Every intellectual who invents excuses for mass murder eventually learns the commie regime has no permanent use for useful idiots.
Take Malcolm Caldwell, who spent the 1970s as a University of London Marxist dismissing every report of Khmer Rouge mass murder as Western propaganda and calling their peasant revolution “valid and valuable.”
In December 1978, the regime invited him in as one of the few Westerners allowed since they took power. He left the meeting with Pol Pot euphoric. Hours later, he was shot inside the Phnom Penh guesthouse.
They never said why.
Emad Mostaque @EMostaque came on PostAGI and said AI had already found 121 years of missing algebra in Einstein's equations.
A billion parameter model trained on nothing past 1911 got to general relativity by itself.
Yesterday @OpenAI's Astra solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, most stuck for decades, on about $2,000 of compute.
The machines are doing math humans couldn't.
In stark contrast to what Deng did in China, up to a million North Koreans starved to death in the 1990s because their government had already banned private farming and lived off Soviet handouts.
The Soviet collapse in 1991 cut the free fuel and fertilizer that had kept the whole system afloat for decades, and energy imports dropped 75% almost overnight.
North Korea had fully collectivized its farms since the 1950s, so farmers held almost no private plots and had zero reason to grow more than the state’s quota.
When the free inputs vanished the system had no slack left. Floods in 1995 finished off what crops remained, and the Public Distribution System that nearly the entire population relied on for food simply collapsed in large parts of the country.
City rations fell from 585 grams of grain a day in 1987 to 30 grams by 1997.
The regime called it the “Arduous March”.
And even after Kim Il Sung died the year the famine began, his son kept the exact same centrally planned system running for the next 17 years while hundreds of thousands starved.
And that is the body count of full collectivization under communism.
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SpaceX just completed its 90th Falcon-family launch of 2026
Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg carrying 24 Starlink satellites, successfully deploying all of them into low Earth orbit
Booster B1081 completed its 26th mission and landed on Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific
That is 89 Falcon 9 launches and one Falcon Heavy mission in just seven months