• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      Bit of a non-sequitor, I could bring up Kent State and use that to say the US isn’t a democracy. The US has a far worse track record than the Soviets.

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        Soviets have civil war with 6 million losses in their track record lol. I’d like to see what USA has to compete with that.

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          14 hours ago

          Numerous mass killings and/or genocides in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guatemala, East Timor, Cambodia, and much, much more.

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            14 hours ago

            I thought we were talking about US/USSR killing their own civilians…

            And wtf with Cambodia? It was communists who killed 3 million ppl there

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              Can’t really call a civil war against Tsarists and fascists “killing their own civilians.” Moreover, the US bombed Cambodia more than any other country on the planet. Pol Pot wasn’t a Communist, but he was stopped by the Vietnamese Communists.