• thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    seriously.

    insert potato joke

    “why is that funny?”

    let them try to explain

    “oh, I thought it was about he Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.”

    see how awkward it can get.

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      Even worse, the famine was entirely caused by landlords and especially the English. It wasn’t a natural disaster, but a product of monoculture that was forced on the people through no fault of their own.

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          Initially, yes. And then when it went wrong? They doubled down on it because they WANTED people to be desperate.

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      That’s when they ostracize you for being a killjoy and not appreciating their “humour”