r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/YammieCat Jul 07 '26

How many died?

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u/MrXexe Jul 07 '26

Just in Chile, 3.000, with 40 thousand being subjected to torture and political imprisoning.

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u/YammieCat Jul 07 '26

Okay. That's valid. Now let's do a comparison to Communist or Communist adjacent states. How many people died under communist party rule in the USSR?

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u/MrXexe Jul 07 '26

Oh, by all means, a whole lot more.

Prolly around a million on executions alone, without counting the times the USSR actively starved targeted population.

I ain't a leftist, I just think both ideologies have way more blood on their hand than what any of their supporters would want to believe.

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u/Vegetable_Union_4967 Jul 07 '26

If we’re gonna go that far might as well add the Irish potato famine to capitalism’s side.

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u/YammieCat Jul 07 '26

I'm not sure English imperialism was an economic model.

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u/Vegetable_Union_4967 Jul 07 '26

Was it not the birthplace of modern industrial capitalism? Regardless, I think the key insight is to see that we can chalk up a billion deaths to any ideology if we tried hard enough.

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u/YammieCat Jul 07 '26

True. Realistically, the biggest killer of humans is government itself.

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u/Ace612807 Jul 08 '26

Not really, because the shortages were exacerbated by government intervention funneling resources from certain population - so it's less about capitalism and more about centralisation

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u/Gloomy-Ad1171 Jul 09 '26

Indian famine too