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None of these probably as I would be paying a lot just for the brand. I usually pay very little for my shoes. The only brand shoes that I have are second hand shoes.

I am just left of the political center in the Netherlands, but certainly not a socialist, however in the US I would be called extreme left wing probably.

As much I agree that each murder is a despicable act against humanity, and all these victims deserve our remembrance, it is hard to compare the figures. Looking from a Dutch perspective for instance, the few hundred thousand people who got killed in my country during WOII by the nazis are more significant than the millions killed in China by the communists. Also certain killings are particularly gruesome or sadistic, for instance when we consider the systematic murder of Jewish children. Children have that innocent aspect. Of course there are other genocides in history where innocent people got killed purely because of their ethnicity, and some of those are also less well remembered than the holocaust for instance because they took place much longer ago, involved less victims or took place in a part of the world that does not has the attention of our media so much. Then there are direct murders which feel more personal than for instance deaths that result from politically created famines (as happened a lot in Russia and China for instance). Finally in a war the situation is never black and white, freedom fighters might be fighting for a right reason and cause a lot of innocent victims along the way. I think many communists and even many fascists also believed that they did the right thing to improve the world. So it depends a bit what you want to remember and how you look at things, but of course all victims deserve our remembrance.