WTF, America!? Seriously, WTF!?

What astounds me and upsets me is that we are the free-est, most free?, country in the world and we live in terror. Something wrong there.

The scene in Ok where the guy has his hands in the air & gets shot anyway - how bizarre is that? Fear.

I have my own feelings about 'faith' so I won't comment on that - it IS possible. But I know exactly what you mean. When was the last time you went to a theatre and felt completely safe?

It's human nature.

You should probably not use the news to make you feel any type of way about who you are or where you come from. I've never really understood the self hating American thing to be honest. Now, fair point we have a lot of problems in this country. We can be very divided in almost every generation, we are very trigger happy at times, can be very arrogant, very unaware at times, we make some very questionable voting decisions and many man more problems. I won't defend these things.

These are our burdens to bare. I know that might sound bad, but they are. We aren't the first country to have a lot of problems though. So I hardly think you should let it effect your opinion of everyone who lives in the country. People do nice things every day, but as the saying goes 'if it bleeds it leads'

For good reason of course as these issues need awareness and need to be handled, but if you're watching or reading the news for good things you won't find much.

You said you wanted examples of people in this country doing good things?

Here ya go.

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

On another note.

You should never be ashamed of where you're from and poo on anyone who would make you feel that way. I firmly believe that all men deserve to be treated equal of course and no country is really better then than the other, but nothing wrong with a little HEALTHY patriotism. Nationalism, all that racist nonsense stuff and arrogant stuff is BS this is true, but nothing wrong with being proud of our accomplishments.

We can talk all day about Native peoples genocide, slavery and a lot of bad stuff. We've done a lot of terrible disgusting things that shouldn't ever be forgotten. I just don't think its fair to to start being a self hating cause of the bad stuff we did. We've got a lot to be proud or at least a lot of stuff that is decidedly badass. You see that big ball of cheese at night? We walked on that, we conquered the skies with giant mechanical birds (Well a guy from New Zeland kinda did first, but Wright Brothers influence on the plane cannot be denied), We are internet pioneers (I don't think we invented World Wide Web, I think that goes to UK. We did however create the ARPANET) and the list can go on and on about the things we've invented or helped invent.

Yeah we invented a lot of stuff because of war or competition with other countries. I still think its something to be proud of though in the long run and looking back.

I think the USA has the most patents out of every other country. I could be wrong of course....please correct me, I think we are up there though in the top three at least. That's something to be proud of. Also as with any country we've produced some very great artists, writers and all that. We've impacted the entire world in very positive ways with the things we've produced or been part of in this country (and negative ways to....very very bad ways to). So, don't forget the terrible things going on now or the terrible things that have happened long ago, and keep fighting to change them also don't forget all the cool and good stuff.

^^^

Agreed, the media only cares about ratings, not about their news, and they never show good things. The uptick with cop shootings is..... distressing. It seems like we've learned nothing, the po-po are shooting, people are rioting. Violence inspires violence, and that will never change.

I'm gonna do a necromantic ritual to bring MLK back. Anyone else in?

Glad you worked it out @Link the Writer .

I do too. All the time. I understood/understand perfectly. The last thing you need is someone gettin' preachy with you. So I tried not to!

I really am glad you worked it out!

Same thing happens to me. No worries Link, none of us are perfect. Nowadays cops make me more nervous than ever, even though I know my chances of being shot by one are nigh zero

@cydney "It's human nature"

Do you ever catch yourself thinking "Humans stereotype each other too much, casting entire populations as the villains based on the crimes of the few instead of looking at everybody as individuals" before realizing that you're doing exactly the same thing?

I know I do

Yeah I think that & try not to do it myself.

I was also just thinking how it irritates me when people judge my whole personality by one article I might write.

Sometimes we just need to 'write' thru moods, etc.

Just remember, American media makes things look worse than they are to generate ratings. Recently a white person was shot, and a lot of BLM activists protests his death as well. The media didn't report on it because it would show solidarity, instead of a divide.