"I don't want to live on this planet anymore" moments

[Comando96]

Let me thing. Everytime I talk to Americans and need to explain their entire political, socio-economic structure to them as they lack even an inkling as to what it consists of, and their image is made up of media mis-representations and loose talk from all news stations. Its vary rare anyone who is 15 or under has the intelligence to get in to the Team Speak room I'm in, but the shameful thing is, if they do, the smart 15 year old will know a hell of a lot more than anyone else slightly or far older than them. It just repulses me that my country lost its Empire to this... what the hell are you doing??? I don't know if you are intentionally fucking over your next generation but stop it America... All countries, including the UK to a larger extent rely on you... what on earth are you doing screwing up your empire, which we gave to you in interest payments for the loans we took from you to finance WW1 ¬.¬

Anyway... *ahem*

 

[King Aragorn]

When somebody tells me that the Guy Fawkes mask is based from V for Vendetta, and that V has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes.
Might as well use the gun...

...

Someone actually said that to you? Maybe they hadn't seen the movie, but still...

Yes, they very much did. Yet they still insisted.
It took a Wikipedia page and 4 YT videos to convince them that it infact did not originate from V.
Great movie, though.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Whenever someone says "I don't want to live on this planet anymore".

I used to take that idiotic, pretentious misanthropist attitude to stuff. Then I turned 14.

Wait, someone actually uses this meme seriously? As in not as a joke or exaggeration of stuff that pissed them off? I've never perceived it as anything more than a joke.

Gah, make that apply to every meme ever. If I feel genuinely desperate or depressed, posting memes about it on the internet is about the last thing I'm going to do.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Heh, I know one of those, its my own mother though. For years I've let her manipulate me into giving her money, fill me full of indignant rage in regards to the rest of my family (my own issues, but she made them worse), make me yearn for the stable family unit she wasn't capable of providing for me & still isn't, never mind the estranged & absent biological father, another kind of callow creature, or the child brother I now have who's separated from me by over 15 years.

Frankly, this little meme has related to me a bit too much & over the years I was turned into an insufferable, solitary person incapable of crawling out of the little pit of misery I dug for myself. About last year I've been making my way out & trying to give myself the security to not care about equally manipulative & petty sub-standard people, but there's just so many to contend with sometimes. I've gotta go easy on myself, forgive myself & give myself some focus & perspective, but for the sake of standards I have to attack other people over their conceited outlooks or blunt dishonesty, I feel I have to draw the line because nobody else will, raise the bar & smack em with it, so to speak.

Then I remember this most profound of lines from a little corner of my childhood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmYGUk3T2g

So, to reply to OP; People can always prove to be stupid, & people who you should be able to trust may be full of terrible flaws, but remember that the clarity you give yourself & the conviction to do better shall let you dictate your life as you see fit, instead of having it struggle in defiance or conform to the environment around you. So, for now, I guess I'll tough it out on Earth.

shitty to hear mate, having that at home can only be horrible, glad to see it hasn't affected you in all the wrong ways permanently.

also, that quote is ridiculously awesome even if it came from pokemon, i've seen it multiple times over the years and i still love it.

snip for size.

quite the generalizations you got goin on there! Way to judge a country of 313,914,040 people off of the small sample size you meet in a "team speak" room, not to mention, this whole speak of "empire" nationalism reeks of the past, you should be more worried about uplifting everyone into intelligence and understanding, not some subset portion of the population on our planet based off of trivial things.

However, if you really do think the US is beneath your vast treasure chest of knowledge, by all means, come over here and fix things!

 

[Comando96]

quite the generalizations you got goin on there! Way to judge a country of 313,914,040 people off of the small sample size you meet in a "team speak" room, not to mention, this whole speak of "empire" nationalism reeks of the past, you should be more worried about uplifting everyone into intelligence and understanding, not some subset portion of the population on our planet based off of trivial things.

However, if you really do think the US is beneath your vast treasure chest of knowledge, by all means, come over here and fix things!

I've had to deal with about 750 more people over about a year time period via team speak on a modorate to more conversation level, of whom most are Americans, some Canadians(who are better with their own nations system). That's a higher sample size than most US media use as an excuse for a sample size survey of how popular so and so is doing at said time.

I have 103 Team Speaks of whom contain between 2 - 100+ members. Of Whom I go to the leaderships mostly, or sometimes mix with everyone.
This is for Mount and Blade Napoleonic wars. Give it a look into, its a wonderful experiment.

What annoys me about it all is the failure of the USA failing to learn the mistakes of the past. GB had her Empire and lost it because we were stupid, on top of the fact the Empire was a fragile myth held together by illusions of grandure. So here we are! This lesson from history! USA ignores everything.
The sad thing is that the Mount and Blade Napoleonic wars demographic attracts a higher tier of player who joins as they have a particular interest or attraction to the era, which requires at least some basic knowlage of history. This considered, these people aren't stupid, they just know almost nothing about their political system... or economic system... which is arguably more important in the USA.

Finally I don't have a vast treasure chest of knowlage. Thats the sad thing. Its just that everyone elses treasure chest isn't empty, it has a hole it the bottom called the education system. What knowlage I do have, I inform all those who wouldn't remove themselves from the Channel.

An example, 2 days ago I was with a Colonel of a Regiment and his men, about 8 in total. None of them knew about their system, other than 1 person and... he was conforming to the intelligent 15 year old stereotype. When I started talking, firstly about the founding of the USA, and the writing of the constitution they were receptive and knew half of the infomation, with me adding extra details. Then it got onto the Electoral systems, for each office, then the power said office holds, the process through which legislation is created, developed voted on blocked and passed. Mainly this is to dispell the myth the President has omnipotentence in this arean and that the power of the President is the power to persuade, not to get a wand and fix everything.
Also explaining economics is fun. No one, unless they have studied economics specifically, knows anything about the economy of any real significance other than what they are told, up is good, down is bad, free market.

I'm not going to give up on this planet quite yet but fucking hell I wish the USA, apparently the most powerful country in the world, would teach people some basic things with which they pretty much need to know if they are to take any realistic part in their country.
Democracy requires people to make an informed decision.
If Democracy fails in any country, but the USA so prevalently, is due to not being informed on many issues...

 

[Lord Kloo]

I do Degree level geography, I don't have any 'I don't want to live on this planet anymore' moments

Instead I have 'I don't want to live on this planet in about 20-50 years time unless shit gets done'

Climate change, fossil fuel decline, water and food becoming stressed and scarce, over population and pollution, species extinction, virus and diseases evolving to become increasing deadly.

Yes we may solve some of these problems but the way we're currently going I don't think I want to be here to see the future, that said I will try to help this world and this race as best I can, we should never give up trying.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

quite the generalizations you got goin on there! Way to judge a country of 313,914,040 people off of the small sample size you meet in a "team speak" room, not to mention, this whole speak of "empire" nationalism reeks of the past, you should be more worried about uplifting everyone into intelligence and understanding, not some subset portion of the population on our planet based off of trivial things.

However, if you really do think the US is beneath your vast treasure chest of knowledge, by all means, come over here and fix things!

I've had to deal with about 750 more people over about a year time period via team speak on a modorate to more conversation level, of whom most are Americans, some Canadians(who are better with their own nations system). That's a higher sample size than most US media use as an excuse for a sample size survey of how popular so and so is doing at said time.

I have 103 Team Speaks of whom contain between 2 - 100+ members. Of Whom I go to the leaderships mostly, or sometimes mix with everyone.
This is for Mount and Blade Napoleonic wars. Give it a look into, its a wonderful experiment.

What annoys me about it all is the failure of the USA failing to learn the mistakes of the past. GB had her Empire and lost it because we were stupid, on top of the fact the Empire was a fragile myth held together by illusions of grandure. So here we are! This lesson from history! USA ignores everything.
The sad thing is that the Mount and Blade Napoleonic wars demographic attracts a higher tier of player who joins as they have a particular interest or attraction to the era, which requires at least some basic knowlage of history. This considered, these people aren't stupid, they just know almost nothing about their political system... or economic system... which is arguably more important in the USA.

Finally I don't have a vast treasure chest of knowlage. Thats the sad thing. Its just that everyone elses treasure chest isn't empty, it has a hole it the bottom called the education system. What knowlage I do have, I inform all those who wouldn't remove themselves from the Channel.

An example, 2 days ago I was with a Colonel of a Regiment and his men, about 8 in total. None of them knew about their system, other than 1 person and... he was conforming to the intelligent 15 year old stereotype. When I started talking, firstly about the founding of the USA, and the writing of the constitution they were receptive and knew half of the infomation, with me adding extra details. Then it got onto the Electoral systems, for each office, then the power said office holds, the process through which legislation is created, developed voted on blocked and passed. Mainly this is to dispell the myth the President has omnipotentence in this arean and that the power of the President is the power to persuade, not to get a wand and fix everything.
Also explaining economics is fun. No one, unless they have studied economics specifically, knows anything about the economy of any real significance other than what they are told, up is good, down is bad, free market.

I'm not going to give up on this planet quite yet but fucking hell I wish the USA, apparently the most powerful country in the world, would teach people some basic things with which they pretty much need to know if they are to take any realistic part in their country.
Democracy requires people to make an informed decision.
If Democracy fails in any country, but the USA so prevalently, is due to not being informed on many issues...

that's actually not a bad sample size considering most samples used in news surveys, i'll give you that.

while I do agree that everyone should have some basic understanding of how the political and economic system works in their respective country, it is by no means a requirement in day to day life (you'd be surprised on how little some people care to know or learn. Sad, but true) so it's easy to let that kind of information escape your grasp. I do greatly enjoy mount and blade, however i'm not really a fan of the multiplayer component, but i'll check it out sometime if i'm bored and looking through my backlog of games.

One thing that america is sorely lacking (at least in my area, something i've noticed) is a strong sense of community, there are so many damn cultures clashing in my area alone, that everyone kind of just focuses on what they're doing and that's that, if there was a stronger sense of community i think alot more of these problems would iron themselves out in the long run.

and the government of the united states is HUGELY different from the people who live here (one thing i think people sometimes don't realize, i bloody hate our news stations and how they over glorify the ignorant and stupidity) so it's hard to grasp on who's "fault" that is that the system isn't working as efficiently as it should be.

 

[Comando96]

I do greatly enjoy mount and blade, however i'm not really a fan of the multiplayer component, but i'll check it out sometime if i'm bored and looking through my backlog of games.

I am not really a fan of Native. However look at the mods, and in particular Napoleonic Wars. It is great fun. If not for Napoleonic Wars, I would have still be single player slaughtering my way through the kingdoms of... oh wait... they're mine now >

One thing that america is sorely lacking (at least in my area, something i've noticed) is a strong sense of community, there are so many damn cultures clashing in my area alone, that everyone kind of just focuses on what they're doing and that's that, if there was a stronger sense of community i think alot more of these problems would iron themselves out in the long run.

Culture. A uniform set of Norms and Values shared by society that hold society together. As you break these up and create factions within a culture, demonising, excluding, antagonising, persecuting members of a society who norms and values aren't quite the same as yours, then... you get the USA.
This an automatic factionalising of the culture is also constitutionalised in a sense with the 50 States of the Union. 50 different mini-countries who can apply their own set of rules and by and large have free reign over many of the different aspects of growth and how to Government, all with varying degree's of sucess, which creates an sort of Economic Dualism... but 25 times worse, quite literally ¬.¬

and the government of the united states is HUGELY different from the people who live here (one thing i think people sometimes don't realize, i bloody hate our news stations and how they over glorify the ignorant and stupidity) so it's hard to grasp on who's "fault" that is that the system isn't working as efficiently as it should be.

Oh that is one view that is expressed constantly. Hatered of your own news networks. In the UK we have the BBC but for some stupid reason at 2am we feel the need... why I don't know, to show CNN Global News.
CNN "Global News" is a total pathetic disgrace... the only Global News it mentions is: Here are some Islamists we've invaded... and now the weather. And to Finish off here is a cute animal/inspiring story about some American child.

I mean... CNN is bad but... at least its not Fox News... I've just given up there.

Also, as to the system not working...
The Entire system was set up to rely on compromised bwtween Representatives and Senators, with the President only stepping in if they become idiots, and he Veto's. However this isn't the case as every President interfered in the system and over the years Presidents found more and more constitutional ways to have more power, however this power comes at the price of an expectation that they can pass laws... which they can't. The Supreme Court as well has gone from impartial arbiter and Guardian of the Constitution to a politicised mess. To pass anything in the HoR you need a 50% majority, however due to the Filibuster in the Senate it now requires a 60% Majority vote as that is what is required to shut a filibuster up. The Founding Fathers thought that only VERY RARELY would an electoral dictatorship rise, and even then it would be short.
Partisanship breaks the principle of working together. The Democrats are willing to compromise a bit. The Republicans are willing to compromise a bit... The TEA party fucked everyone over and stopped the entire system dead. The last congress was the most inactive congress in the History of the United State of America, and why? Why you may ask? I'll tell you why... to get Obama out of Office. Was it worth it? Now the Republicans are compromising again as they realised the block everything tactic won't work. Also the Tea party was cut down to size (thank fuck), due to various election cock-ups

Anyway thats that.

I'll leave you with 1 interesting fact. Though the House of Representatives is controlled by the Republicans, the Popular Vote for the HoR was Democrat. Therefore the people wanted the Democrats in, but the system gave them the Republicans.