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Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by the Nazis, meant to house political opponents, and at the start didn't have forced labor. Then, to quote Wikipedia,

After its opening by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, Romani, Germans, and Austrians that the Nazi Party regarded as criminals, and, finally, foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded.

The treatment was certainly brutal and there was forced labor and torture, but it was ultimately a concentration camp, not a death camp like Auschwitz. Compare Dachau's 41.5k deaths out of 188k prisoners to Auschwitz's 1.1 million out of 1.3 million. My point is that they won't jump straight to death camps or the brutal treatment we associate with concentration camps. That kind of stuff will come later, when MAGA has consolidated power more, but for now they'll stick to "just" imprisonment. First Dachau, then more Dachau, then Auschwitz.

First: Define "support". Second: The Muslim Brotherhood stopped using violence decades ago. Third: Way to miss the point. The article is discussing imperial violence. I hope this doesn't need to be said, but not all violence is equal.

We already have a model of this with Israel's genocide in Gaza wracking up a climate footprint bigger than entire countries. Scale that up to a world war and... Yeah, not fun.

Eh, not yet. We're probably looking more at Dachau for a few months at least.

I mean that too, but also cost of living, rent if you don't own a home, etc add up over the two or so decades you'd expect to live after retirement. And if you do own a home, congrats you're a millionaire.

Okay that is literally not true. First, Ash'arism is also rationalist so yeah no. Like you do know many prominent Muslim scientists from the time period were themselves Asharite right? Second, the Islamic golden age didn't die due to the power of religious figures; it died due to the sacking of Baghdad and continued right up until that moment. This happened more than two centuries after the creation of Ash'arism, and again many important developments happened in the Caliphate in the interim. Third, the Timurid renaissance came about a century later in a mainstream Sunni Muslim (so definitely not Mu'tazilite or some such) empire. In short:

It is inevitable that the religious mind either abandons their faith, or abandons science.

That literally didn't happen.

Ultimately, if god existed and created everything… science would be another form of worship.

Yes, as clearly stated in the Quran, that is literally the point.

Sorry my people's more than a millennium-long history doesn't conform to your preconceived notions, but can you please not make shit up? Here's a Wikipedia article. And in the first place, Arab distrust of science is a much more recent phenomenon that came after centuries of Ottoman neglect and is fading away right as we speak despite some of the most conservative mainstream theologies in the history of Islam.

Setting aside the obvious "Al Jazeera is not Qatari state media," who has Qatar used religion to justify bombing?

You can criticize one big group without being part of the other big group.

Uh... Given their values it is very likely they do donate to charities, but how far do you think a million can go in the modern day? You say "build housing," but a million dollars are like, a house? Two houses? Until you reach the hundreds of millions level of obscene wealth, you need numbers before you can get anything done, so pushing for higher taxation is one of the most productive things this person can do with their time and money.

Uh... You do need millions to retire.

Not that I disagree, but username checks out.

Given how well that worked with Russia, yeah don't expect much help.

It was religion that got them there.

That's... what? Like do you think the Assabids were atheists during the Islamic Golden Age?

In case anyone needed proof that intellectual property is a dystopian concept.

Welp, goodbye Russia, you had a good run.

I''m not American so I couldn't vote either way, but calling out assholes like Pelosi and Schumer for being oligarchy and AIPAC stooges is not and was not disinformation. Voting for Harris is its own conversation and has nothing to do with that. Also your link's information ends in 2022.

(they're not, because Harris wouldn't have advocated turning it into a riviera, cut USAID that helped Gazans, or escalated in bombing Iran, leaving aside the fact that Bibi explicitly wanted),

Slightly less fascist rhetoric doesn't matter if it's not accompanied by actions, I haven't heard of significant USAID involvement in Gaza during the war, Democrats haven't opposed the bombings much* and fascists aren't the smartest bunch, respectively.

This is a valid point, but I disagree. I know about the war powers resolution, but no establishment Democrat leaders have actually indicated they'd use that to stop the bombings. Schumer simply wanted the bombings to be done with congressional approval. The bombings are much better understood in terms of Israeli domestic politics given that Netanyahu's government was facing dissolution. If anything Trump did get Netanyahu to stop; I'm not sure we could expect the same from AIPAC Democrats.

In a binary choice election with the inevitable choices being Harris or Trump, one opted to assert both sides / false equivalence Harris being obviously better on:

Okay but the very real problems that depressed Democratic turnout weren't disinformation; the Democrat pitch was legitimately terrible. Whether that justified not voting aside, scathing criticism of the Democrats was justified and not disinformation.

There's one problem with this prediction though: Widespread violence already is part of Trump's program. He needs to deport all so-called rapists and criminals and clamp down on filthy liberals once and for all. The situation Trump put himself in gives him no option but indiscriminate violence, which will inevitably cause public uproar and galvanize resistance. At this rate a Boston Massacre is likely inevitable.

I said right-wing, not Russia.

Oh you're right, my bad.

But now that you mention it, the MUh boTH sides false equivalence fallacy is textbook Russian IRA troll farm tactics though.

Because the Democrats weren't supporting Israel's genocide just as vigorously as the Republicans? Remember the North Gaza offensive? The war with Lebanon? Bombing the shit out of Syria? Bombing Yemen? Sometimes equivalence can be true, too.

disinfo ops

Just saying, this destroys any point you might have had. Genocide isn't Russian disinformation.