Remember, in the 20th century:
- One man’s individual drive and industry saved about a billion people*;
- The impersonal forces of market-based capitalism redeemed about one billion people;
- And international Communism? …Well, at least we kept them from killing more than one hundred million people.
Sorry to repeat the point, but it never hurts to remind folks that there was a right side, and a wrong side, and the Commies were on the wrong side.
Moe Lane
*Please note, by the way, that Norman Borlaug quite rightly felt that GMO opponents were, well, idiots with no historical awareness. This is largely because Norman Borlaug was a product of his time and culture, which was largely intolerant towards idiots with no historical awareness.
This PSA Announcement Was Broungt To You In-Part By: “If You Don’t Learn From History, You Are Doom To Repeat It.”
You are doomed, or you are damned?
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Works either way, eh?
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Mew
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p.s. cat notes that the communists today who admit to the abuses of Stalin and others hand-wave them away by saying “but that wasn’t *communism*…”
“cat notes that the communists today who admit to the abuses of Stalin and others hand-wave them away by saying “but that wasn’t *communism*…””
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I’d stipulate that they think it’s communism, but that it just hadn’t been tried hard enough…
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…kinda like quantitative easing…
Let’s not forget Rachel Carson and the absolute ban on DDT has doomed tens of millions to death from malaria and hundreds of millions to a diminished lives because of the disease.
How far back do you figure the DDT ban has set Africa, as a continent?
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Mew
Impossible to answer but probably almost as much as socialism and radical Islam.