Imagine being a “loyalist youth” lmao

  • googamooga [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    you guys laugh but remember that one of he big precursors to Algerian independence was Pied Noirs turning on De Gaul.

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    4 years ago

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they are protesting the UK government, so "loyalist" is a little misleading in this context. From what I understand, Northern Ireland is getting royally screwed over as a result of Brexit, apparently paying double tax on everything (not exactly sure how that works).

    • BumpInTheNight [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Loyalists have always protested the British government, in a weird way, as they feel London neglects them and isn't as committed to the union as they are. Loyalists are loyal to the idea of the monarchy/Empire, rather than lubbing the SW1 crowd

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        "Sir, excuse me Sir, you probably shouldn't be fucking my wife, that's not very uniony. I'm as racist towards my kin as you, Sir please, reconsider your actions. I love you Sir, but please don't do this"

        Compradors are really ubiquous eh

        In a way is very similar to working class lolbertarians, that really believe applying their bullshit policies would really fix their reality, instead of understanding they shouldn't be licking the boot that kicks them

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Hmm, yeah it's not their kin then; but they are still living in a place fucked over by Britain.

      • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, that seems to be what's happening. It seems some items are taxed twice because NI is part of the European single market in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement. So, some items are taxed as if they are entering Ireland, then taxed again because they are entering the UK. Many items are also required to be checked coming in from the rest of the UK for the same reason. Loyalists are apparently angry because they feel they are being abandoned and mistreated by the British government. On top of that, the new census results are very likely to show, for the first time, a catholic majority, which has a lot of the unionist side worried. It seems the only viable long term option is for NI to finally unite with Ireland and become full EU members.

        EDIT: This seems to be a good overview of what's happening.

      • BumpInTheNight [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        That's standard for EU member states.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Revenue

  • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Boris, my friends over at Sinn Fein say they know some people who could solve your brit problem

  • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    So white surpremacist that you even hate other white people that aren't as white.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's the logical conclusion.

      Successful white supremacy will just shrink the definition of white down to one ethnicity, and eventually just one guy's family, after which certain members of the one remaining family are suddenly less white despite being incest-clones.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "In the end, white supremacy is a death cult" - Innuendo studio guy

    • garbology [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      you even hate other white people that aren’t as white

      The term "Anglo-Saxon" was (is?) used because the English only considered northern Germans to be "as white" as them. Ben Franklin considered "Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes" to be as "swarthy" and inferior as the Catholicsouthern Germans and undesirables.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You would expect someone who call themselves loyalists to have more respect for her majesty's government and its busses.

  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Oi guvnah, jimmy open tha border so I can import me drugs to sell

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    She missed loads of words she should have swapped in that takedown. No way they'd use "crowds of youths", it would be "mob" or "gangs".