Dissappointed in seeing her take the side of Imperialists in a war of aggression.

Anti-US/Western sentiment is something i agree with, but i can't see Ukraine the same way Putin does: ie a US conspiracy to undermine Russian security.

Where a conservative blames Biden, Obama, and Bush for the War in Ukraine:
https://youtu.be/xeX_Stsp3ho

Octavious wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 17, 2023 8:10 pm

https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status ... 1uwSg&s=19

As a fellow Irish leftist, i have to say i have been extremely dissappointed in Clare Daly this last year.

Wish she had stuck to national politics instead of going to Brussels.

Not up to prepandemic level yet?

So two things:
https://youtu.be/JCR-Phtgx0k

Can Ukraine win the war?

And
https://youtu.be/Ot65x9FLY-0

Is the US capable of continuing to support Ukraine with possible bank failures?

*buy US even not IS, i doubt the Islamic State treasurey is particularly secure...

But IS treasury bonds. Why would you still hold stocks?

The state will bail these banks out to keep the economy running? And then cut back on public programmes to 'pay back' the losses of these bankers? Is that what will be just like 2008? @Oct. What is decent health measured by? Was the 2008 gdp not based on over estimates of the value of certain assets...

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:42 pm

I am sure that if Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland were reduced to a blasted, irradiated wasteland due to total nuclear annihilation, the Republic of Ireland would be entirely undamaged.

While this may be valid, it clearly didn't know have the same impact on ppl in the Republic.

<Snip> Come on, ora, you're a similar age to me. You didn't live in the fear of imminent nuclear war, but surely your parents talked about it? The sense of impending doom, the utter powerlessness? My grandad was stationed in Germany, and my dad and Gran had bags packed ready for evacuation because ...

I mean, if you lived in one of the countries beside Rusisa with a large Russian speaking minority (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) i am sure the threat feels very real. Really? I am quite sure the reverse is true. Indeed, the threat of accidental nuclear war triggered by western action I'd rank as a...

I mean, if you lived in one of the countries beside Rusisa with a large Russian speaking minority (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) i am sure the threat feels very real. If you live in one of the countries where Russia 'peacekeepers' have been deployed to help ensure Russia's preferred ally gets the b...

You are entirely right, and the west often likes to paint itself as 'the international community' or like they are this singular united block of free democracies which nobody could possibly disagree with... Lots of criticism there, I'm sure i have made such before. And yes, many other countries did ...

@Doom, did we have this discussion? Did i miss it :( Finn and Feminism, or gender non-conformity and the trans community... I was really considering Finn as softcore sex work, the softest possible. Taking that example, some sex work is far less exloitative than wage labour in physically punishing fa...

I guess the question is, is it feminist to sell your body to pay the rent? Has anyone been following the Finnster drama on Twitter? (For context, Finnster is sfw, but cross dresses, on his twitch stream, and chat can get very horny, he identifies as male, and makes lots of money from audience member...

I don't have good dáta on it, but only two african countries voting in favour of Cimrea being part of Russia in 2014, Sudan and Zimbabwe. Several more abstaimed. Latest vote, Eritrea and Mali voted with Russia, and i know at least one has Wagner group mercanaries operating in the country. Sure sever...

The Russians would veto any security council initiative, so it would be done without a UN mandate. I believe that in these conditions the Russians could also target them without invoking NATO article 5. I don't think it's a clear cut "no" based on the wording of the article, but I think there's eno...

I doubt Iran has the capacity to project such a specialised force so far from their territory. Russia planned to cut off supplies to starve Germany, but blowing it up does seem a bit extreme as that kills Russian leverage, maybe the US did it to help Germany break their addiction to Russian oil? Now...

What would happen is Poland sent peace keeping troops to Ukraine, to sit on the Belarussian border and deter any attack (freeing up Ukrainian troops to move east and south) threatening Belarus that they are ready to respond and topple Lukashenko if he attacks?

So you disgust driven plot?