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“It’s like modern Magdalene Laundry shit.” I cannot believe what I’ve just watched. This bloke has compared the Irish state not giving him the hormones he wants to one of the most horrific chapters in Irish history, when women were locked away, subjected to forced labour and stripped of their dignity. Women had their lives destroyed by these institutions, and he’s comparing their suffering to doctors questioning whether he should be put on cross sex hormones. The make this comparison is not only arrogant, it’s proof he will never be a woman. What an absolutely disgraceful insult to the women who suffered through that hell.

Headline of the week.

Trinity College Dublin has a “T-Fund” offering students up to €200 for binders and makeup to help them “socially transition”. Universities are supposed to teach you to question things, not throw money at you to buy into an ideology.

Hi @IrishRail, the fella in seat E57 on the 5;37 Heuston to Waterford is breastfeeding a can of sugar free monster white ultra while explaining that he was banned from Dublin Zoo for trying to seduce a penguin. He’s just asked me to be his character witness. Help.

Trinity students are in their own league of embarrassing. Biden is literally senile, he probably thinks he’s in Atlantis, or Atlanta given the amount of American accents chanting at him.

I’m genuinely mortified seeing a handful of journalists I respect and look up to writing hit pieces on people like Owen Jones for supporting Russell Brand over a decade ago, while overlooking some of the people they’ve supported themselves. There’s plenty to criticise our political opponents for without resorting to guilt by association over crimes that hadn’t come to light at the time. If you’re looking for something worth writing about, start with the countless people on here with huge platforms who are still in complete denial about Brand’s guilt after his conviction. Write about how denying sexual assault, even after a jury has delivered its verdict affects survivors of the same abuse. Write about why victims are afraid to come forward and what happens when they do. That would be a far more worthwhile piece of journalism than digging through somebody’s decade old social media posts in the hope of scoring a few political points. There’s a difference between holding people accountable and looking for another stick to beat your political opponents with. And I get it, they guilt us by association, why don’t we do it to them? Well, uh, I dunno maybe because we’re the side supposedly fighting for common sense. But let’s keep this circle of guilt going, I’m sure eventually there’ll be no one left outside of it.

I know a lot of people come on here to fundraise for legal cases, emergency situations and on the rare occasion for bars that will never exist. But what if I started one to get me a binturong? 🥹 technically an emergency.

And just like that, Simply Brendan’s true colours are revealed. Last night I received this vague threat after making a joke about a convicted rapist. Must have struck a nerve? Brendan here is secretary of the Intersex Ireland NGO, has spoken at ILGA Europe and is involved with Ruth Coppinger’s ROSA feminist group. What I find hilarious is that misogynists like Brendan claim to be fighting against the manosphere, yet have absolutely no problem gatekeeping feminism from women they deem “bigoted” for refusing to deny biological reality. Oh the arrogance of it all. A man, who identifies as a woman, deciding which women are allowed to participate in feminism and which ones need to be silenced. Am I supposed to believe this is women’s liberation? It’s the same misogyny these blokes claim to despise in the manosphere. Men defining what women are, what they’re allowed to think and whether their opinions should be heard. The only difference is that one side has managed to crossdress it as progress. Brendan can claim to be a feminist all he wants, but writing hit pieces on women who won’t shit up because they don’t subscribe to his pseudoscience beliefs about biology is hardly revolutionary. Identifying as a woman doesn’t give a man the right to dictate what women are allowed to believe. And here he is, sending vaguely threatening messages to a gay man for making fun of a convicted rapist, while claiming to be an LGBT activist. Of all the posts to attack me under, you chose the most self-revealing. You’d swear we’d gone back a few decades, only now the men telling women to know their place are trying on their knickers.

Homonationalism is necessary in the west if gays want to live safely. Flooding a continent that accepts gays with men who come from countries that murder us isn’t compatible. Deport this fruitloop.

This is one of the gayest things I’ve ever read. Absolutely getting railed by those brainworms.

Dirty rotten sleazeballs

I wonder will he manage to find that bible verse by the end of it

The defenders claiming this is politically motivated would ironically applaud this if he was woke. Either way, justice is served.

Let’s not forget that Riad Bouchaker came to Ireland in 2000, never worked a day he lived in here, was given citizenship anyway and stabbed three children and a crèche worker.

The SocDems and Labour must be SEETHING. Years waving rainbow flags and trying to out gay each other, only for Fine Gael to assemble Ireland’s biggest collection of political pillow biters in the same room to applaud this clown. Not a dry seat in the house.

It’s frustrating watching Harris the ghoul say we should be “pulling together as a country” when this is how he speaks to members of a the public. Watch how the mask slips and he squares up to a disability carer, almost in tears for being ignored by his government.

If our infrastructure is incapable of hosting a handful of EUSSR pricks, maybe Irish politicians should accept their dick measuring contest is a waste of time. The only thing to come from this is a further aggravated public.

I genuinely believe the Irish media has become one of the biggest threats to our society. It has alienated people from all across the political spectrum, fuelling an already growing divide between left and right, and creating an extraordinary amount of anger and resentment. And where do people go to express that frustration? Online, where algorithms surround us with people who affirm everything we already believe, while showing us the absolute worst of those who disagree with us. We’re being pushed further into our own echo chambers, becoming more convinced that everyone on the other side is either stupid or evil. And I think it’s doing enormous damage to our ability to think critically. I speak to people from all across the political spectrum, many who disagree with me on immigration, gender and plenty of other issues. But what’s funny is when you actually sit down and speak to them, you realise we aren’t nearly as different as the internet and media would have you believe. We’re angry about the same things. Housing, healthcare, corruption, the cost of living, the incompetence of the people running this country. We disagree about what’s causing these problems and how to solve them, sure. But we’re all living with the consequences of the same failing systems. Yet we’ve somehow convinced ourselves that the ordinary person who disagrees with us on a handful of issues is our greatest enemy. I always think back to the water charges protests. They showed what could happen when Irish people from very different backgrounds came together against a government policy. And I don’t believe something like that could happen again today. We’re too busy screaming at each other over a fence to realise how much we actually agree on. I don’t even think the Government needs to deliberately keep us divided anymore. Between the media, social media and our own willingness to participate in this nonsense, we’re doing a good job of it ourselves. And who benefits from that? Certainly not us.

Can’t think of a single time I’ve agreed with Owen Jones, but I do think it’s ridiculous to guilt him by association in this instance, especially when there are countless people on here openly supporting a rapist.