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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You Are Not Alone there, especially the long periods where I can't think of anything else but and the doom and gloom.
This election is going to put me into an asylum, especially if things do not turn around and quick.
edited 24th Jul '16 5:29:29 PM by Memers
I get those feelings, too. Having said that, I also have a suspicion that people (likely a recent cultural phenomenon) have a desire to live in the end times in a strange way-the thought of being "the last generation" makes one feel important (or being the one to correctly guess the apocalypse). This subconscious desire forces us to interpret data in the worst possible way.
Having said that, while I typically think cynicism is for losers, Trump has got me a little worried.
edited 24th Jul '16 5:33:44 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34@Kostya: It's not just religious groups. Secular liberals have put themselves into self-imposed hysteria in many ways.
Leviticus 19:34Out of everything I think the worst thing is his threats to our eastern allies like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea and then there is NATO... I mean seriously those ideas are bonkers if he thinks that will 'make America great again'.
In reality it would give up everything that the US has spent a century to build and remove any 'greatness' we have.
I don't think I have ever been more scared of a potential future in my life.
edited 24th Jul '16 5:45:32 PM by Memers
Honestly, I'm not scared of Trump. He's awful and an egomaniac, but I don't know if he's particularly competent enough to actually run anything. What I'm really scared of is the Republican Party and their ridiculous, harmful platform that somehow make the Bush years look like a cakewalk.
I'm scared of the people who will be voting for Trump and their reasoning behind doing so. Not just the hateful bullshit (although that's obviously a huge part of it), but nonsense like "he's not telling anyone his platform so they won't steal it from him!" and claiming he's not part of the system that failed them, when as a rich businessman he quite obviously is. I'm also scared of the response we'll see from other countries to a Trump presidency.
So no, Trump personally doesn't scare me. I'm scared of everything that a Trump presidency would mean, however.
Same. Trump's fans scare me less than the man himself. He's a blowhard and scam artist, it's entirely possible he won't actually enact most of the bullshit he spews and just sits his fat ass in the Oval Office, funneling government funds into his own bank account. But for him to win is an important psychological victory for the alt-right who've turned him into a messiah, and many of whom are willing to take direct action in the name of their ideals.
edited 24th Jul '16 6:07:33 PM by AlleyOop
My sympathies. I'd personally go the non-political statistic route in such an argument, but such people are often immune to logic.
I just had to unfollow an old friend from high school cause he kept flooding my Facebook feed with anti-Clinton/Bernie or Bust garbage. Pity, he was otherwise a decent guy.
edited 24th Jul '16 6:17:14 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.God, I hope Trump gets the worst kind of cancer.
edited 24th Jul '16 6:27:04 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.![]()
AIDS is pretty much under control now. Just ask Charlie Sheen and Magic Johnson.
edited 24th Jul '16 6:31:11 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I think this is starting to affect my sanity. I now get violent urges whenever I see or hear anything about Wikileaks or Trump...