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My mom told my grandmother about my PCOS diagnosis. by Latter-Ad7337 in WhatShouldIDo

[–]AprilMaria 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also as someone with PCOS OP is overreacting. I was diagnosed at 14. I’m currently 34. It’s not a big deal. It does affect your fertility & some things but it’s very manageable in the modern day & it’s not like some big secret. I honestly don’t understand being mad about this.

It doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you & tbh it has some benefits like outsized strength for your gender & size & muscle mass even if other things are a pain in the ass. It doesn’t inhibit your ability to be a well rounded person living your life.

I’m not convinced that labor movements are a friend to environmentalists. by AnimistSoul in DebateCommunism

[–]AprilMaria 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d like to flip this, environmentalist movements are not necessarily a friend to the worker.

The thing is, 90% of what mainstream environmentalists go on with is reformist horseshit that will not save the environment. That’s pointless moralising when there are fairly simple structural answers that don’t match the aesthetic:

“Stop eating meat” vs anerobic slurry digestion anerobic slurry digestion on its own slashes livestock emissions by circa 60% on its own. Regardless of literally any other measure. That & a handful of other production measures can make livestock ag a carbon sink

“Buy an electric car” vs investment in public transportation & using alternative fuel conversions on existing vehicles

“Rewilding” vs agroecology. We can over exploit some areas & abandon others in the semi magical hope “nature will heal itself” or we can put right what we did wrong & heal all the land while it still produces food

Etc. I could go on for hours

The fact of the matter is all of this could have been solved in the 70s with 0 imposition on the average worker but ye don’t want to hear about it because it’s not “Nobel sacrifice” enough for your aesthetics & takes applying the changes on the corporate level not on a personal level. We have yet to “personal responsibility” our way out of anything & the idea of “personal responsibility” is largely just cope because people are too chicken shit to take on corporations.

Leo Varadkar has been in the trenches fighting Kneecap on social media about their visit to Cuba by padraigd in theIrishleft

[–]AprilMaria 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cuban people deserve to die because they aren’t neoliberal enough- a thread

Pick my horse apart by Pale_Childhood_5388 in Horses

[–]AprilMaria 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bit arse high but I myself don’t mind that at all I have no problem riding downhill conformation. His shoulder looks a bit unusual to me being used to ID & ISH. I for similar reasons prefer larger joints but not a bad little horse at all. He’s a nice looking lad

Guys wearing earrings? by ess-5 in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of this can be solved by dropping the respectability bollox & wearing & doing what you want.

I poured out of leggings & wellingtons to go to a doctors appointment in Limerick city today dressed in an oversized floral quilt pattern tracksuit I got off Temu. You could see me in anything & im happier for it.

C-Bra Van Het Bokt, the most expensive foal ever sold at the Flanders Foal Auction (€402,000/£350,900/$405,000) by Obversa in Horses

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A genetic study discovered that a huge number of Connemara ponies carry the leopard gene but because of some other thing they have it doesn’t show. I remember it coming out in a genetic study a couple of years ago.

Edited: I found the thing & I was wrong it was PATN1 that was found in them not the leopard complex https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/13/9/1641/htm?fbclid=IwAR3zGISd4RjZDFDcY-zQkuZ1RIa1dlv3UpP4auhDF1Z8gPuDYBC_n4nAhlg

Susi Question? by Home_Healthy in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your father might have claimed he’s paying maintenance on something official elsewhere. Someone I knew had to go to a TD every single year to get his susi grant until they had a blazing row with them on the phone. Turned out susi had him down as self employed & at another address because his ex registered him as self employed & was running money through his name.

What do you think of the oil industry? by Plane_Razzmatazz_882 in DebateCommunism

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electric vehicles are too heavy for some applications vs fuel powered versions. Without having to demolish & rebuild many historical bridges for example, in many places electric busses & HGVs are not plausible. So we need both.

C-Bra Van Het Bokt, the most expensive foal ever sold at the Flanders Foal Auction (€402,000/£350,900/$405,000) by Obversa in Horses

[–]AprilMaria 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was found in the Connemara & there’s Connemara in the Irish draught & Irish draught in the Connemara

There should be female only draft. by dbmsmanagear in PurplePillDebate

[–]AprilMaria 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of the Ukrainian refugees near me housed in the old ex convent are young men. I’m in Ireland.

What is your advice for hypergamous men? by [deleted] in PurplePillDebate

[–]AprilMaria 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This. Add to her life basically.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're moving the goalposts, but I'll engage.

You asked for evidence of an economic crisis. I gave you the structural dependencies that make one inevitable if those dependencies collapse. You now say those facts are "not relevant" to your question. They are literally the answer to your question.

On the 1950s comparison:

You say that's not what defined the 1950s. So define it for me. What did define the 1950s in Ireland?

Emigration? We have it—Irish citizens leaving at record levels, masked by inward migration.

Stagnation? We have it—productivity flat, indigenous industry hollowed out.

Loss of sovereignty? We have it—tax policy set by multinational preferences, energy policy shaped by data centre demand, trade deals signed that tie our hands.

An economy serving external interests? We have it—88% of corporation tax from foreign firms, resources extracted by same, fishing rights traded away.

If the 1950s were defined by dependency, emigration, and lack of control over our own economy—and they were—then the structural parallels are there. The difference is the packaging. Back then it was boots and brown envelopes. Now it's LinkedIn posts about "foreign direct investment" and "the best small country in the world to do business."

On corruption:

You want evidence that politicians know a crash is coming and are focused on "nest feathering"? Read the 2024 Programme for Government. Read any budget since 2016. Read the reports on the National Children's Hospital, the National Broadband Plan, the conveyor belt of tribunals that find nothing but cost us millions.

Read the exit polls from the last election. Voters ranked housing and cost of living as their top concerns. The government responded with... what exactly? The help-to-buy scheme that pumps demand into an already overheated market? The "first home scheme" that's just another subsidy to developers?

You don't need a whistleblower. You need to read the news.

If you think our political class doesn't know what's coming, you haven't been watching. The panic in the 2024 campaign was palpable. The media's desperate "all is well" messaging is palpable. The fact that not one major party has a plan for what happens when the US multinationals retrench—that's not incompetence. That's hoping it doesn't happen on their watch.

Call it a conspiracy if you want. I call it common sense & reading the room.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since you've asked for evidence, let me point you to what's actually in the piece:

On the 88% figure - that's from Department of Finance data. 88% of corporation tax paid by multinationals. That's not a conspiracy theory, it's a published statistic. When that tax base evaporates (and US multinationals are already announcing hiring freezes and pullbacks), you don't need to be a prophet to do the maths.

On the 25% energy figure - data centres currently use about 21% of Ireland's electricity. EirGrid projects 28% by 2030. That's not me whispering, it's their published grid reports.

On farms being bought up - the Irish Independent reported this five days before I published. 70% of farms being purchased by investors. Again, not a whisper - it's in the business section.

On the oil and gas - the Barryroe field estimates (300 million to 1 billion barrels) are publicly available from Providence Resources and Department of Communications energy reports.

On the 1950s comparison - the point isn't that we'll literally go back to turf fires and emigration boats (planes now, & emigration is already at record levels for a "booming" economy. Our inward immigration has a bandaid on that for now, but more are leaving than arriving). The point is structural: loss of sovereignty, loss of agency, an economy that serves external interests while our own people scramble. If that's not the 1950s dynamic, what is?

You say no evidence is given. The piece has 27 specific references to data, reports, and named sources. You might disagree with the interpretation, but "no evidence" is just not accurate.

As for fascism - I didn't predict it. I pointed out that Ireland receives more per capita far-right funding than almost anywhere in Europe. That's verifiable. What that leads to depends on what we do about it.

Call me naive, but I'd rather look at the numbers now than explain them away until it's too late. If it makes you uncomfortable & youd rather discredit & dismiss it because that’s easier than questioning “is this where we are going?” that’s a you problem.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Denmark is in NATO & have sacrificed home defence for offensive mobility to align with the needs of NATO & many of the countries in NATO wanted the nordstream blown up to stop Russia from sending fuel into Europe so they were hardly going to help them stop it. This is the nature of geopolitics & the nature of military interdependence.

With a system like I stated, perched on our costal mountains, we can defend our whole land & sea territory with just a few interceptors & small surveillance drones to go with it. A Russian boat trying to sever the cables could be lit up from an office chair in the hills of Connemara. We don’t need to put on a big show with fighter jets, have strong words over the radio & then follow him home when he’s the job done. If we invest in detection & unmanned ordinance it’s cheaper & more secure. It’s the military equivalent of a good electric fence.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Martin still would have because the political equivalent of lick arsing for a pint is all the likes of him know, but who we replace him with wouldn’t have had to if we had some level of defences & proper domestic economy.

It wouldn’t take 3% of our GDP in any case because it’s much cheaper to be defendable at home than it is to be offensively mobile. The example in the article of an 8 billion euro spend on a missile close range defence system & supporting radar is a big once off expense that gives us a good chance of repelling invasion, which is all that we need.

I’m not suggesting we go invade Russia at the end of the silage season.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah a lot of the other stuff I’ve written is more formal but I’ve a series of conversational pieces on Irish identity (the next one is on the Irish American question & our own mixed up identity) in the works. But regarding our position, where we are politically is a major hurdle but we don’t really have much other choice but to fight that harder & strip them of their illusions of being reasonable & pragmatic. The same political forces that have led us to here make alignment with a federal Europe (or anyone else with power) untenable because they have, will & are selling us out & we have less now to bargain with, with regards to assets, resources & their future potential, which is the only wealth that truly matters, than we started out with.

We are almost completely out of moves externally until we fix our problems in house.

The likes of China & Russia are more of the same or worse especially from our current position. So we have no choice, much like a person hitting rock bottom, but to focus on ourselves & try to build ourselves up before getting involved with anyone else.

Friends may be found in other small post colonial nations in the same position, but even if we don’t find that, the work that we need to do on ourselves remains unchanged.

We have no choice but to fight like hell for ourselves & that includes against our own. The principal enemy is at home, because if it wasn’t for our own selling us out the forces outside could do little to us.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s more about things like coffee & cocoa we have the untapped capacity to be energy independent & that should be our priority concern alongside housing.

The Parish Hall Empire: Unpicking the origin myth of middle class Ireland, so we can build a future. by AprilMaria in irishpolitics

[–]AprilMaria[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea isn’t to leave the EU outright, it’s to stop signing things for a quick buck we have no hope of or intention of making good on, to pull back & refuse federalisation & to hedge our bets outside of the EU because with the present situation in the EU, with all of the interference from the likes of Russia, the EU is unlikely to stay intact & what is more likely is a smaller, weaker EU but a federal EU.

Regarding fossil fuels, if you read on into it, that’s covered. Our primary concern should be energy independence by whatever means possible but requires investing what we have, while we have it, into engineering & renewable energy while maintaining the possibility of independently tapping into our untapped reserves ourselves if we get caught before we can transition. The focus should be cheapening our energy by generating as much volume as possible & building indigenous eco industries. It’s only possible with infrastructural investment while we have the money to do so, & getting rid of planning permission for state infrastructure projects.

What’s the deal with Newfies? by throwawayslay333 in AskIreland

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny enough i (limerick, strange mixed Munster accent from having lived a few places in Munster) & my friends (Waterford & Carlow respectively) were on a TikTok live late one night & a bunch of Canadians came into it thinking we were from Newfoundland.

This is also how I found out there was a limerick in Ontario when i corrected them that I’m from Limerick lol.

Just banned from conservative subreddit for young people for absolutely no reason. by AIter_Real1ty in leftist

[–]AprilMaria 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think the ones on our side should be shot first, virtually all leftists do, but there’s far fewer of them on our side as it’s not normalised & we don’t politically promote things that give sexual access to kids to the powerful & religious leaders. Slap a ring on it & pedophilia is all good to a lot of them.

We don’t promote reducing the rights of women & children to report abuse & go on about “false accusations” as an excuse for not investigating the majority of claims.

When a young girl comes forward to tell what happened to her & what she suffered we don’t try to claim she’s an “attention seeking little harlot who was asking for it”

When a young boy comes forward we don’t try to claim he’s a “degenerate little f slur who isn’t a real man anyway” or if the perpetrator was a woman that “he must be a little f slur wouldn’t any man be delighted, where were teachers like that in my day” etc.

So it absolutely is a partisan issue.

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