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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 69 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Americans' conception of the IRA is like, a nationalistic paramilitary that is just roaming around the country.

The IRA don't exist anymore. There are gangsters in the north calling themselves IRA, but all they do is sell drugs. The IRA aren't some reactionary militia waiting for an opportunity to spring into action.

Also many iterations of the IRA were socialist

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 51 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Amerikkkans when they see the term "republican" in a non-US context: leo-point

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago

Besides, it's a national liberation group not a national chauvinist group.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 56 points 6 months ago

Literally one of Ireland's oldest alliances going back decades:

These are pictures from different years. There are murals in both Palestine and Ireland supporting each other's movement. Not to mention all of the marches and protests. Zionists are deeply unserious people.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 54 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ireland is one of the few redeemable western nations and the rest of the global north despises them for it.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Drawn ire from the other nations, even

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 48 points 6 months ago

These people have absolutely zero understanding of history or, frankly, anything and wear it proudly. The idea that the IRA in it's day would have been pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian is mindbogling in it's stupidly.

You'd have to ignore writings, murals, songs, copycat hunger strikes and letters of solidarity, pretty much any news over a fifty year period. Aside from the obvious similarities of fighting an occupying power, there's also the fact that it was also largely the same bloody occupying power.

The Balfour declaration in 1917 that set out Britain's plan for an Israeli state in Palestine was written by Arthur James Balfour who, before his role as foreign secretary, had spent the 1880s as chief secretary for Ireland (as well as in other positions later) breaking boycotts, passing laws to imprison everyone from Republican activists to sitting Irish MPs without trial, and had soldiers fire on crowds protesting this in a massacre which was named after him: "Bloody Balfour".

Laws like 'Administrative Detention' were created and honed in the British repression and occupation of Ireland and then exported to become policy in British controlled Palestine and then Israel. Some of these laws and mechanisms of legal repression are literally still used and on the books there, and during the troubles (particularly in the 1970s) the British government brought them back again in Ireland with the additional experience they'd gained in Israel.

And even then, none of that even includes the fact that the IRA actively worked with the fucking PLO on training, tactics, information sharing, and even arms supply.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

These people communicate like aliens still trying to figure out human languages

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As far as I can tell, they’re just pure brainrot. They might as well brag they’re right-wing because being a fascist gives them skibidi rizz or some shit.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Pitch this to the Trump Jr. 2028 campaign

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

darmok and jalad being woke

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

There are only two kinds of IRA stans in America: revolutionary leftists, and the chuddiest, most racist Irish-Americans on Long Island.

[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

Unchecked immigration

Fuck off.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

26 + 6 = Woke

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

The Americans are stupid but what makes it worst is their arrogance

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

How the hell did they come up with this idea? I’m stupid as shit, but even I know better than that.

[–] BigBoyKarlLiebknecht@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Unchecked immigration does ruin nations. Just ask the American Indians.