Morning Gutter Gang. Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. Hey there, I have to jot that one down; that phrase is a keeper. Probably could write a song around it even. š¤£
I'm not going anywhere but you can travel vicariously. Kinda like Ringo telling us to go to "Memphis in Your Mind". Catch you soon--I have bacon just about ready to come out of the oven.
What are you cooking tonight that requires two sticks of butter to make it truly great? š This Mustards Napa cornbread is getting the full honey-butter treatment.
Congratulations to @SoCalMike and @Watchinaw. Your questions were chosen for tonightās Ask Greg and the Panelists.
@SoCalMike Is there a television family your family was most like growing up?
@Watchinawe Did you ever find yourself rooting for the bad guy in a movie?
Happy Monday, Gutter Friends! It's a beautiful 70 degree sunny day here in the windy city. Had a wonderful weekend with family and hoping to get a lot done today. Up early and started. Hoping my car will be ready today, dealer has had it for a week, but have to say I have not minded driving the brand new loaner they gave me. I offered them an even trade, I keep this one, they keep my 5-year old car; the guy said, "You're hilarious!". I took it as a compliment. Doesn't hurt to ask. š¤£ Wishing everyone a wonderful Monday. JM
āConversations with GROKā
Question: āWhich modern political ideology is responsible for the most human death and suffering?ā;
Answer: Communism (in its 20th-century implementations as Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, and related variants), by a very large margin.
This assessment rests on the scale of democideāgovernment killing of civilians outside of conventional combat, including executions, engineered famines, forced labor camps, purges, and mass deportationsādocumented by historians and political scientists. The 20th centuryās record of ideological mass killing is dominated by communist regimes.
Scale of the numbers
R.J. Rummelās extensive democide research (University of Hawaii) remains the most systematic quantitative effort. His estimates for 1900ā1987 put communist regimes at roughly 110ā148 million victims (later upward revisions for Chinaās Great Leap Forward famine pushed totals higher in some presentations). A Reason summary of the same data framework lists ...
