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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You cannot placate fascists because they have neither a ceiling nor a floor. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

You’re the sensible centrist government watching this take place.

The far right pulls off votes to independents and fringe parties from you, the very sensible moderates whose managerial capitalism has actually caused the degradation they ascribe to foreigners.

But they’re small enough in number that you dismiss them, and continue with the self-same policies which actually impact their voters’ lives.

Next time, they do well enough that you take notice. It is at this point you enter the spiral that has redrawn the electoral map of the Western world for the past decade.

You say you recognise ‘legitimate concerns’ and take a tougher line on, say, refugees.

You accept the far right’s entirely false premise that immigrants increase crime, that the housing crisis is due to migrants rather than your own bad policies, or that foreigners are swamping the health service, rather than holding it up with their bare hands in the face of your own drastic underfunding of the system.

And you become less popular. You, the sensible moderate, continue to slide in the polls against the very parties whose policies you were trying to steal.

A sizeable number of your own base are appalled, and you have failed to impress a single racist.

Because everywhere, from France to Germany to the Netherlands to the UK, as with Fanta and its supermarket imitators, it turns out people prefer the original to the copy.

You’ve driven away your traditional base, while sanitising the racism of the far right for low information voters, who now consider them more reasonable.

You have moved the sensible middle position toward the far right — where you now stand, boxed in, by the ghouls you’ve just baptised as moderates.

And the slide continues. Because you cannot placate these people. You cannot reach an end.

Round up every refugee in camps and they’ll want the next cruelty.

Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.

And now it’s too late, because you thought that you — and you alone! — would be the first centrist to steal the fascist’s lunch by agreeing with them rather than fighting them with every fibre of your being.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of my fondest childhood memories was not knowing the name of any CEO of any company.

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Mairéad @maggiemaibee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Carla and Emma are related - that's my crazy theory because otherwise why, WHY would you reach for mother instead of sister? 😅 #TraitorsIrl

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Young people lacking feelings of power, status or control can find that meaning through social media platforms, where they know that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will have their eyes glued to their screens as they watch teenagers tempt death on the open road." Surrealing:

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Fort Zuckerberg is the most on-the-nose illustration of Ireland's invasion by Big Tech

And just like our most infamous invaders, we invited them in.

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Undead in Chicago (municipal boundary) @mosermostly.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If a fraction of influencers and celebrities spent as much time talking about Respectable men in suits that are suffocating us all for profit and power instead of the "Untalked-About" topic of immigration that gets yapped about non-stop, energy might start being pointed in the right direction.

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Mairéad @maggiemaibee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. 😊 All set for #Nollaig in the Reading Room.

Christmas Tree in a library and archive study space.

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Mairéad @maggiemaibee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#sneachta in Mayo with a couple of surprise guests.

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