Fucking clsss traitors, man.

Okay I know history repeats itself, but this is way too on the nose.

This is the only practical way to make Nazi Germany happen in America. Either Americans will fold, hence Nazi Germany, or they’ll bite and you have a civil war/revolution they hope to bring about Nazi Germany by suppressing.

Well then do something about it, because this is happening with your tax dollars.

Some people on the left: We gotta vote for neolibs or the world will literally end!!!

Neolibs the second they don’t get their way:

Wow, leave it to liberals to object to someone not supporting the murder of their friends and family.

Yes, that is the only reason one would want to distinguish between violence in the interest of self-determination and violence in the interest of robbing from others self-determination.

Fair enough.

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.

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?

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?

Welp, goodbye Russia, you had a good run.

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.

These numbers seem pretty high, though.

that was “maybe it’s for the better that we don’t drain this swamp yet, we are starting to live better” kind of popularity.

Exactly. My point is that Putin had no reason to worry about being overthrown within a year of taking power because Russia simply did not and does not have that kind of popular energy. Therefore, he could sit on his ass and be a rightwing oligarch. Meanwhile Trump is closer to the Hitler model of a fascist taking over a country with strong popular resistance. There’s currently no strong popular resistance to Trump don’t get me wrong, but sooner or later there will be, so he (or rather whoever is pulling the strings in the White House) needs to have Nazi levels of preparation if he wants to enforce fascism on America. It goes without saying that there will be no “we are starting to live better” under Trump. Basically I’m doubting the black hole theory because now that Trump is in power he needs to create his own SS to crush whatever resistance will pop up; right now he simply doesn’t have the resources to respond if all blue states become LA.

Because whenever a religious person or entity does a bad thing internet atheists are quick to say “see? This is PROOF that religion SUCKS! This would NEVER happen in an ATHEIST utopia,” sometimes coupled with a call to ban religion or something equally insane. Sometimes you gotta point out the hypocrisy. I wish I was making this up, but yeah.