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by guelo 2944 days ago
If technology is able to repress resistance in more powerful ways than was previously possible then things like Northern Ireland won't be possible.
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> then things like Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (in the 1900s) was less about resistance to a tyrannical state, and much more about a population split 50/50ish who had hated each other for a few hundred years. British action there was far from exemplary, but had the people of Northern Ireland woken up one day to find they were part of the Republic of Ireland, precisely no problems would have been solved.