• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Don't forget the scene where The Troubles are represented by an Englishwoman telling an Irishman that she wishes they would be packed up and deported, so the cops just start wailing on the Irish and he wishes she were dead and she just up and fucking dies

      • Vncredleader
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        3 years ago

        This pisses me off so much. Amber put it really well in the chapo review of it "the British wanted a cheap labor force, she would have said "GO BACK TO MY COLONY" not acknowledged Ireland as a separate place."

        Libs are so fucking dumb about the troubles. Leftists and conservatives get it, no one else. Hardcore reactionaries don't get it either, they think it actually has to do with Papism and not labour and empire. TNO the HOI4 mod does its reverse troubles thing and it fucking had me fuming. Like they really think it is clever to just swap oppressed with oppressor like these things are just arbitrary diseases and not the outcome of material conditions and modes of production. There is no basis for "free londonderry" cause Derry is not a name of an empire's capital stamped onto a native city name when said empire raped and pillaged for 700 years. These things have context, and suffering is not a prop that can be pallet swapped or used for just "racism is bad i guess, smh".

        also the idea that you need the wishing-dildo to make fucking Peelers beat a random Irishman nearly to death is the most absurd thing in that whole movie