Exactly. It’s the fact that it should blow the whole administration sky-high but we know it will make exactly no impact. They’ll make a limp attempt at gas-lighting the nation and then move swiftly along.
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It was amusing in its absurdity at one point. Now we’re just terrified. News reports reflect bafflement and alarm because we are powerless. He’s the leader of the most powerful (whether we like it or not— and we don’t) country on Earth and he behaves like this. Of course I can speak only for my own national press and…
The very fact that this video— a video showing the person in the highest American office participating in a professional wrestling skit— exists should be a source of shame for all concerned.
There’s a lot of public support for abortion. It has very little to do with religion now other than the influence of that institution on the status quo. Our politicians are cowards afraid of alienating anyone, even to do what they know to be right.
This happened to me when I turned 25 back in June. No boyfriend or any prospects of that nature in sight but it’s like a switch flipped literally over night and all I can think about is how soft and cuddly they are. I spend ridiculous amounts of time marvelling at how miraculous it must feel to have your child grow…
It’s a traditional Irish thing— an actual sprig of shamrock for St. Paddy’s day. It’s more or less the average sized sprig you see on a lapel; it’s just that men usually have it tucked into a breast pocket so it looks smaller. It does look a bit wilted, mind.
Different strokes, eh? It’s a shame because I think the premise of the song could be sweet. Singing about your grandparents is cute. I just feel like he threw the whole trad machine at it and it got a bit mangled. There’s too much going on.
It’s kitschy but the sound is far more authentic. There’s a cover version done by an Irish singer called Mundy and it has become a festival favourite over here. It’s fun and silly. Like, we roll our eyes but if it comes on during a night out everyone goes a little nuts.
Actual Irish woman here. Re: Nancy Mulligan. No. If you could only see the horror on my face. Could he have fit in a few more cliches while at it? I think he’s literally singing “diddly-aye” right now. And “we don’t care about relig-i-on”.
You’re being pedantic— I’m aware Dev wanted Catholicism at the heart of things. I never said his desire to put it front and centre wasn’t genuine. I’m just making a point about how religion comes to form such a central part of a state’s identity. We didn’t come to that kind of poverty and desperation by accident. The…
Oh, of course, it absolutely goes back eons further. I didn’t mean to suggest that Dev or his generation invented Catholic piety in Ireland. That clinging to identity was embedded as far back as Henry VIII. Irish people responded to hardship by retreating to Catholicism for centuries.
Yes, I can. Literally everything you just pointed out is due to a colonial legacy; Ireland’s ties to the Catholic Church are not because we are more naturally pre-disposed to piety than anywhere else but because of a particular kind of desperation that drove us (I’m assuming from that username that you’re Irish)…
Not war, but colonialism. Honestly, as an Irishwoman, I hold the British responsible for most of this. In the decades post-independence (really until the 1990's ) most Irish people were living in poverty to one degree or another. There was no economy. And the Catholic Church, being an utterly evil institution, preyed…
It’s already available on iTunes. The full album is on pre-order but you can buy this song now.
I was screaming your last line at the tv. This shit is where we get into trouble. When the “left” (scare quotes because Maher) allows that shit to stand.
I feel really stupid because, while Maher is generally awful (his sexism and Islamophobia, for example), I really thought he would tear this little creep apart. I just assumed that was the sole reason for the invite. Like, why else? But it seems he got played and I should have seen it coming. The little fascist…
I just zoned out imagining Trudeau beating the shit out of Trump while yelling about feminism and refugee’s rights. I think I just achieved Nirvana.
Turns out it’s not. I wouldn’t be able to say either way, just wanted to post it so people could hear. But now it’s looking like the guy that reported it is rolling back.
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