Wouldn’t this also affect things about the British Monarchy and Ireland due to the Winged Maiden?

Lemmy moment

Is that where the whole “all Christians disappear” trope came from? Because that’s certainly not from the Bible

You lot scare me, judging by these replies.

What even is that series. I can’t be bothered to watch it

This is the level of theology I signed up to lemmy for.

Not much worse than Reddit, anyhow

Actually, in smaller countries like the UK, yes. It’s not uncommon to know your MP and in devolved areas like Northern Ireland, your MLA. I knew a few and have even met the First Minister a few times and had direct access at one stage.

what you say is respectfully a load of shit.

I was arguing against a UI. You told me what I said was a load of shit. I responded to it. It’s kinda clear how I thought you were trying to argue for a UI with “but nhs bad actually” which I’ve heard a lot of people say when I argue that access to free healthcare is a good reason to stay in the UK

Ours N.H.S is on its knees

And how will a United Ireland fix that, exactly?

police are seriously underfunded

Per capita, the PSNI has more funding than the Gardai Síochána

Sinn Féin are the largest party in the North

Yes, because of constant Unionist Schism. They didn’t gain any seats in the last election. Stormont has 90 MLAs. By party lines, 53 are against a United Ireland, 36 are in favour.

The two problems you listed won’t be magically fixed by a United Ireland - if anything, they’d be made worse. So my point still stands. I wasn’t painting NI as a haven above other European countries - just that a United Ireland is a bad idea and we’re far better off under the current situation. People thought that Brexit would somehow magically fix the UK’s problems. It just made them worse. United Ireland is the same thing, if not on a worse scale.

The UK rejoining the EU doesn’t sound like a bad idea honestly. I keep forgetting we’re not in the EU

I’m Northern Irish.

This is a terrible idea. Northern Ireland is actually doing pretty well, and the standard and cost of living is lower than the Republic. The border is basically not there for British and Irish citizens. It’s just a matter of currency change and speed limit change. The EU backing a United Ireland would cause already a lot more distrust in the EU by Unionists to the point of breaking Stormont again (Keep in mind how difficult it was for Stormont to be happy with the Brexit arrangements)

As a matter of fact, Northern Ireland is actually starting to grow. It now has an economically advantageous position that a United Ireland would destroy. It has mostly customs free access to the UK market, access to the EU single market, and now is one of the few places in the EU single market that can export to the USA with a lower tariff rate. All for the price of a what is essentially line on a map (you can’t even tell exactly where it is IRL, the border isn’t that strongly defined legally or geographically)

Sinn Féin are disliked by both the Irish and British governments. They are the political wing of what once was the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a terrorist organisation.

I know it doesn’t curtail ideologically to either hardline side, but the current arrangement in place is good. I live in Northern Ireland and have lower living costs and more access to social services for free than someone would have in the Republic. In some cases, better than the mainland UK. We pay less for university education than England and also don’t have charges for prescribed medicine or even water usage. Our police are well invested in and Belfast is now one of the safest cities in Europe if you don’t get involved in paramilitary feuds or drug dealing. Life here is good, and a United Ireland would jeopardize that significantly.

Ty 🫡

I was so scared of seeing the image and was just like “meh”. Then reverse image searched it to see the source and still felt like the stuff I was looking at wasn’t real.

Same with redd.it

Good to see beehaw still exists!

Republicans being absurd to suggest we should elect 10x more deplorable people who are sex traffickers into their office.

Also, the Windsor’s will profit from their land and property instead of having to give the vast majority of that revenue to the government, as it currently stands

Yes, we need an elected head of state so we can elect an orange alt right dictator with unchecked power

Canadians are scary

At least they aren’t shudders Canadians…

Yeah, because it’ll centralise the fediverse more. Although I think if Lemmy.world was bought by Elon Musk tomorrow and turned off federation, the fediverse would survive. In fact, I reckon a large amount of people would move off of Lemmy.world due to the principal of federation.