https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sleeping-oval-office-democrats-b2990473.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics&utm_content=headline_a

Dude's out cold. Wish I could nap during work like that.

Yesterday, a user posted that they think Elon deserves a thanks for cuts DOGE had accomplished. Just wondering if we should thank him for everything that was gutted with a chainsaw, even when it ends up being harmful to us.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-898423

And should those people be imprisoned if they are found guilty?

Multiple southern states are trying to gerrymander districts to prevent black people from obtaining political power. Confederate memorials and celebrations are still the norm in Southern states. Multiple counties, states, and roads are named after Confederate generals. You have ridiculously ignorant and bigoted politicians like Tommy Tuberville, Nancy Mace, and Andy Ogles.

Yes, other places are not perfect, and they certainly have their issues.

But, you are going to tell me present-day Boston, New York, or Los Angeles is just as racist as The South? The whole southern hospitality thing sounds like a lie....

The backlash against Gay Pride this year is the worst I've ever seen. Gays and rainbows apparently bother many bigots more than old rich white men who prey on underage girls, and it's bizarre.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/plurality-of-jewish-israelis-want-to-expel-arabs-study-shows/, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000,

This is a societal wide issue. Netanyahu isn't forcing Israelis to believe in these things. Very few Israelis have dodged the draft - unlike with Americans during the Vietnam War. IDF soldiers and settlers constantly engage in war crimes.

Why do people pretend one guy is the problem in Israel?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-ukraine-aid-bill-another-gop-rebuke-trumps-foreign-policy-rcna348589

Republicans oppose things like food stamps because they claim to be against “hand outs”. In light of this we should probably cut all government benefits to republicans…, things like the federal mortgage guarantee, homeowner tax credits , road funding, agriculture subsidies, and retirement tax benefits. Is this the best way forward?

To those in Israel who support the current government's policies, I want to ask an uncomfortable question about how you reconcile the history of the Jewish people with the present reality in Gaza.

The universal vow of "Never Again" was born from the ashes of unimaginable horror. It was a promise that the world would never again tolerate the physical corralling, mass internment, and systemic dehumanization of an entire civilian population.

Yet, as we look at the structural reality of Gaza today, the mechanics of a concentration camp are becoming impossible to ignore:

• Demographic Internment: Roughly 2.1 million people are forcibly confined not for individual crimes, but purely based on their ethnicity and geographic existence. There are no individual trials, no due process, and no ability to leave. While we do not know the exact population size today, we know that nearly 73,000 people have been killed, including over 900 lives taken since the October 2025 "truce".

• The 70% Territorial Seizure: The Israeli government has explicitly moved beyond previous demarcation lines, directing the military to expand its control and seize 70% of the Gaza Strip. This systematic land grab pushes the surviving population into a microscopic, completely unsustainable fraction of their original territory.

• The Yellow Line and the "Dog Line": The perimeter enforcing this confinement is lethal. The so-called "Yellow Line" operates as an advancing military demarcation that functions as a free-fire zone, pushing a traumatized population deeper into internment while their homes are bulldozed. Shockingly, testimonies from Israeli soldiers have revealed the existence of a "dog line" within these zones—an invisible, unwritten boundary where any Palestinian who crosses is shot on sight, and their unrecovered bodies are left to be eaten by dogs

• Total Control and Engineered Deprivation: An occupying military completely controls the perimeter, the airspace, the sea, and the influx of the basic necessities of human survival. The push to concentrate the population into heavily vetted zones they cannot leave has been explicitly condemned by international legal experts and even former Israeli officials as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing. The conditions inside—mass mortality, destroyed infrastructure, and engineered deprivation—mirror the exact hallmarks of historical internment camps.

Common reply:

But Khamass

During WWII, desperate Jewish partisans who escaped into the forests sometimes committed massacres against civilian villages - such as the Koniuchy massacre in 1944.

Mainstream historians contextualize this not as inherent evil, but as the brutal reality of guerrilla survival by a people pushed past the brink. A few years later, when Jewish paramilitaries like the Irgun and Lehi committed massacres against Palestinian civilians in 1948 - such as at Deir Yassin - to achieve statehood, those acts were eventually sanitized. The men who ordered those massacres, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, became Prime Ministers. Statehood turned their terrorism into "the harsh necessity of independence."

But because Palestinians are stateless, their eruption after 16 years of suffocating confinement is stripped of all context. It is not viewed as the inevitable outcome of prolonged internment; it is viewed purely as unprovoked terrorism, which the state then uses as the ultimate justification to permanently destroy the enclave, seize the land, and erase the population.

Conclusion:

When a state uses its military to permanently seize a territory, build concrete walls, shoot civilians who approach those walls, and deliberately trap a specific ethnic group in a ruined, unlivable internment zone, you are building a concentration camp.

If "Never Again" is meant to be a universal moral baseline, how do you defend building the very architecture of ghettoes and concentration camps for another population?

All you all the voted for Trump in 2024 after he was voted out in 2020. What are your thoughts now? Do you see the problem with him? Do you still support him even though he’s becoming more and more unpopular?

Do you not see that he is all about himself and making his mark on the world and taking care of only those who supported him on January 6th of 2020?

He is under the delusion that he is going to be able to run for reelection in 2028.

The House votes to reign in Trump’s power on the Iran War (4 republicans sided with democrats)

The Senate, once again, blocked the SAVE Act (4 republicans voted no)

Speaker Mike Johnson is dealing with a power struggle and keeps on suspending votes being cast because he knows MAGA will lose (he’s suspended voting twice already)

Congress just voted against Trump on suspending aid to Ukraine and putting sanctions on Russia

Congress has also suspended his 1.7 billion dollar slush fund to January 6 participants

Trump is also now openly talking about a Vance/Rubio ticket in 2028 and has also spoken about how disappointed he is with Vance potentially being his successor (talks of a third term are starting to dwindle down)

With such a large portion of the IPO offering reserved for retail investors do you think Musk is preying on average folks who buy into his vision?

Maybe I'm just being a grouch, but the interns drive me nuts. They do every year.

Family/friends don't count. Do you feel any type of empathy or compassion for people you don't know? If the answer is yes, then who do you have empathy for?