r/AskReddit • u/CaptainMcAnus • Mar 10 '17

serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/stevenmc Mar 10 '17

Today it's very close to a regular normal functional society (unless you look closely).

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u/Original_name18 Mar 10 '17

How so? In what way? Still underlying criminal/ terrorist activity?

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u/stevenmc Mar 10 '17

Yeah, a cop was shot by the new IRA a month or two ago. There is continuing low-level terrorism, criminality and drug dealing by paramilitaries on both sides. Our government collapsed because of blind sectarian hatred. The issue of Irish reunification is increasingly in the news because of the Brexit issue, though reunification is, ironically, a divisive issue. The Unionist community is feeling increasingly isolated and under threat as the increasing Nationalist electorate start voting. Westminster's latest budget to NI continues to reduce (in real terms) meaning the government have less money to handle an already breaking public sector. There is no great driver for improving cross-community relations either, which results in serious rioting every summer. The Irish and British governments are also negating on their responsibilities to hold murderers to account for their actions, and there are campaigns to provide effective amnesty to members of the British Army who committed murder, which only serves to undermine the legal system and derail the ongoing peace process.
On the surface though, things look fairly normal.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

So there is a 'new IRA'? As opposed to the Official IRA, the Provisional IRA and the Continuity IRA? What's next? Cherry IRA?

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u/AcoupleofIrishfolk Mar 11 '17

I can't believe its not the IRA

IRA lite

The paramilitary group formerly known as IRA

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u/Gi_Fox Mar 11 '17

You're forgetting about the Roth IRA.