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"wait no, why aren't you giving me free money anymore?" 
KNEECAP STATEMENT
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) February 8, 2024
Weβve been blocked from receiving significant music funding because a Tory Minister doesnβt like our art.
F*ck the Tories pic.twitter.com/xWWUdGNj5l
Kneecap are cringe wigger larpers from Belfast that I assume no one else here will have heard of.
One of the members always wears a balaclava that looks like it was knitted by his nan for some reason
Their "unique" selling point is they are Irish communists who like drugs and hate Britain (what a fresh and exciting new perspective)
Their name comes from one of the IRA's signature moves
Kneecapping is considered a "trademark" of the IRA, although it became less popular over time because the disability and mortality incurred was unpopular with the community.
Kneecappings were a weekly occurrence in West Belfast by 1975.
Anyway, they recently applied for a British government grant, were obviously denied and now them and other various undesirables are crying about it on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Themiddle03/status/1755591198620741775
https://twitter.com/annie_mcginley/status/1755562792562614735
https://twitter.com/queertyyr/status/1755572278715199816
https://twitter.com/FinnEoghan/status/1755594833325068551
https://twitter.com/cloudcoocoo/status/1755599621387378776
https://twitter.com/SlushMuppyPup23/status/1755549425043112010
https://twitter.com/Setants/status/1755556174634647570
https://twitter.com/coilin81/status/1755549443297038494
https://twitter.com/okra_mom/status/1755549756460298590
Some fellow republicans don't understand why they'd even take the money in the first place though
https://twitter.com/antoj198439/status/1755574514115600578
https://twitter.com/Thejawsofnorth/status/1755557766498755036
https://twitter.com/The_NinjaKnight/status/1755560538178822349
Or that they are a government psy-op
https://twitter.com/palmarcrusader/status/1755566716178890821
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I don't know what it is about modern Irish nationalists, they're so embarrassing. IRA guys were stone cold murderers that you didn't want to frick around with, but within one generation they got replaced by paint by numbers internet leftoids that crypost and sneed about EVERYTHING
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I love how they go "GET OUT ENGLISH" then bend over to other immigrants
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Colonizers aren't immigrants, silly chuds.
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CIA handbook from the 1960s detailed how to derail movements by turning them into exactly this, so that might have something to do with it
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Very reminiscent of the DSA in America.
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IRA then: get out now. if you don't, we will literally kill you all and we'll gladly die doing it.
IRA now: omg the government isn't funding my anti-government art! i MUST go to twitter and shame the government!
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IRA then: Wildly incompetent
IRA now: Wildly incompetent
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but at least then they did more than say "WAAAHHHHH THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T FUNDING ME THIS ISN'T FAIR" they tried to blow shit up
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I mean, I probably wouldn't think they weren't that comically inept if their biggest bombing actually killed Bongs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing#:~:text=The%201996%20Manchester%20bombing%20was,since%20the%20Second%20World%20War.
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It's weird how much the IRA hates the British when you think they could bond over their shared love of killing Irish people.
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Back then there was a split between the "official" IRA who had become a bunch of tea house intellectual tankies who thought they could convince the prod working class to join them out of class solidarity blah blah and the "provisional IRA" who were hard lads from the slums who just wanted to kill prods. The tankies called them "green fascists".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Irish_Republican_Army
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Ah, so provisional is the based one.
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There's a flowchart with all the splinter groups over the years and it's like DOZENS! The PIRA does indeed stand out, however.
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