I have Irish readers? That’s cool.

Well, makes sense to me, I’m the one who thought it, though I guess that means some of the conceptual and rhetorical connections might be left in my head rather than on the page.

If you take the strikers as heroes that’s cool, you’re right about the willpower thing and they make good ones, unsuccessful in a way that renders them tragic rather than discredited. The Irish are good at that.

Guess I think of it like the Cairo swordsman in that Indiana Jones movie - skilled and disciplined, bold and brave, hero and champion to the locals that this random foreigner from nowhere started beating up, but from the other side the correct course of action is obviously to just shoot the guy.

I’m Irish on one side, but dear lord are we shitty loyalists, the family left for England at one point to make money and changed the name from Mc to Mac to make people think we were Scottish. Moved to America and became the WASPiest people I personally know. Like, we rock our alcoholism in a quiet scotch rocks and passive aggression way.

Hopefully we’ll have more enemies in common from here out.