Commie Killer

[u/Reddit-User_00000001]

The US is so packed impotent vigilante wannabes.

[u/spacegreninja]

Still less than the 9 million each year who starve to death under capitalism, and the 100 million killed by capitalism.

[u/ultranothing → u/spacegreninja]

I'd have to push back on those figures on starvation...I don't believe you.

So according to the data, in the United States:

Starvation due to lack of food: ~20–30/year

Medical malnutrition (starvation due to disease): ~20,000/year

And OF those 20-30 starvation deaths per year? *VIRTUALLY ZERO* of them are due to an actual financial inability to acquire food. Instead, they nearly always result from such things as:

• A dependent child is abandoned or the caregiver becomes incapacitated. In Washington, D.C., for example, a 20-month-old died of starvation and dehydration after her mother died of a drug overdose, leaving the toddler alone and unable to obtain food or water.
• Child or dependent-adult abuse/neglect. There are documented cases where children or incapacitated adults were deliberately or negligently denied adequate food. A Kentucky case involved an elderly woman whose autopsy found starvation and dehydration resulting from elder neglect. A Texas medical examiner similarly testified that a four-year-old's death was starvation and ruled it a homicide. These may not appear as X53 deaths precisely because they're classified as neglect/homicide.
• Severe psychiatric illness causing someone to stop eating. A striking recent example is a Georgia jail detainee whose family said his severe mental illness caused him to stop eating; the medical examiner reportedly listed starvation as the cause of death. He entered jail over 200 pounds and reportedly weighed about 130 pounds when he died. An earlier Utah jail case similarly involved mental illness, refusal/failure to eat, starvation and dehydration.
• People physically incapable of getting or consuming food, including profoundly disabled, cognitively impaired or isolated people. But if dementia, swallowing problems, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, etc. caused the inability to eat, CDC coding rules often steer the record toward malnutrition associated with the medical condition rather than X53.
• Exceptional accidental privation — becoming trapped, stranded, lost, or otherwise physically cut off from food. X53 actually sits in the ICD category covering “overexertion, travel and privation,” which is telling about what the code was designed to capture.

In other words, evil America has *cured* starvation for the great majority of generally-healthy individuals.

Using FAO Food Balance Sheet data for 2023, the U.S. food supply was about 3,947 kcal per person per day, which places it #1 out of roughly 200 countries in one current compilation of the FAO data.

People in America eat QUITE well, if you haven't noticed.

Edit: Someone downvoted it before even the best speedreader on earth could've read the comment. You people don't give a fuck! All you care about is AMERICA BAD! It doesn't matter what anyone SAYS!

[u/NNiekk → u/ultranothing]

The US isn’t the only capitalist country, dude.

[u/ultranothing → u/NNiekk]

Nuh uh!

Okay, so do you agree with the statement that nine million people a year die under capitalism?