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Dozens of countries on brink of famine, new data show
(www.irishexaminer.com)
Is English culture allowed?
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fun watch. Not a horrifying horror but it fits the theme of spooky season.
His poems show he pronounced it the Cork way. You'd think you'd get this right before writing a song.
Donald Trump is philosemitic
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This bit on Misneach's blog made me think of this comm
(www.misneachabu.ie)
The bizarre ‘bit’ on last Saturday’s Late Late Show in which US presenter Conan O’Brien was coaxed into mocking the Irish-language names of people in the audience was an illustration of this self-loathing colonial cringe. Evidently, the Anglocentric mind finds great amusement in different languages having different phonetic systems.
Late Late Show audience members denigrating the Irish language, couching this ridicule as ‘humour’.
lunar_solstice
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They both deport the same amounts of immigrants: https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table39 Obama deported more than Trump
You just admitted that you don't have democracy two seconds ago. You can't say "I have no choice but to let my rulers commit genocide in my name" and two seconds later say "We have a democracy worth defending"