Charlie Maguire

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space

[Virgin Media Sport @VMSportIE]

🗣️ “This is much bigger than a football match.”
🗣️ “They could have shown real leadership.”

Brian Kerr gives his reaction to the FAI General Assembly vote on Ireland's Nations League fixtures against Israel

#VMSport

[Charlie Maguire @CharlieJMaguire]

@TadhgHickey 😅😅😂😂 gotta laugh

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

@HMcEntee Another "statement" yet you do nothing.

Vote against sanctions and tell us we have to play them in a football match.

Outrageous double speak

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?

Don’t care.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?

Don’t care.

Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?

Don’t care.

A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?

Don’t care.

A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?

Fuck you.

People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?

Don’t care.

Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?

Don’t care.

A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?

Don’t care.

“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?

Don’t care.

People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?

Don’t care.

You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?

Truly could not care less.

What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.

The doctors being tortured.

The families erased under rubble.

The starvation.

The concentration camps.

The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.

But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.

Not Palestinian lives.

Not Palestinian suffering.

Not Palestinian speech.

Zionist discomfort.

Zionist fragility.

Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.

All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.

While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.

While Palestinian speech is disciplined.

While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.

That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.

Not safety.

Not care.

Not protection.

Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.

Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.

If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.

The problem is you.

-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.

He received two Medals of Honor, one of only 19 Americans ever to do so.

He spent thirty-three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, rising to Major General.

In 1935, he wrote a book called War Is a Racket.

He said:

"I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents."

One of the most decorated Marines in American history said this.

In 1935.

It is not assigned reading.

The football stadium still says, "Thank you for your service."

But the general who explained what that service was actually used for is still kept outside the official mythology.

[Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

@AllisonPearson @BBCNews @BBCr4today Really? Most of us put it down to the fact that the self proclaimed 'Jewish state' has been murdering everything that moves in the Levant for the last three years 🤔

[Charlie Maguire @CharlieJMaguire]

@Alan__Shatter Give it up Alan. You sound pathetic. The sooner the park is renamed the better.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"You said that Iran pioneered the use of terrorism in the Middle East. Actually that was the Zionist gangs, the Stern Gang and the Irgun... bombed the King David Hotel..."

I factchecked a lying Israeli military spokesman on @PiersUncensored

Full show: https://t.co/I8tx2SRag8

[Paddy Cosgrave @paddycosgrave]

“Irish energy prices highest in EU” - they used to be the 2nd cheapest. So what happened?

FFG created a largely private sector quasi-monopoly in energy, said quasi-monopoly - energy companies - were by design free to gouge consumers, while media who receive lots of advertising 💰 from several of these energy companies seldom if ever discuss the issue of how exactly the market has been rigged against consumers.

Domestic and international crony insiders bribed various FFG politicians over the decades to privatise most of our energy market in a manner that allowed those super-rich crony insiders to rig the market and then print billions in profit over the decades, at the detriment of almost everyone.

Here’s a November 2025 economic report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute:

“We see in 1980, that electricity prices for this representative consumption band, notwithstanding data gaps, were among the cheapest in the EU15 comparator group. In 1980, only Greek prices were lower than those seen in Ireland”

Today, energy costs are the highest in the EU.

All that’s happened over time is a bunch of very rich insiders have captured billions in profit to the detriment of consumers and the economy more broadly. To do so they worked with FFG politicians to create a “legally” rigged market.

You’ll find this pattern of FFG politicians working with rich cronies to rig other markets - like insurance and health. While the rich insiders and politicians make out like bandits, everyone else gets screwed.

And if you protest about being screwed, you’ll be smeared by the media, beaten by the Gardai and called all manner of things.

This is how Ireland works. Until that is people realise they have the collective power to change it and turf these FFG cronies and their rich pals out of power for good.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Amazing that 4 empty ambulances in London being set on fire got global news coverage and condemnation.

Yet the full on bombing and destruction of a synagogue in Tehran by Israel, with the chief rabbi labelling it a terrorist attack, got no coverage.

Why is this?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Apartheid became part of the name of the country, as in, “apartheid South Africa.”

Apartheid Israel should be the same. The word Israel should never be mentioned without the word Apartheid.

[Dr. Novo 🍌 @novocrypto]

@_ZachFoster I prefer Genocidal Israel. It includes the idea of Apartheid but with the distinction of them exterminating the other part.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary.

Tragic, but necessary.

It ended the war.

It saved lives.

Hard choices in impossible circumstances.

Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city.

Watch the framework collapse in real time.

Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies.

Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances.

Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity.

This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense.

This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all.

Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition.

Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation.

This is the psychological furniture.

This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it.

And it is almost invisible from the inside.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@Antonio_Tajani Ministro, l'Italia deve smettere di armare e commerciare con Israele. Altrimenti le sue parole al Presidente del Libano varranno meno del costo della telefonata.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

"Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours" is the biggest lie of all time.

This is the West Bank.

No Hamas, no war, yet attacked like this daily by "settlers" backed by the IDF.

A savagely violent Jewish supremacy armed by the EU/UK/US

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Genuine question.

How can the EU not fully cut off Israel and sanction them now?

They've brought in a law that is without precedent and is indefensible.

A cruel, barbaric racist law to murder one ethnic group.

Surely this IS the red line?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.

Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.

And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.

As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."

They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.

A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.

Good. Mourn your dead.

But understand what that wall does not say.

It does not say why they died.

It does not say what they were doing there.

It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.

It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.

Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.

For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.

It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.

Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.

Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.

And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.

Still profitable.

Still un-prosecuted.

And yet they send us human rights reports.

They grade our democracy.

They warn us about our behavior.

The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.

Almost.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this:

Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians.

They came home broken and unappreciated.

It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned.

Notice what that story does.

It centers Americans.

Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings.

In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop.

A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction.

Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery.

They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam.

The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill.

Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll.

They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story.

They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character.

And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing.

Where is the wall for our three million?

There isn't one.

Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'll never forget how the Israelis bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza in October 2023 and the world was shocked and horrified. Israel denied it, saying they would never commit such a heinous crime.

Then they went on to bomb every single hospital in Gaza.

Now they are doing the same in Lebanon and Iran. The Israelis have bombed at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon. In Iran, the US and Israel have bombed 25 hospitals and medical centres.

In Lebanon, they are committing double tap strikes to kill medics and rescue workers, just as they did in Gaza. Medics are forced to delay their responses.

These monsters are normalizing war crimes that were once unthinkable.