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I mean if you're going to do a proper analysis of someone's contribution to human misery you're going to probably need to start counting how many dead children
by CPLX 5y ago
I mean if you're going to do a proper analysis of someone's contribution to human misery you're going to probably need to start counting how many dead children each of the contestants has been responsible for and the number for Larry Summers is definitely not zero.
- quicklycreated 5y ago
- CPLX 5y agoYeah and how did the current greedy/evil bastard get in power? I have no great love for Russia and don't believe at all in the idea that the U.S. or the west in general is the source of all the misery in the world. I think it's pretty clear there are some malignant actors in the world and China and Russia are foremost among them. But you might want to look into American post-Soviet collapse policy before you get too far over your skis.
- eli_gottlieb 5y ago>the country whose history they've fetishized their entire lives is irredeemably evil. Dude I hate Russia, but it's not irredeemably evil. That's some cultural essentialist bullshit right there.
- quicklycreated 5y ago[flagged]
- johnny22 5y agomaybe i missed it, but a lot of folks are likely to care about intent. Even if larry summers is responsible, did he mean to? I think you'll have trouble pressing your argument even if it is true, even if the amount of dead is 10x that just because of intent.