NoneOfUrBusiness

You're not supposed to say you're boycotting Israel is the point, I think. Look up anti-BDS laws; this is already a thing in quite a few states.

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.

A lot of wealthy families believe philanthropy should fill these gaps, but that’s not going to cut it. Charity has its place. Private philanthropic initiatives can take risks and innovate in ways that the government’s financial controls and political concerns don’t allow. For example, I’m putting money into marine electrification—funding research, engineering and infrastructure to shift boats and ships away from fossil fuels. This is a new and niche part of the climate fight, where private efforts can actually move the needle. But, at the end of the day, only the Canadian government has the scale and breadth to lift all Canadians up to a better standard of living. Just as importantly, the Canadian government is accountable for its spending to all Canadians. A democratically elected government that demands the wealthy reinvest in this country—instead of waiting for them to pick and choose their own spending priorities—is the only solution to our biggest economic issues.

The person who wrote the article is using their wealth for good according to the article, but more importantly as he says only the government has the scale to use the 0.1%'s wealth for the benefit of all Canadians. This is about more than just wealth; we're talking infrastructure, knowhow, flexibility, scalability, legitimacy and a whole host of other factors here. Philanthropy is a bandaid, but it's not a sustainable solution because it's ultimately predicated on the whims of an individual. And again, to repeat: "Never have to work again in my life" money and "literally change the world" money are completely different scale. The person who wrote the article seems to be the former, not the latter.

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.

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.