u/neilnelly

Nakba means ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic. The Nakba was not a day-long event. It was a process that unfolded over twenty months with escalating violence. The Nakba started months before the State of Israel was declared in May 1948.

You see, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181 in 1947, which proposed diving old Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states. Jewish leadership accepted this Resolution naturally, but Arab leadership understandably rejected it as an unfair violation of indigenous rights. In other words, the Resolution sold out the Palestinians. It basically meant that Israel had a mechanism by which to expel many, many Palestinians from their homes. The Resolution was absolutely idiotic, because it allowed outsiders to take land that was never really theirs in the first place. What right does Israel have to exist when it is on Palestinian land? Is it because it was written in a book that has a story of a huge boat that carried male-female pairs of all land animals on Earth and that was self-sufficient for almost year on the seas?

What right does the UN General Assembly have in deciding who gets to keep their home or not? It’s as if I came to your home, pushed you out and told you that I have full right to expel you because the local baker gave me authority. It’s absurd.

Today, there are six million Palestinian refugees worldwide, where many still live in camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. This could have been completely avoided if the UN General Assembly was rational and did not uphold imperialistic, racist mandates.

I understand that this is a provocative complaint, but it’s true. You can’t understand the founding of Israel without understanding the Nakba and Resolution 181. The founding of Israel was not a fairy tale by any means. It was far darker.

Believe it or not, a prominent Israeli group is suing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over its Nakba exhibit. It’s insane. The truth is being censored.

I find it curious that Israel, which has such a dodgy beginning and rationally flimsy reason to exist, is pronounced “is real.” If you look at the facts, one would be more inclined to pronounce it “not real.”

Now, I am not calling for hate against Israel and its people. My goal is help demystify the origins of Israel and spread truth, even if it not spoken about much.

Interestingly, I posted a year back about video of Dr. Grande talking about the edge one has in life if they are physically attractive. You can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ugly/s/pQB5soS20x

The Voting Rights Act was a beautiful thing. It was a light from a country that was and is so steeped in racism. Justice Thomas, along with his conservative justices, gutted essentially the last meaningful part of the Act. He basically took his feces and threw it at the nonwhites in America when he made that vote. That’s the physical equivalent, I must say.

Thomas will be remembered as one of the greatest sellouts to coloured people in modern history.

It is absolutely disgusting to see that a repeated child sex offender like Maxwell getting special treatment when she ruined the lives of so many minors. To think that the warden is being her concierge and that the prison goes upside down for her whenever she gets visitors is vomit-inducing.

All of this is a slap in the face of the already downtrodden Epstein survivors. All of this is a slap in the face of all that is good in the world.

All of this points to one thing. Trump was a part of the network. It’s without a shadow of a doubt now.

As someone who has dealt with severe mental health issues, I can attest to the power of modern psychology and psychiatry in getting me to a place where I am stable. However, it does not end there. There is still the last step of the alley-oop — and that is living according to the Dhamma, the core teachings of the Buddha.

The Dhamma — the sole path beyond ego, psychological suffering and inauthenticity — namely includes these concepts: the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Five Precepts, the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, the Three Poisons, the Five Hindrances, the Five Remembrances, the Middle Way, the Three Marks of Existence, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Emptiness, the Two Arrows and the Parable of the Poisoned Arrow. The Dhamma allows us to be our authentic selves fluently. The Dhamma provides relief from psychological suffering and the ego.

The Dhamma gives modern psychology and psychiatry meaning. Modern psychology and psychiatry give the Dhamma meaning.

While it is theoretically possible to just do the dunk with Secular Buddhism alone and not need the help of modern psychology or psychiatry, there are nonetheless many cases where underlying mental health issues preclude one to pursue the Dhamma fully. This is where modern psychology and psychiatry come in. They fill the gap, getting one to a place where they can go all the way in discovering their peace and authenticity — to embrace buddhahood and find sorely needed relief.

Secular Buddhism goes very well with modern psychology and psychiatry — and that is noteworthy. Truly, science and the Dhamma are in harmony.

Now, I am a leftist, and I am concerned with many, many things Trump has done. You can get a taste of my predisposition by looking at this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/complaints/s/9xRm9p0LHq

However, for the sake of intellectual curiosity, one can be compelled to ask the question, “What are the positive things done by Trump? Surely, he must have done something positive!”

I also want to add a caveat. Just because Trump did positive things, they do not necessarily mean they are sufficient. They could just be the lesser evils, at the end of the day. You can rationalize that most positive things he has done were just the least negative things.

Here is a list of things some people would call positive:

- Trump Accounts ($1,000 initial deposit for newborns)
- No tax on tips
- No tax on overtime
- Senior support: $6,000 tax deductions
- The Israeli-Hamas ceasefire

This post aims to come across as non-partisan. This is purely an academic question.

In the near future, I will ask the opposite. I will ask what were the top two negative things Trump has done in his current term so far. I am sure you can guess what one of my answers will be, if you looked at the above post.

Thanks for taking part, dear Americans!

It absolutely crazy to think that the world’s richest man, an utter racist, could be one of modern time’s most lethal murderers. USAID was only a pittance from the federal budget, and, yet, it saved so many lives. It is estimated that at least 90 million lives were saved because of the organization. Now, at least one million lives have been projected to have been lost so far, with more on the way, sadly.

It is a spit on all of our faces from Elon to see him edge closer to being a trillionaire and to note the death and suffering that has been caused by him, while seeing him get away with doing two Nazi salutes for all to see, as this supposedly rare angle from the video shows.

Trump also has his blood on his hands for allowing Elon to gut USAID. They both are mass murderers, in a way. Their lethality is up there with Putin, to put things into context.

Future historians will not be kind to Elon (and Trump). No matter how much Elon may give to charity, it will not remove the stench of his white supremacy and the million-plus deaths he played a hand in facilitating.

Elon represents one of the greatest injustices of modern times. It sends the message that you can still profit bigly even when you work to kill the poorest in mass numbers with a racist touch.

If Iran was a secular democracy like Portugal, the country would be way wealthier. The country has the third largest proven oil reserves. It’s insane how leaders who wanted to be closer to Islam could screw over its people so much!

Apologists could say “What about Saudi Arabia and the like?” Well, let me tell you that they are not as compliant of Islam as Iran. Because of Iran’s higher compliance to Islam, the leaders screwed it up for everyday Iranians.

Islam is poison.

What are your thoughts?

Before MAGA goes down my throat because I characterized Trump as at least a proven enabler of pedophilia, have a look at this complaint: https://www.reddit.com/r/complaints/s/5ANJYzLYBI

So, for a guy who supposedly is serving his Country, it is pretty convenient for Trump that he almost tripled his net worth since he took office the second time, while already being a billionaire going in. Essentially all of his extra wealth have come from grifts, dishonourable ways to get money. Trump has totally exploited the power of the presidency to serve his financial interests. It’s disgusting.

While enabling pedophilia is disgusting as it is, Trump has the nerve to go further: he will also grift for more money. The nerve! He is utterly shameless!

Trump needs to be held accountable for his corruption. If Trump gets away with it, it sends a very sick message: being at least a proven enabler of pedophilia can pay off in the end. For the sake of all that is good, Trump needs to go to prison!

Trump is an utter disgrace to humanity. Future historians will not be kind to him. He will be remembered as the most corrupt president, by far. It’s watergate everyday for Trump. That’s how bad it has gotten.

Source of graphic: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/s/g7v06sPaxj

It is crazy to think that this letter was fabricated, as Trump and his loyalists contend. It was included in a bounded book compiled in 2003. Are you telling me some psychic snuck in this letter more than twenty years ago? It makes no sense! The letter is legitimate! Trump is at the very least an enabler of pedophilia, and this is a very charitable characterization.

MAGA, I personally want to thank you for bringing almost certainly a pedophile into the White House. You all did great! /s

Some people think that DEI automatically means you are hiring someone suboptimal. They think those who are hired because of DEI are not sufficient. They think DEI means screwing over the white person. They will call it racist. Charlie Kirk once said that he would second guess flying on a plane piloted by a black person all because of DEI.

DEI is a good thing. Even though Trump has crapped on it, there are still many good people who sent a message. Costco got a big boost in business because they did not bend the knee to Trump’s anti-DEI demands. Target, on the other hand, took a big hit because the CEO chose to kiss the ring.

If you meet someone and they treat DEI as a controversial thing, you have every right to educate them, I feel.

Long live DEI, regardless of which demographic group holds majority status!

MAGA are so pathetic! They will get the poo of tariffs, high gas prices, potential rejection from Obamacare, and Trump’s grift thrown at them non-stop; and yet, they will count their blessings that it wasn’t wet, slimy diarrhea poo. Why? It’s because of their racism. They are so hooked on their white supremacist agendas that they would even eat Trump’s poo if it meant Trump would ban DEI nationwide, for example.

MAGA are pathetic!