Thread:Cyrannian/@comment-25890179-20180111235940/@comment-25890179-20180115225131

I respect your opinion, but I must disagree. The United States is not a democracy. We do not get to chose our leaders, the rich people do. That's what the electoral college is for. Also, the people here are just too stupid to decide what leader we should have. They consistently back pro-corporate candidates instead of those who would help them. Its scary to think about, but after so many years of this I'm nearly convinced that fascism or a dictatorship with the right guy would be better than what we have now.

I'm not a 100% atheist, but I really don't care what happens after death. I usually don't discriminate against others' religions, unless they get ridiculous, like worshiping cows or being anti-abortion/blood transfusion/medical care. That being said, I agree with the idea that Christianity is a bad religion and that Islam, Buddhism, or Shinto would have been much better choices.

I'm not really worried about Ireland so much as I'm worried about Spain and how ridiculously oppressive that government has been getting towards the Basques, Catalans, Aragonese, Galicians, etc. There are over a dozen minorities who want independence if I remember correctly, and the government keeps cracking down on them. That country is making its jolly way right into a second civil war, just wait.

Yes Ireland was neutral and many supported the Allies. However, pro-axis sentiment was a bit more common than just the IRA. The leader, what's he called...the Taoiseach, he supported things like Azad Hind's fight against the British, and I think many Irish helped shelter and move Indian nationalists to where they had to go. As for the IRA, it wasn't an idiotic attempt so much as an unplanned one. They simply weren't as organized as the Provisionals after or the Brotherhood before them, which is why the Abwehr didn't bother with them. Had the invasion of Britain gone ahead, I've no doubt that the IRA would have been armed and used. (This I know only because I'm an Axis expert, not an Ireland expert).