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āConversations with GROKā
Question: āWhich modern political ideology is responsible for the most human death and suffering?ā;
Answer: Communism (in its 20th-century implementations as Marxist-Leninist, Stalinist, Maoist, and related variants), by a very large margin.
This assessment rests on the scale of democideāgovernment killing of civilians outside of conventional combat, including executions, engineered famines, forced labor camps, purges, and mass deportationsādocumented by historians and political scientists. The 20th centuryās record of ideological mass killing is dominated by communist regimes.
Scale of the numbers
R.J. Rummelās extensive democide research (University of Hawaii) remains the most systematic quantitative effort. His estimates for 1900ā1987 put communist regimes at roughly 110ā148 million victims (later upward revisions for Chinaās Great Leap Forward famine pushed totals higher in some presentations). A Reason summary of the same data framework lists ...
āThe āBig Titsāā
Which is the English translation of āGrand Tetonsā
Key Facts (via GROK)
⢠Size: Approximately 310,000 acres (about 485 square miles / 1,300 km²).
⢠Established: 1929 (protecting the main peaks); expanded in 1950 to include most of the former Jackson Hole National Monument.
⢠Highest point: Grand Teton at 13,775 feet (4,199 m). It rises more than 7,000 feet above the valley floor of Jackson Hole, creating one of the most abrupt and photogenic mountain fronts in the Rockies.
⢠Range: The Teton Range runs roughly 40 miles north-south and 7ā9 miles wide. Other notable peaks include Mount Owen, Middle Teton, South Teton, Teewinot, and Mount Moran. ļæ¼
The name āTetonā comes from French fur trappers who called the three prominent peaks Les Trois TĆ©tons (āthe three breastsā). Local Shoshone people referred to the range with terms related to many pinnacles.