☭ is treasa tuath na tighearna ☭

"From the very early stages of the Bill, Misneachd argued that without limits on the maximum size of an ALS we would end up in a position where Councils make meaningless designations of their whole areas and continue with business as usual, essentially duplicating the work of their existing area-wide Gaelic Language Plans. And here we are. "

there is, it seems to me, at least partly an is-ought confusion here (and at this point it’s hard not to see it as a willful one): ought Gaelic to be a “Scottish” language, present throughout the country? sure, I guess. but it isn’t, and to act as if it were is, at best, to continue a policy of state neglect by ignoring the realities that continue to marginalize Gaelic communities. at worst, it is to actively encourage the continued dispossession of Gaels from their language, culture, and communities, to say that Gaels’ relationships to their language do not matter, to say that Gaels’ language doesn’t, in the end, belong to them at all but to “Scotland”. this absolves the state — and any non-Gaels who have learned the language — of any responsibility to support Gaels’ communities in particular, or to address the relationship between language and other areas of policy, which de facto means absolving the state of any responsibility to meaningfully support Gaelic at all. why fund community-based projects, land buybacks, housing in the Highlands and Islands when you could make sure the cops who are arresting anti-genocide protesters have “Poileas Alba” on their cars?

Viktor Zaretsky (Ukrainian 1925-90), Glowing Sky, 1988, Oil on canvas

> release my pearl

Gilles Deleuze, Negotations, 1985

1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible

saoirse agus saoradh ar a n-ainmneacha. bás don Mheiriceá.

'The Birth of Iron'. Joseph Alanen. 1910-1912.

collecting tweets

They are in fact Also doing it because more of the people in charge than ever before are racial chauvinists who are Furious at the waning control of the US over south America and are incensed that Latin American states refuse to bow down to them, and that most recent hands-off coup attempts have failed. They're also doing it because factions within the usamerican ruling class sincerely believe all the propaganda published about Maduro. They're also doing it because they want a vaguely military "win" that they can parade in front of the media and, yes, they're doing it so that they can create and sell media spectacle of the murder of Spanish-speaking foreigners by the usamerican military. These are All major reasons for Why the usamerican state is doing what it does.