commit violence, humiliate or 'own' their enemies, have sex with their wives (actual or symbolic)

If Europe were serious we'd start doing everything possible to interfere with American elections

You can't have a long term partnership with a place that coin tosses being led by Caligula every four years

If it comes time for retaliation really hope the higher European powers aren't afraid of a public backlash to just outright banning American social media companies most of us don't even like using them any more

The european far-left have been trying for decades to even get people to even care about NATO and Trump may well have killed the future of the alliance in a day

Oh man just realised Ireland's kinda screwed if europe ever gets serious about responding to American aggression with sanctions on their companies operating here

This is *still* going on by the way and it is incredible how little attention it's getting from media, politicians and others who are usually falling over themselves to talk about AI, women's rights and/or child protection

Small potatoes in the grand scheme of it all but Irish winters love holding off just long enough to give you hope this year will be mild

Terrible time for Latin America to have recently elected a series of right wing governments slavishly devoted to American interests

Just yesterday the anti nato/atlanticist pitch to liberals was that you couldn't trust the US to help you if you're attacked. Now it's that they could be the ones attacking you

European nationalists, sometimes even elected officials, are openly calling on Trump to invade their countries and kidnap their heads of state

If this escalates to a Cuba invasion will Micheál still squirm over with his little shamrock bowl to kiss the ring for Paddy's day

Worried about Cuba

Top level european diplomacy on a years long streak of spectacularly failing to meet the moment

when right wing authoritarians are selling you vague nondescript notions of 'peace' they are always lying. they lied to you before and they will shamelessly lie to you again

Move the UN headquarters to Dublin I’m so serious

Doing my bit for cinema

Totally unrelated to the recent social media Big Book trend a very offline friend has been telling me how she recently picked up Anna Karenina on a whim and has been joyously surprised at both how readable and how *fun* it is.... folks is something good happening in the culture?

Struggling to understand why the vote to end the mandatory three day wait failed, what is going on, are there that many secret anti-abortion TDs slinking around the Dáil

we should do what some countries do and restrict all the gambling and other vices to a single designated location, I vote Mullingar

Been a long time since I showed someone Spinal Tap telling them it’s a real documentary to see how far in it takes them to figure it out

For whatever it's worth, chanukkah sameach

The way Palestine protests are being confidently blamed for this you’d think the 2019 Christchurch shooting never happened

America's UN special envoy on antisemitism hears about an anti-Jewish mass shooting in Australia, immediately rushes to connect it to the incoming Mayor of New York

The way people are interpreting political public statements clearly rushed out with limited available information as deliberate anti-Jewish slights making me think maybe this whole post-atrocity jump to Say Something isn’t all that societally healthy

I don’t think there’s even a straightforward set of policy prescriptions for antisemitism because its both concurrent with and downstream of like 15 other massive societal problems we’re doing hardly anything to solve