Comments by "Taint ABird" (@taintabird23) on "ITV News"
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@franciscook5819 'The people of Northern Ireland do not want to be a part of the Republic - not the least because the Republic, for instance, in deference to the Catholic Church, didn't even allow divorce until 1995'
'The people of Northern Ireland' is how unionists describe themselves, almost as if nationalists in NI simply did not exist. As it happens, there is not majority anywhere in Ireland for unity...yet. How past conservativism in the republic is a barrier to future unity is something only understood by you; it would seem that today the republic is far to progressive for many of the dinosaurs in the DUP.
'Biden sees Northern Ireland not as an integral part of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom, but as a stolen part of Ireland.'
You provide no evidence for this claim, it must be dismissed as speculation.
'My comment accurately highlights the hypocrisy of the USA and Biden (who is in many other ways admirable). As for states (and Texas, in particular) wanting to leave the USA the Civil War was fought over that very idea.'
No it does not. It accurately highlights that your obviously don't know what you are talking about: you claimed parts of the US should be returned to Mexico. I asked you if there were people in Texas seeking unity with Mexico and you instead demonstrated that you did not know what you were talking about by rambling on about the Confederacy.
'I stand by my remarks and you, frankly, look like a pro-Irish bigot, unwilling to accept that the America could ever be wrong, especially where it pertains to the myths surrounding Ireland.'
You stand by your ill-informed comment and then engage in further speculation, but indication your belief that a nationalists perspective is somehow illegitimate.
And you you're not done yet - you have another post generation by my two line response. Let's see what rambling incoherence awaits!
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@franciscook5819 'Just FYI the following US States all have "independence" movements of one sort or another: Arizona, Alaska, California, Florida, New Hampshire, Texas and Vermont - and there is the perennial issue of the US colony in Puerto Rico.'
Again, all I asked was if there if there were people in Texas that wanted unity in Mexico - you know, so that it would be in keeping your claim of Biden's hypocrisy. There aren't, are there?
'And just to make clear.'Biden et al are so pleased that Ireland is now a separate state while simultaneously maintaining that no state can secede from the USA.'
Well, unlike the USA, the people of Ireland never voted to be part of the United Kingdom. But let us park the facts and continue for now.
'If you genuinely don't see the hypocrisy then I think there is something wrong with you.'
I would suggest if you don't believe in facts, then there is something wrong with YOU! Your entire argument is based on a false premise.
'There is no morality associated with the position of "Irish Americans" - it is demonstrably tied to the propaganda associated with the Irish Potato Famine (a lamentable display of incompetence by the British Government, rather than malice, as proposed by "Irish Americans").'
Actually, the American's are promoting the notion that the potato famine was genocide. I don't subscribe to this point of view, and it is not taught as such in Irish schools. However, Irish Americans know that they are Americans today because of a time in the past when the English shafted their ancestors. What you fail miserably to understand is that these Irish Americans are not prepared to stand by watch Ireland and its peace process get shafted once again by Brexiters on the other island, aided and abetted by the DUP who saw an opportunity to get a hard border in Ireland. Then they were shafted by the English instead.
'In other comments I have detailed the separation of Ireland from the UK, the casualties caused and those in the ensuing Irish Civil War and compared them with the US Civil War and the casualties caused there.'
Yes, I noticed something about that. Your figures were wrong for the Irish Civil War.
Well, it is just as I suspected. You don't have any idea about what you are talking about, and I'm bigot for merely challenging you. You have a point of view that is perfectly legitimate but only the knowledge of a barstool historian to back it up, which in fact does you a disservice.
But hey, what the hell would I know, right? Being a bigot and all.
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