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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Most” Americans don’t celebrate the IRA. Most Americans don’t even know what the IRA is other than a retirement account.

  The ones that do know generally support the UK in that whole mess. The IRA is literally a designated terrorist group in the US.

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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bit of stretch to say “most Americans” celebrate the IRA. I do understand the IRA is memed in Libertarian gun culture.

  The Omagh bombing showcases how indiscriminate violence is fucking horrible, in both how it affects so many people and turns many more against your cause.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On this platform I have seen so many Americans try and justify incidents like the Omagh bombing and the actions of the various IRA groups in general.

    Even now. You just had to include the “turns many more against your cause.”

    Rather than just leave it at “innocent people dying is a bad thing”.

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