Who put Lysenko in a position of power?

As I said earlier, neither Mao or Stalin were aiming for a famine

So that makes it okay? “Sorry bro, I just killed 6 million people but it wasn’t on purpose”

Women can be surprisingly vindictive. I’ve been fired from a job before because a woman there did not like me and just made up a sexual assault allegation against me. I never even touched her and I definitely did not have any intentions towards her but that did not matter because the company had a zero tolerance policy. They did not even care to hear my side of the story, they just fired me on the spot without recourse.

To this day I have no idea what I did that might have pissed her off so much she’d want to destroy my livelihood. She was married AND pregnant and as much of a dirtbag as I might be, I would never even dream of hitting on someone like that.

That’s immaterial. Stalin probably didn’t execute any of those 800k people himself, but he’s still responsible because he ordered their deaths. Likewise, it was him who put Lysenko into a position of power where he could cause the holodomor, so he’s at least partly responsible.

It’s as if you’re arguing Hitler wasn’t responsible for Mengele’s torture experiments because it wasn’t him who was conducting them.

No, but you keep talking past them.

Okay, but even if you remove the ~6 million deaths from the holodomor, he still remains responsible for the ~800k executions and ~1.5 M gulag deaths. I’m not sure what’s so difficult to understand about that.

At how many million deaths would you draw the line between a bad man and a good man?

You were making a case that Stalin wasn’t responsible for the holodomor, but you ignored the fact that even without that, he’s still directly responsible for at least 2 million deaths.

So we’re just going to ignore the ~800k executions and the ~1.5M gulag deaths?

Not sure how to break this to you, but he killed far more of his own people than Nazis.

Important distinction

Is marijuana atheist? I mean, it has Mary in the name. Also, Rastafarians consider it a holy plant and use it for sacramental purposes.

Stalin was an atheist and he was responsible for killing at least 6 million people.

So you’re admitting that the War on Christmas is real?

pee in public

Why don’t you use a restroom like everyone else?

Or kitesurfing

Well I apologize if I misunderstood

Nothing in the OP suggests that anyone was being an asshole to Derek in particular.

Well, if it’s evidence-based, then it’s rational. Only irrational people would do things that have never been proven to work.

HOWEVER, if it’s rational, it shouldn’t need legislative support in order to work, because rationality speaks for itself. I don’t need a law to tell me to tie my shoelaces because I know I’ll end up tripping over them if I don’t.

Just like Harry Potter… 🥹