Posts by marcas@mastodon.ie
(DIR) Post #AQIsTOyKh8RErkORjk by marcas@mastodon.ie
2022-12-05T17:32:05Z
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@EU_Commission Go bhfanaimid le chéile ar feadh céad bliain is céad eile.
(DIR) Post #ASYAGNm0IvKc0QPtNw by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-02-09T20:25:56Z
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@alien @lauren @Jeffrey_Smith Or just seize the company.
(DIR) Post #AVoxZLYpVY04wkq8ae by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-05-19T17:19:08Z
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@glightly I cannot emphasise enough the importance of terminology. Conservative postwar Germans invariably speak of the Machtübernahme durch die Nazis (seizure of power by the Nazis). That's nonsense. Hitler became dictator democratically, with the votes of all parties other than the Social Democrats and Communists. (The Nazis did not have enough votes in parliament to do it themselves.)More objective writers today speak of the Machtübergabe an die Nazis — the handover of power to the Nazis.
(DIR) Post #AVoxZPYycwUjMMwJNI by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-05-19T17:56:55Z
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@glightly I should add that the Social Democrats and Communists didn’t vote for the law that made Hitler dictator, but nor did they vote against it.The SPD didn’t, because they had — illegally — been shut out of the Reichstag chamber.The KPD didn’t, because their MPs had been rounded up and, in many cases, murdered by the SA.Not that it mattered. The votes that the conservative, liberal and Roman Catholic parties gave to the Nazis would have outweighed them anyway.
(DIR) Post #AX3VHbTkAWvr1MJUCu by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-06-25T15:09:45Z
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HOW TO SPOT A RIP CURRENT:IT'S WHERE THE WATER LOOKS EASIEST AND SAFEST, with no waves breaking or rolling in.NEVER ENTER THE SEA HERE. If you get caught in a rip, DON'T FIGHT IT. You can't swim back to shore against it; you will become exhausted and drown.Instead, SWIM ACROSS IT, parallel to shore. You'll soon be out of the current and can then easily swim back.Boost, please, and make sure your friends and family know this when they hit the beach.
(DIR) Post #AX3VHdLfDXeoosY3tI by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-06-25T15:12:01Z
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Credit where due, BTW. I found this on a Facebook Friend's page; he had shared the post of a group called "The Other 98%", of which I know nothing, other than that this is good advice. I had to drastically paraphrase their text to fit Mastodon's character limit, but that's the gist of it.
(DIR) Post #AXO6L4yN2DKStC23LE by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-05T13:57:48Z
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@Peternimmo @w7voa I used to be a Christian. Now I am an atheist. But I was then and am now a secularist. A secular state is the best guarantee of liberty for all believers and non-believers alike.But of course theocrats have no problem with religious persecution. They just want it to be their religion doing the persecutin'.
(DIR) Post #AXcu66Pvkc08XtUpO4 by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-12T18:29:36Z
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@Metamedia @chris When did dipshit fascist techbros become an ethnic group?
(DIR) Post #AXd9g4WPm2mIP98fJI by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-12T21:24:10Z
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@Metamedia @chris I see that your reading skills are as weak as your reasoning. The thing being got to the bottom of the ocean is not “white people”. And as for ethnic groups: Uighurs; Palestinians; Christofascists — one of those things is not like the others.Now off to the bottom of the ocean with you, grandpa.
(DIR) Post #AXdhQOiUJsAMqUU2Km by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-13T03:42:19Z
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@Metamedia @chris Shorter @chris:
(DIR) Post #AXdhoaaBqwnob88aeW by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-13T03:46:40Z
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@Metamedia @chris No. Not right. That’s among the stupidest things I have ever heard. I don’t know whether you are merely vastly less intelligent than you imagine yourself to be or are mentally ill. Though in the latter case I’d have a measure of pity for you, in one sense it doesn’t matter which it is. Either makes further discussion with you pointless.
(DIR) Post #AXrsa9fpr458tYAdGK by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-07-19T15:20:48Z
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@ukrdef Ireland's official neutral status does complicate things, I understand that. But in terms of reaching into its pocket, it could reach a bit deeper than this.
(DIR) Post #AYLt4bj9UPXBkdupGa by marcas@mastodon.ie
2023-08-03T11:02:21Z
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@crossgolf_rebel @don @PaRADikaldies Ganz richtig. In einem Rip soll man NIE gegen die Strömung schwimmen; die Strömung wirst du nicht besiegen. Stattdessen schwimmt man immer quer zur Strömung. Du wirst zwar weiter vom Rip getragen, nicht jedoch überbelastet. Und bald bist du dann raus aus dem Rip, mit einem leichten Weg zurück zum Strand, von den Wellen geholfen.
(DIR) Post #Axat3AHje1GOUifQvI by marcas@mastodon.ie
2025-08-26T11:51:34Z
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@johnnyryan Time for EU states to abolish their statutes effectively making the US DMCA domestic law. (They did this at American insistence as the price for no- or low-tariff access to the US market. Now that Trump has reneged on the US end of the bargain, other states should feel free to say: "Fuck you Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Meta: our people can reverse engineer your shit to their hearts' content".)