How sad. However, both people may be able to apply for a visa to a more functional country and start a fresh life there. Colombia is still under the influence of the USA, and the USA is the main reason for Colombia's socioeconomic problems.
America is dead. I've already got cousins born and raised in India who have been waiting for a gree…
How sad. However, both people may be able to apply for a visa to a more functional country and start a fresh life there. Colombia is still under the influence of the USA, and the USA is the main reason for Colombia's socioeconomic problems.
America is dead. I've already got cousins born and raised in India who have been waiting for a green card for years but are deciding to go back because of this bullshit. Im even telling American-born Indian origin folks like me that we may also end up being immigrants just like our parents. This country is unsafe, and it's impossible to stay here.
This is certainly a success for MAGA on immigration. While once US citizenship was seen as a good thing to many in the third world, now it's not. What better way to deter immigration than to turn the country to excrement?
I agree “America is dead”. MAGAa are in for a lesson in irony. The future is China. They are filling the void we used to dominate in our benevolent footprint throughout the world via USAID, when we recognized that spreading good will was an exercise in soft power.
I certainly understand your feelings. We all have only one life and we hope to live in freedom. I believe that if are here legally and stay, things will turn around. Most Americans are not this cruel, and most are not even so racist. Trump is a backlash to the changes that have taken place in the world; the changes that have brought you here. But Trump can't turn back time, and his efforts will fail. Unfortunately, there are still months of suffering in store for all of us. At least hang on until after the midterm elections.
I have been amazed by the number of gleefully racist people who have come out of the woodwork since Trump rode that escalator down in 2015. It’s as if they felt repressed by not being able to use the “n-“ or “r-“ word, and now they’ve been liberated. (Feeling the need to put other people down is the sign of an insecure loser, but that’s a whole other topic.) At least now they’ve shown themselves, and we know who they are. And they could always have used whatever words they wanted - they would just have faced disapproval from their communities for it.
Sara - I always said maybe 15% of people were... jerks (or a less civil expletive, depending on the company I was in when I gave my estimation). Obviously I misunderestimated. Badly.
The diminishment of shame as a societal management mechanism hasn't turned out to be the boon we might have imagined in the '60s & '70s
The book The Sociopath Next Door estimates than 4% of the population are sociopaths. (Not all sociopaths are racists, and not all racists are sociopaths, so it isn’t an exact overlap.) 4% doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s one out of 25. So I say, the next time you’re in a group of 25 or more people - at church, maybe, or in a mall or at a sporting event - look around and try to figure out which one(s) is/are the sociopath.
And yes, the decline of shame as an inhibitor has been a loss to society.
How sad. However, both people may be able to apply for a visa to a more functional country and start a fresh life there. Colombia is still under the influence of the USA, and the USA is the main reason for Colombia's socioeconomic problems.
America is dead. I've already got cousins born and raised in India who have been waiting for a green card for years but are deciding to go back because of this bullshit. Im even telling American-born Indian origin folks like me that we may also end up being immigrants just like our parents. This country is unsafe, and it's impossible to stay here.
I am so sorry Maya. Yep, I agree, the America I grew up in is dead as a doornail.
This is certainly a success for MAGA on immigration. While once US citizenship was seen as a good thing to many in the third world, now it's not. What better way to deter immigration than to turn the country to excrement?
I agree “America is dead”. MAGAa are in for a lesson in irony. The future is China. They are filling the void we used to dominate in our benevolent footprint throughout the world via USAID, when we recognized that spreading good will was an exercise in soft power.
I certainly understand your feelings. We all have only one life and we hope to live in freedom. I believe that if are here legally and stay, things will turn around. Most Americans are not this cruel, and most are not even so racist. Trump is a backlash to the changes that have taken place in the world; the changes that have brought you here. But Trump can't turn back time, and his efforts will fail. Unfortunately, there are still months of suffering in store for all of us. At least hang on until after the midterm elections.
Hanging in with you, brother. Just a few years behind you. If we ain't got hope, we're good as gone. Not me . Not yet.
I have been amazed by the number of gleefully racist people who have come out of the woodwork since Trump rode that escalator down in 2015. It’s as if they felt repressed by not being able to use the “n-“ or “r-“ word, and now they’ve been liberated. (Feeling the need to put other people down is the sign of an insecure loser, but that’s a whole other topic.) At least now they’ve shown themselves, and we know who they are. And they could always have used whatever words they wanted - they would just have faced disapproval from their communities for it.
Sara - I always said maybe 15% of people were... jerks (or a less civil expletive, depending on the company I was in when I gave my estimation). Obviously I misunderestimated. Badly.
The diminishment of shame as a societal management mechanism hasn't turned out to be the boon we might have imagined in the '60s & '70s
The book The Sociopath Next Door estimates than 4% of the population are sociopaths. (Not all sociopaths are racists, and not all racists are sociopaths, so it isn’t an exact overlap.) 4% doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s one out of 25. So I say, the next time you’re in a group of 25 or more people - at church, maybe, or in a mall or at a sporting event - look around and try to figure out which one(s) is/are the sociopath.
And yes, the decline of shame as an inhibitor has been a loss to society.