save u going to boards heres the tweet for first
twitter.com/SPE32/status/972512845232508930?s=19
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
cannot seem to link tweets properly soz
and second
https://m.facebook.com/SolidarityTimes/photos/a.341910489331727.1073741828.341899462666163/780496845473087/?type=3&theater
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
on that latter i might have confused that hes not a steward today but was def a plant at a womans day march prev
not sure if firm link other than cointelpro tactics
srsly tho these lunatics
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Thank you! Will check those out now. Was reading the times article on this and just making a face at this:
“Ten weeks to ensure that the best of Irish people vote No to abortion,” she said. “Stand in the gap against the media and the international elites who think they could browbeat and bribe the Irish people into accepting the unacceptable, the killing of our own children,
― gyac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
the abortion industry sin é an rud nua now, abortion industry
id feel like saying "but we could use the jobs nach bfhuil ha?" but believe it or not im not actually a troll
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah totally unsurprised by the conclusion drawn by the Facebook page, it’s alluded to in the speech I partially quoted from above.
― gyac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
xp I mean...
i am getting the feeling its going to be tighter than coverage might have you think
on the likes of boards the presence and amount of obvious bots is getting more and more prevalent and its v unsettling
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
Are the Archbishoprics running bot campaigns now
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
xxp I never expected a walkover. In my lifetime, I couldn’t even foresee it passing. But the amount of people I know voting to repeal has me heartened. There are a lot of ordinary women coming forward and speaking up on things like the In Her Shoes - Women of the Eight page.
Re: the attendance padding:
Some may mock, but that's only because they can't see that everyone on the march is surrounded by several angels. (Unfortunately none of the angels are eligible to vote in the referendum)— Ray (@ray_cun) March 10, 2018
― gyac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
fact
a lot of attendees are children
was thinking today about the split being one side raised to their strong opinion and the other arriving at it, whether that was fair, how true it was, what did it suggest, did it matter
then i made a pretty good apple pie
i think repeal will pass.
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
A lot of attendees aren’t citizens either, I’d go so far to say.
Arriving at it? Hmmm, I don’t know. I have always been strongly pro-choice as far as I can remember - I’d go so far as to say that it’s the single issue closest to my heart in terms of politics at home. But then I was growing up reading about the X case and the C case...
It’s not the way that people arrive at their opinion that matters; it’s the issue itself. Gay marriage was a simple and positive campaign comparatively - who is against love? Abortion isn’t quite so straightforward and it’s not something you can make a soft focus, media friendly case for. It’s a lot of grey where the anti choice side operates in strict black and white.
― gyac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
agreed
i think upthread there's discussion on how in ireland its not strictly a liberal/conservative divide (as they fall along normal lines) in that you might be surprised how a person feels about it
im not sure if that still holds true but i suspect ive a few people i kniw quite well who would be against repeal. i dont think i met anyone except my father in law who was eh out as against marriage ref
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
I’d agree with that. Though I’ve been surprised by the number of people I know in favour - and even more so by the numbers vocally in favour. Especially as doing so will earn you the full attention of YD and the rest.
― gyac, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
....
we may or may not have yd in the office I'll be damned if i poke the bear if she doesnt
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
google noel pattern, noel patrun, nollaig o patrun for more of this malarkey
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
this is gonna be ugly stupid close
the tactics and behaviour and contempt for decency of the large no fringe is ... maddening, shocking, idk
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
LG's first post in this thread reveals a family connection
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
update your former ilxor .xls accordingly
It’s vmic for anti choice campaigning the world over. I’m not surprised by them. I was surprised by, for example, Farmers for Yes and “It upsets me to think of somebody’s daughter afraid, alone, unsafe, taking medication that they smuggled into the country. Afraid of breaking the law. Afraid to seek help. We can do better. We need to do better. We need to care for our women at home in Ireland.”
I’ve been desperately trying not to follow the coverage* too closely because it is important to me that it pass and I don’t want to get too involved. I’m still on the register and get a polling card delivered to my parents’ house, but of course I can’t use it.
Today was the first time I looked at the polling and yeah it’s close but it’s going to depend on turnout.
I am sure you’ve seen the thread by Paula on @ireland last week but for anyone who hasn’t, this is desperately sad and honest and is exactly why this amendment needs to go:
Ok I’m going to share a story with you regarding a crisis pregnancy I had many years ago, I have previously shared this story on my own account but think it might be good to revisit it. I was 15 when I became pregnant, 15 when I gave birth too. My eldest is now 27 #togetherforyes— Ireland / REFCOM (@ireland) May 18, 2018
*except In Her Shoes - Women of the Eighth. I can’t get over how brave those people are for telling their stories.
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
otm to the stories and otm to avoid most coverage
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
fb have an "abroad for yes" page where theyre matching donors to people who cant afford to get home to vote under their own resources
#hometovote is worth following
feeling hopeful
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 May 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
high turnout reported
which is good, very good indeed
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
good luck eire
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 25 May 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
was just coming here to post that exact phrase
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
ugh
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
good luck ugh
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:13 (five years ago) link
friend who can vote is stuck in canada and friends that can't are in dublin trying to get the vote out. the yes campaign has been very impressive and makes me hopeful
― ogmor, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:16 (five years ago) link
good luck the free state
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:27 (five years ago) link
acceptable
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
Good luck , Ireland.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
correct
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
I want it to pass; anything besides that is a bonus. But it would be incredible if it passed with a decent margin just to fuck all the No side off even more. No doubt they’ll be claiming #hometovote were flouting electoral law or immigrants were voting or...
I hope and think it will pass and high turnout is good but I remember the Brexit referendum as well because a lot of the high turnout was people who never normally voted coming out.
I hope we don’t have that happening here!
Exit poll at 11.20, bizarrely on the Late Late, will be drinking heavily beforehand.
Hope all the American No grotesques learn something fro this.
On a lighter note, this nuns@polls thread is incredible.
So we're all no doubt used to seeing pictures of nuns at polling stations. In many ways, it's the cute Irish parallel of perfidious Albion's #dogsatpollingstations— Pidge (Vote Yes pls) (@Pidge) May 24, 2018
― gyac, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:56 (five years ago) link
The Catholic Church still has its loyal supporters though...
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/orange-order-abortion-no
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
Oh well that changes everything! Saw Nick Griffin weighing in as well.
― gyac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
if ever there was an argument for abortion, it's nick griffin
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
good luck foeti
― foo fronked to drick (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:04 (five years ago) link
Re: Americans campaigning for No - https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/europe/ireland-abortion-referendum-american-campaigners-intl/index.html
― gyac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
it's not like Americans to interfere in other nations's politics
― foo fronked to drick (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
Anti-choice people are the worst. Keep that madness locked up in your own home.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
Sorry about the douchey Americans. I really don't understand how were allowed to continue to do that.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
I was reading this piece by Sarah Jones in The New Replublic yesterday. Not so much Americans (as in the US government backing the military to overthrow someone already elected in a foreign country) as the US-based Christian Right (a weird coalition) that have spent their own time to knock on doors elsewhere:
https://newrepublic.com/article/148518/american-christians-swaying-irelands-abortion-referendum
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
xp ye werent! its explicitly against visa rules, but the organs of the state have turned a blind eye to all of the despicable behaviours throughout.
i gave fifty pounds, fuckin queens pounds mind you, so that two ppl could fly home from the uk solely to calm my blood after reading that article
also got into an irl argument in the street against a yank with a microphone. twas the mic really sent me over the edge.
anyway....fuckin nerves
on a plane to sf for the actual result
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:24 (five years ago) link
that nun thread is extraordinary
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I was asking about the visas and them doing volunteer work that has monetary value. It's not like they are just standing on the street willing to engage in conversation.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
hey if they can send lads from Utah to knock on my front door in Hull so i can politely tell them i'm not buying it then they can go anywhere
― foo fronked to drick (Noodle Vague), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
gyac, how dare you americanize this thread.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Those Utah boys likely had the correct visas. I was in line behind a bunch of them a couple of months ago for visas.
― Yerac, Friday, 25 May 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/3u1jEqJRvbpWXpH_tCTE-5rpssE=/fit-in/600x457/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-87049-1276436264.jpeg.jpg
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
passed and off to himself for signing
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
I saw this and haven’t really followed, are they still planning to charge €300 for the procedure?
Twitter moments categorised Savita’s death as “Indian woman who died in Ireland” and it made my eye twitch, so here are my favourite pictures of the Savita mural back in May:
The scene at Savita’s mural in Dublin’s Portobello as polls closed in Ireland’s abortion referendum pic.twitter.com/VAbVPSpCgi— Rita O'Reilly (@RitaOReilly) May 25, 2018
The Savita mural in Dublin right now @rtenews pic.twitter.com/cbE2z9nnHl— Samantha Libreri (@SamanthaLibreri) May 26, 2018
Flowers and messages left at a mural for Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 after she was refused an abortion pic.twitter.com/eXGqN7vOoq— Eleanor Barlow (@EleanorBarlow) May 26, 2018
Flowers and tributes were left at the Dublin mural of Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 in an Irish hospital after she was denied an abortion while suffering the complications of a septic miscarriage. “I’m so sorry. My vote was for you,” one note reads. #8thRef pic.twitter.com/b5DRnfZFs9— Sinéad Baker (@sineadbaker1) May 26, 2018
― gyac, Friday, 14 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
</3
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Friday, 14 December 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
idk gyac about the charges but id imagine not, possibly that was a reporting of some of the amendments that the religious td/senator crowd were tryinf to have implemented while it went through oireachtas
stress im not sure on that tho
― Moussa- ppl gon die (darraghmac), Friday, 14 December 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
I guess we can crowd fund a um, fund for people who need abortions?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Friday, 14 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link