Bloody Sunday, also known as the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre of Irish anti-internment protesters by the British government that took place on this day in 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.
Bloody Sunday resulted in the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the Troubles and remains the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history. This violence was in response to a protest organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) in opposition to a state policy of internment without trial, introduced in August of 1971.
On January 18th, 1972, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner banned all parades and marches in response to widespread civil unrest. The protest march was organized despite this order.
On the day of the protest, approximately 10,000-15,000 joined the march, however their path was blocked by British Army barriers. The protest descended into chaos, with British soldiers chasing down protesters and attacking them indiscriminately. 26 people were shot, 14 were killed. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers or attending to the wounded, while others were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets, batons, or being ran down by army vehicles.
The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion Parachute Army, which had perpetrated the Ballymurphy Massacre just months prior. The events of Bloody Sunday greatly increased hostilities between Northern Ireland and the British government. Support for and recruitment by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) rose following the massacre.
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the existence of sites named https://birds.town and https://toad.social/ makes me think mastodon deserves more attention but also most of the biggest one consists of robert reich style libs
True about the Robert Reich style libs but we need (us Marxist-Leninists) to expand into places where we aren't often welcomed.
We can't just be hanging out on Reddit or Twitter all day.
I can think of some other weirder social media websites that are better to go to than twitter/reddit
moon of alabama or naked capitalism comments section lol. for the purpose of analysis not propagandizing people.
go on WhatsApp, go on vkontakt or the other weird ass russian boards you find from looking up art etc, go on the rutracker forums. we need to do grassroots propagandizing people who are into libre software and in the global south.
become a minecraft modder and radicalize estonians, latvians, poles, lithuanians, etcetera, they already speak english for the most part boom internationalism built tho
learn portuguese or spanish if you don't queue in spanish or portuguese language on video games and spread communism
Definitely learn Spanish or some language that is common among a lot of people.
If only just to have more cool stuff to do, Spanish is great. π Not like German where it's just about improving US-European relations & reading etcetera. Unless you really like their media haha
Spanish is awesome.
expand NO U
I took a couple people off twitter with me actually. All part of my master plan, etcetera. Crashing the plane with no survivors, very painful, etcetera. Last public acct I control I can't close or shitpost on so it doesn't counthttps://somalispot.com/
Oho, you went out with a bang.
Also imploring people who were unable to stop when they wanted to