The moral of this article is not to show that Muslims were humanistic and Christians were brutal, but that tolerance is far better than vengeance.
ChatGPT & me:
The Crusaders laid waste to much of Palestine and tried to erase Arab culture. They burned all the books on religion, science, and literature that they could find and murdered or exiled people who wouldn’t renounce their religion and convert to Christianity.
Salidin united a lot of Arab tribes and drove the Crusaders out. Then, surprisingly, he founded the Ayyubid Empire which was characterized by tolerance of all religions and nationalities. It was a golden age of peace, prosperity, science, literature, fine art, and free trade until overthrown by the Mamluks after 79 years.
With 0.2% of the population and 22% of the Nobel Prizes, Jews are arguably the smartest people on the planet.
It’s a crying, miserable, suffering shame that they haven’t yet come up with a peaceful solution to their Lebensraum problem.
I have a dream:
- The nations of the world unite in the fight against climate change.
- War becomes obsolete.
- Nuclear armaments get repurposed into a safe, inexpensive, nearly inexhaustible, Thorium-based source of energy. We could use a small amount of the energy to blast the radioactive waste into space.
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Trump’s a perp in history’s biggest scam by far. Our government diverted $50 trillion from the working class to the rich. Half the people have 2.5% of the nation’s wealth. The American Dream is all but dead.
His continuing tax policy, tariffs, trade war, and budget cuts are making the situation still worse. National happiness is low.
If we the people all understood that, hundreds of millions of people would be furious. We’d be messaging Congress by the millions.
Messages for Congress
- Immediately remove Trump from office
- Stop the trade war.
- Restore the budget cuts.
- Restore pre-Reagan income tax codes.
- Levy a progressive wealth tax
- Enforce the 20th century protections for working class wealth
- Advocate extradition for Bibi and the other Middle-East war criminals.
We could use the money to improve access to health care and education, fight climate change, increase social security, support public health, FAA, NOAA, NASA, USAID, medical research, pure science, and public institutions.
If there’s inefficiency, waste, or corruption we should deal with it on an individual basis and not risk throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Let’s go for it!
If our Congress members don’t act, we can make sure that their replacements will.
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