*looks inside *
*sees 20% of country being occupied *
*looks inside *
*sees 20% of country being occupied *
I can almost read it. MOAR JPEG
Would have been a better meme if they coloured in Northern Ireland.
“26 + 6” in Cyrillic is “26 + 6”
Sure, but what is it in Arabian Numerals?
Finally. A straight answer. Thank you.
Tiocfaidh ár lá
What does this mean?
Shit bantz. Please don't pretend to understand Ireland and Northern Ireland's politics.
Ohhh hello ml user, would you like to explain how the politics of ireland eorks to me? I dont know of course because im no expert, i only lived there for years. Will you also explain how monarchy is also good? Or what is your next shitty ass take?
An ML user defending settler colonialism, now I’ve seen it all.
Then you'll be familiar with how there have been 43 surveys on the subject in the last 18 years and in all of them Northern Ireland voted against reunification.
Like it's a complicated issue dating back 500 years, but it's not like the people haven't been given a voice on the subject. There's a reason why it's been a permanent civil war up until Good Friday.
Up the RA
The .ml is a good indicator for crazy, but I think they have a point. Ireland is divided along religious lines, which makes the North side with the UK to a large extent. I know someone from NI, who is pretty happy about being part of the UK as well. Not a representative sample, but opened my eyes to the complexity of the divided Ireland.
Edit: feel free to elaborate how you saw things when living there, would be happy to hear more perspectives.
The key difference is there's a mechanism under the Good Friday Agreement by which reunification can occur, there has been for nearly 30 years, it requires the consent of the population.
At the time of partition what is now NI wanted to remain part of the UK and while this was colonised by England 400 odd years prior at some point it's probably good to take the people's opinion into account. The demographics have now shifted but repeated surveys have not indicated a sufficient change in what the population as a whole want to trigger a border poll.
There's more to consider here than historical ideals too, like actual practical aspects of any reunification - more than 25% of the NI population are employed directly by the public sector for instance not to mention those on govt contracts, the NHS for all it's faults is a significant factor for a lot of people, what benefits are available.
How familiar are you with the Lebor Gabála Érenn?
Ach amháin ní thosóinn os bun.
Oh don't get me wrong. The north of Ireland of the most heavily propagandized to in modern history.
FWIW, this image is about Gerogia and how Russia has occupied 20% of it since 2008. They're still pretty pissed about it.
Here's a link to the website shown in their screenshot: https://russianoccupation.netlify.app/
Although currently it's not working because it received too much traffic too quickly. It looks like it was recently posted to Reddit, so it's likely the classic 'Reddit hug of death.' I figured I'd share the link anyway so that anyone who may be interested can save the link and try to check it later. It's a great idea to help people understand the shituation better.
ai generated slop site. could be a static webapp if they just precomputed the values/maps for each country.
free Ireland
up the ra
Guinness
Fuck Guinness.
Guinness moved its headquarters to London at the beginning of the Anglo-Irish trade war in 1932. In 1997, Guinness plc merged with Grand Metropolitan to form the multinational alcoholic-drinks producer Diageo plc, based in London.
Before 1939, if a Guinness brewer wished to marry a Catholic, his resignation was requested.[19] According to Thomas Molloy, writing in the Irish Independent, "It had no qualms about selling drink to Catholics but it did everything it could to avoid employing them until the 1960s."[20]
In the 1980s, as the IRA's bombing campaign spread to London and the rest of Britain, Guinness considered scrapping the harp as its logo.[20]
Coincidentally or not that orange blob looks about the same size as that dark blue blob that's been around for a while.
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