The United States Feels Like a Sad, Empty, Dark Place

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This gloom & doom culture is a uniquely liberal one. It consumes politically focused democrats, becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. There are left center democrats that live their lives without perseverating on “resisting” that are fairly happy in life. Just know that the darkness and turmoil you perceive is something you alone assume and amplify. You would benefit from therapy.

I actually think the gloom and doom is deliberate de-population tactics because there is a part of the Democratic Party that is a death cult. This is how leadership wants you to feel. And I’m a Democrat.

More co-dependency on the government or a savior. That’s the ticket!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You are free to leave.

beside the point. The fact is America isn't what it used to be. And we can be sad about that.

The internet is brainwashing you, quit social media, limit the internet and you may become a more content individual. We have more than enough here, have you ever visited a foreign country? Ever lived anywhere else? Visiting a foreign country is one thing, living there is another. There’s a good reason why people want to immigrate here and it’s not always for jobs.

Yes, I have lived elsewhere but right now I don't need to live anywhere else to see the un-American pile of crap that is surrounded us right now.

Where I am ice is disappearing people. There is an active environment that is driving people good hard-working people and the people that know and care about them to an underground existence. It's truly horrifying.

I think you're the one that needs to get out into your country and see what is going on right now. Open your eyes.

So toured dwelling ICE?

Did you dwell this severely in our rampant illegal immigrant problems the last 40 years? So devastating. Reap what we sow, in so many bad ways. So depressing. So awful. I need to go cry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has your personal reality actually changed?

Yes. I know several people who have been laid off and are looking for work. There are multiple houses for sale on my street. Yes. My personal reality has actually changed.

I’ve worked since the year 2000. Have seen many over hiring/ lay off cycles, myself included but when a boss was protecting her position.

Did I cry and blame America?

No. I was mad and called my network of supporters who had been through the same, talked with my family, and then instigated my job search plan for the year. Ended up relocating, and happy.

I’ll do that again and again if I have to.

It’s part of being an adult. And a job search. In any country. Keep your skills, attitude and network up.

Sweetie you did that during the easy times. Entire industries are losing funding and are dying. Not just one, but entire industries. Science and research, retail, high level education, federal government.

Job search in any country that is hilarious dont’ you think the other countries are blocking immigrants too? They are.

It is cute that you think getting a job when you lost one was hard under normal circumstances. These are not normal circumstances.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is what we get when we are a country where everything is about money and where people only look out for themselves and their own children. The capitalism, consumerism, and individualism have finally caught up with us. Just read any number of the threads here on DCUM as a window into all of these things. We shouldn’t be surprised, but we should aim to do better.

Exactly, we got non stop 2-3m of illegal economic migrants here for the wage arbitrage MONEY. and they use the *free* public taxpayer schools, health systems, roads, aid systems right away and heavily.

Then they work cash jobs and remit billions to their real countries to build family homes, buy stuff there and fund extended family schooling or chain migration to USA.

Always about the money.

Yeah, it’s all about the migrants. We have no other problems. It is this level of stupidity that led to these monsters being in power.

[Anonymous]

My white grandparents lived in a modest bungalow for 70+ years, were very friendly with all their neighbors, never had air conditioning, had one tiny bathroom, one car if they were lucky, my grandma cooked and baked everyday, even in summer when it was 100 degrees, my grandpa worked at a factory, fished and hunted, and did all repairs needed around the house, he knew how to fix anything. They wore the same clothes for years and grandma would mend any holes in clothes. They both had high school educations. Camping in a tent was their annual family vacation. They went to church but were actually atheists. They were beautiful seemingly happy content people. By today’s standards they would be thought of as being poor. They never once felt sorry for themselves. In a way this was a better time though. I don’t know that they were 100% happy all the time but they always acted happy in front of the children at least. I think our outlook has been clouded by social media. It think we are always striving for the unattainable, it’s never enough. We all think we are movie stars now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s unrecognizable. It’s callous. It’s frightening. It’s stressful. It’s crass. I would say to anyone still thinking of coming here to not bother. There is no pleasure living in the US due to politics, standards of living, how expenses it is, the lack of real freedoms, half of the country engulfed by the maga cult even when facts stare them in the face, a broken and cruel SCOTUS who insists on unlimited executive power that has sealed our fates as a country, AI taking over, and tech bros being clearly in charge, our way of life being dismantled, education on its knees…there is no amount of praying that will ever see us through, it’s over for all of us. It’s too late.

OP, it’s not too late. If you stood on a corner with a sign that criticized the Trump admin would you be put in jail? NO. Until you can’t do that it’s not too late.

Please, turn off news/social media and volunteer for the VA elections. Attend a Tesla Takedown, get a group of friends to do a sign wave (literally holding signs on street corner). Go to Indivisible.org and find an event or group. Check out Mobilize. There are multiple events daily!

There is zero excuse for doing nothing. This is for anyone on this thread who wants to doom and gloom. It’s hard, but giving up is not an option. I say this with love and compassion: Stop complaining and Act.

This is all true, but for a lot of people that had it good for a really long time this is a time of reckoning that will require these moments of realization.

People will need to this dark realization to move forward.

This is how black people have felt for 400 years but no one cared then, nor do they care now.

My British Ghanan neighbor and his friends really doesn’t care for nor agree with that take. He once asked if it really works to get more free stuff in America?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has your personal reality actually changed?

Yes. I know several people who have been laid off and are looking for work. There are multiple houses for sale on my street. Yes. My personal reality has actually changed.

I’ve worked since the year 2000. Have seen many over hiring/ lay off cycles, myself included but when a boss was protecting her position.

Did I cry and blame America?

No. I was mad and called my network of supporters who had been through the same, talked with my family, and then instigated my job search plan for the year. Ended up relocating, and happy.

I’ll do that again and again if I have to.

It’s part of being an adult. And a job search. In any country. Keep your skills, attitude and network up.

Sweetie you did that during the easy times. Entire industries are losing funding and are dying. Not just one, but entire industries. Science and research, retail, high level education, federal government.

Job search in any country that is hilarious dont’ you think the other countries are blocking immigrants too? They are.

It is cute that you think getting a job when you lost one was hard under normal circumstances. These are not normal circumstances.

There you go again with your pedestal and personal opinion again.

Let me guess, it’s grounded in what you read on social or mass media. Second hand “information”’from there suits you well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what we get when we are a country where everything is about money and where people only look out for themselves and their own children. The capitalism, consumerism, and individualism have finally caught up with us. Just read any number of the threads here on DCUM as a window into all of these things. We shouldn’t be surprised, but we should aim to do better.

Exactly, we got non stop 2-3m of illegal economic migrants here for the wage arbitrage MONEY. and they use the *free* public taxpayer schools, health systems, roads, aid systems right away and heavily.

Then they work cash jobs and remit billions to their real countries to build family homes, buy stuff there and fund extended family schooling or chain migration to USA.

Always about the money.

Yeah, it’s all about the migrants. We have no other problems. It is this level of stupidity that led to these monsters being in power.

Actually, and ironically, the comment you are whining about was spot on.

Q: This is what we get when we are a country where everything is about money and where people only look out for themselves and their own children.

A: 2,500,000 illegal immigrants a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My white grandparents lived in a modest bungalow for 70+ years, were very friendly with all their neighbors, never had air conditioning, had one tiny bathroom, one car if they were lucky, my grandma cooked and baked everyday, even in summer when it was 100 degrees, my grandpa worked at a factory, fished and hunted, and did all repairs needed around the house, he knew how to fix anything. They wore the same clothes for years and grandma would mend any holes in clothes. They both had high school educations. Camping in a tent was their annual family vacation. They went to church but were actually atheists. They were beautiful seemingly happy content people. By today’s standards they would be thought of as being poor. They never once felt sorry for themselves. In a way this was a better time though. I don’t know that they were 100% happy all the time but they always acted happy in front of the children at least. I think our outlook has been clouded by social media. It think we are always striving for the unattainable, it’s never enough. We all think we are movie stars now.

The marxists are all about envy. Unhappy, envious and destined for Hell. They lose horribly in the end. Most of the USA is on the winning team now. Just makes them more miserable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has your personal reality actually changed?

Yes. I know several people who have been laid off and are looking for work. There are multiple houses for sale on my street. Yes. My personal reality has actually changed.

I’ve worked since the year 2000. Have seen many over hiring/ lay off cycles, myself included but when a boss was protecting her position.

Did I cry and blame America?

No. I was mad and called my network of supporters who had been through the same, talked with my family, and then instigated my job search plan for the year. Ended up relocating, and happy.

I’ll do that again and again if I have to.

It’s part of being an adult. And a job search. In any country. Keep your skills, attitude and network up.

Sweetie you did that during the easy times. Entire industries are losing funding and are dying. Not just one, but entire industries. Science and research, retail, high level education, federal government.

Job search in any country that is hilarious dont’ you think the other countries are blocking immigrants too? They are.

It is cute that you think getting a job when you lost one was hard under normal circumstances. These are not normal circumstances.

Lol.

Such a shallow take. No wonder the real world confuses you so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s unrecognizable. It’s callous. It’s frightening. It’s stressful. It’s crass. I would say to anyone still thinking of coming here to not bother. There is no pleasure living in the US due to politics, standards of living, how expenses it is, the lack of real freedoms, half of the country engulfed by the maga cult even when facts stare them in the face, a broken and cruel SCOTUS who insists on unlimited executive power that has sealed our fates as a country, AI taking over, and tech bros being clearly in charge, our way of life being dismantled, education on its knees…there is no amount of praying that will ever see us through, it’s over for all of us. It’s too late.

Never been better.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My white grandparents lived in a modest bungalow for 70+ years, were very friendly with all their neighbors, never had air conditioning, had one tiny bathroom, one car if they were lucky, my grandma cooked and baked everyday, even in summer when it was 100 degrees, my grandpa worked at a factory, fished and hunted, and did all repairs needed around the house, he knew how to fix anything. They wore the same clothes for years and grandma would mend any holes in clothes. They both had high school educations. Camping in a tent was their annual family vacation. They went to church but were actually atheists. They were beautiful seemingly happy content people. By today’s standards they would be thought of as being poor. They never once felt sorry for themselves. In a way this was a better time though. I don’t know that they were 100% happy all the time but they always acted happy in front of the children at least. I think our outlook has been clouded by social media. It think we are always striving for the unattainable, it’s never enough. We all think we are movie stars now.

The marxists are all about envy. Unhappy, envious and destined for Hell. They lose horribly in the end. Most of the USA is on the winning team now. Just makes them more miserable.

You’re saying most of America is Maga now? Lol. Guess you haven’t looked at recent polls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This gloom & doom culture is a uniquely liberal one. It consumes politically focused democrats, becoming a self fulfilling prophecy. There are left center democrats that live their lives without perseverating on “resisting” that are fairly happy in life. Just know that the darkness and turmoil you perceive is something you alone assume and amplify. You would benefit from therapy.

Oh please! Plenty of “I felt this way under Biden” folks.

[Anonymous]

Maybe stop trying to compete with everyone, stop taking fancy trips, buying crap you can’t afford, living above your means. Live a simpler life if you can.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid I was appalled when I’d read history or historical fiction and they’d literally throw a dead body off a stagecoach and keep driving. It was always a barometer for me that the world had improved.

The US has been through hard times before, and POC know this acutely. Many of us had very hard childhoods. Feel sad, then join the resistance.