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?
I'm looking forward to seeing (a "well rested" ) Dana back on The 5 today.
But I'm not expecting any fireworks...Greg knows Dana is willing to throw down.
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 ...
