“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."

  • Tolc@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    it’s just that they have to stay loyal to the party Based

    Mao didnt ran any genocide, some of his actions were stupid but he didnt do it intentionally. Mao is easily top 5 humans of 20th century

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      An original estimate of the final death toll ranged from 15 to 40 million. According to Frank Dikötter, a chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Mao’s Great Famine, a book which details the Great Leap Forward and the consequences of the strong armed implementation of the economic reform, the total number of people who were killed in the famine which lasted from 1958 to 1962 ran upwards of 45 million. Of those who were killed in the famine, 6–8% of them were often tortured first and then prematurely killed by the government, 2% of them committed suicide and 5% of them died in Mao’s labor camps which were built to hold those who were labelled “enemies of the people”

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        Red scare propaganda, China’s population doubled under Mao

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      4 days ago

      Well I mean there’s millions that were killed deliberately and then tens of millions via stupid policies. “Oops I didn’t know people would starve” doesn’t really absolve you of mass murder.

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        Not like he was the sole decision making figure but ok, “killed deliberately” ones mostly deserved it