Probably the most true post in this entire community.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    455·
    5 months ago

    Trofim Lysenko killed the most people under Communism, through famine. Most of the deaths under communism have been due to famines and misconceptions about farming.

    …and more were killed by Capitalism in the Belgian Congo and by The British East India company alone. Both of which were run as Capitalist ventures.

    • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      501·
      5 months ago

      “Misconceptions about farming” isn’t really accurate though. The farmers knew how to make food, but in both Russia and China, at least, the central government decided bullshit was as good as science and fucked around with a working system.

      That being said, America also fucked up their soil so bad that they created a dustbowl with a non-zero deathtoll, and modern western farming practices are also fucking up the climate via algae blooms, pollinator killing pesticides and just straight up spewing diesel exhaust.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        4·
        5 months ago

        I’ve been listening to The Fall of Civilizations podcast (it’s really good, especially if you enjoy history). I just finished an ep yesterday on the Norse colonies on Greenland and it talked about the destructive farming that occurred before they were abandoned. This was ~13th-14th centuries when they went dark. It’s not an uncommon problem, though centuries of progress make it harder to excuse / understand in the 20th.

        Anyway, fascinating stuff. I wonder how we’ll be talked about in the next millennium (assuming a miracle and humanity lasts that long).

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      5·
      5 months ago

      I’d say 100% because while funny, the insane person not even knowing how to write the names but has learned enough to know about the landlord thing? Nah

  • Echo Dot
    311·
    5 months ago

    These people post things like that and look at it and go, yeah, I’m happy to put that out on the internet that’s a coherent sentence, with correct punctuation and spelling.

    What is wrong with them?

    How do they ignore all the red squiggly lines?

    • BlackmistEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      Next to their real name and face as well.

      It’s why I know the stats of 99% literacy rates are bullshit. I’ve been on Facebook. Half the people in my town seem to communicate online through the text equivalent of caveman grunts.

      • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 months ago

        So the definition of literacy that they use for those stats is a super low bar. Like the bar is lying on the ground. The National Assessment of Adult Literacy defines literacy as “the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.” That’s not a high bar to clear and the literacy rate, in the US at least, is still only about 80%.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 months ago

    Let’s not confuse landlords and corporations. The former are people, the later are not. They’re often horrible people, but they’re still made of meat; corporations are made of ink, paper, and a stubborn refusal to accept reality.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      “Renting” needs to die in a goddamn fire, and I know how to kill it: An Owner-occupant credit against property taxes. If you live in a home you own, you receive the credit, which holds or lowers your property taxes. Someone who owns a home but doesn’t live in it is ineligible for the credit.

      With that credit in place, we increase property taxes (and the credit) every year that the owner occupancy rate is less than 80%.

      Now, every real estate investor is pushing for tenants to become “buyers”, and offering land contracts, private mortgages, or converting the property to condominiums, in order to secure that credit.

      “But they’ll just pass on the tax increase to tenants!” They will try. But, with all the other landlords fighting to put occupants on deeds, who is going to insist on paying a premium for a rental instead of just buying outright?