Belfast, Ireland:
1926, 1969: Loyalist riots against Catholics.
2001: Loyalist riots against Catholic children.
2021: Loyalist riots over NI Protocol.
2024: Loyalist riots over Southport stabbings.
2025/26: Loyalist riots over immigration.
What could the common denominator be?
Long before unionist fascists were scared by and "protested" against "immigrants" they were protesting against young, primary school 7/8/9 year old native Irish Catholic girls who they attacked with urine filled balloons, bags of human excrement, used condoms and blast bombs.
i hate to make yet another thing political, but nearly every right-leaning person i know does not understand this at all, while a good chunk of left-leaning people get it intuitively
the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.
The difference between Republican and loyalist areas.
Guy with the hurl saves a life and confronts an attacker.
Loyalists attack innocent migrant families, kick their doors in, burn their house and have children fleeing in fear.
I ran a script to replace every instance of 'whale' in Moby Dick with the word 'lesbian', and I have to tell you, Captain Ahab does not come out of it well
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.
As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."
I knew a Bosnian woman who managed a grocery store
When she wanted the teenage employees to do something, she would go in on them like:
"When I was young, how I wish I had nice warm place to mop! We could not go to store. We could not go anywhere - because of sniper."