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Uhhh since when is it the DRCC's job to represent views of government? Is this not a form of state censorship? Anyway, fuck off you ghoul

Auntie O'Grimacey@bubblenoma.bsky.social · yesterday

What kind of statement is it to make that actually the views of the government are that kids CAN be touched without their consent?

Turns out a lot of grandparents are snowflakes* *sample size is this afternoons Liveline may not be representative of the whole population.

And if you would like to know how I think we ended up with this gross dance macabre to the tune of loolahs and creeps, it just so happens that I wrote about how badly our political system is doing at distinguishing the sound of Voters from Bots in their screens www.thegist.ie/the-gist-wha...

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The Government wants to reduce immigration. This is the Gist.

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I am going to make a point of saying that I think their colleagues have chosen a fringe position, only endorsed by creeps and wierdos until yesterday, & specifically want to know if they, who are asking for my vote, are also weird about touching children.

Billionaire JK Rowling is to be the subject of a BBC Scotland doc. Rowling spends much of her time and part of her huge wealth funding anti-trans law suits and organisations. You can tell a lot about a person by their yacht. So let's take a look at Rowling's 300ft yacht Samsara.

And another thing, I feel like anyone who has an active real life role in the rearing of children knows that the whole "you don't have to be touched if you don't want to be" is the standard and has been for years

Listen, I think we’re done on these lads now.

John Meehan@johndmeehan.bsky.social · 20h ago

Ruairí Ó Murchú TD SF (Louth) is currently on the RTÉ Radio 1 Late Debate advocating the failed "law and order" policy over drug use. He continues, joining in a far-right attack on a DRCC campaign about rape culture and consent. Sinn Féin is flying not 1 but 2 odious right-wing flags here.

I’m off to sleep now having watched 6c unionism collectively sh1t its pants live on the tv. Oíche mhaith a chairde Gael 💤

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Read this and weep, Dublin…and Cork…and Belfast:

Gareth Dennis@garethdennis.uk · 4d ago

That a metro system would be built in a northern UK city involving underground tunnels and stations is supposedly an impossible, unrealistic idea from an unserious mind. Meanwhile, Newcastle with 13km of bored tunnels and 9 underground stations built 13 years after first plans:

That the Government would knee-jerk themselves back to treating, as policy, children as the property of older family members who would have rights over them which would stand ahead of the rights of the child is a fresh new low in a week of novel depths.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · yesterday

Consent to be touched respects the person who has the right to choose whether they want it. Nobody has a right to physical interactions with children, whether or not the intent of that interaction is physical. The alternative is an unconscionable denial of children's rights to body autonomy.

We can fart around all we like pretending he's some sort of serious politician, but what has actually happened is that his brain has been cooked on X and he will never have a reasonable thought ever again. He is a grave danger to Irish society, and needs to be removed from his post.

Whether it be to do with Palestinian student visas, workers' rights or issues of consent, we need to understand that Jimmy Goebbels is taking almost all his cues from the online/Twitter far-right at this stage. There is no difference between him and them, and he should be treated accordingly.

Gary Gannon TD@garygannontd.bsky.social · yesterday

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

In January 1989 Douglas Hogg MP made his scandalous speech about ‘IRA’ lawyers. Weeks later the UDA, aided by State agencies, murdered Pat Finucane. Now Davis is playing the same dangerous game from the safety of the Commons. @maddenfinucane.bsky.social

Sharing this bit about how NGOs' reliance on the state for funds impacts their advocacy from a piece I did earlier this year, in light of the MoJ causing a DRCC ad to be pulled

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

Just FYI my metropolitan liberal elite flat white drinking cold water plunging comrades; if there isn’t a revolution in Ireland, and fast, we are heading for Jim O’Callaghan as the new leader of FF with a potential coalition with SF coming right at us, like a buzzard.

Place the gruntles of the disgruntled against the right of children to *decide if they want to be touched just now* and this isn’t even a debate. The children’s right to bodily autonomy tower over the transient wants of the disgruntled would be hugger. It’s not even a fine balance.

Vonny@vonny.bsky.social · yesterday

Listening to radio this afternoon it seems the main gripe is from grandparents in their 60s who feel patronized for being specifically targeted (as if they didnt already know and respect their grandkids). Mind boggling.

Donald Trump said last year that a drop-off in international visitors was 'not a big deal' but in recent months he has moved to reassure the US tourism industry. ft.trib.al/slqucxN

The position taken by the Minister for Justice and by the Minister for Health expressed to the Dáil and in this statement is that children's bodies are subject to rights of other family members to access to them. If your granddaughter doesn't want a hug, you should not insist on your right to hug.

Running for office on a platform of starving your colonial subjects

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · yesterday

The hunger in the Gaza Strip is part of the election campaign in Israel. Yulia Malinovsky, a Knesset member and candidate on behalf of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by Avigdor Lieberman, a right-wing opposition figure, blocked trucks carrying food aid to the Gaza Strip and prevented their entry.

Out of touch, car-centric victim-blaming nonsense. It's attitudes like this at the top that's the cause of rising road deaths and serious injuries.

Remember: If your vote didn't matter, billionaires wouldn't be spending their fortunes trying to buy our elections. Stay calm, support good candidates, do whatever you can to get out the vote, and vote as soon as you can. Don't let Big Money win.

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

Good idea this.

Izzy Kamikaze@izzykamikaze.bsky.social · yesterday

This is Dublin Rape Crisis Centre's donations page. Now would be a really good time to show your support for all their work - including education on consent. www.drcc.ie/donate/

Is this statement from Gary Gannon the only counter position from the opposition yet to the Minister for Justice's new policy on downgrading consent as the universal and only basis for touching children. Where's Alan Kelly (Lab) or Matt Carthy (SF) on this? www.socialdemocrats.ie/justice-mini...