• drag_net@lemmy.ml
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      24 days ago

      And are people being exposed to lead because they’re huffing it for fun or because they work within a capitalist system that doesn’t care enough about exposing people to lead?

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      25 days ago

      Yeah it’s literally killing people right now.

      Can’t pay for shelter, food, water or medicine? Go into debt, jail or the morgue, we don’t give a fuck.

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        25 days ago

        i did some calculations a few years back with some friends on a whim during a sidetracked DnD campaign. we came to the conclusion that capitalism is directly and indirectly responsible for over 20+ million recorded deaths annually all over the world, as a conservative estimate

        main contributers were poverty, disease, war, lack of quality healthcare, and state violence.

        we also found that the existence of 1 billionaire has an annual death count, purely by subtracting that money from the economic cycle and direct aid. i cant remember now, but it was in the thousands of deaths per billion denied to those in need by hoarding wealth.

        billionaires are violent, purely through their existence. and we shouldnt tolerate any form of violence against us.

        we should sincerely be dragging these fuckers into the street and ripping them to pieces.

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    24 days ago

    Capitalism continues to kill vastly more people than the inflated claims about communism. Every year 10 million people die from starvation and preventable disease simply because it isn’t profitable to save them. That means that every 10 years capitalism kills as many as claimed in the Black Book of Communism, the source with the highest number of fatalities attributed to communism.

    US sanctions alone have killed 38 million people in the last 50 years.

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      24 days ago

      I should add that the Black Book includes ridiculous things like Nazi soldier deaths in WW2, and the hypothetical children that possibly could have been born if things like the 1933 famine or WW2 didn’t happen. I shouldn’t have even called it a source, but anti-communists love treating it like gospel.