• redtea
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    Mr Beso Inger at the research institute for peace and prosperity found that “if you define war as ‘when one country kills over 100,000,000 of another country’s people with stone axes’ the US has never been at war and is statistically the most peaceful country ever to have existed.” He added: “It really makes you think.”

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      Cue the Engels quote about the gentlemen seeking to change the names of things

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        For people who inhabit the world of the ideal, it comes as natural as breathing. If they think it, it must be true, and there’s nothing more to be said. It’s how they can define war by an arbitrary number of deaths, how they can think away unemployment or unnecessary Covid deaths, or how they think unemployment into China by including children and students. The worst thing is that liberals under the illusion that they ‘think critically’ will gobble it all up like a shark to a bucket of chum.