Messaging between the Houses

[robayon]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You're a huge nerd that needs several swirlies but we're online so I did it anyway.

You realize you just called someone a nerd on an Everquest forum?

Anyways, you really ought to keep reading, or chicken out like Jibartik and Ooloo did, suit yourself.

"All the wars that can be even remotely attributed to nominally socialist states (“communism”) or communist insurgents (Table 3) amount to about six million deaths (or 7.4 million, if one prefers looser estimates). This includes the estimated three million victims of the US- and PRC-supported Khmer Rouge carnage of 1975–1979, which was ended by the intervention of a most inconveniently Communist Party-led Vietnamese government. In other words, using conservative estimates, from 1945 until the “demise of communism” capitalist warfare, mostly in its liberal democratic garb (if one includes proxy warfare, as one must), killed at least three times as much as warfare from “totalitarian communism.” Moreover, liberal democratic governments alone murdered at least twice as much as “communist” governments during this same period."

"As stated above, there are many ways to undermine anti-communism. For one, attributing mass death to a set of principles or ideas (communism) is a form of fetishism that would exonerate those who perpetrated the horrors. After all, people from NATO countries have bombed others to death in the name of human rights not very long ago, as in Iraq and Yugoslavia. Calling the ideology of human rights responsible for those acts of mass murder seems rather inappropriate if one is interested in bringing murderers to account for the harm they have done."