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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Stems from the black book of Communism which counts nazis killed by the Soviets, everyone killed by the nazis in the USSR, unborn children and even more absurd shit like that just to get to that number lmao.
If we count shit like that, Capitalism has killed billions.
Even using their numbers, if the choice is between 100 million people and every single living thing on the planet, communism sounds like a pretty good deal.
Comunism always sounds like a pretty good deal. UNFORTUNATELY IT'S LEADERS ARE ALWAYS CORRUPT
Only if you don't adjust for functioning existence lmao.
You call this functioning?
I'm sorry, remind me which communist shitholes function better than the average modern capitalist democracy?
Ah yes, India, Haiti, and Myanmar. Definitely what people instantly think of when prompted for the average modern capitalist democracy rather than the us, uk, denmark, sweden, norway, germany, netherlands...cherry pick a bit harder and you might start making sense
Those were your picks for the average capitalist democracy but I'm the one cherry picking? Lmao
So Myanmar, really? the country that got coup'd in 2021 is what you think of as a modern democracy? So are you retarded or just bad faith? Maybe both?
Haiti? Where just in 2021 their president was assassinated. Point should be clear, your selection of the "average modern democracy" was just bad faith coping garbage. Even looking at the rankings, Myanmar doesn't qualify as a democracy for obvious reasons, Haiti is almost at the bottom of the list and India isn't even halfway up. So yes, it does seem that you're both bad faith and retarded. Point clear? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Ranking
Sure "arbitrary methodology" keep coping.
At least they're all on the list. You actually went for Myanmar lmao.
The truth is most countries on that list, even the poor non-cOlOniAliSt ones are infinitely better than the communist shitholes that you've never lived in, or likely even visited.