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[David Kronenbourg]

Or maybe that's what they WANT you to think???


I think it's a way of discrediting the group by mispronouncing it. In the same way the BBC* used to intentionally mispronounce Irish politicians names in the 80's and 90's. They still do it to whoever they don't like. It sounds like a stupidly petty conspiracy theory, but we've seen it before.



*(pronounced bleh beh shee)

Like the way Jeremy Corbyn pronounced Jeffrey Epstein's name in an antisemitic way?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Jeffrey Epstein, the real victim

god, them were the days

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Jeffrey Epstein, the real victim

god, them were the days

Truly pathetic stuff

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I see plenty of idiots on Twitter bringing up the "Irish were slaves" myth as an argument against the protests. About one tweet every 5 minutes, poor @Limerick1914 can't keep up.

I mean, they're probably all inconsequential bot accounts and the like but I think in light of that the cartoon is justified, you're probably correct about her audience being mostly homegrown Irish though.

It was made in solidarity as well, the last post before that was about racism here:

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George Monbiot, who I normally like, posting about this and getting telt off today

 

[flashback]

Jeffrey Epstein, the real victim

god, them were the days

Is that a shop? This wasn't broadcasted right?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Is that a shop? This wasn't broadcasted right?

I mean, he wore a hat, so that wasn't photoshopped per se.

BBC rejects complaints over Corbyn hat

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Jeffrey Epstein, the real victim

god, them were the days

Not related to this incident specifically but an interesting article from Peter Oborne The killing of Jeremy Corbyn

 

[Cormcolash]

the good old days when rather than actually mention donegal exists you just put it and catholic derry under the whole ambigious blanket of foyle west.

http://[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7965209.stm

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Londonderry

 

[Unicron]

Londonderry

Londonegal.

 

[magicbastarder]

I think it's a way of discrediting the group by mispronouncing it.

possibly just me who gets really irritated by a particular type of FFer who pronounces FG actually as 'fine' gael.
not that i give a toss about FG, it just seems to be an 'i'm an ignorant prick and i want you to know about it' move.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Not related to this incident specifically but an interesting article from Peter Oborne The killing of Jeremy Corbyn

Peter Oborne seems to have been blacklisted by TV himself now.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Peter Oborne seems to have been blacklisted by TV himself now.

Yeah for his support of Corbyn over Johnson and him a lifelong Tory.

 

[nuke terrorist]

all the John Major era ministers that lined up against Johnson last year show
how far far right the party has gone.
when i was a teen they were the right wing baddies.

Oborne in fairness to him has been calling out bullshit for a long time e.g.
Islamophobia, western Middle East policy, Blair/Campbell, UK media etc. and
FINALLY in recent years he turned his criticism on his own party.

 

[flashback]

Trump implies that George Floyd is ‘looking down’ and seeing today’s jobs numbers as ‘a great day for him’

www.msn.com

No way one person can be so consistently horrific. He has to have committees carefully working out what the most offensive and provocative thing to say is.

I refuse to believe he's this good at trolling.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Trump:

Narcissistic personality disorder - Wikipedia

he's very high up the scale too

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Hea not a troll,he's just an asshole

 

[Kermit McDermott]

http://[URL]https://www.msn.com/en-...bs-numbers-as-a-great-day-for-him/ar-BB155G6n

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No way one person can be so consistently horrific. He has to have committees carefully working out what the most offensive and provocative thing to say is.

I refuse to believe he's this good at trolling.

That made me LOL.
Just when you think you've heard it all from Trump, he tops it.
You don't need a degree in psychology to see that Trump has at least two personality disorders. It's so glaringly obvious. He's ticks every box for narcissistic personality disorder & pathological lying.

 

[magicbastarder]

I refuse to believe he's this good at trolling.

you know, maybe he just is this good at douchebaggery.
maybe he's gone way beyond his malcolm gladwell 10,000 hours of practice and his douchebaggery has crystallised; and been amplified by his position, in a way a douchebag has not had this opportunity at in many years.
he's been in a position for a few years now where people literally can't say no to him and he's drunk on it. he's addicted to it and his usual daily hit has to be more potent than the last to sustain the high.

 

[pete]

The worst thing about him is the fact that forty something percent of a few hundred million people can look at him and his record and his character and his lying and go “yep, that’s the guy for me”. That’s... not good.

 

[flashback]

And the GOP will continue to find worse, and >40% of Americans will vote them.

Trump is admittedly a savant when it comes to generalist cuntery, it's unlikely we'll see such a well rounded example again, but they'll find specialists who manage to be more racist, more fascist, more criminal, possibly even more unlikable. They'll find them, and they'll romp through the Primaries. They've seen Sarah Palin, and Trump, they know the formula.

Dinosaurs like Romney and McCain, who are merely right wingers, aren't coming back. It's Joe Exotic and Kid Rock from now on. And they'll get >40%.

While the Dems scuttle about, nervously glancing over at the GOP Primary winner Immortan Joe tearing about the mall in his truck with people strapped to his bumper, thinking "ohhh jeeez guys - he's sure got that populist appeal - let's just play this one safe and keep our fingers crossed".