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> Eh, the right still has a lot of work to do if they want to catch up with the economic damage (and the sheer body count) perpetrated by leftists over the last century.

I'm curious to see this quantified. Mao was certainly terrible, but so was Hitler of course and so were the various famines imposed by British rule.

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The numbers are out there, but they won't have any impact on this conversation. They never do.

How could they if you don’t provide references to them?

It's well-accepted that Stalin's various purges and famines killed several times more civilians than Hitler managed to, for instance.

Here in the US, I'm personally more concerned about a replay of Pol Pot's regime. He took Hitler's warped notions of anti-intellectualism ("Jewish physics") to a whole new level ("Kill anybody wearing glasses.")

The fact that he did so under the standard of leftism doesn't really seem that meaningful or relevant, because if/when it happens here, it will evidently be perpetrated by the extreme right. A pox on both their houses.

> Stalin's various purges and famines killed several times more civilians than Hitler managed to, for instance.

Oh look one of you. Hitler didn't get the chance to execute Generalplan Ost.

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