Loosening one's grip on the victim's neck isn't the same as performing the Heimlich maneuver. "The CCP lifted a billion people out of poverty" Basically any p

Loosening one's grip on the victim's neck isn't the same as performing the Heimlich maneuver. "The CCP lifted a billion people out of poverty" Basically any policy was better than Mao's economic development plans. The deception is in how the argument is framed. There is also the question of the unseen. Misallocating resources by over investing in infrastructure isn't easy to see. A high speed railroad is easily observable. Harder to see the lost opportunities for innovation or other economic activity because central planners chose to build out tofu-tower real estate bubbles. Breaking a shop window employes the glazier, but what would the shop owner have done with his money otherwise? Invested in inventory? Developed a new innovative product?