What if Ireland was on the side of the Axis in World War Two?

As has been stated often in the past - If we get a report about a post claiming it violates policy and it is in a language we can't read the report is accepted at face value unless an English translation is included.

Not a difficult concept. The Mods are not going to waste time trying to figure out what is being posted if y'all can't be bothered to be polite.

Kicked for a week.

While being in Irish what breached the boards rules?
Ní seans in ifreann. Céard atá ann d'Éirinn? Ní dhéanfaidh aon ní!
Chances are in hell What's Ireland for? Nothing!

That's google Translates direct translation, there's nothing wrong with it or impolite to other posters.
 

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While being in Irish what breached the boards rules?


That's google Translates direct translation, there's nothing wrong with it or impolite to other posters.
Didn't read it. It was reported as violating Board policy. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it, although by Grandma Gertie could have, God keep her soul safe.

Again, simple way to avoid it would have been to provide a translation. Only folks who have managed to avoid actions after having a post in a language other than English reported posted well known phrases in Spanish and German, both of which I recognized and could therefore evaluate.
 
Didn't read it. It was reported as violating Board policy. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it, although by Grandma Gertie could have, God keep her soul safe.

Again, simple way to avoid it would have been to provide a translation. Only folks who have managed to avoid actions after having a post in a language other than English reported posted well known phrases in Spanish and German, both of which I recognized and could therefore evaluate.

OK, but I've given you both the direct translation and the the "normal" version of it, unless just posting in a foreign language in and off itself is an offense I'd like to know what exact part of the Board policy did it violate. There's nothing that any poster could be offended by (unless they just don't like Irish which isn't against the realm of possibility)
 

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While being in Irish what breached the boards rules?


That's google Translates direct translation, there's nothing wrong with it or impolite to other posters.
I assumed it meant: "No chance in hell. What's in it for Ireland? Nothing!"
 
I agree. And don't forget how Spain, even though the West could use every anti-Communist country it could get on its side (including neo-fascist); Spain was a pariah until 1980 all because it was pro-NAZI.
So signing an aid treaty with the US in 1953 and for the next few decades receiving oodles of US cash to prop up its fascist economy, US equipment for its fascist military, US training for its fascist officers and US diplomatic support for its decrepit Hitler & Mussolini hugging fascist dictator counts as being a “pariah” does it?
Sure you’re not confusing it with the US implementing a “support democracy unless they lean left, battle tyranny unless they lean right” policy and giving a jackbooted mass-murdering tyrant enough freebies that he could sustain his regime while avoiding having to engage with the civilised world or concede any kind of political or economic reforms that would have benefited his country?

Meanwhile Scandinavian, German, Dutch and British tourists were pouring into the country in greater numbers every year, aside from recessions and random scares like the US losing some H-bombs off the sunbathing beaches. North Korea it definitely wasn’t.

Oops. Got distracted by the cat and my edit landed the last paragraph after Napoleons post. Apologies.
 
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So signing an aid treaty with the US in 1953 and for the next few decades receiving oodles of US cash to prop up its fascist economy, US equipment for its fascist military, US training for its fascist officers and US diplomatic support for its decrepit Hitler & Mussolini hugging fascist dictator counts as being a “pariah” does it?
Sure you’re not confusing it with the US implementing a “support democracy unless they lean left, battle tyranny unless they lean right” policy and giving a jackbooted mass-murdering tyrant enough freebies that he could sustain his regime while avoiding having to engage with the civilised world or concede any kind of political or economic reforms that would have benefited his country?
The US is not the world. Sorry you feel the US=the world.
 
The US is not the world. Sorry you feel the US=the world.
I’m genuinely curious. If you’re a fascist relic of the nineteen thirties who is interested in nothing other than keeping your country stuck in 1938 as long as possible, and you have the US on-side, which other countries matter worth a damn? Surely not any in Europe, since after all Franco spent forty years telling them all to take their effete socialist notions of democracy and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
 
Ireland. So far from Germany and so very close to Great Britain. They aren't joining the Axis, that would be like if Denmark was neutral and decided to openly support Britain. It ends with them being invaded by their neighbor who has a larger army, navy and shares a land border.
 
I assumed it meant: "No chance in hell. What's in it for Ireland? Nothing!"

That is exactly what I wrote and translated - rather worrying that after translating it into Gaelic when you translate it 'back' into English it says something slightly different which could be understood differently - so the rule to not do that sort of thing makes absolute sense - apologies if anyone was offended!

But back on task - Ireland had a very nasty Civil war after 1921 that no one likes to talk about - in 1939 ish it would still very much have been in the public consciousness.

Ireland is geographically and in many respects socially and economically hitched to the UK - just look at the angst Brexit has caused today on all sides regarding the Border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
 
OK, but I've given you both the direct translation and the the "normal" version of it, unless just posting in a foreign language in and off itself is an offense I'd like to know what exact part of the Board policy did it violate. There's nothing that any poster could be offended by (unless they just don't like Irish which isn't against the realm of possibility)
You mean Gaelic. The Milesian Celtic invaders so thoroughly subjugated the local inhabitants that the native Irish language has been completely lost. The Mourne Mountains take their name from the one surviving word we know - the word for a slave or thrall. Gaelic is also spoken in Scotland and (slightly different dialect) the Isle of Man.
 
But back on task - Ireland had a very nasty Civil war after 1921 that no one likes to talk about - in 1939 ish it would still very much have been in the public consciousness.

Ireland is geographically and in many respects socially and economically hitched to the UK - just look at the angst Brexit has caused today on all sides regarding the Border between Northern Ireland and the Republic

Forget 1939, it was still in the public consciousness in 1969 and hell is still well current today (just look in the Irish Pol thread with the "Blueshirt" comments). Honestly short of an ASB I can't see Ireland ever going Axis, particularly given it's strong leaning towards the Allies throughout the war.

As to the relationship with the UK, it's without question complex, I mean for example during the war a senior IRA man who was on the Anti-Treaty side was captured in Singapore during it's fall, after the war a British interview asked him given his history how could he have ended up in Japanese hands, his answer: "The Brits are our enemy, nobody else gets to fight them but us"...
 
Forget 1939, it was still in the public consciousness in 1969 and hell is still well current today (just look in the Irish Pol thread with the "Blueshirt" comments). Honestly short of an ASB I can't see Ireland ever going Axis, particularly given it's strong leaning towards the Allies throughout the war.

As to the relationship with the UK, it's without question complex, I mean for example during the war a senior IRA man who was on the Anti-Treaty side was captured in Singapore during it's fall, after the war a British interview asked him given his history how could he have ended up in Japanese hands, his answer: "The Brits are our enemy, nobody else gets to fight them but us"...

And IRA and Unionist men fought 'side by side' in Spain with the International Brigades
 
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