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magamemer 35 points ago +36 / -1

You want oppressed people? Look to the Irish. But they overcame that shit, under the British boot and overwhelming poverty, and now they are one of the most prosperous people in the world. And they have Guinness.

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Red_Hand_Commando81 1 point ago +5 / -4

Bollox !! BLM merely copied the perpetual victimhood displayed by the Irish for years, still bleating on about muh famine, Englishman bad, Union Flag = Butchers Rag blah blah blah !! They've been independent for over a century, the famine was centuries ago and if their country is a shithole, it's not England's fault !!

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Blumph 4 points ago +5 / -1

England did try as hard as they could to take ireland and scotland. We fought back and now we can blame ourselves for how shit our country is instead of englands attempted tyranny.

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Red_Hand_Commando81 1 point ago +3 / -2

Ah - the Disney+ version of history. The unification of Great Britain and Ireland gave the world the greatest Empire ever seen at that time - possibly of all time. The world was mostly populated by peasants and the poor in the 17th and 18th centuries - not just the British Isles. But, just like BLM, the Irish like to play the oppression card at every opportunity. Why look to the future when you can wallow in self pity over events that happened generations ago ? Am I the only one that can see the similarities in the rhetoric and tactics being used ?