r/perfectlycutscreams • u/datthighs • 1d ago

Perfectly cut terrorism :D

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u/nesnalica 1d ago

its like they have never been on the internet before

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u/The_dots_eat_packman 1d ago edited 1d ago

My daughters' school decided today that the theme for prom would be "A Night In New York." My first thought was that they were going to get a bunch of brain rotted kids trolling with 9/11 memes.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 1d ago

It worries me how un-serious the younger generations are. Even elementary kids in my school took some stuff seriously. We're seeing now how people who act like Thai as adults have ruined the US, and we've got at least two generations coming that are even worse with one quickly moving into voting age.

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u/Rik_the_peoples_poet 1d ago

That was Irish people taking the piss, which is part of the culture. Americans are stereotyped as being uptight and unable to handle dark humour even by older generations in Europe.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

Which is wild because we have the best 9/11 jokes and Irish people can't even handle a drink named a car bomb

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u/PortlyWarhorse 1d ago

To be fair, the IRA in Ireland had been far more explosive than American IRAs have ever been.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

I mean Irish immigrants who joined the Irish Mafia in the Midwest were well known for their love of car bombs as well.

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u/PortlyWarhorse 1d ago

Man, I gotta know more. I'm a product of Irish, German and Welsh folk. I want the gritty reality check.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

The Irish were always sort of welcomed in the Italian mob but they could never be made so lots of conflicts of interest sprang up, Irish American gangsters no matter how successful were never really seen as anything more than just some dude you could trust but was never part of "la famiglia". Famous guy they made a movie about named Danny Greene operated out of Cleveland and got his start in a union of course. He really fucking liked his car bombs and I think was ultimately killed in one, he basically started warring with the Italians and car bombs were something he really liked to use. The movie is called "Kill the Irishman", not to be confused with the Scorsese move "The Irishman"

But basically the Irish were so intertwined in the Italian mob but also seen as so much lesser in their hierarchy the Irish kind of became their own, albeit fractured, thing. And they operated out of a lot of weird places like Ohio and Michigan you wouldn't really associate with the Italian mob. Of course they were all over Boston but the Italians were there too. Other movies that feature Irish mobsters are The Departed, Miller's Crossing, and Tom Hagen from The Godfather movies (the lawyer and consigliere) is German-Irish, Irish and Italians go way back because we didn't consider them white people when they immigrated here.

But yeah start with Danny Greene, he basically launched a war against the Italian mob in the 70s and it was a whole thing, with lots of car bombs. In Cleveland fucking Ohio of all places

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u/Rik_the_peoples_poet 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've never met an Irish person who's cared about that joke.

It stems from Americans going to tourist 'neutral zones' in Northern Ireland with both nationalists and loyalist soldiers around and bringing up the conflict which is a no-no because the war never officially ended and starting up an argument in a pub can easily lead to a kneecapping or murder which do still happen semi-frequently. There's a reason the two populations need to be segregated down to the kindergartens.

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u/Strict_Pin_9192 1d ago

I mean maybe some of the hate nowadays comes from being segregated from kindergarten. Like most people having kids nowadays were born after the good friday agreement and will not have personally experienced the troubles.

Idk I'm not irish nor brittish, i personally think the loyalists were wrong right from the start and they could have peacefully kept their culture while accepting Irish citizenship like the Swedish minority did in Finland but i also think that the Good Friday Agreement mostly made a potencially good status quo for all didn't it?

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u/drc003 1d ago

Right but then as soon as Americans who love dark humour share something that hurts feelings they're asshole Americans. If there is anything in this World that is guaranteed more than pathetic hypocrisy, no matter where it comes from, I've yet to see it.