if biden didn't personally deliver armalites to the ira i don't want to hear about his irish heritage ever again
Yeah, but only as a means to get those weapons into someone else's hands
I know some IRA factions were selling weapons to other groups, just making a joke about how he wasn't giving them weapons to support the cause, just to launder imperialism through them. No idea if it's true or not
RIRA does smuggling to fund themselves wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the CIA uses them to smuggle arms to wage illegal wars abroad. Though the Sauds are definitely the biggest movers. They're not explicitly Marxist, so I don't think they'd really have a problem with doing that sort of stuff.
cosplay is fun.
i literally was born in USSR, but grew up in USA and i don't pull that shit. I need to somehow get my nephew to knock it off cuz he's learning these types of bad habits from his dad (who is obsessed with being 'irish' even though he is canadian). like at least my nephew was born in Scotland, but like my story, neither of us were old enough to remember, nor do we have any sort of our 'native' culture in our lives.
hell, at least i learned russian and became a communist...
Being "Irish" in america just means you're white and have a drinking problem.
i literally was born in USSR
If I could claim this it doesn't matter how white I am I would wear a ushanka 24/7 and speak only russian.
a couple halloweens ago, i had to throw together a costume because the guy i was hooking up with wanted to got to a party. i just wore a ushanka and a tracksuit and slav'd it up. can one appropriate their own culture? who knows but i was comfortable as fuck.
Why do these very same people like to pretend that they're more oppressed than black people at like every chance they can get to remind people? Seriously. Irish and Italian american chuds absolutely love to go on about how ummm actually we face greater hate crimes than the urban hip hop thugs do.
You just don’t understand. Christopher Columbus is Jesus to them and having indigenous peoples day is a micro aggression. Columbus statues matter
sense of meaning and origin in a society of atomized individuals I'm guessing
I have a certain amount of sympathy for trying to hold on to hold on to some sense of roots (English was my grandma's second language, but my mom only speaks English, and I have some friends whose families emigrated more recently and they're navigating that same language divide right now), but at the same time, there's no denying that all too often Irish/German/Italian/etc pride is just barely disguised white pride.
Because for people in Biden's generation it was an actual racial disparity separate from "white", and now it no longer is. (Okay, probably earlier than even him, but y'know.) It's why he made the comment about "sorry to the Greeks but my mom makes the best rice pudding" and when the BBC tried to interview him he said "BBC? I'm Irish"
I've heard poc argue that the first step to abolishing whiteness is white people re discovering their ethnic roots, so...
Normal people say it because everyone knows what you really mean when you say you're Irish or whatever
Wait, this is real lmao. He doesn't know where bagpipes are from?? And Biden is like 3rd or 4th generation Irish anyway...
And he may be distantly related to some assholes who worked for the East India Company.
he's indulging in the Irish American tradition of pretending to be Irish
Bagpipes are from ireland too, Look up uilleann pipes!
That said, these are Scottish pipes.
I've been playing bagpipes for 10+ years now and I still don't understand how they got the Irish association when the instrument most people think of (great highland bagpipes) is 100% a Scottish instrument. As someone else said, there are Irish bagpipes, but it's not what most people think of when they are imagining bagpipes.
Like St. Patrick's Day should not have bagpipes associated with it, but I make a lot of money in March so I'm not going to complain.
In america, a lot of "irish" settlers were from ireland after moving there from Scotland, and brought scotch musical traditions with them
Biden is stealing irish-american valor by not being drunk and abusive.
The problem is that bagpipes are from Scotland lol
Edit: and he’s wearing a kilt!
Well they're not exactly a staple of Irish culture. I've never heard of Irish bagpipes, and I do have some expertise in the area
https://youtu.be/4MxFsk4sYM4
I mean the sound seems familiar, so I assumed they were sort of popular:)
I'll be honest this is the first I've heard of them, when I think "Irish music" I think of fiddles and tin whistles. Thanks for sharing though!
Also I feel like my first comment makes me sound kinda like a snob, I was saying "I do have some expertise" because I'm Irish but I forgot to elaborate on that
My girlfriend informs me, these are highland pipes. It's all good guys! Dunk away!
I'll be the other bad guy, many scots-irish are just scottish colonisers
Apparently traveler is a slur, but with that said they are the only true irishmen.
Traveller isn't a slur, it's what everyone calls the travelling community, including themselves
A drunk british lady said it was a bad word, i took her word for it.
to be fair, the Irish diaspora in America is definitely greater than the Irish population in Ireland.
Isn't bagpipes something you'd would associate with funerals in the US? I know he's old and decrepit but this just seems too macabre.
Gotta admit, all the people spamming "win a real election" made me laugh
The was literally a cumtown bit btw 'the irish comic gets scottish bagpipes and kilts for wedding'
it'll be on an older one, their literally talking about their friend who goes by 'The irish comic', maybe one of those cumtown clip YTs has it
The annual erroneous association between Ireland and Scottish bagpipes drives me fucking nuts. Uilleann Pipes are the Irish ones. They sound very fucking different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZTHs7eQSKc
