[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Olympian1010 8,297]

Oh, we’ve found some scapegoats for our mass shootings. Video games and mental health. Yes, I agree that video games can be overly violent, but blaming all video games is going far. Yes, mental health in this country is a huge issue. We should make sure people get the best care possible, but they can’t afford it. When we try to make affordable, we get labeled as socialist (something that doesn’t offend me anyways since I am one), which makes offering up alternative health solutions impossible.

 

But It Obviously wasn’t the guns fault. I mean it definitely wasn’t the unlimited access to guns that really helped people carry out these acts of white terrorism. Guns are to precious to be killing machines (sarcastic tone). 

 

So so of course we’ve entered the thoughts and prayers section of the American mass shooting culture. At this point we ask entities that don’t exist to bless the victims and take them to places that don’t exist. When really we should be figuring out how to make sure the next victims don’t be victims, that we don’t have to attend vigils for 6 year olds, that we don’t have to bury our dead friends every few weeks, that kids can go to school and safe.

 

There is something so seriously fucked up about American culture. It’s been building from unresolved problems over time and eventually something’s going to give. Everyone knows it, even if they don’t admit it. They know that people will only tolerate the current situation of gun violence, health issues, social issues for so long. Hopefully the government pulls its act to together because I’d love to live in a country I can be proud of. I have so much love for this country, and it pains me to see suffer like this.

[heywoodu 16,460]

8 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Oh, we’ve found some scapegoats for our mass shootings. Video games and mental health. Yes, I agree that video games can be overly violent, but blaming all video games is going far. Yes, mental health in this country is a huge issue. We should make sure people get the best care possible, but they can’t afford it. When we try to make affordable, we get labeled as socialist (something that doesn’t offend me anyways since I am one), which makes offering up alternative health solutions impossible.

 

But It Obviously wasn’t the guns fault. I mean it definitely wasn’t the unlimited access to guns that really helped people carry out these acts of white terrorism. Guns are to precious to be killing machines (sarcastic tone). 

 

So so of course we’ve entered the thoughts and prayers section of the American mass shooting culture. At this point we ask entities that don’t exist to bless the victims and take them to places that don’t exist. When really we should be figuring out how to make sure the next victims don’t be victims, that we don’t have to attend vigils for 6 year olds, that we don’t have to bury our dead friends every few weeks, that kids can go to school and safe.

 

There is something so seriously fucked up about American culture. It’s been building from unresolved problems over time and eventually something’s going to give. Everyone knows it, even if they don’t admit it. They know that people will only tolerate the current situation of gun violence, health issues, social issues for so long. Hopefully the government pulls its act to together because I’d love to live in a country I can be proud of. I have so much love for this country, and it pains me to see suffer like this.

 

And then? People walk the streets for a bit, with their slogans and chants and signs, and then that dies down and a year later the whole thing repeats.

[bestmen 2,922]

about this wave of arrest ,an international arrest warrant against the most bloody general , launched today 

he is escaped in spain 

 

[Gianlu33 6,008]

Very hard day for the Italian government after the today vote on TAV and the two day ago in the security law. Let's see if the government will survived to August, i have my doubts.

In 15-20 Salvini will do an important speek in Sabaudia

Edited August 7, 2019 by Gianlu33

[Olympian1010 8,297]

@phelps What was the new Italian law that threatens athletes you mentioned earlier. Could you give me your best impartial explanation?

[Olympian1010 8,297]

Trump’s nationalism speeches are just talk they said. Our nation will be fine they said. Why are you so worried people ask me? Here:

https://abc7.com/man-slams-13-year-old-to-ground-during-national-anthem-police/5449398/

 

 

[Olympian1010 8,297]

This has to be one of the saddest things I’ve read in a while. Here is the list of victims from El Paso:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1159144104694931456

6 Mexican nationals and 1 German national were killed in the white terrorist attack.

[heywoodu 16,460]

6 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

This has to be one of the saddest things I’ve read in a while. Here is the list of victims from El Paso:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1159144104694931456

6 Mexican nationals and 1 German national were killed in the white terrorist attack.

What I find a bit of a problem: it's fine to call this 'white terrorism', but when an Islamic terrorist attack is called an Islamic terrorist attack, there are people who'd call you racist for it.

[Olympian1010 8,297]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

What I find a bit of a problem: it's fine to call this 'white terrorism', but when an Islamic terrorist attack is called an Islamic terrorist attack, there are people who'd call you racist for it.

That’s exactly why I call this a white terrorist attack. Fox News and the greater American media in general like to label only Middle Easterns as terrorists, which is just so racist (and I call them out for it all the time). Often when the shooter is white he’s “mentally ill”, “lone wolf”, or “lonely individual”. So I’m just playing Trumps game. His supporters are extremists and they shall be labeled as such.

[heywoodu 16,460]

5 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

That’s exactly why I call this a white terrorist attack. Fox News and the greater American media in general like to label only Middle Easterns as terrorists, which is just so racist (and I call them out for it all the time). Often when the shooter is white he’s “mentally ill”, “lone wolf”, or “lonely individual”. So I’m just playing Trumps game. His supporters are extremists and they shall be labeled as such.

Oh, here the critique is usually 'when a foreigner attacks people they say he's just mentally ill, deranged, etc, when a right-wing person does it they call it a terrorist'.

 

It's just total and complete bullshit that all right-wing people are extremists, that all muslims are extremists, that everyone who doesn't hate Trump is an extremist and that everyone who is left is an extremist. Just call right-wing attackers terrorists (because they do it in the name of the right even though most right-wing people are just normal people living their normal life like you and me) and do the same for anyone else who performs a terrorist attack (no matter if they're right-wing, muslim, blue, yellow or Martian).