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I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't think people 20+ years from now will instantly jump to Trump when they hear Donald. Just like how if you meet George you don't think of Bush.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Adolf really doesn't bring anyone notable to mind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Trump may be a very poor candidate, but he didn't kill 13 million people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

1: Yet.

2: That isn't even the sum of the Holocaust, much less combat casualties from the USSR alone which are absolutely on his head.

Edit: Tbf, the Holocaust numbers only beat that if you include Soviet POWs being genocided in the prison camps, so that is kind of double dipping.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Let him have another term and we'll see how he measure up. And he's up to a few 100k so far in my books.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, he only killed about 1.4 million.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually curious, what is that figure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Number of excess deaths from COVID.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What counts as excess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Excess deaths are typically defined as the difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods.

That's pretty horrific. I have an American friend explaining to me as well how he could be plotting a fascist takeover

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Dammit, Donnie! These are rookie numbers! You gotta get those numbers up!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Not yet. He's certainly working on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Estimates are between 50 and a 100 million people.For example USSR is said to lose around 18 million people in that war.

[–] Cethin 2 points 3 months ago

I would suspect that people can do basic math and realize why someone was named Donald if they're born near today. It might not immediately jump to mind, but it also wouldn't be subtle. I would bet no one else is naming their child Donald unless it's a family name.