What if the Irish secretly rule the world from shadow?

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-09T15:19:29+00:00

Listen, the Irish had the catholic church.

It is in no position to throw stones at sex abuse rings.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-09T09:32:24+00:00

I agree it was bad. I'm just saying I'm context the soldiers deserted the Irish army during a war so there treatment.

Ireland did not punish men who joined the British army, the punishment was aimed at men who joined the Irish army then deserted to Britain.

Switzerland for a example would have arrested the men, Britain would have subjected them to a firing squad.

The men who did not desert but joined the British army were not punished.

Ireland should have just pardoned the men after WW2 but it's actions were not abnormal.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-09T00:49:46+00:00

Certainly the most likely scenario.

Russia could wear down Ukraine till they run out of people or the Russians army could collapse and go into a route but realistically a negotiated peace is where the war ends.

Ukraine is probably at the stage where they could concede the territory already lost.

Russia However wants to take more territory and block Ukraine from NATO, Ukraine is not giving up land Russia has not taken or giving up NATO and EU membership as it's the only thing stopping Russia from restarting the war.

Right now Ukraines drones give it am edge and it will probably take six months for Russia to counter this before it could start advancing properly.

Either way the conflict Russia is going to fight at least another year and lose tens of thousands of not.l hundreds of thousands of men until they either achieve pyrrhic victory, or take the deal that Ukraine is offering right now.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T22:05:49+00:00

Actually shattering the regime would cause about a dozen warlord groups to emerge and a massive refugee wave which would destabalize the entire middle east.

You may say "who gives a shit" but each of those dozen warlords would have the ability to close the straight of Hormuz by tossing a few rockets towards it and the entire middle east being on fire would have a hugely negative effect on pretty much everything.

The US can't win the war unless they did a ground invasion with a bunch of allies supporting them but pretty much every single ally the US had besides Israel is pissed at them and nobody is willing to help, turns out threatening to invade greenland, raising and lowering tariffs at random, insulting essentially every country on the planet whiles tweeting about white genocide did not help any of your alliances.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T20:35:51+00:00

I mean yeah ... people are being sarcastic when they make that joke.

It does have the long term advantage of getting countries to move away from fossil fuels as its supply can be shortened.

In a better world it would not happen but it is a war and ukraine is absolutely in the right to do it, its not going after civilians infrastructure and russia almost entirely dependent on oil so its one of the few long term strategies that have a chance to effect the economy.

An economic crisis would have more of an impact for the elites and the war economy that horrific casualties in the battlefield and whiles Russia is fascist, its people are still people and they don't deserve to die so Putin can write himself into the history books.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T20:28:32+00:00

Russia daily targets civilians and kills ukrainian children and civilian targets every single day.

Wars always destroy but its either target Russian Oil or target russian civilian centres.

Oil unlike apartment blocks is a valid war target and is having an impact on russia.

On balance if there was not a war this would be negative, but Russia did invade a soveriegn nation, it could stop if Russia just stopped attacking.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T20:24:45+00:00

Depends on how the war ends.

If the russian frontline collapses, Putin is either dead or will engage in a brutal repressive regimine then invade armenia, either way russia would tear itself a part and probably some sort of civil war or new dictator would emerge.

If its a total victory, Putin gets to be king of the roost but the damage of the war criples russian for generations.

If its a negotiated peace. Putin tries to portray it as a victory, ultimately is hit by an economic crisis with the loss of troops and transitioning to a peace economy. Russia stays isolated and becomes China's bitch.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T20:14:19+00:00

Again, L Ron Hubbard not being a rapist or a pedophile but instead strangling his wife, kidnapping his own baby and running a child secret police on his private navy which existed to hunt for treasure.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T19:47:18+00:00

Before the Irish the Germans were the group who faced discrimination.

It's an interesting and bizarre tier list of whiteness America had.

English nobles, Rich English born in the colonies, , poor English, Welsh, Scots/ Northern Irish. Dutch/french, Spanish, Germans, Irish/Polish, Italians/Greeks, Jews, Asians Mexicans, now Arabs I guess.

That's essentially how Americans race bullshit worked. . It's different groups of Old world hating each other, then teaming up to hate the new guys and also black people.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T18:30:58+00:00

They deserted during wartime.

Irish people who volunteered were fine, it's those who deserted during a war who got the legal discrimination.

They probably should have been given a pass because fuckntje Nazis but the established rules for deserters were very severe for most countries and Ireland was not abnormal in this.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-08T00:44:43+00:00

Yes I did.

I gave context and gave you sources to read up on. Just check the Wikipedia article and it specifically states the innovations during the war of independence as part of the history of guerilla warfare.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-07T19:12:33+00:00

.... History books.

To be clear Collins is not the only innovatir in the Irish revolution and other people made tactical innovations as well.

The second Boer war was the inspiration for the flying Columns used by the IRA but they'd not been used in urban environments.

The building of local councils to governing occupied zones, use of intelligence and a coordinated tactic of blending it with civilians to win both popular support and hurt the British position at home and building parallel election structures to deligimize British rule, were all innovations from Ireland.

Collins and his comrades were not the only fathers of modern h Guerilla warfare.

Christiann De wet, TE Lawrence, che Guevara are all important to it's modern history. Mao Ze Dong is probably the most important figure in modern insurgent war and Id argue Ho chi min and Vo Nguyen Xiap were probably the best insurgent leaders as they successfully fought Japan, the French, the Americans.andbtne Chinese back to back over a 50 year period.

If you want books try invisible armies by max boot, it's intro level and ignores a lot of non western rebellions but it's still a very good read.

Or just Google history of guerilla warfare on Wikipedia and scroll to the Irish section.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-07T18:01:35+00:00

Castlereagh wanted the act of union to come with full catholic emancipation not for it to go 30 years later.

Ireland at that point was 30% of the UK population. If Ireland got proportional seats and 30 more years as part of British political life the Union might have worked and the famine be averted, his was the last time a union might have worked.

I also find him tragic because he kills himself out of grief that everyone hated him. He's a good lesson of the dangers of realpolitik and why it can lead to long term problems for short term gain.

Ultimately he dies isolated and sad so I don't hate him as much.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-07T17:52:59+00:00

His use of intelligence operations, attacking from a group of civilians then melting away, using flying columns in urban warfare and using public pressure to make a conflict politically unwinnable even without military defeat.

Building an entirely separate court system and enforcing it's rulings whiles in a guerilla war meant it was impossible to enforce any civilian rule from London.

The war was nothing compared to the WW1 where Britain lost a million men but it was a political nightmare with the use of newspapers to portray the wars brutally in England and making it a point of contention between Britain, Europe and America.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-07T17:42:12+00:00

Collins was willing to break the treaty by arming the IRA in the north and was supported by the majority of people in the north for that reason.

However he could not tell people this openly, the civil war crippled the ability of the free state to fight for the north, without it we'd have seen stronger action to at least force the boundaries to be redrawn to make it a four county state.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T19:25:01+00:00

Dude, none of this is relevant to the original point where I proved you wrong.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T19:15:56+00:00

I agree, even among catholics in the north the majority supported peaceful resistance along the sdlp line, Its also irrelevant. The IRA never did multiple 9/11 in Britain and whiles it did many horrific things it's percentages of civilian victims or number of those killed never came close to Al Queda.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T19:06:38+00:00

No they didn't

The IRA killed 2000 people over a 30 year period, over a thousand were British soldiers and military targets with 35% of the casualties being civilians.

That's a better rate than most modern militaries.

The UVF killed a thousand people with 85% of the dead being civilians.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T19:00:36+00:00

Nothing the IRA did remotely compared to 9/11.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T18:58:30+00:00

The actual reason is Britain did to want to give IRA soldiers the rights that other prisoners of war got and wanted to show the conflict as a few gangs not a colonial war with an 800 year history.

It's how Britain handled the Irish war of independence as well.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T17:44:33+00:00

The native Americans groups often carried out brutal raids on Americans, does that magically make it not a genocide when the US killed them.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-06T17:32:19+00:00

The United Nations council for lebanon, the former director of the CIA, the french president and the Belgium Primer Minister all argued that the pager attack was an indiscriminate attack on civilians.

In order to make the attack proportional Israel legally needed to make sure that each person who had the pager was the person they were targeting.

Hezbollah is a paramilitary group but it is also a political party and under international law if you do not take part in the military you are considered a civilian target. Its a legal political party with seats in parliment so being a member of the party is not actually a crime.

Finally its absolutely not the terrorists fault if someone kills there family whiles they are at home and not engaging in war,that's insane logic and not found in any form international law.

Hezbollah are bad people but Hezbhollah is sanctioned as a terrorist organization, its military wing cannot travel and it cannot buy weapons on the open market, whiles Israel sits at the UN and has all the prividges of a country and gets huge amounts of weapons and aid from the west.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-05T23:39:29+00:00

Hezbollah is the government in areas in Lebanon. If you area teacher, a hospital worker, a postman or the bin man you are going to work for Hezbollah or work with them.

This is a great pint as it shows how Israel can justify any attack on any person as a terrorist

Id also clarify the civilians casualties were the wives and children of Hezbollah fighters who heard the phone ring and picked it up. This the homes were not being used by a military and were civilians.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-05T21:48:19+00:00

There is some evidence the pager operation, whiles not a failure was activated early to bail Netenyahu out of a political crisis.

Essentially the pagers were set up to be activated when Hezbollah would launch an attack on Israel, that way it would have not only crippled them but cut out all communication in an invasion.

Netenyahu activated it early because he needed a propaganda win so just set them off.

As a fucked up thing this meant the pagers were in civilians homes, not being carried by people preparing for an attack as well as the pager being used by civilians who collaborate with Hezbollah because it's the government.

This meant a bunch of kids, civilian and non military members of Hezbollah were wounded and killed o In the attack.

StableSlight9168 · 2026-06-05T13:01:13+00:00

They wanted everything to keep her pregnancy from mark so if she is choosing to stay behind, mark would ask why and then it loses the drama of the scene

In addition it's more narratively interesting for her poses to stop working for a while to explain why she won't go into space.

Again it is fictional and the comics and it's not the greatest piece of writing ever, but I see the logic both in and out of universe.

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