• Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Bro literally gutted the farmers and used their tax money to bail out the country that replaced the exports of said farmers. That’s not very Mao of him.

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      2 days ago

      You might want to look again at Mao’s catastrophic agricultural policies that led to mass famine.

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        2 days ago

        Best comparison to that is still the million Covid deaths, at least half of which were completely unnecessary had Trump not intentionally sabotaged the US’s pandemic preparedness and then sabotages the Covid response with misinformation and withholding support.

        But Trump did it out of malice, whereas I believe Mao at least thought he was doing something good. But both are narcissistic idiots.

        But we’ll see if Trump manages to cause a real famine. It could still happen.

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          2 days ago

          Trump is a narcissist he legit thinks he’s doing good so that can’t be it.

          He already is causing a famine. Beef takes two years and of we can’t get enough domestically we go without for 2 years or we import it at exceedingly high markup because everyone knows we have no choice.

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      3 days ago

      I didn’t ask for how consistent he was I asked how effectively is it different.

      As an aside you should read more on mao if you think he didn’t willfully fuck his people over too.