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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAntonin Scalia killed fewer people than Josef Stalin or Adolf Hilter.
Theoretically.
Just keepin' it positive. If you can't say something nice --
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)JFKDem62
(383 posts)as a result of his ruling?
His decisions had real life consequences.
Journeyman
(15,043 posts)This of course was only in the first dozen years of his totalitarian rule, and does not include the vast numbers from the subsequent "Great Purge," or the residual effects of the Gulag imprisonments of millions more in the years leading up to the War. And then there were the purges in the War's aftermath, and the return of famine in the wake of the conflict. The aggregate numbers are staggering, and ultimately probably impossible to fathom.
That's just Stalin, and a very cursory look at his impact. I just can't imagine that anything has happened in the entire world over the past twenty years that is anywhere near equal to those horrors
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Book III: "Totalitarianism."
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)Scalia killed nobody
byronius
(7,407 posts)It was the ripples that did it. The ripples from the impact of the decisions they made.
It's absurd. I don't like Scalia but there's no point in carrying these things out like this.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)No doubt more than one of his family members has been going through all the places he might have stashed some cash.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)or eat kittens either. I can't be 100% sure on those two points. But, I will concede he probably didn't since there is no evidence to show that he did.
SoLeftIAmRight
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