Crazy to think the Good Friday Agreement was signed a little over 25 years ago. The U.K. and Ireland seem like completely different worlds in such a small amount of time.
Holy height over bore for the guy at 2:42. His scope is almost the size of the gun!
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Notice how one of the armys with biggest military spending doesn’t bomb the shit out of another country because of an terrorist organisation’s existance in said country.
Makes you think…
I could see why the IRA had a problem with British forces
The fact that 2 bullets locked all those lads in the truck is hilarious to me.
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Now you know why the British believe in gun control. The pesky American colonist had weapons and the IRA followed suit.
Being from Northern Ireland and having studied (and unfortunately lived through) this history, it’s always tiresome watching these threads getting swarmed by British posters who view themselves as the aggrieved party. To those people;
Sure, a guy from Turkey might have linked a rebel song to you and that got your goat. The reason he linked that is because any objective reading of our history – including by you – paints a very clear picture of an oppressor and an oppressed. And when you have those oppressed mounting Civil Rights marches, and the oppressors respond by having the army massacre them in public, *twice,* it’s hard to sympathize with you.
Edit: I’ll just give a shout-out to /u/RampantFury who responded to this with “Honestly, the British should have dealt with the IRA like Israel is dealing with Hamas.”
For no reason other than to highlight its ugliness. Being an Irishman from Ulster I’ve come up against ignorance and hatred like this far more often than someone lucky enough to be born in England or America or France, as he is. Low-key genocide was something Britain already engaged in here; to hear someone advocate for the British to bomb Ireland to ruins and drown our hospitals in blood is honestly sickening.
The only one with an good optic is cameraman lol
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By any means necessary.
I was born on a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat
And those loving English feet, they walked all over us
And every single night when me da’ would come home tight
He’d invite the neighbours out with this chorus
Come out ye black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Always funny when anything to do with IRA gets posted on anything. You get those who have no idea or nothing to do with the conflict giving their opinion and supporting the IRA (terrorists) or UVF (also terrorists). “Freedom fighters” don’t bomb children or target civilians.
Hope that ira gets what they fighting for
My little armalite starts playing
Americans supplied weapons to the IRA?
What’s the clear visor looking thing that’s flipped up on their helmets, like a riot helmet visor for protecting against shrapnel and stuff?
Freedom fighters
Of course they happen to catch the CO giving the ROE on camera, his look at the camera makes it so clear that it’s staged. Considering its 1972, the same year as Bloody Sunday, I’d imagine they wanted to avoid similar public outcry.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lenadoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lenadoon)
Crazy to think the Good Friday Agreement was signed a little over 25 years ago. The U.K. and Ireland seem like completely different worlds in such a small amount of time.
Holy height over bore for the guy at 2:42. His scope is almost the size of the gun!
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Notice how one of the armys with biggest military spending doesn’t bomb the shit out of another country because of an terrorist organisation’s existance in said country.
Makes you think…
I could see why the IRA had a problem with British forces
The fact that 2 bullets locked all those lads in the truck is hilarious to me.
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Now you know why the British believe in gun control. The pesky American colonist had weapons and the IRA followed suit.
Being from Northern Ireland and having studied (and unfortunately lived through) this history, it’s always tiresome watching these threads getting swarmed by British posters who view themselves as the aggrieved party. To those people;
Sure, a guy from Turkey might have linked a rebel song to you and that got your goat. The reason he linked that is because any objective reading of our history – including by you – paints a very clear picture of an oppressor and an oppressed. And when you have those oppressed mounting Civil Rights marches, and the oppressors respond by having the army massacre them in public, *twice,* it’s hard to sympathize with you.
Edit: I’ll just give a shout-out to /u/RampantFury who responded to this with “Honestly, the British should have dealt with the IRA like Israel is dealing with Hamas.”
For no reason other than to highlight its ugliness. Being an Irishman from Ulster I’ve come up against ignorance and hatred like this far more often than someone lucky enough to be born in England or America or France, as he is. Low-key genocide was something Britain already engaged in here; to hear someone advocate for the British to bomb Ireland to ruins and drown our hospitals in blood is honestly sickening.
The only one with an good optic is cameraman lol
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By any means necessary.
I was born on a Dublin street where the loyal drums did beat
And those loving English feet, they walked all over us
And every single night when me da’ would come home tight
He’d invite the neighbours out with this chorus
Come out ye black and tans
Come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra
Always funny when anything to do with IRA gets posted on anything. You get those who have no idea or nothing to do with the conflict giving their opinion and supporting the IRA (terrorists) or UVF (also terrorists). “Freedom fighters” don’t bomb children or target civilians.
Hope that ira gets what they fighting for
My little armalite starts playing
Americans supplied weapons to the IRA?
What’s the clear visor looking thing that’s flipped up on their helmets, like a riot helmet visor for protecting against shrapnel and stuff?
Freedom fighters
Of course they happen to catch the CO giving the ROE on camera, his look at the camera makes it so clear that it’s staged. Considering its 1972, the same year as Bloody Sunday, I’d imagine they wanted to avoid similar public outcry.