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  • UrbonMaximus@feddit.uktoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOof
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    4 months ago

    Where are you getting your numbers from? Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million. The numbers vary, but so far about 100,000 Ukrainian soldier and civilians died. This is a tragedy indeed. But please fact check next time.


  • Liberalism is a moral philosophy based on individual rights, liberty and equality - this is universally agreed apon terminology almost everywhere apart from here on Lemmy. Here for some reason people keep referring to classical capitalism as liberals like it’s a historical discussion about the economic system of the 16th-18th centuries. We should really be using neoliberalism or libertarianism instead now days, because those are new words that evolved specifically to reduce confusion and refer to similar economic ideas but in modern context.






  • And every one forgave him, and even voted him into power.

    All because South African Apartheid was fundamentally evil.

    People forgave him because he actually changed his tactics, asked forgiveness and sued for peace instead of revenge.

    “People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones, such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety,” Mandela once said, according to a quote at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. “You learn to look into yourself.”

    What’s going on in the middle east is horrible. But, let’s not change history to fit your narrative.