• SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space
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    11 hours ago

    All those people who were “relieved from extreme poverty” in such settler nations chose to do so on the backs of indentured servants who are not counted in your statistics, as white men tended to often exclude in consideration when formulating convincing metrics to justify their behavior.

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      Cool, ask the Ukrainians about how they were treated under the soviets or ask minorities in China how the great leap forward went.