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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days ago

"Cops are still assembling the details of his motive."

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"Cops are still assembling the details of his motive."

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Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days ago
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https://archive.is/YQye8

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    anti-thatcher-action

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      Lmao that emoji is more apt than you can possibly imagine.

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        I picked it for a reason lol, the IRA did their best to avoid civilian casualties and primarily targeted property and icons of oppression (I consider occupying forces to be property)

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          Not a member but I believe he was affiliated, we did learn after his death that he was part of the Weathermen.

          Gets kicked out of the UK for doing revolutionary shit against the brits during the troubles

          Gets put on a boat to the US

          Immediately joins up with the one revolutionary group blowing shit up and firebombs a bank of america

          You wish you had a cool unc like me.

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          And local collaborators

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            collaborators

            So not civilians

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              I’m not saying they can’t be valid targets, but you don’t need to be paramilitary to be a collaborator, you can just have given testimony or something about what you saw one time and thereby be a collaborator.

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                Everyone always shits on the IRA (provos) specifically for the way they handled collaborators, but man, just look at how literally ever occupational war has been carried out since WW2. They were downright civil compared to literally every other conflict.

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                  Certainly as guerillas in a colony existing right next to its colonial master, which was easily among the most powerful and depraved countries in the world, they were in an extremely desperate position throughout.

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