The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans)[13] throughout Europe during the 1840s. Blight infection caused 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influenced much of the unrest that culminated in European Revolutions of 1848.[14] Longer-term reasons for the massive impact of this particular famine included the system of absentee landlordism[15][16] and single-crop dependence.

>why is there no potato marsey

This ad in honor of World Down Syndrome Day : Darnthatsinteresting

A lot of the comment threads are basically one person incredibly milquetoastly defending the idea that learning disabilities are an actual, real thing that exist, and then another person replying "Actually, if you look at the 99.9th percentile most intelligent people with Down's syndome and extrapolate to the whole population, you'll see that they're actually able to succesfully live on their own entirely off of social welfare with ownly twice daily visits from their carers! This also means you should allowed to have s*x with them, HITLER"

"Assume I can have s*x so I will" seems like a dangerous message to generalize

What danger do you perceive there, within or without the context of this ad?

[Words words words about how you can't frick people with a mental age of 8]

This argument kind of loses traction when most people who would make it, would also turn their nose up at anyone who has s*x with a girl whose boobs and/or butt are too small, or who's too skinny.

You can't say the mental age is what matters, and then turn around and say "No no, physical appearance is what matters!".

Idk what the frick this last dude's talking about, I think he's had one too many arguments defending 8000 year old dragons and his gut insticts kicked in lol

I hate this ad so much 😭 Just because a small part of the Down Syndrome Community can do these things does not mean you can assume that everyone can. [Words words words]

You missed the point big time....which is to not assume at all and instead treat humans as individuals regardless of the assumptions that can be made based their disability. But great speech!

Bayes' theorem DEBUNKED by GENIUS Redditor. If you think about it, not giving driver's licenses to children is also judging people based on assumptions, so why not reduce the legal driving age to 0? Sure, a few twelve year olds might get wrapped trees, but that's a small price to pay to reduce the stigma we're currently putting on children. Because that's what matters: the stigma. The biggest problem people with Down's syndrome have isn't that they can't function independently in any capacity, it's the stigma they get from not being able to function independently.

I don't understand this ad because not everyone with down syndrome has the same cognitive or physical abilities. If someone is being discriminatory based on someone having down sydnrome, then obviously that's bad, but being respectfully cautious with your judgements about how much someone with down syndrome might be able to drink, or how hard they might be able to hit, don't seem like the horrible travesties that this ad make them out to be.

The message of the ad is to let the person fail. Don't prevent people with Down Syndrome from doing things because you don't think they'll succeed.

I mean, these are very dangerous things. The assumption that someone can drive, or drink, or live on their own, or have s*x, when the average person with their disorder has the mental capacity of a child in first grade is immensely dangerous.

Imagine letting a 10 year old live on their own. How long do you think it'll be before the house burns down? Extend that to 14 and it's still the same answer. These assumptions are not without consequences

You teach people to drive, you give them s*x education, etc. Nobody's saying just throw a person with Downs into the deep end. The point is presuming they can't learn or understand is the problem.

Lmao imagine giving a 16 yr old the keys to your car and saying "good luck!" That's what you're pretending this video is saying.

Yeah, obviously the main reason not many people with Down's syndrome know how to drive is there's just no one to teach them lmao

So are we normalizing having s*x with people with Down syndrome now? Wild.

Yes because depending on their disability, they can consent. Not that wild.

All of this r-slur-molesting nonsense is underpinned by a sort of implicit Cartesian dualism and the belief that there's some ephemereal perfectly rational "self" that exists inside of everyone. This means that with the correct intervention--in this case, letting them do whatever they want all the time--people with severe learning disabilities could become just as smart and rational as Redditors. This is contradictory to all modern science, undermines the logic of offering any sort of accommodation to disabled people, and is only morally necessary in the first place if you make an a priori assumption that intelligence is necessary for a person to have individual worth, but is otherwise socially convenient, so it's mindlessly accepted even if the argument also explicitly promotes molesting people with learning disabilites

@kaamrev would've hated this one. !catholics !christians pray for him, and for our families, and for all those in most need of Christ's mercy.

!chuds did they know or it's just a coincidence

And is this Penny IRL?

Article: https://www.mahoningmatters.com/news/local/article289195639.html

WFMJ says Community Relations Director fired after investigation over ‘Straight Pride' post

WFMJ TV confirmed on Facebook Tuesday night that the station fired Madonna Chism Pinkard, the station's Community Relations Director, over a Facebook post advocating for “Straight Pride” during June's Pride Month, which is marked to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. “WFMJ has terminated the employment of our Community Relations Director following her unauthorized post on a company-linked social media site last week,” the station said on the post. “WFMJ is committed to serving our entire community with the respect we believe all people deserve. We recognize we live in a diverse community with differing views on many topics, and we believe discussions of those views and reporting on them should be done in a respectful manner by all. We deeply regret that our Community Relations Director crossed the line. We do not condone such actions and apologize to you, our viewers, for this unauthorized post.”

WHAT DID THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS DIRECTOR'S POST SAY?

“Celebrate Straight Pride,” the post from Chism Pinkard read. “It's natural, worked for thousands of years and you can make babies.”

Chism Pinkard declined comment when contacted by Mahoning Matters this week.

The station first responded later in the day.

“Early this morning, WFMJ management was made aware of an unauthorized social media post by a WFMJ employee,” the company responded in a Facebook post. “That post has since been removed. WFMJ is conducting an investigation into the unauthorized post. We are concerned by this incident and are moving forward with a thorough investigation.”

Pinkard has deleted the post and said “I apologize for the post that offended one of our viewers. I have removed it.”

The post was made on a personal Facebook account from Pinkard, where she goes by “Madonna Jean.” The account has the WFMJ logo and identifies her as Community Relations Director.

Both Jean's posts and the station's response prompted angry responses from Facebook users.

/r/markmywords is a subreddit where average Redditors make midwit predictions. However, this prediction proves to be two standard deviations below the mean.

Desantis won't be remembered at all in 10-15 years. He was never truly relevant enough

In FL, he'll be remembered quite well.

Eh, I still remember Voldemort. I left Florida around when he started his war on Disney, but I still hear plenty to make me think he's trying to guarantee he gets the title worst governor from Scott.

In 20 years Ron DeSantis will be a name only mentioned or remembered by people who follow politics as a hobby.

Probably also true

<--- OP

Irrelevant to this particular comment thread but relevant to the edit you made.

This sub is genuinely filled with bots, I made a post and got a bunch of nonsensical responses which I am convinced are bots

This makes so much sense honestly. I've gotten so many accounts posting rebuttals but no one willing to point out any science that argues to the contrary. WORDSWORDSWORDS

<--- OP

In 20 years, DeSantis will be a euphemism for a particularly degrading s*x act. Probably involving coprophilia

TIL a new word to insult people with

DAE SANTOUM MEAN BUTT C*M?!?

Kinky Boots DeSantis will be remembered for the absolute little ween that he is along with all the other MAGATs

That comment was just begging to be marseyfied.

I had already forgotten about that guy until you brought him up.

Good

<--- OP

Police try to stop an escaped cow by ramming it with their car in Feltham, West London pic.twitter.com/kRTnGRr5SH

— UB1UB2 West London (Southall) (@UB1UB2) June 15, 2024

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1801955119090508131

https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1801981738064724412

https://twitter.com/SuppressedSikh/status/1801989663231488116

i agree with the they should have just shot it

!football

!eurochads

https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/1dgtl3j/a_cool_guide_to_making_a_good_movie/

New bait just dropped

God and I thought the post-miscarriage eating-raspberries-from-her-vagina-with-a-finger-up-her-butt scene in {Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas} was shocking. Godspeed everybody.

Women aren't okey

I read The Skeleton King like this 😧🫢😰 and I have a HIGH Tolerance for batshit. I've been reading fanfiction for over 25 years. It's a Nightmare Before Christmas retelling that starts with grave robbing and necrophilia (by Jack) and Sally's face gets cut open for more room to give head repeatedly. My flabbers were gasted.

They need ye

I have a voice mail I'm not going to listen to but the fricking notification won't leave. I can't swipe and when i try to disbale them entirely I (the motherlover owner of the phone) get told "these notifications can't be modified"

Trump in Detroit pic.twitter.com/MgarZJcUBQ

— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) June 15, 2024

Meanwhile Biden:

Anyway can you be a Burger if you don't have a black friend ?

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1802084102880768459

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/r/likeus is a Subreddit for posting pictures and videos of animals behaving in human ways. As you can imagine, this can often lead to a level of anthropomorphizing. Occasionally people will disagree on whether a post truly belongs in the sub. Take this post, where a cat is given a kitten after losing hers, and seemingly begins to cry.

Objections raised largely centered around the scientific consensus that cats can't "cry" as an emotional response, and the cat in the video likely just has an eye infection or dry eyes from anesthetic. However, OP (a mod of the sub) is ready to argue with everyone who disagrees. It's unclear how many of the removed responses are from OP removing them.

"My goal is to make these rare and controversial cases of animals crying emotional tears better known."

An argument over the meaning of physical responses in animals

For added drama, it turns out that OP's post history is filled with videos of animals crying, and arguments for why it's real.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1dgkovr/op_in_rlikeus_in_tears_over_whether_animals_can/

!football

!eurochads