America's Current Events Don't Surprise Me Anymore

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

Honestly, first with the gorilla being shot dead, then the Orlando terrorist attack on gays, then the 2-year old eaten by the alligator...at this point I am not surprised.

Stuff like this is slowly becoming just another "Oh that's sad." thing, rather than the expected, "oh my god how terrible." or "I can't believe that happened." Because yea it's terrible, but I can believe whatever it is, happened.

At the rate America is going, these very sad events are just becoming apart of life.

"Oh so another group of 20 _____ people died? That's sad." And then we move on with our lives, except for those that are directly affected by this.

Look at the candidates for our president, look at all of these sad tragedies happening in America, and tell me that we're not going downhill.

I'm not exactly an avid fan of America, in fact I plan on leaving this god-forsaken country after I go cross-country. I don't like the way America has their college's set up, nor their school board. Then there's all this controversy between NRA and APA and all that jazz.

There's those pretentious vegans and hipsters, shitty music that is "loved" throughout the country, ignorant people who don't understand that terrorists can be American...

Yea I know I sound like "another teenager complaining about her country when she doesn't realize how good it is." and all, and I get it, I'm glad our country is the "freest" but I don't think it truly is the most free country out there.

Okay okay off topic- whatever happens next will probably be some guy does another Sandy Hook (shoots up a school), and honestly, my eyes won't go wide, I won't ask what happened, all I'll do is send their families my sympathies and go along my day.

Tragedy is apart of our world, but there's all this...how do I say...hype, I guess, over the tragedies in America. Everyone protests over an animal being shot (for a childs protection), but no one cares about the children who're being shot at in 3rd world countries.

That little girl saw the camera but thought it was a gun so she surrendered. She is a Syrian child and is so used to violence....my heart breaks for her. Look at those eyes and the fear in her face. That poor baby girl.

But this is America so no one gives a shit about other countries tragedies and those who truly do are in the minority. I'd rather hear about tragedies going on in Syria or some other country like that, than an American one. Why? Because in America, there's always gonna be fucked up people doing fucked up things and it's just another part of life.

In those other countries such as Syria, it's become their life too, but I want to change that. As many of you know, I wish to travel the world and become a successful author. Well I wish to take apart of the change in the other countries. I feel as if America is a lost cause at this point.

Footnote: I want your opinion, but don't be a disrespectful and rude swain. I'll block you if you cannot be respectful.

#seemywork

[AleDeEurope]

Missing tile syndrome.

If America didn't care about other countries' tragedies, or just goes on with their lives after a tragedy occurs, America wouldn't rank #1 as most generous country. Americans donate more than most countries out there.
Hundreds of people lined up to donate blood after Orlando's shooting. Millions of Americans donate to help people in Africa.

Sure, shit happens in the US, but you forget that the US is almost as big as Europe, it's not a small country of 5.4 million people like Finland.

You're just seeing what you want to see.

[Oram52]

America cares about other countries tradegies by creating them? From countless coups to invasions, to indiscriminate spying (which oddly was happening to Americans themselves). America gives a shit about those people?

Did you see that picture of young girl above?

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 Yeah dude, every problem in the world was caused by America... aww what a shitty country, right?

[Oram52]

Yes lets "play the victim"!!

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 Dude, I'm tired of everyone blaming the US for everything, even things that weren't started by the US (like the shitstorm in the Middle East).
All the people complaining that the US acts like the world's police, but when the US stands still, they beg for the US to come to their rescue.

[Oram52]

Nobody wants America to police, that's what UN is for. Shitstorm in Middle East is America's fault, literally.

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 See, you're one of those people that don't know the real reason why that shit started, so you blame the US for that. It wasn't the US who fucked up that region.
And yes, there's lots of people out there that were begging for the US to start bombing ISIS.

[Oram52]

Iraq was bombed magically, Libya was bombed magically, Syria was bombed magically, Syrian rebels were armed magically. ISIS just emerged magically without any vacuum. ISIS could've been dealt with a lot more effectively if America was willing to work with other countries like Russia, and not hell bent on dominance and regime change. Did I mention there would've been no ISIS to begin with if America hadn't butt in.

Funny America has no problem help suprressing democracy in Bahrain, or force UN to put regime like Saudi Arabia as President of UN Human Rights Organization, SA a country with appalling Human Rights record.

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 And you think the shitstorm started with that? Turn back the clock a few years... decades, actually.

[Oram52]

The dictatorships America supported or help the ball rolling on Radical Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmbkoiI5IYg

Doesn't matter current mess regardless IS America's fault.

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 That wasn't the start of the conflict, you're forgetting all this dates back to WW1. Read your history, and you'll understand where and why this conflict started.

[Oram52]

So lets blame the "history". Again Iraq, Libya, Syria magically happened? ISIS just magically appeared?

[AleDeEurope]

@Oram52 The fuck? You're using history to blame the US, I'm using history to show you that the US wasn't the cause of the problem. You're just cherry picking whatever you want so you can blame the US.
Ridiculous.

[RainbowFanGirl]

You are right. These events are not surprising, and are only foreshadowing what is about to come next. I want to move to Canada or something. This country is about to go to complete doo doo, with these two people running for president. I don't really like either of them to be honest.

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

I plan on taking a road-trip to Cali once I graduate and then moving to Australia or Canada for awhile before I start traveling.

[DrGtheMD]

And where will you get the money to travel to California see the world move to Australia. Very naïve. The complexity of the problems, the global economy the threat of nuclear war, trying to control North Korea and their aggression while the only country that can do so is China and we try to rein in China and their exports.. Simplistic answers are so appealing it so impossible to attain. Every teenager has a simplistic answer so appealing so impossible

[Waffles731]

", then the 2-year old eaten by the alligator... at this point I am not surprised."
Why on earth would you be surprised that someone was killed by an alligator anyway.
Thats something that does happen anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_fatal_alligator_attacks_in_the_United_States
"But this is America so no one gives a shit about other countries tragedies and those who truly do are in the minority. "
You should know that its like that everywhere, you have said you wanted to move to Australia but you should know that in a lot of ways Australia is EVEN MORE racist than the U. S.
"I'm not exactly an avid fan of America, in fact I plan on leaving this god-forsaken country after I go cross-country. "
You should also know that it is INCREDIBLY hard to move to another western nation. The U. S has the LOOSEST immigration laws out of all western society.
The EU won't take you unless you have a job and you are better qualified than ANY EU Candidate, Australia and Canada aren't much better.
I'm just saying that don't expect to be able to actually immigrate. Thats an incredibly hard thing to do

[Waffles731]

"Well I wish to take apart of the change in the other countries. I feel as if America is a lost cause at this point."
Change also isn't a sudden thing, The U. S IS CHANGING. Its slowly and slowly moving towards the left. Its hard to see but looking at the trends its hard to deny. 20 years ago Sanders wouldn't have gotten a chance in the primary, now he held is own against CLINTON. So the fact is that 20-30 years from now The trend says that we WILL have a democratic socialist president. So no we are definitely not a lost cause.
Another thing about immigration I forgot to mention is that you generally need to be rather well off financially and You have pointed out that you are poor.

[FallOutBoy2001]

I feel lucky that I have a British passport then. I can currently go anywhere in the EU

[Waffles731]

@FallOutBoy2001
I couldn't live anywhere with a monarch even a symbolic one

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

Tl;dr
and I know change takes time but the only change i see in this country is the negative kind

[Waffles731]

Its not negative,
The U. S is slowly turning to the left, 20-30 years and we will have a democratic socialist president.
Europe however IS CHANGING FOR THE WORST.
Take a look at Europe and you see that they are actually turning rather right wing

[Waffles731]

"But this is America so no one gives a shit about other countries tragedies and those who truly do are in the minority. "
You should know that its like that everywhere, you have said you wanted to move to Australia but you should know that in a lot of ways Australia is EVEN MORE racist than the U. S.
"I'm not exactly an avid fan of America, in fact I plan on leaving this god-forsaken country after I go cross-country. "
My other point is that,
You should also know that it is INCREDIBLY hard to move to another western nation. The U. S has the LOOSEST immigration laws out of all western society.
The EU won't take you unless you have a job and you are better qualified than ANY EU Candidate, Australia and Canada aren't much better.
I'm just saying that don't expect to be able to actually immigrate. Thats an incredibly hard thing to do
The other thing is YOU NEED MONEY, They really only take two kinds of people that get in,
A handful of refugees from third world nations as the U. S

[Waffles731]

And people with enough money that they don't even need to move

[FallOutBoy2001]

Eh I might move to Spain but England has my relatives. I don't mind the symbolic monarch

[Waffles731]

@FallOutBoy2001 Good luck moving to spain when englands probably leaving the EU says the polls

[FallOutBoy2001]

If they do God damn it stupid mainland Brits

[Oram52]

That picture of young girl was sad :(

Don't worry everyone of us at your age had similar sort of feelings about different things. But it ain't that bad. I'm from UK and see positives about US too. Weather for one at least in Southern states.

The problem is well one of the.. corporations have too much influence in how America is run. Politically you guys are too polarized, on one hand nutjobs like Tea Party, Regressive left on the other.

America is still leader in Science and Technology, Silicon Valley in California. I like America's University system, its flexible. You have 50 states so varied cultures within your own borders. Instead of leaving America I would try make it a better place, a place without Tea Party or Regressive Left.

Trust me you'll calm down in couple of years.

ok this Take I can see why disabling Anon was necessary.

[ObscuredBeyond]

This is what happens when the Prussian model governs modern education: you get obedient sheep, not intelligence. Which is the entire point of that model.

When free thinkers are needed, and all you have are sheep, then something as simple as keeping a kid out of a gorilla cage becomes an impossible feat.

We go in only 20 years from schools that do nothing when kids are ganged up on and assaulted, to screwls where a kid eats a Pop Tart the wrong way and gets prosecuted. And a judge upholds it! (While looking the other way when "educators" encourage preschool kids to have oral sex on the playground!)

This is what happens when you ban all mention of creation science, but permit pedos to run the curriculum. You get lawlessness. "Do as thou wilt," the Satanic Church creed, becomes the only basis for policy. And chaos is the net result.

[Maxemeister]

My opinion: No, America is not God-forsaken and all. Yes, these current events are the saddest current events I can think of. Fuck off with the alligators and the gorillas. But it draws in the press.

Our country provides debatably the highest quality living in the world, huge opportunities, and it isn't actually America's responsibility to mend these problems, in the third world countries.

And yet... wtf? We ARE stepping in? Whaaa?

Many organizations like the Peace Corps and UNICEF came from the United States. We in fact, debatably, spend TOO much money on other countries' problems rather than our own. We step in in countries like Africa and Asia, sometimes for personal gain, but to my knowledge Somalia, due to the CNN effect, was invaded due to the people urging Congress to aid starving mothers and children, who were being victimized by warlords using hunger as a weapon (watch Black Hawk Down, that's for the people's "guilt")

[BigJake]

And your bitter posts don't really surprise me anymore, either.

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

Lol cool then don't read em bye :)

[LiveFreeorDieHard]

We can make things better. First, combine all welfare into one program called the basic income. Any American making less then 45,000 gets paid 1200 every month which they can use to pay for the basic necessities in life. Food, shelter and clothing.

[Oram52]

Socialism doesn't work, income has to be created. Btter system has to be created not give people handouts, they will become complacent.

[LiveFreeorDieHard]

@Oram52 what else do you believe in. That God will come down and save us. That giving rich people tax cuts will make the economy better. That we still have the same economy that we did before. We are a service economy now that is driven by consumers. The reason why we can't get out of this func is because people aren't buying stuff because they have no money. How do you get rid of poverty, you give them money.

[Oram52]

And how exactly a failed system like Socialism that has failed in every single country that has impleneted it going to work?

No you improve by creating jobs not giving hand outs. They have jobs, they earn, they spend, they pay taxes and country prospers.

[Dred1614]

I hope you realize that it is extremely difficult to move to an EU country. (I'm just assuming that's where you'd go). Honestly, what do those places have that the US does not? They're being overrun by Muslims and Syrian refugees that they shouldn't have let in, the EU economy is in terrible shape, unemployment across the entire EU is 9.6%, compared to 4.7% in the US. It's not much better "across the pond"

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

I was just gonna go to Canada or something

[Dred1614]

Still hard to move there. The healthcare there is God awful too.

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

I don't really care. I might not even permanently live anywhere for a long time, just stay a while and travel somewhere else

[Dred1614]

Oh. I thought you wanted to move permanently.

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

Maybe eventually in the future but not until after I travel the places I wanna go.

[Oram52]

Our healthcare is worse than you hahaha on what planet?

America spends twice per capita than UK, yet still ahs 2nd rate healthcare. What value is health care if people don't even have access to it. Yes great health care, you can keep your thumb or your finger your choice.

[Dred1614]

@Oram52 Oh please. Canadian doctors are incompetent.

[Oram52]

I'm from UK. Health Care System that was modelled around the world. British people were asked what they are most proud of, NHS (national Health Service) came at the top.

Canadian Health Care is still miles better than US. What value is having a health care system if its not even fit to do what it it is needed for?

[Dred1614]

@Oram52 my comment to the take owner regarding healthcare was critical only of the Canadian system. As an American, I do not have enough knowledge of UK healthcare to debate its merits.

[Hidden_P]

Yup. I completely agree. I feel the same as you but not being US I am equally as annoyed with Europe at the moment.

Just a crap time of year.

[RationalMale]

Carnage in Syria is what they inflict on each other, it's a daily part of life. No, we don't care because we care about ourselves and our own troubles. We also don't want to bring that culture and that life to our shores.

[SekenenraTaa]

As a Turk, I congratulate for your sensibility. If the world is corrected, have right ideas, sensibility, knowledge and struggle determination are very important.

In addition, when i first saw that girl, i felt similar feels. Her photoghraph's was shooted by a Turkish photographer. Then she gathered great interest and The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) start to bring aid to her camp in Syria. That 's all i know about her.

[zagor]

Trouble is the rest of the world isn't any better.

I was in China last fall and was complaining to my guide about how bad our choices for president were; her response - "We don't have that problem". Yeah, things can always be worse.

[ikissedtheskyonce]

Tragedy has always existed in the world
Just because it is being reported in America does not mean it's not happening in other countries

Jo Cox a British politician was shot and killed some days ago

[Dimmu]

Finally some human with non biased double standard feelings
Respect

[Negrodamuss]

feels good to be Canadian

[BarbaraP]

I bet it does. I'm jealous.

[Negrodamuss]

@BarbaraP marry me and you'll be part of the Canadian family too :)

[DrGtheMD]

@BarbaraP Canadians have lost their country their immigration policy has resulted in chaos.

[BarbaraP]

But you would be stuck in a marriage without knowing if your wife wanted to marry you or just your country :P

[BarbaraP]

@DrGtheMD We'll see where Canada will be in 10 years... and then where the US will be

[Negrodamuss]

@BarbaraP i already know you want me barbara. You've already expressed your love for dark chocolate to me, so the denial ship has sailed :) Access to my Canadian visa is just icing on the cake for ya

[DrGtheMD]

@BarbaraP in 10 years I think that Canada will be north of the United States

[helloitsmethere]

I guess I moved at the wrong time...

[SweetHomicidalQueen]

did you move to america?

[helloitsmethere]

Yep, from last year

[dudeman]

congratulations you're almost a grown up.

[Phoenix98]

*shakes head*