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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
I say stick her straight into the return scheme machine.
Agreed. Melt those recycle return bottles into a boat and return her.
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Agreed. Melt those recycle return bottles into a boat and return her.
America please take Rosie back!
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
Brenda Power is a rare voice of moral clarity amongst the Irish commentariat on this issue. In under a minute she eviscerates Ireland’s hypocrisy. ‘There wasn’t a single peep of protest to the Irish cricket team voluntarily playing Afghanistan last month, where women are treated worse than battery chickens. It is the most extreme humanitarian crisis in the world right now, as far as I can see, the gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Not a word of protest.’ ‘Where was your indignation when we played [Afghanistan]? England wouldn’t play them, South Africa wouldn’t play them, New Zealand wouldn’t play them. The great humanitarians in Ireland had absolutely no difficulty. We’re hypocrites.’
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
They hate that TERFs love men like this. They just can’t comprehend how it’s possible to be that free in body and soul and mind. ❤️
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
Replying to @VincentPsychSE
Where I live in Brussels, anarchy is already here. Listen to this utter madness: there's an open air drug market in front of my kids' school. All-day open drug dealing, occasional raids, shootings, bullets through the school windows, bombs through letterboxes of the drug families on the adjacent streets, bundles of cash and bags of drugs hidden under cars, was of cash sometimes blowing in the wind, stuck in climbing plants.. there's a drive-through service, a lookout system with code words shouted all over the square when the cops are coming, intimidation, drugs hidden in kids slide, young boys on scooters whizzing around dropping off new supplies and taking away big bags of cash... you're not able to even use your phone when you walk past or you risk having it yanked out of your hand (there are boys watching for filmers)... almost all of the most risky jobs are done by asylum seekers with no papers picked up from the local train station, they're let go straight away after being arrested etc. This has been going on for years and it's getting worse but nobody can sell their houses and escape. Any effort to do something about it is thwarted by leftie saviours who want to hug-the-violence-out (many of whom don't even live here). If you attribute agency to any of the people involved, you're a fascist. If you voice any support for the authorities efforts to fix the problem, you're a fascist. So we all just have to put up with it and hope none of us gets killed. Anyway, in the neighbourhood chat group recently there's a message about a nice little activity that will help -- temporarily -- "occupy" the square (it's all we can do). The idea is that next week, on a certain day, from 7pm-10pm we'll all pull a chair and/or table outside and have a drink or dinner in front of the houses on the square, so that the flow of drug traffic will be disrupted a bit (customers don't like being watched when they buy drugs in front of a primary school, it makes them feel bad). A little spot of very civil and convivial disobedience. The first response to the message was "I don't like this surveillance of people", it's a type of "social control", and it's "accusatory". Nobody responds. Next message is someone from the municpality "eeeeh guys if you're going to put chairs out on the sidewalk you need to inform the authorities and the emergency services, they need to know" It's a literal open-air drug market. The drug dealers have their own chairs from which they sell drugs (it's very tiring). I'm pretty sure they don't have permission from the authorities for either of those activities. Most importantly, though, the message is clear: if you participate in this "accusatory surveillance-based social control", you're a fascist. So it's unlikely anyone will do it.
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How can Ireland stand in solidarity with gays abroad but not gays at home? As someone who served as Minister for Justice for five years, Helen should know that there has been an increase of homophobia in recent years that has not been addressed at government level.
Recent actions against the human rights of LGBTIQ+ persons and organisations in Türkiye are deeply concerning. Ireland stands in full solidarity with LGBTIQ+ persons and their allies and has today, together with likeminded countries, raised its concerns with Turkish authorities.
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
The Finnish government is dismantling the NGOcracy. No more state funding for “advocacy” NGOs — only those that provide services will continue to be supported. This is bad news for some essential awareness-raising NGOs who represent the truly underrepresented but it’s GREAT NEWS otherwise because it’s leading to stuff like this: Helsinki Pride is cutting its youth programme. Nice.
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This is who you’re calling a ‘fascist freak’ 💔
Replying to @TheAkoFiles
Us gays dont need a fascist freak like yourself speaking for us.
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
This is where we are at.
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I’ve read this five times to make sure I’m reading it right. Sinn Féin are deranged.
Irish Wheelchair Association must clarify decision to play Israel in upcoming women’s wheelchair basketball championship – @chrisandrews64 "Playing any sport with Israel legitimises a genocidal regime and gives cover to that state’s multitude of crimes and abuses." sinnfein.ie/news/irish-wheel…
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Fascinating. I guarantee the nutjobs complaining are the fugliest people you could ever imagine and depend on masks to get a date.
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
It seems appropriate to keep reposting this. Especially after further horrific details have come out involving Alex Coughlans murder. This is @DrUmarAlQadri 'condemning' the brutal murders of two gay men in Sligo. 'You cannot force me to belive what you are doing is right'.
Well, @DrUmarAlQadri, one rule for thee, another for me, is it? “Ireland has long stood as a powerful example of warmth and welcome, but that reputation is now at risk.” The landslide referendum that legalised same-sex marriage stands as a testament to that spirit of warmth and welcomeness. It reflected a society willing to embrace equality and reject prejudice. That’s why your stance poses a risk to the very values that define modern Ireland. In response to the brutal beheading of two gay men in Sligo, you said: “As Muslims we do not agree, we do not condone or support the (gay) lifestyle, and there is no if and but.” You’ve since claimed it’s “racist” for Irish people to defend our culture, the hard won rights of women and gays, accusing us of being the threat when we challenge the misogyny and homophobia rooted in your Islamic beliefs. To that, I’ll echo your own words: “You cannot force me to believe what you are doing is right.” You will not force me to believe that women belong behind a veil. You will not force me to believe that loving another man is wrong. Lastly Umar, you are not Irish. You don’t understand what this country has been through or what we had to endure and sacrifice for the rights we have today. Kindly, do not tell us working class Irish who or what we are when your love for your own people is conditional. From the murder of Declan Flynn to the closing of the Magdalene Laundries, Ireland has come too far to turn back now. We will not hand over hard won freedoms and rights to any ideology that seeks to undo them. If you claim that is “racist,” you are nothing but a hypocrite.
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
What a shocking piece of journalism. @Nick_Delehanty loses a business that employed people, and the @IrishTimes decides to kick him while he is down, branding him a “failed election candidate” and attaching several other negative labels, including “anti-multiculturalism,” which is not even an accurate description of his position. Nick has written extensively about government overspending, the cost of IPAS, the people becoming millionaires from Ireland’s immigration system and many other important issues. Yet those stories receive little or no attention from the mainstream media. His business folds, however, and suddenly it becomes a national story. This is the Irish media at its worst. Go after the messenger, ignore the message and celebrate when a dissenting voice suffers.
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
🎙️ Missed this interview on Spirit Radio? Catch the playback below! 👇 A mother and former mental health nurse shares her perspective on the growing debate around gender and education. 📢 Education Matters Advocacy Group was invited to Leinster House to brief TDs and Senators, bringing a detransitioner to share his experience of a gender clinic and raise questions about gender-related content in schools. 🎧 Listen to the full interview below ⬇️ #EducationMatters #ParentsRights #Education #Ireland
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
As I’ve said before, I’m not English. I’m proud to be British. My family and ancestors have a link to Britain which spans centuries. But in no way are we English. Yes, I was born in England, speak English and support the England football team. And indeed, I love England and the English people. But to say I’m English is to take a ‘laissez-faire, anything-goes’ attitude to ethnicity, citizenship and identity. It also denies me my Asian heritage. The liberals (many of them in today’s Conservative Party) take this cosmopolitan approach to Englishness. They’re terrified of being called racist so they say that anyone, as long as they’re born here, can be English. I take the conservative approach. Englishness is an ethnicity. There have been English people for centuries and we need to recognise this more if we are to start taking a more muscular approach to citizenship and nationality. And no, it’s not racist to say this. Other countries have no qualms in limiting who can be part of their citizenry and use ethnicity and culture as criteria. Here, the dogma of multiculturalism has been so corrosive that some people don’t actually know who we are anymore.
What makes someone English?
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At this point I don’t think you should be able to enter the UK or Ireland without passing an exam showing you understand the laws and culture of the country you’re entering. Explaining age of consent laws to people after they arrive is absolutely insane. RIP UK.
The Mamacita Foundation trying to teach the age of consent to migrants in Aberdeen: - Organiser initially gets the age wrong for England. - Indian woman says it can be 14. "This is very essential...because we've had young men... y'know...fall for these...things." Embarrassing.
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You can pretend otherwise all you like, but nothing about this is normal at all. How bad do things need to get before the government starts issuing these statements and setting up classes explaining what is/isn’t sexual abuse? This is not normal for any modern society.
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Seán Ako 🇮🇪 retweeted
This is the state of the UK at the moment.
The Mamacita Foundation trying to teach the age of consent to migrants in Aberdeen: - Organiser initially gets the age wrong for England. - Indian woman says it can be 14. "This is very essential...because we've had young men... y'know...fall for these...things." Embarrassing.
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