• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Did you know that despite only having 4.5% of the world’s population, the USSR held 25% of the world’s prison population? Oh wait, no. Those statistics are for the USA right now.

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      13 hours ago

      As much as a I despise the penal system of USA, USA has not killed 60 million of its own inhabitants.

      You are comparing grapes to grapefruits.

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        11 hours ago

        The global capitalist system kills 9 million people every year from starvation alone. Millions more from preventable disease. Capitalism is responsible for orders of magnitude more deaths than every socialist country combined.

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          11 hours ago

          Which is of course because there are so much fewer socialist countries than capitalist countries.