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@cmuratori "OK, great. You don't care how long it takes. People who don't care how long it takes are also the reason why I have to wait 30 seconds for Word to boot." - Mike Acton
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@KurtSchlichter She has maybe 5 years to fix her mistake. A competent female PE is pretty attractive to corporate heads and it sounds like the golden handcuffs are already secured.

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@japan_nobunaga The lonely warrior stands up against the hoard and, only after the decision is made, looks to the left and right and sees the army arrayed against those who betray our freedom

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@compliantvc A lot of restraint not to bless themselves with 38%..

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@AnnCoulter I'm thinking she is biased against people who ask her pointed questions she doesn't want to answer...

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@DanBurmawy We definitely need an accurate Muhammad movie. Maybe once Mel is done with "The Resurrection"

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@Oklahoma_Brave It is not racist to suggest that people who fly airplanes into buildings, and their religion, does not belong here.

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@DanFriedman81 I hear they are delicious.

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@VerminusM @MercifulMessage @nikitabier If the truth were important, he wouldn't be a muslim.

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@ConceptualJames gross negligence does elevate the crime, but what puts it into perspective, for me, is that scene from The Man in the High Castle where the mother and her 2 kids are gassed as a clerical checkmark.

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@calvinrobinson The pursuit of happiness over righteousness will lead to neither

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@lsanger @drewdyck The choir is going to be lit and I'm looking forward to it

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@davepl1968 @sarobertson_ I like Alberta and other freedom loving people. Maybe the problem with Canada is that all the good people have left.

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@ThePrimeagen Sadly, that's probably 95% of all the men. Porn is poison.

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@charlesmurray "Son, you should clean your room"
"Dad, you should clean your workbench"

To be fair, he's got a good point...

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@ConceptualJames So moron is high praise for leftist idiots...

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@GRMead3 Yet, in verse 15, for the person who doesn't work - "Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." Per Romans 5:10, we are considered enemies until we are reconciled. So not working should be corrected but is not to be considered as unreconciled.

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@ConceptualJames justice for Palestine

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@japan_nobunaga Telling your parents they did a good job is a sign of maturity and an opportunity many miss.

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I really spend a lot of time mulling exactly this issue over, and I think it's just not worthwhile to compare relative evils once you pass a certain absolute evil threshold.

That said, Hitler murdered probably somewhere around 10-15M people, 6M of them innocent Jews for no reason other than that they were Jews, and he intended to murder them all, along with anyone who aided and abetted them. He killed some rivals and dissidents, a fair number of Communists, some ethnic minorities, rather a lot of Poles, Slavs, and Russians, inter alia, and some physically and mentally disabled undesirables. The intentionality in his cold-blooded murder of Jews for being Jews is pretty unique, and the fact that it was at the very center of his ideological program for his people is as well. War deaths by the Wehrmacht don't count.

Mao probably was directly responsible for about 3M murders, mostly of political rivals and victims of his purges (many whom were innocents being made examples of or even just chosen at random to fill death quotas), but the vast majority of the people who died under Mao were not murdered directly. Most starved or froze, or suffered other deaths of neglect or despair (a LOT of suicides). The thing is, the people who died "accidentally" under Mao died because of absolutely gross mismanagement that is more or less 100% Mao's fault. They're like second-degree murders or something, but not first-degree. The number is not known, but estimates range from between 30 or 40M to 100 or even 150M. Most people agree that it's between 50 and 100M.

Maybe as many as 40M (or more!) died in a single relatively brief episode called the Great Leap Forward and subsequent Great Famine, which is undeniably the greatest man-made, avoidable catastrophe in the history of humanity, by a lot. Mao shoulders effectively all the meaningful blame for that, but it is a fair statement that he wasn't TRYING to kill those people. I doubt he was all that sorry that they died either, but he also couldn't be said not to care (in the abstract sense) if those people died or not either, in all likelihood. It was staggering, and culpable, mismanagement.

Stalin, for his part, probably murdered more than Mao and Hitler, maybe more than the two combined. There were lots of not-murder deaths in the Soviet Union too, at least a few and maybe many times the murders. Mao was relatively famous among Communist dictators for NOT murdering people, so the rest are comparatively worse, often by loads.

By proportions, Pol Pot probably takes the cake, and he was Communist, not Nazi, though after his own fashion. He murdered, as in murdered, something like 3M Cambodians, prisoners and enemies notwithstanding. That's the same absolute number as Mao, but the population of the PRC under Mao was something in the neighborhood (conservatively) of 600M, so Mao's murders represent like 0.5% of the population (or less). The population of Cambodia was 12M. That means that Pol Pot murdered 25% of his own people. That's pretty incomparable in terms of human evils, and it's all Communist.

Hitler usually gets (fairly, tbh) singled out not because he targeted Jews qua being Jews but because he targeted a small minority population (in diaspora) for complete elimination from the world and did so completely ideologically consistently with his program and with deliberate action and industrial mechanical efficiency. Nothing like that has ever happened either, not even under Pol Pot. Pol Pot was, in some sense, eliminating everyone who might have any possible chance of deposing him (also partially true of Mao), but Hitler wasn't. Hitler was on a driven mission to drive an entire (at the time, rather unpopular and almost powerless) race out of existence for no crime and because of no realistic threat whatsoever in the name of a transparently batshit insane ideology.

Like I said, after some point, it's just absolutely pointless to go into relative comparisons of extraordinary evil. It's like comparing Dungeons and Dragons stats or something. It just misses the whole point completely. That said, Hitler represents one kind of unique Great Evil, Stalin and Pol Pot another, and Mao a third.

Interestingly, a few details one way or the other, and they're all almost the same program. In theory, Communism would eradicate and liquidate the entire upper class, and if it represented a huge portion of the population, that wouldn't hinder them. Nazism's race ideology is pretty fucked on its face, though, in a really unique way.

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@japan_nobunaga Chiz stake wit chz and some witter, plz