https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0716/1460216-united-ireland-committee/
it's all just a holodeck malfunction folks, we'll be back to warp 8 and after-shift drinks in ten forward in no time. the captain is on top of it
Irish Unification isn't enough. I want Irish Expansion. I need East Ireland. Scotland can be an autonomous zone in East Ireland.
Broke: splitting the big island in half and giving Scotland the North and Ireland the South
Woke: splitting the big island in half and giving Scotland the East and Ireland the West
Scotland doesn’t deserve that kind of respect. I feel like it’s a stretch to call Scotland a victim of the English the same way Ireland was, Scotland was a knowing and willing participant in most of England’s crimes
Agreed, but on the other hand, Scotland getting to leave the UK would punish the English which would be very funny.
Word. They were to the British Empire what the UK is to America today.
I don't recall anyone in the UK being violently cleared from their homes and land in the name of
sheepprofit by Americans.
What about this: Scotland gets to leave the UK. England is then annexed by Scotland but all of this new greater Scotland becomes an Irish colony ruled from Dublin
Honestly relieved to find out I'm just a hallucination within a simulation run by a fictional starship. Hopefully humanity is chillin' in the cool Star Trek future.
Sorry, you're the only human in the holodeck.
I'm sorry, you do not have authorization to modify the holodeck program.
The most unbelievable thing about the Gabriel Bell story is not that the Sanctuary Districts would exist, but that Americans would see the inherent humanity of the poor and actually do something to help them after a riot and hostage crisis.
today i was reading about the LA Riots, and in each instance of "awful group of black men attack innocent passerby", there is a direct follow up of "black men see victim of attack and render immediate aid". but all my life i only heard about the first part, so i agree with your point that even when poor people "do the right thing" in these situations it gets ignored.
Seems like the only times I see the LA riots mentioned these days is when people fantasize about the roof Koreans and the idea of minorities killing each other.
roof Koreans and the idea of minorities killing each other
Which is funny because the only person the "roof koreans" managed to kill was a single innocent "ground korean".
I've seen some Asian diasporans celebrate the Roof Koreans as "finally taking a stand and not letting people push us around anymore" to which I always reply "then why do we not do this when white people push us around?"
The whole thing was a needless tragedy all around and it sucks that people keep trying to glorify it.
The whole reason that meme exists is because the cops abandoned Koreatown to protect Beverly Hills.
Ehhh, I don't think it's helpful to take swipes at the Koreans either. While I don't have much sympathy for petit bourgeoisie using force to defend their property, a targeted campaign of violence based on ethnicity is not good even when carried out by an oppressed ethnicity. Besides, the complete withdrawal of the LAPD from areas where many Koreans lived points to a conscious plan or desire to let minorities fight it out so they can't unite against white supremacy.
I'm not saying the original Korean store owner was not a racist and a bad person or whatever, just that we should not celebrate factionalism.
I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir.
Oh I thought you were calling the roof Koreans racists. Sorry if that's not what you meant.
Nah, not really. More like rolling my eyes at the fact that they get lionized by the far right for living out the castle doctrine fantasy that lurks in the lizard brain of every incel and every small business petty tyrant, and because it just happened to be along race lines, which feeds into the far right narrative even further. I didn't mean to imply that the convenience store owners themselves were racists, just that they're held up as "the good ones" by foaming-at-the-mouth racists.
The idea of a of George Floyd event breaking out again in America but bigger this time seems unreal.
we aren't any more ready for it now than we were then unfortunately. A lot of people would get shoved into unmarked vans, merc'ed in parking garages, etc.
we're slightly more ready, but not enough to make a difference. the libs did an incredible job recuperating that energy.
yeah... I guess you're right. I was going to say we're not "much" more ready but then I realized I was only saying we're more ready because I feel more ready on a personal level, the population as a whole? nah. Orgs? some but barely
2026 in the prime timeline, but who knows which one we are in now
If I move to Northern Ireland will I get dual citizenship when it happens?
I always suspected that I was a Korn shell script because tss-t-ts-t-tss-t-ts-t-tss-t-ts-t- ARRRRRE YOUUUUU REAAAADYYYYYY?
You know, we’re also just in time for San Francisco to start rounding up the homeless after they helped strip them of any semblance of rights left at the Supreme Court
My gut says that we're still a few years out from bell riots, but things are trending that way. just need an inciting incident. imagine if the trump shooter was homeless and not just some gun nut
I like to think my city will defend its people (not the government but the population at large) but from what little I've seen of SF I don't have a ton of hope
greater israel
greater Ireland
