fear of getting nuked

[chuckapalahniuk27]

i live in the US and it fucking sucks. our economy is going to shit and our government is blatantly corrupt (and proud of it), and the people in this country are so divided we can't work together to fix anything, at least not yet. that doesn't mean people haven't been doing anything at all, but as things ramp up i get more and more worried about what'll happen when everything finally cracks. i don't think i'm the only one who feels this way. it feels tense. it also feels like most of the world hates us, and i don't even blame them. the US has been a DEEPLY racist, hateful country for a long long time. we never fixed shit! just postponed it.

i really struggle with this impending sense of doom. our president LOVES threatening to use nukes. people joke about it, but i don't even want to think about that scenario playing out. i want to die just to escape the possibility. if he somehow nukes another country (i know he doesn't even have the codes), i'm sure we'll get nuked too. WWIII would not be pretty.

i'm beyond angry at this country for turning on its own people. i used to be proud to be an american. i was a military kid. this is where i was born and where i've lived my whole life. the more i learned growing up the more disappointed i was.
i think at this point i'd leave if i could, so it annoys me when people give me that "well if you don't like it, leave " BS. maybe you can, but i sure as fuck can't afford to just drop everything and go to a brand new country, i can barely leave my house. have some empathy.

 

[Kanoh]

Nobody's nuking anyone. As much as I wouldn't mind an apocalypse, it's more likely we'll get invaded by aliens than anyone starting a nuclear war. This would mean total annihilation and total annihilation is not good for corporations to make money.

 

[thefirstluminary]

i live in the US and it fucking sucks. our economy is going to shit and our government is blatantly corrupt (and proud of it), and the people in this country are so divided we can't work together to fix anything, at least not yet. that doesn't mean people haven't been doing anything at all, but as things ramp up i get more and more worried about what'll happen when everything finally cracks. i don't think i'm the only one who feels this way. it feels tense. it also feels like most of the world hates us, and i don't even blame them. the US has been a DEEPLY racist, hateful country for a long long time. we never fixed shit! just postponed it.

i really struggle with this impending sense of doom. our president LOVES threatening to use nukes. people joke about it, but i don't even want to think about that scenario playing out. i want to die just to escape the possibility. if he somehow nukes another country (i know he doesn't even have the codes), i'm sure we'll get nuked too. WWIII would not be pretty.

i'm beyond angry at this country for turning on its own people. i used to be proud to be an american. i was a military kid. this is where i was born and where i've lived my whole life. the more i learned growing up the more disappointed i was.
i think at this point i'd leave if i could, so it annoys me when people give me that "well if you don't like it, leave " BS. maybe you can, but i sure as fuck can't afford to just drop everything and go to a brand new country, i can barely leave my house. have some empathy.

at least you don't live in an african shit hole like I do be grateful america is a decent place

 

[witchcraft]

Yeah. It's a corrupt mess with no real political options; about as genuine as WWE.

Unbelievable corruption. Insane levels of debt. Every-man-for-themself mentality. Many countries have a negative opinion of us, but even Americans are divided. A house divided... and all that.

The American Dream is a farce. Most people my age won't be able to retire unless they work themselves to death (ironic). No good job opportunities. The general public is a toxic cesspool, speaking from years of experience in customer service roles.

The education system is a joke. Speaking from experience in getting my degree in education. Massive disservice to the kids, many of whom are feral. I think Romulus and the other guy raised by wolves would've been more civilized.

I don't see any hope. It's a Gordian Knot of 10,000 problems. But hey, at least we got Maduro. *eye roll*

 

[chuckapalahniuk27]

at least you don't live in an african shit hole like I do be grateful america is a decent place

i am grateful it's not as bad as it could be. i'm still going to criticize what's going on. sorry if i came off as insensitive and i hope your situation gets better.

Yeah. It's a corrupt mess with no real political options; about as genuine as WWE.

Unbelievable corruption. Insane levels of debt. Every-man-for-themself mentality. Many countries have a negative opinion of us, but even Americans are divided. A house divided... and all that.

The American Dream is a farce. Most people my age won't be able to retire unless they work themselves to death (ironic). No good job opportunities. The general public is a toxic cesspool, speaking from years of experience in customer service roles.

The education system is a joke. Speaking from experience in getting my degree in education. Massive disservice to the kids, many of whom are feral. I think Romulus and the other guy raised by wolves would've been more civilized.

I don't see any hope. It's a Gordian Knot of 10,000 problems. But hey, at least we got Maduro. *eye roll*

i am so tired of it. i feel like everyday there's a new problem exposed

 

[doomerguy88]

Sorry you are experiencing that. Though I kind of wish the nukes would start flying, as there is no easy way to CTB so at least I would end my miserable existence. As much I hate trump I kind of feel like he's heading us into WW3 which would make the nuke thing a real possibility. Of course it would be sad for all the normal people who want to live their lives.

 

[chuckapalahniuk27]

Sorry you are experiencing that. Though I kind of wish the nukes would start flying, as there is no easy way to CTB so at least I would end my miserable existence. As much I hate trump I kind of feel like he's heading us into WW3 which would make the nuke thing a real possibility. Of course it would be sad for all the normal people who want to live their lives.

i think my fear comes more from the idea of the nuke not directly hitting me and then i die a really painful radiation death. i'd hate to hear the sirens and know what's coming. there's also my family and yeah, all the normal people.

 

[thefirstluminary]

i am grateful it's not as bad as it could be. i'm still going to criticize what's going on. sorry if i came off as insensitive and i hope your situation gets better.

It's hard to take your gratitude seriously when you follow it up by saying the country sucks. Try living one day in a third world country and see if you survive. You have no idea how good you have it. You complain about an economy that is still miles ahead of where I live. I have no future here, and you're complaining about a place that is a dream to me. You can't see reality when you've been standing inside the frame your whole life

 

[witchcraft]

^I feel bad. But I didn't realize this was a competition.

"Other places / past generations" had it worse has real wow-thanks-I'm-cured energy.

Just want to say be careful you don't fall on your own sword. It sounds like maybe not everyone in your country has a computer and Internet access. That fact wouldn't be justification to unempathetically dismiss your struggles, though.

Everyone is stuck in their own frame, limited to their own life experience and circumstances. Nobody has omniscience, omnipresence.

I've seen some people on here say that they would want to CTB no matter what, simply because they didn't ask to be here. I'm talking about the most fundamental antinatalist philosophy, the stuff that doesn't get all bogged down in keeping score about who has the better life and therefore apparently has less right to feel the way they do.

 

[thefirstluminary]

^I feel bad. But I didn't realize this was a competition.

It's not a competition, all I asked for is to live amongst decent people and decent place I got none of that here only people who can live a decent life here are ones who are rich or above middle class other than that nothing it's pretty depressing and weird honestly

 

[witchcraft]

It's not a competition, all I asked for is to live amongst decent people and decent place I got none of that here only people who can live a decent life here are ones who are rich or above middle class other than that nothing it's pretty depressing and weird honestly

That is awful, I can genuinely only imagine. Greed is such a cancer, yet the greedy will often turn that around on you (or me) and say we are greedy, and should just be content with what we have. Easy for them to say.

I like your profile picture by the way. Is it a character from an anime?

 

[thefirstluminary]

That is awful, I can genuinely only imagine. Greed is such a cancer, yet the greedy will often turn that around on you (or me) and say we are greedy, and should just be content with what we have. Easy for them to say.

Indeed things got so bad here that literally anyone would do anything just to get money at this point working a normal job won't get you anywhere
meh doesn't matter everything is lame I better of dead

I like your profile picture by the way. Is it a character from an anime?

that's reki from haibane renemi she's literally me hehe

 

[froggirl9000]

i have a friend in central america (wont say which country) who occasionally panics when things get bad globally. he figures that all of us in first or second world countries will be killed quickly by the nukes, but that his country wont get nuked and thus he will die painfully via starvation due to the world having ended.