What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I live in NC. I have these things called the radio and internet that inform me of things happening all round the world, even if they suck and are sad.

I just foolishly assumed for a moment that perhaps because children were the victims this time, politicians and the press would act like adults for once.

[Aksannyi]

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Only a few hours after these CT shootings and Governor Cuomo is calling for more gun regulation and FOX news is blaming video games. I knew idiot liberals and conservatives wouldn't let me down. Their lack of human dignity knows no bounds.

This is why I'm avoiding most of my usual haunts, the BG thread is already exhausting me. I just want to be sad for the families and talk politics some other day, because it's really not that fucking important.

[Melody]

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I wonder what goes through the mind of a criminal who snuffs someone's life. Like what drives someone so far as to take someone else's life.

[Raydeus]

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I wonder what goes through the mind of a criminal who snuffs someone's life. Like what drives someone so far as to take someone else's life.

Yeah, I'll never understand the army or their corporate masters either.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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This is a fuck you to all the people that lost perspective yesterday.

Fuck you, mainstream media for sensationalizing a tragedy yet again.
Fuck you, mainstream media for turning this into a witch hunt on Facebook.
Fuck you, mainstream media for being a textbook example of cyberbullying.
Fuck their dumbass viewers for playing into FOX and CNN's hands,
Fuck you those people for playing into the hands of people politicize gun control a split second after.
Fuck the Americans that took to Facebook based on what they learned for the media to harass anyone with the killer or accomplices name.

I mean, god, you self-righteous, pin-headed motherfuckers seem to think only one person can have that name in all the world? There are dozens of people in America and around the world with your name - they were assigned it birth. Fuck off.

Fuck you for witch-hunting whatever that person liked on Facebook and then going on to send nasty messages to them, telling them to burn in hell. I'm sure there are people at Bioware who are parents who hugged their children just a bit more tightly last night. This is every parent's worst nightmare.

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I get people need something to blame. I totally get it. I was on the receiving end of it earlier this week. My roommate already knew his grandmother was going to pass this week and his father had, rather foolishly, taken in some strangers because they claimed to have lost their home to a fire last Saturday. Turns out on that couple was lying -my roommate and his girlfriend did some checking as his girlfriend lived in that area and verified it with a dispatcher they mutually knew. No house burnt down in that area on that day. Basically, my roommates parents were in a potential hostage situation if that couple got their hands on his guns.

My roommate couldn't do anything to get there fast enough. Neither one of us really had the cash to even get that far.

So he took it out on me. Anything that was a minor or relatively non-existent issue with me was suddenly a major problem and I was a monster for these amplified grievances. He said things that sounded rather threatening, not just physically, but emotionally and psychologically as well for me. He knows some of my problems, some of my personal hurdles but suddenly they're all invalidated in his eyes and he attacks them and dismisses them as bullshit.

Deep down, I knew he was just venting, that this anger was built on his feelings of being powerless - but when its made so personal and so threatening its still impossible not to feel hurt, shamed and guilty about some things.

No one deserves to be made to feel that way, though. I think most people know their faults and are just looking for for a way to get over that wall that sometimes feels impossible to scale. Dumping on them doesn't get them closer to overcoming it, it just makes things harder. I know misery loves company, but setting out to make others miserable is still the worst thing you can do in the face of loss, no matter it its natural or tragic.

Its just... ugh. Its not something I can bring myself to do to people. It sickens me to see the world gets caught up in it so easily. I'm not trying to diminish the unfortunate events, but our media already had a way of making them seem bigger and more urgent in the face of the larger world. Now with the internet and social media the world feels so much smaller and connected than it actually is.

Shit happsns every day, terrible shit. There was no media frenzy, however, when my grandfather was murdered in cold blood by the woman he took in. The press did not show up at our doorstep to talk to my roommate this week. These people in the press exist to cherry pick larger events out of the smaller ones and then blow those slightly larger events out of proportion. And the press and politicians alike love to use children as bait. It honestly sickens me how often they go for that most vulerable part of people and use it to their political and financial ends. So many senseless crusades have been waged in the name of children that have it better today that most kids in other parts of the world do.

It sucks what happened to these kids, it really does. its heart-breaking - but its also important to not be manipulated and not lash out at others amidst the grief.

And I think most sensible people know not to do this, but the internet rage monkeys don't. People that just use the internet as an outlet for anger all the time cannot make the distinction. Those people are the people I humbly submit should fuck off. I don't need your bullshit rage and misguided anger. I don't need your spoonfed politics and certainly don't want to hear your opinions.

If you're not going to rise above the shit you know the media is feeding you, there's just no helping you.

[Melody]

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Wow......I'm sorry Kitten to hear that man. I hope you guys work things out over there.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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He apologized, for what it was worth. Doesn't change the fact it took a few days to fully unravel from the resulting breakdown, but I'm OK now.

[Feba]

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Could someone enlighten me as to how the media is sensationalizing this? I don't have American TV or anything, but I have a hard time believing that slaughtering 27 people is something that's being blown out of proportion here.

[Jarre]

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BBC news 24 had all the information streamed live from CNN on teh chanel for a good 2 hours here in the uk, same with SKY, it ain't even in our country but they dedicated between them and other news channels a good 6 hours worth to it.

[Ketaru]

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Could someone enlighten me as to how the media is sensationalizing this? I don't have American TV or anything, but I have a hard time believing that slaughtering 27 people is something that's being blown out of proportion here.

While this is certainly tragic, it's really a shame it takes something like this to even get peoples' attention. People die of violent, unnatural causes all the time in the world. And still nobody pays attention. Or it's just something we take for granted happens. But then it happens in school and people are suddenly in a panic. What went wrong? Who's to blame? The bodies weren't even cold yet and the news and internet was already turning this into a blame game about gun laws and violence in the media. People were quick to spin this in the most divisive way possible. Where's the moment of silence for the victims? This isn't a time for remembrance. This is an opportunity to sell newspapers.

I rather like what somebody else had to say about these kind of crimes:

"Events like this, if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."

And on the flip side, all sorts of good things happen in the world, but that all gets ignored in favor of things like his. People are just obsessed with seeing sick stuff on TV. Probably because it makes us feel good about ourselves, "Oh, we would never, ever do something like that."

Years from now, we're not even going to remember the kids that died. The shooter, on the other hand, will get his very own Wikipedia page.

[Feba]

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right, I don't disagree with any of what you said.

I still don't see how "oh my god, 27 people were murdered, over half of them little kids, in school" is sensationlist. Politicized, abused, sure, sensationalist, absolutely not from what I've seen.

[Melody]

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Fucking pissed off today, like boiling with rage type pissed. The kind of pissed where you want to punch someone in the face for making a stupid decision. After this whole child slaughter business, one of my friends is deciding she wants a fucking abortion, are you fucking shitting me? I understand every woman has a right to their own body but her reasoning was so far out of sync I almost head butted her in the mouth. "I don't want my child to be murdered like that." How the---I can't even try to rationalize with her at this point. But if she does go through with the decision, I'll have a reason to be rid of this woman for the rest of my life. She's scared to be a parent for fucks sake, it severely pisses me off and I REALLY hate to say this, but some females just shouldn't fucking breed. Like you need your tubes tied off, snipped or whatever needs to be done. I wonder why I am having such issues. Like god damn it man, step up to the plate. Her whole original idea which I turned down and felt like beating the hell out of her AND the boyfriend for. "I want to be on that show sixteen and pregnant." That was her fucking motive for getting pregnant, you stupid cunt open your god damn eyes will you? Your using your child as a means of profit for yourself without thinking of the child's future interest, I don't even have kids but I am pretty sure some of the parents on this forum would feel the same way. Fuck I need tea to calm down.

[Armando]

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But if she does go through with the decision, I'll have a reason to be rid of this woman for the rest of my life.
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"I want to be on that show sixteen and pregnant."

Remind me why you need her to have an abortion to not associate with her further. She was clearly plenty stupid already.

[Raydeus]

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Years from now, we're not even going to remember the kids that died.

Years? Try weeks. <_<;

People will start forgetting the moment the MSM stops covering any news about it.

[Melody]

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Remind me why you need her to have an abortion to not associate with her further. She was clearly plenty stupid already.

I give second chances. But that's my own folly.