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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (28 children)

The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

The Irish genocide is far enough in the past to have become sort of "folklore".
No one who experienced it is still alive or in living memory.
That makes it better suited for small talk, and not equivalent to the Israeli genocide.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh it's still in living memory, Ireland and Irish culture still hasn't recovered from it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The population has barely recovered, in fact. If i recall correctly, it was within the past five years that the Irish population exceeded pregenocide levels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just googled it

Pre-genocide it was8.2-8.5 million, today it's 5.1

They're still 60-67% of what their population was before

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't hold a potato if both hands are full of grudges, though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, cause the english definetly haven't continued fucking over Ireland since then. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Tiocfaidh ár lá

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