https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0716/1460216-united-ireland-committee/

it's all just a holodeck malfunction folks, we'll be back to warp 8 and after-shift drinks in ten forward in no time. the captain is on top of it

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Irish Unification isn't enough. I want Irish Expansion. I need East Ireland. Scotland can be an autonomous zone in East Ireland.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    5 months ago

    Honestly relieved to find out I'm just a hallucination within a simulation run by a fictional starship. Hopefully humanity is chillin' in the cool Star Trek future.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      The most unbelievable thing about the Gabriel Bell story is not that the Sanctuary Districts would exist, but that Americans would see the inherent humanity of the poor and actually do something to help them after a riot and hostage crisis.

      • ColonelKataffy [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        today i was reading about the LA Riots, and in each instance of "awful group of black men attack innocent passerby", there is a direct follow up of "black men see victim of attack and render immediate aid". but all my life i only heard about the first part, so i agree with your point that even when poor people "do the right thing" in these situations it gets ignored.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          Seems like the only times I see the LA riots mentioned these days is when people fantasize about the roof Koreans and the idea of minorities killing each other.

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              Ehhh, I don't think it's helpful to take swipes at the Koreans either. While I don't have much sympathy for petit bourgeoisie using force to defend their property, a targeted campaign of violence based on ethnicity is not good even when carried out by an oppressed ethnicity. Besides, the complete withdrawal of the LAPD from areas where many Koreans lived points to a conscious plan or desire to let minorities fight it out so they can't unite against white supremacy.

              I'm not saying the original Korean store owner was not a racist and a bad person or whatever, just that we should not celebrate factionalism.

    • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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      5 months ago

      The idea of a of George Floyd event breaking out again in America but bigger this time seems unreal.

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        we aren't any more ready for it now than we were then unfortunately. A lot of people would get shoved into unmarked vans, merc'ed in parking garages, etc.

        • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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          5 months ago

          we're slightly more ready, but not enough to make a difference. the libs did an incredible job recuperating that energy.

          • Chronicon [they/them]
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            5 months ago

            yeah... I guess you're right. I was going to say we're not "much" more ready but then I realized I was only saying we're more ready because I feel more ready on a personal level, the population as a whole? nah. Orgs? some but barely

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    If I move to Northern Ireland will I get dual citizenship when it happens?

    • ElHexo
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      4 months ago

      deleted by creator

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      I always suspected that I was a Korn shell script because tss-t-ts-t-tss-t-ts-t-tss-t-ts-t- ARRRRRE YOUUUUU REAAAADYYYYYY?

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    You know, we’re also just in time for San Francisco to start rounding up the homeless after they helped strip them of any semblance of rights left at the Supreme Court

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      My gut says that we're still a few years out from bell riots, but things are trending that way. just need an inciting incident. imagine if the trump shooter was homeless and not just some gun nut

      I like to think my city will defend its people (not the government but the population at large) but from what little I've seen of SF I don't have a ton of hope