• AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    if biden didn't personally deliver armalites to the ira i don't want to hear about his irish heritage ever again

      • comi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        :gaddafi-happy: :solidarity: :biden-leftist:

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I know some IRA factions were selling weapons to other groups, just making a joke about how he wasn't giving them weapons to support the cause, just to launder imperialism through them. No idea if it's true or not

            RIRA does smuggling to fund themselves wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the CIA uses them to smuggle arms to wage illegal wars abroad. Though the Sauds are definitely the biggest movers. They're not explicitly Marxist, so I don't think they'd really have a problem with doing that sort of stuff.

    • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      cosplay is fun.

      i literally was born in USSR, but grew up in USA and i don't pull that shit. I need to somehow get my nephew to knock it off cuz he's learning these types of bad habits from his dad (who is obsessed with being 'irish' even though he is canadian). like at least my nephew was born in Scotland, but like my story, neither of us were old enough to remember, nor do we have any sort of our 'native' culture in our lives.

      hell, at least i learned russian and became a communist...

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        i literally was born in USSR

        If I could claim this it doesn't matter how white I am I would wear a ushanka 24/7 and speak only russian.

        • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          a couple halloweens ago, i had to throw together a costume because the guy i was hooking up with wanted to got to a party. i just wore a ushanka and a tracksuit and slav'd it up. can one appropriate their own culture? who knows but i was comfortable as fuck.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Why do these very same people like to pretend that they're more oppressed than black people at like every chance they can get to remind people? Seriously. Irish and Italian american chuds absolutely love to go on about how ummm actually we face greater hate crimes than the urban hip hop thugs do.

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        You just don’t understand. Christopher Columbus is Jesus to them and having indigenous peoples day is a micro aggression. Columbus statues matter

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I have a certain amount of sympathy for trying to hold on to hold on to some sense of roots (English was my grandma's second language, but my mom only speaks English, and I have some friends whose families emigrated more recently and they're navigating that same language divide right now), but at the same time, there's no denying that all too often Irish/German/Italian/etc pride is just barely disguised white pride.

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Because for people in Biden's generation it was an actual racial disparity separate from "white", and now it no longer is. (Okay, probably earlier than even him, but y'know.) It's why he made the comment about "sorry to the Greeks but my mom makes the best rice pudding" and when the BBC tried to interview him he said "BBC? I'm Irish"

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I've heard poc argue that the first step to abolishing whiteness is white people re discovering their ethnic roots, so...

    • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Normal people say it because everyone knows what you really mean when you say you're Irish or whatever

  • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, this is real lmao. He doesn't know where bagpipes are from?? And Biden is like 3rd or 4th generation Irish anyway...

    And he may be distantly related to some assholes who worked for the East India Company.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Bagpipes are from ireland too, Look up uilleann pipes!

      That said, these are Scottish pipes.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I've been playing bagpipes for 10+ years now and I still don't understand how they got the Irish association when the instrument most people think of (great highland bagpipes) is 100% a Scottish instrument. As someone else said, there are Irish bagpipes, but it's not what most people think of when they are imagining bagpipes.

      Like St. Patrick's Day should not have bagpipes associated with it, but I make a lot of money in March so I'm not going to complain.

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        In america, a lot of "irish" settlers were from ireland after moving there from Scotland, and brought scotch musical traditions with them

      • comi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They do have special bagpipes in Ireland though, no?

        • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Well they're not exactly a staple of Irish culture. I've never heard of Irish bagpipes, and I do have some expertise in the area

          • comi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            https://youtu.be/4MxFsk4sYM4

            I mean the sound seems familiar, so I assumed they were sort of popular:)

            • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              I'll be honest this is the first I've heard of them, when I think "Irish music" I think of fiddles and tin whistles. Thanks for sharing though!

              Also I feel like my first comment makes me sound kinda like a snob, I was saying "I do have some expertise" because I'm Irish but I forgot to elaborate on that

              • comi [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Listening to lunasa prepared me for this moment :)

  • Ceatnik [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Americans stop larping as other nationalities challenge

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Isn't bagpipes something you'd would associate with funerals in the US? I know he's old and decrepit but this just seems too macabre.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Gotta admit, all the people spamming "win a real election" made me laugh

  • buh [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Why does that sentence sound a bit risque?

  • No_Values [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The was literally a cumtown bit btw 'the irish comic gets scottish bagpipes and kilts for wedding'

  • Punk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    https://twitter.com/BarrySmellson/status/1374108927328149507

  • domhnall [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The annual erroneous association between Ireland and Scottish bagpipes drives me fucking nuts. Uilleann Pipes are the Irish ones. They sound very fucking different.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTHs7eQSKc