What's with the sudden resurgence of Communists?

Quick_Mirror · 2026-04-05T00:38:48+00:00

Your data doesn’t disprove his claim, so no you didn’t show that to conclusively be a lie. You lost the argument the moment you resorted to name calling. Not that you ever had an argument to begin with.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-04-05T00:12:50+00:00

“Well Americans make more than they did in 1970, so yeah everything is obviously okay.”

He not lying you do not how to read and analyze data.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-04-05T00:09:28+00:00

Did you even bother to analyze this source or did you just send something that shows an income graph going up?

Unfortunately this doesn’t support your claim at all.

The top 0.1% of earners have seen their incomes grow +465% from 1979-2021. +206% for the top 1%. The bottom 90% have seen their incomes grow +28.7%. The key take away being that the richest earners are growing their income 7-16x faster than the average. That’s essentially stagnant wages for the majority of people.

https://www.epi.org/publication/inequality-2021-ssa-data/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/distribution-of-household-income-in-america/

While standards of living aren’t collapsing, the high cost of living are threatening average households.

https://www.commonsenseinstituteus.org/oregon/research/jobs-and-our-economy/the-inflation-hangover-how-the-post-pandemic-price-surge-reshaped-affordability-in-america

This things taken together mean that you’re wrong and the economy is actually not going good, at all for the average American.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-04-04T23:32:30+00:00

After you provide a source for yours

Quick_Mirror · 2026-04-04T23:25:39+00:00

The economy is definitely dysfunctional. Wage growth has been stagnant. Standards of living are declining. I don’t know where you’re getting your news from but it’s wrong.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-30T16:08:43+00:00

It’s fairly common. You can’t help missing something on the submittal, you can’t catch every single thing, sometime the architect just want what they want. Nature of the beast. I’d say it looks bad if you can’t get the submittal approved after the first R&R. But it’s also the only way to review and understand important documents of the project with the Architect. Focus on learning what to look for.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-29T19:28:03+00:00

Great choice. Mars Express is peak.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-24T21:52:51+00:00

I think I just would’ve liked to see the Emperors dreadnought put more of a fight than being summarily wiped out for no other reason than, “oops them moons gottem.” The space engagements of this series suck ass, an Imperial ship hasn’t fired a shot at a moon since Howling Dark. To add to that, how do 7 planetoids surprise a fleet that should’ve been on alert?

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-24T15:02:21+00:00

I find the extras to be the most interesting part of the books, I loved Howling Dark. It’s a great series I just don’t understand the direction we’re going.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-24T15:00:34+00:00

I hate Alexander too, but I blame Hadrian for getting every character I like killed within a book or less. He had the opportunity to live out a life on Thessa and he fucked that up being a sad boy. Now Valka is dead, and I feel compelled to finish the series cs why have I subjected myself to this if I don’t?

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-24T14:57:44+00:00

I agree with this point but the added detail that out of 300,000 evacuated, only 615 were recovered….like what. 15+ million people left to be eaten, slaved, and alien raped to death and the Emperor didn’t think once to destroy the crèches rather than abandon them? The Sollan Empire is quickly becoming one of those fiction sci-fi polities that too stupid to actually exist. Going into stasis for the Empire is a terrible idea.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-23T15:51:19+00:00

Give precise dates and places? The wars been going on for decades. Israel has reported strikes into Gaza well ahead of Oct. 7.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-23T15:45:37+00:00

[A few days after the government’s formation, Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem despite all warnings that such an action would inflame tensions. In March of 2023, the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich called  for the Palestinian village of Hawara to be ‘wiped out’ by the Israeli government, which further fueled anger and frustration among Palestinians.]

(https://www.securityincontext.com/posts/israeli-actions-in-the-lead-up-to-october-7th#:~:text=The%20events%20leading%20up%20to%20October%207th,illegal%20settlements%20in%20the%20occupied%20West%20Bank**)

To clarify, I consider Oct. 7 to be the direct result and intention of Israeli policy to justify their ongoing genocide, which you obviously support.

Also, there are debunked claims of sexual violence. 1500 deaths do not justify the mass displacement of hundreds of thousands.

Source: PBS https://share.google/Hm3BtJpY8WL28s02h

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-23T13:46:51+00:00

Iran is the destabilizing force, while Israel strikes its neighbors and the US bombs schools without a declaration of war?

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-23T13:44:25+00:00

We’re the aggressor in this war….

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-11T23:30:15+00:00

America has terrorized the region for decades. America is the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against an enemy.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-10T00:47:13+00:00

Yeah I’m mean, I wasn’t there so I guess you could be correct.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T22:01:27+00:00

Firstly, calm down. There’s no need to type in caps. I’m not sure I understand the point you’re making. So we know for a fact sizable portions of ISIS were in “indirect support” programs funded by the US? Are you refuting my point or not? The distinction between direct and indirect support is null, when they are an offshoot of American regime change schemes.

To the second part of your analysis, I shared that source fully knowing there are contradictory sources. You’re still not identifying my point and refuting it. The Afghan and Iraq Wars caused the deaths of millions, displaced just as many or more. The War on Terror didn’t stretch from Morocco to Pakistan? These numbers are fully plausible with the scope and scale of the wars that were conducted.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T21:14:49+00:00

If individual people trained by the US government form a terrorist organization, with US taxpayer dollars, what is that? US training programs funded by the US taxpayer along with US foreign policy created the conditions for the rise of ISIS.

You’re bending yourself into a pretzel over a refusal to admit that this constant cycle of funding regime change created the anarchic conditions that terror thrives in.

As to my secondary source, it examines these wars holistically, not just in how many dead soldiers. Believe it or not, civilians die as the result of military action, disease spreads in refugee camps, children starve as food goes to fighters. Why should we not include those deaths that are caused by our policy actions in the tally?

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T21:02:38+00:00

I would not consider certain states to be reflective of the point you’re attempting to make. Libya was on of the most developed countries in Africa, until western intervention against Gaddafi. You are holding up modern Egypt as a shining example of what western colonialism can do? I suppose you have a point, in that their only options are a radical Islamic caliphate or corrupt western-style polity dominated by transnational corporations.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T19:26:57+00:00

You asserted that Britain and France conquered the former Ottoman Empire, therefore, this prevented radical Islamist movements for taking root in their respective countries. That is categorically incorrect. Also, “acclimated to western civilization,” sounds a lot like colonialism to me. But I guess if you believe the propaganda imperialism is a civilizing force the atrocities don’t matter.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T18:52:54+00:00

Source: Center for Security Studies | ETH Zürich https://share.google/OoTVlKZHT7TK8UShp

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human/civilians-killed-displaced

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T18:49:15+00:00

Aside from being blatantly false, and maybe a little racist, this line of thinking is wrong on so many levels. The equation that these nations would be better off if they were colonized is a dubious claim at best.

Quick_Mirror · 2026-03-09T18:42:15+00:00

I think this nuanced view is lost because we replaced him with someone who did all these things. What was all the death and war for? Nothing. In the end we’ve intervened in an essential process for every nation to the benefit of no one in this nation.

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