WTF, America!? Seriously, WTF!?

By Link the Writer · Sep 23, 2016 · 1.4K · 20
  1. OK, this is going to be a difficult read for some, and hardly like the rest of the blogs I've done on this forum but...I need to get this off my chest.

    In short, recent news (that I've seen from The Young Turks and Secular Talk, both talk shows on YouTube) have left me very pissed off at what's happening here in America. Unarmed black guys getting killed by cops, riots breaking out with cities like Charlotte being turned into pseudo-warzones with more innocent people getting hurt. This is, of course, ignoring the whole Trump/Hillary thing.

    Just... What in the flying FUCK, America!? A part of me wonders if "united" means anything anymore. We're just one step away from killing each other all over again. United? Ha! From what I've seen, we're far from that. Some part of me wonders if, deep down, we were just looking for a reason to start killing/maiming each other...that we never truly, actually liked each other. Give me a few examples, if you please, to show that we genuinely give two shits about each other.

    I feel ashamed to be American, ashamed to be in this country. I want to live somewhere else. Europe, specifically the UK but I don't have the finances to do that. I want to like my country, I want to believe that there are good things about America, that we Americans aren't just deranged animals looking for a reason to tear each other's throats out...but the news is making it very hard for me to see that.

    So that's that. :/ I've completely lost faith in America and my own people.
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  1. KaTrian
    Things are most likely not that much better in Europe either. We are still dealing with the migration crisis and it's an issue that has impacted my country as well in a way I've not experienced before. It's almost like things are more polarized now.

    By the way, at least our news reported the guy who was shot in Charlotte had a loaded gun with him and didn't drop it when told to do so. I'm not sure if this is precisely the kind of information TYT and such would keep in the dark to make sure their agenda remains pristine and just. Conversely, some other editorials would be happy to ignore those aspects of BLM that'd show the movement in a positive light if their agenda is to smear.
    KaTrian, Sep 25, 2016
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  2. cydney
    Agree w/this 100 per. Ratings are where the money is & the exposure. They'll do anything for it. Including scare us all to death.

    American media makes things look worse than they are to generate ratings.
    cydney, Sep 25, 2016
  3. Simpson17866
    @cydney And then the public turns into what the media said we already were :dead:
    Simpson17866, Sep 25, 2016
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  4. cydney
    @Simpson17866 yes I agree.

    and let me add the foreboding darkness is not about sickness or mental illness - it's about control! always. :)
    cydney, Sep 25, 2016
  5. Aidan Stern
    I do my best to not watch the news, or read the paper (though, I do read the comics), or listen to the radio. Anything I want to know, I'll do the research myself. At least then, I get some kind of say as to what I'm inundating myself in. I'm very ambivalent about the whole thing, or maybe that's just confusion talking.
    Aidan Stern, Oct 12, 2016
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