Nevermind, I'm a faggot who didn't read the whole thread carefully.
Post IRA
Nicholas Smith
Sebastian Flores
gross. Brittany should be part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Noah Hughes
All Americans should be banned from discussing Ireland. Its for your own good.
Liam Allen
How about you refrain from discussing Germany and World War Two then, Anglo subhuman? It's for your own good.
Jose Diaz
This is the view of everyone in the UK even Scotland, which the IRA intentionally avoided bombing despite the Loyalists being ethnically Scottish and getting a lot of quiet low-level support from Scotland and most of those in the RoI as well.
Sadly any change will just revert to the same corruption again in a decade tops.
A bunch of reasons, partly that the loyalists there are prone to go serbia-tier genocide if they feel like they're going to be betrayed. Ironically the RoI didn't actually want the UK to pull out during the Troubles because of the possibility of a full on civil war that they couldn't handle, the reason the Good Friday Agreement specifies that both NI and the RoI have to have a public referendum on joining is so the Irish government can't back out when the shooting starts if their own population has signed off on it.
Jaxon Lee
I get why the IRA did what they did in the 20's, but when they started bombing shit in the 70's and onwards is when they went from freedom fighters to terrorists.
I get it, we did a lot of shitty things for a long time. We intentionally flooded Ulster with Scots so we could keep Belfast, we funneled money into the North to fund anti-Irish groups, but an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
What if Japan nuked the US? What if Korea invaded Japan and pillaged dozens of towns? What if the post-Soviet states firebombed Russia?
Shitty things happen a lot, and there isn't an excuse for what we did, but there was no point in causing even more needless suffering and further damaging relations between Ireland and the UK.
Colton Rodriguez
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Jack Fisher
Both countries are very different today compared to the Troubles era. There are still rabid nationalists in the North, but most of them are old dudes now. If a referendum was held there would be a single digit number of incidents. You wouldn't see the same level of damage that happened in the Troubles.
Ian Evans
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Liam Nelson
That's not what I'm saying. The IRA got what they wanted in the 1920's, they did shitty things then as well but you can use how we treated them as an excuse for that. It was what they did after that I have a problem with.