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Man hearing Obama stump this week...I really miss when the democrats had a strong clear leader like that. Its like when your teams hall of fame QB retires.
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Steel output definitely grew when he forced every farmer to melt down their equipment and give it to the state. Not great for food output though.
Under “dictator” Mao, life expectancy in China increased by 30 years, literacy rates went from 20% to 70%, steel output grew from 1 million to 23 million tons, 47 million hectares of land was taken from landlords and given to peasants, and China was unified under a strong central state and got nuclear weapons.
Despite his failures, it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why Mao is revered in China.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mao's Great Leap Forward and related policies caused an estimated 30-45 million famine deaths in 1959-1961 alone, with total excess deaths under his rule often estimated at 40 million or higher.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chi…
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…
chinafile.com/library/nyrb-c…
If you are arguing with bots online if Paul Atreides is "good" or "bad", maybe Dune isn't for you man.
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The Soviet Union once single handedly drove several whale species to the brink of extinction because murdering them pointlessly was the best way to fulfil the fishing quotas set by communist bureaucrats in metric tonnes.
"Trunk or Treating" is anti-american.
Send your kids lose around the neighborhood to pilfer candy as The Great Pumpkin intended.
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I'm very very sad tonight. I just learned that Stephen Biesty passed away in 2024 at 63... He is one of my favorite artist. Rest in peace.
That is not how this place was reserved to treated. It was a place where history was taught.
They gave tours and showed people the harrowing hubris and evil of the Nazi party.
The destruction of this evil place doesn't destroy evil, it destroys a lesson against evil.
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New episode of the Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast!
Me and Miles discuss the Holy Grail, the Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky, and Sasquatch Sounds! Catch us on Spodify, Youtube, and other platforms (Links below)...
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This #LochNessMonster photo is doing the rounds on social media, accompanied by a fake story about it being real, and new, and attached to a specific eyewitness event. I see people on Facebook groups thinking that the photo is the 'real deal', sigh. However... 1/n
