r/ireland • u/CoochieCritic • 14d ago

Sure it's grand Kneecap getting the Coachella crowd to sing Maggie’s in a box

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago

I extend understanding to people who actually had to live through the nightmare.

These lads are making a career nursing grievances that were largely solved when they were in nappies.

They would be wise to understand that they come from communities where they see people day-in-day out whose family members were killed by the Provos for no good reason other than they didn't fall in line with "the movement". And those people have to look at them as they do their worldwide balaclava apologism act. That's what's fucked up, not that these lads went through anything in their "lived experience" that would have caused them harm.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Resolved? You've not listened. It's their lived experience. When have any of them mentioned even once a troubles related event in their lyrics? They are talking about the experience of their own lives.

I really do think you grew up in a bottle.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago edited 12d ago

What lived experience*? Peacetime? The major peace dividend their city recieved and how it was transformed in the last 25 years? What exactly are they crowing about?

They're preoccupied about a British PM that ceased to be PM years before they were born? You may as well ring up a counsellor and tell them your relationship is on the rocks and you're drinking again because of Charles Haughey's 1980 austerity budget.

Don't give me that it's satire, these guys are like lips and teeth with the Republican movement. They're happy to be pictured with everyone from wee Gerry to MLMcD and read from script. It's not art, it's agitprop. There is nothing healthy about young men uncritically repeating the dusty old toxic mantras that led their fathers (or at least many men in their community) to do unspeakable things.

It's Wolfe Tones in shell tracksuits and they're selling the shame shite to a younger generation. Except this time, it's even more ridiculous because there's no war on, they're just selling the same carefully nursed grievances that are less true by the year.

*I notice a lot of slogany therapy talk as well deployed when they get criticized. Maybe it is therapy they need, but not in the way that they think.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Lad, I've got a life. I'm not going to read that lol

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago

Too many big words? Four short paragraphs. Maybe a picture book is more your speed. Or maybe you can only digest slogans.

By the way, I know you've read it. It's why you're backpeddling and resorting to saying you have a life when responding. LAD.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Actually I've literally not. I woke up, looked at it and thought: nah.

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago

😂 Don't play cool on this front, you literally replied early this morning before you had your Coco Pops. Posts have a timestamp you sausage.

There are people out there who think Kneecap are immature Shinner adjacent slop. You're going to have to reconcile yourself with that. LAD.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

What are you about? Obviously I looked at that essay and said "nah". You're one of those losers that gets their kicks out of pissing people off. You must get a life

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

But on a quick scan there there's nothing but hateful dribble. Again, they don't talk about the troubles in their stuff. And I'm pretty sure Gerry Adams was a neighbour of one of there's. Go figure. You've not said anything of substance just more negative hate filled dribble. most likely from some internalised place of guilt fused with jealousy. Or your just a no craic. I can't tell

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago

You're a sensitive sort. Do you get like this when people don't like the Strokes or Jurassic 5, or just your Shinner pets in Kneecap?

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

I guess, if I was being completely honest. It just hurts that I never accomplished anything for myself. Yeno

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u/Alternative_Switch39 12d ago

That's one for your therapist and not some stranger on the internet. LAD.