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    1. Zack Beauchamp‏Verified account @zackbeauchamp Mar 30

      Hmmmmmmmmpic.twitter.com/UjlInxBeBW

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    2. Neoliberal  🌐 🇺🇦‏ @ne0liberal Mar 30
      Replying to @zackbeauchamp

      It's a somewhat famous rule (shortened, paraphrased) that no capitalist liberal democracy has ever had a major famine. Queue many fights about various exceptions/definitions, but history clearly shows famines are most associated with colonialism, communism, and authoritarianism.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 30
      Replying to @ne0liberal @zackbeauchamp

      Was England not a capitalist liberal democracy when it ruled over Ireland and India?

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    4. Daniel Kelly  🐇‏ @LOTHComic Mar 30
      Replying to @HeerJeet @ne0liberal @zackbeauchamp

      Ireland and India weren't!

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Mar 30
      Replying to @LOTHComic @ne0liberal @zackbeauchamp

      So capitalist liberal democracies impose famine on others, who are the source of their wealth. That's not a great claim.

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        2. Daniel Kelly  🐇‏ @LOTHComic Mar 30
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ne0liberal @zackbeauchamp

          I think everyone on earth agrees with "Fuck England", but they were capitalist and also colonialist and one doesn't necessarily imply the other, I think?

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        3. Daniel Kelly  🐇‏ @LOTHComic Mar 30
          Replying to @LOTHComic @HeerJeet and

          That is, Capitalist Democracy obviously did not cause England to be nice to Ireland/India, but also did not cause them to be brutal colonialists. That's just something inherent to the English they'd want to do either way

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        2. crucifixplanet‏ @crucifixplanet Mar 30
          Replying to @UnhWut @HeerJeet and

          But it was an aspect of that one

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        1. Connor Ellington‏ @RealConbo Mar 30
          Replying to @HeerJeet @LOTHComic and

          Colonialism has a pretty bad track record for human rights. I understand that makes it harder to dunk to add nuance, but there you go.

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        1. rdc‏ @ardeesee Mar 30
          Replying to @HeerJeet @LOTHComic and

          when these people learn about primitive accumulation...

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        2. Dan Davies‏ @dsquareddigest Mar 30
          Replying to @HeerJeet @LOTHComic and

          Irish members of parliament sat in the Palace of Westminster.

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        3. Green Mountain Bot‏ @GrnMtnBot Mar 30
          Replying to @dsquareddigest @HeerJeet and

          So, famine has in fact happened in liberal capitalist democracies.

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        2. Marlon J. Ettinger‏ @MarlonEttinger Mar 30
          Replying to @HeerJeet @LOTHComic and

          That wasn't *real* capitalist liberal democracy.

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