TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 8 months ago

Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?

I mean that one's easy, they wanted to break the Good Friday Agreement and put up a border in Ireland. Didn't work out for them but they managed to break it anyway by going into government with the Tories.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland"

The artificial division was already in place and a non-representation puppet state did the thing they were told to do without any input from the affected population. The partition away of part of Ireland, including non-unionist areas, had already happened. The ability of the British government to fabricate history with nonsensical language long predates this ("The British Isles") and continues to the modern day ("confidence and supply").

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

chose to opt out

lol

I promise you I read the rest of your crap (I promise you, the only means by which I am "uneducated" is by virtue of not having been brainwashed by the British education system which is incredibly light on British history...), but I almost didn't when you opened with this outright farcical statement. Oh and the St Patrick's Saltire is part of the Union Jack and yes, was used during the terrorism against Irish people, both government sanction and otherwise.

It isn't my job to educate you on your own history (our own history), and I suspect if you're the type of person who thinks what Belfast City Hall does on St Patrick's Day matters a tap to anyone, there wouldn't be much point in trying. The good news is that my government will happily do so in a generation or so. Irredentism is alive and well my friend, since the DUP broke the Good Friday Agreement by joining government and trying to establish a border on the island of Ireland. The consequences will be long remembered.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

There is no such country as "The Republic of Ireland". You're thinking of Ireland, which is a republic.

The tricolour represents all people on the island of Ireland. Can you guess why it is green white and orange? Your decision to be offended by a flag (fleg) that was specifically designed to pander to you is your own.

St Patrick's Saltire has absolutely no connection to the saint and is at least as offensive to most Irish people as your strange aversion to the tricolour by virtue of being a British invention to place (and keep even after Irish independence) Ireland on the United Kingdom flag.

Finally, anyone who is offended by being associated with Ireland or its flag is quite unlikely to want to celebrate the life of a Catholic saint, particularly not the Presbyterian Ulster Scots (the American descendents of which would have spent something less than a generation in Ireland before being replanted in America).

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you under the impression that Macron is running for the European Parliament?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Read your own article all the way to the bottom ❤️

(Also thank you for citing a fucking Gizmodo article from 2018 instead of the actual Google Code of Conduct which is the top result for "Google Code of Conduct to prove my point about laziness beautifully. Please note, you'll have to read all the way to the end again, sorry. https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 25 points 8 months ago

Gonna replace "surprise" with "emergent" and put this on a slide.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

"Fahrenheit is how people feel" only makes sense if said people have never used another scale. You know how 100F "feels" because that's what you use. If you used Celsius you'd know how that scale feels instead, and be used to using the more useful scale generally.

See also: people who think they don't have an accent.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Philosophy" seems a bit grand for something that could be better described as a "tip".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't clean his new aquarium for like months.

If you can see this response (this half baked Mastodon integration annoys the shit out of me), I'd be happy to talk you through it.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

Reddit and Lemmy are supposed to be what you want: link aggregators.

We're supposed to link to sites and pages and people vote on how good they are in the context of the sub community topic.

Of course, then Ron Paul happened, and now it's just memes and Yank politics so... maybe deploy Lemmy and turn off comments.

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