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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Link - https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1747323130060697682

They already Community Noted her - Clare Daly is a highly controversial Irish politician who was accused of nepotism, support for dictators like Putin and Assad, causing divide in European parliamentary left, and arguably doesn't represent not just dead Irish ancestors but also majority of living Irish.

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 101 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Be Ireland

Not in NATO

Not in the Fourteen eyes so privacy actually is a thing.

Is more of an imperial periphery country and therefore has little to no enemies.

Just minds its own fucking business.

Pro-Palestine

Easily the best western country.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago

field-baseball forgot about me?

[-] blight@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

not western, nor imperial core

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Explain by what logic Cuba would be considered not Western but Ireland would be considered Western?

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

The same logic that excludes the Balkans and Russia from being Western.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Russia is north to me

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

The thing that excludes the balkans and Russia from being western is that they aren't in the western hemisphere.

Something notably distinct from Cuba.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Is Australia in the western hemisphere?

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Poland overlaps the same longitudes as, say, Serbia, so this isn't really a full explanation. But the fact that former Yugoslavia is still isolated and othered from Western Europe means it's culturally and politically distinct. Cuba, while politically distinct from surrounding countries, is culturally very close to other Caribbean countries. So it's kind of a mixed bag, but I still think reasonably the only way to categorize Cuba is as a Western country despite the political difference.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

most of europe isn't in the western hemisphere???

[-] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ireland being in the european union imo

[-] casskaydee@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you - this is the only answer that actually makes sense to me lol

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

What makes a country Western? I would've thought the fact that they're so geographically close to other countries that are no doubt Western countries, and have a similar history as a former Spanish colony, have a majority Christian population, etc would count to make them a Western country. Obviously they have a very different mode of social organization to every other Western country, but if we're trying to find the best Western country and we exclude all the good ones what's the point?

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Westernism has less to do with geography and more to do with ideology and fanatical adherence to white supremacist-coded capitalism

Otherwise, the phrase "Australia is a western country" wouldn't seem so normal despite its geographical ludicrousness

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

no we just had this one, you have to wait longer to have a struggle session on the same topic again.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

sicko-hyper it's my turn on the struggle sesh!

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

international-community-1

[-] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

i gotta add butcher biden to my biden nickname tier list that is A tier for sure

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Genocide Joe is S tier tho

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

trouble biden-horror

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

biden-fall connolly-shining You ain't Irish, Jack

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm a republican

(What is it with the US and bastardizing political labels?)

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

like having Loyalty Day on May 1 and "Labor" Day in September, anything that makes it harder to be an internationalist

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It's called memorial day, actually. Memorial to oppression of course

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Memorial Day is at the end of May, it's different than the fake Labor Day in September and focused on chumps who died for empire

[-] TheaJo@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Oh wow I completely switched them. They're totally different you see

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

She's been great forever. Redditors hate her because of her accurate Ukraine takes.

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wish Irish-Americans were even half as based as the residents of the country they pretend so hard to represent.

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[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Come out you Biden dems c'mon and climb on out your fens

Tell Doc Jill how you been fightin' Trumpy MAGAs

And not how the US aid mostly been those bombs away

Killing children up and down inside of Gaza

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

😠

[-] EdelethIsBae@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

best bit account on the site

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

That goes hard.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

#ButcherBiden #ButcherBiBi

It'd be pretty cool if we could get these trending and stay there until they stop.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

get a load of this

[-] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Saw a great reply to someone else posting this that said something like "Clare Daly is no friend to muslims, she denies the Uyghur genocide and the Assad gas attacks."

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[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

I read Israel as Ireland at first but everything else seemed pro-Palestine (and Ireland) after that and was really really confused until I found my error

[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

I love Ireland, I love love love love love love love Ireland.

But, I wish they were capable of pronouncing 'th' correctly.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Labiodental fricatives are bourgeois decadence

edit: how did no one call me out on saying labiodental instead of dental thus allowing me to leave this mistake up for three days. I'm so fucking embarassed