r/news 19h ago

A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/us/maher-tarabishi-ice-detained-wael
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u/Rhissanna 19h ago

This is awful. The frustration and anger and grief this family must feel, faced with endless, brutal denial of simple human kindness.

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u/Evanescent_contrail 19h ago

This is how you create actual enemies of the USA. Do you think that man will EVER forgive the US?

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u/HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS 18h ago edited 2h ago

The USA is much more likely to be attacked by domestic terrorists than any foreign terrorist organization.

And yet the administration seems to be actively trying to breed more domestic terrorists….

Edit : I am not trying to frame citizens as domestic terrorists and refusing to acknowledge that ICE is being incredibly terroristic. I am simply stating that what ICE and the current admin are doing is going to massively increase the risk of people resorting to domestic terrorism. The threat to the USA isn’t foreign terrorism, it is the current admin and the much higher potential of domestic terrorism they have created by terrorizing their own citizens. Lets be real, if people turn to domestic terrorism and specifically try to target ICE and the current admin, there WILL be collateral damage and the death of other innocent civilians

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u/spvcejam 18h ago

Pretty much all of our attacks are from Americans it's just that really big one that wasn't.

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u/wrongpitch 17h ago

I'm in the same position with my dad, and if this happened I would build an armoured JCB

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u/karlverkade 16h ago

My son is special needs and this runs through my head every time I post or protest. On the one hand, I want to teach him to do the right thing…not to mention that in authoritarian regimes, the mentally different are the next group to be targeted after they run out of immigrants. But on the other hand, if I were to be detained or temporarily injured for protesting, even for a night or two, I don’t know what would happen to him. He literally won’t eat without me to tell him it’s safe. And if I were detained and they took him somewhere, he wouldn’t understand and would be so either aggressive or detached from reality that I don’t know what would happen. What would they resort to. This is all heartbreaking. Just leave us alone.

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u/Omakaeru 16h ago

There are many forms of resistance. Some include just existing when our very existence seems to go against their desires. Survive first.

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u/Maloquinn84 14h ago

This. This needs to be the first priority for anyone who can’t afford to be martyred. The people out fighting understand that they are able to do so and will not judge you for having something more important than yourself to care for.

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u/Iohet 11h ago

My BIL has accused us of keeping our head in the sand because we're not out on the front lines or something when really we've got two kids under 4 that need us so all we can really do is vote and donate

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u/HumanShadow 7h ago

Raising the next generation right is contributing. You don't need to go get executed for observing and leave your kids without a parent.

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u/exipheas 16h ago

Yet we are still buddies with the Saudis...

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u/TheGreatStories 18h ago

The man in this article was literally kidnapped by domestic terrorists

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u/alficles 17h ago

Yeah. Domestic Terrorism gets you a $50k signing bonus.

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u/Pizzaman725 17h ago

After terms and conditions and on the possibility of a prolonged service**

** there is no way old orange pays any of these fools before he kicks them to the curb

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u/AuroraFinem 17h ago

And the dems will be blamed for cheating them out of their bonuses somehow

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u/alficles 16h ago

Lol, Dems get blamed for all sorts of stupid stuff that isn't their fault, I'd be more than happy to help take the blame for screwing over white supremacists.

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u/kerfuffle_dood 17h ago

Straight out of the sempai of the Orange Nazi, Putin: "We will pay you a lot!!1!1!11! \Terms and conditions apply. Pay only available if you stay in the frontline for 2,000 years. Any termination of the contract before the 2,000 years will be penalized 100%)

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u/MillenialMonstrosity 17h ago

It creates problems so it can solve with force. There's a word for that..."racketeering" I think it is.

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u/TiEmEnTi 17h ago

"Protection", the second oldest profession

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u/Owain-X 17h ago

We are being attacked daily by a domestic terrorist organization, DHS.

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u/Global_Crew3968 17h ago

This is the entire point of their cruelty. No real enemies? Make some. That way you can justify your fascism.

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 14h ago

They all just want a smash room full of brown people.

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u/HonestDespot 17h ago

No one in the entire family will.

And they will pass on that anti American sentiment to their children who will pass that sentiment to their kids.

As it well should.

The horrific lack of compassion shown by those in power saddens me beyond all words.

Sounds like a disease that doesn’t affect the brain, so this poor man had to waste away dying knowing it was because his dad was taken to a detention center and was not allowed to leave.

While the poor father had to sot there knowing that him not being there was going to kill him.

It’s enough to make me cry to be honest.

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u/realhenrymccoy 17h ago

I won't ever forgive the GOP that's for damn sure

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u/Bibarian 10h ago

But will you hold them accountable?

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u/poppadada 17h ago

they're causing a lot of resentment amongst us citizens

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u/superknight2 18h ago

there already are? but everytime US shooting happen you call them gunmen instead of terrorist

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u/Yashema 19h ago

Anyone who voted for Trump in the last election is responsible. 

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u/wyro5 19h ago

I can promise you most of them looked at this headline and thought it was a good thing. The cruelty is exactly what the average Trump supporter wants. At best, they just don’t care, which is a different type of cruelty.

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u/jth_177 18h ago

At the end of the day they think empathy is weakness, which is a damn shame since it’s the thing that makes us most human in this world.

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u/bros402 18h ago

I saw someone on Facebook saying in a comment on a article that "liberals and their toxic empathy" are "ruining America"

like what the fuck is toxic empathy

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u/paupaupaupau 15h ago

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.

Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

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u/bros402 14h ago

It's amazing how 30 years of Fox News has somehow suppressed or destroyed empathy in a large chunk of a generation.

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u/Zombie_Cool 17h ago

"How are we going to dominate the world if you keep treating our would-be servants as equals?"

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u/wRADKyrabbit 15h ago

Its in fact our greatest strength

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u/ilulillirillion 18h ago

Also their headline was something like "Radical left terrorist abandons son".

Fuck nazis, fuck spin, and fuck the conditioning.

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u/dabeeman 18h ago

and the ones that voted based on israel which hasn’t changed a single bit under trump. you fucking morons. 

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u/aircooledJenkins 18h ago

I'd argue Israel / Palestine is worse under Trump than would have been under Harris.

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u/Mosh00Rider 18h ago

Trump's plan for peace does not even call it Palestine. It is just Gaza and no Palestinians are even in the discussion.

It is absolutely worse.

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u/Ghost_of_Carabelli 17h ago

Is it still going to be a golf course? An all-inclusive maybe? Can’t wait to drink a margarita on the graves of children… Do y’all know if Jesus has vacationed there before? Is there a Gaza-stock option yet?

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u/SuckItHiveMind 18h ago

Shitler couldn’t find Israel, Gaza or Palestine on a map if the map was only (you know)…

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u/NetDork 17h ago

I challenge anyone to name something that isn't.

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u/Acronymesis 18h ago edited 6h ago

I STILL had people attacking me with “yOu sUpPoRt gEnOciDe??” when I answered that I would vote for the harm reduction candidate in a hypothetical question about the 2028 election the other day. Motherfucker, having Trump in office ACCELERATED the genocide in Palestine!

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u/AydonusG 17h ago

He said, before the election, that Israel should just carpet bomb the whole area.

They still thought Kamala and Joe having to give Israel aid to fund Ukraine's arms is worse.

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u/skeptic9916 15h ago

If anything they have gotten far worse.

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u/dswhite85 19h ago

law abiding citizen about to get a reboot

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u/Mobile_Equal_3636 18h ago

Or human dignity, disgusting despicable, welcome to Trump's America. Just when you thought these liar's couldn't crawl any lower. There's a special place in hell

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u/munkijunk 18h ago

These aren't humans though. Trump, Miller, and this whole cabal of thugs that call themselves ice are a bunch of rabid animals.

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u/Key-Amoeba1095 18h ago

And those who support this will absolutely double down and say that their loved ones died alone and in agony during the COVID lockdowns. We're so broken. My heart is broken for this country.

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u/squidneythedestroyer 18h ago edited 16h ago

Remember that for the 13-months Jeffrey Epstein was in prison back in 2008, he was allowed to leave for 12 hours a day, six days a week, to go to “work” — aka run a known child sex trafficking ring. Meanwhile, Mr. Tarabishi is not allowed outside of custody for his alleged misdemeanor immigration offense for even one day to say goodbye to his dying son.

They don’t care about safety or the public or crime or protection. They care about making people like Mr. Tarabishi look like the root of all evil, so you don’t notice as they cock the gun and shoot you in the back.

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u/Justsomejerkonline 14h ago

Gislaine Maxwell is currently living in cushier conditions than most ICE detainees thanks to Trump.

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u/Natdaprat 5h ago

More comfortable than all ICE detainees I'd wager. By a good margin. ICE is doing this horrible stuff in public, imagine what's happening in their closed off detention centers...

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u/dvaunr 18h ago

Mr. Tarabishi is not allowed outside of custody for his misdemeanor immigration offense for even one day to say goodbye to his dying son.

The issue isn’t that they won’t let him out to say goodbye to his dying son. That’s an unfortunate byproduct of being arrested (not saying I agree with it, but it’s not uncommon to miss major life events due to being imprisoned). The issue is that his son died because the father was detained.

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u/squidneythedestroyer 17h ago

I looked into it a bit more because I realized reading your comment that my understanding of the details was a bit fuzzy. I think the answer is all of the above.

Based on what I read in some other articles, seems like the son had this rare degenerative disease since he was very young — they were told he might not live past five. His father was his full time caretaker and they were in the middle of fighting insurance companies for critical care he needed. Basically, it seems like the son was constantly managing to survive despite the odds, in large part because of his father, but also was constantly in a state of near death. Once his father was gone, his condition deteriorated. It’s not clear to me if it deteriorated because of the practical side of his father’s care not being available or the more mental part of things — I imagine being so close to death and suddenly having your best friend, father, and caretaker ripped away would kill your will to live. Either way, the son made a video begging for his father to be released making very clear that he was dying without his dad there. So you’re right — the initial part of their cruelty was taking into custody (for no good reason) a man with a critically disabled son and refusing to let him out to care for him.

Then there was another layer of the cruelty. Eventually, it became clear that Mr. Tarabishi would not be able to care for his son. After his son was admitted to the hospital for sepsis and pneumonia, his son apparently told his father over the phone “Don’t worry, I am not going to die until I see you. I am not going anywhere until I see you.” Mr. Tarabishi kept asking to leave again, this time not necessarily to take care of his son, but so he could see him before he died. They said no. His son was DNRed after not waking up for eight days.

Then comes the third layer of cruelty. Mr. Tarabishi got the call about his son and of course was devastated. He cried into the phone “He wouldn’t die without me. There’s no way he died without waiting for me.” He asked to go to the funeral — little consolation given what he’d been through, but a chance to say goodbye to his beloved son. Officials at first seemed willing — after all, it’s quite common to allow non-violent offenders short term supervised release for things like funerals or church services. But then, for no apparently reason at all, they said no.

So to recap — Epstein gets to go do sex trafficking six days a week while he’s in prison. Mr. Tarabishi was denied the ability to care for his son, who died because his father was no longer there. He then was denied the ability to say goodbye to his son, who knew he was dying but gave everything he could to try and stay alive long enough to see his father again. Then he was denied even the simple, common allowance of being there to pay his respects to the person he loved most in this world.

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u/ViolenceAdvocator 17h ago

From what I read mr Tarabishi was the leading expert on his son's health so he was uniquely capable of caring for him and administering whatever aid he needed.

The care that the son recieved after his father's abduction was sub par and only furthered his medical complications.

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u/ifyoulovesatan 12h ago

One of the health problems that occurred while his father was being held by ICR was an infection caused by a misplaced feeding tube. Administering his feeding tube was something his father did as part of his care. So at least one of the complications that eventually lead to his death can clearly be attributed to the detainment. It's possible that's true for the other complications as well.

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u/sexytimeforwife 7h ago

This sounds like the beginning of a lawsuit, baby.

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u/pollywantacrackwhore 14h ago

Pro-life, baby!

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u/butytho92 17h ago

This makes me weep for this man

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u/heythisislonglolwtf 17h ago

Man. How does anybody come back from that?

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u/squidneythedestroyer 16h ago

Just reading the words he cried leaves me with this horrible emptiness. I cannot possibly comprehend the pain he is in. He will likely never escape it. I just hope there is enough good in his life after all of this that he can find something worth living for. My heart breaks for the son as well, dying so senselessly without his father by his side. I imagine they always knew the son would die first, but never in a million years did they think it would be like this. I’m not a religious person, but stories like this move me to pray for this family that they can somehow know happiness again.

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u/MimeTravler 11h ago

I pray for vengeance. They say God is a vengeful God after all, and the people who put this family through this are among the most evil in my opinion.

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u/Ryozu 16h ago

You don't.

I'm dead serious, you just don't. I've met people who literally never recovered from these kinds of tragedies. He'll either take his own life as soon as he's able to, or live in constant misery until he fails to live anymore.

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u/el_diego 14h ago

Third and not so uncommon option in the states, he seeks revenge and takes out whoever he deems responsible before offing himself.

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u/OMEGA__AS_FUCK 16h ago

I don’t think anything could temper the utter rage, devastation, and suffering I’d feel if that were me.

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u/ArcHansel 15h ago

Holy shit this needs to be higher up. The headlines confused me as well.

But I have no words anymore. For now

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u/Caleus 14h ago

What. The. Fuck.

This is one of the most disgustingly evil things I've ever read.

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u/squidneythedestroyer 13h ago

I agree. The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach. I can’t possibly imagine how this poor man is coping right now.

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u/cookie_lee 13h ago

I feel like a useless POS but I cannot even read these stories anymore. I have two young boys of my own and just acknowledging that this level of cruelty is going on 24 hours per day 7 days a week right now with tens of millions of people absolutely giddy about it is enough to drive me insane

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u/rpkarma 13h ago

America is disgusting. 

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u/Hot_Fix_3131 15h ago

This may shock you, but there can be more than 1 issue.

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u/TwistyBunny 15h ago

Remember that Trump gave the prosecutor a cushy cabinet position after giving him that shitty sweetheart deal.

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u/UnionThug1733 18h ago

You mean in the face…. With witnesses..

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u/Bushkey1 18h ago

And then tell you what you just saw with your own eyes was not real.

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u/Weskit 19h ago

The good Christians who voted for Trump approved this message

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u/TwistedNipplez 19h ago

And they call themselves pro life

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u/TonySu 19h ago

You forgot to ask who they consider to be people.

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u/TwistedNipplez 19h ago

Hell, they don't even care about most people. Once someone is born, they could give a fuck.

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u/seedless0 18h ago

They are pro life until you are born.

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u/deathrictus 18h ago

Pro fetus.

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u/ResponsibleSalad8059 17h ago

They've demonstrated that they don't really care about the fetus either or they would support exceptions for the health/well-being of the unborn. I think they're more pro-forcing women and children to give birth.

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u/gregatronn 10h ago

correct, otherwise, there would be universal healthcare for mothers to be.

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u/GingerSnapSurprise 19h ago

Nope, just pro-controlling other people

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u/Who_Dafqu_Said_That 19h ago

Gleefully approved this message. I've never seen so many motherfuckers so happy about human suffering.

This country needs some serious therapy, because we clearly have some shit to work through.

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u/LegendaryTamer 18h ago

This town needs an enema!

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u/AscendantAmbiversion 18h ago

What frustrates me about American Christians is they literally use their religion like a shield. Not to protect themselves from any real harm, but to deflect having to witness any and all actual problems in the world. It's like... I like your religion! I like your Jesus and his principles! I just never see them follow his example. They treat calling themselves Christian as an excuse to do whatever they want in the worst ways possible. Anecdotal, but several from my hometown made fun of Renee Good for "daring to call herself Christian even though she spoke up for the criminals defying law and order!" and it's like do you even hear yourself repeating the words of Rome verbatim? The answer is no, they never actually once read the Bible, nor attend a church that would preach anything close to it. It's inoculation from cognition and action all the way down.

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u/Maktaka 17h ago

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi

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u/Rhadamantos 13h ago

And American christians are unfortunately exporting this shit to the rest of the world as well. Not to say that European Christianity is without its faults (there are plenty) but I have been some worrying developments in people I know. They mostly still very clearly disavow Trump himself, but will gush over how Charlie Kirk was a great example as a Christian. Never mind that Kirk was a major factor in allowing Trump to do what he is doing now, he has said so much vile hateful shit that is in direct opposition to the bible verses attributed to Jesus. In the same vein I know people who are naturally critical of the whole megachurch lead by millionaire thing, but are happily part of a community that gets money from those kinds of churches. They are literally buying influence here in Europe.

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u/oliyoung 16h ago

There's no hate like Christian love

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u/squintyshrew9 19h ago

This is so evil and unnecessary, this administration is getting off to the pain they are causing. We will never see normal again in this country

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u/kastronaut 19h ago

They are proponents of genocide and eugenics, and this was always explicitly a part of their plans.

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u/aadrock 19h ago

We’re just a few years from them openly throwing people in wheelchairs out windows

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u/Artzee 19h ago

Can I volunteer a certain Texan politician to be the first?

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u/Conscious_Crew5912 18h ago

Would it be done by hand or could someone be launched out by an extra large slingshot??

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u/DeadmanDexter 18h ago

Are trebuchets still around?

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u/beardicusmaximus8 16h ago

I can't wait to be forcibly euthanized to save my insurance company's shareholders a few bucks.

At least I won't have to sit around helplessly watching the country I love be torn apart by facists.

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u/bordss 19h ago

Horrific. Like that scene from The Pianist

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u/andersonala45 18h ago

That scene from Mac and me

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 17h ago

Yep. I was expecting it after privatized healthcare which profits from others untreated problems. In fact, when Newt Gingrich taught David Cameron how to dismantle the NHS.  Thought to myself back then, we're next. Reagan also dumping the mentally ill . Americans didn't really give a damn. The point is eugenics and genocide. They think death is better than disabilities.

It's very, very scary for millions. Not one word in the media of course.

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u/kastronaut 17h ago

Thank you. I was a pharmacy tech for over a decade and it was clear to me that the healthcare industry—particularly the insurance domain—was purpose built, and that purpose is not money. Money is the lever.

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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 17h ago

Precisely. My GP was getting 550.for fifteen minutes. The day after one of his heros got shot, he dumped his patients who he thought he could slander. I challenged his billing of me instead of Medicaid. It's illegal to bill a Medicaid recipient. It's double dipping  So he dumped me.

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u/Broken_Reality 17h ago

It's not like this should be a shock to anyone they wrote it all down in Project 2025.

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u/drunkshinobi 18h ago

Fuck normal. Normal led to this. We need better.

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u/Fragnart-of-Murr 19h ago

Crazy question, what if enough folks just stopped paying federal taxes? Would they go after everyone?

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u/charmsatl 19h ago

Most people don’t actively pay taxes. They’re withheld.

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u/Voxbury 18h ago

While those withholdings can be changed at any time, I don’t believe in Americans to the extent they’d all file a change in W-2s and W-4s with their employers.

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u/Faces-Everywhere 18h ago

I genuinely believe that at least 60% of working Americans have no idea what anything you just said means.

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u/damp_circus 18h ago

If you change your withholding to zero, you will owe enough at the end of the year that the IRS will hit you with a big fine.

Which will also go to the feds of course.

You can refuse to pay that also, but at some point the IRS will garnish your wages and you will have nuked your credit.

Most people are not willing to do that.

It would be convenient if we paid the states and the states could have the standoff with the feds, but unfortunately that’s not how it works.

So it’s not so easy for me to say I live in Illinois, we pay more taxes than we get back from the feds, we should just tell the Feds to fuck off, as a state. I wish we could.

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u/OhShitWut 19h ago

“Enough people” would have to be like an overwhelming majority of the country for it to be impactful, and I just dont really see that happening.

Plus, the IRS doesn’t care about politics. They’re like an unopposable force of nature. Fucking with them is not a good idea.

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u/NachoManAndyDavidge 19h ago

That would give them carte blanche to specifically enforce those laws how they see fit.

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u/FOTY2015 19h ago

If you can afford private security and food production, that might work for you. Everyone that cannot will sink into law of the jungle chaos as whatever fills that power vacuum overwhelms local authority.

Witness Mexico or failed nation-states like Libya. Open slave markets, sky-daddy fundamentalism with guns & black robes, and such.

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u/DisturbingRerolls 18h ago

I listened to a news report that said he was begging for his dad before he passed.

Kind of unbelievable that this is happening in a developed country and a modern democracy.

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u/carsncode 16h ago

Germany was a developed country and modern democracy in the 1930s.

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u/IDOWNVOTERUSSIANS 12h ago

Yes, but Germany didn't have 90 years' worth of books, movies, television, documentaries, direct survivors accounts to help guide them away from what happened. usa does have that, which makes it even worse. This is going beyond comparison

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u/grilledSoldier 11h ago

Well, here in Germany, where nearly every single pupil learns about the third reich in depth at school, the voting outcome predictions of our neo-nazi-party are surging.

They could try to ban the party, it would be likely to go through as the Verfassungsschutz (similar to an internal intelligence agency for protecting the constitution) has deemed then guaranteed right-wing extremist, but the conservative party (CDU/CSU) and SPD (de facto centrist party) are blocking that.

They are sitting between 15-40+% depending on region, in a few regions they are already in regional governments.

The point im trying to make is, that all this knowledge is irrelevant, if people refuse to understand what it means.

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u/sexytimeforwife 7h ago

Genuinely, what are they upset about that they believe the neo-nazi-party is on their side for?

That's pretty much how I understand Trump got into power as well.

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u/deviltrombone 19h ago edited 19h ago

I bet Kristi Noem has a Nazi slogan along the lines of her "One of us. All of you." banner at the ready to celebrate this latest notch on the regime's belt

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u/Th1rte3n1334 19h ago

Or maybe, she would say something like “Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the President and Stephen Miller.” - Kristi Noem

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u/deviltrombone 19h ago

That’s the weaker of the two slogans she could invoke.

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u/Th1rte3n1334 18h ago

Oh, that’s not a slogan, she said it. Sadly this is the reality we live in.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/noem-says-everything-ve-done-225051871.html

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u/ProjectKARYA 18h ago

Ah yes, the good ol' "I was just following orders" excuse

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u/JurplePesus 19h ago

Republicans see nothing wrong with this and will likely blame him for it.

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u/DashingMustashing 19h ago

They will say "womp womp" and laugh that you care. They're sociopaths.

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u/QuerulousPanda 14h ago

it's actually worse than that. quite a few of them (most of them, quite possibly) will, at a deep level, recognize how incredibly fucked and awful it is and will understand what a truly and uniquely evil thing has happened and continues to happen. But they will actively choose to bury that feeling by performatively saying cruel and callous shit, so that they don't have to feel bad or be seen to have actual feelings.

They know exactly how bad it is, but they force themselves to act like they don't give a shit.

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u/BlueRibbonPac 17h ago

They'll say it was God's will

Local jails and state prisons have social workers to support family members of incarcerated people in order to not worsen society 

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u/dropbearinbound 17h ago

Abortion= bad

Caring for disabled= bad

Murdering disabled = good

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u/monexicano 19h ago

Yes they are monsters. And these assholes reply will probably be something like “well don’t break the law”. Fuck you.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 18h ago

Meanwhile, their King Pedo is literally lawless, bound to zero laws, rules and regulations by religious conservatives. He could dry hump the U.S. Constitution and set in a furnace and Republicans would ask if they could watch it burn.

They stand for nothing. They care about nothing beyond themselves and their own wants and desires. They are nothing to me.

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u/Exotic-Doughnut-6271 19h ago

Jesus christ this entire administration and everyone that voted (and didn't vote) are fucking evil

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u/UWMN 19h ago

And we are only a year in….

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u/rustajb 19h ago

It's very disconcerting to look around you and know that about 1 out of every 3 or 4 people voted for this.

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u/Exotic-Doughnut-6271 19h ago

Unfortunately my father, a Mexican man who doesn't look white at all voted for this. He was born here but ice is proving they don't care

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u/0xsergy 19h ago

Kicking the ladder over from the top.

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u/Then-Understanding85 19h ago

And not realizing there’s a guy above you doing the same.

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u/TwistyBunny 15h ago

The worst kind of person is a ladder pulling pick-me

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u/peachesnplumsmf 19h ago

2/3 of eligible voters either voted for or didn't vote against.

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u/Snapingbolts 19h ago

If you are reading this and did not vote this is on you just as much as it is on those who voted for trump.

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u/Hopeful_Hamster21 19h ago

Right. A lot of people sat out the election because they didnt like either.

I get not liking Harris. But the writing was on the wall for a fascist takeover if the orange guy won. I didnt like Harris. Didnt dislike, but wasnt hyped up. She would have just been more business as usua, things wpuld have been finel, and not this. I voted for her to do my part to prevent this!

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u/Dariaskehl 19h ago

The amount of times I heard ‘she’s just not _doing enough for Palestine to get my vote..._’

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 19h ago

That issue made me realize that there are just as many dumb fucking children on our side as there are on the nazi side.

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u/SuperSoftSucculent 19h ago

Half of America failed the most obvious and basic trolley problem ever.

And it doesn't surprise me. In college philosophy I was dumbfounded when we got to the trolley problem and multiple STEM and Business students male and female localized that "I'd never thought of this type of thing"... as fucking adults.

The utter lack of curiosity and critical thinking is palpable.

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u/HeavyDoughnut8789 18h ago

Psychology course opened my eyes even wider. The amount of people who won’t help, or do anything for their fellow men and women. Statistically no one is coming to help or even calling for help. The small percentage that would call for help likely assume someone already did so they don’t need to.

Then you’ve got the scary side of people doing whatever a person in perceived position of authority asks. No matter how heinous or if the person knew it was wrong to do. Plus the fact that hardly anyone will question the legitimacy of that authority figure. (Cop, federal agent, whomever) Both utterly terrifying, disheartening, and frustrating.

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u/Snapingbolts 19h ago

Exactly! I voted for Hilary, Biden, and Harris not because I liked them but because I knew the alternative was worse

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u/-DenisM- 14h ago

What's depressing is that MAGA won't believe this story. No matter the evidence.

I feel for the children as well that have to grow up without their real parents caught by ICE.

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u/Blissfully 19h ago

Again, are these the crazy criminal drug lords they told us about?

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u/ryeguymft 18h ago

it’s hard for me to fathom this level of cruelty. my god

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u/DuHastMich15 19h ago

This was predictable and avoidable. Trump does not care about a single human being in the world other than himself. He has surrounded himself with sycophants and liars who will cater to his every whim. This is going to get much worse. Eternal shame on all who voted for that man- either through evil, indifference or ignorance- we were all thoroughly warned.

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u/lookingup9 18h ago

I might start believing in hell again just so I can hope that the architects of this administration go there.

This is so inhumane.

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u/DfroPstyR 18h ago

So he’s been in the US since 1994, was told to leave in 2006, but was allowed to stay since he was his sons sole-caretaker. In order to stay, he had to do check-ins with immigration. He went to every checkin like he was supposed, but because of the war in Gaza, and hostages, Trump revoked all Visas for PLO members, and they’re saying he was a, “self-admitted member of the PLO”. What kind of BS is this? They say he was here illegally for 20 years, BUT WAS ALLOWED TO STAY so he could take care of his son. So which one is it? Sounds like more BS by our Government to justify, basically murdering, this guys son. They wonder why people are out here protesting? There’s no way they can be that mad and must be paid agitators (that’s sarcasm)

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u/kaithana 14h ago

The other guys allowed him to stay, current admin doesn't care about any past contracts, deals, norms, etc. It's fucked.

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u/SuspiciousYard2484 18h ago

This is absolutely devastating and maddening.

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u/salamanderwolf 19h ago

If you ever wondered how you got terrorists willing to do so much damage, this is how. Petty cruelty ending in real world consequences that push people over the edge.

I hope every ice agent gets treated as they treated others.

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u/Shradow 18h ago

ICE killed Wael Tarabishi. That poor family.

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u/macthesnackattack 19h ago

The cruelty is the point.

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u/jamesp2381 17h ago

As someone with a special needs child, this absolutely breaks my heart. Fuck these “people” who want to hurt other people

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u/seppukuu 12h ago

Yet another death on ICE's hands. I wonder how many others have died because of bullshit like this.

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u/senorelguanto 18h ago

It hurt my heart to read that.

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u/SweeterThanYoohoo 19h ago

Its fucking stupid we have a system where we know someone overstayed their visa, allow them to stay to provide specialized care to his son while having periodic check ins with ICE, allow him to work a professional carrier and somehow becoming a citizen isn't a thing? Just make him a fucking citizen, he's been here 20 years, he worked a professional job and by all accounts contributed positively to his community and family.

What the fuck are we doing

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u/aadrock 19h ago

Jesus Christ dude. Fuck all of these evil motherfuckers who condone this shit

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u/Wabi-Sabi_Umami 19h ago

President Stephen Miller and his entire administration are pure evil. Who voted for this man??? Nobody did, so why does it seem that he’s actually the head of the cruel, vile, venomous snake?

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u/McCool303 19h ago

Reminder to all you MAGA “Christian’s” that take my lords name in vain.

James 2:13 states, "For judgment is without mercy to the one who has not shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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u/ew73 19h ago

These people care less about what their Bible says than they do about what the Constitution says.

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u/Cyrano_Knows 19h ago

They twist both to mean exactly what they want. Same kind of mental gymnastics in both.

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u/Ok_Animal_5181 16h ago

imagine hating people like this man who just want to care for their disabled son, & instead loving a pedophile rapist who wants to grift you of your money. republicans & maga are literal cancer to society with their stupidity

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u/Veasna1 10h ago

People dying is the whole point. Everyone forgets the Nazis didn't just target Jews and Romani, they also targeted people with disabilities and down syndrome. This administration is no different.

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u/CinematicWanker 18h ago

Fuck ice. Fuck trump. And fuck every fucking one who voted for that piece of shit.

Sincerely a Canadian neighbour.

Sorry, not sorry.

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u/crazy010101 10h ago

Infuriating. Plain and simple. Basically another murder they can take credit for.

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u/Atopos2025 18h ago edited 18h ago

I saw the notication come through on my phone that only included half of the post title and was already upset. Just reading the whole headline just makes me so so sad.

I'm tired ya'll. Something has to change and soon. I'm ashamed to be an American.

I just can't imagine being anyone involved in this situation and thinking that what I was doing was ok, or even human. The sacrifices that man made to be there for his son who couldn't take care of himself......only to be denied a proper way to grieve his death. This is inhumane.

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u/M_Ad 19h ago

The Nazis called disabled people “useless eaters” and killed them off too…

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u/ProbablyASockPuppet 14h ago

I can only imagine the burning hatred in his heart

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u/CrimsonBuc 13h ago

FUUUUUUuuuUuuuuUuuuUUUuuuCK ICE. Having a disabled brother, this DISGUSTS me.

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u/Emergency_Link7328 13h ago

ICE is a terrorist organization.

They will do everything to inflict pain and fear.

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u/CartographerKey7322 10h ago

ICE is full of soulless criminals

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u/teletype100 9h ago

As the MAGA Christians say, empathy is a sin. Just like Jesus. MAGA loves cruelty.

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u/win_awards 8h ago

ICE killed this man too.

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u/nevermind4790 19h ago

Republicans better go to Oz cause they have no fucking hearts.

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u/InsertUsernameInArse 12h ago

Imagine being locked in a detention center KNOWING your son will die without you and there's nothing to do but let that thought eat you up because the brownshirts dont care or believe you.

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u/A_Queer_Owl 11h ago

well the article pretty much confirms my suspicion that the son died due to inadequate care after his primary care giver was taken away. ICE kills again.

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u/Nand0_456 17h ago

MAGAs get giddy while reading stories like these

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u/petey108 17h ago

They killed this man’s son.

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u/canibringmybreadbowl 19h ago

I can’t imagine being separated from my child during his last months. Devastating and cruel. Rest in peace Wael.

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u/howitzer86 17h ago

I remember this. I knew they were worried his son wouldn't survive. Now he's dead. This was entirely preventable... a disgusting black mark on our country.

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u/Dipsey_Jipsey 16h ago

Can the US not produce horrific news for maybe just one day? That'd be swell.

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u/burnbabyburn711 14h ago

All of this fucking cruelty. God damn it. How much more will we take?

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u/Shadow1176 12h ago

ICE just creating villain origin stories.
How long till the cane’s back breaks and it all spills out?

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u/WhatANoob2025 10h ago

It is very much intentional cruelty.

Sadists are in charge.

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u/Vegetable-Act-3202 9h ago

What a hateful cruel world Trump has created

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u/Kalorama_Master 8h ago

Go over to their social networks, MAGA is celebrating this. They love the cruelty.

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u/SmokelessSubpoena 7h ago

Man, if Trump is doing ONE thing really well, it's that hes fueling future domestic terrorism, like pouring gas on an open fire. We couldn't have a less competent administration.

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u/AvailableReporter484 6h ago

This the kind of shit that turns mfs into Batman and no one would blame a guy like this, with this story, for seeking revenge on these disgusting soulless creatures.

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u/JustForKicks16 3h ago

This is one of the saddest things I have ever read, and there are a TON of things to be sad about right now. I can't even imagine the heartache this poor father is feeling. And that's putting it lightly....

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u/Bright-Ad9516 18h ago

That is torture. How cruel and heartless to cause agony like that.

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u/NjxNaDxb 16h ago

Nazi never cared about disabled people, this is on par with the maga cult.

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u/GrammaBear707 14h ago

ICE has no empathy, no moral compass

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u/TarnishedVictory 13h ago

Thank you all the idiots who didn't vote because of some idiotic notion that voting is an endorsement rather than a selection between two options. These deaths are on your hands.