The reality is that China was completely devastated after the war, and rebuilding was not an easy process.

Yeah, not buying that argument at all. Practically every country was devastated after the war, China’s hardly unique in that regard. Why would it take fifteen full years for China’s postwar woes to culminate in an acute famine? Makes no logical sense, and stinks of excuse-making.

The paper I linked shows that the policies proved to be correct on the whole, and life expectancy increased dramatically as a result.

Mao wanted to reform China, and tens of million of deaths was the price he was willing to pay. It’s a lot easier to make great strides when you don’t give a fuck about your own people. I’ll reserve my admiration for leaders who manage the feat without inflicting untold human misery on the their own citizens.

The graphs in the paper you linked show a big spike in mortality around 1960. The Great Chinese Famine was 1959 to 1961. How does Mao get credit for lower mortality in 1962 onward, but not receive blame for the famine years?

I paid my student debt, these kids don’t deserve any handouts!

Boomers who paid tuition and living costs that were a manageable fraction of their part time student job that doesn’t even fucking exist anymore.

No one knows what story she’s denying, or what images she’s claiming are fake. The most likely possibility is that someone is preparing to release a story on the links between her and Epstein. It’s standard practice in journalism to contact the subject of a piece, inform them of the contents of that piece, and offer them an opportunity to comment. A request for comment on an upcoming story seems a likely trigger for this reaction. The entire speech strikes me as a thinly veiled threat, essentially saying “If you publish your story I will sue you for defamation.”

Came into the thread to recommend Abercrombie, glad to see it’s already covered!

Seems like Betteridge’s Law applies to this book’s title.

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No traffic limit. No time limit.

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