RTÉ to air Father Ted Eurovision episode in boycott of song contest
Brilliant lol
(, Mon 11 May 2026, 22:09, Reply)
Turns out he’s pro israel and calling on the rte head to resign
I gave him a fair bit of slack as he was a great comedy writer, like maybe the trannie issue sent him a bit mental back when both sides were overly strident. But these things never seem to be pick’n’mix, it’s like a club you join where you have to take on everything. He’s probably antivax now too, father
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 1:57,
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really? weird take as both of those issues have the same monstering problem. "don't agree 100% with us? you're x (where x is a slur nice middle class people don't want)"
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 2:46, Reply)
this merely validates my point
if you adopt positions because they share strong leftwing opposition (or rightwing), rather than on some individual assessment of validity, you're essentially just joining a team. It's about identity and belonging (ironically so with Linehan as his whole position on trans is a rejection of identity as gender, something I partially agree with). And this is what I see played out all the time, once somebody identifies with a side they adopt all its positions. So it's rare to find, say, a Maga supporter that supports renewables, even if they were drawn to Trump for other reasons and had no views on it beforehand. It's their team now, and to reject one aspect is not to belong any more. Did lineham have a pro-israeli stance before being rejected from work and finding support among the alt-right crowd for this anti-trans stance? If he did he hasn't said boo about it until recently. Now he's "100% behind israel".
Llike I said, pick'n'mix seems to be increasingly rare, it's all-in or nothing: pro israel, global-warning denial, anti-vax, stolen election, pro-gun, anti-trans, anti-immigrant. Opposition to your views is taken as a challenge to defend your team, not a cause for introspection
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 3:38,
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He and Dana International should do the commentary
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 12 May 2026, 8:20,
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Not sure he's much of an RF these days.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 11 May 2026, 23:04,
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Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
Terfs identify as terfs. I don't think he identifies as any kind of feminist any more, now he's a fully radicalised right wing moron.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 12 May 2026, 22:09,
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Terf is used as a slur
Is it better with your slur?
It won't let me post your slur.
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An Egg ,D, Tue 12 May 2026, 22:39,
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Who uses it as a slur though?
Maybe I'm out of touch with modern identity politics, but this is a very, very fucking niche bit of academia/activism culture as far as I'm aware. The kinds of people who'd use 'feminist' as a slur are generally not invested in those kinds of feminism & LGB-alphabet debates.
PS: What's my slur?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 12 May 2026, 23:32,
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one nil in extra time
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:25,
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you can't kick israel out
it has as much a right to be in Eurovision as Australia
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:25,
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