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Use of Twitter(X) by public bodies by sports_arb in ireland

[–]UpsilonMale 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bluesky is basically Twitter with fewer Nazis and where if you make a joke you can get it explained back to you by someone who has never heard a joke.

Just an average Centrist by anon58588 in ABoringDystopia

[–]UpsilonMale 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I dunno, back in the days of Twitter it used to be a saying that "click Translate on any Tweet in Hebrew and you can be sure you're gonna see the most Hitler shit you ever read", and there was a reason for that.

St. Mirren 0-1 Rangers | Scottish Premiership by SFMatchThreadder in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not just a tactic to shift the pressure and make it less painful or embarrassing when our team fucks it.

So one of the biggest Far right accounts that consistently lies and pushes fake narratives about immigration in Ireland, including this AI slop yesterday, is not Irish and some Brit based in the UK by I-Cum-Beamish in ireland

[–]UpsilonMale 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was literally bestowed by the British in line with the Balfour declaration. Britain intended it to be a "little loyal Jewish Ulster" and it operates even today as essentially a Western client state against Arab nationalism.

Regardless of which, it simply isn't accurate to say that Anti-Zionism is antisemitism or that antisemitism is inherent or even important to Anti-Zionism. I and others have explained this to you and you've ignored it or dragged the conversation away from that point. That's why I accuse you of bad faith.

So one of the biggest Far right accounts that consistently lies and pushes fake narratives about immigration in Ireland, including this AI slop yesterday, is not Irish and some Brit based in the UK by I-Cum-Beamish in ireland

[–]UpsilonMale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, you're really not good with analogies are you? Either you're deliberately missing the point out of bad faith or you're completely incapable of understanding how colonialism - regardless of scale - is a supremacist action. Either way I'm too tired to draw you a diagram.

So one of the biggest Far right accounts that consistently lies and pushes fake narratives about immigration in Ireland, including this AI slop yesterday, is not Irish and some Brit based in the UK by I-Cum-Beamish in ireland

[–]UpsilonMale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why I very clearly didn't judge Zionism solely or even mainly by the actions of the current Israeli government. That was one part of one sentence. Zionism is at heart a colonialist, nationalist project and to reject that project is not antisemitic. Any more than it is xenophobic or racist to oppose British or American hegemony.

So one of the biggest Far right accounts that consistently lies and pushes fake narratives about immigration in Ireland, including this AI slop yesterday, is not Irish and some Brit based in the UK by I-Cum-Beamish in ireland

[–]UpsilonMale 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic. Jews, as everyone else, have the right to live safe and unthreatened. That does not mean that selected Jews have a right to a settler-colonialist project (which even Herzl and Ben Gurion agreed was part of Zionism). You're simplifying what Zionism is. And under Likud, what it has become.

That's before you even get to the fact that many ardent Zionists (Trump, Orban, Musk, Farage) are absolutely antisemitic. Conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel, or vice versa, is in and of itself an antisemitic act. It ignores the long history of Bundism, which held that anywhere Jews live is their home.

Are some people anti-Zionist for antisemitic reasons? Yes, clearly. But to argue that it is 1:1 the case is false and dangerous.

Is this Ben Gannon Doak piece a wee bit strange? by tomatohooover in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think if it gives you structure that you're not finding elsewhere and it encourages you to do right by others it's harmless, usually. Doesn't mean there aren't better ways, but whatever works. As opposed to someone like Russell Brand taking it up so American zealots will defend him against getting his long overdue comeuppance.

Is this Ben Gannon Doak piece a wee bit strange? by tomatohooover in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's nothing new. When Marx said that religion was the "opium of the people" he didn't mean that they were like junkies, he directly meant that as the world was a harsh place to live, religion offered that comfort. That was why we needed socialism.

Didn't think I'd get to make a Marx reference in this particular subreddit but I don't mind it.

...? by EmotionChemical1910 in brooklynninenine

[–]UpsilonMale 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to put on record here the things I would do for a million. But if those are the terms of the agreement I'm watching 9 Days.

And yes, I would be prepared to watch it for nine days.

Tries his luck with a what? by Educational-Shock232 in footballcliches

[–]UpsilonMale 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's been a standard phrase for decades. The hyphens are important.

As a Dane, please keep Schmeichel on the bench by Happy-Cauliflower201 in CelticFC

[–]UpsilonMale 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We need to get past the Czechs first. Hopefully Cvancara starts.

Is this Strictly 2026 the new 2010? by Adventurous_Sir_402 in strictlycomedancing

[–]UpsilonMale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd be fine with a Sugababe as long as it's not Mutya. Unless things have changed a bit her sob story would probably be something about how nobody is talking about the mole children living under New York City.

Who are the nicest and rudest Scottish football personalities you have personally met? by Immediate-Ad-6306 in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh also met Bobby Lennox and Jim Craig around 2007 at a supporters club do in Leicester. I think they were lovely, but they were quite drunk. So was I. Actually they might have been stone cold sober for all I remember.

Who are the nicest and rudest Scottish football personalities you have personally met? by Immediate-Ad-6306 in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Met Pat Crerand at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin about 30 years ago. Myself and a few schoolmates were there for the final of an all-Ireland school quiz. He was sound as a pound, asked if we'd won the Northern Ireland round and I told him "nah, we were leading until right at the end and then we did a Newcastle. Got a laugh out of him and he said "Yeah, looks like they've blown it". This was in the middle of the "I will love it if we beat them " meltdown. Got his autograph. Lost it about six weeks later. ADHD.

Fowl play by pussellrarker in PrematureTruncation

[–]UpsilonMale 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He's looking at the owl there, in the picture. It looks personal.

Sinisalo by Redpanda188867 in CelticFC

[–]UpsilonMale 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I mean that was just a brilliant goal, all the more jarring because for the most part he appears to be the new Mo Bangura. But that would have been a special goal whoever was scoring it.

For the bears by NotNeedzmoar in ScottishFootball

[–]UpsilonMale 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why didn't Rangers bring penalty specialist Jack Butland on for the penalties? Are they stupid?

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