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by mensetmanusman 1573 days ago
“ This is a very strange historic rewriting that's popped up everywhere in the last weeks. Did the Cold War not exist?”

It’s simply pointing to the per-world-capita death rate due to war after ww2 where it dropped precipitously.

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War casualties follow power laws, not normal distributions. It's a nonsensical "analysis".
It doesn’t matter what law they follow, one just needs to tabulate them in a histogram…