The Whiteboys were a secret Irish agrarian organisation who protested against exploitative landlords and their methods, such as rack-renting and evictions. Their name derives from the white smocks that they wore. Over time, Whiteboyism became a general term for rural violence connected to secret societies.
Landlords in Ireland during the 18th century were overwhelmingly British, and tended to be extremely harsh towards their tenants. Absentee landlordism, extortionate rents and illegal evictions were common and allowed by the British government. The Whiteboys organised in opposition to many individual landlords in defence of tenants rights. Their first bout of activity was from 1761-1763, in the Munster counties of Limerick, Cork, Tipperary and Waterford. While they started with non-violent protests, such as the leveling of ditches that closed off common grazing land, they soon became more forceful. Threatening letters were also sent to debt collectors, landlords, and occupants of land gained from eviction, demanding that they give up their farms. These threats escalated to shows of force (firing guns and marching outside of army barracks) and attacking prisoners and setting them free.
In response, the British government dispatched 50 soldiers and 40 militiamen against the Whiteboys. The groups clashed violently on occasion, leading to arrests and executions of the Whiteboys. Whiteboy informants were arrested and bounties of £200 were placed upon the leaders’ heads by a citizens’ council.
Agrarian struggles in Ireland continued for centuries, during the 1798 rebellion and the land war of the late 19th and early 20th century. Finally in the late 1800s, following a protracted agrarian struggle led in part by James Stuart Parnell, a series of land acts were passed which aimed to improve tenant’s rights, and required the government to assist any tenants who wished to buy their own land from their landlord.
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[CW: Mental health] :sadness-abysmal: My parents called to ask how I was, I told the truth and said my depression was getting worst due to current events and from being poor.
"Haha, you're not depressed, you're just lazy. That's why you're poor, because you don't work hard enough. Your whole generation is lazy."
Yeah needless to say, they don't help my mental health. I'm thinking of just ignoring their calls in the future.
I'm sorry. That's a terribly unkind thing for someone to say, especially from your parents.
Parents be like "you're not living up to my expectations"
My father in Christ, you are the one who raised me
There are few things that make me as angry on an interpersonal, familial level as when someone equates my being poor and depressed (and full of anxieties) with my being "lazy." FUCK you to anyone who says that to me, you have no idea how hard I've struggled. Of course the inverse is invariably true - the ones saying that are not happy and comfy in their easy lives because they're not lazy, which they often are, it's not because they're industrious, or because of any great positive quality they are magically imbued with. They're comfortable because they're fucking lucky and privileged. Full stop. And in your case, I suspect they can't fathom the idea that their offspring have it harder than they did or do. I know I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Just my way of saying I empathize. I'm sorry you have to hear that from your parents. But I hope you do what you can to try not to internalize it. I hope you have adequate barriers up that ensure you don't believe that bullshit. You are one fucking awesome owl, just ftr. :meow-hug:
Going low contact with my parents is one of the best things I've done for my mental health. Would very much recommend.
What the fuck that's awful
I'm sorry your parents are so terrible comrade :meow-hug:
I mean, from Anarchists I feel that's at least somewhat ideologically consistent. Rolling tanks in to Hungary is about the least anarchist course of action that I can think of. Still, in this climate people need to learn who their friends are. An anarchist might not want to have common cause with tankies, but the fash will shoot either one without thinking about it.
If stopping a colour revolution is "anti-anarchist" then they need to rethink that part of their ideology.
Otherwise any anarchist project will be destroyed by anyone willing to do anything.
They make top gun movies
But what about Bottom Gun :bottom-speak:
called/went to my doc office recently and they misgendered me AGAIN thinking i was a TRANS MAN trying to get on hrt for the first time. then i had to explain to them AGAIN that i cant get pregnant and i was like 'we've done this before remember, you asked me if i was pregnant and i said i had a dick and you were like "oooooh so youve had the surgery?" and i was like NO i was BORN with a PENIS and TRANSITIONED to FEMALE by taking ESTROGEN and GROWING BOOBS' they completely memory holed that despite remembering my name and face
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It's incredible that any liberal who saw the Mueller shit fizzle out believes that the Jan 6 circus will go anywhere
If they were out for blood they wouldn't have waited until midterms.
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Did we not already have a whiteboy megathread? Are we really running out of kinds of boys to dedicate a megathread to?
Look, someone has to play the funky music and it may as well be Irish revolutionaries.
The coolest thing NASA ever did was fuck up a mars probe and blame it on the imperial measurement system.
thought I was the only one noticing the other day. Peanut Butter is, like, the only thing all humans +dogs can agree about in this country. This is peanut butter nation.
I'm watching The Boys (season 3) at the suggestion of other hexbears saying it had some clear leftist themes. And hooo boy, Homelander really is an excellent personification of fascism. The outwardly cleancut but thinly veiled covering hiding true evil and depravity, the way he plays libs and their corresponding adoration for him, the smarmy, casual cruelty when no one of consequence is looking, the narcissism and self-importance feeding the civility. Even the realization that if he pushes carefully, he can eventually go mask-off and still reap their love. Of course just the whole wrapping of himself in the flag, patriotism, nationalism in the guise of "all that is good, all that is us."
I know libs will watch this and remain completely oblivious to the obvious metaphor, but maybe if it's explained after they watch and enjoy the show that Homelander literally = fascism, it might get a few rusty cogs turning. Sigh... unless they think he is ultimately just misunderstood and really is a redeemable character if only sumone wud wub 'im in typical lib fashion. If so, fuck them, they get the wall too. I really hope the show doesn't go that route, it's hard to see how they could at this point.
he literally fucked a nazi, and forced a jewish girl to commit suicide because he was upset about his nazi ex commiting suicide.
if a liberal can redeem that, then they are indeed the moderate wing of fascism.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the whiteboys were quirked up?
Tucker Carlson: “Whiteboys are dabbing, vaping and gaming almost nonstop. Everyone knows this is happening, but no one seems to bother acknowledging this fact. Not us. We don’t do that in this show, we ask questions the mainstream news shows won’t. So what is going on?”
