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I posted a First Thought video, over in the Ukraine thread maybe, because of the topics, noting that I find some of their conclusions a bit suspect. But this leftist news seems a bit better…
There seems a greater engagement with the global south for one, and a focus on positive leftist news from all over the world.
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100,000,000: Extermination of native Americans
(1492–1890)
15,000,000: Atlantic slave trade
(1500–1870)
150,000: French repression of Haiti slave revolt
(1792–1803)
300,000: French conquest of Algeria
(1830–1847)
50,000: Opium Wars
(1839–1842 & 1856–1860)
1,000,000: Irish Potato Famine
(1845–1849)
100,000: British supression of the Sepoy Mutiny
(1857–1858)
20,000: Paris Commune Massacre
(1871)
29,000,000: Famine in British Colonized India
(1876–1879 & 1897–1902)
3,445: Black people lynched in the US
(1882–1964)
10,000,000: Belgian Congo Atrocities
(1885–1908)
250,000: US conquest of the Philippines
(1898–1913)
28,000: British concentration camps in South Africa
(1899–1902)
800,000: French exploitation of Equitorial Africans
(1900–1940)
65,000: German genocide of the Herero and Namaqua
(1904–1907)
10,000,000: First World War
(1914–1918)
100,000: White army pogroms against Jews
(1917–1920)
600,000: Fascist Italian conquest in Africa
(1922–1943)
10,000,000: Japanese Imperialism in East Asia
(1931–1945)
200,000: White Terror in Spain
(1936–1945)
25,000,000: Nazi oppression in Europe
(1938–1945)
30,000: Kuomintang Massacre in Taiwan
(1947)
80,000: French suppression of Madagascar revolt
(1947)
30,000: Israeli colonization of Palatine
(1948-present)
100,000: South Korean Massacres
(1948–1950)
50,000: British suppression of the Mau-Mau revolt
(1952-1960)
16,000: Shah of Iran regime
(1953–1979)
1,000,000: Algerian war of independence
(1954–1962)
200,000: Juntas in Guatemala
(1954–1962)
50,000: Papa & Baby Doc regimes in Haiti
(1957–1971)
3,000,000: Vietnamese killed by US military
(1963–1975)
1,000,000: Indonesian mass killings
(1965–1966)
1,000,000: Biafran War
(1967–1970)
400: Tlatelolco massacre
(1968)
700,000: US bombing of Laos & Cambodia
(1967–1973)
50,000: Somoza regime in Nicaragua
(1972–1979)
3,200: Pinochet regime in Chile
(1973–1990)
1,500,000: Angola Civil War
(1974–1992)
200,000: East Timor massacre
(1975–1998)
1,000,000: Mozambique Civil War
(1975–1990)
30,000: US-backed state terrorism in Argentina
(1975–1990)
70,000: El Salvador military dictatorships
(1977–1991)
30,000: Contra proxy war in Nicaragua
(1979–1990)
16,000: Bhopal Carbide disaster
(1984)
3,000: US invasion of Panama
(1989)
1,000,000: US embargo on Iraq
(1991–2003)
400,000: Mujahideen faction conflict in Afghanistan
(1992–1996)
200,000: Destruction of Yugoslavia
(1992–1995)
6,000,000: Congolese Civil War
(1997–2008)
30,000: NATO occupation of Afghanistan
(2001-present)Capitalism has killed 222,500,000+ people.
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They forgot all the environmental disasters…
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That’s missing a lot of people like (1918): 7,000-10,000 White Army Terror in Finland. Second Iraq War, apartheid etc.
Oh and am I missing something or where are the East India Companies?
At least 3,000 to 4,000 executed, not including 228 incident (18,000 to 28,000 killed) or extrajudicial executions
Etc
The Black Book of Capitalism Vol. 1 A to B will be the biggest book you ever seen and you will need a microscope to read it.
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Yeah that list I posted was by no means the full accounting.
I too wondered WTF happened to any mention of the East India Company, one of the most rapacious, bloody-minded entities capitalism has ever created. Was that part of the 29M people who starved to death in that “Famine in British Colonized India” line? Not sure.
It did mention the genocide of the First Nations peoples but my inference was only counting the murders in North America if not just in the U.S. (that is, is that accounting inclusive of the genocide likewise in Canada, and Central and South America? no idea).
Greed kills.
It’s a defect of the human species.
It may be peculiar to our species.
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Or this
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Sure thing, he can now afford to go on vacation to the ocean and be waited on.
I can’t explain it, but that cartoon rubs me the wrong way. I wonder if it’s a Republican cartoonist, you know?
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Hmm. YMMV of course, but what about his leg?
My interpretation is that focusing on student loan relief focuses on just one financial problem that young people have. Another is not being able to afford health insurance. As a result, young folks often let health problems fester, which in most cases they would continue doing if their loans were forgiven (as satirically represented by the dude’s f’ed up leg).
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I can see that. I read it as a version of the ‘eating avocado toast means you’ll never afford a house’ nonsense. After all, this isn’t some small thing to ignore. The idea that someone would put bleeding out with an entirely severed lower leg lower on the priority list than student loans or going on vacation made it seem judgmental against the young man to me. “Even if we help you out in one area, you still don’t have the right priorities in life”, that sort of thing.
But now, I’m wondering about your version. It’s like we’re looking at that optical illusion with either a vase or two faces in profile. Now I’m flipping back and forth between the two possibilities!
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Yes, hearing your interpretation renders it ambiguous for me too.
I’m primed to appreciate critiques of neoliberal capitalism, but that might make me jump to conclusions sometimes. 
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