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Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012



Yes.

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Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

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Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


There was policy, made by socialists, that killed lots of people. I don't think you can dispute that. But you can dispute it as a valid sign of it being bad, or worse, than capitalism, because capitalism absolutely has a higher body count. America has a higher body count.

As propaganda, these things are designed to basically imply:

a. the person saying it is morally superior to you
b. that you're a bad person, and even if these policies sound good, they're poisoned and poisonous
c. to create a moral highground you can't dispell fast enough for the average person ever have a chance to not make a decision against you and socialism.

so like, refusing to engage that poo poo as presented is the best possible thing one can do.

err
Apr 11, 2005

I carry my own weight no matter how heavy this shit gets...
Let me Google that for you op:

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

this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006
communism is the only ideology capable of enough introspection to have mens rea and is therefore the only idea that has ever killed anyone. everyone else who ever died just died, and who can say what would have happened if anyones ideas were different or whether that wouldve good or bad

81023
Aug 10, 2023
the bourgeoisie since 2015

  • homelessing of 85% of the planet's population

  • increasing the prison population to 23%

  • guaranteeing everyone has 7 misdemeanors and 3 felonies before the age of 30

81023
Aug 10, 2023

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


communism has killed billions if you carry t out to infinity, the amount of loss from stifled innovation during the cold war is incalcuable

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
imagine a state taking responsibility for the general welfare of the people

what would that mean

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
that's genocide

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

communism? killed millions? I think you've confused the hammer and sickle with the ol ball and chain (my ex-wife)!

81123
Aug 12, 2023

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

communism has killed billions if you carry t out to infinity, the amount of loss from stifled innovation during the cold war is incalcuable

and the bourgeoisie refuse to initiate a plan to get the proletariat back to a middle 1980s standard of living

81123
Aug 12, 2023

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

imagine a state taking responsibility for the general welfare of the people

what would that mean

social security

DrSunshine
Mar 23, 2009

Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!
Let's be longtermists about it (I, for one, am a Marxist-Longtermist) and compare the 10 million-odd people who died under socialist societies in the 20th century to the 10^58 possible simulated and non-simulated human lives which could be possible to create should we achieve communism in the next two hundred years and spread it to every solar system within the future light cone of humanity. That number is a mere drop in the bucket, a puny rounding error, compared to the total possible human lives that would never come into existence should capitalism be allowed to continue.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


meh who's keeping score

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT
Man I was dumb back then. I still am, but I was then too.

stumblebum
May 8, 2022

no, what you want to do is get somebody mad enough to give you a red title you're proud of
yes, colonialism killed millions of people. by the thousands, in fact

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

colonialism was bad, but

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

fart simpson posted:

colonialism was bad, but

at least there wasnt a cult of personality

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious
Kit-Kats also killed millions and so they should be banned to be honest.

8523_3
Aug 16, 2023
their life was more difficult than Europe so they died?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

8523_3 posted:

their life was more difficult than Europe so they died?

think we can pull off a 6-account day?

8523_3
Aug 16, 2023

Al! posted:

think we can pull off a 6-account day?

i'll probably buy another one when i get bored after dinner

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Colonialism killed even more people than you can count on both your hands *and* feet

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Apr 16, 2017

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colin should frig the hell off then

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