• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        15 hours ago

        I have this idea for a site like a high score thing, where you could (with citations provided) the kill total of world leaders. See how Stalin, Hitler and Mao stack up to Nixon, Bush, Clinton and Trump.

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          3 hours ago

          We’d have to adjust for population growth. Genghis Khan is probably still the reigning genocide champ.

        • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          15 hours ago

          Where it gets difficult to estimate is when people die many years later from the effects.

          Even hurricanes are only recently understood to be a huge cause of mortality over a decade later. So where does one draw the line? When support structures in a society are destroyed by nature or man things happen years later.

          And then one had to decide how many a leader is directly responsible for, and how many subordinates acting on their own did.