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Please do not joke about rounding errors. It is offensive:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-pinochet-affair-i-saw-...

It was during the first three days they were held captive that Mr Schesch and his wife became aware of the lines of people being formed up and then led out of the stadium - almost certainly to concentration camps - or else inside, to face the firing squad.



Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but I seriously think black humor is a good tool to give perspective -- the left around where I grew up pushed tens of millions of dead under the carpet. (E.g. the stories from volunteers that left for Soviet in the 30s were oppressed until well after 1989.)

3000 dead is, sadly, a rounding error for the ideology that gets five percent of the vote in my home country.

Right now I'm in East Europe and shocked at the stories of how Soviet broke the back of any complaints -- just these are worse than Chile in most countries here... And mostly unknown.

It might be different where you live.

But I do agree with what you seem to imply -- one person is too many.




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