Soph, you've made the stakes very real (Reply #11)

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Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:40 AM

Mersky (4,849 posts)

11. Soph, you've made the stakes very real

Thank you for sharing your insight and perspective. I'm gonna contemplate how to overcome my news blindspots. There's so many plates spinning these days, that it isn't enough to only stare at the ones closest to my navel.

Helps to steel myself against those, foreign and domestic, who are working to upend peaceful order.

I'm looking up and out, and the view is not normal.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
I am a child of the troubles [View all]	Soph0571	Aug 2019	OP
K&R	MaryMagdaline	Aug 2019	#1
Thanks for sharing this.	Mike 03	Aug 2019	#2
The Plantation of Ulster, what an everlasting nightmare that set into motion	Celerity	Aug 2019	#3
K&R	smirkymonkey	Aug 2019	#4
K & R	mountain grammy	Aug 2019	#5
A large percentage of Americans support the Irish cause	FakeNoose	Aug 2019	#6
They would rather see the Union disintegrate then give up!	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#9
Is there any chance for a united Ireland remaining in the EU?	Jokerman	Aug 2019	#7
If there is a border poll and the majority vote for unification then it will happen	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#8
Please keep posting on this issue	jmbar2	Aug 2019	#10
Soph, you've made the stakes very real	Mersky	Aug 2019	#11
I saw the scars of the violence when I visited....	Historic NY	Aug 2019	#12
Thanks for your insight.	GeorgeGist	Aug 2019	#13
Thank you for this excellent and very personal post.	greatauntoftriplets	Aug 2019	#14
Recommended.	H2O Man	Aug 2019	#15
I dated a gal in the early 80's from Ireland...	Javaman	Aug 2019	#16
You expressed this so beautifully - poetically, even.	calimary	Aug 2019	#17
This:	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#19
"...Quiet as a serpent..."	calimary	Aug 2019	#20
I cannot recommend his poetry enough	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#22
Superb!	calimary	Aug 2019	#30
I recently watched "Mother's Day," a heartbreaking (but ultimately very uplifting) movie	deurbano	Aug 2019	#18
Thank you for your heartfelt testimony, Soph	Hekate	Aug 2019	#21
Thank you so much Soph for sharing such an important piece of yourself.	alwaysinasnit	Aug 2019	#23
I was speaking to some friend who live in Ireland	Richard D	Aug 2019	#24
on the plus side	keroro gunsou	Aug 2019	#25
It could get really ugly really fast	jrandom421	Aug 2019	#26
In a future where Boris gets his way	lapfog_1	Aug 2019	#27
I'll just put this here, cause I don't have much to add but wanted to say something ...	mr_lebowski	Aug 2019	#28
Stockholm 88	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#29
Thanks for reminding us that hate gets us nowhere.	Karadeniz	Aug 2019	#31
I was in Donegal over 25 years ago this month	mitch96	Aug 2019	#32
KR NT	ProudProgressiveNow	Aug 2019	#33
Thank you for sharing this	underpants	Aug 2019	#34
Wow!!!!! Thank you	gopiscrap	Aug 2019	#35
What's a "bandit border"?	bucolic_frolic	Aug 2019	#36
That and more	Soph0571	Aug 2019	#37
Thanks, that shows why you chose the broad term	bucolic_frolic	Aug 2019	#38
The Brits and the DUP	moniss	Aug 2019	#39
As someone with one Scottish parent and one Welsh parent,	Haggis for Breakfast	Aug 2019	#40
I wish the best of outcomes	moniss	Sep 2019	#42
No-deal Brexit 'could motivate extremists in Northern Ireland'	Myrddin	Aug 2019	#41

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