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I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it.
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Yeah, Adolf really doesn't bring anyone notable to mind.
Trump may be a very poor candidate, but he didn't kill 13 million people.
1: Yet.
2: That isn't even the sum of the Holocaust, much less combat casualties from the USSR alone which are absolutely on his head.
Edit: Tbf, the Holocaust numbers only beat that if you include Soviet POWs being genocided in the prison camps, so that is kind of double dipping.
Let him have another term and we'll see how he measure up. And he's up to a few 100k so far in my books.
Yeah, he only killed about 1.4 million.
Actually curious, what is that figure?
Number of excess deaths from COVID.
What counts as excess?
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
That's pretty horrific. I have an American friend explaining to me as well how he could be plotting a fascist takeover
Dammit, Donnie! These are rookie numbers! You gotta get those numbers up!
Not yet. He's certainly working on it.
Estimates are between 50 and a 100 million people.For example USSR is said to lose around 18 million people in that war.