@RemoteCEO2021@everybittexas@Randaroo1212 Humans are deceitful, hateful, and violent. I don't think I need to explain how they can so easilly and intentionally manipulate and cheat.
Does the study ignore the fact that during the settlement period of the Americas (the 16th and 17th centuries), volcanic activity was heavily speeding up. It did not slow down. If the study did not account for that and subtract an estimable cooling effect caused by that volcanic activity, then it's not telling the truth.
Humans are worse than AI at conducting studies, because the animalistic drive and political strife, which AI doesn't carry except as part of training from human patterns.
You have to provide a scientific mechanism explaining the function in order to legitimately make the claim. Otherwise, you don't even have what qualifies as a theory. It's just propaganda.
@RemoteCEO2021@everybittexas@Randaroo1212 Your claim about changing global temperatures is a mis-attribution. Global temperatures were already in mid-swing. What exactly do you suppose the mechanism is behind the deaths of tens of millions of tribal people and changing global temperatures?
Crickets?
I'll highlight the pivitol point, here:
"fairer comparison is deliberate massacres, mass killings, and policies of targeted destruction" (citations follow).
Demonstrating that by direct aggression, Islam is the greater threat.
"the ~50–56 million figure from the UCL study was overwhelmingly driven by virgin-soil epidemics"
Then you don't contest any of these points? That the majority of those deaths due to Europeans settling in the Americas, that the majority of those deaths were incidental, not deliberate?
And you also don't contest the citation of the massacres committed intentionally by Muslims?
Shoot the AI messenger, but the message is still there.
The post-1492 Americas depopulation (the ~50–56 million figure from the UCL study) was overwhelmingly driven by virgin-soil epidemics. Direct intentional violence, warfare, slavery, and forced labor contributed, but they were secondary. There is no comparable large-scale “Muslim contact with immunologically naïve populations” that produced a similar disease-driven demographic collapse, so the fairer comparison is deliberate massacres, mass killings, and policies of targeted destruction.
- Timur (Tamerlane): Multiple well-attested massacres in the tens to low hundreds of thousands (Isfahan ~70,000, Delhi prisoners ~100,000, Baghdad ~90,000). Total intentional deaths over his ~35 years of campaigns are estimated in the low millions by more cautious historians. The oft-repeated 17 million figure is not supported by specialists.
- Delhi Sultanate and related campaigns in India: Specific massacres are recorded (e.g., ~30,000 at Chittor under Alauddin Khalji; another ~30,000 under Akbar; Timur’s 100,000 prisoners). Chroniclers describe large-scale killings and enslavements during conquests. - Cumulative intentional deaths over centuries run into the millions, but claims of 60–80 million total (K.S. Lal and others) are widely disputed by historians due to weak pre-census demographic data and circular reasoning.
-Armenian Genocide (Ottoman Empire, 1915–16): A clear case of intentional state policy involving massacres, death marches, and engineered deprivation. Mainstream estimates range from roughly 600,000–1.5 million deaths (most commonly cited around 1–1.2 million).
-Other examples include various Ottoman-era massacres of Christians, large-scale slave raids in Africa and elsewhere over centuries, and episodes under various Muslim dynasties.
Muslim-led forces carried out large-scale intentional massacres and genocidal campaigns (Timur’s terror campaigns, Indian conquest massacres, the Armenian Genocide, etc.). These rank among the higher pre-modern intentional death tolls.
@biigrem FYI: I don't want to spend my life working to support your freedom to not work. I want to spend time in my garden, with my family, experiencing life, etc. as well.
Why don't we just make everything free?
The Little Ice Age (roughly 1300–1870, with coldest phases in the 16th–17th centuries) was driven mainly by clusters of volcanic eruptions (which inject cooling aerosols), reduced solar activity (Grand Solar Minima), and ocean/sea-ice feedbacks. The Americas reforestation is treated as a contributing anthropogenic factor to the CO₂ dip and one of the colder intervals, not the main trigger. The cooling began before major European contact effects. Later ice-core work has generally supported a role for land-use change, though magnitude and regional uniformity (e.g., in the Amazon) remain debated.
Not from mass murder.
@IrmitasK@MaximumOrdinate And I was saying that's like saying that polygamy can't be practiced, because US law prohibits it. But it still happens among communities that self-regulate. Hence, Sharia can be implemented in a similar manner as Mormon's practice their polygamy.
@TomForsythe7@filsdelenin@KevinHo05444941 Which one? The attack on Churchill? Or Stalin? Oh, yeah, both of them. But neither of them is an ad hominem to the original post. It's perfectly fair criticism.
@filsdelenin You're right. This is about the greed of those who want to take what they haven't earned. And a billionaire doesn't typically hold their wealth in liquid assets. It's not just free money for you to pick like apples from a tree.
What does "eat the rich" mean?