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The Blindboy Podcast
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Catherine Connelly's Charity
In 17 forty, this huge famine is happening in Ireland. Half a million people dying in one year. Catherine connelly's wife decided to help the starving poor of ireland. She got them to build an obelisk with pine apples on it so she could give em work. Charity was against the ideology of lezefair economics. That would have been a moral failure. So that's what that building is. It's a pointless building that shouldn't exist.
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