this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2024
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[–] idk837384@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Meme still works if you substitute capitalism for communism

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that's the original cartoon and this is a play on the irony of the post-modern revelation of many of capitalism's failures.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Not only that, this isn’t real X is just a bad road to go down in. You need to define what system you want and judge if you met the plan, not some ideal.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You need more skulls for communism.

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

think of a number that u think communism killed between 1920 and 2020 just whatever u can imagine just add up all the made up numbers u have seen in all ur favorite propaganda and keep that number in mind and open the spoiler below.

spoilerlast year more than 20 million people died in capitalist countries from perfectly preventable causes such as starvation and disease and thats without even counting how many people were murdered by imperialist countries and their puppet around the world to maintain capitalism.

idk what number u came up with but i grantee u it was less than 2 billion. and ur number is an exaggeration while mine in an under estimation.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

20 million times 100 years is 2000 million or 2 American billions

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm "last year" data might be very different over 100 years. It tends to increase towards later dates so its weird to assume its constant

[–] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

true, i wast trying to say that capitalism killed that many people in that specific period of time just that over a period of a 100 years at the current rate of murder it would be way more than the ridiculous number of death attributed to communism during that time. but i totally see how it could be misunderstood

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Capitalism kills more people each decade than even the wildest numbers capitalist chuds have ascribed to communism, and yet here you are. A stable genius.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

except that it doesn't as anybody who's minimally literate would know