Éamann Mac Donnchada

Bielsista, Casavellista. Harwiczista. Planiano y Saeriano. Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics substack.com/@macdonnchada
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Politics: Crude Marxist

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2025-04-12 12:55:47

Just looked at Arg twitter now that ppl are awake. The flotation band for the peso is clear but nobody is sure the quantity of USD ppl will be allowed to buy and what they'll be allowed to do with them. Either the Central Bank will clarify or the banks will decide for themselves on Monday
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2025-03-26 08:00:59

A performance for the ages from Argentina. 37 passes to the second goal. Three Simeones have now scored for Argentina, Diego and his sons Giovanni and Giuliano. And to think the Federation picked Scaloni to manage only bc he was available and cheap
youtu.be/izHp3TzxkTQ?...
Argentina vs Brazil 4-1 Hіghlі...

2025-03-23 11:50:11

According to an official survey three out of four Spaniards under 24 say they are bisexual. I'd love to see the research instrument that produced that figure.
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2025-03-19 12:21:18

"Listen, everybody, we British know what's best for the EU on security, got it? I don't want to have to keep repeating this"
The British liberal, cosmopolitan, rejoiny opinionating class

2025-03-12 11:31:34

This is us, guys, or rather me now that Lady Almagro has a grown up job. If you're an academic I'd ask you consider whether it's a good idea to use AI for translating/revising your work, bc a) it's not reliable for complex texts, and b) I'd like to keep working 😀
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2025-03-05 15:13:44

🙄
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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2025-03-01 11:05:00

One more thing, Ukraine doesn't fundamentally depend on the US and EU. If it retains the will to resist Russia will not be able to fully conquer it. Hamas, to give the most recent example, has suffered dreadful losses and has lost its rockets but it still controls the bulk of Gaza

2025-02-28 12:15:41

Admittedly in a tourist town (Bariloche) but 8 euros for a cup of tea and nearly 20 for a sandwich. And 45 minutes per table then you have to fuck off 😱 Milei's economic miracle
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2025-02-21 20:28:02

x.com/Buailtin/sta...
This is quite moving
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2025-02-15 18:52:59

A day later the Financial Times hasn't noticed that the President of Argentina at least promoted and may have personally benefited from a gigantic meme coin scam.
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2025-02-12 10:14:24

that's Prob No. 1., without a doubt, Prob. No. 2 is either that she's mentally unbalanced or likes appearing to be : Sánchez wants to kill me, is cutting of water to MAD, ETA is in the govt etc. etc. Yes, I know, hasn't stopped Trump and Milei...

2025-02-10 18:31:03

"But if the cops have the right to ask for idea they'll harass minorities" You think the cops can't do that already, in every country? You think the cops don't invent probable cause when it suits them? Please, lets be serious

2025-02-10 08:18:56

This is fabulous, I had no idea of the background www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...
‘The Köln Concert is the hit h...

2025-02-08 20:16:18

👍

2025-02-08 09:13:07

The author also praises Milei for opening Argentina to the world and for leaving the WHO. Below well educated Argentine liberals who have no prob with gays and who vax their kids constructing their arguments in favour of Milei
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2025-01-20 16:13:11

regarding longevity we agree, I don't the core attraction of Podemos is that's anti-PSOE tho that helps, it's that there's a new type of left voter with a headful of mad ideas that only played a marginal part in left politics before and they feel Pablo and Irene speak for them

2025-01-20 16:05:24

I agree but I think it's more than that, Podemos isn't really a party, it's part personality cult, part PYME. there hasn't been anything like it on the political stage in Spain that I'm aware of anyway

2025-01-20 15:44:54

macdonnchada.substack.com/p/voters-are...
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2025-01-17 14:44:20

No one on this list expressing concern about immigration is getting a preference from me.
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2025-01-17 08:58:06

wife works on legal stuff in a large multinational, she's involved in drawing up contracts for large sums of money. This morning the legal team received an email from above encouraging the use of Microsoft copilot, complete with links to helpful tutorials. We are so, so fucked

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Until the notionally pro-Return or at least real rapprochement UK elite realises that Brexit is not a problem that the EU must help to solve then all this reset talk is pure bollocks and will never get anywhere

2025-01-06 18:06:44

Just read the section on his relationship with Aurora Perea and his visits to Bs. As. to see her in the 1950s/60s. Had no idea there was such a large Catalan community there then, many economic as well as political exiles. Today the human tide has turned and Barcelona is full of Argentines
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2025-01-04 20:07:09

Sweden doesn't ponce about saying great, global and ambitious it is. It's MS and accepts EU hegemony therefore its preferences can be accommodated. This should not be difficult to understand and yet....
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2025-01-04 18:28:13

I see a lot of "oh dear, it´s so complicated" hand wringing on this. If Britain really is a great and important nation with nukes a member of the P5 , a soverign equal of the EU etc it should be able to stand up to a drug addled billionaire

2024-12-31 12:46:13

icymi @tferrer.journa.host.ap.brid.gy

2024-12-14 17:00:43

Josep Pla aged 28: no big ideas for me, I prefer looking at the world as it is. But in one sense he devoted his life to the biggest idea possible, becoming a great artist in a minority language
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2024-12-11 12:11:46

I think it's worse than that, Blair and Browne were confident in what they did, had some ideas, did't always echo Tory talking points

2024-12-10 09:13:29

no me gusta nada la frase brain bleed

2024-12-09 17:38:02

ah very good point. maybe in the Argentine case it's that Islamist terrorist can't occur in Argentina as we have such allegedly wonderful community relations

2024-12-09 17:06:59

why the denial? I think bc it's too difficult to accept that a foreign power murdered 85 Argentines and wounded 100s more and has got clean away with it. It's particularly hard for some Jewish Argentines bc this suggests that their fellow citz don't give a flying one about their lives

2024-12-01 10:54:41

totally, as John Bowman just said Martin has led an astonishing comeback

2024-12-01 10:42:27

John Bowman the man, the legend calls it: Micheál Martin to lead the next government. Sinn Féin out
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2024-11-30 17:31:15

Mary Lou says the ppl have given her a strong mandate for change. SF believes that what the actual ppl vote for doesn't matter, the only people who count are their ppl #ge24

2024-11-30 16:57:20

A cpl of minutes ago I heard Soc Dem guy Gary Gannon say it wasn't surprising that ppl in a deprived inner city area wd vote for Hutch. Jfc, can you imagine any greater degree of contempt for poor people #ge24

2024-11-16 10:36:52

Hope you are right

2024-11-16 10:32:30

Thunderous editorial in El País demanding Mazón resign. He's obviously conceealing sth about what he was really doing at the famous 'lunch',if that's what it was, if it comes out that might shift him but I doubt it
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2024-11-16 10:21:52

Tldr: the PP, Spain's moderate, centrist party seems ready to use the Valencia floods to scupper Teresa Ribera's EU commission nomination. As I said yesterday, the Valencia catastrophe looks like a political win for the party that caused the huge death toll
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2024-11-15 15:14:58

Just over two weeks have passed since the catastrophe in Valencia, here's my view on the political situation. Tldr: the floods are probably a net win for the regional govt responsible for the huge death toll and a net loss for the national government.
macdonnchada.substack.com/p/the-rain-i...
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