crashfrog

A famine in 1845 that was caused by...

Monocrop agriculture, like I said. How else do you lose all your food to a single crop disease?

Israel is occupying a country, controls everything there and commits a genocide.

But… they aren’t? The Irish population declined by 1.5 million people in two years. The population of Arab Palestinians has monotonically increased since the formation of the State of Israel in 1948.

in this case what happened is that the irish potato famine got normalized over time

Can you explain what else you think is supposed to happen to history as it recedes into the past?

Are we supposed to feel infinitely bad about the infinite past’s infinite array of horrors? Forever? Doesn’t the past ever get to just be the past? I don’t think you have to be “neurotypical” to understand why human beings have recency bias.

Can you explain how the joke references “a genocide”?

“Well, you know, Irish cuisine has a lot of potatoes in it.”

Joke fucking explained. How do you figure the guy’s going to be on the spot, exactly?

He had every right to be angry about a famine

A famine in 1845? Caused by Irish reliance on monocrop agriculture?

Why would any living person in 2024 have a right to be “angry” about a joke that barely refers to it?