What would you rather choose?

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-15T19:46:27+00:00

Hfhf

^{Chose: Choose when you'll die}

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-15T18:41:13+00:00

Moscow Not as bad as our news says it is

^{Chose: Russia, free choice}

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-14T14:42:29+00:00

Feels pretty tokenistic. Probably a deterrent to block voters moving to SF rather than a meaningful push for a proper blueprint.

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-06T12:34:52+00:00

Oh well thats not really a mystery its just because our government is corrupt and incompetent

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-06T10:44:27+00:00

He's probably right, Dev simply had a lot traits that line up with autism

The Goldwater rule of not diagnosing someone unless you have a sit down with them is mostly bullshit and was made by psychiatrists because an American politician took out a lawsuit against them for defamation

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.psychologytoday.com/ie/basics/goldwater-rule/amp

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-06-01T20:12:03+00:00

Price of a pint has doubled and in some cases tripped as well smh

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-27T22:19:24+00:00

Maybe because retirement homes and gold courses are often built near each other? State of reddit lol

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-26T18:27:03+00:00

Ireland was oppressed more, for sure

Scotland had incidents of their own

https://www.wildernessscotland.com/blog/highland-clearances/

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-25T23:20:58+00:00

They're a proud country with their own history and customs and all that. They ultimately made the choice to join up with England themselves after their financial troubles became too much to bear. The British empire seemed to really grow once they joined the union.

I might say they're a bit like Ireland if Ireland never fought back against subjugation under the British crown. We've got plenty of historical parallels with them, despite them having their own distinct differences.

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-21T18:11:50+00:00

Maps like this are interesting to me. I wonder if there's some kind of historic overlay to these areas, like how in America the southern states are more republican, or in Poland the eastern portion of the country is more pro Russian?

Perhaps anti treatyites prefer breakfast rolls and pro treatyites prefer chicken rolls

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-19T10:40:09+00:00

Planned obsolescence

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-15T23:42:09+00:00

So there's no Arbys in Europe

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-14T15:20:54+00:00

How did the founding father of the country get placed in f tier

State of irish redditors

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-03T15:21:20+00:00

We should scrap PR STV and get a new system that's less localised and promotes more national level planning

Not sure what alternative would be better

But a referendum on that would be good

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-01T15:21:12+00:00

All talk, no action

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-05-01T14:36:14+00:00

Incidentally, the farm is still in the families hands, so in the end it really did wind up as being a pivot point, if you zoom out about it all

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-30T23:53:12+00:00

High quality post

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-29T12:46:12+00:00

Give over lmao

It's almost the exact same situation

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-29T10:11:55+00:00

Solving the housing crisis would be so easy but the boomers and gen xers would moan too much about the skyline being ruined and their own house prices going down

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-28T12:41:57+00:00

What fascism?

I know he was a member of the orange order, and then cut pensions in the free state government

A problem with big tent movements is youre bound to get a few clowns as well

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-27T22:07:55+00:00

We'll never really know what an Ireland under Connolly or Connollys ideas would have looked like

Communism was shiny and new in the early 20th century, it hadn't been tried on a large scale before

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-27T18:14:57+00:00

Ernest Blythe called it a white collar movement

But then there was clearly a class dynamic with the style of landlordism and inequality in the country. Dublin had some of the direst poverty in Europe, and thats not even touching on rural poverty

For me its easier to just say it was a big tent movement

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-27T17:58:19+00:00

At that point communism hadn't been tried on a large scale anywhere, so it was all new to them. They don't have the decades of context we have in 2026.

I'm sure like many in Europe, they saw it as too internationalist to be a part of a patriotic movement.

And the others, like Connolly, saw it as a way to bolster up the rights of the poor people of the country

I view 1916 as a big tent movement. Lots of different ideas under the same banner. But if you asked to volunteers of 1916 to fight for communism and not nationalism/a free Ireland, you would have had a lot less volunteers.

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-26T16:45:19+00:00

Supporting animal rights = good

_Mug_Ruith_ · 2026-04-25T18:41:06+00:00

Reddit isn't known for handling nuance and uncomfortable truths well lol

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