Pink Ball wrote:I'm not sure you're quite the expert you fancy yourself as here, buster. We're no lapsed Britons.
As far as I'm aware, no-one's an expert on Northern Ireland, least of all those that rely on ad-hominem attacks as a means to shore up points of extreme bias, that use deliberate or unintentional misunderstanding of text as a means to rant, who make implications that were never there or are simply incorrect as an excuse to repeat propaganda.
Take this sentence, for example:
Pink Ball wrote:We're not British, mate...We're no lapsed Britons
So you deny that the Island of Ireland is a Part of the British Isles?
The term British is derived from a geographical term that references the landmasses that comprise the batch of islands off the coast of France.
English people aren't British. Scottish people aren't British. Welsh people aren't British. But at the same time we
are all British.
What you mean to say is "The people of Ireland no longer wished to be governed by the Parliament at Westminster and no longer wished to have the English Monarch as their head of state"
Which is perfectly fine. Lots of countries have made that decision and remained happy with their relationship with those institutions in a devolved state.
But since you're a fanatic, you need to use the maximum inflammatory language possible and try to make the topic as divisive as you can. "Fellow Britons, don't you just HATE those British SCUM! Join me in riding our country of these British so that we can be ruled by US Britons!".
Ironically enough, you're shouting at someone who is themselves someone who would prefer Ireland to be a single island state, but, of course, someone who is also not fanatical and, as we all know, everything sounds wrong to a fanatic that isn't 100% exactly what that fanatic wants. No lie is too outrageous, no liberty of language is beyond the pale, no inconvenient fact too spinable.
Pink Ball wrote:pro-independence.
But you're not independent. Ireland ceded from the British Empire via American aid and goodwill and then quickly became subservient to The European Union.
So what is it that you're really on about here? Let's see:
Pink Ball wrote:campaigning for a separation between the protestant church and state.
Oh. Religion. Indeed. It's not really anything about Britons and British and who you're subservient to from one day to the next nor which pieces of geographical landmasses form neat chunks on maps. It's religion isn't it. You're a religious fanatic. Oh joy. And how ironic. Beings as how, you know, it's literally impossible for a Catholic state to be "Independent" from outside control.
But yes, it makes you sound like you're the brave freedom fighter when you use the word 'Independence' a lot doesn't it. Really works a treat on the easily enrabbled huh. "Don't be independent!, be Independent!". Hilarious word mangling of the highest order.