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Grape posted:The main factor that set off the Troubles was the extremely lovely and bigoted laws and systematic prejudice against Catholics, and that the peaceful movement made to address this was violently kept down. Not straight up Irish nationalism. That just became an easy fellow flyer and hypothetical solution to the Catholic side. This. I live in Northern Ireland and I don't personally know a single person who voted for Brexit. I'm nominally Unionist because I always believed that NI was better off as part of the UK, but I don't have any ideological belief that we have to somehow remain forever tied to the UK. And with the ongoing trainwreck of Brexit I'm now thinking that we would be better off as part of a united Ireland. I have plenty of friends who are also from a Unionist background who right now are looking at the clusterfuck that is Brexit and thinking that NI would be better off joining Ireland and letting the UK sink itself.
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Grape posted:The main factor that set off the Troubles was the extremely lovely and bigoted laws and systematic prejudice against Catholics, and that the peaceful movement made to address this was violently kept down. Not straight up Irish nationalism. That just became an easy fellow flyer and hypothetical solution to the Catholic side. lol if you don't think that prejudice had a material cause (i.e. social control of irish with imperialist motivations, i.e. pushes for unification caused by brexit will rekindle the motivation for that social control and restart the troubles)
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twoday posted:https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1091406328831139841?s=19
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dont be mean to me posted:okay i was wrong Build a wall with mini-guns like that in that cheesy Doomsday movie by Neil Marshall.
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twoday posted:https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1091091942392385543?s=19 she's safe as long as nobody invents a way to spray paint on something from a distance
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First you brits are complaining that Brexit is going to make you starve. Now you're complaining you will be up to your waists in putrefied pig and dog poo poo. Y'all are failing to realize those two problems combine to solve themselves. Just eat poo poo dudes
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Feb 2, 2019 03:29
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just grow food on top of all that poo poo you morons, problem solved
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ty for making these
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etalian posted:people starving to death while pig poo poo overflows in the street. congrats on becoming north carolina
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Gripweed posted:she's safe as long as nobody invents a way to spray paint on something from a distance yes please don't spend moneysignforUK 25 on a marking wand 
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Gripweed posted:she's safe as long as nobody invents a way to spray paint on something from a distance I say just throw a lasso around her and attach it to a truck bumper.
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prefect posted:I say just throw a lasso around her and attach it to a truck bumper. she’s probably rotted enough that it won’t do any good oh the statue
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The council spent 30,000 pounds on a ten foot plinth to keep the statue safe from vandals, but then the vandals spent 0 pounds tying a paint brush to a stick.
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Gripweed posted:she's safe as long as nobody invents a way to spray paint on something from a distance also as long as nobody puts both a length of chain and a truck in the same place, but what are the odds
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Feb 2, 2019 04:17
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it’s too bad the British are to weak and effete to hurl things at statues
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I know that Brexit is deadly serious but I have a hard time taking it seriously because the politics of Brexit are a complete farce.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I know that Brexit is deadly serious but I have a hard time taking it seriously because the politics of Brexit are a complete farce. They could just not do it. The EU was very clear on this, they could just take a mulligan on the whole thing and it would be fine
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Zeroisanumber posted:I know that Brexit is deadly serious but I have a hard time taking it seriously because the politics of Brexit are a complete farce. its very difficult to take a hostage-taker seriously when they are themselves the hostage
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twoday posted:https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1091091942392385543?s=19 
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30.5 Days posted:lol if you don't think that prejudice had a material cause (i.e. social control of irish with imperialist motivations, Yeah I don't think you understand the NI conflict in regards to the people living there. The Protestant population were settler descendents terrified of becoming a minority controlled by the majority that they often shat on (or benefitted from larger London pushed shittings), their motivations were strictly along the same lines as the White South Africans during apartheid. Anything imperialism flavored would be coming from London, not pre-Troubles Stormont. That's where the pseudo-apartheid poo poo was coming from. The prejudice was a toxic mix of sectarian supremacism and existential fear. quote:i.e. pushes for unification caused by brexit will rekindle the motivation for that social control and restart the troubles) It would potentially rekindle in the way I described because of what I just described. The hardcore Unionists will very possibly react in horror at the "destruction" of what their ancestors fought and died for according to their nationalist narratives. They (in spite of comical evidence to the direct contrary these days) will freak out about living in a state controlled by BACKWARDS PAPISTS, and be convinced that the Catholic majority country would take revenge on them. These things could restart UVF/UDA type groups. If you want to talk imperialist stuff it would be kind of interesting to wonder if post-Brexit Britain becomes aggressively against any and all secession talk, even something enshrined as legal and doable in the GFA. Grape has issued a correction as of 04:55 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:its very difficult to take a hostage-taker seriously when they are themselves the hostage also everyone clearly wants them to shoot the hostage but is too polite to say so
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Relevant Tangent posted:also everyone clearly wants them to shoot the hostage but is too polite to say so Oh they have.
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Feb 2, 2019 04:56
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Someone should be blasting this nonstop from various loudspeakers across London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjXutKsizE8
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Grape posted:If you want to talk imperialist stuff it would be kind of interesting to wonder if post-Brexit Britain becomes aggressively against any and all secession talk, even something enshrined as legal and doable in the GFA. I look forward to EU peacekeeping troops being deployed to Ireland to enforce the GFA
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Zeroisanumber posted:I know that Brexit is deadly serious but I have a hard time taking it seriously because the politics of Brexit are a complete farce. It's just a profoundly idiotic thing that they can just... not do, and its biggest proponents are clearly absolute morons who get laughed at whenever they talk to anyone who isn't already on board. But they'll never admit that they're wrong, even when admitting they're wrong. It's astounding.
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Feb 2, 2019 06:53
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I love how it was actually American tanks that did that
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twoday posted:with the way the world is these days I feel like I should have a giant ominous countdown clock with red letters hanging over my desk at all times, and for now it would be set to brexit, after that to the 2020 US election, whatever. time moves oddly in lost Albion and the King doesn't appreciate those who keep track
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iSimian posted:Is that the backstop? loving lol
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https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1091613737923067905?s=19 https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1091613773150990342?s=19
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Brexit Hearts : Battle Rhythm
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scarlet fever, lmao
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Good thing Clean Break Brexit will end the EU's ban on selling live leeches then.
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Huh, seems like the EU actually had a moderating effect on the neo-liberal cancer in the UK. Huh
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Opferwurst posted:Huh, seems like the EU actually had a moderating effect on the neo-liberal cancer in the UK. Huh Everything's relative.
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twoday posted:with the way the world is these days I feel like I should have a giant ominous countdown clock with red letters hanging over my desk at all times, and for now it would be set to brexit, after that to the 2020 US election, whatever. You arrive for work and the numbers have suddenly changed. In 19 days some strange new event begins. On the television Boris Johnson is smiling.
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