Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
A similar response from the media too, the attacker was described as an 'Irishman' because he had migrated from Algeria and attained citizenship. This fact itself was quickly overshadowed by the riots but I can see why it made people angry in the context of Irish men being told to stop being so misogynistic after the killing of Aisling Murphy by a migrant and Irish men being told they need to fix their homophobia problem after 2 gay men were beheaded by an Islamic migrant.
in terms of ease of use, lethality, and safety
It might sound odd but there's a difference between wanting to disfigure someone and actually trying to kill them. Irish traveller gypsies have these kinds of fights fairly often and they do actually shake ends after a few months/years of sending each other to hospital (here's an example of an ongoing 4 year long feud which might be ending). Killing someone on the other hand puts your whole family in danger for however long it takes for the other side to get real revenge (and obviously it can go on longer if the revenge cycles goes on).
Also I'm not really familiar with the UK legal system but I'd imagine it's like Ireland where murder is really the only guaranteed way to get decades in jail. You can do a lot of damage to someone and get a slap on the wrist compared to what your sentence would be in America.
Tollund_Man4
1mo ago
@Tollund_Man4 are Irish and live in Ireland
I left for France two years ago. But to add to your point I don't work in tech and have never even been to the United States.
Tollund_Man4
8mo ago
Well the problem would be unelected bureaucrats running everything in the first place, if this is already the case then the main difference between it happening openly or behind the scenes is how likely you are to get a revolt.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
A large part of why ‘the places worth going to’ are worth going to is that there isn’t a highway going through them!
Tollund_Man4
1d ago
Maybe I need to read more Roman history but all of the times this happened the general's army was already strong enough to contest everyone else in open war (even a less successful rebel general like Sertorius still controlled and defended Spain against Rome).
Even if they do become personally loyal to Trump, ICE isn't a real military force and it is still dwarfed by the regular military.
Tollund_Man4
3mo ago
(I mean, the show has a scene with a white boy mugging a black boy for his lunch money, come on!).
I don't disagree with the rest of your point and I haven't lived in England but if it's anything like Ireland I wouldn't underestimate the rough parts of the white working class, black kids being robbed by white kids (and not just travellers) was something I saw at school.
Tollund_Man4
4mo ago
You'll have to go further back to find out who started it. Obama campaigned against Brexit in person.
Tollund_Man4
8mo ago
This is anecdotal but having worked in a couple of kitchens I've been surprised at how well veggie burgers sell. I've never tried them myself but apparently they taste pretty good.
The O'Rahilly. A biography of Michael Joseph O'Rahilly, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. He tried to stop it from happening and ironically ended up being the only rebel leader to be killed in action (as opposed to being executed). W.B Yeats wrote a poem about him. I had barely heard about him before and it's unclear whether this is whether he was relatively unimportant or because he ended up on the wrong side of history for opposing a rebellion which has since become glorified (though by now the revisionists have had their say).
The book was written by his son Aodogán O’Rahilly and he makes the latter case. I haven't gotten to the action yet but the family anecdotes and descriptions of life in the late 19th/early 20th centuries are interesting. It's a bit of a mystery as to why O'Rahilly became a radical Irish nationalist. Unlike most of the other Irish revolutionaries I have read about he had no family history of Irish nationalism, they had even removed the O' from their surnames, he had no experience in war and he wasn't a young man with nothing to lose either. He was part of the rising Catholic middle class, enjoying an income of £900 per year and he was married to an even wealthier American heiress. The most you see are hints here and there in his personal letters before he quickly becomes devoted to the cause.
I haven't gotten to the action yet but that should be interesting. The whole Irish Volunteer movement was subversions within subversions. On the one hand you had moderate parliamentary nationalists like John Redmond successfully convincing 90% of the Volunteers to go and fight in WW1 (Ireland had no draft) and achieve self-government by showing loyalty to the crown, on the other you had the secret oath-bound organisation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood doing their best to take control of the organisation and turn it into a force for insurrection. All that was for certain was that a 180,000 strong nationalist paramilitary organisation was being built to counter an equally large loyalist paramilitary organisation and O'Rahilly was helping to build it.
On the day that he drove across the country alone to join the battle he tried to stop, speaking to the people who had just wrested control of the Volunteers and relegated him to the sidelines of history, he is quoted as saying - "Well, I've helped to wind up the clock -- I might as well hear it strike!"
Tollund_Man4
6mo ago
They all have Irish or British passports so the old school method of booking a holiday and never coming back probably still works.
Some of them just hop across the wall on the US-Mexico border, and there are scattered news stories of Irish people smuggling rings 1, 2.
Some of them have been in America for generations and have become very rich through life insurance scams.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
Andy Ngo has been posting videos of the 'Muslim Patrol': https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1820207241095442708
Tollund_Man4
12d ago
so I'd like to remove e.g. scratch-off cards at convenience stores
When I worked in a convenience store the people who would hang around the till buying and scratching cards until they were out of money were a big annoyance, the more inconsiderate ones would let a queue build up behind them while they did it.
That's the law but if you know a guy or have the knowledge yourself you can upgrade basically any bike with a motor which goes much faster. People working for Deliveroo and similar apps will know this type of guy.
Tollund_Man4
8mo ago
If stopping people arriving on boats is at the edge of the Overton window then removing people whose parents came on boats is well outside it. If you can rule out the first solution by saying it wouldn’t have solved the problem anyway then you don’t even need to refute the second, most people won’t dare discuss the implications you’ve drawn out in public so the public battle is already won for the pro-immigration side.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
I don't think I've heard of visible satellites before Starlink
There are hundred of visible satellites apparently, though before seeing Starlink I had only ever seen one at a time.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
I will happily munch on whole tomatoes or baby carrots, which is just as easy as opening a bag of potato chips.
Almost as lazy but much tastier, buy some humous to dip your carrots into. You can make baked potatoes in 10 minutes in the microwave too, slice them open once they're cooked and fill the hole with butter, cheese and pepper.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
There’s less to gain from a political killing. Being cooperative with extradition has a chance of being accepted as the ‘new normal’ and so an effective deterrent in future, political killings can’t be scaled up for every domestic enemy unless you want to bring things to a crisis.
Tollund_Man4
10mo ago
slavery is not economical in the face of industrialization, and the British were the most industrialized leading to them being the most anti-slavery
I’ve seen this explanation before but thinking about it now it no longer makes sense to me.
Wasn’t it mostly just the island of Britain itself which lead the word in industrialisation while they still controlled lots of poorly developed colonies? Why would Britain, where slavery had already been dead for hundreds of years, developing industrially change the profitability of using slaves in areas of the empire with little to no industry?
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
favour of 'khelif is not that great anyways' or whatever people are trying to argue here.
'Khelif is not that great anyways' is a hard argument to make given that she's now fighting for a silver medal. 'Khelif handily beats everyone except for other medal winning boxers' just means she's a top contender.
I did watch part of the Broadhurst fight now, and Khelif is certainly visibly more muscled now.
I was talking about Kellie Harrington who once had a 32 fight winning streak and is fighting for gold tomorrow. Women's boxing isn't that big of a sport, you are going to have lots of skewed bouts until you get near the end of the tournament because the best fighters severely outmatch the rest.
Tollund_Man4
11mo ago
I think the contradictions only arise if you ignore the good things Nietzsche says about slave morality (I’ll have to go digging for quotes but basically it made man "interesting", added depth to his soul and made him more cunning).
Nietzsche spends a lot of time praising master morality because it is the side which needs to be rehabilitated, but the Nietzchean project isn’t about going back to the Vikings. The higher type of aristocratic development he is aiming for is only possible in the man of mixed slave/master heritage, and it’s as much about creative ability and aesthetic sense as anything else – Shakespeare, Goethe and Da Vinci are mentioned as higher men alongside the military geniuses.
Getting back into Kissinger's Diplomacy after taking a break from it to read Goethe’s Faust.
Kissinger is fairly critical of the containment policy of the Cold War. Committing to fight the expansion of the communist states everywhere meant that the ball was in the Soviets’ court to pick the most inconvenient places possible to start crises which America would be morally obligated to intervene in. The book is just about to start on the Vietnam war and what’s interesting is that the Soviets have not yet purposefully exploited this supposed weak point (he has given hints that Khrushchev was very good at creating difficult situations for the Americans but equally bad at finishing them, there’s an echo to an earlier chapter about Napoleon III here).
Kissinger repeatedly says that the Soviets are simply confused by America’s universal moral declarations and they refuse to take anything other than realpolitik seriously. Stalin gives lukewarm support to the Korean War not because it’s an inconvenient place for the US to defend but because he thinks it just won’t be a big deal. The Americans have said as much when discussing core strategic areas, yet when the war breaks out it becomes a place worth fighting for purely because America is bound by the implications of its stated moral principles.
The core investigation of the book seems to be about how Wilson caused Western leaders to question the old balance of power model in favour of a model based on universal declarations of rights, personal goodwill between leaders, collective security organisations and alliances concerned just as much with agreeable domestic institutions as military advantage. Despite the initial failures of the League of Nations and the misplaced trust in Stalin the Wilsonian style of diplomacy never really went away, and the next decades show Britain being won over by this vision (with Churchill being a solidly old-school exception), America learning hard lessons which temper its idealism and the Soviets being terribly confused at what America is actually willing to start a war over. Kissinger is very critical of the Wilsonian vision but he does give it one piece of high praise: to sustain the kind of long term commitment that fighting the Cold War required the American public needed an ideal which could motivate them.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
A million casualties doesn't necessarily mean a million individual people, some portion of that figure would be people who have been wounded multiple times.
Tollund_Man4
2mo ago
All else equal, the guy who’s entrenched has an advantage.
What about the guy who is being flanked and cut off from supplies and retreat? He's just an amateur but I regularly keep up with Weeb Union's daily map updates on Youtube and in the winter of 2024-25 for example it was just encirclement after encirclement.
This is a classic scam for Irish traveller gypsies to pull. You do a shoddy repair job then guilt or intimidate the owner into paying up before moving on to the next town.
It's well known in Ireland, I've seen news articles about this same thing happening in France and Australia and Youtube has some recent American tv news clips linking them with violent crimes and some direct recordings of travellers arguing with police etc so it looks like they've started causing trouble in the US now.
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