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The greatest man-made disaster in history will always be the commodification of basic necessities. Millions annually gone— not because the water/food doesn’t exist, but because it is economically inaccessible to them.
51 upvotes, 22 comments. Yik Yak image post by boariskarloff in US Politics. "The greatest man-made disaster in history will always be the commodification of basic necessities.

Millions annually gone— not because the water/food doesn’t exist, but because it is economically inaccessible to them."
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Anonymous 3w

Congratulations! This might be the dumbest post I’ve ever seen in this community. You’re citing a death ticker that isn’t measuring starvation. It guesses a number by applying the highest global estimates of all malnutrition-linked deaths, which is nothing like the documented starvation during the Great Leap Forward.

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Anonymous 3w

"Other people starve, so it was actually ok for Mao to cause the single worst famine in all of human history"

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Don’t make me tap this sign again, I know you don’t like reading

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

You still support a leader who killed tens of millions of his own people because he was a moron lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Ok, we’re tapping the sign. I tried to condense it for you

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Hmmm, 7 million people in a year is pretty bad, but I wonder what that number was in 1960?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

And I wonder what country the majority of those deaths are in

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Let’s think critically for a moment… lots of years have happened, right? So by the laws of addition…

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Mao still killed more people by starvation than any other leader, ever. Cope

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Again it is statistically not possible for him to be a mass murderer because of the immediate improvements to healthcare and education afterwards ballooned life expectancy. The chairman made mistakes but again, he made correct decisions also. Consider as well that the socialist project in China was heavily besieged by the outside world. China was embargoed.

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

"China got better later under Deng so who cares that Mao killed tens of millions?"

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Do you have anything new to say or are you out of voice lines?

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

We all make mistakes but those mistakes usually don't result in the brutal deaths of tens of millions. Also embargos were not even close to the biggest cause of the famine, Mao killing millions of sparrows for no reason (causing the insect population to explode) was probably the biggest factor along with forced collectivization and their debt to the USSR

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

So, no? For someone who was anti-wordiness…

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

My words actually had thought behind them instead of Marxist buzzwords

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Tryna make fun of me for reading books 😭 Are you a teen movie character from the 80s

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

You blame “commodification,” but most malnutrition deaths occur in places like Sudan where war destroys supply chains and blocks food delivery. Many of the actual famines occur in countries closer to your economic ideology

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Even if poverty were the main driver, the solution is directly opposed to what you’re advocating for. As countries liberalize their economies, hunger plummets. The most economically free countries have the lowest hunger rates.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

All this while defending the man responsible for the single deadliest famine in human history and calling it a “mistake”

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

I would love to see your math on the “capitalism kills more people than communism” claim

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Anonymous replying to -> boariskarloff 3w

Watching porn is probably less detrimental to your brain than the "books" you read

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

Lmao he doesn't even have a response for this one

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