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I’m curious as to what’s next for conservatives who reject human cruelty and actually care about their fellow citizens, country, and human beings. I'm curious

• smt88 8y ago
  "In all of human history"? Are you sure? Ghenghis Khan and Alexander the Great likely killed more people than either Hitler or Stalin. And then there's the institution of slavery, which wasn't political until abolition efforts were underway. (Semi-related: hard to label abolitionists conservatives or rightists.) It also bears mentioning that Hitler was anti-immigrant and nativist, which are the forces that animate today's Western conservative backlashes (including Trumpism).
  • bryondowd 8y ago
    Have to remember the world population was much smaller. Maybe 150 million in Alexander's time and 400 million in Ghenghis Khan's. They'd have had to do a much more efficient butchery to reach the same raw numbers. That said, a little googling seems to indicate that the Mongols do, in fact, win that competition. They were pretty big on genocide.
• erikpukinskis 8y ago
  In America almost no leftists are communists. The moderate ones are some hybrid of capitalism and socialism and the radical ones are anarchists. I hate participating in these discussions though, because everyone’s characterizations of their opponent are so absurd, it’s like—where do I even start with you people? I’d tell you the same I’d tell crazy liberals... go talk to some actual people and find out what they really think rather than basing your opinion of half the population on some crazy person you saw on the internet once.