Life expectancy tanked from 40s to the 30s under Mao in 1960 because of the famine. It went back up because Mao took a step back from governing and moderates introduced economic reforms to save the economy that Mao hated by the way and life expectancy shot up.

If I kick someone in the teeth then a dentist gives them implants, they technically have a better smile because of me. Are they gonna give me credit for it? Doubtful. Likewise, don’t give Mao credit for someone else fixing a mess he created.

I think it’s better to make fun of people for their stupid beliefs. When they realize nobody takes them seriously, they may reevaluate their positions. Did this happen a lot to you and your friend?

I hate bugs but it makes me sad for the critters that eat bugs because they’re generally awesome and cute.

So if you’re anti nazi, would you engage once in a debate on whether the jews really destroyed the German economy and Hitler was protecting his people, or would you tell them to fuck off?

This only works when they engage in good faith. So no, you don’t want more tankies and conservatives, because most of them are incapable of that. Their worldview requires that they do not.

Sounds like an edgy centrist. So either indecisive or a conservative pretending to not be political.

Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there’s your pathways.

Mao played a personal role in organising the mass repressions and established a system of execution quotas,[175] which were often exceeded.[165] He defended these killings as necessary for the securing of power.[176]

You ever love a group of people so much you personally set an execution quota on them?

Fwiw this would happen to me with 2 windows machines and a KVM switch if I left the monitor connected to the primary machine for too long. Switching back to machine 2 gave no signal. Also same thing with a Linux nuc. It may just be how the output swap is handled on the switch, the monitor might not see it happen.

Well if the George floyd protests are any indication, I didn’t see no less lethal on the guard.

At the same time, nobody fucked with them from what I saw, so that’s good I guess.

For every “legal” porn site that abides by these laws there’s 10 that don’t give a fuck and aren’t even in the US. Porn id laws won’t change anything.

I’m sorry you live in Baltimore, for what it’s worth.

Responsible for estimated 40 million deaths on the low end.

“Oopsie, my b.”

All is forgiven.

A bigger deal at least. Cops shoot people every day but the military hasn’t gunned down protesters since the 60s.

He’s gonna be the secdef so this means US soldiers shooting protesters. I’m pretty sure most aren’t gonna be into it but you probably won’t have to look far too find someone who would.

Not to mention factory farmed in artificial orchards, not freely growing in the wild. Absolutely disgusting. Did you know they don’t even pick fruits? They have a big machine that shakes the fuck out of the poor tree until everything falls off.

So you would applaud someone for eating less meat? Or maybe a veggie burger with cheese?

Interesting, you talk in this thread about an information bias yet you don’t know about all the republican lawmakers that had millions in ppp loans forgiven?

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2022/09/06/fact-check-ppp-loans-forgiven-republicans-matt-gaetz-marjorie-taylor-greene/65470173007/

Lpt: follow vans that follow Amazon vans and beat the shit out of the porch pirate.

No it’s just a funny situation to imagine.