>>17933511
Collins outstrips Dev any day of the week. It isn't even a contest. Dev flip flopped through the entire revolution on whether he thought actually fighting was worth it, while Collins got the job done. Then when the Treaty came and Dev realised he probably wouldn't be in charge, he LARPed as an epic revolutionary.
The best bit of Dev's entire political career is when he told Churchill to fuck off in WW2. The rest was either his ministers doing work for him, or him playing pretend.
>>17933549
He's a "chad" because he was the de-facto leader of an incredibly effective guerrilla campaign against Britain. He was the correct mixture of pragmatism and principle; while others were wringing their hands anc crying about le evil brits, Collins actually did something about it.
He was absolutely reviled by the British Commanders trying to capture him, but was adored on the world stage as a sort of Dick Turpin figure, sticking it to authority and so on. When he landed in London for negotiations, he was swarmed by mobs of adoring fans. Weird as fuck in hindsight, but it happened. His death was reported all over the world, as far as Japan.
