• WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "a century of violence in Soviet Russia."

    1917 - 1993 "a century"

    No wonder they believe the numbers in the black book of communism.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Some of the countless victims of capitalism:

      • WWI: 40 million
      • WWII: 85 million people
      • Korean war: 5 million
      • Vietnam War: 3 million
      • Neoliberal experiments in the former USSR: 3 million
      • Inadequate covid response: 5 million

      Just to mention a few.

  • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    In totalitarian country, huge billboards are erected in public spaces showing wildly untrue propaganda about the evil of the Other :speech-r:

                                     :yes-honey-left: 
    
  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    they probably wouldn't let you do a similar "capitalism kills" spread even if you could pay the same amount of money

  • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    They need to be ready to deflect when omicron stomps a mudhole in our ass in a few weeks. We've already been running on emergency shifts with all unnecessary surgeries shut down at my hospital for 2 months now and line go up again

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    Even Guns N Roses said the Vietnam war was bullshit, and it’s still on the board. Great.

    • determinism2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism

      Whereas chapters of the book that describe the events in separate Communist states were praised for the most part, some generalizations made by Courtois in the introduction to the book became a subject of criticism both on scholarly and political[31]: 139  grounds.[3]: 236 [32]: 13 [33]: 68–72  Moreover, three of the book's main contributors (Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, and Nicolas Werth)[6] publicly disassociated themselves from Stéphane Courtois' statements in the introduction and criticized his editorial conduct.[22] Margolin and Werth felt that Courtois was "obsessed" with arriving at a total of 100 million killed which resulted in "sloppy and biased scholarship",[34] faulted him for exaggerating death tolls in specific countries,[6][35]: 194 [36]: 123  and rejected the comparison between Communism and Nazism.[3][note 2]

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/r4nehi/wiping_the_floor_with_the_black_book_of_communism/