liam cunningham

Meat puppet. Retweets not necessarily endorsements! Opinions are my own. President Antifa knitting circle Dublin chapter.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Just absorb this for a moment.

The social media post of Israel's National Security Minister is so genocidal that it violates the rules of X.

Yes, that's right, even in the cesspit of Elon Musk's X.

Yet this remains a state armed by and allied to the West!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

President Meloni, I believe you.

So let me turn back to you the question you posed to POTUS: why is there indulgence toward those who undermine the principles Italy claims to defend, while those invoking the Constitution, human rights, int'l law, are treated as a threat?

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@Yorkslrehlker Angola?

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Who are the Irish traitors who voted with the ‘Send them back’ fascists?

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@IRISHCRAIC101 Just educate me on who you are. Or are you an anonymous wimp who’s afraid to even identify himself, big man.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Is it faceless/anonymous knuckledragger day on X today? The rabbit hole must be almost full by now.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@Tiger_Rider_ This you? 😎

[aapayés @aapayes]

🇵🇸Una activista decidió colarse en las vacaciones de unos turistas sionistas genocidas, que invadieron una playa en Costa Rica.
Ella sosteniendo una bandera Palestina y un megáfono denunciando el genocidio en Gaza en sus narices, de los asesinos de niños y niñas Palestinos

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Just another reminder that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war - an illegal war that cost over a million lives.

He has refused to describe the systematic slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.

So what will change? Nothing.

Arms sales to apartheid Israel will continue.

Palestine Action will remain banned, and more pensioners will be locked up.

Welfare will be cut to fund more weapons.

Immigration detention will expand, and mass deportations will continue.

Andy Burnham is not the second coming. He's the establishment's last roll of the dice.

We've already seen racist pogroms on our streets. That danger has not gone away.

So we must organise, build solidarity, and create power from below. Fascism isn't at the door. It's already here.

Only socialism can face down this barbarism.

[J Street @jstreetdotorg]

When former Israeli prime ministers, former IDF chiefs of staff and former Shin Bet heads warn about Jewish terror in the West Bank, we – the American Jewish community – should listen.

Every Palestinian family driven from their home, every village attacked, every act of impunity further damages Israel’s democracy and future.

This is a shared problem. And it cannot be met with silence.

https://t.co/AcBrWOrm9b

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

At least six Irish people, including one member of the Oireachtas, have been invited to an upcoming event in Wicklow organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel https://t.co/pN3pxAqL4g

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@che_indy2 Ah, there’s one!

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

#StopTheGame

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Today in Haaretz there is an article accusing Israel of being a terrorist state (plus committing crimes against humanity). It was not written by a Marxist member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It was written by former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Never forget

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

@PhelimMcAleer Is it Rupert Murdoch you work for Phelim?

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

Breaking:

Norway says it will join genocide case against Israel in International Criminal Court

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

He touched the hearts of 25 million people. Why not you ?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Javier Bardem at the ceremony leaving his footprints at the Hollywood Walk of Fame's Chinese Theatre:

“In Gaza, along with the brutal violence of the settlers in the West Bank, they both are crimes that frame us all in this time in history.”

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

İtalya Başbakanı Meloni:

"İsrail'i kırmızı çizgiyi aşmakla suçluyorum, Filistinli sivillerin katliamını kınıyorum ve İtalya'nın İsrail'e karşı Avrupa yaptırımlarını destekleyeceğini açıklıyorum."