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Micheal OLainn

@micheal_olainn

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For social justice, social democracy, fairness, inclusivity, rationality, empiricism, diversity and kindness. Against hate speech, racism and Twitter bullies.

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Joined June 2016
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@micheal_olainn
Micheal OLainn
2 years
@alipasha_ Ali thought of others, he thought of his community, he was an activist and he was a self sacrificing leader. The tennis player is just concerned about himself. There can be no greater contrast.
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#Covid19Ireland Cheltenham. Some of those who returned to Ireland from Cheltenham are testing positive. 1 of these worked in Beaumont Hospital and was isolated yesterday. These people who returned have infected others. GPs are inundated with calls as a result. Cheltenham idiots
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2 years
@mrstmak I’m very old and on social media since 2015. My best Tweet ever made me famous. I actually got 5 likes. What a day!
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2 years
@doctor_oxford @ukhomeoffice I would be willing to get the ferry to France, collect her and bring her to Ireland, if that would help? Or I can fly to France, pay for her flight to Dublin and I will be able to organise temporary accommodation. Then she might later enter the U.K. from Ireland?
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@rtenews I have to say that it looks entirely accidental to me. I have made such errors in reversing. Just an unfortunate misjudgement.
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@micheal_olainn
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2 years
@hell0babs @cd_phone Work to live Don’t live to work. We are truly disposable, however good and valuable we may think that we are.
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@JuliaHB1 Your Tweets describe precisely who you are. You reveal and expose yourself. I feel sorry for you. It’s such a sad waste of a human life.
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@1goodtern The problem is now that infectious disease has been made into a matter of political ideology and identity of political allegiance. The second dimension is that people want familiarity, the old normality or normalcy, the comfort and complacency of feeling safe even when not.
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3 years
@newschambers @VirginMediaNews It is good of Covid to agree to a curfew, so that it won’t infect people up to midnight. After midnight, open season.
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2 years
@Peston The U.K. ought to be ashamed of itself, to have a sense of profound national shame, over having such a Home Secretary, and a Home Secretary who can express herself in such terms. Shame, shame, shame.
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Micheal OLainn
3 years
@ColinParryPeace @peacefoundation So unbearably sad and cruel. I’m an Irishman and I need to apologise for the fact that Irish men did this. It is a great and terrible shame. I’m very sorry. Irish unity is not and never was worth the shedding of a single drop of human blood.
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2 years
@mrstmak Ohh wow! 15 likes! Enough, enough. I can’t handle it. My ego is inflating to bursting point.
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Micheal OLainn
1 year
@stoolpresidente I’m European. I have never had any difficulty getting lunch anywhere in Europe. There is a technique, though. Lunch is actually served at lunchtime and you actually need to know the times of lunchtime. Then it’s easy.
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@_SJPeace_ Leaving aside his commission of a violent racist hate crime, the perpetrator was in flagrant breach of social distancing.
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Micheal OLainn
4 years
@notcapnamerica @vmax_14 Not just white women, also white men. It is about a feeling of loss of privilege, a threat to our sense of entitlement, a sense of our supposed superiority being challenged. It is ugly, nasty, horrible and it is profoundly racist.
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Micheal OLainn
4 months
They may be a small minority but there is an extremely Nasti streak in some Irish people.
@rtenews
RTÉ News
4 months
Dozens of protesters at hotel chosen to house asylum seekers | Read more:
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@micheal_olainn
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1 year
@Dan_Wyke Yes indeed, according to virologists.
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4 months
Once Conor McGregor is on your side, you have zero moral credibility and you are just a hateful and nasty bigot.
@themayonews
The Mayo News
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Conor McGregor praises Mayo council for 'fair and well played' move against migrant cooperation
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4 years
@BBCNews Newsnight was factually correct and accurate. Cummings broke the rules.
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3 years
@Short_Spitfire At 4 years of age, a Roman Catholic Nun whacked my left hand so severely, for writing with my left hand, that 3 of the metatarsals were broken. I wrote with my right hand after that. Years later, when my right hand was injure the X Rays showed the childhood fractures.
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The far-right, the Iona “Institute”, Senators Keogan, Mullen and McDowell, supported by the Catholic Bishops and by Aontu, want a resounding NO, NO, vote. The Pro-Life brigade want a NO NO vote The hate activists want a NO NO vote. Look at who want NO NO
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2 years
Excellent letter on the Joe Duffy Liveline treatment of a sensitive topic.
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2 years
@KateBHdj It had not occurred to me that a butch woman could or would run into that sort of horrible and hostile flack. It’s so oppressive and so perversely unfair. Once we start target anyone who seems to be gender non conforming, we embark on a very dangerous path.
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@micheal_olainn
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@JasonChristoff6 Your face would be visually improved by the wearing of a full face mask.
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Micheal OLainn
4 years
@ActingTheGom @RianOCeallaigh @lidl_ireland I know me constutuuutionelll roights not to wear a mask. It might smother me tiny little brain.
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@NaomiOhReally 1. Excellent and analytical article. 2. It’s very important for accountability reasons that the article was written and published. This is principled and informed journalism at its very best. You do a great service. Thank you.
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Micheal OLainn
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#AlanShatter Alan Shatter is such an extreme propagandist for Netanyahu led Israel that I’ve decided not to have any further interaction with him. He is irrational, fiercely partisan and an extreme Zionist. He is best ignored.
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Micheal OLainn
2 years
@Otto_English I was unaware of the significance of the Colston statue until it was removed. I am now much better informed about the pervasive contribution of the slave trade, to British economic history and indeed to British culture and social anthropology. So, it was educational/informative
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Micheal OLainn
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@cprazevedo Difficult question. Ultimately I think what we actually do and do at our very worst truly defines us, shows the world and ourselves our true and essential nature. Biden is fully and accurately defined by Gaza.
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2 years
@JordTomlinson95 Appropriate response in a workplace. The workplace is a place for collaboration, not for hate and bigotry.
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@LensVeritatis Netanyahu is highly prejudiced against Gentiles or Goyim.
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2 years
@davesumnersmith I have COPD. Wearing a mask outdoors and outside of my home has greatly alleviated my symptoms. I breath more easily. I’ve not had pneumonia since the start of the pandemic. My pulmonary function has improved by nearly 10%. I no longer sound like a punctured windbag.
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#COVIDisAirborne Covid really is airborne. Covid is spread through exhalation of aerosolised viral laden particles and inhalation of those aerosolised viral laden particles. The most recent variants of Omicron create a huge viral laden plume. Wear masks, N95s.
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2 years
@gavreilly @VirginMediaNews It would be much, much safer, security wise, to close the Embassy and to request the Diplomatic staff to take an extended vacation back in the Motherland.
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@Berlinnaeus Well said! Exactly. Trans rights don’t need to be made a wedge issue, a divisive issue, in Ireland. We don’t need to descend into this demonisation of one part of out society.
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2 years
@SuellaBraverman You appear not to respect the verdict of the Jury. If so, shame on you. You are attempting to interfere in the administration of justice for wholly improper political motives.
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@JonathanTod_TFP For now, only for now, the most prominent hate politician in the U.K. is Suella Braverman. She instigates and promotes hate. It is her political currency and her political energy.
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Sad to see that in a County which was traditionally very hospitable to strangers. Far-right xenophobia is like a metastasising tumour, a spreading blight, a nasty viral infection, an infection and contaminating influence in the body politic. Even Mayo is not immune.
@themayonews
The Mayo News
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‘The town is just not able’ - Protestors wait overnight outside Ballinrobe hotel proposed for international protection applicants
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The public identification by Gript of the original nationality of origin of the assailant, a mentally disturbed Irish citizen, lit the fuse and caused the entire course of subsequent events of the violent riots. Gript was the trigger.
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What is the future of policing in Dublin after the riot on Thursday? @john_mcguirk @hazechu @lawlessj @marie_sherlock #TonightVMTV
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2 years
@Arron_banks Your strategy was to bully Ms Cadwalladr and so pursuing a vindictive appeal would fit with that strategy. The Judge has decided. We see you for what your are, Mr Banks
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It is frightening to see how the embers of fascism are starting to glow hot and bright again. We have seen how fascism grows, we know its techniques and method but here we are, once more, having been warned.
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Ongoing worldwide
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2 years
@pictureladyjan @YvetteCooperMP Braverman spouts mindless polemic and empty insults. She is worthless as a KC, worthless as a politician and a disaster as a Home Secretary. She has floated to the top while being the worst.
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Micheal OLainn
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@Independent_ie I see absolutely no problem with him burning his Irish passport. He can surrender his Irish citizenship and make his point.
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4 years
@darrengrimes_ The police officer was part of a controlled and coordinated charge down on fleeing protestors. So intent was the horseback police officer on hunting down his human quarry, he failed to see the traffic lights and was unhorsed. He was not protecting anyone. He was on a human hunt
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@DmytroGurinMP @conorwinkle This is your personal testimony. It is truth and the world needs to hear and to listen. This is a vicious, ruthless and criminal campaign of attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure. It breaks the Geneva Convention.
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@CounsellingKaz @wendylyon One of my best friends is named “Karen”. I don’t where this anti Karen nonsense has come from.
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@toadmeister @anne12262550 An observational study, not a randomised clinical trial. There is still no actual,clinical evidence of the safety and efficacy of Invermectin. Pharmaceuticals are not about ideology. Show us clinical trial evidence.
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@WhistleblowingT @Lance63 I would not go politely to a lecture by Nigel Farage because I know that it would be attended by supporters of racism, hate, anti refugee and by broadly extreme right sympathisers. I would go to disrupt the hate mongering by Farage. Eton College is a toxic environment.
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@TonightVMTV @ciarakellydoc I don’t think that Dr Ciara Kelly has the required professional competence in order to advise on return to school. She is not an epidemiologist or a virologist.
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@trishgreenhalgh Capital is the priority in the U.K. People are the priority in New Zealand. It’s a values based decision.
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@Baddiel It is more accurate to say that, in generations to come, they will look back appalled at what Israel perpetrated in Gaza and at why and how the West, in particular, the US, the U.K. and the EU supported Israel’s campaign against the Palestinians people and the greater Nakba.
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2 years
@con_meehan @DrMaireadDB Masks. If I don’t wear a mask, I could infect you. If you don’t wear a mask you could infect me. If we both don’t wear a mask, we maximise the probability of infection transmission.
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@jk_rowling I don’t know what you mean by gay people being being “redefined”. People are as they are. People are not definitions or constructs. Are you a spokesperson for the gay community? Do you speak for them in their entirety?
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@courtsnewsIRL Enoch Burke is in jail because he rid in contempt of a court injunction to stay away from the school premises while suspended. He can return home if he agrees to abide by the Court order. Effectively, Burke is self imprisoning.
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Respect to Kathy Burke. She calls it as it is.
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Applause to the great Kathy Burke
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4 months
#Mayo Mayo has such a terrible scarcity of resources that it would be unfair or people to impose a tourism burden on County Mayo. Tourists stay away from Mayo. Give Mayo a chance,
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3 years
@SenatorMarkDaly @opwireland That is truly depressing. Removing nature, removing habitat and destroying riverside habitat. This attacks nature. Come on. Let’s embrace nature. Let us stop this unrelenting destruction, clearances. Allow wildness.
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Today I’ve been blocked by both Alan Shatter and by Charlie Flanagan. I must be doing something half right and moderately decent at last. It’s an encouragement to keep up the work and to improve.
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@DAaronovitch Judge, I only murdered 10 people in cold blood. Please let me off. The previous Defendant murdered 50 people in cold blood.
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2 years
@carolecadwalla An immensely brave journalist spoke truth to power, revealed Russian influence, exposed Arron Banks, and has been the subject of gross legal oppression together with personal and professional bullying by means of legal process.
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2 years
@AndersonAfDMdEP @JustinTrudeau AfD certainly knows about political extremism. As a European citizen, I voice my criticism of your statement. It was unjustified and wrong.
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@EmilBergholtz @astaines I would like to see a long article on this specific topic. I was surprised in Ireland how quickly we were seduced by the notion that we could easily, conveniently, co-exist with a hostile pathogen which was evolving, unpredictable and imposing a huge healthcare burden. Thanks
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3 years
@Bbmorg In Ireland we have a saying. He was far too busy being a Catholic to bother with trying to being Christian.
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4 years
#golfgate so Varadkar admitted that he got an invite to the event and it did not occur to him to suggest or to request that the event should not proceed.
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JK Rowling is fully consumed by hate. She is entirely lost to hate.
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@rowlingmore @jk_rowling It’s all about “Anti-Woke”, whatever “Woke” might be. It’s a highly developed sense of reactivity, an obsession with the preservation of established norms, a rejection of anything which is not cleanly and prescriptively binary, a need for categorical imperative.
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@perfectrose2011 @mrstmak I’m now going to be totally obnoxious and arrogant. Twitter has created a monster.
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@AdamBienkov Lawyers are professionally obliged to do their best professional best for their clients. This is a blatant attempt to exert a chilling effect on lawyers. Professional representative bodies need to resist this attempt to render lawyers subservient to political direction.
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@business We are all in this together, shoulder to shoulder, said the multi billionaire from his off shore sanctuary to his poorly paid minions at risk from Covid19.
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@JibbaJabb Hitchins personifies this awful smug “gotcha” of the pale, male and stale outlook, in which the display of the pretence of intellectual superiority is the point but missing the point, missing the meaning, missing the entire purpose. He is a sophist trickster. He is a trivialist.
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#SenatorKeogan Senator Sharon Keogan has no shame, no decency, no humanity, she is just a pure hate activist engaged in Nasti hate activism in the hope of gathering a few votes on the back of hate. Keogan is a stain on An Seanad.
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@SamRamani2 The Russians always accuse others of doing what the Russians themselves do.
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@chrischirp A measured, precise, candid and to the point response to each question. Refreshing and impressive.
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@carolecadwalla You exposed this! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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@Independent_ie The people of Taiwan don’t agree. The people of Taiwan matter. Their democratic choice matters.
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4 years
@_SJPeace_ Well I don’t know who he is but it is obvious what he is.
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@Wholeswell The thing about voluntarily unvaccinated people is that they are always egocentric and willing to place the lives and health of other people at risk for the sake of their own “principles”.
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@jnpowell1 @IanDunt If anyone could have an informed, balanced and precise insight, it is certainly you. As an Irishman, I take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to you for the enormous and invaluable work you and your team did in the Peace Process and GFA. From the bottom of my heart.
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@Esqueer_ @miffythegamer JK Rowling is fully consumed by hate.
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@EamonnHolmes @GBNEWS Pale? Check Male? Check Stake? Check Conservative and highly reactionary? Check Anti-Woke? Check Grievance laden? Check Angry as Hell? Check Farage supportive? Check Hired
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@Otto_English Except that this is, in terms of substance, much worse.
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4 years
Irish High Court has refused Waters and O’Doherty leave to take legal challenge against Covid19 emergency measures. A frivolous and vexatious attempt has been rejected.
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@J__Possum Only highly intelligent, prudent, rational and independent minded people are still wearing masks. They protect others and they protect themselves. They are decent.
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@IrishTimes I had always supported the EU but I must seriously reconsider that support in light of the alliance between the EU and Israel, which alliance has never been something that the people of Ireland were ever consulted about, still less agreed to.
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@BestForBritain A heady combination of nativism, supremacism, chauvinism, extreme nationalism and profound hubris. The dark heart of foul Brexit. Brexit most foul.
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@mikegoulden I think of how much your mother has contributed to society, her life, her qualities and to think that you must now establish her settle status. It is a perversity. It is wrong. It is awful. She and you don’t deserve this.
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2 years
@TomLondon6 Expenses , lots of expenses, so much expensive expenses. Charity is hugely expensive.
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@Dan_Wyke I’m inclined to listen to them. They know far more on this topic than I do. I wear a mask, N95 standard, in order to improve my prospects of avoiding all infectious pathogens. So far, it has worked. I honestly don’t enjoy being sick or risking long term morbidity.
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@SeanDefoe @colettebrowne Now we see the only reason that Cahill stood for election, to get an opportunity for a no mask showdown.
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@AndyYoungUK @docrussjackson @BBCNews I wear a close fitting N95 mask. I accept that wearing it antagonises others but it has meant that I have not been infected by Covid yet. I’m vaccinated and boosted but high risk. I don’t understand why people are so emotionally antagonistic to mask wearing,
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If you find yourself on the same side as the far-right on any issue, such as opposing housing accommodation for Asylum seekers, or refusing sanctuary, then it follows that you are far-right. Causes such as International Protection are defining. They tell you who you are.
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Gareth O'Callaghan: Having concerns about housing asylum seekers is not being far-right
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This is how bad people operate in politics. They take one extremely bad case and seek to tar all Trans people p, and all those who support trans, with the same brush. You might as well say that because one man is a rapist, all men are rapists, including Senator Craughwell.
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Please tell me this is not what genuine Trans people support. If this was the only issue given some comments I have had thrown at me, it's reason enough to repeal #GRA
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@implausibleblog As always, Ian Hislop is clear headed and enlightened.
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Micheal OLainn
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I need a push to get off X or Twitter. Removing the block will achieve that.
@RonFilipkowski
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He seems determined to wreck this.
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Micheal OLainn
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#Unfit #Craughwell Senator G Graughwell is unfit to be a Senator. He disgraces himself and the Senate.
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@sullydaysleeper For all the unpleasant and exploitative people, there are far more who are kind, thoughtful and who understand that it’s no harm for all of us to try to make life better for each other. There is a true nobility in giving. A wonderful experience.
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@jonathanstea @HislopMD I’ve had 8 of these vaccines. No contra indications or side effects for me and I feel privileged to have benefited from modern science. Also, other vaccinations.
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Micheal OLainn
7 months
@QaysSediqi Lots of angry white men, white men of a certain type.
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Micheal OLainn
2 years
@CaldwellLouise @ciananbrennan @Ryanair I can no longer bring myself to travel with Ryanair. I know that I’m going to be clipped in some way. To do this to refugees, to price gouge them, is the very epitome of nasty exploitation.
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