#Act of Union

[vox-anglosphere]

Union Day 2024 - What unites us is greater than what divides us.

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1803 – In opposition to the Act of Union, Robert Emmet leads an armed outbreak that is easily suppressed.

Born in Dublin in 1778 into a fairly-well-to-do Protestant family, Robert Emmet was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. With high ideals of fraternity and equality, Robert, like his elder brother Thomas, became involved with the United Irishmen – an organisation formed in 1791 by Wolfe Tone, James Tandy, and Thomas Russell to achieve Roman Catholic emancipation and, with Protestant cooperation,…

[racefortheironthrone]

Haven't the same sovereign didn't really united the kingdoms under a single government with the House of Orange or House of Hanover so wondering if Scotland's bankruptcy over the Darien expedition matter more to uniting the kingdoms than the accession in England of the House of Stuart?

Ok, I think I get what you're driving at.

So the important thing is that a personal union is not the same thing as a real union or a political union, and so on and so forth. In a personal union, you have two (or more) separate and independent governments that just happen to share the same monarch.

When it comes to Scotland's political union with England, I would agree that the failed Darien scheme (in which Scotland sank about 20% of all the money in the country into setting up a colony in Panama, only for 80% of the colonists to die in the first year) played a significant role in getting the Scottish Parliament to agree to the Act of Union in 1707.

But it wasn't the only factor. (After all, there had been periodic efforts to pass an Act of Union for a hundred years, under both the Stuarts and the House of Orange, which failed due to religious politics.) So what were some of the factors?

Royal succession was a major issue. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Jacobite Rising of 1689, the governments of both England and Scotland realized that the question of succession was a major national security issue for both countries. However, it was not clear that England and Scotland would remain in personal union after the reign of Queen Anne, largely due to disagreement over which particular Protestant monarch would be chosen that were actually a proxy for economic conflicts...

Trade was a major motivation. When the Scottish Parliament passed the Act of Security of 1704, which mandated that Scotland's choice of the next monarch would have to be different from that of England unless England agreed to free trade with Scotland, the English Parliament used the Alien Act of 1705 to ban exports from Scotland to England (which was around 50% of Scotland's total international trade at the time) in order to strong-arm the Scottish government into negotiating over union.

Naval policy was a major motivation. As a small independent kingdom, Scotland's merchant marine fleet got hit pretty badly by privateers during the many European wars of the late 17th/early 18th century. Union would mean protection for Scottish merchant ships from the increasingly powerful English (soon to be British) navy.

[rabbitcruiser]

The Province of Canada was created by the Act of Union on July 23, 1840.

[honey-doc]

Chil becoming a union organizer for half foots makes so much sense because literally any time a half foot was in chil’s vicinity he was looking out for them

Like when marcille & senshi transformed

And with mickbell

[workofkindness]

Homeless kids love Biryani treats ! they wanted more😊💗 #kindness #help #love #peace #humanity

[realpeterabell]

An informative essay

The shameful dying days of Scotland’s independence before the Act of Union

[peterabell]

An informative essay

The shameful dying days of Scotland’s independence before the Act of Union

[wilwheaton]

Q: Why hasn't the SAG-AFTRA strike been resolved?

A:

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[amtrak-official]

Anyways, did you know that there is one single law passed in 1947 that single handedly killed US Labor. You didn't well let me explain what it did. The Taft Hartley Act banned mass strikes, closed shops, wildcat stikes, solidarity strikes, unions donations to political campaigns, secondary boycotts, required labor organizers to swear to the NLRB that they weren't Communists and It passed despite a fucking presidential Veto.

[jay-wasreblogging]

For more information.

[saxafimedianetwork]

Constraining Shari‘a: Postcolonial Legal Politics

As in #BritishSomaliland, postcolonial authorities in the #SomaliRepublic used the law to achieve their political goals. 70% of #Somaliland population rejected Jun 1961 #referendum, saying gov't in #Mogadishu favored southern #Somalis’ priorities, sidelining those of northerners

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[ot3]

something kind of gross to me is the way that some artists who post about how AI is going to take their jobs speak in a way that makes it seem like they think they are the first and only profession who has ever faced this kind of existential threat. they just seem fundamentally uninterested in relating the fear they're currently experiencing to the larger context of labor movements and the history of technological advancement/automation's effects on other fields.

they only ever discuss the problem with automating creative labor. there's this sort of implicit stance that when labor they view as not requiring The Divine Spark Of Creation Only A Human Can Possess gets automated that is just the natural course of technological advancement. But when it comes for their labor it's suddenly a completely new thing and a threat to the fabric of our Culture. The idea that creative work should be venerated above other forms of labor and is uniquely deserving of protections is just kinda shitty and stupid.

[deathbyattrition]

You know, when this whole AI art, deepfakes and other shit began, I was scared that the responsibility of convincing people that it can and will be used unethically would fall on the shoulders of small artists who would not be taken seriously. I expected change in the art world to be a slow, creeping transition into inevitable demise.

What I did not expect was hollywood studio execs doing that job for us by being so cartoonishly evil, impatient and releasing statements like "We're gonna starve you until you agree to work with us lol" and "We're gonna take your likeness and use it forever. You will be paid with jack and shit."

I also did not expect AI bros doing the same job for us by harassing a voice actor off of twitter.

[nobleriver]

TWD: The Ones Who Live - Finale Opening Scene + Blurred/Faraway

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