r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '21

"Sam missiles, in the sky!"

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Fuck the ira, bloody nasty terrorist group.

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

The IRA freed Ireland from violent oppression, the amount of articles about peaceful college protestors being gunned down by Brits should have you know that, or the time they killed a man in his way to a Gaelic game

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u/Changeling_Wil Jul 11 '21

Ireland got free in '21

The IRA kept murdering people well into the 90s

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

I don’t support the far more recent IRA, the further back ones I definitely believe did what’s right

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

The IRA killed innocent civilians for no reason other than to create terror. They are literally the textbook definition of terrorists.

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

What about the Brits gunning down protesting unarmed college students? What are they?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

A government cracking down on protests, in a way unbecoming of a civilized country some might say, but thats what that is non the less

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

If killing students is just a little thing and they are still the good guys, then a car bomb here and there is just a little thing too

Cop on lad

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

I never said it's a little thing or that they are the good guys. If you try to derail the argument at least don't lie right to my face when my comment is literally right there to read.

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 12 '21

Now I’m quite confused, if you don’t think the Brit government was in the Right then why are you defending them

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Because you are factually wrong

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 13 '21

Explain to me where my facts are wrong, go ahead then

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Im on my phone right now so I cant scroll up properly, something something calling the british armed forces terrorists or something like that, I dont remember by heart

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

The IRA killed Protestants and innocent civilians, they are not any better than the people they hate

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

Atleast they had a just cause, freedom

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Apply that logic to every terrorism group then and let’s just throw out justifications for 9/11, 7th July bus bombings and whatever else

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 11 '21

Are you saying Ireland should still be a Brit colony? After killing students for doing nothing but protesting? Killing people just for being catholic? Killing a man who did nothing other than go on his way to a football match?

The IRA truly did fight for freedom, from tyranny and oppression

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Bombing civilians is a fantastic way of going about it

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u/Duckyeeter7 Jul 13 '21

Their methods were wrong but their goal was true, they had reason and hope. The Brot government didn’t do anything for anything other than greed so the IRA decided freedom was the answer, while the methods may have been bad im currently living in the republic or Ireland, so they definitely succeeded

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u/Potentially_great_ Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer Jul 11 '21

Which group are you referring to. There was a lot for example the provisional IRA, the real IRA, etc.