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iPhone 16 Pro Max 📱📸 I wish Samsung could also make their camera app's opening and closing animations smoother! 👀✨ #Apple #iOS18 #iPhone16ProMax

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🚨⚠️ I NEED TO SAY THIS, BECAUSE AS SOMEONE WHO LEADS A TEAM, I KNOW EXACTLY HOW THESE THINGS WORK. ⚠️🚨 🩺 As a surgeon, I work every day with teams where every single person plays a vital role. In surgery, the anesthesiologist, scrub techs, assistants, nurses, and specialists each have a precise moment where their work must be seen, executed, and respected for the operation to succeed. If one part fails, the overall execution loses quality. 🎥 And the same applies to a stage performance. 📍There are cameramen positioned at every corner. 📍There are technical directors. 📍There are people coordinating transitions, camera cuts, and screen time. Everything is rehearsed. Everything is planned. Everything follows a script. So explain to me why, when it’s Jimin’s moment to execute his part —his lines, his center, his movements, his expressions— the camera suddenly cuts away, ignores him, or prioritizes other shots instead. 🎭📷 Because this is NOT accidental. ❌ And the fans can SEE IT. 👀 This is not about competing against other members. This is about professional respect for the work of EVERY member of BTS. A perfect performance works like a perfect surgery: ✨ every detail matters, ✨ every contribution matters, ✨ and every professional deserves to be shown at the exact moment their role is meant to shine. Jimin should not disappear from the screen during key moments of his performance. He should not be treated like background noise when he is an essential piece of the entire show. And don’t tell me I’m exaggerating. Don’t tell me everyone is treated equally. Don’t tell me anything at all. 👁️ JUST WATCH. 👁️ And if after watching you still choose to ignore it, then the problem isn’t that it doesn’t exist… the problem is that you refuse to see reality. Because to miss something this obvious, you would have to be completely blind. ⚠️🚨 And THIS is exactly why we, as fans, need to continue elevating Jimin’s music, his image, his artistry, and his impact even louder. 🎶🔥 Stream his music. Support his projects. Talk about his talent. Highlight his performances. Protect his name. Make sure the world sees what some cameras keep failing to show. Because no matter how much they try to minimize his moments… his presence is simply impossible to erase. ✨👑 BIGHIT MUSIC HYBE OFFICIAL WITH JIMIN TILL THE END WE LOVE YOU JIMIN JIMIN JIMIN

Ann Park

34,298 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

🚀📣 LinkersMap Expands Its Reach Through the InterLink App 🌐🔗 LinkersMap is opening a new distribution channel that could help its official updates reach InterLink’s community of nearly 10 million users more directly. 👥📲 Through the InterLink App, posts published by the official LinkersMap X account can now be linked and surfaced inside the app. 🐦➡️📱 This gives LinkersMap another effective way to communicate with users, businesses, partners and members of the wider InterLink community. 🤝🌍 🔗✨ Why This Matters Building a strong platform is only one part of long-term growth. 🏗️📈 The other part is ensuring that important updates reach the right audience at the right time. ⏰🎯 By connecting LinkersMap’s official X content with the InterLink App, the project can improve the distribution of important information, including: 🛠️📲 Platform updates 🎉📅 Campaigns and events 💼🤝 Business opportunities 📢🌐 Ecosystem announcements 🚀💰 Future developments related to $LMP 🏪📍 New business listings and merchant activity 📣👥 Community news and important notices This creates a more direct communication path between LinkersMap and InterLink users. 🔄🌍 It also makes important updates easier to discover, follow and share. 👀✅🔁 📈💼 Benefits for Businesses Businesses registered on LinkersMap may gain greater visibility within an expanding digital community. 🏪🌐📊 A stronger distribution system can help businesses: 👋 Present their products and services to a wider audience 🎁 Share promotions, offers and campaigns more effectively 🤝 Connect with potential customers and business partners 📢 Increase awareness of their LinkersMap presence 🌱 Participate in future ecosystem activities 📈 Build stronger recognition over time For businesses, visibility is an important part of digital growth. 💡📱 A business listing becomes more valuable when people can easily find it, understand its offer and take action. 🔍🛒✅ 🌍👥 Benefits for the Wider Community The new connection may also make it easier for InterLink users to follow LinkersMap’s progress from one central app environment. 📲🏠 Users could gain more convenient access to: 📰 Official project announcements 💼 New business opportunities 🎉 Community campaigns 🛠️ Platform developments 💰 Updates concerning the $LMP ecosystem 🏪 New stores, services and merchant listings 🤝 Partnership and collaboration news This can help bring projects, businesses and users closer together. 🔗👥 It may also encourage greater participation, communication and commercial activity across the wider ecosystem. 📊🚀 📊📣 Distribution Is as Important as Development A project may have useful technology, services and business opportunities, but these advantages can be missed if updates do not reach the intended audience. 🧠⚠️📉 That is why effective content distribution matters. 📢🔄 Regular communication can help a project: 👀 Build awareness ❤️ Maintain user interest 🙌 Encourage participation 📈 Support business growth 🤝 Strengthen community relationships ✅ Make important information easier to follow 🌐 Reach users across multiple digital channels The connection between LinkersMap’s official X account and the InterLink App gives the project another method for sharing information with a large and active user base. 📲🐦➡️👥 🏪📝 Register Your Business Today Businesses interested in joining LinkersMap can register through the official website: 👉🔗 Registration may provide an opportunity to become part of LinkersMap’s growing business network and take part in future promotional, community and ecosystem activities. 🌱🏪🤝📣 ✅🔑 Key Takeaway The LinkersMap–InterLink connection is more than an additional content channel. 🔗📲 It creates a practical bridge between LinkersMap’s business network and InterLink’s expanding user community. 🌉🌍👥 As digital platforms continue to grow, successful projects need both strong development and reliable communication. 🏗️📢 LinkersMap is taking steps to improve both—creating more opportunities for businesses, users and the wider ecosystem. 🚀💼🤝 📌 Register your business:🔗 InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 Dr Altcoin ✝️ LinkersMap Arif Ahmed Core Ambassador | Interlink Labs KV Reina | InterLink Labs #LinkersMap #LMP #InterLink #ITLG #ITL #Web3 #Blockchain #Commerce #BusinessToken #DigitalEconomy 🚀

🚀📣 LinkersMap Expands Its Reach Through the InterLink App 🌐🔗 LinkersMap is opening a new distribution channel that could help its official updates reach InterLink’s community of nearly 10 million users more directly. 👥📲 Through the InterLink App, posts published by the official LinkersMap X account can now be linked and surfaced inside the app. 🐦➡️📱 This gives LinkersMap another effective way to communicate with users, businesses, partners and members of the wider InterLink community. 🤝🌍 🔗✨ Why This Matters Building a strong platform is only one part of long-term growth. 🏗️📈 The other part is ensuring that important updates reach the right audience at the right time. ⏰🎯 By connecting LinkersMap’s official X content with the InterLink App, the project can improve the distribution of important information, including: 🛠️📲 Platform updates 🎉📅 Campaigns and events 💼🤝 Business opportunities 📢🌐 Ecosystem announcements 🚀💰 Future developments related to $LMP 🏪📍 New business listings and merchant activity 📣👥 Community news and important notices This creates a more direct communication path between LinkersMap and InterLink users. 🔄🌍 It also makes important updates easier to discover, follow and share. 👀✅🔁 📈💼 Benefits for Businesses Businesses registered on LinkersMap may gain greater visibility within an expanding digital community. 🏪🌐📊 A stronger distribution system can help businesses: 👋 Present their products and services to a wider audience 🎁 Share promotions, offers and campaigns more effectively 🤝 Connect with potential customers and business partners 📢 Increase awareness of their LinkersMap presence 🌱 Participate in future ecosystem activities 📈 Build stronger recognition over time For businesses, visibility is an important part of digital growth. 💡📱 A business listing becomes more valuable when people can easily find it, understand its offer and take action. 🔍🛒✅ 🌍👥 Benefits for the Wider Community The new connection may also make it easier for InterLink users to follow LinkersMap’s progress from one central app environment. 📲🏠 Users could gain more convenient access to: 📰 Official project announcements 💼 New business opportunities 🎉 Community campaigns 🛠️ Platform developments 💰 Updates concerning the $LMP ecosystem 🏪 New stores, services and merchant listings 🤝 Partnership and collaboration news This can help bring projects, businesses and users closer together. 🔗👥 It may also encourage greater participation, communication and commercial activity across the wider ecosystem. 📊🚀 📊📣 Distribution Is as Important as Development A project may have useful technology, services and business opportunities, but these advantages can be missed if updates do not reach the intended audience. 🧠⚠️📉 That is why effective content distribution matters. 📢🔄 Regular communication can help a project: 👀 Build awareness ❤️ Maintain user interest 🙌 Encourage participation 📈 Support business growth 🤝 Strengthen community relationships ✅ Make important information easier to follow 🌐 Reach users across multiple digital channels The connection between LinkersMap’s official X account and the InterLink App gives the project another method for sharing information with a large and active user base. 📲🐦➡️👥 🏪📝 Register Your Business Today Businesses interested in joining LinkersMap can register through the official website: 👉🔗 Registration may provide an opportunity to become part of LinkersMap’s growing business network and take part in future promotional, community and ecosystem activities. 🌱🏪🤝📣 ✅🔑 Key Takeaway The LinkersMap–InterLink connection is more than an additional content channel. 🔗📲 It creates a practical bridge between LinkersMap’s business network and InterLink’s expanding user community. 🌉🌍👥 As digital platforms continue to grow, successful projects need both strong development and reliable communication. 🏗️📢 LinkersMap is taking steps to improve both—creating more opportunities for businesses, users and the wider ecosystem. 🚀💼🤝 📌 Register your business:🔗 InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 Dr Altcoin ✝️ LinkersMap Arif Ahmed Core Ambassador | Interlink Labs KV Reina | InterLink Labs #LinkersMap #LMP #InterLink #ITLG #ITL #Web3 #Blockchain #Commerce #BusinessToken #DigitalEconomy 🚀

Tekkaus® | InterLink • MOD • T2 Community Builder

20,357 görüntüleme • 12 gün önce

Do you understand anon? do u know how angry so many men of the US are rn? Bc to them, this didn't start with the train girl or today bc they lost their debate bro. "Debate me / change my mind" culture started on college campuses about 10 years ago bc a lot of young men were being driven crazy bc they didn't feel like they were being heard or that they could speak, they were quite literally being yelled at, cancelled, shoo'ed away for speaking against "woke" (which is why this became such a huge catch all phrase) the "debate me" guys were/are hugely important to many young men in this country because they can have dialogue without violence, they also observed that the lockstep censorship (which don't even start, was a thing) also led them to form entire orgs to protect their ability to do so. you probably think this will just die down anon, but it won't, it's a continuation of escalation that already started, but you were too busy collecting LABUBUs and calling everyone bigots to notice it. The slaughter (and celebration) of the debate bro's death will have a lot of consequences, some u will see right away some u won't, I know he did not call for violence or extermination of others and was pro 2A, this was the guy that was fairly moderate all things considered. So how the men are seeing it (from what they're saying) is that the other "side" is done talking and intent on violence. It doesn't even seem like a matter of if something will happen but a matter of when. Jordan Peterson (my benzo queen) tried to warn you but u didn't listen bc u wanted to make Kermit the frog memes. all in all anon, you probably would prefer to have the debate me bros who were not doing anything violent, rather than opening up the door bc this is only where it starts. I am always an advocate of dialogue myself, but I think at this point anon, you don't realize the demons you unleashed.

Do you understand anon? do u know how angry so many men of the US are rn? Bc to them, this didn't start with the train girl or today bc they lost their debate bro. "Debate me / change my mind" culture started on college campuses about 10 years ago bc a lot of young men were being driven crazy bc they didn't feel like they were being heard or that they could speak, they were quite literally being yelled at, cancelled, shoo'ed away for speaking against "woke" (which is why this became such a huge catch all phrase) the "debate me" guys were/are hugely important to many young men in this country because they can have dialogue without violence, they also observed that the lockstep censorship (which don't even start, was a thing) also led them to form entire orgs to protect their ability to do so. you probably think this will just die down anon, but it won't, it's a continuation of escalation that already started, but you were too busy collecting LABUBUs and calling everyone bigots to notice it. The slaughter (and celebration) of the debate bro's death will have a lot of consequences, some u will see right away some u won't, I know he did not call for violence or extermination of others and was pro 2A, this was the guy that was fairly moderate all things considered. So how the men are seeing it (from what they're saying) is that the other "side" is done talking and intent on violence. It doesn't even seem like a matter of if something will happen but a matter of when. Jordan Peterson (my benzo queen) tried to warn you but u didn't listen bc u wanted to make Kermit the frog memes. all in all anon, you probably would prefer to have the debate me bros who were not doing anything violent, rather than opening up the door bc this is only where it starts. I am always an advocate of dialogue myself, but I think at this point anon, you don't realize the demons you unleashed.

special k | CEO of stressed out era

18,539 görüntüleme • 11 ay önce

Saturday - Adam Friedland This musical intro was the best part of the show. The rest of his act just made me miss Nick Mullen. Unlike every other show this week, there were girls there. They seem to love this guy. I used him as bait, to get the girl from Wednesday to go out with me again. She loves Red Scare Podcast and this Jewish twink is a staple of the Red Scare Extended Universe and I wanted to fuck her and so let's go see Adam Friedland. The problem with Adam is that he has no conviction. He does not own the room, he's just filling space. He announced that his father was there, in the crowd, which is great, let's hear something that might make your father uncomfortable. No such thing was said. He stared at the floor for half the set, as if he was sorry for being there. I saw Mulaney the night before; the difference was stark. Mulaney can get away with being a sheepish pushover twink Sometimes because he also has balls. He can accelerate from "Aw shucks" to "SHUCK YOU MOTHERSHUCKER" and both versions of himself feel true. Look, I get it, being a sad sorry pushover is his schtick and it works with the voice and it's very relatable for sensitive young men who didn't do sports in high school but to carry a room for a full hour you also need to be able to fight back. I could hear Nick's intonations in his voice. But it's clear that Mulldog spent all his creative energy this week ghostwriting the white guys' lines for the Roast of Kevin Hart and so Friedland was left to fend for himself, comedically. The mark of whether a comedian is delivering or not, for me, is whether I hold my piss in to keep hearing them. This was not the case on Saturday night. I recall stepping out and getting a good look at the crowd, and Friedland bumbling through his completely forgettable material, and thinking: this makes me feel like I could start stand up comedy today and dominate the genre. I have this instinct to say: Adam's young! He'll get better! But he's not. He won't. He's 39. He doesn't have the neuroplasticity. He crossed the Sensitive Young Man threshold ten years ago. Mulaney at 43 could be his father now. He's a "much better interviewer" apparently. I tuned out after Cumtown ended because frankly I don't give a shit about the middle east, and that's 90% of what he talks about. Different strokes. I asked some guy in the bathroom, mid-piss: "what would you rate this show, out of 10?" He said: ehh, like a 6. He's a much better interviewer. I don't hate Adam Friedland, I just wish there was anybody to be excited about in stand up comedy. Between this mens' magazine giving me a $500 stipend to "report" on all these shows and the $474 ticket to Gillis and the $432 ticket to Chappelle and the $741 ticket to Mulaney and all the drinks they make you buy at these things I'm feeling like a huge sunk cost leech on the world. Just taking people's money and using it to complain. At least my date seemed to be having a good time. I wrapped my hand around her low back and leaned into her head, wanting her but not sure how to say it. It's much easier to express that kind of thing on blow. Later that night I K-holed in public. Erica and I took way too much in the front seat of the van. We were outside a rave at 3 AM, they asked me to produce a QR code on my phone, I could barely stand. I felt like I was moving in 2D. The fat security guard barely flinched as I walked past him in slow heavy steps, like a penguin, marching into this densely fogged room with colorful lights and loud bumping trance music where all I could stand to do was lean against the heavily breathing walls. I tried to dance with the girl but it probably looked retarded. I didn't try to interact with anyone, I was too far gone. I thought of Karen, as I do every time I take K. The girl led me through the venue, as I worried I would fall over or walk straight into a wall. I worried about how bad this must look, how retarded I must look, wearing this huge XXL t-shirt tucked in to my pants that don't even fit that well because I have anterior pelvic tilt and no ass. I looked and felt like a clown. A failed clown. I was smiling painfully at Erica, looking down at her, and she was doing the same to me. We found a bathroom and I forced my way in. The ketamine was NOT wearing off. I felt my heart beating hard and my head spinning like I could have thrown up but there was nothing in my stomach besides liquid—no food all day besides a croissant at 2PM. I had downed some random person's red wine glass at the last bar. I worried it might have been spiked. I leaned with my head against the wall, sweating, wishing it would end, brutally aware that Erica's out there waiting for me, my friends are out there waiting for me, wondering if I'm okay, thinking he's too fucked up, he can't handle himself, I thought Thomas was always okay and always in control no matter what, they're losing confidence in me, they're losing confidence in themselves for associating with me, what is this big colorful retarded clown shirt I'm wearing I must look like such a fool right now I can't face these people, I can never face them ever again, my face must look so evil ugly and strained, I splash my face with water but it doesn't help, run it through my hair but it doesn't help, get the water all over my shirt but then it just looks like I threw up on myself or pissed myself or something, and I don't have another shirt, should I go out there shirtless, no that's worse, how am I ever going to leave this bathroom, why won't this K wear off, now Erica's calling me, texting me, are you okay, eventually they're just gonna bust in here I know, fine, I can do it, I'm opening the door, yes, I come out, she's still there, good, good girl. She leads me outside. I feel 10% better. I lead her straight to the van. We get in. I tell her to lay with me. Just like on the first night we met. Head spinning, chest heaving, completely exhausted, just lay with me. She asks are you okay and I say for the first time, no. No, I am actually not okay. I blame Adam Friedland. Overall rating: 4/10. Have Nick write your jokes or just stick to interviews.

Saturday - Adam Friedland This musical intro was the best part of the show. The rest of his act just made me miss Nick Mullen. Unlike every other show this week, there were girls there. They seem to love this guy. I used him as bait, to get the girl from Wednesday to go out with me again. She loves Red Scare Podcast and this Jewish twink is a staple of the Red Scare Extended Universe and I wanted to fuck her and so let's go see Adam Friedland. The problem with Adam is that he has no conviction. He does not own the room, he's just filling space. He announced that his father was there, in the crowd, which is great, let's hear something that might make your father uncomfortable. No such thing was said. He stared at the floor for half the set, as if he was sorry for being there. I saw Mulaney the night before; the difference was stark. Mulaney can get away with being a sheepish pushover twink Sometimes because he also has balls. He can accelerate from "Aw shucks" to "SHUCK YOU MOTHERSHUCKER" and both versions of himself feel true. Look, I get it, being a sad sorry pushover is his schtick and it works with the voice and it's very relatable for sensitive young men who didn't do sports in high school but to carry a room for a full hour you also need to be able to fight back. I could hear Nick's intonations in his voice. But it's clear that Mulldog spent all his creative energy this week ghostwriting the white guys' lines for the Roast of Kevin Hart and so Friedland was left to fend for himself, comedically. The mark of whether a comedian is delivering or not, for me, is whether I hold my piss in to keep hearing them. This was not the case on Saturday night. I recall stepping out and getting a good look at the crowd, and Friedland bumbling through his completely forgettable material, and thinking: this makes me feel like I could start stand up comedy today and dominate the genre. I have this instinct to say: Adam's young! He'll get better! But he's not. He won't. He's 39. He doesn't have the neuroplasticity. He crossed the Sensitive Young Man threshold ten years ago. Mulaney at 43 could be his father now. He's a "much better interviewer" apparently. I tuned out after Cumtown ended because frankly I don't give a shit about the middle east, and that's 90% of what he talks about. Different strokes. I asked some guy in the bathroom, mid-piss: "what would you rate this show, out of 10?" He said: ehh, like a 6. He's a much better interviewer. I don't hate Adam Friedland, I just wish there was anybody to be excited about in stand up comedy. Between this mens' magazine giving me a $500 stipend to "report" on all these shows and the $474 ticket to Gillis and the $432 ticket to Chappelle and the $741 ticket to Mulaney and all the drinks they make you buy at these things I'm feeling like a huge sunk cost leech on the world. Just taking people's money and using it to complain. At least my date seemed to be having a good time. I wrapped my hand around her low back and leaned into her head, wanting her but not sure how to say it. It's much easier to express that kind of thing on blow. Later that night I K-holed in public. Erica and I took way too much in the front seat of the van. We were outside a rave at 3 AM, they asked me to produce a QR code on my phone, I could barely stand. I felt like I was moving in 2D. The fat security guard barely flinched as I walked past him in slow heavy steps, like a penguin, marching into this densely fogged room with colorful lights and loud bumping trance music where all I could stand to do was lean against the heavily breathing walls. I tried to dance with the girl but it probably looked retarded. I didn't try to interact with anyone, I was too far gone. I thought of Karen, as I do every time I take K. The girl led me through the venue, as I worried I would fall over or walk straight into a wall. I worried about how bad this must look, how retarded I must look, wearing this huge XXL t-shirt tucked in to my pants that don't even fit that well because I have anterior pelvic tilt and no ass. I looked and felt like a clown. A failed clown. I was smiling painfully at Erica, looking down at her, and she was doing the same to me. We found a bathroom and I forced my way in. The ketamine was NOT wearing off. I felt my heart beating hard and my head spinning like I could have thrown up but there was nothing in my stomach besides liquid—no food all day besides a croissant at 2PM. I had downed some random person's red wine glass at the last bar. I worried it might have been spiked. I leaned with my head against the wall, sweating, wishing it would end, brutally aware that Erica's out there waiting for me, my friends are out there waiting for me, wondering if I'm okay, thinking he's too fucked up, he can't handle himself, I thought Thomas was always okay and always in control no matter what, they're losing confidence in me, they're losing confidence in themselves for associating with me, what is this big colorful retarded clown shirt I'm wearing I must look like such a fool right now I can't face these people, I can never face them ever again, my face must look so evil ugly and strained, I splash my face with water but it doesn't help, run it through my hair but it doesn't help, get the water all over my shirt but then it just looks like I threw up on myself or pissed myself or something, and I don't have another shirt, should I go out there shirtless, no that's worse, how am I ever going to leave this bathroom, why won't this K wear off, now Erica's calling me, texting me, are you okay, eventually they're just gonna bust in here I know, fine, I can do it, I'm opening the door, yes, I come out, she's still there, good, good girl. She leads me outside. I feel 10% better. I lead her straight to the van. We get in. I tell her to lay with me. Just like on the first night we met. Head spinning, chest heaving, completely exhausted, just lay with me. She asks are you okay and I say for the first time, no. No, I am actually not okay. I blame Adam Friedland. Overall rating: 4/10. Have Nick write your jokes or just stick to interviews.

Worst Boyfriend Ever

99,241 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

I would not wish ill health or death on anyone, including my enemies, unless I was genuinely in mortal fear for my own life. But let's be straight about this. Politicians can post their deepest sympathies, families can insist they were “good boys”, and social media can produce all the usual excuses. None of that means the rest of us have to rewrite reality. Driving a car at high speed the wrong way down a motorway, knowing innocent people could be coming towards you at 120 km/h, isn't normal driving and it isn't some innocent mistake. It is an extraordinarily reckless decision that could have killed an entirely innocent family. Does that mean I think they deserved to die? No. Do I take pleasure in their deaths? No. But I'm also not going to pretend that people repeatedly involved in serious criminality are “little angels” simply because they're dead. If the newspaper reports about their previous activities and encounters with Gardaí are accurate, they were far from angels. They were thugs whose behaviour should have resulted in meaningful intervention long before things reached this point. And yes, I'll use another unfashionable expression: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Not because I'm celebrating anybody's death, but because repeatedly choosing extreme risk, violence and criminality eventually has consequences. Tragically, sometimes those consequences are irreversible. Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe I'm becoming intolerant. But when I was growing up, there were consequences for our actions. Thankfully my parents never hit me, but discipline existed. We got the rod in school I can still remember it drying beside the paraffin heater and the strap was used in secondary school, although I missed most of that. I'm not suggesting we start beating children again. But where exactly did we go from discipline and personal responsibility to being terrified of telling children NO? When did participation become more important than achievement? When did allowing children to run around shops and restaurants like little maniacs become enlightened parenting? When I was young, if you behaved like that, your parents dealt with you. You quickly learned that other people existed and that your behaviour affected them. Manners and respect are free commodities. When I hear children telling their own parents to “f*** off”, I wonder what they're going to be like as adults. If that's the respect they have for the people who brought them into the world, fed them, clothed them and cared for them, what respect are they going to have for a teacher, Garda, employer or complete stranger? Then we wonder why workplaces increasingly need chill-out spaces and “mental health days” because ordinary pressures become too much. In my day we respected our bosses, did the job we were employed to do and were happy to have a job. Yes, society has changed, and some of those changes were unquestionably for the better. But removing consequences wasn't one of them. And I'm going to use another expression that will undoubtedly upset people: Feral scumbags. Because when young people are repeatedly stealing cars, carrying knives or machetes, attacking people and terrorising neighbourhoods, I'm considerably more interested in protecting their victims than finding another fashionable euphemism for their behaviour. And yes, perhaps we need to discuss bringing back industrial schools. Before somebody deliberately misunderstands that sentence, I don't mean resurrecting the religious institutions, brutality or abuse associated with parts of that system. I mean the basic principle of removing persistent young offenders from the streets and putting them into secure residential institutions with discipline, education, vocational training and consequences. If you're 16 or 17 and repeatedly terrorising a community, perhaps knowing that you're facing several years in a secure institution followed by the adult criminal justice system if you continue offending after 18 might make you think twice. Because whatever we're doing now clearly isn't frightening some of these young offenders. Young lads can apparently parade knives and machetes on social media as though they're fashion accessories. Communities are terrorised. People accumulate conviction after conviction. And I have seen an example of the attitude I'm talking about with my own eyes. I had reason to attend court in Loughrea, Co. Galway, around this time last year. There were three young offenders in the dock, one of them flanked by two prison officers. I was sitting in the public gallery immediately behind the legal teams. When this individual spotted me, he apparently decided that making disparaging remarks about me would be great entertainment. He laughed. He jeered. It was all great craic. What struck me particularly was how relaxed the whole thing appeared. He was joking with the prison officers beside him and, from where I was sitting, they appeared to be laughing along with some of it. The judge lost patience with him on two occasions. It didn't appear to bother him in the slightest. I obviously cannot know what was going through his head, but the impression he gave me was that he believed he was untouchable. What stayed with me wasn't the insults themselves. I've heard considerably worse. It was the complete lack of respect for the court, the judge and everyone around him. When the court adjourned for lunch, I couldn't resist a little dig of my own: “Where are we going for lunch? I really fancy a steak. I wonder what the prisoners get?” That wiped away some of the laughter. His response was to start shouting abuse at me, including calling me a “f*ing f**t”. Charming. I walked away thinking that if somebody can stand in a courtroom, in front of a judge, flanked by prison officers, and still behave as though the entire proceedings are a joke, what exactly is supposed to deter him when he's back outside? I doubt that scene was unique to one courtroom in Galway. And everybody waits for the inevitable tragedy. Then, when it finally happens, politicians express shock and sympathy and everyone asks how this could possibly have happened. Perhaps we should start asking that question before somebody dies. Call me old-fashioned. Call me intolerant. Call me whatever you like. I believe in manners. I believe in respect. I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in rehabilitation. And I believe in consequences. Because allowing feral scumbags to terrorise communities without meaningful consequences isn't compassion. It's abandoning their victims and ultimately abandoning the offenders themselves. Live by the sword, die by the sword. It's an old saying for a reason.

I would not wish ill health or death on anyone, including my enemies, unless I was genuinely in mortal fear for my own life. But let's be straight about this. Politicians can post their deepest sympathies, families can insist they were “good boys”, and social media can produce all the usual excuses. None of that means the rest of us have to rewrite reality. Driving a car at high speed the wrong way down a motorway, knowing innocent people could be coming towards you at 120 km/h, isn't normal driving and it isn't some innocent mistake. It is an extraordinarily reckless decision that could have killed an entirely innocent family. Does that mean I think they deserved to die? No. Do I take pleasure in their deaths? No. But I'm also not going to pretend that people repeatedly involved in serious criminality are “little angels” simply because they're dead. If the newspaper reports about their previous activities and encounters with Gardaí are accurate, they were far from angels. They were thugs whose behaviour should have resulted in meaningful intervention long before things reached this point. And yes, I'll use another unfashionable expression: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Not because I'm celebrating anybody's death, but because repeatedly choosing extreme risk, violence and criminality eventually has consequences. Tragically, sometimes those consequences are irreversible. Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe I'm becoming intolerant. But when I was growing up, there were consequences for our actions. Thankfully my parents never hit me, but discipline existed. We got the rod in school I can still remember it drying beside the paraffin heater and the strap was used in secondary school, although I missed most of that. I'm not suggesting we start beating children again. But where exactly did we go from discipline and personal responsibility to being terrified of telling children NO? When did participation become more important than achievement? When did allowing children to run around shops and restaurants like little maniacs become enlightened parenting? When I was young, if you behaved like that, your parents dealt with you. You quickly learned that other people existed and that your behaviour affected them. Manners and respect are free commodities. When I hear children telling their own parents to “f*** off”, I wonder what they're going to be like as adults. If that's the respect they have for the people who brought them into the world, fed them, clothed them and cared for them, what respect are they going to have for a teacher, Garda, employer or complete stranger? Then we wonder why workplaces increasingly need chill-out spaces and “mental health days” because ordinary pressures become too much. In my day we respected our bosses, did the job we were employed to do and were happy to have a job. Yes, society has changed, and some of those changes were unquestionably for the better. But removing consequences wasn't one of them. And I'm going to use another expression that will undoubtedly upset people: Feral scumbags. Because when young people are repeatedly stealing cars, carrying knives or machetes, attacking people and terrorising neighbourhoods, I'm considerably more interested in protecting their victims than finding another fashionable euphemism for their behaviour. And yes, perhaps we need to discuss bringing back industrial schools. Before somebody deliberately misunderstands that sentence, I don't mean resurrecting the religious institutions, brutality or abuse associated with parts of that system. I mean the basic principle of removing persistent young offenders from the streets and putting them into secure residential institutions with discipline, education, vocational training and consequences. If you're 16 or 17 and repeatedly terrorising a community, perhaps knowing that you're facing several years in a secure institution followed by the adult criminal justice system if you continue offending after 18 might make you think twice. Because whatever we're doing now clearly isn't frightening some of these young offenders. Young lads can apparently parade knives and machetes on social media as though they're fashion accessories. Communities are terrorised. People accumulate conviction after conviction. And I have seen an example of the attitude I'm talking about with my own eyes. I had reason to attend court in Loughrea, Co. Galway, around this time last year. There were three young offenders in the dock, one of them flanked by two prison officers. I was sitting in the public gallery immediately behind the legal teams. When this individual spotted me, he apparently decided that making disparaging remarks about me would be great entertainment. He laughed. He jeered. It was all great craic. What struck me particularly was how relaxed the whole thing appeared. He was joking with the prison officers beside him and, from where I was sitting, they appeared to be laughing along with some of it. The judge lost patience with him on two occasions. It didn't appear to bother him in the slightest. I obviously cannot know what was going through his head, but the impression he gave me was that he believed he was untouchable. What stayed with me wasn't the insults themselves. I've heard considerably worse. It was the complete lack of respect for the court, the judge and everyone around him. When the court adjourned for lunch, I couldn't resist a little dig of my own: “Where are we going for lunch? I really fancy a steak. I wonder what the prisoners get?” That wiped away some of the laughter. His response was to start shouting abuse at me, including calling me a “f*ing f**t”. Charming. I walked away thinking that if somebody can stand in a courtroom, in front of a judge, flanked by prison officers, and still behave as though the entire proceedings are a joke, what exactly is supposed to deter him when he's back outside? I doubt that scene was unique to one courtroom in Galway. And everybody waits for the inevitable tragedy. Then, when it finally happens, politicians express shock and sympathy and everyone asks how this could possibly have happened. Perhaps we should start asking that question before somebody dies. Call me old-fashioned. Call me intolerant. Call me whatever you like. I believe in manners. I believe in respect. I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in rehabilitation. And I believe in consequences. Because allowing feral scumbags to terrorise communities without meaningful consequences isn't compassion. It's abandoning their victims and ultimately abandoning the offenders themselves. Live by the sword, die by the sword. It's an old saying for a reason.

Keira Connolly

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