Marcas Ó Doibhilin

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

I truly hope that America can cure its Republican infection without violence. But I doubt increasingly that it can. If it comes to that, my only advice is: don’t forget to double-tap.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

Shut up and dance, Clooney.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:03 UTC

We sometimes forget that *a lot* of the people Stalin had shot were not his enemies but his own party comrades. Not that one would wish that for the USA, really. But, increasingly, I can sort of see the point. And, what with SCOTUS ruling POTUS immune, well…

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Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

lmao FUCK THIS. Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

Perlstein may be the most important pathologist since Robert Koch.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:02 UTC

Yes. Excellent. Democrats — left, centre and even right — need to start doing politics with the purposefulness these monsters bring to it. If you fail to destroy them, they will rule over you; and you will deserve it.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

It can be done to him, too, regardless of what he does or does not say out loud.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:56 UTC

Well played, France; condolences. ¡Enhorabuena España! ¡Fantástico!

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Only the good die young, they say. US Senator James Inhofe, Republican, Christian, living proof that “stupid” and “evil” are not mutually exclusive categories, is dead at 89. Another toilet well flushed. Pity only that his mother didn’t strangle him at birth.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:27 UTC

¡Y Olmo, merci bien!

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

¡Lamine! ¡Santa vaca! ¡GOOOOOOOOOOL!

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:11 UTC

Our sympathies will be clear. ¡Hala España! That said, after the run-off elections, I’d not begrudge a French win. (SUDDEN UPDATE! Maybe not a bad idea, Kolo having drawn first blood…)

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

With a side of National Service, and of course hangin' and floggin' for pud.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:26 UTC

Hannan’s right though, you guys. Tories deffo need to double down on everything that made them so popular over the course of the past 15 years.

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Brother Clippy @fumblebee.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 05:51 UTC

Really though! This is a mania that the NYT has shoveled coal into at every turn They’re reporting on it frantically and then reporting that people are somehow frantic.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:05 UTC

Another MAGAt makes the transition from FA to FO.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 07:36 UTC

"In Luxembourg and French-speaking Belgium, the media have for years successfully hindered a march to the right by denying anti-democratic parties a platform, inviting them to no talk shows, showing no live interviews with them. That's how you do it. Fascists have no right to air time."

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 07:32 UTC

Too right. Deny Nazis the oxygen of publicity. And, frankly, the oxygen of the atmosphere. (Anglophone readers: see comments for translation of the linked post.)

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

I'm pretty sure Posobiec was pro-Bosnian genocide long before that.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

So you’re now officially Duchess of Massachusetts? Cool! But what does that have to do with car loans?

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

There might be a fair few Tory Marks, but there’s only one Marc de François.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

Which is surprising! Because it's not as though there are immensely influential mass media, including revered "liberal MSM" institutions like the Amazon Post and the Nepo Baby Times, devoted to creating exactly that impression.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

This is how we make Trump a climate hawk

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:57 UTC

Mmmm, sleeping-bird eyeballs.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 09:45 UTC

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 08:53 UTC

It's very helpful that these people clearly identify themselves.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

Thousands in the streets of Paris celebrating and cheering “no pasaran” or "They will not pass” as the far right falls out n France’s election. Just absolutely amazing scenes tonight across France as they fight the fascists back. Now it’s our time to be brave and come together to for a united front.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 08:08 UTC

Conservatives must be excised permanently from the political dialogue.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:28 UTC

That Mearsheimer, Walt and Lieven signed this bit of bogroll is no surprise. I've no reason to think they are literally on Putin's payroll. But they could hardly do his work better if they were. Treat this with the contempt it deserves. Слава Україні -- героям слава! Rossia delenda est.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:17 UTC

Ooh, well-played.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 06:40 UTC

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Even with that caveat, not sure that’d be the Böll I’d choose. Huge fan of Die Blechtrommel, obvs. If they’re not going for “literary best”, then Walter Moers’s Kleines Arschloch really needs to be in the list.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:43 UTC

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:17 UTC

Brewed in Britain; distilled in France; now let it be uncorked in America. (An obscure reference, I concede. But it should be clear enough to those familiar with the œuvre of Irish presbyterianism’s most appealing 20th century representative.)

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

As it was then, so it is now. Vive la France!

youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc?...

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

Also happy to see contempt displayed for “rebel MAGAts”. (Or did I read that wrong?)

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 20:01 UTC

Conservative/conformist, not so sure. Yes, it’s at least superficially old school. But below the surface? A lot of the panels on that third page could almost be slightly-less-insane Sienkiewicz. And yes, gorgeous.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:46 UTC

No bonus for her this year.

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Taco Bell's Cannon @jamtoday.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:45 UTC

Also, too.

youtu.be/cOeFhSzoTuc?...

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

No sweeter nectar.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:19 UTC

There undoubtedly are. Freud got that part right. (If anything, he oversimplified.) Marx was an excellent diagnostician. I suppose Freud may have been, too, in his way. It’s their aetiology and their proposals for therapy I find questionable.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:47 UTC

Oh dear, I’ve just now seen why you posted this. Tears of joy this time.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

Sometimes it takes bullets and bombs to beat Nazis. But sometimes all it takes is for normal people to serious up and vote the fuckers down.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:42 UTC

IKR? It’s almost the Platonic ideal of a TMBG song. For the same reason, it’s a shock that The Clash didn’t write “I Fought the Law”. (But then, nor did the Bobby Fuller Four, which I did not know until yesterday.)

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Brilliant post. But, as with The Onion, there’s really no point satirizing those people. It’s no longer possible to exaggerate for comic effect.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

Brings a tear every time. When I consider that almost the entire cast were IRL refugees from Nazi tyranny, it brings a few more.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

Excellent. So, next time a Category 8 hurricane erases the Florida coastline a mile deep, or Godzilla arises and atom-breaths Texas, let Biden declare that, the red states having declared themselves so rich they need no federal aid, they won’t get any and can rebuild with thoughts and prayers.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:40 UTC

As we say about the weather where I live. Be that as it may, my comment was an admittedly obscure fanboy shout-out to Ira Levin, whose This Perfect Day, unlike 1984 and Brave New World, might be called “dystopia as eloquent plea for the status quo”.

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Marcas Ó Doibhilin @marcasofadad.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

The judges can, I’m afraid, award you but a quarter point. The correct answer, of course, is: Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei.

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