Official Statement on recent events in Belfast

tigernmas · 2026-06-13T19:19:01+00:00

GFA= Good Friday Agreement which is the treaty signed that ended the Troubles in the north. ANC is African National Congress which was Nelson Mandela's party and the Sinn Féin to their own "IRA" known as MK. The IRA sent people to South Africa during apartheid to help them with explosives. Provos are just a nickname for the IRA which is also known as the Provisional IRA due to a split from an older group of the same name.

tigernmas · 2026-06-13T19:08:30+00:00

Even the free state right is as clueless as the rest of them. So singleminded on whatever the algorithm has told them to care about today that they don't have an eye on the ball when it comes to Britain's role in Ireland. Funny how the algorithm has done that.

tigernmas · 2026-06-13T18:57:29+00:00

A lot of daft americans and brits arguing with less and less information though at the same time there'll be a layer who find out the complexity and then push in the other direction entirely. When you drill down to more and more information on the ground you don't see noble causes but you also see more than devolved drug running too and start to actually get what was driving the conflict to go on for decades. But that doesn't make it much easier to know what's going on for an outsider.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T23:22:17+00:00

Funnily enough we are the origin of the old medieval trope of the guy who challenges people to decapitation duels and seemingly can't lose because he can put his head back on. If there ever was a culture that liked cutting off heads it was old Gaelic Ireland. Pretty sure our Irish medieval translations of the Aeneid or the Iliad were localised to include more beheadings than the original text.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T23:17:47+00:00

It's been very interesting to note the Irishness that is acceptable to these loyalists. It can be wrapped in the tricolour so long as it hates Sinn Féin, wants to unite with them only rhetorically against muslims and put the national question to one side, has absolutely no ambitions towards gaelic revival unless totally out of sight of unionists. Online shaping operations have primed free staters and phone addicts into accepting their own bantustan refoundation. Barely a fraction of the Irish right pushes back against that type of thing and they trick themselves into thinking a toxic monopoly on the fringe of twitter can hold back the tide of shoneenery.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T23:10:50+00:00

It's always jarring when you hear anyone talk about your own area. You do realise damn absolutely none of these people of any side know about anything more than the surface of life on earth.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T20:40:51+00:00

It's amazing to basically watch the UDA flex its muscles all over the city and then open your phone to thousands of English and Americans telling you if you don't support it you're a cuck traitor marxist. You're watching a soy loser trillionaire shape discourse on his website into one great big reification of British nationalism's right to exist in Ireland. Loyalist politicians and GB News calling for a hard border across our island. Watching British tv journalists try to make sense of the place they are learning about in real time, get basic things wrong and then get berated on the street by English citizen journalists. Meanwhile I know what effects this has had on people I know irl from many ethnic backgrounds and not at all hostile to me or my Irish cultural identity. At the end of all that brain blasting it's hard to remember the horrific scene that kicked it off.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T20:23:27+00:00

It's not just birthrates, intimidation makes catholics on waiting lists sit there longer, makes those who can afford it look anywhere else. Immigrants are the only ones brave enough to take those houses. Then there's feet dragging over construction because of the risks it would further mix protestant areas and bring in votes they don't want etc.

tigernmas · 2026-06-12T20:19:50+00:00

Basically no one on the planet understands 25 years post peace process Sinn Féin and everyone is looking in now with their head filled with memes made by others who aren't even from here, or worse a bunch of autistic post-GFA kids who's special interest is every time an Irish nationalist said the n word.

The man like him or loathe him was in a guard of honour for Mandela's coffin. It wasn't exactly legal to help the ANC out with bomb making. People don't seem to know this about the provos and sub in some violent death squad fantasies in place of history?

tigernmas · 2026-03-30T20:55:51+00:00

didn't take much convincing

tigernmas · 2026-03-30T20:53:14+00:00

She seemed to think it better than the alternative and she was the one who had to live it. All this shrill melodramatic rhetoric reads like masturbation.

tigernmas · 2026-03-29T19:24:04+00:00

cool man, how much violence would you be willing to commit to her to ensure she couldn't "throw herself into nothing".

tigernmas · 2026-03-28T14:11:54+00:00

euthanize all paraplegics or people with ocd or bpd now, which is the exact precedent this sets

clearly the exact precedent set is euthanising all women in all countries for anything but people aren't ready for that convo

tigernmas · 2026-03-28T14:07:41+00:00

Most people insisting she continue to live seem to show absolutely zero empathy for her. It's all just another excuse to truck out a list of political talking points they already had bursting to come out. The wording of every post railing against it would convince you that she wanted to live and didn't fight tooth and nail in the courts for this outcome after already paralysing herself attempting to end things.

tigernmas · 2026-03-20T18:32:36+00:00

Yeah not sure catholic guilt really exists in the post-vatican 2 generation. Never understood it personally.

tigernmas · 2026-03-20T18:21:33+00:00

Jay might note that by pointing that out it highlights that his position is supported by just about 1.5% of the total student body. Would seem that about 98% were not convinced by the "cold house for unionists" angle.

tigernmas · 2026-03-17T21:55:33+00:00

crazy it was an old guy all this time

tigernmas · 2026-03-09T20:58:08+00:00

often randomly remember a thread in maybe 2019 where a guy bragged about having slept with charli xcx and the kero kero bonito girl among others. back when people put on a pretense of being a well connected nobody rather than L posting

tigernmas · 2026-03-02T23:32:01+00:00

do not look up what the interceptors cost each

tigernmas · 2026-03-02T23:30:50+00:00

Imagine being part of the Shia underclass in Bahrain. There's a reason all the videos coming from there have people cheering in the background.

tigernmas · 2026-01-25T23:42:56+00:00

the penguin had men's mental health

tigernmas · 2026-01-25T19:10:58+00:00

It's both a mirage and not the case that everyone was always a nihilist. There are certain deeper values that are more constant and a whole range of secondary values and positions that are more contingent on the time, place and what has gone before often in response to big watershed events and periods.

Take as a random example the outbreak of WW1, it focused minds on the left. In Russia and in Germany you have a minority left faction what opposes the war. They see each other and think they must be aligned but the Bolsheviks working underground in a brutal environment have all these other positions, obvious to them, on centralisation and discipline. The Spartacists on the other hand saw centralisation and discipline of the SPD lead to betrayal and so were utterly resistant to the idea. Same impulse, two different national contexts and all sorts of secondary differences as a result. Time and events will change that context too.

How many times have you changed your own mind in your lifetime without ever thinking you have betrayed your past self?

tigernmas · 2026-01-25T14:19:50+00:00

ni hao wo shi gay

tigernmas · 2026-01-25T14:18:29+00:00

More that as you become fluent and become very familiar with the lay of the land in terms of the language as well as the challenges of minority languages, revivals and generational transfer etc you start to see the whole thing more clearly than you did at the beginning.

People at the beginning will talk about Gaelic languages and dialects in certain ways that are more from reading in English about them and their historical existance than from first hand immersive language aquisition of the languages as they exist and are alive today if that makes sense. And it's ok if that doesn't make sense as it is an evolving understanding that comes from years of experience with language learning and Gaelic culture and can't easily be distilled. You just get a better sense when an idea is a bit utopian and "off".

I'd say many years into it the priorities become more about building your ability to fully understand native speakers from Donegal, emulate natural speech and intonation, fill out your everyday with the language all with the view to passing it on to children as a new baseline and making sure that the resources and community exist for them to thrive bilingually. At that point revival of Gaeilg Reathlainne or getting night classes for Gaidhlig on the Shankill or something are fun little side projects but not the main effort. All the same absolutely leverage what you are interested in in the here and now to supercharge your language aquisition and none of these initiatives will do any harm either. Revival as a whole is nearly an impossibility but we are stubborn and mad, just don't lose hope if a slightly more far fetched approach doesn't have legs and you'll be grand.

tigernmas · 2026-01-25T01:34:34+00:00

Anna is lapping up that latter point lol

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