I haven't made any wild claims at all and the claims I have made I've backed up with scholarly works, but go off I guess.

It was actually still around 32 for a hundred years after 1850, it had been sitting stagnant right up until the communists came to power.

Oh, I don't deny that it happens. I just don't base my beliefs around reacting to random internet weirdos, like the person in the comment seems to be doing, and as you seem to be doing with them, ironically enough.

What I do base my beliefs on is evidence. It's very funny to call this meme "evidence," it's literally just one random person on some random place getting mad and saying shit. I could literally go write a comment on reddit, like, "As a Biden voter, I love drowning puppies," downvote it, screenshot, and I'd have exactly as much "evidence" of what Biden voters believe as what you've presented.

Also, obviously the claim that I "defend fascists" is completely baseless and can be disregarded, because again, evidence.

And yet, still zero evidence 🤔

More and more companies are replacing workers with independent contractors who are running their own businessness where they are in complete control.

Lol. In many cases, that's just a tax dodge. I worked as an "independent contractor" for a cleaning company once, they supplied the equipment and told me where to go and when and what to do, same with all the other workers. The only formal employees were management and the only difference for us was fewer benefits.

That's a common tool of propaganda. If you lie outright, you can get caught, and the audience may not believe you in the first place. The real trick is to leave gaps for the audience to fill in with their imagination, and if you're doing it skillfully, they'll end up not only believing what you want them to, but also thinking it was their idea all along. I've even seen the video cut to show the tank moving in the man's direction, and then cut away before it stops, creating the impression that the full video would show him getting run over and is not included because it would be too graphic - for example, 3:14 in this bizarre psyop recruitment ad.

Who says this?

you should.also count your blessings that the US does spend what it does

Your words. The victims' blood is on your hands.

I understand perfectly well that you want to murder more foreigners for profit you probably won't even see. It's just that I hate you and everyone like you.

> cites poll

> "actually, this poll is meaningless."

Good talk.

“We should legislate what people do with their own bodies because I don’t like their decisions”

I mean, yes. That's the vast majority of people, regardless of political affiliation, or where you live. I don't think meth should be completely deregulated, for example. If someone goes to a hospital and asks a doctor to inject them with bleach to cure COVID, I don't think the doctor should do it.

That doesn't mean that I don't support bodily autonomy, however. Just not as an absolute right, because I don't consider any right as absolute. Rights have to be balanced against each other and considered in the context of their material consequences.

I don't see how this is comparable to something like abortion, where only a fetus is being terminated, not a human being. Nor is it comparable to, for example, trans rights, where a person is aiming to live a happy and fulfilling life. Just because crazies want to restrict bodily autonomy in cases where there's no valid reason to doesn't mean that cases with valid reasons don't exist, and discouraging suicide is one of them.

Those are some crazy leaps of reasoning. The president isn't inherently "divorced" from anything and boots on the ground are not always the sole alternative as there's also the option of doing neither.

I guess I'm just curious if you think the executives of other countries should also have the power to kill indiscriminately with no consequences or oversight. Would you be applying the same line of reasoning if we were talking about, say, Putin?