Yeah I saw the video and pictures a little bit after I commented and I think taking that kind of thing and putting it side by side with Auschwitz is a much better side by side.
Also it's cots of 2, just normal bunk beds, not 3. 3 was what it was like down in El Salvador. Not that that matters much but yeah.
They're definitely concentration camps but I don't think this is a good way to draw the comparison, you could easily do the same side by side with FEMA camps (temporary housing) after a natural disaster. Something that the conspiracy oriented people have been doing for a long while.
Let's have a close up of it as a comparison, not just one of the roofs. There's just better ways to do this.
"let's divide the LGBTQ community by making the T kill themselves or be forcefully detransitioned so then we can go after the ones that are left afterwards"
They want people like me and those I love to kill ourselves because it's cheaper for them than sticking us in camps then they can get to going after the gays. The depressing reality is that there is going to be a sharp rise in trans suicides soon, especially if the ban on Medicaid hrt coverage goes through. Many say death before detransition and they fucking mean it.
And it's hard to exist in this country as a trans person right now and not just be terrified and feel like taking the easy way out. Even if it's what they want.
I think the biggest problem with your point is that these specific religions have core tenants that center around converting people and "saving" them. Because of that people will always be able to use whatever rationale they want to justify how they're trying to save people when they're bigoted towards them.
You might say that religion and faith isn't the problem, and you're right that it shouldn't be the problem. But right now, it is the problem. Right now religion is used around the world to purely spread bigotry under the guise of "saving" the people they're being bigoted towards.
In order for religion to not be used this way they would require massive reforms that would help push them towards a more genuinely accepting existence. But that won't happen. At least not in any of our lifetimes. These religions are so old that they get to move as slow as they fucking want to when it comes to modernization.
Religion is being used constantly as justification for being horrible people and allows followers to think they have the literal creator of the Universe behind them. There is no world that exists in the next hundred or several hundred years that does not continue to have religion be used for horrible horrible things.
So fuck it. Are there some good people in there who just happen to believe in God? Absolutely. But religion as an organized structure is really fucking over modern society.
I think his campaign succeeding would more be a way to show his kind of message and campaign tactics are actually viable both in general and against establishment Dems as opposed to it somehow making a big difference in the country. If he succeeds he's laying the track for others to follow.
But there were queer voices speaking for the campaign. There weren't really trans people, even though there should have been. But there were definitely queer voices being out there. Also many many progessives campaigned for her as well. Fuckin hell Tim Waltz is an incredibly progressive governor and he was on the ticket.
As for Palestinian voices, sure. Those should have been there absolutely. But them not being there doesn't somehow invalidate that there still was a coalition of people trying to join together to fight against Fascists.
That's fair. People were definitely looking for any excuse.
This is something that really bothered me about the recent election. It was clear that Cheney was only campaigning with Harris because she wanted to stop Trump not because she agreed with the policies of Harris. She was still a believer in "Republican" policies but understood the danger of Trump winning and did what she could to make him lose.
The left then said that because she was being put out there by the Harris campaign as someone who would help get people to vote for her that must have meant she agreed with all of Harris's policies. Which means Harris must have been a Republican and had all Republican policies despite her having multiple rather progressive policies that the majority of people support.
Instead of having the completely rational thought that if a shitty Republican like Cheney refuses to vote for Trump and says we should all vote against him then that's a positive and should help convince independents and non voters that this was such an important election, they ignored that and made BS assumptions and accusations about the entire Harris campaign. It fucking sucked.
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That's not actually true. He won with 49.8% of the vote and Harris got 48.3%. So he didn't even win a majority.
I got so fucking excited seeing this that I went to see if I could buy tickets only to find out that no, in fact, it is not the 10th anniversary this year. That it was the 10th anniversary and in theaters almost 2 years ago. I am now very disappointed.
I mean thanks for the information that I already knew. I don't quite understand the point of your comment though cause we agree on this, that it's a concentration camp.
Edit: I was talking about using aerial photos for the comparison being bad not comparing the current concentration camp that was just built in Florida to other concentration camps being bad. In case that's your misunderstanding of what I was talking about.