cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1505645

Alt text: Screengrab from Star Trek: TNG showing Data saying to Picard "the Irish Unification of 2024"

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    let’s just ignore how the pretext for this line was Data observing how, sometimes, terrorism is an effective vehicle for social and/or political change.

    edit: just to be clear, this isn’t a criticism, just an observation about the glibness of the meme as compared to the seriousness context.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I got really hopeful during Brexit that Ireland would unite and Scotland would leave.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Scotland could never leave. Britain doesn't want to loose Scotland and Europe doesn't want to split up all the British kingdoms and have them join one by one.

      Northern Ireland has a chance to leave the shithole that is brexit by joining Ireland, but does Ireland want that? You're gonna spark a fire if you do that. The politics and rebellions of the 80's are only dormant, the sentiment is far from gone.