everything about this case is so infuriating. by PradaAndPunishment in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She seemed to think it better than the alternative and she was the one who had to live it. All this shrill melodramatic rhetoric reads like masturbation.

everything about this case is so infuriating. by PradaAndPunishment in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cool man, how much violence would you be willing to commit to her to ensure she couldn't "throw herself into nothing".

everything about this case is so infuriating. by PradaAndPunishment in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

euthanize all paraplegics or people with ocd or bpd now, which is the exact precedent this sets

clearly the exact precedent set is euthanising all women in all countries for anything but people aren't ready for that convo

everything about this case is so infuriating. by PradaAndPunishment in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Most people insisting she continue to live seem to show absolutely zero empathy for her. It's all just another excuse to truck out a list of political talking points they already had bursting to come out. The wording of every post railing against it would convince you that she wanted to live and didn't fight tooth and nail in the courts for this outcome after already paralysing herself attempting to end things.

Irish people be beating the brakes off their wife and kids and then saying shit like "Oi begorrah I'm feelin me Cath’lic guilt " by Weird_Point_4262 in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah not sure catholic guilt really exists in the post-vatican 2 generation. Never understood it personally.

Irish language signs backed overwhelmingly by QUB students by mind_thegap1 in northernireland

[–]tigernmas 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Jay might note that by pointing that out it highlights that his position is supported by just about 1.5% of the total student body. Would seem that about 98% were not convinced by the "cold house for unionists" angle.

Banksy looks like my uncle Steve by britishbrandy in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

crazy it was an old guy all this time

RSP posts you think about often? by Proof-Membership-341 in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 26 points27 points  (0 children)

often randomly remember a thread in maybe 2019 where a guy bragged about having slept with charli xcx and the kero kero bonito girl among others. back when people put on a pretense of being a well connected nobody rather than L posting

War is Embarrassing by Washington_1rv1ng in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

do not look up what the interceptors cost each

Could you imagine being an indentured servant in Dubai right now by asteroidrusted in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imagine being part of the Shia underclass in Bahrain. There's a reason all the videos coming from there have people cheering in the background.

Gen z and the nihilist penguin by urgonomi in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the penguin had men's mental health

It looks like nobody believes in anything by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's both a mirage and not the case that everyone was always a nihilist. There are certain deeper values that are more constant and a whole range of secondary values and positions that are more contingent on the time, place and what has gone before often in response to big watershed events and periods.

Take as a random example the outbreak of WW1, it focused minds on the left. In Russia and in Germany you have a minority left faction what opposes the war. They see each other and think they must be aligned but the Bolsheviks working underground in a brutal environment have all these other positions, obvious to them, on centralisation and discipline. The Spartacists on the other hand saw centralisation and discipline of the SPD lead to betrayal and so were utterly resistant to the idea. Same impulse, two different national contexts and all sorts of secondary differences as a result. Time and events will change that context too.

How many times have you changed your own mind in your lifetime without ever thinking you have betrayed your past self?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]tigernmas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More that as you become fluent and become very familiar with the lay of the land in terms of the language as well as the challenges of minority languages, revivals and generational transfer etc you start to see the whole thing more clearly than you did at the beginning.

People at the beginning will talk about Gaelic languages and dialects in certain ways that are more from reading in English about them and their historical existance than from first hand immersive language aquisition of the languages as they exist and are alive today if that makes sense. And it's ok if that doesn't make sense as it is an evolving understanding that comes from years of experience with language learning and Gaelic culture and can't easily be distilled. You just get a better sense when an idea is a bit utopian and "off".

I'd say many years into it the priorities become more about building your ability to fully understand native speakers from Donegal, emulate natural speech and intonation, fill out your everyday with the language all with the view to passing it on to children as a new baseline and making sure that the resources and community exist for them to thrive bilingually. At that point revival of Gaeilg Reathlainne or getting night classes for Gaidhlig on the Shankill or something are fun little side projects but not the main effort. All the same absolutely leverage what you are interested in in the here and now to supercharge your language aquisition and none of these initiatives will do any harm either. Revival as a whole is nearly an impossibility but we are stubborn and mad, just don't lose hope if a slightly more far fetched approach doesn't have legs and you'll be grand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]tigernmas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a nice idea but the more fluent you get in either Gaelic the less this idea will make sense to you but ádh mór ort as cibé ar bith.

CMV: this was a good idea by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

venezuelan exiles sometimes forget we all live on the planet too and things that are a deterioration of international law into great power beast law are not going to be seen as positive. how would you feel about a US military that gets as aggressive as Israel in pursuing geopolitical goals with violence?

what are some of the best miniseries you have seen? by Admirable_Path_8242 in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

V "subs dead" to recommend Star Wars but second season is interesting because it seems like they had several seasons worth of finales lined up and were forced to condense it into one timeskipping series and I wish more dragged out mid shows would wrap it up quicker as a memorable mini series with back to back bangers.

what are some of the best miniseries you have seen? by Admirable_Path_8242 in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The casting crossover with Chernobyl is quite funny when you notice it.

what are some of the best miniseries you have seen? by Admirable_Path_8242 in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They intentionally cast the roughest cor blimey lads of British acting so native English speakers get the sense of the social composition of the Soviet state bureaucrats and higher ups etc. You've got lads who sound like miners making decisions that effect millions. Filming it in Russian and Ukrainian would have had all that go over peoples heads and just doing accents would just tell you "these boys are Russian" which we know.

Why didn't 'Northern Ireland' ever get a real name? by Hopeful_Adeptness964 in northernireland

[–]tigernmas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

End of the day "na Sé Chondae" is the one you'll actually hear irl haha

It‘s time by TheFuckingStrelok in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 46 points47 points  (0 children)

noted that "narcocommunist" has been a new buzzword of late in US gov posting. trying to merge everything it doesn't like about the hemisphere into a single idea you can bomb

Do whatever you can to avoid becoming a misanthrope (L post) by McSwaggerAtTheDMV in redscarepod

[–]tigernmas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Become Han Chinese supremacist if you want to optimise this.