• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah supporting IRA (sympatizers) is based /s

    Supporting Sinn Fein is absolutely based, I love a good DemSoc party. As for the IRA, Republican paramilitaries were the least civilian-murder-happy of the sides in the Troubles, so while I wouldn’t express support for them, I’m also not going to automatically reach for condemnation for a paramilitary group that began in legitimate oppression and ended with good-faith peace negotiations.

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      2 days ago

      The troubles sucked and people shouldnt be divided like that, hope we can agree on that.

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        There’s one group responsible for the division, and it ain’t the irish.