Like that story about the girl who pushed her “friend” off a bridge and got 2d of jail while a 16yo got put in jail (juvie) for 78d for not doing her online hw. Or the 17yo girl in Texas that got put in jail for truancy- missing more than 10d of school in a 6mo period. Or the CA mother who was jailed for 180d (SIX whole MONTHS) bc her kid cut a bunch of classes. So…if you can’t make your uncontrollable kid go to school, YOU the mother get put in jail. Mother then loses her job and her car and house bc she can’t pay the bills and now has a criminal record. Yeap, makes sense to me. *smack*
>>>WTF is this world coming to? And “I” am deemed the crazy one?
Train hits police car with handcuffed woman inside
Or this:
Woman Dies of Stroke After Police Did Not Believe She Was Ill
These are just random examples of shit I just happened to watch TODAY, so it isn’t about any specific story or case. Just the overall theme that SHIT IS FUCKED UP HERE. How does it even make any sense??
And I get that this didn’t happen to me and most ppl just go “eh” and go on with their lives. So most people aren’t bothered by it at all. I mean they may go “oh it’s horrible” but then forget it in 2s and go about their day so you know they don’t really give af. But shit like this DOES bother me.
WE LIVE IN A SICK AND BROKEN SOCIETY. WE LIVE IN AN INSANE WORLD.
>>>If shit like this bothers me, then I’m told there’s something wrong with ME and not this fucked up world.
>>>Why can’t I be a psychopath and NOT care like everyone else in society? Not caring is the hallmark of psychopathy, no?
Am I going insane? I feel like I am.
It’s like that psychology experiment where they planted fake passengers in an elevator. They all turned to face the other direction as if the doors were going to open on the other side. They do this see to if the 1 person who is the real person in the experiment, would actually turn and face the wrong side if everyone else does, even if the person KNOWS the doors don’t open on the other side. And one by one, almost ALL of the experimented on people turn and face the direction all the other people are facing.
And I would be the one going WTF, why is everyone turning facing the wrong way? I’m not fucking turning the wrong way. But society is facing the wrong way. If we do not, then WE are the weird aberrant people who won’t “comply”
This mad world is turning me insane.
I would say God help me, but I don’t believe in God.
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I live in Texas and they threatened to send me off because of truency T-T
it’s so dumb. but there’s a vested interest in locking up ppl ($$$) so this is what happens in ‘Murica.
yup its pretty fucked.
well, my therapist would say I was catastrophizing if I brought these things up. Something along the lines that yes these horrible things happen but they aren’t the only things that happen.
I’ve made my opinion on it pretty clear; it is awful, and someone should care. I’ve been keeping to my orders to limit my exposure to such things, and I’ve learned to identify that feeling, my blood rising, anger overflowing…. I get there and I shut down, for my own protection. Killing myself won’t make it any better, I rationalize.
It’s fighting with myself, a pure act of will preventing me from reaching the brink.
but if there is no god (as I suspect also), and a critical lack of kind people, no one is coming to save us. We either save ourselves, or we fall.
how does one save ourselves? people always say don’t watch the news, but i can’t stick my head in the sand. even if i did, that doesn’t change the fact that shit like this DOES occur, and that these news stories are not the anomaly- they’re the norm these days. people ARE in essence shitty. “good” people are few and far between.
I agree on the head in the sand factor, which is why I’ve taken a dieting approach to it. I can watch or read news when I’m in a somewhat calm place, and even then I limit my time and exposure.
I’m averaging an hour a day, which still isn’t low enough in my view, but that’s the lowest I’ve gotten. I try not to read repetitive stories, that’s one area to cut. Limiting social media exposure is a big part of it.
Social media is built to upset people, it’s how it holds our attention. That being the case, I remember that with every story it shows me. Is it showing me this because it’s relevant? or is it just put here to push my blood pressure, to keep me mad and interacting? So sometimes when I find myself feeling very frustrated, I retreat to a safe middle ground.
It takes willpower and a certain amount of cynical expectation setting, but I’ve lowered my blood pressure, and I don’t doomscroll like I used to.
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What it comes down to is taking all you can get, even if that feels small or pointless. It probably is, life is for the most part futility interspersed with random action and drama.
Being sick though, it’s made me have to budget my emotional engagement. I can’t afford to let everything wanting to frustrate me to succeed. It isn’t possible to go full Vulcan and live without emotions (at least that I’ve found so far), but it is possible to pick your moments, pick your battles.
avoiding the news and sticking one’s head in the sand is just most ppl trying to pretend it doesn’t exist- out of sight out of mind. i’m not saying it’s wrong for you to do so. for me, i can’t pretend all this doesn’t exist. that doesn’t work for me. it’s not the individual stories that bother me (i mean they are revolting) but the larger story is that it shows just how rotten people are. and they are all around us.
even if i don’t watch the news at all, like in the past for about 9 whole months I watched 0 news, didn’t make me any less angry or any less depressed.
i know the human species is vile. all this world has shown me is hate and prejudice and preferential treatment and corruption and abuse and uncaring and unkind people. yeah sure, there’s a FEW good people and things sprinkled in, but by and large, it’s shitty ppl doing shitty things, not just to the world and to other people, but to me.
my world view is obviously what happens to me, and what has happened to me, and what continues to happen to me. life throws shit at me constantly, and i just can’t take it anymore.
that’s why i can’t believe that “humans are fundamentally good” like everyone in every group wants me to believe. yeah sure, maybe nice things happen to OTHER people, so it’s easy for them to say “life is great and people are good.”
You know, the cops that parked the car on the tracks, put a suspect inside, failed to move the car after putting her inside, ignored the train horn blasts prior to impact, (I counted four), they are absolute and total unthinking morons. Loved watching the last cop run from the car like a coward seconds before impact. And these buffoons are allowed to carry weapons, interpret the law and effect arrests? Yet not one of them understood the inherent stupidity of putting a human into a vehicle parked on a railroad track? ? Holy shit. I f*cking despised cops before this, and now, I’m able to more clearly understand why.
in my professional capacity in the past I’ve had to work with cops a few times, and it has always felt like something is off, lack of empathy and emotional maturity
worse yet, AFTER she gets hit, they went BACK to her car to search. they never found a gun when they were searching it the FIRST time, and now suddenly, miraculously, they find a gun right in the console. after she gets hit and they knew they were in trouble. not only that, they seem too calm searching after she got hit, like, why are they not tending to the girl? also, in the beginning, she keeps asking them twice, “what’s going on?” and they won’t tell her, keeps telling her “we’ll tell you later,” meaning they intend to tell her AFTER they cuff her and put her in the police car. like WTF? aren’t the police supposed to tell us WHY they’re detaining and charging us?
yes, this video enraged me so much. there should be more talk and uproar of this; it doesn’t seem like it’s had enough views. i just happened to have found it while searching for another video.