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Another article representing an Irish outbreak of The American Disease. It’s becoming a psychological pandemic https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/28/ireland-1921-how-republicans-used-their-whiteness-to-win-freedom
Fuck it- a thread on The American Disease (henceforth TAD)
TAD update
Is Harry the most high profile sufferer of TAD?
TAD update
How about you mind your own fucking business
The French intellectual tradition is dying, because TAD is killing it https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opinion/french-intellectual-life-america.html
This is a Christopher Caldwell article which means it’s required reading
TAD outbreak, Bristol. Vaccines when
Yesterday, with the Harry and Meghan interview, was a seismic day for TAD- almost too much news to keep up with
TAD update
This was the week yank twitter briefly became even more rancid than Irish Twitter
This is from 2010 but looks like “TAD: the book”, must read
TAD update
TAD update- euros proving resistant to the latest strain https://twitter.com/pseudocia/status/1376185153165389831
Should have added this to the TAD update thread, apologies
An interesting variant of TAD is not just that American neuroses are projected on to the world- but that international issues are seen in America purely through that parochial lens
TAD update: France generals warning about civil war if politicians don’t get CRT under control
TAD update: how do I translate my surname into Irish so that it’s non-binary https://twitter.com/BronzeAgeBean/status/1384501647338921995
Important reminder from a locked mutual that learning Irish is now imperative, not just for nationalistic or aesthetic reasons but as a protective wall between you and TAD
TAD update, Finland
There are none so blind etc
TAD update
TAD update; gardeners world edition
TAD is the disease... the french army is the cure https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1388110132966526977
I was going to compare this to the idea of Victorians covering piano legs with stockings to prevent arousal but the comparison doesn’t track- because fortunately for the victorians the story about their society is apocryphal, whereas this actually happened https://trib.al/JTXekuP
TAD update
Could we consider this TAD- African edition? Maybe https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1392260512252051461
TAD update: Elizabethan edition
TAD update, Lockheed Martin’s DEI materials highlighting Britain as the central origin point of white supremacy
TAD update: Biblical edition
It is with greatest regret that I must cast @jordanbpeterson into the depths of the TAD thread, never to return
TAD update, football edition https://twitter.com/RTEsoccer/status/1402326968834666497
TAD update- Every single time edition https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1402571098982694919
Every single time= it’s always an American. Any other conclusions you draw are on you
Implications of TAD for partisan politics outside America https://twitter.com/BenWoodfinden/status/1402683511765704706
“oh wow you guys, looks like you’re having a culture war too! What a coincidence”
TAD update, charity edition https://twitter.com/WalkerMarcus/status/1402881477088579586
TAD update- manufacturing consent via push-poll edition https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1402937343519113222
Wasn’t going to put this in the thread but who else would feel so entitled to enforced their linguistic norms on other cultures. Anyway: TAD, bundle of sticks edition
TAD, breakfast show edition
Juneteenth Editorial in one of the largest Irish newspapers
“Links to slavery still visible in our built environment”- wow- what kind of action are they hinting at here? 
Rosa Parks goes to Surrey edition
South Korea
