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Give it up for 200,000,000!

Seriously where do they get these numbers, I'd think it was satire if it wasn't from world

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

What the fuck is this disgusting tankie denialism, commies killed 300,000,000 and I will not stand for this historical revisionism. Those 400,000,000 people will not be erased.

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seriously where do they get these numbers

The Black Book of Communism, which seriously includes stuff like abortions in communist countries or Wehrmacht soldiers who got killed while attacking the USSR or potential descendants of victims of communism, which has even been called out by co-authors for this obvious bs, and is still thrown around as if it was fact.

BTW, the most careful estimate for victims of the British empire alone is 150 million and that's the most lowballed count anybody has ever done.

[–] redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Well, that's not REAL capitalism.

[–] agentant@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Comments section is hell

The turtle going to the turtle factory to get turtle wage exploited by his turtle boss because animals like to claim certain areas and fight off others in it.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago

isn't shitting on your own legs to cool yourself off present in many species? smuglord

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That looks like a ritual to summon cowbee

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

It's way too common...

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] agentant@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We share the Memes of Argument-tion, comrade chavez-salute

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to have 8 billion children but because of capitalism I changed my mind checkmate libs

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

for real i'm sure some of these made up numbers include children that would have been born if it wasn't for women in socialist countries having better reproductive rights

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It keeps going up because they count all the "unborn children" that would have descended from the Nazis killed by communism (and then their children, grandchildren, etc.). The further away we get from the actual deaths, the more quickly the number will go up, because it's counting larger and larger counterfactual future generations.

[–] g_mer@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

What’s worse is this sounds like a joke. There’s no way to refute it without sounding like a complete goober.

[–] agentant@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

I too, would be posing like that infront of a mass grave of 200,000,000 nazis

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 28 points 2 weeks ago

clearly wasn't enough if these dipshits are still around

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I get that it's just a dumb talking point with no substance to begin with, but this whole idea of attributing a body count to an ideology falls apart when you think about it for more than about eight seconds. if you want to attribute them to a person (say, reagan) or policies (say, one child) those are at least more or less things you can cite ranges for based on policies enacted.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

8 Billion victims of communism. Hell is full and the dead are walking the earth

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

🎵Five hundred seventy-five billion victims of communism🎵

🎵That's how many people we killed in a year!🎵

[–] Ildsaye@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The miscount is because after taking the Juche specialty we have Advanced Necromancy and can raise double skeletons from each victim

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Right, obviously. Why didn't I think of that?

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

i feel like at this point they count every death of any person whose life any government institution was even slightly involved in, like a 95 year old amerikkkan dying of being too dang old, but they were on medicare (evil communist death panels) and social security (welfare handout that incentivizes dependency on the state) therefore communism did it since socialism-is-when

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Who would win:

  • a team of dedicated researchers with advanced degrees and tons of NGO money dedicating years of effort to find increasingly detached, absurd ways of adding new "death" tallies.
  • dipshit twitter conservatives playing telephone with themselves.

I can't tell if the Black Book authors would be incredibly proud of their effectiveness or incredibly embarrassed of their lack of effectiveness relative to the rubes.