• uralsolo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    mass starvation records under mao

    You mean the last Chinese famine, after a thousand years of recurring famines which happened under every Chinese regime, and were solved once and for all by the end of the Great Leap Forward? Yes let’s talk about those.

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      1 year ago

      youre making it soumd like tens of millions starving to death is a win

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          1 year ago

          global rising tides lift all boats. plus if all of your weak and eldery stave to death and youre left with only the fitter people then yeah youll have highrr life expectancies. pretty fucjed up way to do it though

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              you have daily 100 apples and 150 people, you try to ration but enough weaker and older people die to where theres only 90 people for your 100 apples, everyone lives now. having tens of millions die to meet supply and demand isnt an accomplishment