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Que tiene que ver lo de Vito Quiles con Espinosa de los Monteros vs Abascal?

Its an amazing show but also kinda narrow, it follows the provisional IRA but shows very little of other irish factions or anything about the british/loyalist side

You can be a cool person without being a decent person, i.e Patrick Bateman, Darth Vader, Taylor Swift

I think this Starmer goverment is the UKs last chance to prove to Scotland that the union makes sense, and I don't think it's gonna work out.
Scottish Independance in the next 10 years seems likely to me. You can't perpetually keep a progressive country inside an austerity-conservative union

I only ever listen to these 3 songs from it, but the fact that they released 2 such different albums on the same day (and the other was the best album of all time) was such a flex

Lol Podemos muy obviamente quiere arrebatar el protagonismo de la izquierda, y no pasa nada, es lo que tiene sentido que hagan, que otra estrategia tendrian? El 15m ya no existe, nadie esta en modo pueblo unido vs casta, Podemos esta luchando por el espacio de IU y les va bien

Im having an identity crisis right now and im listening to them intensely again after a few years of only being a casual listener.

It helps me feel like myself, discovering them at 14 molded my brain and now their songs bring back all the feelings of my adolescence

The acoustic version is much better than the album one

youtu.be/l_ywjV-woGk?...

Where do the 30 and 16 years figures come from

Other than the first few seconds I really don't think there's a difference if you arent looking for one

To be fair they aren't worse versions. A lot of good stuff has came out of the "from the vault" songs, and i don't remember any of the re-done songs sounding worse

Why GH5 over A7iii for video? I have a GH5 and assume the A7iii would be better for both outside of some specific circumstances

Not sure this is about trans people, i assume it's about an "ungirly" girl, but still an interesing lyric from 2005

And again, i respect your organizations history and I do want the legacy celebrated, but it just doesn't seem relevant to the present. The Dáil is nowadays considered legitimate by the masses and by the mainstream of republicanism, so do we not have an obligation to contest for power in it?

What does Ta Power have to do with anything? He was killed 40 years ago.

I just don't see how you can be the "vanguard of the working class" when you are a marginal irrelevant organization. "Sound bites" can have issues but you can't expect to reach the masses with 100 page PDFs and gun displays

I guess im asking why does the organization still exist at all instead of just merging into People Before Profit, it just seems like a role play to still be doing masks and guns in 2024 when times have changed and a mass movement is needed

I have huge respect for what the IRSP was, but behaving like this in 2024 seems like counterproductive role-play. There is no armed struggle anymore, so why aren't you just members of People Before Profit? Also, it seems like illegimate appropriation to call yourselves the movement of Conolly

The protestant working class of the North need to feel that their class interests are better served by a united ireland, both for us to win and also because thats the whole point of this cause

Yep. While the south is a tax haven without a national health service, there is no path to a united Ireland. People in the south need to get a left wing block (SF + socdems, especially) into power and really reform the state before there will be a mass movement for unity

Yeah as a HUGE hozier fan i think his two hits (take me to church and too sweet) are his 2 most out of character songs, but atleast Take me to church is good.

God im so jealous, you also get to Listen to Lifted for the first time

Btw, with bright eyes, be careful not to listen to the "companian versions" of their albums, they are mostly terrible

It's their best but everything they put out between 98 and 2005 is incredible.
-Lifted
-Fevers and mirors
-Letting off the happiness
-Every day and every night
-Digital ash in a digital urn

A legendary run of albums

I wish i could experience listening to that album for the first time again. I remember listening to it at 14 and getting 3 songs in before texting my friend saying i have a new favourite band (and they still are 7 years later)

Found this DVD in my parent's house.
I find the way "9/11 eXpLoSiVe EvIdEnCe" is written so satifying

Retvrn to 2000s conspiracy dvds, spreading conspiracies on facebook/twitter is just so soulless compared to this

Well i assume their members care about left wing policy goals, and i believe this strategy increases the chances of those policies happening. Also, a quota of TDs/goverment positions

Greek left is a good contender for most absurdly split left in the world

Its neither an intro to the issue (assumes you already know a lot of context and is mostly about internal strategy debates in the palestine movement), nor do the authors actually say anything that interesting. It's also very much a product of 2014 and is dated. Though this prediction was accurate:

I didn't like "On Palestine" tbh. Nothing new in it if you have a basic understanding of the issue, basically just 200 pages of "BDS good, apartheid bad".

(Not commenting on the merits of the viewpoints in the book, just that it's not the best use of your time if you wanna read about palestine)

Thanks