Probably the most true post in this entire community.

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[–] 81 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Trofim Lysenko killed the most people under Communism, through famine. Most of the deaths under communism have been due to famines and misconceptions about farming.

    ...and more were killed by Capitalism in the Belgian Congo and by The British East India company alone. Both of which were run as Capitalist ventures.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    "Misconceptions about farming" isn't really accurate though. The farmers knew how to make food, but in both Russia and China, at least, the central government decided bullshit was as good as science and fucked around with a working system.

    That being said, America also fucked up their soil so bad that they created a dustbowl with a non-zero deathtoll, and modern western farming practices are also fucking up the climate via algae blooms, pollinator killing pesticides and just straight up spewing diesel exhaust.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    the central government decided bullshit was as good as science

    The problem was that they thought Lysenkoism was science. Obviously, plants would grow according to Marxist ideology because why wouldn't they?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’ve been listening to The Fall of Civilizations podcast (it’s really good, especially if you enjoy history). I just finished an ep yesterday on the Norse colonies on Greenland and it talked about the destructive farming that occurred before they were abandoned. This was ~13th-14th centuries when they went dark. It’s not an uncommon problem, though centuries of progress make it harder to excuse / understand in the 20th.

    Anyway, fascinating stuff. I wonder how we’ll be talked about in the next millennium (assuming a miracle and humanity lasts that long).

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm about 90% certain this is a satirical post.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    “I know absolutely dick about shit yet I still have an opinion.”

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    These people post things like that and look at it and go, yeah, I'm happy to put that out on the internet that's a coherent sentence, with correct punctuation and spelling.

    What is wrong with them?

    How do they ignore all the red squiggly lines?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Next to their real name and face as well.

    It's why I know the stats of 99% literacy rates are bullshit. I've been on Facebook. Half the people in my town seem to communicate online through the text equivalent of caveman grunts.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    So the definition of literacy that they use for those stats is a super low bar. Like the bar is lying on the ground. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy defines literacy as "the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential." That's not a high bar to clear and the literacy rate, in the US at least, is still only about 80%.

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    Carl Mark sounds like the CEO of a cereal company

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ah yes, that well-known communist Carl Mark.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Let's not confuse landlords and corporations. The former are people, the later are not. They're often horrible people, but they're still made of meat; corporations are made of ink, paper, and a stubborn refusal to accept reality.

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    I love it. The author, Terry Bisson, used to have it on his own website, but his website seems to be gone unfortunately.

    He died January 10th of this year. Too bad his website doesn't survive as a small bit of legacy.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I just got evicted after attempting to pay. Landlords are scum.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Ahh, so that's where the phrase "Mowed them down" came from.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I found a pic of Curl Mark, Mow, PoPo Pot

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Dumbasses. Carl Mark was the cartoonist. If she actually knew anything about socialism, she'd know how to spell Carl Barks.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Looks like InsanePeopleLemmy...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Critical support

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Too obvious imo

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