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Dara O'Reilly
@daraor.bsky.social
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Gonna have to level with you, I'm not a real architect. I just showed up in this turtleneck and, well, everything spiralled from there.
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(Though I know someone who used to be a moderator on Celtic web forums, whose birthday was the 1st April 1988, and his username on the forum, ENTIRELY INNOCENTLY was "HailHail1488." 2007 WAS a different time!)
I don't know if this guy is a genuine Nazi sympathiser, or just an edgelord, and, frankly, there isn't enough difference between those two things for it to matter. It does appear that he's a moron, and that's probably reason enough for getting shot of him.
"Well, my perfectly innocent Totenkopf tattoo has upset some people, so I should cover it up. What's something utterly unproblematic, that nobody could possibly be offended by? I know! NORSE MYTHOLOGY! A WOLF from Norse mythology! Nobody could possibly have a problem with that!"
Okay, deep breath, let's try this again.

You've spent this whole discussion lecturing people on not rushing to judgement, when it transpires that you've deliberately chosen not to apprise yourself of the particulars of the subject under discussion.

Is that good, do you think?

Is that productive?
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If this gets reskeeted 483,000 times I’ll buy a miniature donkey.
Nobody is holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to engage in a conversation, but it is at the very least polite, having chosen to engage, to inform yourself on the subject.
It's genuinely quite irresponsible, not to mention lazy, to adopt an argumentum ad ignorantiam position here.
With all due respect, this is something that has been available to you for over a day, and everyone you have been arguing with is aware of it and are discussing Platner in the context of his downplaying and joking about the tattoo on the interview.
You're too quick to rush to judgement. Everyone makes mistakes in their past, and Driller Kelly is no exception. And we haven't heard his version of events. What if those hobos had really bad vibes?

These purity tests make me sick.
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oh sure, we just have to find a candidate who’s “perfect” and “has never done anything wrong” and “isn’t serving consecutive life sentences for a string of brutal murders” do you hear yourself right now? grow up
I sort of sympathise that it's quite difficult to make the argument "Reform pose an existential threat to UK democracy, but also their ideas are right and good."

But you could just not do that?
If only the Labour Party, the party currently in government with an enormous majority, could do literally anything to assuage the fears and disappointments of its electorate.

But no, sadly there is no way at all they can stand up for themselves against the might of The Huffington Post.
(Also, Croatia is a beautiful country which I've visited several times, and many of its people are wonderful, but it is also a country with a higher-than-you'd-expect amount of people with Nazi-adjacent tattoos, and tattoo parlours offering same.)
I can sort of envisage the circumstances where a 23YO Marine gets a Totenkopf tattoo. It IS Metal AF, and you might be ignorant of its meaning. I simply can't envisage the circumstances where someone has that for 18 years, does nothing about it, and still expects to be elected for office.
"It's NBD that someone drunkenly got a Nazi tattoo."

"It's NBD that someone had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years and did nothing about it."

"It's NBD that someone has a Nazi tattoo that they joke about on television."

You end up losing your moral compass if you keep shifting it so.
For a moment I thought this was about @jonathanliew.bsky.social , and I was confused. It was just a Robbie Keane joke!
very strange to have someone whose work i have enjoyed just out of nowhere reveal a genuinely deep-seated resentment toward me that seems to, in all honesty, be less about what i have or have not written and more about a sense of betrayal
It's quite an unusual thing to do, to get a Nazi tattoo without knowing anything about its meaning. It's even more unusual to get it in 2007, and not discover its meaning in the intervening 18 years.
for some reason. Yes, that does seem like a misstep on their part, now you come to mention it.)

I have also taken steps to improve my digital security, so I don't get hacked again.
Yesterday, my social media was hacked, and some distasteful opinions, a bit like the ones I openly have except maybe coarser and more aggressive, you know, like the sort of thing I might say when I was drunk, were posted. I have deleted the posts (because the hackers did not change the password
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i see the greens are polling well with their unrealistic policies, and if there’s one thing the british political news media will not stand for it’s a party getting popular by promising things it can’t do. oooh, they hate that.
"There's only one thing we can do to distract from this scandal indicating a paedophile ring at the very highest echelons of society. Remind everyone of Louis Mountbatten, a man of unimpeachable character!"
Apparently, he's planning to revert to his original surname of Mountbatten-Windsor. Which would seem to indicate that there's a PR professional somewhere who thinks adding "Mountbatten" to a surname DISTRACTS from paedophilia...
There's a lot of farmers in the northern Louth area, with big fuel storage tanks under their land for some reason, who'll be PARTICULARLY annoyed.