Link - https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1747323130060697682
They already Community Noted her - Clare Daly is a highly controversial Irish politician who was accused of nepotism, support for dictators like Putin and Assad, causing divide in European parliamentary left, and arguably doesn't represent not just dead Irish ancestors but also majority of living Irish.
Be Ireland
Not in NATO
Not in the Fourteen eyes so privacy actually is a thing.
Is more of an imperial periphery country and therefore has little to no enemies.
Just minds its own fucking business.
Pro-Palestine
Easily the best western country.
Explain by what logic Cuba would be considered not Western but Ireland would be considered Western?
The same logic that excludes the Balkans and Russia from being Western.
The thing that excludes the balkans and Russia from being western is that they aren't in the western hemisphere.
Something notably distinct from Cuba.
No but I wouldn't argue they're eastern for the same reason that America and england are.
They're incredibly isolated and don't really have any cultural neighbors other than New Zealand which is right on the border of the hemispheres while Cuba is literally within sight of America and surrounded by other western countries with similar culture and practically dead center in the western hemisphere.
I get the point it's a stand in for "imperial core" and "everybody else" but saying they're western for the same reason that countries that are actually in the western hemisphere is a really dumb argument.
Poland overlaps the same longitudes as, say, Serbia, so this isn't really a full explanation. But the fact that former Yugoslavia is still isolated and othered from Western Europe means it's culturally and politically distinct. Cuba, while politically distinct from surrounding countries, is culturally very close to other Caribbean countries. So it's kind of a mixed bag, but I still think reasonably the only way to categorize Cuba is as a Western country despite the political difference.
Thank you - this is the only answer that actually makes sense to me lol
What makes a country Western? I would've thought the fact that they're so geographically close to other countries that are no doubt Western countries, and have a similar history as a former Spanish colony, have a majority Christian population, etc would count to make them a Western country. Obviously they have a very different mode of social organization to every other Western country, but if we're trying to find the best Western country and we exclude all the good ones what's the point?
Westernism has less to do with geography and more to do with ideology and fanatical adherence to white supremacist-coded capitalism
Otherwise, the phrase "Australia is a western country" wouldn't seem so normal despite its geographical ludicrousness
Yes I think if you define it more based on Western bloc vs Eastern bloc lines I'm more inclined to agree. But to me "Western" is more of a cultural label than a political one, so it seemed weird.
Even if you defined it culturally, the "west" would still end at the US/Mexican border, the Polish border, Gibraltar, and the Nauru/Manus Islands
You don't think Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are Western? Or Panama?
A culture of white supremacy and Liberal Fascist colonialism
The West TM, the inheritor of "the roman empire" is fascist and always has been. There's a reason why USA, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Britain were all obsessed with the Roman Empire and emulated it constantly and believed it to be the pinnacle of history. It's because they're all fascists. That's what it means to be "The West"
no we just had this one, you have to wait longer to have a struggle session on the same topic again.
i gotta add butcher biden to my biden nickname tier list that is A tier for sure
I'm a republican
(What is it with the US and bastardizing political labels?)
like having Loyalty Day on May 1 and "Labor" Day in September, anything that makes it harder to be an internationalist
It's called memorial day, actually. Memorial to oppression of course
Memorial Day is at the end of May, it's different than the fake Labor Day in September and focused on chumps who died for empire
Oh wow I completely switched them. They're totally different you see
Loyalty day sounds like the sort of fake holiday they would make up and accuse the DPRK of doing.
She's been great forever. Redditors hate her because of her accurate Ukraine takes.
I wish Irish-Americans were even half as based as the residents of the country they pretend so hard to represent.
Usually if someone says they're Irish in America, it means they're just an alcoholic.
Come out you Biden dems c'mon and climb on out your fens
Tell Doc Jill how you been fightin' Trumpy MAGAs
And not how the US aid mostly been those bombs away
Killing children up and down inside of Gaza
#ButcherBiden #ButcherBiBi
It'd be pretty cool if we could get these trending and stay there until they stop.
Saw a great reply to someone else posting this that said something like "Clare Daly is no friend to muslims, she denies the Uyghur genocide and the Assad gas attacks."
forgot about me?
it's my turn on the struggle sesh!
You ain't Irish, Jack
