Mentions (8)
"The IRA and irish mob are depicted pretty favorably imo in movies and stuff, at least to the audiences who like those types of movies (probably not in British media). And they are funny and fun to hang out with (they drink)."
"Kind of shocked lmao, my last name is apparently made up by MI5 because my gran was forced to become an informant after she witnessed a murder and my family had to go into witness protection"
"IRA justification for war crimes against civilians mirrors IDF justification, even though they justify what they do because they're victims. I'm obviously not comparing them in scale at all, but i'm just trying to prove how focusing on the individual identity characteristics of each brutal actor in "
"Imagine being some 19 year old Irish communist who thinks that the IRA is minutes away from bombing every British Army base in Belfast only to see comments with 6000 likes confusing your countrymen for Brits"
"It seems like leftists stopped engaging in violence altogether since the 80s or 90s. Symbionese army, baader-meinhof, action directe, latin-american militias, IRA etc were all disbanded around this time."
"I was in the US military but if you're on this sub I don't care if you were PLA or IRA, I just miss chatting with other socially like minded people."
"In the words of the IRA, you only have to be lucky once."
"There are still literal wall divides separating more historically Unionist and IRA supporting neighborhoods"