If there are a lot of deaths, it’s because their infrastructure was made without freedom or the profit motive. If there are few deaths, they’re covering it up (insert full Parenti quote). Like all other propaganda lines, it’s insensitive and paternalistic, reducing people to reified tragedies. Very little talk of climate change intensifying landslides.

However. Can’t wait for western media to try this mind trick when they’re no longer hegemonic and promptly get laughed out of the room