Bird people are weird. My girlfriend would probably get into a windowless van if she heard owl sounds coming from it.

They’re being generous to the elderly and disabled people who can’t work by only making them work half time.

Irrefutable proof that the nukes caused hentai.

same reason you can’t just vote yourself out of a regulatorily captured duopoly

I’m glad you finally came around on the initial point. Now Google harm reduction. We do what we can with what we have.

The Native American genocide alone puts us in a respectable lead for deadliest regime in history

You’re right. I was talking about the infographic of deaths in post 9/11 wars from a few days ago but I wasn’t specific.

you don’t give a shit how many people the US empire kills as long as you and yours stay comfortable.

As established, genocide wasn’t even on the ballot. Not having a choice in a shit election is not “voting for genocide” and certainly not the same level as “well Mao made some bad decisions but great leap!!!” That’s equivalent to me saying the genocide of native Americans was justified by how big and powerful America became. No, the ends don’t justify the means. That’s the difference between leftists and tankies.

The obvious answer is violence

Tankies suggesting a revolution while not doing a revolution and shaming people for also not doing a revolution. Name a more iconic trio.

Mao made some terrible decisions

Drinking too much is a bad decision. Millions dead in forced labor camps is a little bit worse than that.

but definitionally not a genocide

Yeah, you’re right. So we can hand wave mass murder as long as it doesn’t target a particular ethnic group? Because tankies love to complain about America’s death toll even though it’s (while still awful) an order of magnitude lower than Mao’s.

Outline the process by which we got anything other than kamala or Trump.

subhuman

Ooh, spicy. Why don’t you just do what you do for any genocide done by red fash and pretend it either didn’t happen or was a good thing? Just pretend Mao came back and that’s why millions have to starve and it becomes OK, because you can’t help but automatically lick authoritarian boots.

Well, even though there’s been a million casualties, they’ve been making the best of it by putting all the wounded in one battalion and sending them to the front on crutches, thereby wasting double the Ukrainian ammo! It’s brilliant. Soon the Ukrainian death bots will hit their pre-programmed kill limit and shut down and Russia will be victorious.

Doing some good things while upholding the status quo

Literal fascism

You: They’re the same picture

Average ml take.

zionist

delusional

Correct.

I guarantee you can find droves of zionists that say “free Palestine” implies the destruction of Israel and is therefore antisemitic.

Look up harm reduction.

Certainly is, thank you.

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/9lb529/south-park-nice

Obviously not. You order it to go, sit there awkwardly while the client eats, then bring the box of cold food to the manager who the gives it to the owner eventually.

The companies are subsidiaries of the same parent corporation. They can control the amount of orphans in circulation at will. Congress said “definitely not a monopoly” so it’s all good though.

Would love to see it if you have a link.

“I’ll socially construct the back of my hand upside your head you little shit.”

I feel wise beyond my years. I stopped giving a fuck ages ago.

Yeah people agree the famine in China was bad too.

Say that on the triad I fucking dare you.

There hasn’t been a famine since then.

Under a system with significant capitalist elements, you western dog. How many billionaires are there in China?

15-30 million

Hell yeah Mao stays winning.

I don’t hear that talked about as a reason why capitalism is terrible much.

Probably because the overwhelming majority of people agree it was bad, especially here on lemmy. Find me 5 people that say the potato famine was good, actually, and I’ll find you 3 entire instances that’ll ban me for saying “maybe killing 15-30 million people for societal progress isn’t the best strategy.”

Tankies get more pushback here because nobody is singing the praises of capitalism.