Why are we told to respect elders when they’re the most disrespectful people in the room?

[Lickmymeet]

[WhiteSteve]

Americans fucking suck, man. What an absolute joke of a population.

[Lickmymeet]

I knew someone was gonna say that i should’ve uploaded the ones of old people in the UK and Australia casually using the N word

[WhiteSteve]

It’s not even just racism, man. That’s a huge part of it, but you’re correct in that it happens elsewhere, even in places without white populations.

It’s more just the tough guy mentality, it’s so fucking weird. Everyone thinks they’re Clint Eastwood. Fighting with fists makes you tough. Fighting with weapons makes you the opposite of tough, but that’s seemingly lost on us. I just don’t respect the vigilante mentality, the pursuit of wealth and opulence and materialism…. it all sucks. I meet people every day, they’re almost all American, and I just fail to be impressed every time.

[Lickmymeet]

I understand where you’re coming from trust me I do but you’re coming off as kinda egotistical and judgmental cut people some slack you’re not the perfect either but you are 100% right the greed and materialistism here is unreal sickening even

[Lickmymeet]

I meant entitlement not materialism but that too

[WhiteSteve]

I hear ya, but just this mentality of wanting to do harm to one other or being insulting towards each other…what the fuck is wrong with all of us that we even desire to do this? I’m just out on people, I have absolute bottom-of-the-barrel respect for humanity at this point.

[Lickmymeet]

Yea but we’re here and we owe it to future generations to keep trying to make things better I hate that so many people are like you just done with humanity I hate it because I completely understand why but I also feel like that’s all the more reason we shouldn’t give up

[WhiteSteve]

I go fishing a lot, I spend my life in nature, and none of the animals do this shit, nature is so fucking perfect. There’s no attacks for any reason other than to eat or defend your hunting grounds. A largemouth bass isn’t like “fuckin’ bullfrogs, their culture fucking sucks, I wish we could send ‘em all back to bullfrog land…”, it just sees the bullfrog as protein to survive. There’s no animosity, it’s just the food chain in action. Seems like only one animal runs afoul of this perfect system, and it’s us.

[WhiteSteve]

We just don’t deserve it, man. I want to love everyone and everything. But that has to be earned, and not lost. Humans have done way too much to prove that they aren’t worthy of any of these efforts. I have no future WhiteSteves coming, and after 43 years, I have to realize I’m pissing into the wind and just cut everyone off for the sake of my own mental well-being.

[Lickmymeet]

I’m really sorry you feel that way life is very hard and we cause a lot of our own suffering but losing hope and quitting isn’t the answer you’re a smart guy I tell just from how you talk yet you sound so defeated you’re better than that WhiteSteve

[WhiteSteve]

Well, thanks, man. My dad is 90, and if I make it as far as him, that means I’m not even half done with this shit yet, FML, lmao. I made the mistake of loving a woman and now I’m kind of obligated to be stuck here, I couldn’t leave her by herself. I’ve been told I’m exceptionally smart since I was a small child. Doesn’t mean I know everything, but I think it does give me a rare perception that a lot of other people don’t have built into them, and it’s a gift and a curse. I wish I could blindly just be like “welp…that’s life, just gotta roll with it”, but my brain works too hard to be able to do that. I don’t say that to sound egotistical, there’s plenty of stuff I’m sure I’m stupid as fuck about, lmfao, but seeing through humans and their motives, what they say vs what they mean vs why they do…. that comes very easily to me. It’s kind of like Rowdy Roddy Piper in “They Live!”, I feel like I’m wearing the special glasses that actually see who people really are at their core. Luckily, unlike the movie…. no lizard people yet, lmfao, but some of them may as well be😂

[anon1903]

This is more of Asian country rule, fyi

[anon1903]

Because there's no limits to stupidity

[Agent_Elflord]

For no other reason than “that’s just how it is”