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[–] Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait... are the liberals actually surprised? Or being sarcastic? And why would liberals be either one of those?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Sometimes surprised, sometimes mad, either way anti-communists that try to pull out the Black Book of Communism are generally making the point that socialism is more lethal than capitalism, when historically it's the opposite both in total and by ratio.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yep according to them every hunger related death under a communist government is communists fault but the many famines under capitalism don't count against their favorite system.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago

Or like the Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada that was mostly Nazis and collaborators on it.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Liberals crying about the death toll from communism, when said made up number includes Nazis killed in the Easter theatre.

Liberals mourning nazis out of sheer ignorance seems telling

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The people killed by US soldiers in vietnam war also included too. It's messed up.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They don't care.

Also they will claim that the death of communism is some widely agreed upon number that is corroborated by numerous organizations and sources.

In reality it is literally like the one single 'study' that proved the autism/vaccine connection. It came entirely from the Black Book of Communism in 1999, and all but the main author disavowed it, and despite the obsession with wanting to reach 100 million. The absolute max it could find was 94 million with a 'most likely' number of 64 million.

So when they give a death toll of 'conservatively 100 million' they are literally pulling it out of nowhere.

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