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		andrepd on July 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humans once opposed coffee and refrigeration: why ... Again, it's an irrelevant comparison from which you can draw no conclusions. If you want to be honest, at least compare with the number of people killed by European colonialism, or US foreign interference, etc.

merpnderp on July 28, 2016 [–]

You ask for a comparison to malaria and then say I'm being dishonest for comparing it to malaria?

FYI, by my rough estimates, Communism was around ~20x more deadly the N. America colonialism.

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