https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war As of 30 July 2025, over 63,000 people (61,805 Palestinians[4] and 1,983 Israelis[c]) have been reported killed in the Gaza war. The vast majority of Palestinian deaths were civilians. If I had to guess the majority of Israeli deaths were at the start of the conflict. At this point however many combatants left are not an effective army. I won't say Hamas does not exist or is not awful, but this is far more of a slaughter than a war.
I would honestly be surprised if there were enough proud boys to make up a majority of ice... though what do I know. i don't have a source and if I had to guess they had looser background checks on ICE agents to fill the ranks making it hard to find a statistic. I could be wrong, this is literally a guess.
Thanks. I really think there are enough reasons to be grumpy without needing to add misleading ones. That doesn't mean every tip is wrong of course, but people should understand the context for things.
The idea of a deficit is not horrible, but I personally think we reached an excessive point where too much of our budget goes to paying debt. Instead of saving in good times and spending in bad times, we are just spending all the time and I question our priorities. As an aside, for some reason things like removing lead from pipes are "too expensive" even if they are a net positive for the budget over time.
As a follow up, https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2003/06/03/chapter-1-post-war-opinions/ is interesting. It is not post WWII but at least somewhat recently (well, 20 years ago) America was rather well liked by allied countries most of the time.
Did France really have a low opinion of America right after the end of world war two? As an American who honestly gets people being really angry at America now, that stands out to me as odd. Well, I suppose I could try to google it, though I don't know if there are good surveys from back then that can easily be found.
Fair enough. Either way I would rather see the video myself rather than be told he did not move. His reaction most certainly did not show he cared, though I like the video with more context rather than an image/text suggesting he did not even turn to look?
Thanks for this. The text about him not moving is clearly wrong. From my perspective he seems more curious than anything else, though reading too much into someone silently watching is probably pointless. I honestly would not be surprised if he did not care, but there are enough reasons to dislike him without making things up.
Yup, and that is insane. I understand the danger of critical roles being empty, but if someone is not allowed to strike, their job had better take care of them... but for obvious reasons the opposite seems to happen.
Rising* Falling is incorrect.
As a follow up, if we look globally, https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/06/09/how-the-global-religious-landscape-changed-from-2010-to-2020/ Muslims and the Religiously unaffiliated are outpacing christian growth (note, growth, as in rate of change which by percentage is falling, though with population growth the absolute number is rising). As for what this means... that is up to you. I just figured this was useful context.
First, I don't want to wade into the mess of whether religion is good or bad as I believe it is a fairly complex and subjective issue I can't really talk about in a random comment section (and I would need to spend time gathering sources) but https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-religious-composition-has-changed-in-recent-decades/ At least in the united states the percentage of people who are unaffiliated with any religion seems to be falling.
Culturally I feel like there was a rapid change, but our current situation seems to be the blow back from the same rasism and fear for immigrants we have always had.
I can't help but feel like America has always been like this. During WWII we also had brutal legal discrimination (see the civil rights movement and so on) and I remember there was a high profile event where Jewish refugees were denied asylum as Hitler was ramping up his actions. I wonder if the America of that time would have joined WWII if we were not attacked. Also, Japanese internment camps were both pointless and an incredible loss of freedom and property for those targeted.
I remember something like look the south was blue and now its red as the justification for the swap but as a kid I did not really study the map well enough to remember it now. I just noted it sounded kind of crazy. On the flip side my AP US teacher was amazing.
I was pretty lucky though I still remember one teacher instructing us that the media sided with democrats and swapped their color from red to blue because of communism being red. (I think it was based on old campaign maps from when the southern democrat was a thing but it has been to long to remember). Of note I do know that not everything was color coded consistently in the past/I am sure democrats were sometimes red but I don't think it was a conspiracy to paint republicans as communists.
As someone from the US I sadly understand this. I can't help but worry that the trend here will echo out elsewhere as the rise of extreme right wing parties seems to be becoming more common.
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Both parties suck and there is corruption within both of them. I 100% agree, though the take away can't be we have no power and should not vote. Also, at least regarding corruption I feel trump as personally pushed his party into far more blatant corruption than the dems have. Most dems seem to be fine taking campaign money from corporations and maintaining an unfair status quo, but Trump seems to be seeking out opportunities for blatant corruption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war As of 30 July 2025, over 63,000 people (61,805 Palestinians[4] and 1,983 Israelis[c]) have been reported killed in the Gaza war. The vast majority of Palestinian deaths were civilians. If I had to guess the majority of Israeli deaths were at the start of the conflict. At this point however many combatants left are not an effective army. I won't say Hamas does not exist or is not awful, but this is far more of a slaughter than a war.
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I don't know the specifics of development by age but there is certainly a point where really young kids can't judge other's perspectives well. I could be wrong but it is possibly her favorite color was pink and she could not put herself in another's perspective.
To be clear I am not arguing the core idea of the original post, but debating some of the pieces of it.
I have seen this posted many times, and that is the one part I really think should be removed. Kids can be criminals as well. Legitimate cases are probably uncommon but I am sure some 16 year old has committed a serious crime before.
I saw this, did not recognize Borowitz, and double checked Santos's wiki/the news to confirm (or in this case not confirm). Checking comments might have been faster. I honestly thought it was possible as corruption seems to be pretty common now (and I only vaguely remembered Santos as having a bad reputation related to corruption). At this point I feel like a satire stamp on articles might be useful.
Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group. There are certainly other definitions... but I don't see the point of your comment.
While the legality or lack there of is not really what I consider important (there can be unjust laws and so on) I am not aware of any legal option within the constitution for states seceding. Also, if I recall the first battle was fort sumter (spelling?) where a fort within the confederacy occupied by (union? federal? non traitors?) was attacked, which is not legal or peaceful. The first battle was started by the confederacy.
There have been cases of doctors getting kickbacks for prescribing opiods in the USA so in theory someone (Not a company that financially benefits from denying care) should have some oversight into treatment, though an insurance company that effectively saves money for every denial is probably the worst option to do so.
Looking solely at an election for an analysis of all humans may not be wise, yet I do believe it speaks to some fundamental truths about humanity. Humans can be easily made to fear those they see as different and notions of the universal value of human life can quickly fade when faced with a manufactured external enemy. That fear of outsiders may not be the same among all people, but I believe all societies are somewhat vulnerable to it.