Truly bizzar rash of dip chit idiots who have no biz owning firearms, making the rest of us look bad events recently. You could not add more ammo (pun intended) to the anti gun forces if you tried:
Kid goes to the wrong house, rings bell, and dude shoots him through the door:
I long paper could be, perhaps will be, written on the factors that has people coming unglued. I was fully expecting it during covid, and perhaps it was just delayed a bit, almost national PTSD. I have noticed aggressive driving is way up, at least where I am and I have to assume not unique to my area in FL.
It’s the fall of an empire, brought to you in real time by the 24/7/365 firehose propaganda feed being beamed into everyone’s brains by their various news and social media bubbles.
It’s only going to continue to slowly get worse until one day in the future when it’ll get a lot worse all at once.
I’m no expert but having a constant barrage of personalized content designed to enrage you and fed to you by an algorithm on apps that are designed to be as addictive as possible has made everybody go nuts. Once you get into the political shit, it just keeps feeding you more and more, it’s a constant everyday force feed where every story is framed in a way to cause you to feel outrage against the other side. “now they’re doing this, now they’re doing this! now they’re doing this!” People are watching their phone screens 5-7 hrs a day on average. Racial hatred is being pushed by the establishment media and has become normalized. Everybody thinks they’re the victim of some oppressor. A lot of people don’t bother reading books anymore, they’re seen thousands of videos of violent attacks, fights, horrible car crashes, shootings, to the point where they’ve become completely desensitized, just read the comments on those types of videos, people cracking jokes, making fun of the victims etc… It’s pretty sick. Gen Z and younger Millenials never even knew a world where this technology didn’t exist, they were given a smartphone as babies. I no longer recognize the country I grew up in.
All the mass shooting in our Country’s history would pale in comparison to all the U.S. citizens that have been killed by all the hard drugs coming across our open southern border. 100,000 + last year and crickets from brain dead Joe his Commie Party and the fake news. Like markm said in his post above, *** turn the garbage off ***. LOL !!!
You’re right, but we do still have to account for the people that ARE being influenced. I actually got in some strange run-ins last year just going about life off-work after I got home from a trip, because people were so spun up about racism, and ironically, thought I looked like a racist. While wearing a PT shirt from an African nation’s .mil. It was super weird, and normally I assume that I am at the root of any altercation, obviously, but after the third unusual incident, I started asking around. Turns out, there was some shit going around in social media and beards are racist now. The irony is palpable.
Plus, 2020 happened, and that was wild. Most people should see that as a wake-up call for the dangers of social media, if they happened to forget that Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc exist.
I keep a word document. Anytime I’m online browsing websites or news articles or Internet forums and someone posts something that really resonates with me… I copy/paste it into that word document. Not to use as my own, not to repost elsewhere, but just to have as a sort of reference.
Many people on M4C have made it into that document. I don’t usually tell them or let them know. I don’t even attribute who said what within the document itself. It’s just there.