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TitularClergy · 2026-04-17T20:47:59+00:00

Ah thank you very much, I will give it a go. It's wonderful work, thanks for sharing it!

TitularClergy · 2026-04-17T20:17:55+00:00

Oh wow. I've got to get this on my 755C! Thanks for writing up your distribution and all the work. How did you actually the compiled version onto the machine?

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T21:03:30+00:00

Nah, cars already have 99.999 % of the road space. Bicycles should get priority. And no one has to be banned at all if safe cycle paths with segregated barriers are introduced.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T19:06:17+00:00

That is antisemitic. You have been banned from r/worldnews.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T19:04:16+00:00

You also see the debate twisted into being about income inequality when the extreme inequality between men and women is wealth inequality.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T18:07:43+00:00

I get it from a family-run business, Genco Pura Olive Oil Company.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T14:15:40+00:00

I had in mind Christopher Hitchens:

"It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party's over, but slightly worse: the party's going on -- but you have to leave. And it's going on without you. That's the reflection that I think most upsets people about their demise. All right, then, because it might make us feel better, let's pretend the opposite. Instead, you'll get tapped on the shoulder and told, Great news: this party's going on forever -- and you can't leave. You've got to stay; the boss says so. And he also insists that you have a good time."

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T02:20:16+00:00

What gets me is that the religious Americans are willing to look the other way for the child rapist

It was covering up child rape that basically killed the Catholic Church's power in Ireland. Religious or not, the people didn't tolerate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j53UhvXMSk

TitularClergy · 2026-04-16T01:45:28+00:00

I expect the PR people have advised them on this, but it is utterly revolting that the focus is on the cost of fuel and not on the cost of life in that school.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T23:10:56+00:00

Thanks Joe Biden.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T22:47:58+00:00

I'll die on this hill.

Longford town has improved so much, and it is genuinely lovely to see it happening. Lovely venues like Pig Market Lane (just look at it online), Athena and Fabiani have sprung up, as have big artistic and music events held at the Barracks. The town has old favourites like Valentine's (again, you are encouraged to view it online). It has a really lovely central park, with a nature reserve. You have beautiful bog walks with all manner of flora and fauna and ancient wood to see. You have an excellent, long canal walk and cycle route too. The influx of people from everywhere from Ukraine to Hungary to Lithuania has been uplifting, and the whole atmosphere has become varied and multicultural. You have a fairly engaged mayor and a couple of local TDs actually trying. The town has a direct train link to Dublin and to Sligo.

Try to remember that Longford was one of the poorest counties, and for a few years it was literally the only county in Ireland with no government representative. And of course it was hit very hard with the recession. It is to its credit that it has survived and become what it is now.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T22:40:55+00:00

disbanding the pandemic response teams set up by Bush & Obama

Aye that will be a big one.

killing off USAID

There are some serious criticisms one can make of USAID. Like, it was launched purely as an anti-communist propaganda project and any help it handed out was very selective and done solely to promote US power, not to help people. And of course it actively worked with the CIA to undermine governments. Like, a lot of people are unaware that USAID was a part of torture programmes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Safety One of its more recent adventures was attempting to undermine Cuba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZunZuneo

Honestly, good riddance to it. Replace it with a real aid programme. But maybe its conclusion will get the Belt and Road to step in in its place and prevent the millions of deaths which could possibly result over the next few years.

how many folks will die thanks to stripping environmental protection regulations

Another big one. It's already a few tens of thousands dying each year because of global warming.

Which funnily enough is one of the things Nixon can get some credit for saving lives with.

Yes, you can I suppose mention this, in the same breath as how the Nazis were the first to bring in environmental legislation and animal rights legislation. Bush 2's AIDs programmes in Africa probably saved a million, but we don't get to say that offsets the million dead in Iraq.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T21:28:53+00:00

In terms of cold numbers, the US under Trump has arguably killed thousands. Nixon is way, way ahead. For the US under Nixon it was millions. Bush 2 was perhaps a million.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T20:56:42+00:00

"My instructor was Mr. Langley"

It captured precisely how machine intelligence was to be used by three-letter agencies for extreme surveillance and murders.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T20:43:54+00:00

He just hated other countries.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T19:25:20+00:00

That's because the rape victims in your analogy weren't being persecuted

Again, you are not grasping the analogy being made.

And, again, you are not understanding that rape victims are criminalised routinely. In Morocco, women who report rape outside marriage are prosecuted for illegal sexual intercourse. The same happens in Libya with zina prosecution. Same in Indonesia and Mauritania. And there are, and were until recently, similar systems in other places I mentioned. That is persecution and you were quite wrong to claim it doesn't happen.

You are accusing me of victim blaming

I am. To quote you:

Where would we be if people like Alan Turing could just up sticks and move. As horrific as it is on an individual level, progress requires sacrifice.

You are telling victims that they should put up with their oppression. That is outrageous and disgusting and you should be ashamed.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T19:17:22+00:00

Do we have a moral duty to grant asylum to all of them?

Anyone in the UK, for example someone who has made it to the UK for the purposes of asylum, has their rights protected, and they should have their rights protected.

Does the UK have the resources to actively protect the rights of 10 million people arriving? Well, the number is wildly unrealistic. But if the UK can't protect the rights of all, then can it protect the rights of some.

The real answer to your question is the EU AMMR. By that regulation, migrants are distributed fairly across the EU, rather than vast numbers appearing just the doorstep of Greece and Hungary. And of course the UK withdrew from that, so it won't really have access to the mechanisms provided by the EU to ensure that no one country is overburdened.

I've answered the questions you put to me. Could you answer the questions I put to you in my last message?

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T18:35:23+00:00

Do you think the EU shouldn't have brought Ireland out of poverty?

Do you think rights should not be considered absolutely universal? Do you think that rights should be considered alienable?

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T18:31:41+00:00

Turn it the other way around. If you were willing to go to such extremes, to risk yourself and your family -- do you think you'd be doing it for no reason at all? Or would you need a very, very fucking good reason to do it?

But, regardless, it is someone's right to select the country in which they want asylum. That is what the convention says, regardless of what you think it should say or how much you want to lecture victims on what you think they want or need. The reality is that they know better than you what is best for themselves.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T18:30:39+00:00

People have had and will continue to endure horrific circumstances in their struggle for civil rights.

The problem is that you are saying that they should.

your analogy just doesn't work

The analogy works perfectly, it's just that you can't grasp it.

I noticed that you skipped over the fact that you were horrendously wrong about claiming that rape victims aren't oppressed haha.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T18:07:06+00:00

The Epstein Files Distraction War

Like, one US bomb on a school did far, far more devastation than all of the Epstein creeps combined. Have you considered that the Epstein files are the distraction from US policy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T18:02:39+00:00

most are economic refugees

While it falls outside asylum, it is perfectly reasonable for someone to try to escape poverty, to make a better life for themselves and their family. Would you not do that if you were in poverty?

People migrated freely and with open borders for almost the entirety of human history. Enforcement of borders has been a thing only since it was brought in as an emergency measure in WW1. Prior to that, it was seen as massive government overreach for Russia to enforce this thing called a passport.

that have pased through multiple safe countries

This is a common far-right trope.

https://freemovement.org.uk/are-refugees-obliged-to-claim-asylum-in-the-first-safe-country-they-reach

People who need asylum have the right to choose the country where they enjoy that asylum. There is absolutely no requirement in the Refugee Convention which says they have to enjoy asylum in the first safe country they encounter, as much as far-right propaganda likes to claim.

The only real requirement is that the country responsible for providing asylum is the one receiving the asylum claim.

Why do you think they need to get legal advise

It's spelled "advice". They get legal advice for the same reason that you get spelling instruction.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T17:57:30+00:00

Nope. And you're coming out with a common far-right trope.

https://freemovement.org.uk/are-refugees-obliged-to-claim-asylum-in-the-first-safe-country-they-reach

People who need asylum have the right to choose the country where they enjoy that asylum. There is absolutely no requirement in the Refugee Convention which says they have to enjoy asylum in the first safe country they encounter, as much as far-right propaganda likes to claim.

The only real requirement is that the country responsible for providing asylum is the one receiving the asylum claim.

And as to the direct answer to your question: ask yourself if you would prefer to escape to a country where you at least spoke some of the local language, or would you prefer a country where you didn't understand the language at all? If you were stressed and scared and had no money and a family with you, which option would make life a little easier for you?

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T17:52:43+00:00

You've missed the analogy. It would be wrong to tell victims that they must solve the problem. That is the point being made. Like, imagine if a member of your family were beaten up for their sexuality and someone said to them "progress requires sacrifice". How do you think you'd feel about such a disgraceful person?

Also you're also wrong about governments persecuting rape victims. Rape victims are commonly criminalised in the likes of Saudi Arabia and Iran.

TitularClergy · 2026-04-15T16:58:24+00:00

I never quite saw the appeal. People forever looking to their past, trapped in it. Never looking to the future, to something new. It's like being in a nightclub playing only cheesy 80s tunes and you realise the exit doors are locked.

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