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1.  “more aid to ireland during the famine than britain” okay let’s clear this up, again– there was no famine, it was a genocide, commited specifically by the british.  ireland was literally packed with food.  the only crop that failed was the potato crop.  the british had no problem with ships FULL OF FOOD leaving british ports on british ships from ireland to other places to make money.  IT.  WAS.  NOT.  A.  FAMINE.  IT.  WAS.  A.  GENOCIDE.   and that probably explains why britain didn’t “send aid”.  britain was literally using the “famine” they manufactured to clear the land of indigenous irish people.

And - all through primary school (until age 12) it was taught as a famine; only in secondary school did we learn that the British caused it deliberately. There’s a fair amount of Irish YA novels about the Famine (can’t remember titles off the top of my head), and they’re all pretty brutal with the facts of what happened. Not to mention most people’s great-grandparents probably lived through it - it’s not that far back.

Loki: “Can confirm, poisoning his mead right now.”

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

All the rich people in the notes trying to defend the truth of this by whining about how they were raised to save every penny (because obviously poor people are poor because they never save money not because there’s a fucked up system that perpetuates poverty or anything) and it was so hard being raised to be like that boo hoo hoo

My mum as poor as we were growing up and I’m talking dirt poor where sometimes we’d have weeks with no power poor would NEVER let my friends go hungry if they came over. nEVER. Reverse this, I went round a friends who wanted to get take out 100% their choice and I said I had no money so would feel bad but they were like it’s fine. Their parents then proceeded to not only charge my mum for the meal but also the lift home. My mum literally nearly lost her mind.