• limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Biden’s help killed more at this time, but Trump should catch up by late summer or early autumn this year. Then we can say Trump killed more than Biden.

    But Trumps crimes elsewhere will eclipse this grim milestone , and I doubt most commentators here will remark on that when it happens

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          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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            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.