bearboiblakeMar 15

fighting evil by moonlight

https://pawb.social/post/41197983

Show threadrealitistaMar 15
The problem is that violent revolutions rarely produce anything other than more and worse chaos, and are usually settled by the biggest despot in the room who is often worse than the guy being deposed. The vast majority of actual social progress made in history was due to peaceful, not violent revolution.
Show threadOBJECTION!Mar 16
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Yet 20 million Chinese had to die to achieve that life expectancy.
Mar 16 at 9:28pmWeb
Show threadOBJECTION!Mar 16

Are you blaming the deaths from Imperial Japan’s invasion and genocide on China?

Or are you referring to the failure of the Great Leap Forward? You can see the latter on the graph, it’s the one time the growth in life expectancy briefly paused before continuing its overwhelmingly upward trend