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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mosquitoes, thanks to Malaria. Estimated kill count (according to a Nature article from 2002) 50-60 Billion people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More a person responsible kinda thing. I think Mao does top it but due to starvation thanks to his idiot policies that ruined crops

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow. You're really gonna just blame a whole race over a few billion deaths?

/s please don't hang me in these streets

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trofim Lysenko Estimated body count 70 million

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The vast majority of deaths under communism have been because of famine...

...which may well be true for Capitalism as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True but i dont know of one guy who did 70 mil worth under capitalism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the joke but I still expected some tankies to show up. But then again, OP is on lemmy.world which is defederated with the tankie instances so that's why

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because of the tankies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

While it has proven difficult to accurately estimate the pre-colonial population and the amount by which it changed under the Congo Free State, estimates for the Congolese population decline during Leopold's rule range from 1 million to 15 million.

That's a lot, but not even close to Mao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Noobish kdr. Max 10 millions deaths, somewhere between a French general during WWI (not counting German casualties) and minor paranoid dictators. Too much time larping as a psychopathic torturer, not enough time getting the job done. Mao killed several million people on a good mood, that's professionalism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't it a strange question to ask if you don't want an offensive answer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is that answer offensive??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk I thought the lady was angry because she finds it offensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

She thought the cat just meowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

She wasn't offended by the answer. She thought the cat couldn't talk and was just saying 'meow'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ive never heard of anyone with that name

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be fair, many of those deaths were landlords, who dont count as humans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's pretty fucked in the head, fam, even if these lists love blaming single communists but it when it comes time to talk about the death tolls of WW1 and 2 it's always a shared responsibility and contextual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

⬆️ your brain on dialectics

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black book of communism nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't really think Mao's atrocities are disputed tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see why you're so flustered, it wasn't real communism...