• Crampon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Equals to calling a study on the corona virus SarsCov-19 dumb because it should be a study on the Chinese instead.

    Seems different then.

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        2 days ago

        How does that make any sense?

        If the paper was on the micro organism. Then its a paper on the micro organism. It’s completely irrelevant to the situation surrounding it.

        Weaponized brain rot take.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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          20 hours ago

          Do you not understand that it’s a joke?

          Obviously we all know the paper is talking about the microorganism, but since the real cause of the famine wasn’t the microorganism but the British, it’s funny to act like the paper is insulting the British rather than talking about the microorganism.

          That’s the only way I can interpret your comment in any coherent way, that the joke just went completely over your head.

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            15 hours ago

            I do understand it.

            It’s just bad. But you guys eat up any bad joke if the purpose is to blame the US, GB or Israel for anything. It’s predictable and lame.

            So lame.

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              12 hours ago

              The wordplay is clever. Somebody’s big mad that people are blaming the British for something they did

              Might want to examine why people making fun of one of the most blatantly evil empires of all time offends you.

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          The Irish people were growing tons of crops besides potatoes, but the British landlords took everything besides the potatoes as cash crops/taxes, leaving them only the potatoes to actually eat. There was more than enough food to prevent those deaths, but the Irish people weren’t allowed to eat it.

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            1 day ago

            Doesn’t change the fact that the paper was about the fucking organism and not about the political schemes going on at the time.

            How did this forum gather so many dense brains in one place?

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              2 hours ago

              The issue is that the title of the story implies that it was entirely due to the organism that the Irish people suffered so many deaths. Context matters and they framed this in the worst way possible.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      The answer is that it’s complicated, and the British made decisions that needlessly complicated things further.

      Just so we’re clear, the Irish did too — there were many different bad actors that took advantage of what happened in Ireland. It just so happens that the worst of them were British.