Dumb/Great Facebook Status {merge} [No Names] - Part II

benjamin d

kunst nugget wrote: »

Saw a few people lose their shít over that article because it offered up the viewpoint that all identity politics was doing was creating more and more division. The type of gobsheen that loses their shít over an article like this are the type that use the term 'comrade' unironically and believe hashtag activism is going to change the world. It was a pretty sensible article imo.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/identity-politics-is-utterly-ineffective-at-anything-other-than-dividing-people-1.3087639

The twitter/Tumblr/internet/3rd wave feminist left is heavily populated with fascists who lack the self awareness to realise it. Extreme Orwellian behaviour is the norm.

Hector Savage

kunst nugget wrote: »

Saw a few people lose their shít over that article because it offered up the viewpoint that all identity politics was doing was creating more and more division. The type of gobsheen that loses their shít over an article like this are the type that use the term 'comrade' unironically and believe hashtag activism is going to change the world. It was a pretty sensible article imo.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/identity-politics-is-utterly-ineffective-at-anything-other-than-dividing-people-1.3087639

Perfectly sensible and spot on article.
What kind of mentally ill buffoon would get angry over this ?

kunst nugget

Hector Savage wrote: »

Perfectly sensible and spot on article.
What kind of mentally ill buffoon would get angry over this ?

I was going to say you'd be surprised but I actually doubt you would…

JCX BXC

"Bet dem dat did this waz not in de least edumacated proply & did'nt do skool above year 5 Either Way such vandalisim is Totally Unexceptable. Hope the Gardi get them. A.S.A.P."

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Just no comment on this one. I actually had to check their profile to make sure it wasn't a sarcastic comment, and nope, it was fully serious.

Edumacated indeed.

terminatorX1

Can anyone recommend some that can fix a inter graded fridge

Cee-Jay-Cee

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Cop on Comrades
We are a group of activist women from a wide variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Last week, a good number of the left-wing men we work and organise with seriously disappointed us. These men - our friends, our fellow trade unionists, activists, writers, organisers, and artists - shared and commented on a reductive and damaging article written by Frankie Gaffney, which was published in the Irish Times.
We live in a world where our advantages are tangled up with the things that disadvantage us - some of us are working class, some queer, some of us are poor, some of us come from minority ethnic groups or have disabilities or don’t enjoy the security of citizenship. As well, some of us have had a multitude of opportunities in our lives while some of us have had to fight our way through. It is an obligation on all of us to honestly look at our different positions within the structures of oppression and privilege under patriarchal racial capitalism. It is only by acknowledging all these differences that we have any chance of imagining and building a better world that includes us all.Working-class ‘straight white men’ in Ireland don’t have it easy these days. They never did. They are ignored by a political class that couldn’t care less about them. They should have a say in the decisions that affect their lives, but they often don’t.
However, that doesn’t make them immune to critique. We all have to examine ourselves as oppressor as well as oppressed - because we are all both. The response to the article felt like a silencing to us and we are writing this because we are way past putting up with that. You will see from the names on this letter that we are women who have been in the thick of things. Whether in political parties and organisations, education, trade unions, or grassroots and community-based movements, we are tired of being accused of ‘bourgeois feminism’ and of betraying the struggle when we raise our voices. No campaign in this country could survive without women, without us – our work and energy and knowledge and organising have been instrumental in all the progressive movements in this country. When we say we need to be recognised and respected within our movements, we need you to listen.The article expressed the view that identity politics is good for nothing except dividing movements, using language and narratives that have been made popular by MRA (Men’s Rights Activist) groups and the alt-right. According to such narratives, straight white men are the new most oppressed group. This ignores the struggles of women and others at the sharp end of misogyny, racism, anti-trans and anti-queer violence. It aims to silence those who will no longer tolerate the violence, abuse and marginalisation we have suffered for so long. These alt-right arguments have been used by people on the left to support the view that women, and feminists in particular, are to blame for the rise of the far right – for instance, for Trump’s election - and for neoliberal capitalism, which is seen as having damaged working class men in particular.n this version of events, straight white men are made to feel uncomfortable about being ‘born this way’ by social media-fuelled ‘political correctness’. They are too afraid to say what they think or express opinions for fear of online retribution. Men who claim to be silenced in this way might try a week or even a day as a vocal woman or person of colour online and see how they deal with the rape threats and threats of racist violence that follow.
We are not concerned here about one opinion piece by one person. Rather we have all been aware of the increasing trend towards this particular new type of silencing of women from our supposed fellow activists on the left. The arguments mounted here and elsewhere are apparently to criticise some of the worst aspects of ‘call-out culture’, as well as the lean-in type of so-called feminism that disregards class and race. Yet they seem to be used now by some of our left-wing activist comrades as an excuse not to deal with the complexities of gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation in our political organising.These excuses, when accepted, prevent us from seeing clearly the state of our movements - who is taking part in them, who is heard and represented, who is doing the work. These are massive issues that have to do with how we are creating mass movements, which need to be addressed and faced to ensure that people of different classes, races, ethnicities, sexual orientation and gender have not just a voice but leading roles in our struggle. Without this solidarity in working together, we are simply imitating the oppressive structures we want to fight - the structures that say "not now, your life comes second." It is not the straight white men who are being silenced when this argument is made.
We are working-class women, women of colour, migrant women, trans women, Traveller women, disabled women, queer women, women who are sex workers, women with children, and women who are none of these, active in our communities and committed to an anti-capitalist struggle. We are well aware that a right-wing, neoliberal distortion of feminism and what is called ‘identity politics’ exists. We know this because it erases our experiences and struggles and we resist this erasure through our work as activists every single day. It is distressing and enraging that we also have to fight against the bad faith of fellow activists on the left – mostly men, sometimes women – who, for their own reasons, blur the distinction between this kind of middle-class neoliberal faux-feminism, and a truly radical feminist politics that has class struggle at its very core. This hurts us because it erases and undermines our realities, our suffering, our analyses, and our organising, and gives more strength to the powers that are ranged against us. For many of us, it is heart-breaking to look at some of the men around us and realise that they are nodding in agreement with this erasure of their working class women friends and comrades.
Most of us have grown up learning to appease men. How to give them our space, how to deal with the fact that they dominate any political discussions, that they are paid more, heard more and believed more. However, most of us expect that the men we work with in all the social justice movements we are part of should have at least considered how they are complicit in this domination when they refuse to recognise that it exists. Patriarchy forces men into roles that damage them as well as us. Most of us have men that we love, admire and respect in our lives and for that reason, not only because it damages and diminishes the life experiences of women, we should all be fighting patriarchy together.

thesandeman wrote: »

^
If anybody quotes that I'm leaving Boards.

See ya.

team_actimel

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

See ya.

Ah here.

AndrewJRenko

JCX BXC wrote: »

"Bet dem dat did this waz not in de least edumacated proply & did'nt do skool above year 5 Either Way such vandalisim is Totally Unexceptable. Hope the Gardi get them. A.S.A.P."

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Just no comment on this one. I actually had to check their profile to make sure it wasn't a sarcastic comment, and nope, it was fully serious.

Edumacated indeed.

Something smells here. 'Year 5' is a UK term. THis would be somewhere around 3rd class primary, but it is not a term used here. And Gardi isn't used in UK.

somesoldiers

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

Something smells here. 'Year 5' is a UK term. THis would be somewhere around 3rd class primary, but it is not a term used here. And Gardi isn't used in UK.

yes and "edumacated" smells also- this is how a normal person would write how someone says it- so to speak. not how they would spell it themselves

team_actimel

somesoldiers wrote: »

yes and "edumacated" smells also- this is how a normal person would write how someone says it- so to speak. not how they would spell it themselves

I've never heard an Irish person call 5th year, Year 5.

Gallant_JJ

Asolute disgrace that myself and my girlfriend were not allocated seats together for our flight on Saturday. However if we are willing to spend £10 we can change our seats, and weirdly enough there are seats available either side of the ones we have been individually allocated. Why cant you just be dead on and have given us our seats together, they were booked together, checked in together, just change one of our seats please! The Irish pride themselves on their hospitality and looking after one another, but this completely lets the side down, it is clearly a money making maneuver. I am embarassed for you. There is going to be at least one other couple in the same situation and I have no problem holding up the flight until I find someone willing to swap seats. So much for your ding dong and applause for having another flight on time as I would far rather keep my tenner than give it to your shareholders. P.S dont expect me to put my tray table up on landing either!

SecretsOfEarth

Gallant_JJ wrote: »

Asolute disgrace that myself and my girlfriend were not allocated seats together for our flight on Saturday. However if we are willing to spend £10 we can change our seats, and weirdly enough there are seats available either side of the ones we have been individually allocated. Why cant you just be dead on and have given us our seats together, they were booked together, checked in together, just change one of our seats please! The Irish pride themselves on their hospitality and looking after one another, but this completely lets the side down, it is clearly a money making maneuver. I am embarassed for you. There is going to be at least one other couple in the same situation and I have no problem holding up the flight until I find someone willing to swap seats. So much for your ding dong and applause for having another flight on time as I would far rather keep my tenner than give it to your shareholders. P.S dont expect me to put my tray table up on landing either!

They should call Liveline, it hasn't been discussed on there at all!

El Weirdo

Gallant_JJ wrote: »

...it is clearly a money making maneuver.

thesandeman

We'll all know who that is when the case of the rebel who refused to put his table up comes to court.

fussyonion

Someone on my timeline posted that 'I found a bank card and gave it back to the owner. No need to tell FB and act the hero'.

I wrote under his post: "But sure you just told FB didn't you?"
I await his response.

Ralf and Florian

Female: "Nb j head up strong walls shake never collapse..."

Male: "That's true sham"

Female: "Fact cove mind r mad days haha "

Male: "Ya off the nuts in still off my nuts"

Female: "Aye me 2 ha"

team_actimel

_____ was feeling horrible. "such a boarin friday".

coolhull

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Female: "N b j head up strong walls shake never collapse..."

Male: "That's true sham"

Female: "Fact cove mind r mad days haha "

Male: "Ya off the nuts in still off my nuts"

Female: "Aye me 2 ha"

Can't figure out this one at all. Something about a blowj*b?

team_actimel

team_actimel wrote: »

_____ was feeling horrible. "such a boarin friday".

This girl lists her work as 'On the dole, scratching me hole' on Facebook.

At least she's being upfront about it unlike the 'Full-time mad bastard' brigade.

Ralf and Florian

team_actimel wrote: »

This girl lists her work as 'On the dole, scratching me hole' on Facebook.

At least she's being upfront about it unlike the 'Full-time mad bastard' brigade.

Only marginally worse than the "university of life" brigade.

Ralf and Florian

The male from previous FB exchange (it's his profile). Post is newspaper pic of him being escorted to court by prison officer and him giving the finger to camera. Below exchange takes place. He's male 1.

Male 1 : Jailed for **** all Donegal garda curupt bastards.

Female : Omg!!!

Male 2 : yup outa dat (his name) boy lol

Male 1 : Bloods b4 cops **** the pigs

Male 2 : uth **** da scum is rite may they all rot in hell the dirty bastards man

Male 1 : 2pac r.i.p

Male 2 : hah header

Male 1 : (his name)'s back

Male 2 : back and away again

Male 1 : Shh I was on da boat yesterday lol

Male 1 : Listen to the mc i put up there three

Male 3 : Ahaha go on boy


It's worth mentioning that the "f**k all" he's been jailed for is arson and he's got 34 previous convictions.

alwaysadub

Wen yur doing yur Shopping n Some one Comes Along n asks yu How is yur brother heard he was very sick n Hospital .......Like Wat ??I Cudnt care less if hes Sick so wat ....if he dies so wat .......Who Cares .....I DON'T........


Lovely.

drake70

"bit of a controvertial question. ive been going to this massage parlour in (name of town) for years. they have changed location three times but same owners.

half way through my massage. she asked out straight if i wanted a handj*b. as a gay male and in a relationship i said no. felt totally awkward and pre paid 55euro. although if i was single and it was a male messuse i may have thought twice. what are your views regarding corruption, should i report, possible std or health issues from possibly missed bodily fluids that were not cleaned up. then the thought is in my head some men and maybe wemen enjoy this experience as they may be single and getting nothing.then the thought of people who are married or committed and accept...is this a form of adultery. what are your views and should i do anything or turn a blind eye?"

El Weirdo

drake70 wrote: »

"bit of a controvertial question. ive been going to this massage parlour in (name of town) for years. they have changed location three times but same owners.

half way through my massage. she asked out straight if i wanted a handj*b. as a gay male and in a relationship i said no. felt totally awkward and pre paid 55euro. although if i was single and it was a male messuse i may have thought twice. what are your views regarding corruption, should i report, possible std or health issues from possibly missed bodily fluids that were not cleaned up. then the thought is in my head some men and maybe wemen enjoy this experience as they may be single and getting nothing.then the thought of people who are married or committed and accept...is this a form of adultery. what are your views and should i do anything or turn a blind eye?"

Jesus, this guy's so gay, he can't even spell "women".

BattleCorp

drake70 wrote: »

"bit of a controvertial question. ive been going to this massage parlour in (name of town) for years. they have changed location three times but same owners.

half way through my massage. she asked out straight if i wanted a handj*b. as a gay male and in a relationship i said no. felt totally awkward and pre paid 55euro. although if i was single and it was a male messuse i may have thought twice. what are your views regarding corruption, should i report, possible std or health issues from possibly missed bodily fluids that were not cleaned up. then the thought is in my head some men and maybe wemen enjoy this experience as they may be single and getting nothing.then the thought of people who are married or committed and accept...is this a form of adultery. what are your views and should i do anything or turn a blind eye?"

Where.....ahem..... is this massage parlour, just for information purposes of course.

LynnGrace

Gallant_JJ wrote: »

Asolute disgrace that myself and my girlfriend were not allocated seats together for our flight on Saturday. However if we are willing to spend £10 we can change our seats, and weirdly enough there are seats available either side of the ones we have been individually allocated. Why cant you just be dead on and have given us our seats together, they were booked together, checked in together, just change one of our seats please! The Irish pride themselves on their hospitality and looking after one another, but this completely lets the side down, it is clearly a money making maneuver. I am embarassed for you. There is going to be at least one other couple in the same situation and I have no problem holding up the flight until I find someone willing to swap seats. So much for your ding dong and applause for having another flight on time as I would far rather keep my tenner than give it to your shareholders. P.S dont expect me to put my tray table up on landing either!

That will show them!

coolhull

team_actimel wrote: »

This girl lists her work as 'On the dole, scratching me hole' on Facebook.

She could make a good living as a poet, maybe?

fussyonion

team_actimel wrote: »

This girl lists her work as 'On the dole, scratching me hole' on Facebook.

At least she's being upfront about it unlike the 'Full-time mad bastard' brigade.

:D

fussyonion

fussyonion wrote: »

Someone on my timeline posted that 'I found a bank card and gave it back to the owner. No need to tell FB and act the hero'.

I wrote under his post: "But sure you just told FB didn't you?"
I await his response.

*UPDATE*

"Im telling Facebook so people know in future not to go bragging about doing good deeds, thats all!"

Me: "Yeah I know but you're bragging on FB about doing a good deed is what I'm saying" (I attached a smiley face)

Him: "You're missing the point. Good vibes all round! Be nice to others and they'll be nice to you!"

A FEW HOURS LATER:

Him (new post): "To the absolute POX of a bouncer on the doors of (PUB NAME) don't worry pal your day is coming! Watch your back. Refusing entry to someone passionate about MMA is lethal!"

WHIP IT!

fussyonion wrote:

Him (new post): "To the absolute POX of a bouncer on the doors of (PUB NAME) don't worry pal your day is coming! Watch your back. Refusing entry to someone passionate about MMA is lethal!"