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thirdwheelforever OP t1_j6lio3k wrote

but good sir the wikipedia page is indeed how i learnt this factoid about him. i fell into the rabbit hole about media and fashion industry's history which led me to agnelli's wikipedia page. i would have added other urls but reddit only allows one to be linked. so i believed it would be better according to subreddit rules to provide a wiki page with the direct quotes instead of the multiple pages which have been cited on Wikipedia. "

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Chillchinchila1 t1_j6lh5ks wrote

You don’t need to sanitize the Nazis to condemn Leopold’s. Seriously what is with redditors that can’t talk about any historical tragedy without going “the Nazis were teddy bears compared to this”.

It’s not even like Leopold killed more people, or had less noble goals, hitler wanted to exterminate most of the human population.

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Gulbahar-00 t1_j6lh39b wrote

I wasn’t talking about Communism, just sharing information about similar authoritarian regimes.

Yes, Pol Pot was communist and Leopold was capitalist. The issue is that they were both authoritarian, not their economic system.

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delicatearchcouple t1_j6lh1ji wrote

Well I'll just reply to myself since you're such a tender little thing that you went and blocked me...

Do you buddy. Just not going to get you anywhere and going to further alienate yourselves as evidenced by everything you cited.

Remember how no one gave a fuck about drag shows until every headline had to mention trans people? Then you get the backlash from the ignorant minority and they double down and rally their troops against you.

Then the general public has trans fatigue and is less helpful to your cause, more quick to dismiss your issues, and eager to focus on anything else but the constant background noise of finger pointing and victim identity. The focus is on the stupid one liner bullshit and not on the actual suffering of the folks you care about.

So you have whipped your enemies into a fervor (knowing that they currently have more power than you) all while alienating and exhausting potential allies.

If this is the approach that makes the most sense to you, then get it. Do you.

I just don't see it as effective. Seems to be a poor choice pragmatically.

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Mewhenthe4 OP t1_j6lf7d9 wrote

So since some geniuses keep making dumb responses to the post, I’ll answer the questions here.

  1. When it says LAND area it means SURFACE LAND AREA. I didn’t think I would have to specify since it’s obvious.

  2. No it’s not common knowledge, neither Is it regularly taught in schools like some people are claiming.

  3. I didn’t do the measurements. So stop asking me “what ifs”.

  4. Land area is not that specific of a measurement, so talking about how it’s too specific doesn’t really apply here.

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Livingmorganism t1_j6lf3d4 wrote

We once had a cow have triplets. 60-ish pounds each. That cow was preganante. Although we had another one with twins that were each 115 lbs, so technically she had it worse. Very prognort.

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