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

  • Kumikommunism [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    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

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      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

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Word. They were to the British Empire what the UK is to America today.

        • Zombie@feddit.uk
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          4 months ago

          I don't recall anyone in the UK being violently cleared from their homes and land in the name of sheep profit by Americans.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        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