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[โ€“] voidMainVoid 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The implication in the question is, of course, that capitalism never killed anyone

LOL. That isn't what I was implying at all. I'm just saying that if you're going to trot out "Communism killed X number of people", then you should hold capitalism to the same standard. I've seen estimates that capitalism has killed orders of magnitude more people than communism.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ah, we've had a misunderstanding, my dude. Nevermind me