For context, this is from terminator 2 where the protagonist is saved by his best friend in the first 30 min of the film by lying to a terminator cyborg from the future posing as a cop.

  • @[email protected]
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    1802 months ago

    Here’s something we should all consider.

    Back in the day, the Irish Republican Army was one of the most feared terrorist groups in the world.

    At their height they only had about fifty full time assassins.

    But every assassin had a massive ‘rear echelon.’

    When the shooter came to town, he’d have a choice of three or four safe houses, a dozen drivers, and at least two doctors to go to if he was injured.

      • @[email protected]
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        412 months ago

        On the other hand, IRA assassins are much more productive than most Americans.

        Why are you booing? You know it’s true!

      • @Dadifer
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        52 months ago

        Not better than American assassins, though.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      552 months ago

      Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no war.

      Badass warning tbh

    • @tetris11
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      322 months ago

      any good reading resources on this?

      • @[email protected]
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        202 months ago

        Funny thing. I was working in NYC in public health on 9/11/2001. Afterwards, we got a lot of lectures on terrorism and mass casualty incidents.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 months ago

        Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe could be a good place to start. The central bit being told is about the abduction and murder of a woman, but most of the book is really about the history of the IRA and the Troubles, giving context to the abduction.