• fallowseed@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      if it is fascism that drags 700 million out of poverty in 40 years and lets kids go to college for a several hundred dollars a year, maybe we’ve been too hard on fascism.

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        7 days ago

        We talkin about the Great Leap Forward which resulted in millions dead from famine and tons of culture and heritage destroyed?

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          7 days ago

          you are, apparently - in your very nicely framed and totally fair-minded way that doesn’t acknowledge your own country’s crushing oppression and uncounted lives destroyed to maintain its hegemony