#Irish dissident

[princepsfianna]

Was lucky enough to get ahold of a new work signed by our political prisoners arrested for the republican cause.

The GFA has led to the shame and degradation of collaborating with the British! Of handing our political prisoners over to them!

[noneatnonedotcom]

The history of the Arc family in Arthurian mythos!

ever wonder about jaune's family before his sisters and him? ever wonder how our favorite noodle would do in Arthurain times? well good news for you I'll be going through the actions of both his great Grand father and grand father leading up to Jaune being knighted during the time of uther penndragon! lets get started Johnathan Arc was born in 410 A.D the last year that Rome was a part of Brittain, he was knighted at the Age of 21 in 431 A.D. Earning himself 1000 glory

in 439 A.D he took part in the battle of Carlion earning 90 glory and a Hatred for the Irish (the Damned bastards don't fight fair!) it's a 16! out of a max of twenty meaning that it's an intense hatred for the Irish. in 440 the king Constantine is murdered by Silchester knights who were supposed to be guarding him, but great grandpa arc didn't know this because he was on garison duty earning him a whopping 10 glory

in 441 through 442 At the urging of Duke Vortigern of the Gewessi, the High Council chooses Constans, the young son of Constantin, as king. Constans is a young, bookish type, however, so he relies on his uncle, Duke Vortigern, for advice. John however was busy fighting for his life against the same pictish raiders he'd been fighting last year, he did manage to survive though earning him a 20 more glory.

in 443 Young King Constans is murdered by his Pictish bodyguards. After much debate, Duke Vortigern is selected to be the next King of the Britons. The younger brothers of King Constans are taken away to Brittany in secret. Also this year, a prelate from the pope, the saintly Germanus, comes to Britain to condemn and combat British Christianity. Great Grandpa Arc resisted and argued openly for the continuation of the Brittish church. having been called back to the kingdom proper though he was put on the young Constans' guard he was unable to protect the boy but managed to survive gaining a great hatred for the picts (only a fool would trust a pict!) of 12

in 444 through 445 The Picts stage a massive invasion, with their armies occupying much of the north and bands of raiders penetrating all the way into Logres. Rather than risk a great loss, King Vortigern orders his armies to dig in and garrison their homes and holdings.

John defended his manor well and won a further 10 glory

in 446

King Vortigern realizes that he needs assistance against the furious Picts and, in good Roman fashion, hires new barbarians to fight the old barbarians. The Saxon kings Hengest and Horsa come from the Continent with their bands of warriors to join Vortigern’s army. Thus reinforced, the Briton army marches north against the Picts. Battle is met near the city of Lincoln, and it is a great victory for the British. Great Grandpa Arc fights in the battle of Lincoln and while he survived he drew on his Hatred of the picts to do so his hate grew as a result of the slaughter going from an above average 12 to an all consuming 21 out of 20! (they were like animals and I slaughtered them like animals, not just the warriors, but the women and children too! I hate them! I HATE THEM!) in 447-449

During this time, King Vortigern spares his own army, using the Saxons to drive the Picts out of the north. More Saxons come to Britain, including many families, and Hengest’s daughter Rowena becomes a favorite at Vortigern’s court. News from the Continent is persistent in saying that new foes, the Huns, are defeating the German tribes right and left. These savages are thought to be half demon, half horse.

John complains about the increased amount of foreigners not trusting anyone not of good brittish blood. he's known as a dissident but nothing of note occurs for him this year.

in 450 A.D

Vortigern, impressed with the battle prowess of the Saxons and even more with the talents of Rowena, the daughter of the Saxon chief Hengest, marries her this year in a lavish celebration. Hengest receives the Cantiacii civitas as her bride price and renames it Kent. Many voice concern that King Vortigern is favoring these newcomers more than local loyal native Britons. Johnathan notices the Daughter of the saxion Cheif is pregnant when he attends the wedding, he lets the other dissidents know of this fact. earning him 50 glory. he became almost outright rebellious in the face of what he saw as a betrayal of the Brittish people in 451

News from the continent indicates that the Huns, led by their king, Attila, reached the walls of Rome itself but were unable to storm or besiege it. Some say the Huns were stopped because they lacked siege engines, others that they failed because of the pope’s piety. After failing to smash or bluff Rome into submission, the Hun army turns to Gaul for pillage and plunder, scouring the land of its wealth, slaughtering as it goes. The commander in Gaul, Aetius, calls for help from all who will send it, and Vortigern sends a small contingent. The allied army meets the Huns at Chalons, where the Huns are defeated and driven from Europe. Cedric is born to Vortigern and Rowena and Johnathan is sent to assist Aetius managing to return alive he is met by his king speaking honied words but with a bitter heart.

Years 452–454 Northern Irish under Fearghus begin colonizing Dal Riada. Vortigern sends raids into Irish lands. nothing much happened for Great Grandpa Arc

Years 455–456 News arrives that Rome, the center of the civilized world, has been sacked! The tribe of Germans called the Vandals has done the impossible and brought Rome low. The Western Empire is finished. Vortigern moves Cornovii warriors to Dumnonia, and Votadini to Cambria, where they expel the Irish. Vortigern is persuaded to settle Saxons under Hengest’s sons Octa and Eossa in former Parisi lands, founding Nohaut and Deira. Shiploads of Continental Saxons flock to the new theods. the dissidents realize that they must act now or perish along with their people.

Year 457 High King Vortigern summons his army, drawing from western tribes, with the Saxons, and marches against the rebels. A great battle ensues at Crecganford in Kent, in which the rebels are crushed. Vortigern forgives his son, Vortimer, but assumes the regency of Powys since Katigern's son, Cadell, is too young to rule. Vortigern gives the rest of the Cantii tribe’s lands to his loyal Saxons. As a tribe, the Cantii are finished. Johnathan was in the battle of Kent fighting against Vortigern he managed to slay a bodyguard of the king but was eventually pushed back earning 100 glory and a hatred for the traitor king. at 18 out of a possible 20 it too nestles deep in his heart.

Years 458–459 Many dissident Britons depart from the island, moving with their families and possessions to Brittany. Jaune's grandfather, loyal to the Earl of Salisbury, remains.

nothing of interest happens in 460 but in

461 and 462 The rule of King Vortigern has proved unwise and very oppressive, often favoring his Saxon mercenaries (and in-laws) over his lawful subjects. Many nobles have talked of rebellion, and when Vortigern’s eldest son (by his first marriage) agrees to lead the nobles, general rebellion breaks loose. The Earl of Salisbury is among the rebels to fight in the Battle of Cambridge. Johnathan Arc loyal to the end and with a deep hatred for all who were not of his people fought and survived. he gained further glory (10)but he was aging, at the advice of his son he tried to see the humanity in the saxions and when in 463 an invitation was sent out for peace talks at Stonehenge he attended.

Year 463 Ostensibly to bring peace to all sides, Vortigern and Hengest call a council of all combatants to meet at Stonehenge for a feast of peace. Seeking reconciliation, almost all British knights attend. The Saxons prove their worth through great treachery, though, and the majority of the nobles of Britain are slain in the “Night of Long Knives.” In the subsequent confusion, a large part of their armies are dispersed or slain. The Earl of Salisbury is among the dead.

his family would inherit not only his hatred for the Irish ,the Picts and the traitor king but an all-consuming hatred of 27 out of 20 for the Saxons. he left behind a newly knighted son and a manor in Pitton. a family known to be naturally loveable and a Magic Saddle granting his family +4 to horsemanship. his final glory was 1200 he made some waves but in the end he failed to die gloriously so he didn't make as much of a difference as some others did on the kingdom. in 464 Nickolous Arc Married a daughter of the Earl of Salsbury earning him 350 glory, he is later knighted this year earning him 1000 glory and inheriting one tenth of his father's glory (120) for a total of 1550 to start his career. Jaune's father is born this year. if looking at the history of the Arc family one thing should stand out about their foundations. they are a family of intense passions whether love or hate it is these deep passions that lead to almost all the actions of the Primarch of the family. passions that were inherited. their family trait of naturally lovable combined with a deep hatred of all outside of the Cyrimic world and culture paints the picture of a people who loved their own, and fought valiantly for those they cared about but were deeply distrustful of those outside it. @weatherman667 @howlingday @heliosthegriffin @thatorigamiguy

thoughts on Great grandpa arc? what about the Arc family? for the recorded I rolled on a table for all of these years though I based what happened off of Arthurian mythos.

[useless-catalanfacts]

We are so deeply thankful to Irish EMP Clare Daly for these words of support. Including her last words in Catalan taking a stand against Catalanophobia, even when her microphone was cut off.

Context about the debate: recently, the only way for the centre-left parties to form a government in Spain was with support from Catalan parties (otherwise, we would have to go to 3rd elections and the coalition of right wing party and the openly fascist party would win). One of the things that has been negotiated is amnesty for the victims of Spain's ideological repression against Catalan independentists. Spanish nationalists, and particularly the neonazis, have taken the streets to protest against this, while the conservative parties have taken this possible amnesty to the European Parliament to try to gather support from other EU countries against any possible amnesty for the victims of ideological persecution.

Just so you get an idea of the scale of Spain's repression in Catalonia: only between 2017 and 2022, more than 4,400 Catalan people have suffered repression from Spain for their involvement in the Catalan independence movement. The cases that EMP Clare Dally mentions in the video (state surveillance using the Israeli spy software Pegasus to spy on political dissidents including journalists and politicians, repeated instances of police violence, and of undercover policemen who become romantically and sexually involved with the activists they're spying, singers being jailed and exiled for the lyrics of their songs) are some of the ways that Spain surveillances and persecutes Catalans.

This possible amnesty would not apply to all those 4,400, nor give back the years that sons spent without their jailed fathers and mothers, the elderly parents who died while an activist was on exile without being allowed to come back to say goodbye, the psychological consequences of being subjected to solitary confinement and public scrutiny, of Spanish media publishing your personal information (including home address, job address, face photos, full name and surname) for people to go attack your workplace and make you feel unsafe, or the money spent on trying to defend yourself in front of a judge who you know will likely punish you for defending your people's right to self-determination. But even then, they can't stand to think that amnesty is an option to make this political discussion happen in the political ground, and not the judicial one.

Thank you with all our heart to Clare Dally and all the Irish people who support us and show us their solidarity. Go raibh maith agat. Two peoples, same fight.

[ayeforscotland]

Uhhhhhh yikes.

Northern Irish police data breach blamed on ‘dissident republicans’ by their chief constable.

[une-sanz-pluis]

Indeed, there are indications that [Eleanor Cobham's] degradation was contrived by the Court, and members of the Household were given exclusive charge of her as she was chivvied from castle to castle in the following years. Eventually, she was placed in the custody of Sir Thomas Stanley on the Isle of Man, of which Stanley was lord. In March 1449 it was decided to transfer her to Beaumaris, where the king's carver, Sir William Beauchamp, was constable of the castle under the overall authority of Stanley and the duke of Suffolk as joint-justiciars of north Wales. The reason for what proved to be the final move in the sorry saga of Eleanor's progress from prison to prison in north-west England is not obviously apparent. It may be that the Household's grip which had closed on north Wales and Cheshire made Beaumaris a more secure place than Man, for although Stanley was lord of the Isle, he is not known ever to have visited it. By contrast, he and his servants would find Beaumaris rather more accessible and easier to police, while at the same time Eleanor would remain reasonably beyond the resources of those who (as in 1447) were thought to be plotting her release. Equally, the Isle of Man was more exposed to naval attacks by the Scots, the Irish and even by the French. Shortly before 1450, hostile Scots, Bretons and others had even landed on the island of Anglesey itself and caused serious damage, and in 1448-49 the Scots were said to be committing depredations there daily. But it is likely that the Isle of Man suffered such attacks even more severely. As it was, Anglesey and Beaumaris castle were urgently reinforced in 1449 against both foreign invaders and Welsh dissidents. These reinforcements (of eight soldiers, and then twelve and one priest) were needed that much more speedily once it was decided to transfer Eleanor Cobham to the island. On 10 March 1449 at Man castle, she was handed over by John Glegge, Sir Thomas Stanley's representative and janitor of Flint castle (where Stanley was constable), to William Bulkeley, the Cheshire esquire who was serjeant-at-arms in north Wales and lived at Beaumaris. Bulkeley was acting on behalf of Sir William Beauchamp, the constable of Beaumaris castle, whence she was taken forthwith with a great company.

Ralph A. Griffiths, "Richard of York and the Royal Household in Wales, 1449-1450", King and Country: England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century (The Hambleton Press 1991)

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 18 October:

1171 – Henry II (1133-1189) King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, arrives in Ireland from France with an army and declares himself “Lord of Ireland”. Henry’s involvement was partly at the request of some dissident Irish chieftains and lords who feared losing their own lands. Three years previously Dermot MacMurrough “represented the malice of his neighbours, and the treachery of his…

[ifreakingloveroyals]

18 May 2011 | Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech during a State Dinner at Dublin Castle, in Dublin, Ireland. The Duke and Queen's visit to Ireland is the first by a British monarch since 1911. An unprecedented security operation is taking place with much of the centre of Dublin turning into a car-free zone. Republican dissident groups have made it clear they are intent on disrupting proceedings. (c) Irish Government - Pool/Getty Images

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.29

1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church. 1503 – The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo. 1607 – According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. 1812 – USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States. 1845 – The United States annexes the Republic of Texas and admits it as the 28th state. 1860 – The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete. 1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain. 1876 – The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. 1890 – On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment. 1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. 1913 – Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man. 1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. 1940 – In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II. 1972 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board. 1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75. 1989 – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. 1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble. 1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached. 1994 – Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board. 1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war. 1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives. 2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct. 2006 – The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. 2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others. 2013 – Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps. 2020 – A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.

[tanadrin]

your entry point for the insanity of metaphysical arguments over what constitutes the “real” government of Ireland in the dissident republican movement is probably the Wikipedia article on Irish republican legitimism. it reaches levels of *eyeroll jerkoff motion* equalled only by, like, Byzantine Christological debates

[shirzan140102]

Another Mini-Catalog of Human Rights Abuses in Iranian Prisons

Please take the time to read these two articles from IranWire about the horrific conditions two prisoners in Iran are facing. It's absolutely infuriating and heartbreaking, and people need to speak about this more. (The second prisoner whose story here, the rapper Toomaj, is allegedly also at risk of execution, according to this post on the /r/NewIran subreddit.) Please share!

[turtlemagnum]

i feel like "terrorist" as a label is just what any given government calls a sufficiently active opposition. i've seen everyone from suicide bombers to peaceful protestors "terrorists", and while i obviously don't condone literally every person labeled as a terrorist, i feel like it's a term that's essentially become governmental shorthand for pretty much any dissident regardless of what they're actually working towards

now, for legal reasons, i'm not condoning terrorism, nor recommending it. i would never tell you to send pipe bombs to government officials, for legal reasons. i am not condoning that, for legal reasons. but historically, i think it's interesting that pretty much every civil rights movement i'm aware of has had actors that worked towards their freedoms with political violence.

did you know that there were suffragettes who bombed places in the name civil rights, back in the day? nowadays we commonly recognize the suffragette movement as ultimately a good thing in favor of the civil rights of women. the IRA went to what some would consider extreme lengths in order to obtain irish independence, and were considered terrorists by the british government at the time, but these days we mostly recognize that they were freedom fighters doing the right thing for their homeland, no? during the holocaust, there were a decent amount of jews and poles who made homemade guns to defend themselves from nazis. surely there's not a fair minded person amongst us who'd call dissidents resisting genocide from the god damn nazis a bad thing, right?

now, by the timing of this post, you can probably guess the series of events that inspired my writing this. and again, due to purposes of legality, i do not openly condone terrorism. but i think that 20, 50, 100 years from now, when certain groups are finally free, those among them who resisted said oppression might not be remembered as terrorists, and i'd argue that they shouldn't be

[svmyvk]

Robot Intifada : Resistance of 2095 - Draft two

By 2095, Ahmedabad had become a living monument to the brutal intersection of capitalism and fascism. The city, once a thriving center of trade and culture, had turned into a decaying capitalist dystopia, where unchecked greed and authoritarian power had hollowed out every aspect of society. Towering, half-finished skyscrapers loomed over the slums like tombstones, relics of ambitious mega-projects abandoned when the rich had no more use for them. Beneath the steel-and-glass facades of the elite, the poor fought for survival in a world that had long since forgotten them.

In this world, there was no middle ground. The wealthy lived in automated enclaves, far removed from the suffering below, protected by the very systems that oppressed the majority. Meanwhile, the masses—those who did not subscribe to the fascist ideology of Hindutva—were trapped in a nightmare. The systematic persecution of Muslims had become normalized, justified under the guise of national security and cultural purity. The government, dominated by the fascist RSS, had merged capitalism with ultranationalism to create a regime that thrived on the exploitation of the poor and the marginalization of minorities.

Nasir, a 12-year-old boy from the slums of Ahmedabad, was born into this world of violence and repression. His family had lived under the shadow of fascism for as long as he could remember, their lives marked by constant fear. Like countless others in his community, he had witnessed the brutalization of his people at the hands of the state-sponsored paramilitary groups loyal to the regime. The state’s Hindutva ideology—the belief that India should be a Hindu-only nation—had created an environment of genocidal hostility toward Muslims, who were seen as outsiders, undesirables to be erased.

Nasir’s awakening came the day he saw his father beaten into the dust during a peaceful protest against the latest round of Muslim killings. His father, along with other members of the community, had gathered to speak out against the systemic violence that had claimed the lives of their friends and families. But as was the case for decades, their cries for justice were met with batons and bullets. Nasir, watching from the shadows, felt a burning rage rise within him. It was in that moment, as he saw his father’s blood stain the ground, that Nasir decided he could no longer remain a passive observer. He had to act.

Nasir’s rage was not an aimless fury. It was sharp, directed, and, above all, political. He saw how capitalism had created the conditions for fascism to flourish—how the rich and powerful benefited from keeping the masses divided, using religion and nationalism as tools of control. The wealth gap in Ahmedabad had reached obscene levels, with the poorest citizens scraping by in automated, lifeless districts, while the elite lived in luxury, untouched by the suffering around them. Fascism, Nasir realized, was the weapon of the ruling class, a means to protect their wealth and power by turning the populace against itself.

Nasir’s revolution began as an intifada—a grassroots uprising against the fascist state. He understood that direct confrontation with the government was impossible; their surveillance systems, armed drones, and paramilitary forces made open rebellion a death sentence. But Nasir was not alone. Through underground networks, he connected with other young dissidents, not just in India but around the world. The internet, though heavily censored, still offered pockets of resistance, where those who refused to submit to fascism could communicate and organize. In these virtual spaces, Nasir found allies.

One of his closest connections was Cillian, a young Irish activist who had grown up in the anti-fascist circles of Dublin. Ireland, in stark contrast to India, had become a bastion of leftist thought and resistance, its government openly opposing the rise of fascism around the globe. Cillian and Nasir exchanged ideas about revolution, strategy, and solidarity. Cillian told Nasir about historical socialist movements, how the workers in various parts of the world had risen against their capitalist overlords, only to be crushed by the violent apparatus of the state. Nasir, in turn, shared the brutal reality of life under the RSS regime, where Muslims were dehumanized, where dissent was met with death.

Together, Nasir and Cillian formulated a plan. If the state’s surveillance networks prevented communication, then they would bypass them. Nasir, a self-taught engineer, began to assemble a team of small robots from discarded parts he found in the ruins of the city’s old factories. These robots would serve as his messengers, silently moving through the city’s underground, carrying encrypted data packets that no human hand could touch. Nasir knew the state could not be trusted; the Indian government had long since become a puppet of corporate interests, using Hindutva to justify their totalitarian rule.

The Irish government, being staunchly anti-fascist, was receptive to Nasir’s cause. Through Cillian’s connections, Nasir was able to contact members of the Irish Parliament. His message was clear: “India is dying. Fascism is spreading. The world must act.” The Irish government, horrified by Nasir’s reports of state-sponsored genocide, began to rally international support. Ireland’s leaders brought Nasir’s plea before the World Government, calling for sanctions and an investigation into the human rights violations in India. Nasir’s uprising had gone global.

Meanwhile, in Ahmedabad, the majority of the population remained in the iron grip of Hindutva propaganda. State-run media outlets flooded the airwaves with nationalist rhetoric, portraying Muslims as enemies of the state, while glorifying the RSS and its fascist agenda. Schools were little more than indoctrination centers, where children were taught that Hindutva was synonymous with patriotism. The regime had mastered the art of manufacturing consent, using fear and hate to keep the population in line. Those who questioned the narrative were swiftly silenced.

The climate in Ahmedabad, both political and literal, had become unbearable. The extreme temperatures were a constant reminder of the failures of the capitalist state. Summers reached unbearable highs of 60 degrees, while winters were bitterly cold. The city, once alive with the sounds of human connection, had grown desolate. The automation that ran the lower districts was cold and impersonal—machines dispensing food rations, machines processing the dead, machines policing the streets. Humanity had been stripped away, replaced by the efficient cruelty of capitalistic systems.

But Nasir’s intifada was a spark in the darkness. His robots became more than just messengers; they were symbols of resistance. They projected images of the atrocities being committed against Muslims onto the sides of skyscrapers. They hacked into government broadcasts, replacing propaganda with the truth. The regime’s carefully constructed narrative began to fracture, and cracks in the wall of fear appeared. Nasir had given people something they hadn’t had in years: hope.

By the time Nasir turned 13, his revolution had reached beyond the borders of Ahmedabad. The Irish government’s support had brought international scrutiny to India’s fascist regime, and sanctions were beginning to bite. But Nasir knew that the fight was far from over. The regime, desperate to maintain its grip on power, saw him as the greatest threat to their existence. He had become the face of resistance, a symbol of defiance against the capitalist-fascist alliance that ruled India.

When Nasir was invited to speak before the United Nations, it was a victory for the movement. But it was a victory that would come at a cost. As he stood outside the UN headquarters, preparing to deliver his speech, Nasir was assassinated. The regime claimed it was an accident, but everyone knew the truth. Nasir had been silenced because he dared to challenge the foundations of fascism.

Yet, Nasir’s death was not the end of the revolution. The intifada he had sparked continued to grow. The world could no longer ignore the atrocities being committed in India. The robots Nasir had built continued their work, and the ideas he had spread—solidarity, resistance, socialism—lived on. The people of Ahmedabad, and of India, had begun to wake from their long nightmare.

Nasir’s revolution was not just against a regime; it was against a system. It was a fight against the intertwined evils of capitalism and fascism, and it was a fight that would continue long after his death.

[postersdecinema]

Kneecap

EIR, UK, 2024

Rich Peppiatt

7/10

A Língua é uma Arma

A certa altura de um concerto, o DJ Provai, membro encapuçado do trio musical que dá nome ao filme, diz ao público que o Rap está a fazer, pelo povo irlandês, o mesmo que fez pelos afro-americanos, servindo assim como arma, contra o domínio cultural do poder instituído.

Esta é a ideia essencial, subjacente a este filme, quase totalmente falado e cantado em irlandês, mostrar que a luta contra a colonização britânica, não passa só pelas armas e pela violência, mas também pela língua, pela música, pela cultura. Cada palavra falada em irlandês, é uma bala disparada contra o ocupante, refere Michael Fassbender, aliás Arló, o perigoso terrorista do IRA, desaparecido em combate, há mais de uma década.

Nesse sentido, a sua entrega às autoridades, deve ser visto como o símbolo da passagem de testemunho, à geração mais jovem, a do filho, que em vez de bombas e balas, atira frases de ordem, cantadas em irlandês, contra o governo de Londres.

Mas esta passagem de testemunho, idealmente pacífica, da luta armada, para a luta verbal e cultural, está manchada por muita droga, violência e confronto físico.

A ideia até pode ser positiva, mas a realidade que o filme mostra, está muito longe dessa guerra, meramente cultural, simbolizada pelos rappers Kneecap.

Seja por parte das autoridades unionistas, claramente apresentadas como os verdadeiros terroristas, seja pelos grupos dissidentes, que fomentam a violência e a criminalidade organizada, com intuito lucrativo.

Não há bons e maus, numa guerra que dura há mais de um século. Há muito ódio e incompreensão mútua. E fica claramente por demonstrar, que as balas verbais, atiradas pelos Kneecap, sejam menos mortíferas que as usadas pelo IRA, ou pelo exército britânico.

Não obstante é uma visão nova e otimista, sobre o conflito norte irlandês.

Language is a Weapon

At a certain point, during a show, DJ Provai, a hooded member of the musical trio that gives the film its name, tells the audience that Rap is doing, for the Irish people, the same thing it did for African Americans, thus serving as a weapon. , against the cultural dominance of established power.

This is the essential idea underlying this film, almost entirely spoken and sung in Irish, to show that the fight against British colonization is not just about weapons and violence, but also about language, music and culture. Every word spoken in Irish is a bullet fired at the occupier, says Arló, the dangerous IRA terrorist, who went missing in action more than a decade ago.

In this sense, his handing over to the authorities must be seen as the symbol of the passing of testimony, to the younger generation, that of his son, who instead of bombs and bullets, throws slogans, sung in Irish, against the government of London.

But this ideally peaceful passing of the baton from armed to verbal and cultural struggle is tainted by many drugs, violence and physical confrontation.

The idea may even be positive, but the reality that the film shows is very far from this purely cultural war, symbolized by the Kneecap rappers.

Whether by the unionist authorities, clearly presented as the real terrorists, or by dissident groups, who foment violence and organized crime, for profit.

There are no good guys and bad guys, in a war that has lasted more than a century. There is a lot of hatred and mutual misunderstanding. And it clearly remains to be demonstrated that the verbal bullets, fired by the Kneecap, are less deadly than those used by the IRA or the British army.

Nevertheless, it is a new and optimistic view of the northern Irish conflict.

[grandhotelabyss]

Could you speak to Joyce’s real-world relationship to Wilde? Had he met him, how much do we know about his (Joyce) reading of him (Wilde), was there some continuity between their social circles?

Wilde's fall happened in London when Joyce was only 13, years before Joyce was in touch with the Irish literati. He certainly knew people who knew Wilde—Yeats, to take the most famous example—but I don't believe their circles overlapped much. As far as his reading, aside from allusions in his fiction, the main text of interest is his essay, "Oscar Wilde: The Poet of Salomé." He published this biographical piece in Italian in the Triestine newspaper Il Piccolo della Sera in 1909 on the occasion of Strauss's opera of Salomé opening in the city. The essay isn't online, but you can get it in the Oxford World Classics volume of Joyce's Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing. Here's my reading of the piece from my doctoral dissertation, necessarily oriented toward my own thesis:

In a 1909 article on Wilde that he wrote for the Triestine newspaper Il Picolo della Sera, Joyce demonstrates his grasp of the essence of Wilde’s fraught achievement. Joyce’s short piece of workmanlike journalism on Wilde, written during the ten-year process of composing A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is for the most part painfully condescending. It reduces Wilde to “the logical and inevitable product of the Anglo-Saxon college and university system, a system of seclusion and secrecy” and speculates eugenically on “the epileptic cast of [Wilde’s] nervous system” (150).[*] Even so, Joyce rightly concludes that Wilde’s work was a “polyphonic variation on the relationship between art and nature, rather than a revelation of his psyche,” which is to say that Joyce comprehends the difficulty and sophistication of the questions Wilde’s work raises for the novelist, ostensibly committed to mimesis (151).

That Joyce sees the import of The Picture of Dorian Gray’s generic innovations is shown when he incisively quotes Wilde’s own defense of his novel: “Oscar Wilde’s self-defence in the Scots Observer should be accepted as legitimate by any bench of impartial judges. Each man writes his own sin into Dorian Gray (Wilde’s most celebrated novel). What Dorian Gray’s sin was no one says and no one knows. He who discovers it has committed it” (151). This might at first seem like nothing more than a simple quip meant to vindicate Wilde from charges laid by those who, then as now, moralize over others’ transgressions to conceal their own. But it actually encodes a nuanced understanding of what Wilde’s destruction of the realist novel of temporal progress and explicit social criticism portends for the twentieth-century novel. Each reader, Joyce implies, now becomes a writer of the text in the act of interpreting it. This shifts the burden of criticism, whether moral or political, onto the reader, who becomes a critic of society in the act of reconstructing the text of society as it manifests itself in the form of a novel. Furthermore, the identity of author and protagonist, once ensured by the protagonist’s intellectual and moral growth over the course of the progressive narrative to the stature of the author, now shifts to an identity of protagonist and reader. Readers investigate a psyche made, like their own, of cultural discourses and thus come to understand their own subjective constitution.

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[*] The piece’s occasion is a Triestine performance of Strauss’s Salomé, based on Wilde’s Symbolist drama. Joyce’s perhaps surprising de haut en bas posture toward Wilde could be explained as self-protectiveness: the latter sexually-dissident cosmopolite Aesthete tries to avoid a too-close public association with the earlier one, perhaps for fear of incurring a similar fate. On the other hand, considerations of class/religion in the Irish context may be the explanation, as the downwardly-mobile petit-bourgeois Catholic takes discursive revenge on the privileged Protestant member of the professional/colonial elite.

[anthonybialy]

The Courage of Hunter Biden’s Convictions

The case is cracked.  Rock cocaine aficionado Hunter Biden put Delaware on the map by engaging in the family business.  The real victim is the commander-in-chief’s aggrieved child who never got his sweetheart deal because kvetchers pointed out that evading discipline resembled impropriety.  Does this mean the laptop’s real?

Democrats are thrilled they can pretend to care about law and order.  Using an the president’s shameful offspring as evidence of their unflinching willingness to prosecute wrongdoers neglects how he’s the only one.  You need three for a trend.  But that’s a start.  The sacrifice of a trial is for the party’s benefit, which the example surely appreciates.

The jury inadvertently voted to facilitate moral equivalency.  Emboldened unhinged Biden defenders can smugly gesture to their enemy after noting someone on their side has to face a judge following being found naughty.  The difference between Donald Trump and Hunter is that the latter actually committed a crime.  I’m reliably informed that his father’s foe paying off his side piece porn star from the wrong pile is the worst transgression possible.

Aside from facts, the situations are identical.  Patient observers must keep explaining the distinction to Democrats just like we must once again review that gun crimes occur uncannily frequently in places that restrict ownership of same devices.

As for a violator of the party’s preferred restrictions on shooties, Hunter’s offensive gun offense upset authorities just like how his side wants.  Ignoring the rules in order to acquire a sentient crime-causing weapon of hate stands in direct defiance of their belief that laws stop criminals, which is his real infraction.

The simultaneous condemnation of Democratic policy shows why they don’t trust anyone with firearms.  Subjecting him to his beloved party’s own stringent restrictions is only fair.  I’d love for the Second Amendment to be absolute as intended, but I respect the wishes of the Party of Biden in the name of bipartisanship.

The party of projection thinks you’re a guilty schmuck.  Democrats presume everyone else also disregards troublesome statutes like they’re basic economics.  Yet some dissidents insist upon obeying laws while creating value.  Such blatant mockery of exploiting power for personal gain is very embarrassing for the incumbent.

How was he supposed to make money: work?  Hunter sets a dangerous precedent for fellow faction members who think the only way to get rich is by grifting.  Uselessness isn’t bad enough on its own: the Bidens figure productive humans are the same, too.  Thinking anyone else doing okay must’ve exploited their way to wealth is why Democrats are singularly devoted to taxing the stuffing out of success.

The Bidens are not a typical crime family: they can’t run a company.  Every real account and fictional depiction of relatives in rackets features managerial competence.  The government faced trouble prosecuting mafia families who cannily employed thriving pizzerias as fronts.  Mafiosi should feel ashamed of embodying two stereotypes.  Irish Joe strives to break them.

Impugn genetics or upbringing.  Either way, Joe fails.  A descendant may not necessarily embody parentage.  Guardians can strive to raise children right and still see them go astray.  But nobody can see how the patriarch conducts himself on days he remembers who he is and think he taught his contemptuous adult brat the right lessons.  Go ahead and judge: the judge did.

It’s easy to spot unfortunate trends over generations.  A particularly lousy president’s scoundrel kid bypasses statues for which he doesn’t care in the same way Dad buys votes by making taxpayers fund sociology degrees.

The felon is hooked on helping.  If that’s a violation, then convict away.  The shady nefariousness that envelops the First Son certainly doesn’t conceal the family scheme, which is terrific news for those who feared all those right-wing Twitter account holders were perceptive.  They’re the same conspiracists who risibly claim the economy’s bad just because nobody can afford anything.

The Bidens embody selflessness if you count the one who got caught.  As punishment for not founding the company, Hunter acted as the front man so the chief wouldn’t have to get his hands dirty.  Like the rest of this presidency, there’s no greater priority than spreading attribution.

The verdict is satisfying even though it isn’t.  Hunter’s passionate dedication to dodging taxes is an even bigger display of liberal hypocrisy.  Prosecutors hope you’re satisfied enough about the verdict on the least appalling thing the defendant did to overlook how they thought soliciting bribes wasn’t even worse.  No one is above the law, claim liberals referring to the president’s son facing justice for the least of his misdeeds.

It’s not a crime to turn people against Ukraine by treating a war against an invading brute as an opportunity to fill a political slush fund, but it is a feat in its own appalling way.  The bagman by birth certainly wouldn’t send a vig from untoward shady global contributions to the boss who happens to share an identical last name, so escort such cynical thoughts from your mind.

Sure, the president is corrupt.  But at least everything’s awful.  It’s not like we get a scumbag scammer executive who manages to force prosperity in existence.  The trains are certainly not running on time.

This term is an Intervention episode.  The president struggles to read his letter.  It’s tough to feel compassion for a criminal crackhead who justifies his passion for consumption on wanting to have endless heedless fun while lawbreaking.  Hunter thanks those blaming his appalling disdain for the law and decency on addiction.  A true embodiment of privilege can use all the excuses enablers can muster.  You know you’ve really misbehaved if you’re prosecuted for a token sin during the Biden era.