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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by aqme28 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:22PM (#43311327)
> Eh, the right still has a lot of work to do if they want to catch up with the economic damage (and the sheer body count) perpetrated by leftists over the last century.

I'm curious to see this quantified. Mao was certainly terrible, but so was Hitler of course and so were the various famines imposed by British rule.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @02:45PM (#43312294)
The numbers are out there, but they won't have any impact on this conversation. They never do.
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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by apstls on Sunday March 09, 2025 @03:23PM (#43312708)
How could they if you don’t provide references to them?
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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @04:08PM (#43313188)
It's well-accepted that Stalin's various purges and famines killed several times more civilians than Hitler managed to, for instance.

Here in the US, I'm personally more concerned about a replay of Pol Pot's regime. He took Hitler's warped notions of anti-intellectualism ("Jewish physics") to a whole new level ("Kill anybody wearing glasses.")

The fact that he did so under the standard of leftism doesn't really seem that meaningful or relevant, because if/when it happens here, it will evidently be perpetrated by the extreme right. A pox on both their houses.

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Re:US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s by Gibbon1 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @04:12PM (#43313236)
> Stalin's various purges and famines killed several times more civilians than Hitler managed to, for instance.

Oh look one of you. Hitler didn't get the chance to execute Generalplan Ost.

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