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RegularAmerican 349 points ago +349 / -0

People have always been immensely retarded. History only really recorded the smart. That's not the case anymore

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aaafirefly123 28 points ago +50 / -22

If people were smart, tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao would have never come to power

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Antenna 7 points ago +7 / -0

I think starvation (Russia) and having to bring wheel barrow of cash to the store to buy a loaf of bread (Germany) had something to do with it.

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bitterbut_true -6 points ago +1 / -7

So true..my 3rd wife (full blood African from Burindi) had 3 kids I adopted. Two very intelligent young daughters and a son who learned English instantly. The oldest daughter told me of some terrible things she'd witnessed. Boiling it all down--she said people were crazy and violent in Africa "because they're hungry." Things get so desperate that they'll sometimes try to eat grass. Even she, as a little girl, had tried to eat grass.

Moving along from this point...there is more than just hunger that drives 'people' to desperation. There is a 'madness' in males that needs to be quenched. Look at the First World War. There was a 'war fever'. Men were exhilarated about the opportunity to go overseas and kill. To be a HERO. why? They weren't hungry; society was looking good with the discovery and implementation of electricity; radio and music gramophones. Plenty of jobs. Why the need to fight in 1914? So its more than just hunger.