Sam

These people should only be allowed to watch cartoons for toddlers which they might be able to keep up with.

Is that not what Superhero movies are?

The video format reminds me alot of another guy on youtube called Chongqing Punk. I understand why he is speaking so fast but tbh I had to read the transcript and watch it twice just to take the words in. The state of the left-wing in Ireland is only slightly better than in England and Scotland. Sinn Fein are a nationalist party that takes all comers and will never be forgiven by the Civil(TM) people down south for not having the good graces to lie down and die during the Troubles. People Before Profit are a tiny party of Trotskyists who are essentially a party of independents spending most of their time coming up with new names for their next eventual schism/reformation.

We are living in the future, we need a more modern solution. That is why, in my professional goo expert opinion, we should be using the Gunk(TM) from Nickelodeon shows.

"High-Altitude" in this case means GEO. This would most likely be the first refuelling of a satellite in GEO.

I think my favourite mural of all time has to be the Cuchulainn mural that portrays him as an Unionist Icon because he was an Ulsterman fighting off an army of Irishmen. I always thought it was a shame we couldn't pivot all that mural stuff into an actual art movement as its probably the closest thing we have to a distinct modern Northern Irish art form and a good mural really does improve the general feeling of a place.

Anyway, heres that dumn Cuchulainn one I was talking about:

I bought a new print from the Foreign Languages Press, it took a while to get here but it was cheap and nicely made and when it comes to out of print theory thats all I can ask for.

There is a reason that Northern Ireland is the birthplace of the term "recreational rioting". "Prominent Members of the Community" (read: paramilitary drug dealers) start them and then the recreational rioters roll in no matter the reason for the riot in the first place. Loyalists start these riots for the same reason they march through nationalist neighbourhoods every year, intimidation. Like all settler cultures the Unionist (with a big U) is now completely detached from the origins that they base their culture on. Ignored by the British, who just see them as Irish anyway, they have adopted a siege mentality that requires periodic shows of force to stop themselves from becoming completely irrelevant. Racism is a fundamental part of the culture because without it they would have to admit that they are, after 400+ years of living here, identical to the Nationalist cultures they discriminate against.

Children are far more likely to be killed by rubber and plastic bullets because of their height. Of the 17 people killed by them in Northern Ireland 8 of them were children, plastic bullets alone seriously wounded 615 people from 1988-98 in NI.

Rubber and Plastic Bullets were invented by the British forces for use in Northern Ireland and killed 17 people, over half of whom were children, while seriously injuring over 615 people between 1988-98 including permanent blindness and loss of eyes.

If you post a paywalled article please post a archive link: https://archive.ph/jAKpa Lot of people doing this with SCMP in particular.

Remmick is a metaphor for assimilation, like the protagonists he is part of a diaspora from an culture obliterated by colonial rule. Unlike the protagonists the Irish and other white settlers were afforded the opportunity to assimilate into white America at the cost of their individual ethnic cultures. This emptiness is what leads to the fetishization and desire to appropriate other cultures which remain distinct due to not being afforded the same opportunity to assimilate. The movie explicitly mentions the Filí, a type of Irish bard that played an equivalent role to Sammie in using music to connect people to their shared cultural history. The reason Remmick is so focused on getting Sammie to join his literal hive mind is that he is so desperate to feel that shared culture and ancestral connection that he doesnt care that it isnt his culture or his ancestors.

Ironically, as an Irish person, the scene that I resonated with the most was Sammie's song. I thought it was the perfect visualisation of how folk music can allow a culture to survive and connect with their ancestral pasts even when they have been long forgotten. Irish trad music and contemporary music that evolves from it is one of the very few unbroken threads to our shared past remaining.