I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
China’s great leap and the soviet famine alone take you more than half way there using the higher estimates (now add gulags, red terror, etc…) might not get exactly to 100, but it’s not so far off to qualify meaningfully as a lie (unless you’re speaking to a braindead tankie).
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You do realise that saying “Pfft 100 million is ridiculous propaganda, it was most likely just 50 million” kinda sounds retarded, right?
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No, braindead tankies are never that direct. They prefer to dance around semantics and obfuscate their retarded points.
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Feel free to clarify your point
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The point is just “100 is an exaggeration”? That’s all? Thanks for the contribution cOmRaDe
No they don’t.
But you’re just proving the trope asked about in the original post.
The problem with these counts is there is no way of making them look good, like lives saved due to “x”. How many people lived because the Soviets managed to eliminate all famines in their territory after that? A huge feat given their relative frequency beforehand.
And then you can blame countless deaths on capitalism, feudalism, slavery, but then do you normalize those numbers based on total world population?
What about blaming AK-47s? The police?
My point is that it’s a pointless metric that is only used to drum up support against some group of people, not a useful one for objectively understanding anything. It does away with all context, and replaces it with some inane number.