• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    More specifically, the Irish famine was because the British government publicly announced that the free market would fix the famine so they shouldn’t intervene. Funny how Communism gets famines on its death count but not Capitalism.

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      10 hours ago

      And Ireland’s population has never recovered to what it was before the famine, even after 150 years.