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Jason O’Mahony

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🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 Liberal Globalist Centrist For the Atlantic, Against her enemies. When I’m not watching cult US/UK TV of 60s/70s and writing fiction for therapy. 🖖 https://politicalfiction.substack.com/

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah but those homes will still be rented at a (high) market rate. A flooding of extra housing onto the market would drive down prices but primarily Irish social forces will stop that.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 23h

This is a good story.

Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 23h

Can I tell my NYC mayor story again today? Ok, fine.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 23h

You know I’m not sure we’re even that calculated. I genuinely think that inertia as an ideology is our big problem: that most pols recognize that most Irish voters are suspicious of any new housing near them and therefore the politically safest thing to do is nothing.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 2d

That hair could release its own album. But you know what that hair needs? Accompaniment by a giant bird.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 7d

Gas thing is that this was probably single most popular thing Greens did in govt yet utterly failed to communicate it and get any credit for it.

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 9d

Look up FF’s 2011 manifesto on political reform. Most radical document ever published by a main Irish party. Abandoned the moment they got a sniff of returning to power.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 11d

The big surprise is what docile burger-eating surrender monkeys the American population has become, especially as a nation with a folk image of itself as rugged don’t tread on me individualists.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 12d

Imagine an elderly president with a very attractive younger wife. They almost certainly haven’t slept together for years. But she almost certainly has slept with other partners. Would that not make the president a cuckold?

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 12d

I’m always struck by how conservative even American liberals are. Want more minorities in Congress? Rig constituencies.
Jesus lads have you never heard of PRSTV?

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 14d

Eating white bread without any butter? Sounds like someone is watching his figure. A moment on the lips, etc.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 14d

What a strange comment.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14d

Not sure having your brand associated with destroying the White House is the best look

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 14d

I don’t blame them. What’s that old Klingon proverb? “If words were water the humans would drown us all!”

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 14d

At its core is it that the Baltics/Poles still are more willing to put their chips down on the US saving them rather than Paris/Berlin?

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 15d

There’s a word for someone who tells you your mind is “colonized” and you are incapable of thinking for yourself but they are better than you and will do your thinking for you.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 18d

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What if... China were to take the lead on deploying peacekeeping troops into Gaza.

No one can veto China.

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 19d

That’s very funny

Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 20d

Curtis Silwa looks and talks like a character from those cutscenes in the Command & Conquer Franchise

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 19d

They missed a trick. In the German parliament if you want to remove the chancellor you have to name his successor in the motion. That would be much more fun watching Le Pen and Melenchon agree a candidate.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 20d

Why didn’t they ask just a straight Connolly-Humphreys poll as that’s what a second count will look like. Or did I miss it?

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 20d

What if Irish peacekeepers have to fight terrorists in Gaza?
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What if Irish peacekeepers have to fight terrorists in Gaza?

Another IDF on Palestinian streets.

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 20d

Still think Democrats have not grasped the situation. Passing motions is all great and good but if only one side is willing to arm itself…

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 24d

You know, I'd almost give a pass to the guys who needed the money. It's the big names who simply don't need it who should know better.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 24d

A hard-right Irish government is not as impossible as you think.
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A hard-right Irish government is not as impossible as you think.

National direction is constantly being steered by small organized groups.

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Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 29d

I’m finding I’m spending less and less time on it because too much puts me in a bad mood. But the fact that I now know that is driving me back to old fashioned reading. Putting away a chapter a night and feeling all the better for it.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 29d

Was great in Knights of God.

Jason O’Mahony @jasonomahony.bsky.social · 29d

I wonder does France need a Swiss “magic formula” coalition model?