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The people before us weren't perfect. Their mistakes are blueprints to learn from and build a better world

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

For example, Thomas Sankara was an actual decent person

That's cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this:

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalist apologists: see how we reduced world poverty? /s

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Not sure if this is a joke because if you exclude China from the data, world poverty has actually gotten worse in the last 40 years. They are singlehandedly dragging that world average upwards.