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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 16m

It's a nonsense, isn't it? 3 of my 8 gr.grandparent's surnames are English. Two of my grandmother's uncles were in the IRA (anti-treaty, fought the free state after 1922). Surnames: Godkin.
People who believe in magic blood need to cop the F on.

Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 2h

Blocklists stop a lot of slop for me

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 5h

Next year's Welsh/Scottish regionals, and the locals, will be interesting to put it mildly. Lab polling third with Plaid/REF jostling for #1.

If Lab can't hold Wales, they can't hold anything.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 5h

As Izzy said, it was possible for us to parse the coded language - but I think it does obscure the moral panic / hate / anti-trans motivation behind the attack for a LOT of people not as online as us. No excuse for that sanitising. This is exactly what people warned about happening.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 5h

In which case, five/six parties could be jostling around 15-20% come 2029. Bonkers.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 5h

I know YP has, uhm, issues, but it'll be interesting to see how much they take from each. I suspect (hope) they'll take more from REF than people expect.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 7h

RTE & subsequent reports are papering over the "man dressed as a woman", and changing it into "he thought she was a predatory pedophile". Shame on them. This original report has the original phrasing, as you mention. Took me some digging to find it.

Man who robbed, punched, kicked and threw woman (86) into wheelie bin is jailed

Alex Bailey sentenced to 2.5 years for attack on woman who got lost on way back to her Ranelagh home

www.irishtimes.com

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 7h

Nailed it.

Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 7h

Such an amateur...

Taking Ivan Yates "smear the hell out of them" not a winning move, eh, Heather? Thought you were in a different jurisdiction, where that kind of redscare flies, perhaps?

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 8h

The country is run by people who aren't qualified. They grandfathered in, most of 'em nepo-babies and grifters, who sneer at those outside as trots or "hurlers on the ditch".
Some nerve, the lot of them. We just have to wait until they bankrupt the country for the 3rd or 4th time in my 56 years.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 8h

Let's dream big. Get them to 5th.
They have put a lot of sweat equity into it.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 8h

15!!!!
15!!!!!!!!!

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 8h

Your dad & comrades would have appreciated this Huxley quote (good luck finding it online - only source was a post I made on a forum years ago). As true in the 30s as it is today.

The Prospects of Fascism in England
by Aldous Huxley (March 1934)

At the time of the coal strike of 1921 I was living in a boarding-house in North London. My fellow-boarders were salaried small-burgesses, white-collar workers, earning, I suppose, from four to six or seven pounds a week. Politics were discussed across the supper table, and discussed, while the strike was in progress, with a rancour that astonished me. They all hated the miners, passionately, as though they had received some personal injury at their hands. I have never forgotten those conversations; for they first revealed to me a fact which the history of these last thirteen years and my own personal experiences during that time have often corroborated – the fact that the current of class hatred runs more strongly downwards from small-bourgeoisie to proletariat than from proletariat upwards.

The reasons for this state of affairs are fairly clear. Economically, the small-bourgeoisie has been and is still being progressively proletariatised. It is becoming, more and more completely, a class of wage-slaves, no better paid, so far as its lower sections are concerned, then the manual workers on the plane below. And yet, in spite of this economic levelling down, the tradition of class superiority persists. Membership of the bourgeoisie is regarded as a most valuable privilege and the loss of this privilege by degradation to the ranks of the proletariat seems the worst of disasters…

…Fear begets hate, and looking down from the precarious verge of his precipice, he passionately loathes the creatures in the pit below. Hence those conversations across the supper table in my boarding-house, and hence, in country after country, the rise of Fascism, which is, among other things, the embodiment and effective social organisation of the downward current of small-bourgeois class-hatred.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

I wouldn't have heard about it but for this thread. Horrific.

Hundreds airlifted from storm-battered Western Alaska villages in historic evacuation

The Alaska Airlines Center arena at the University of Alaska Anchorage will shelter 300 displaced residents starting Wednesday evening, the American Red Cross said.

www.adn.com

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

I hear the kids are worshiping the woke marxist pope as well.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

Wait until the report on their economic 'competence' comes in. As above, so below. 😁

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

RDE is a sensible Burkean Conservative, she's

OH GOD NO IT'S NOT THAT BURKE IT'S THE OTHER ONE

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

Watch the Hasan Piker dog 'scandal', currenly being astro-turfed by the right, with their manosphere useful idiots.

If they can't find anything 'real' that sticks, they'll make something up, and repeat the Lie until it's True.

Keep libel lawyers on speed-dial.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

Expect them to gin up another fictional 'scandal', like the Hasan Piker dog 'abuse' non-story, or the one deployed against you-know-who. Get a lot of funny money behind it, and astro-turf the bejesus out of it.
We know it's coming, people should be ready.

Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

The same people who thought that sending Corbyn a link to the Samaritans with his expulsion letter was a cracking 'joke'.

None of them should be allowed within 10 miles of power.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 9h

Owen's interview with Holden mentions the hatchet job these creeps did on the Canary.

The stories he tells about individuals (Jewish people!) who were libeled as "anti-Semites" by the briefcase-bastards (around 40m mark) are genuinely horrifying. One woman was on her death-bed with 2 days to live.

Could THIS Bring Starmer Down? w/. 'THE FRAUD' author Paul Holden

YouTube video by Owen Jones

www.youtube.com

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 21h

7 tories, holy hell.

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Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 1d

the moral is clear: keep as much of your money out of the banks as possible if you're an activist.

That'll help them to balance the books I'm sure.

Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 1d

BBC dragged kicking and screaming into talking with the leader of a party with 4 MPs, and polling ~15% of the electorate...people who fund said BBC with their licence fees.

Bananas.

Dermot O Connor @animatewithdermot.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I couldn't hate Starmer and McSweeney any more than I already do, but here we go. Paul Holden (author of 'Fraud', a book which would put the entire Labour right in prison - in a just world) talking about a dying Jewish woman hounded to her grave by these warmongering maniacs. 41m09s.

Could THIS Bring Starmer Down? w/. 'THE FRAUD' author Paul Holden

YouTube video by Owen Jones

youtu.be

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