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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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