Pretty sure the answer is “the brits”.
Cats cant pronounce that tough, so it has to count all of those in a socialist’s name.
In other news have you seen the latest royal wedding? So beautiful and glamorous, makes me feel blessed to have monarchs ruling over us!
I like when the prince ripped off the princess’s arm and shoved it into her ass.
A beautiful day for Canada and therefore the world.
Hey, i hate the british too, but the article doesn’t directly blame the british for the famines and it also includes famines that took place in non-british held or administrated territories.
Nevertheless, it does point out that in many cases, british administration worsened the situation.
Nevertheless, it does point out that in many cases, british administration worsened the situation.
To be fair… They were only practising for how they’d treat modern Britain.
It also just one territory, I’m sure the Irish also have a few bones to pick.
Though speaking of time advantage, the best answer might be “mosquitos”, and while “blood sucking insects” could be a name for british colonists, they didn’t spread malaria since the dawn of humanity
In fairness we’ve been around a lot longer, but it is impressive how one little island nation has managed to fuck so much shit up from afar.
I think that Queen Victoria would rank pretty in the body count scoreboard
Yep, anyone saying otherwise is doing mental gymnastics.
Or simply keeping with the theme of answers being a single individual and not an entire nation of hundreds of millions of people spanning centuries.
Fair enough to be honest. I hate Mao, Genghis Khan, Hitler and Stalin too for being genocidal fucks.
Is it Mr the brits or Mrs the brits?
Ohhhh, you’re conflating a single leader with an entire country.
You must be a lib, tankies say libs never argue in good faith, and your false equivalence is certainly in bad faith.
Until recently it was Mrs. Now it’s Mr or alternatively his majesty king Charles the 3rd.
Is there enough reliable data to give a kill count for the different monarchs? It would be kind of interesting who scores highest in that regard.
Exactly! Mao was one leader, England killed millions, sure, but that was spread over many many rulers.
Mao stands at the top afaik, I’d love to see some stats though!
Jesse what tf are you talking about
Mocking a tankie with tankie logic.
We were all pretty cool with it all at the time tbh.
Plenty of us will still defend it, which is crazy.
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Can hardly blame them, pestilence and diseases are a genuine concern for any empire where armed forces have to move far distances over land or sea
Can definitely blame them… Several of the famines in their ‘empire’ were either engineered, caused through incompetence or arrogance, or ignored when preventable.
Ref: Any of bengal’s several famines under British rule, frankly even after once you take Churchill into account.
Nice shoehorn of anglo-saxon history, but those famines are all plagues and crop faliures for the most part.
Why is it the rich never starve if it’s just a totally unaccountable natural disaster?
Rich usually have more resources and ability to purchase them at elevated prices. Hope that helps
Because they have money duuh.
So it’s less of a natural disaster and more of an economic disaster? I wonder why people would blame governments for that…
It is like miles away from the intentional economical engineering we are talking about. Still not sure why you are so bent on trying to wiggle them into a comparsion between regimes and personnel more direct, intentional and immediate like Mao or Stalin.
If you dont distinguish from those, then why even have a debate on them?
The joke implied that the question intended to ask one or very few directly involved personnel and you disregarded that. Thats it.
Right sure, when the British intentionally abuse Ireland and India it’s really just a whoopsie-daisy.
Should I really do the same kind of jumping to conclusions?
Are you saying that the largest completely man made famine ever does not really deserve that much of a recognition?
The rich and the party cadres
They forced farmers to grow indigo crops instead of natural cotton/wheat/rice.
Im pretty sure that was not during the drought itself, nor really caused it. It economically made sense and then probably exacerbated the famine.
It wasn’t just the drought. Indigo cropping destroyed the soil first, drought exacerbated the problems.
All famines are crop failures. That’s kinda how famines happen.
No
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food,[1][2] caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies.
I suppose you can consider getting your crops blown up a crop failure
This is a good one 😂
I’ve used this joke IRL with our cats. There’s another one for dogs:
A guy and a dog walk into a bar. The bartender says, “hey, you can’t bring a dog in here.”
The guy says, “this is no ordinary dog. He’s a talking dog.”
Bartender says, “yeah? Prove it.” The guy turns to the dog and says, “What’s on top of the building?” And the dog says “Roof! Roof!”
Then the guy says, “How does a brick feel?” The dog says “Rough! Rough!”
The guy then says, “Who was the greatest ballplayer of all time?” The dog says “Ruth! Ruth!”
They are thrown out of the bar.
When they’re out on the street, the dog turns to the man and says, “So, you think I should have said DiMaggio?”
They are thrown out of the bar
I’m surprised you weren’t with that joke. speaking from experience, i love my lame jokes. (and I’m not totally stealing this one…not at all.)
Lame jokes can be presented in a funny way. Delivery is important. My favorite method is “matter of fact” like I am telling a normal story about usual things. Catches the recipient off-guard and the joke lands much more betterer.
it all comes down to delivery and timing. and maybe a healthy amount of booze.
I think you over estimate your delivery there
Or this classic very dark joke: How do you make a cat sound like a dog? You pour gasoline on the cat and light it on fire. WHOOF
How do you make a dog sound like a cat? Push the dog through a buzz saw. MEEOOWW
It’s the Ruth/DiMaggio dog joke from Looney Tunes.
I always think of Doug Benson’s version but this is one of the OGs
i like super daves version
Pure theft!
I get the joke but I still expected some tankies to show up. But then again, OP is on lemmy.world which is defederated with the tankie instances so that’s why
why is it defederated
Because of the tankies.
but why the tankies
But why male models?
While it has proven difficult to accurately estimate the pre-colonial population and the amount by which it changed under the Congo Free State, estimates for the Congolese population decline during Leopold’s rule range from 1 million to 15 million.
That’s a lot, but not even close to Mao
Noobish kdr. Max 10 millions deaths, somewhere between a French general during WWI (not counting German casualties) and minor paranoid dictators. Too much time larping as a psychopathic torturer, not enough time getting the job done. Mao killed several million people on a good mood, that’s professionalism.
That’s ridiculous, you can’t judge the genocidal madmen KDA on body count alone, Leopold simply did more evil with less resources than anyone ever!
Starting position matters, and Leopold came from behind to become one of the worsts.
Dictators and the rich
Ive never heard of anyone with that name
The question does not require a single name, it said who, which can be answered with a list of people or groups of people. Eg. Who did I make love to last night? A: Your parents!
Richard Tators? Never heard of him.
Mao is a serial genocidist. Cope, tankies.
How about Bill Gates? His control of intellectual property law allowed him to almost personally stop the global south from manufacturing their own COVID vaccines and instead have to purchase them from the west. Bill Gates is answerable to millions of deaths. He’s one of the most evil people alive but you get weird looks saying so. He’s one of the top 5 richest people in the world and has spent the last two decades doing PR.
Source on the vaccines thing? Also how come Cuba could make their own?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-covid-vaccines/
I didn’t read this I just googled for you
Cuba is one of the most medically advanced nations in the world
but his name is not dictators and the rich
Poor-poor Billy, barely eats
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It took way too long to get the dad joke here.
Trofim Lysenko Estimated body count 70 million
The vast majority of deaths under communism have been because of famine…
…which may well be true for Capitalism as well.
True but i dont know of one guy who did 70 mil worth under capitalism
You can probably get a few if you stop and make the maths, specially when abusing developing countries.
Well if you count percent oof population per year then pol pot the dictator of Cambodia would have the highest
Gilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy’s Cat, 1973
This one’s actually funny
Mosquitoes, thanks to Malaria. Estimated kill count (according to a Nature article from 2002) 50-60 Billion people.
Wow. You’re really gonna just blame a whole race over a few billion deaths?
/s please don’t hang me in these streets
More a person responsible kinda thing. I think Mao does top it but due to starvation thanks to his idiot policies that ruined crops
Is she in awe?
Thanos (ah fuck, we’re being realistic)
I thought the cat turned into one of them (sorry to confirm Godwins law once again). http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigbest.pl
It’s a pun too, that’s a good one 🤣
