A Nation in need of help

[EddMarkStarr]

How about this . . .

Mona Lisa vandalized at the Louvre

It's a sign of the times when an activist throws cake at the Mona Lisa, cuz that's how we make a complete meal.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Motive yet for the Mona Lisa attack? Is dude just off his rocker?

 

[rareboy]

The US needs reform in so many areas, but the few wealthiest owners of the country and some foreign powers like Russia, China and some other middle eastern countries are happy when it is a country divided against itself.

Gun law reform, health care reform, immigration reform, education reform, and getting rid of the influence of a militant religious minority in government.

At the heart of the issue though is that increasingly, the US has become all ego and super-ego and no id. False pride and selfishness are celebrated more each day by politicians and preachers.

It is the refusal to recognize and address the problems that is most frustrating.

 

[Alistair]

The difference being that I didn't cry out to others for help. Sometime we need to vent, I do and so do you. But at the end of it all we put on our big boy pants and keep on keeping on. I don't look for help from political parties, hell, they are the reason things are so fucked up.

We’re venting about innocent men, women and children dying and that no one is doing anything about it but you tell us to man up and deal with it. Yet you’re venting that you’re neighbor’s children are too noisy. How can you even compare the two? I’m sorry if I hurt your delicate feelings but that is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard anyone say.

 

[cityboy-stl]

The difference being that I didn't cry out to others for help. Sometime we need to vent, I do and so do you. But at the end of it all we put on our big boy pants and keep on keeping on. I don't look for help from political parties, hell, they are the reason things are so fucked up.

The attitude of "don't bother to try, the deck is stacked against you" is pure poison and damning to the core. Dare I say that the same attitude of helplessness, hatred and resentment might be what compels young men to commit horrible acts. "Why bother"? "Why try?" "Lets get even...."

No one in Washington DC has a clue about real life in our nation. They ride around in limos, have the best health care and get paid quite well. I don't waste my time being pissed at them or at the fat cats, what good would it do? Change begins at the grass roots, in the neighborhood.

At the risk of some crying bullshit I will tell you that three years ago I started a business. This year I have over 70 customers and had to hire a part time worker. He was using drugs and facing eviction. I pay him $18. per hour he gets a paid lunch and I buy his lunch as well. His rent is now caught up and he seems to be on the right track. My motto for a worker is to treat them as I would want to be treated. Some people get a reduced price and some get their lawn cut for free.

I do what I can, when I can with what I have. I can't let tragedies stop my life. There was a school shooting in my home town about 35 mile north of Detroit back in December. Two years ago a neighbor two doors down was shot by the police when he came to the door with a shotgun, a few streets over a man killed his girlfriend with a knife. Down the street a young man overdosed and died.

We have homeless people everywhere, children are dying from disease and starvation around the world. This world is fucked up, not just America. Every night I pray (yeah, I pray) and sometimes cry while doing so when I pray for the parents that have to bury their children. Atrocities and evil have stalked mankind since we arrived on the scene. Hatred, abuse, genocide, disease, hunger, poverty, slavery, rape and injustice have been prevalent somewhere on this globe at just about every time in history.

I once told a therapist "everything" and he responded that he couldn't understand why I didn't have a problem with drugs, booze or never ended up in jail or prison. I responded by saying that I in spite of being severely depress at the time had always looked at the "big picture". People being put on box cars and sent to death camps, people used as property being sold on auction blocks. Children marketed to satisfy sick men.

Some use the phrase "born on third base". There is some truth to that statement for most of us in America. Can we just feel fortunate and be thankful even for a few minutes?

I'm just going to repeat what I said earlier because you essentially validated it in this comment.

Just turn it off. Don't listen to it. It will be OK. Everything will be fine. Don't buy into it. Don't worry, Be Happy!

That's what they told German Jews in 1933.

 

[peeonme]

We’re venting about innocent men, women and children dying and that no one is doing anything about it but you tell us to man up and deal with it. Yet you’re venting that you’re neighbor’s children are too noisy. How can you even compare the two? I’m sorry if I hurt your delicate feelings but that is one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard anyone say.

You haven't hurt my feelings. I am not buying into you stupid argument.

 

[peeonme]

I'm just going to repeat what I said earlier because you essentially validated it in this comment.

Just turn it off. Don't listen to it. It will be OK. Everything will be fine. Don't buy into it. Don't worry, Be Happy!

That's what they told German Jews in 1933.

If you can't make a good point just refer to the nazis!

 

[cityboy-stl]

If you can't make a good point just refer to the nazis!

If you can't understand the point, just dismiss and denigrate it.

There is a category 5 Nazi Hurricane coming your direction. There are holes in the roof and the windows are wide open, but the owner is not worried about it because it is not raining today. It'll be fine, I'll just pretend like nothing is happening. Don't worry, be happy. It's not time to worry until they open the gas chamber. That's the point. I don't get why it's so hard for people to understand. The parallels have been screaming red alert for 6 years.

The post TOPIC? A Nation in need of help. Denazification!

 

[Charon]

Hate Nazis and their fixation on genocide.

Omnicide, now that's something I can endorse.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

You haven't hurt my feelings. I am not buying into you stupid argument.

Nah he was pretty solid. We're not allowed to mourn 19 kids and two teachers but you can cry about a noise ordinance? Sounds selfish, sociopathic even. You're literally offended by people expressing grief, something's wrong with that picture.

 

[peeonme]

I refuse to argue against blatant lies. It is all too obvious that some of you have let your minds become litter boxes for the far left. It's not my place to clean a litter box.

The idea of "someone should do something" translates into "big government needs to control us." Which implies that we can't control ourselves. Most people are capable of suppressing anger if they don't get their own way. No one has to riot at the Capitol because they think that the election was fixed. No one has to burn, loot and riot because a cop was a killer. These things happen by choice. Entitlement, narcissism and just being an ass provokes people to violence. Do we expect teens to behave when the adults are killing each other?

I seriously doubt if those who bitch and cry the most really want to see a problem fixed... the real problem is hate and contempt for America. The evening news shit stirrers seek to dredge up the turd of the day so people will be divided and angry. Sure the stories are real, the events did happen... but it's the spin that does the damage. The goal is to make people think that all is lost, there is no hope.

I grew up in a family of hopeless hand wringers. They had been on the government teat all of their lives. They despised and envied those who bore any resemblance to success. Life was a pity party. When school shootings happen we should be angry. Perhaps angry at ourselves for sitting back in complacency thinking that the guy in DC should "do something".

If any think that false accusations will ruin my day think again... your opinion about me doesn't mean jack shit to me.

 

[Alistair]

There’s no lies in my post. There’s 2 facts that are easy to show proof of, and one opinion.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I refuse to argue against blatant lies. It is all too obvious that some of you have let your minds become litter boxes for the far left. It's not my place to clean a litter box.

The idea of "someone should do something" translates into "big government needs to control us." Which implies that we can't control ourselves. Most people are capable of suppressing anger if they don't get their own way. No one has to riot at the Capitol because they think that the election was fixed. No one has to burn, loot and riot because a cop was a killer. These things happen by choice. Entitlement, narcissism and just being an ass provokes people to violence. Do we expect teens to behave when the adults are killing each other?

I seriously doubt if those who bitch and cry the most really want to see a problem fixed... the real problem is hate and contempt for America. The evening news shit stirrers seek to dredge up the turd of the day so people will be divided and angry. Sure the stories are real, the events did happen... but it's the spin that does the damage. The goal is to make people think that all is lost, there is no hope.

I grew up in a family of hopeless hand wringers. They had been on the government teat all of their lives. They despised and envied those who bore any resemblance to success. Life was a pity party. When school shootings happen we should be angry. Perhaps angry at ourselves for sitting back in complacency thinking that the guy in DC should "do something".

If any think that false accusations will ruin my day think again... your opinion about me doesn't mean jack shit to me.

Rose colored glasses come to mind, despite the alarms screaming red alert.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Which implies that we can't control ourselves.

You can't. 80 years after throwing rocks during integration your peers are sending death threats and racial slurs to a Star Wars acress. You cannot control yourselves, history proves that, and the time is long past for you to earn that benefit of the doubt.

Americans are willing to let children die just so they can play Rambo and shoot soda cans in the backyard. Mass psychosis.

 

[Alistair]

You can't. 80 years after throwing rocks during integration your peers are sending death threats and racial slurs to a Star Wars acress. You cannot control yourselves, history proves that, and the time is long past for you to earn that benefit of the doubt.

Americans are willing to let children die just so they can play Rambo and shoot soda cans in the backyard. Mass psychosis.

Yep the good old days. When it was ok to tell anyone that wasn’t a straight white man to sit down and shut up. It doesn’t work any more does it?

Added by edit: and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let anyone tell me to sit down and shut up any more.

 

[frankfrank]

I wanna throw cake at her too. It was supposed to be me posing for that portrait but this stank hoe gone sleep with the painter and suddenly I get a call saying "Services no longer needed?!" So I basically gave that painter a handjob for NOTHING.

No, this is impossible. You're only 82 years old.

 

[frankfrank]

This nation IS in desperate need of help, but "the armed posse that could save us" is instead mostly composed of people who want to cause IRREPARABLE AND PERMANENT MORTAL HARM to the United States.

My interpretation of what peeonme was trying to say, is that, in the absence of most of us having the needed tools to counteract the anti-patriotism (for which they've stolen the word "patriotism"), nationalism, hate, universal negativity, any safety nets, any "children" who were born, and the efforts to destroy everything that makes "being American" a good thing, we can still do our best to be good human beings. I don't think he was saying we should just ignore it all, because we do need to stay informed about what's going on out there. However, in spite of that, we should all strive to stay sincere and conscientious, stay motivated, and try to be a good influence.

I'm doing my best to be a positive influence.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Added by edit: and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let anyone tell me to sit down and shut up any more.

x2 during pride month