• @[email protected]
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    283 days ago

    They didn’t export potatoes out of Ireland, they exported everything else. Meaning there was no other food but potatoes for the Irish to eat.

    • @[email protected]
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      93 days ago

      That, the rent system, and the British actively preventing aid (not at their expense!) really turned a bad situation into a full-blown genocide.