Shopping around for refuge countries, and I'm trying to figure out what living in Ireland is actually like. I'm liking the sound of living in a country with a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group, but I don't want to actually just be tricked by an "American Dream" but for leftists.
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To be clear, I'm not trying to join the IRA, but I do want to know if Ireland is a better alternative to staying in the US. World is a fuck.
You can't go to Ireland for a while mate, you kind of all have the plague
Yeah, I'm not doing any moving for at least the next year or so, international or otherwise. This is exploration into long term plans, since I don't want to be here during the inevitable collapse of the American empire
I'll placeholder a serious answer until an actual Irish turns up
Healthcare isn't like the NHS in the UK, but is way way way way cheaper than in the us
Only really spent time in a village outside of Cork, and highly doubt it's universal, but:
life seems a bit more laid back in general
Booze is cheaper than most of the uk
A lot of catholics
Not as much hate for the english as I expected
Old people talk a lot
Punctuality seems to be a foreign concept
Source: Irish chunk of the family, been there twice for funerals
I stayed near Dublin once. The other commenter is right about it being more generally laid back. Green as hell everywhere you look, and super wet. 9/10, vast herds of deer and surprisingly easy to get Thai food.
They're more a cartel nowadays. I'd recommend any number of militia organization operating in Syria currently. Theres obviously the YPG, but they've had some problems lately, especially with the fact that they are effectively at complete peace with Turkey (Bad move imo.).
The best part is, it's completely legal to join these organizations.
Eh, I can't say that peace with Turkey is the most ideologically pure thing to do, but let's be real, it's their only play. Turkey is begging for an excuse to invade (more than they already have) and if that happens, the DFNS is finished.
True, I always forget that Turkey is actually a regional superpower and not just another poor colonized country.
Oh yeah, they've got serious military capability, and they've barely leveraged it so far in the Syrian conflict. Most of the on the ground fighting that has been happening has been by the TFSA because they're far more disposable politically than TAF regulars, but if the SDF upped the ante and started pushing back against Turkish aggression, then that would be all the excuse Erdogan would need to take the kid gloves off and finish them off. The SDF is a good fighting force, but they're light infantry only without any kind of serious AT/AA capabilities.