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“Yet liberalism has also dragged more than a billion people out of poverty in the past three decades and, in many cases, promoted political freedom along with economic freedom. The alternatives, historically speaking, have been wretched.”
Citations fucking needed
edit: this fucking rag - look at the graphic for GDP divided as free/partially free/not free. “Come on Mexico don’t you want us to refer to you as a free nation? Just be a good colony again…”
edit 2: I can’t finish it, it’s just so nakedly biased. “Serpents”.
Not to mention the millions that counted as exiting poverty that were only in poverty in the first place because of the disastrous and illegal dissolution of the USSR
It bolsters the point, if you take China out of the consideration, there’s actually been an increase in poverty and polarization of qualities of life and I imagine a lot of those people were/are part of it.
