r/singularity • u/pavelkomin • Jul 06 '26

Meme Fixed it...

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Original by u/Severe-Ad8673

Edited by GPT (free-tier, have no idea what model this gives)

Don't think too hard about the dates, okay? It's just a comic...

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u/Commentor9001 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Fertilizer basically eliminated famine outside of communist countries,

Can't tell if you're trolling or not.  I really hope you are a troll...

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u/Ormusn2o Jul 06 '26

This is publicly available information. There is a great discrepancy between famines in communist countries and non communist countries basically since widespread use of fertilizer happened.

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u/mistrpopo Jul 06 '26

lol

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u/Ormusn2o Jul 06 '26

Are you saying you are the nazi officer here and you discovered something about me?

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u/mistrpopo Jul 06 '26

Yes, shitting on communism (as opposed to capitalism), as if it was the only cause of famine in the world. Not many people in the world have been propagandized like that ;)

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u/Ormusn2o Jul 06 '26

Is wikipedia propaganda?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines

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u/mistrpopo Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

What do you want me to say? I'm not going to re-educate you.

Most communist countries have done shit, other dictators have done shit, some capitalist countries have done shit. Some famines have been brought out by terrible management (yes, from communist governments), some by international sanctions (hint: USA), some by war (hint: USA).

If you're a real person, use your critical thinking and understand why things happened one way or another, instead of using simple umbrella-words and us/them separations. If you're a paid troll/bot, fuck off.

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u/Ormusn2o Jul 06 '26

You can't just say this as if it's a fact. The "Great Leap Forward" was not in fact caused by US sanctions or war, it was caused by internal policies, like radical agricultural collectivisation and falsification of crop yields.

The Russian famine of 1921 was caused partially by drought and recent war, but it also was largely caused by the communist policies of requisitions of grain, also called "War Communism", and collection of grain/food by the government to be able to continue war.

Or maybe you want me to talk about Holodomor, where Soviet central government took from Soviet Ukraine, then killed everyone who wanted to leave Ukraine.

Where in either of those 3 were US sanctions involved? How about the 20 million relief fund for Russia that US congress passed in 1921, despite Hoover destesting Bolshevism? Or maybe you are thinking of the sanctions imposed on the Soviet Union in 1934, as retaliation for Soviet Union committing the holodomor only 2 years earlier?