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Seriously, I already admitted to being an idiot for causing this, but I guess people just can't fucking help those in need. I'm just a stupid joke, evidently, even when admitting fault.

Canuklehead posted...

Fucking stop being a whiny bitch and pull it out. IDK what kind of magic solution you're going to get here as the few people who may have changed out the HDD on a PS3 paid attention and did it right the first time.

It was a fucking honest mistake. I had thought it was in right but realized too late. Instead of coming out like normal, its stuck and my blood is now covering it thanks to you.

These jokes are seriously pissing me off. I need real answers. I'm already pissed off at myself as it is and I decided to actually take that stupid joke response seriously and now my hand is bleeding all over. Fucking fuck this.

ModLogic posted...

turn it 360 degrees and pull

What? Was this another stupid joke?

E32005 posted...

Pliers
Muscles

I'm afraid of breaking it.

Canuklehead posted...

Pull it out in reverse.

I need a fucking real answer. Don't give this stupid shit.

Edit: Just did that, now my hand is bleeding profusely. This is all your fault.

I can't seem to pull it out. It's stuck in there. I am such a fucking idiot. Ugh.

dj4242 posted...

fan357 posted...

In today's paper the front page has a story on overdoses increasing. We were talking about it at work and a lot of people think they should just let them OD so the problem sorts itself out. One of the major issues is that the hospitals are using a special drug to revive these people. It's called NARCAN I believe. So these people will load up on heroin and meth and go to the hospital before they die. When they pass out the hospital will give them a shot for free and revive them. They don't even get criminal charges. Pretty rediculous if you ask me.

It is called NARCAN. Some people flew into the small rural village I live in Alaska from Anchorage a couple weeks back and hosted a local "gathering" where they had discussion about overdoses, drug abuse and narcan. Then they gave out free narcan.

Our town has pretty bad problems. Many people here are having problems with drug abuse. In January we had our first OD death in a long long time, a young kid barely 22 years old.

A town close to mine had an OD death, I think he was around the same age as that. It was his first time shooting up heroin, evidently.

RockRapDubstep posted...

So he fucked a bitch
Got her pregnant and it's actually his kid
He decided to fight it every step of the way
It cost him a fuck ton of money
And now he has to pay to raise the kid that only exists because he fucked the previously mentioned bitch

Fair, next.

This.

armandro posted...

The government doesn't need to do anything about this.

Don't have sex until you're married.

are some rules just too hard to follow?

Or, y'know, use a condom.

fan357 posted...

If Fiat hadn't of invested 1.5 billion dollars into its transmission plants in Kokomo this town would be dead. Hell its the only reason I'm here.

Ah, that sounds rough...

dodgefan91 posted...

Bok_Choi posted...

toptopmax posted...

Again, why you keep posting outliers?

Because certain people in America think their experiences define the average life in America

probably without realizing that there are literally 350 million other people in this country in vastly different parts

With the invention of the internet, I think we're all fairly well aware of the differences in different parts of the country and definetly well aware that a country as large as ours and with 350 million people, there are an incredibly wide array of lifestyles. Trying to define an average American life is practically impossible because of how large the differences are. However, TC made a topic about rural US, that's me. He brought up poverty, I used to live in a trailer park and my parents made less than 20k a year, so I guess that fits. But somehow my experience doesn't count because I don't fit the narrative that he's trying to paint now that my life has since improved. Okay...

My mom teaches in the 3rd poorest county in the state and I talk to her about her students all the time but I guess that doesn't count either. Neither does my experience as a truck driver when I frequently went to WV and KY and interacted with the people loading/unloading me there. Never mind the fact that driving a truck is a low skill job and thus many of my coworkers at my distribution center were on the poorer side of the fence. So yep, I'm just talking out my ass and have no experience with at least two of my former classmates ODing on heroin since I graduated high school.

But I don't count because now I own a house, and cars and nice things. My parents have a ski boat I can use anytime I want and I go on ateast one or two vacations a year (went to Texas and Tennessee last year on seperate trips). Yup, life sure does suck living in a rural area. We're all destined to become meth heads.

I guess I could post stats showing that violent crime rates in rural areas are lower and home ownership is higher. And while toptopmax pointed out that fewer people live in rural areas than in the past, that's because farms don't require as many people to run them as they used to. That doesn't exactly equate to a lower standard of living. But none of that matters because CE likes to sensationalize things and compares the rural US to 3rd world countries.

I guess I should also point out that poverty rates in rural areas are lower than in urban areas, or would that not fit the narrative either?

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/12/a_comparison_of_rura.html

Not to be rude, and I do apologize if it comes off as rude, but you're contradicting yourself here, there are also a few key facts that you don't seem to be aware of:

a. Combining all rural areas in an overly simplified graph can help to ignore datasets of those worst off for both rural and city communities.

b. The fact there's more poverty in zones where there are more lower-income people should be normal. There are less people in poverty in Rural areas because there are less people in general in terms of population size. A huge amount of the population of the US are in areas close to the oceans.

c. While 2015 showed an increase in crime, it's still so far below the 1970s crime rate. Part of the reason crime rates "increased" is that more women had the confidence to speak up on crimes like rape thanks to the recent feminist movement and it tripled the reported numbers in 2015 in NYC (Roughly around 3000 instead of the average 1000 annual reports).

Lastly, you're contradicting yourself a bit. You recognized being an outlier and went into detail about people committing overdoses and their suffering that goes ignored... which is what I was saying.

Inferno Dive Dragoon posted...

I can actually empathize with you hear, as I felt the 2016 election had Hillary supporters alienating Millenials to project this idea that we're all morons for not jumping on the Hillary bandwagon.

Yep, and if you ever wondered why Sanders falling in line behind Clinton resulted in cries of "betrayal"? Or why a lot of his previous supporters (myself included) simply opted to not vote at all? There you go.
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A lot of what you mentioned goes back to identity politics. People want a sense of control. Even if it were to mean their life gets worse, they need to feel they control that outcome - no matter how irrational - because otherwise it's just pure helplessness. Religious activities, like-mindedness, and "screwing" the "foreigner" are all about our ingrained need for a sense of feeling significant and in control of our lives. When we feel helpless, many of us lash out. We've seen it on CE itself during every Presidential year.

Identity politics are the fucking devil, they only exist to make the commoners fight among themselves instead of recognizing the true enemy. I've never been the bigoted sort in all my life, I was raised better than that and the nature of my personal experiences only enforces my sense of empathy for *anyone* who knows the struggle, but lo and behold there's still loud and influential camps out there that will pile on the bile because I'm a white guy. Bonus points; I'm Texan, I can't *not* be some Nazi-Klansman in a lot of people's eyes, and there's nothing I can say or do that will make them think otherwise.

And these fucking clowns still have the gall to claim *they're* the "good guys". It's enough to make you start hating people when you knew you shouldn't, because one only has so much patience and tolerance.

There are extremists, I've heard from a friend of mine who essentially told me of the same experiences as what you went through with "SJW" types, but I'd maintain that they're loud extremists and not the vast majority who want to make a more equal world. I think part of the problem is people have different ideas about the direction. An example would be feminism, some want puritan ethics and to remove sexual depictions of women and others want sexuality to not be stigmatized so heavily and to have equal depictions of sexualized men and women.

I don't think it's fair to say to others that they don't do anything or that they're slacktivists. For one thing, more people are donating to charities that meet their goals now more than ever. For another, you're making a lot of assumptions about people online that you don't really know. I'm financially constrained right now, but over the past year, I managed to donate $1500 of my own income to various charities related to cancer research, building schools and waterways for children in third world countries, and camps for refugee sites bordering Syria. My parents donate even more than me. We give all our old clothes to local charities, they donated $100 on food for people in Hawaii suffering poverty, and it may not seem like much... but we try to do what we can with what we have while looking out for ourselves so please don't assume that people on here all do nothing for others.

Also, I think you should look into the billionaire tycoons of the Oil industry and their influence over wars in the Middle East, considering they always want to know which politicians agree with "foreign intervention" when elections roll around. Granted, the majority of the tax cuts for the Rich come purely from Wall Street and the Financial Industry's lobbying efforts to the US Congress.

Nobody cares.

dodgefan91 posted...

toptopmax posted...

dodgefan91 posted...

This thread is straight up comical.

I live in a rural area and while yes, heroin is a huge problem, my town is doing just fine economically and I quite enjoy living here. But thanks for the laughs and comparing rural areas to 3rd world countries.

*walks away laughing at ignorant city folk*

Your town is an outlier.

My town has literally been the subject of a 60 minutes episode during the last recession because so many people in the area were laid off when a big business pulled out of a neighboring county. Our local economy has its ups and downs just like everywhere else in the country.

I'm not saying things are perfect here, but it's not in any way worse than larger metropolitan areas...it's pretty much the same. Just more overly religious people and meth heads. Rural areas and inner cities are pretty much the same problems with different looks. Inner cities have poor schools which leads to gang problems, crime, single mothers raising kids, etc. rural areas have the same issues only instead of gangs, it's drug addicts stealing shit to pay for their habit.

Yes, the average income level is much lower than in a city, but so is the cost of living. And I honestly can't stop laughing at TC comparing rural towns to a 3rd world country. Yes, I live in a 3rd world country as I post on an online message board from my smart phone while sitting in front of my flat screen tv and Xbone in my nice air conditioned house with running water and all the fixin's!

GTFO, this thread is honestly insulting to act like rural areas are so completely different when compared to the cities.

I judged it based on the research. Your town reached national news level and that clearly had a very powerful impact on your future, more than you probably realize. But the data doesn't help you here, the fact is that even clean water and basic healthcare needs aren't being met in many rural areas. Many of the posters here before you have commented about their personal experiences about the lack of basic necessities and the increasing feeling of hopelessness as a result. What you're doing now, which you may feel is good-natured, is shaming them by arguing that the problems are imagined because it hasn't happened specifically to your rural town.

Unfortunately, you really are the outlier. Many people cannot make a basic, albeit modest, living nowadays because the poverty is becoming so bad and so overwhelming for them. To say it's imagined is not fair to those who are suffering.

That wasn't meant to be comical, I really want to listen and read what all of you have to say.

The Great Muta 22 posted...

Yeah, all of what Inferno said is absolutely true. I've talked about rural America here before, but the issue is no one in power actually gives a shit about them so the people in these areas lash out against anyone who's "fault" it could be. And the Republican party has spent a good 50 years convincing them they were the actual ones who care about them while slashing programs to help them, while Democrats did attempt to help but also ignoring the differences from a lifestyle perspective and alienating them. You can't shame someone into being accepting of those of a different religion or sexuality, and especially the Clintonites didn't recognize that.

There's also the fact that the majority of these areas have seen jobs leave, rampant rise of drug use, prices increase, student loan debt result in children never leaving their home, and a plethora of other issues. I'll touch more on it when I'm home, but growing up my entire life in rural PA and upstate NY it's not surprising at all to see the rise of Trump and populism.

Please do go into more detail. I'm all ears.

metralo posted...

jesus christ I thought people were just memeing when they said he handed out election maps

what a fucking loser.

It's so odd to learn this is authentic and not a meme... >_>

meingott posted...

Luteryder posted...

meingott posted...

That's one reason why the concept of white privilege is an abomination - those people are disproportionately white. It's doing them no good.

It's also one reason why I stress the idea of lowering taxes across the board. Those people need more money in their own pockets, because the taxation isn't helping them at all. The money is going to other people.

That's not accurate. The taxes have been cut for the 1 Percent and the .001 Percent, since the bracket hasn't been updated, they're paying far, far less than ever before in the country's history comparative to how much they're making. Everybody else, whether in rural areas or cities, are paying more taxes comparative to a dwindling income level. It's not just the Rural South, which has it the worst, but rather everywhere except for the Super Rich comprised of Business managers, Investment Bankers, and Lawyers who work for the top financial business firms.

What's not accurate?

The idea that cities are getting their needs met and relieved of taxes. Taxes are getting worse for the lower, middle, and upper-middle of inner cities. The Super Rich are the only ones benefiting. For almost 20 years now, 55 cents of every dollar made in the US has gone exclusively to them. The poverty isn't as bad as the Rural South, but it's still bad in the inner cities, which is why riots and racial hatreds flare-up as a way to blame others for the growing cesspool of poverty that's entrapping them with high taxes and no rise in income.

Inferno Dive Dragoon posted...

But I guess it goes back to that pride thing someone brought up earlier

Aside from the pride thing, there's a few other factors I've seen far too many disturbing cases of over the course of 20+ years of living in Arizona and Texas.

1. A lot of them are hopelessly duped into thinking "trickle down economics" is real and will happen *any* day now. These people just can not comprehend that the middle, and especially upper, classes are not their friends.

2. They've been indoctrinated *so hard* into believing everything is *insert non-white/straight* people's fault that some of them have, I swear on my mother's grave, said things along the lines of "well, as long as it screws over them *insert racial/phobic slurs* too, I guess I can do without until they finally leave/die out".

3. Some of them literally think Jesus/God will make everything better, and the best way to make that happen is to put as many devoutly religious-minded people in office, because surely He will hear their pleas better if it comes from the mouths of people on the highest mountains, and surely those they allowed to climb their backs to the top will remember to mention them, right?

I would chalk it up to a purely Southern thing, but I've heard these same kinds of mentalities are just as rampant in any other rusty-ass rural part of this country. Their over-confidence in today's aristocrats and higher powers is especially baffling because these are the exact same people who balk at the idea of "big government" or "nanny state". Truth is they're perfectly okay with someone huge and mighty doing everything for them, they just want a very specific lord and serf relationship, and preferably one that only includes like-minded and like-skinned people at the top and bottom.

Now that isn't to say you won't find lower class folks who aren't at all like this (I know damn well that I'm not one), but we're a vast minority, on top of the fact that the left and right alike knows they can't fool us into voting for them so they prefer to pretend that we don't even exist, or at best, they paint us as being part of their opposition and go right back to ignoring us only this time with an air of personal justification. ("Oh you're one of them, I don't have to care about what you say.") It's goddamn hilarious just how many times I got accused of being a "lousy" liberal *and* conservative all throughout 2016, like I would associate myself with the assholes on either side of *that* fence.

I can actually empathize with you hear, as I felt the 2016 election had Hillary supporters alienating Millenials to project this idea that we're all morons for not jumping on the Hillary bandwagon.

A lot of what you mentioned goes back to identity politics. People want a sense of control. Even if it were to mean their life gets worse, they need to feel they control that outcome - no matter how irrational - because otherwise it's just pure helplessness. Religious activities, like-mindedness, and "screwing" the "foreigner" are all about our ingrained need for a sense of feeling significant and in control of our lives. When we feel helpless, many of us lash out. We've seen it on CE itself during every Presidential year.

meingott posted...

That's one reason why the concept of white privilege is an abomination - those people are disproportionately white. It's doing them no good.

It's also one reason why I stress the idea of lowering taxes across the board. Those people need more money in their own pockets, because the taxation isn't helping them at all. The money is going to other people.

That's not accurate. The taxes have been cut for the 1 Percent and the .001 Percent, since the bracket hasn't been updated, they're paying far, far less than ever before in the country's history comparative to how much they're making. Everybody else, whether in rural areas or cities, are paying more taxes comparative to a dwindling income level. It's not just the Rural South, which has it the worst, but rather everywhere except for the Super Rich comprised of Business managers, Investment Bankers, and Lawyers who work for the top financial business firms.

Inferno Dive Dragoon posted...

I've brought it up at times about how shitty it is be born and living as part of the lower class.

Shock of shocks, none of the coastal yuppies on this board give a single fucking shit. The greatest example of all was this last Presidential election, where the middle and upper class made it clear, in unison, "FUCK THE POOR" all while they argued among themselves over the most inane shit possible. The amount of things that trigger you aristocrats literally everyday, just bloody hell.

So there's no point in discussing it, I already know all the "better to do" posters on here don't care about those of us beneath them and you "strongly" Liberal/Democrat and Conservative/Republican ones are the absolute worst of the lot. The left-sided of you will condemn my existence for my skin color and insist I *must* be living like a king because of said complexion, while the right-sided will be all "something something bootstraps" or at best I'll get a "pray the dismay away".

It's not even worth venting much about in this topic specifically asking about it, because I already know nothing is going to change and I've accepted that I'm likely going to end up in a pine casket before I'm 40.

I'm deeply sorry to hear that you're going through that. I wish I had been better informed before about the situation. But, the cities aren't rife with elite aristocratic liberals, there's a lot of poverty and ridiculously expensive taxes in the inner cities that are getting too hard to make a living with anymore, especially in New York. We're not rich. A majority of people in cities are only marginally better off than the Rural South and that's the truth.

Safe Spaces and trigger words aren't just about racial discrimination, but also about safe spaces for rape victims, people who've been effected by violent crime, and yes, also discrimination so that people with those experiences build confidence to talk about their experiences so that there's a better social support for people in need. I don't see why people growing up in the Rural South can't join in to have a voice about their experiences like the rest. I see no contradiction in that.

I am honestly horrified by what I learned, but glad I'm more informed now. It may not mean much, but I honestly hope that you have a good life ahead of you and can make a good living in the future. I don't know what you're going through and I won't pretend to. I just wanted to say, I wish you the best and that I sincerely mean that. I'm appalled and ashamed of myself for thinking so little of what you and other Rural Southern youth have been experiencing for so long, and I sincerely apologize for my part in participating in it. I was wrong, you didn't deserve it, and I can see now that Trump is the result of an outcry of pain and not just nonsensical fascist pejoratives.

DevsBro posted...

Sounds to me more like somebody finally got it through your skull instead of you had never heard it before.

Like, damn, I wish I had known before so I wouldn't have gotten as angry or thought of you all as full of irrational hate.

I mean how can you have this opinion otherwise?

Conversely, if this is the only response, what good does it do to discuss it?

I honestly did try to read Conservative blogs and news sites but it delved into conspiracy theories and outright nonsensical arguments that made this idea of some elite liberal institutions purposefully ruining the country or some nonsense. Both parties have given massive tax cuts to Wall Street and Wall Street is comprised of liberal and conservative elites, they're just as diverse as the average joe, but do everything they can to cut their own taxes and raise it for Lower income, Middle, and Upper-Middle classes throughout the country.

But I'm being totally honest with you when I say that nobody informed me that this horrible travesty was going on for almost ten years now. I had no idea. I suppose it's because you have to actively search for the information online and know about it beforehand to find it because the mainstream media never talks about it at all. It wasn't until this one wealthy, upper-middle class liberal lady who volunteered at a local Bernie Sanders campaign told me the extent of the poverty she saw when visiting the rural south. She was so horrified that she quit supporting Hillary Clinton and became an adamant Bernie supporter because she felt he was the better option for both rural and city dwellers who were suffering from poverty. She also had very nasty things to say about the people in the Top 1% whom she personally met through her ex-husband who was a banker. She basically said they live in their own delusional world and don't focus on how grievous the poverty situation is for lower income Rural and City children and her own son who ended-up poor after suffering from PTSD due to trauma after serving his time in the military.

I thought she was exaggerating, then I decided to just check the information myself, and I am stunned by how ignorant I've been. I apologize for my part in the misanthropic rhetoric that's been burdening Rural voters for far too long. You don't deserve that slander.

Sounds like you deserved it, tbh.

toptopmax posted...

yeah, I have no sympathy for rural America. I am going to assume 80 percent of their problems are self-inflicted.

I feel like that's easy to say when you don't get the full details. Using Baltimore as another example, you hardly get details on here and never details in the mainstream media, but evidently, they peacefully protested for four straight years against police brutality and absolutely nothing was done. Four years, peaceful protests, and what you hear on the mainstream media is rap music is evil from Right-wing news and gangs of Black kids from left-wing news.

Neither covered the fact police beatings of civilians - beatings to the point of needing surgery in hospitals - resulted in legal settlements in which victims and victims families weren't allowed to go to the national media or they wouldn't have their damages paid by the local county government, they didn't talk about police beating pregnant black women unconscious on more than one occasion, or about the sexual harassment towards young black women in Middle Schools by the Baltimore police.

The narrative was just "Black people are violent" and "gangs" and rarely anything else.

Banana_Mana posted...

Luteryder posted...

They test in test zones.... or island countries in Africa that can't do anything about it, but... not in another nation-state's foreign trading waters. That's an act of war.

For fuck's sake. Because of US sanctions, NK has no test zones. Fair enough, we disagree with them on principle, but telling someone they can't do something has never ended well.

It's an act of war for the US only. SK is ok. Japan is ok. China is ok.

Nope, all those countries joined the US in disapproving N. Korea from testing weapons. Bombing another country's waters is an act of war and has obvious consequences for marine life and nuclear pollution of the waterways for all countries in that region. It's an act of war and they need to be stopped.

DanielCormier posted...

In my experience, and I'll elaborate on this more after I get home from work, is stubborn pride and delusional hope. Wrongfully believe that things will get better, can't accept that things have changed and they won't, unable to adapt, and in the event that they can, too unwilling to do so. All of this disappointment, anger and self-loathing is externalized and unleashed on everyone except those who've caused and contributed to the situation. I got the fuck out as soon as possible because I didn't want to be some tweaker working at a sleazy diner for the rest of my life but lots of folks can't or won't make that change.

Yes, please do, I'd love to know more. I'm ashamed of having been ignorant of this for so long, but I honestly never heard anyone talk about this from the conservative rural areas...

Kineth posted...

Because very few people have enough of an economics education to understand how the probably can be alleviated by raising the minimum wage so that communities can invest in themselves and rebuild themselves and start getting some local economies of scale back in action.

To be fair, the metropolitan area is a superior version of the rural local economy, but the idea is to transition a rural area onto the path of becoming a stopping point for business, residents and so forth.

Honestly, it seems to me that there needs to be some additional safety net to prevent poverty from destroying these communities as they have done over the last decade and more. They're only slightly above third-world country status from what I've been reading and comparing to a third world country I've actually visited...

Banana_Mana posted...

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Banana_Mana posted...

Fucking stupid ass country that voted that **** as their president. The US needs to just fuck the fuck off.

Calm down...

Tell that to the orange piece of shit trying to destabilize and perhaps take to war the country where my wife, niece and nephew call home.

Yeah, maybe it justifies your shite politics, but then yanks always think only of themselves. Grow the fuck up.

What, North Korea? They shot a nuke into Japanese trading waters. I know it's pretty horrific what can happen, but in all honesty, that leader needs to fucking die because he's way too unstable. No one is benefiting from him being in power anymore, not even China.

Haha. You just repeated Fox fucking bullshit news. Fuck off.

I was in a foreign country when it happened. It made fucking world news in India, China, and basically all of East Asia. It's gotten that entire region on alert. You don't go shooting a damn nuke into another country's waters without consequences. He needs to die and I hope your family lives with whatever becomes the crossfire, but he's too damn dangerous and unstable at this point. This isn't even a hyperbole like Saddam Hussein. Nobody wants to deal with this, but Kim Jung-Un is a moron.

Moron, sure. The US tests nukes all the time... Why don't other countries go to war then? Testing is ok. Believe what your fuckwat of a president tells you.

They test in test zones.... or island countries in Africa that can't do anything about it, but... not in another nation-state's foreign trading waters. That's an act of war.

Doe posted...

But really tho, nobody cares. People have a vague awareness of a heroin epidemic and "rustbelt counties" and that's about it

Rural conservatives complain about "SJW shenanigans" because they're living in broken down trailers and using dish soap for their laundry meanwhile intellectuals in Ivory Tower, SF are complaining that too many white people are company executives in the neighboring towers

Well, poverty is becoming a problem everywhere, I just didn't realize absolutely nothing was done for rural areas for almost ten years now. That's insane...

Banana_Mana posted...

Luteryder posted...

Banana_Mana posted...

Luteryder posted...

Banana_Mana posted...

Fucking stupid ass country that voted that **** as their president. The US needs to just fuck the fuck off.

Calm down...

Tell that to the orange piece of shit trying to destabilize and perhaps take to war the country where my wife, niece and nephew call home.

Yeah, maybe it justifies your shite politics, but then yanks always think only of themselves. Grow the fuck up.

What, North Korea? They shot a nuke into Japanese trading waters. I know it's pretty horrific what can happen, but in all honesty, that leader needs to fucking die because he's way too unstable. No one is benefiting from him being in power anymore, not even China.

Haha. You just repeated Fox fucking bullshit news. Fuck off.

I was in a foreign country when it happened. It made fucking world news in India, China, and basically all of East Asia. It's gotten that entire region on alert. You don't go shooting a damn nuke into another country's waters without consequences. He needs to die and I hope your family lives with whatever becomes the crossfire, but he's too damn dangerous and unstable at this point. This isn't even a hyperbole like Saddam Hussein. Nobody wants to deal with this, but Kim Jung-Un is a moron.

Doe posted...

Because chances are good rn I'm going to get a scholarship and set up somewhere where 30% of my neighbors aren't conducting Meth labs, the soybean plant doesn't block out the stars and crazy people don't camp in our woods

I'd like to believe you're exaggerating, but with everything I've read.... ugh.

Banana_Mana posted...

Luteryder posted...

Banana_Mana posted...

Fucking stupid ass country that voted that **** as their president. The US needs to just fuck the fuck off.

Calm down...

Tell that to the orange piece of shit trying to destabilize and perhaps take to war the country where my wife, niece and nephew call home.

Yeah, maybe it justifies your shite politics, but then yanks always think only of themselves. Grow the fuck up.

What, North Korea? They shot a nuke into Japanese trading waters. I know it's pretty horrific what can happen, but in all honesty, that leader needs to fucking die because he's way too unstable. No one is benefiting from him being in power anymore, not even China.

Anyway, if anyone's willing to share, please feel free. I honestly don't understand why none of the people who live in those communities talk about it on here...

HypnoCoosh posted...

Because the universe is about balance.

How ignorant are you kids these days.

That... sounds arbitrary and nonsensical. Balance of what? Balance to whom? Balance for what purpose?

Banana_Mana posted...

Fucking stupid ass country that voted that **** as their president. The US needs to just fuck the fuck off.

Calm down...

ssj3vegeta_ posted...

Fake news bruh

Dude, they're literally dying and their communities are falling apart. I honestly had no idea how bad it was until looking into news articles about it. You just don't hear about this in the mainstream media. It's similar to how the mainstream didn't cover the police brutality of Baltimore before the riots. Police were literally beating pregnant black women unconscious and you only got told about the gangs of Baltimore on the news.

Cartwheel_Kick posted...

N1NJAREB0RN posted...

God helps those who help themselves.

this

I'm atheist but TC's conundrum isn't the biggest logic failure in religion

Funnily enough, that's a Pagan belief...

I had no idea up until a few hours ago today that Rural America is literally dying. That's not a hyperbole or a joke either, and nobody is talking about it. I just don't get this, I see you all highly supportive of Trump and raging at "SJW" values and getting angry at the idea of "white privilege" but... I had no awareness that it was a symptom of Rural America having been brutally eviscerated with no recovery after the Great Recession, the lack of any jobs at all (literally just closed-up and boarded broken down shops where there should be plazas of shops for people), the skyrocketing suicide and heroin rates, and the lack of physically being able to support the general rural public because of the huge lack of doctors. Like, even with Bernie Sanders plan, Rural America wouldn't get any benefits because there aren't enough doctors and hospitals physically present to meet the needs of small town communities.

I don't get it. Why do you not talk about this? Even if mainstream media is ignoring you, I don't get why people didn't talk about it on here. It was just "grrr minorities, grrr SJWs, yay war, yay Trump!" from people on here... Like, I just don't get it... Is it the culture of "pull 'em up by their bootstraps" making you feel ashamed of talking about it? I don't get how you can expect liberals in city areas to understand what's going on, if you don't talk about problems like they do... And I don't even mean your personal poverty situations, but just the general problems of your local communities. I had no idea this was even a problem that has gone on for ten years up until a few hours ago from someone who has family in Rural towns or the scope of how awful it was.

Like, damn, I wish I had known before so I wouldn't have gotten as angry or thought of you all as full of irrational hate. Like, I had no clue what you were going through... I don't even know what else to say. I'm sorry you're all suffering. It's no wonder you're angry and hurt by concepts like white privilege, you're literally dying, and I'm sorry for your losses and suffering.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/38487/20150309/suicide-rates-differ-greatly-between-rural-urban-youths.htm

Did not realize there was such a huge difference. The gap is staggering... Kids from Rural religious areas are twice as high in suicide rates compared to city kids because the idea of having mental illness is ridiculed in religious towns.

young_flip posted...

this is a thing! new samurai jack...thanks bra

Ah, you didn't know?

The Scotsman's ghost looked exactly like the color scheme of Jack's hallucination. And I remembered . . . The Jack hallucination saw Ashi get kidnapped before Jack did the episode prior to this one.

So... that ghost isn't Jack losing his mind. Someone is haunting him and trying to drive Jack insane and it's apparently not Aku? o_O

Who do we know that has a motive to do this? The evil Jack persona, perhaps? Maybe a totally new character? I can't imagine the Guardian having any motive to do that.

Monday posted...

That fucking attorney defending this scumbag introduced the most idiotic defense I've ever seen. "He was tricked by child pornographers, and did not know he was being recorded"

Ah yes, all those poor fully grown adults being tricked into raping children.

'Murica. Land of the idiotic elected officials.

Milkman5 posted...

it never said he raped her.
they didn't even say what he did in the article, what did he do?

He raped her and filmed it online, then spread it online to celebrate it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/iowa-kraigen-grooms-sentence.html

Just fucking unbelievable... Should this be considered white privilege at work?