Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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was on the redscare (i know) subreddit (i know) and there's a big thread wherein all (most) of the redditors are reeling about how difficult COVID was-- because of the excessive, draconian lockdowns.
now i know the hexbear feeling on the issue, but indulge me just this -- how is it that they such big babies, and isn't it ironic given what i imagine/infer is the posture of that subreddit -- contempt of liberal/left weakness. how are they still finding this to be a salient issue, from their vantage point of being slightly inconvenienced, by a set of half-hearted policies which were implemented 3.5-4 years ago?
for these people who thought the collective action was too burdensome (and who, like me, were very lucky not to have to been too concerned about ours or our loved ones health (although, i did have COVID in the very first wave, which was a little scary, and my girl worked at a hospital, so the virus was not simply out of mind), what was so hard about not going out for 2-3 weeks? or meeting your friends in the outside park (during the spring and summer, no less), or connecting/reconnecting with old friends and family by Zoom, or getting wfh/loan deferral/good unemployment? how hard was it to learn how to make bread, or pick up the guitar again? do your exercises at the park?
like, they're such pathetic, unselfconscious wimps! they're the Laschian narcissists!
OBVIOUSLY i'm being a bit facetious here, and i'm sure there were some situations which were really not great that the lockdowns exaserbated, but come on, this is better than everyone dying with a tube down their throats. a small bit of self-sacrifice for the community, that's the basic social contract, which preceded the neoliberal subject for centuries. it's been four years. shut the fuck up!
(i'd complain there, but i can't remember my password for the reddit account i was last posting on; and my more recent one has already been disciplined and shadow banned-- for the best, surely)
My country was pretty average in its response and personally I had my largest mental breakdown during that time. I am a social person and need contact with people to stay sane. A 1 hour zoom call for work a day doesn’t do it for me, and not being able to see my family and friends regularly during winter and spring put me in a very bad mental crisis.
People are obviously overreacting on reddit but I do believe that there are people like me for whom it was a dark period.
It’s very selfish to put those feelings above the deaths of millions of people though. I’d have a lockdown over a pandemic every day and people really should stop whining so much. At this point they’re doing it purely to either feel like victims or to indoctrinate others into their weird politics
Not reading this, cleansed by the moon, have a good evening,
This is a redscare post
That's why, the disclaimer
Just commenting o the accuracy
by "draconian lockdown shit drives me insane" i mean the ppl pretending the half-assed lockdown failing wasn't half-assed and was proof we should have LET ER RIP right off the bat
like we have transitioned to doing
every man for himself covid policy
the draconian lockdowns shit drives me insane too, ppl here are still stuck on "the internet made everyone crazy" as an explanation for events and that makes me sad because it's an excuse to repeat truisms about the events instead of remembering and learning
I worked entirely through covid 🙄