Comments on: “Nerf” is the way to go https://www.isegoria.net/2011/04/nerf-is-the-way-to-go/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2011/04/nerf-is-the-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-184675 Isegoria Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:43:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24643#comment-184675 Gary Brecher is a character created by John Dolan, who is, from what I can tell, a bitter progressive.

]]> By: Retardo https://www.isegoria.net/2011/04/nerf-is-the-way-to-go/comment-page-1/#comment-184550 Retardo Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:17:25 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=24643#comment-184550 In the 1990s, I talked to some Irish people (from Dublin) about the IRA. Their impression was that the IRA was pretty much the mafia: They made money from criminal activities (drugs, prostitution) and brutalized or killed people who got in their way. Maybe the SAS made all that up.

Maybe the SAS made up the casualty figures here:

…numbers killed by the Provisional IRA, but a rough synthesis gives a figure of 1,800 deaths. Of these, roughly 1,100 were members of the security forces: British Army, Royal Ulster Constabulary and Ulster Defence Regiment; between 600 and 650 were civilians and the remainder were either loyalist or republican paramilitaries (including over 100 IRA members accidentally killed by their own bombs or shot after being exposed as security force agents

The IRA killed a lot of people in Northern Ireland, including a lot of civilians. That’s not controversial. Brecher is romanticizing and whitewashing war criminals. From that, I infer that he is a peaceful progressive humanitarian in his personal convictions.

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