Martin Concagh
Brit living in Toronto. Politics, books, jazz, Doctor Who and many more
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- “Tenants rights are oppressive to working class landlords of colour“ is the majority of political discourse and arguments across the ideological spectrum now
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghThis is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.
- Sorry but this is a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social - tier post
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- Reposted by Martin Concaghthere are going to be a lot of credulous people whose knowledge of the law boils down to half-read wikipedia pages and reddit threads stunned when this guy gets convicted
- Reposted by Martin Concaghfor better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
- Reposted by Martin Concaghtoday's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghIn contrast to Europe, Canada’s response has been to leave X/Musk’s many, many inexcusable actions to the largely toothless Privacy Commissioner, with AI Promotion Minister Evan Solomon reassuring everyone via a Midnight Tweet (on X — classy) that Canada wouldn’t be banning X.
- My article on today's extraordinary European broadside against X - France, the UK and Spain all piled on within hours of each other, and mere hours after Musk made X's regulatory liabilities SpaceX's problem www.govinfosecurity.com/police-raid-...
- I think this article makes a good point, Labour and its strategy for a long time been dominated by this performative macho mentality that refuses to acknowledge who its actual voters are (working aged women)
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghOnce again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghWe need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.
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- Reposted by Martin ConcaghThere's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghKamala Harris ran a good, very aggressive campaign, but started at a significant deficit, and ran headlong into a ocean of misogyny, which has continued to dog her even more post-election, now that people feel empowered to say what they REALLY think about her
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- Scrolling through tags randomly and it appears that all the really smug and woke people on BlueSky seem to have watched an alternate version of Pluribus where the hivemind cured cancer and Carol Sturka is a Nazi serial killer
- Reposted by Martin Concagh"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
- Reposted by Martin Concaghmainly, I want to help more people learn to cook simple meals because it makes me *real* mad to see parasites like DoorDash and Uber Eats making big bucks off price-gouging both small restaurant businesses and stressed out normal people.
- Reposted by Martin ConcaghI know many Normies who have seen someone, usually a guy, blow through thousands of dollars on sports betting Very much the origin story of a 21st-century temperance movement
- Reposted by Martin Concaghokay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow
- Reposted by Martin Concagh[liberal ben shapiro voice:] if conservatism is so good, why does the bible say talk about liberalism more
- My main takeaway after visiting Japan for two weeks is that they really do put Shohei Ohtani’s face on absolutely everything
- Polls are this point are just name recognition but yeah if Harris runs (very very big if) she is going to be an extremely hard to dislodge frontrunner
