Good Intentions (Genocides, Famines, and Governments)

Three Equals Five

Following up on our cheerful Total War discussion, we ramble through more light fare. We discuss the US going to war with China to defend Taiwan, not being big fans of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chairman Mao and Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin vying for top spots as mass murderers, the intentional starvation of Ukrainians by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the Holodomor, Chairman Mao brainwashing and radicalizing the populace and Recep Erdogan attempting the same in Turkey, the repeating sequence of communist states forming and the powerful few within the state subjugating the people, methods of controlling the population, teaching children to be agents of the state against their parents, crazy and evil on all sides of the political spectrum, current state of media broadcasting a particular political viewpoint without countering viewpoints presented, Joe Rogan and Ivermectin and a warping narrative, the reframing of information and events by media, pharmacist not filling medical doctor drug prescription due to media, how to search for online information in a specific date range to observe information reframing, autism and anti vaccine movement, correlation versus causation, increase in autism and ADHD diagnoses, little boys and their performance in the modern educational system, government inefficiency and ineptness, Kudzu being introduced by the government to stop erosion and completely failing, cobra farming, killing poor innocent sparrows, mass starvation in China during the Great Leap Forward, god kings not being around so much anymore, and roughly 50% of the population being of below average intelligence.
Ivermectin History
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/ivermectin-mectizan.html
Kudzu
https://www.timesnews.net/living/outdoors/out-of-control---what-to-do-about-kudzu/article_28cb1a1c-e362-5b40-ab0c-2a3789f9466a.html
Cobra Farming
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
Sparrow Famine
http://knowledgeglue.com/sparrow-famine-the-relatively-unknown-ecological-disaster-that-killed-more-than-20-million-people/

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