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@SocDev  
Ah. Just wondering.

@Marshal805
 
Out as in i wont discuss my issue any further.

@SocDev  
Do you mean “out” as in done with this site as a whole?

I feel like i live in a world where everyone is too stupid/selfish or you get taken for granted or not taken seriously.
 
To elaborate:
 
I have my grandma with senile dementia, and i told my parents many, many times that we should put her in a retirement home, because she doesnt eat/drink and tends to do idiotic stuff, like throwing away credit cards or giving away her jewerly to random people to spite us (because her dementia makes her think we are “stealing” from her or we want her dead, or bla bla) or because her dementia tells her to do that. She also refuses to take her pills and has lied to us many times, telling us she did take them. We simply cant take care of her 24hs, not force her to eat.
 
I warned my parents this would only get worse, her lack of eating/drinking would make her frail and it would put her health in a serious risk. I got told that “they were waiting for her dementia to develop a bit more, cuz she is still self aware and putting her in a retirement home would kill her”.
 
Cue the disaster, we end taking her to the hospital out of an emergency one night and her blood tests show a lot of fucked up shit, low blood count, physical weakness, its a miracle she is still alive.
 
“I told ya” never sounded more hollow/sad.
 
Now on the other spectrum, i have been bottling up my frustration and anger at this bullshit for months now, with no one to share it with. My only best friend started work and has been taking as many classes as possible at her college, leaving her little to no freetime to share with her friends outside of college.
 
I really miss her, and i try to talk with her at every chance i have without being a burden to her. She has a busy life, and she is happy with that. One day i couldnt take it anymore and told her that i missed her, if we could arrange ONE day of the week to talk and such. She said she would think about our lack of communication and that she would talk with me on sundays.
 
Lets just say that there has been many, MANY sundays in which we havent talked. I havent told her my problems, out of fear she decides i am too much of a burden and decides to cut communication and because i dont even know if she will even be there for me. She hasnt exactly asked about them either, she always talks about her life, her college, work and relationships but i feel like there is no even place for MY life. I am just a puppy who is always happy, always prepared to help and such.
 
I will only say this once, derpibooru, and never again:  
Dont pity me, i dont WANT it. I just wanted a place to lift some of this burden. And with this, i am out.

@Itsthinking
 
Whatever are you talking about?
 

 
We can totally trust those Syrian rebels not to be co-opted by islamists. Besides, my shares in Lockheed Martin just went up for some reason…

Maybe we should stop letting the military-industrial complex decide when we should help them get more money.

@Zincy
 
Combining your avatar with what you’ve said, all I can say is: can your vaunted troops go and kick the Australian’s asses? It would do my New Zealand heart good if such a thing happened. It’s what Roosevelt would’ve wanted anyway, given how fat and lazy and complacent they are.

@Zincy  
Dogs that have quite the bark but never the bite to justify it.
 
Here’s another I’d like to vent.  
I hate it when people pity me. It’s insulting. Why? Just because I’m blind in one eye, I’m in need of special treatment. I am not incapable. That’s what I like about the ROTC, they treat me like they do to other cadets.

@Albus Fahrenheits
 
I would suppose no. Being a patriot just means vigorously supporting your country and/or its ideals. I’m American, so I’m referring to Americans specifically, but it can apply universally. A Brit can be a British patriot, and a Canadian a patriot for Canada.
 
However, the people I’m talking about would probably say yes, the only way to be a patriot is to be American. But remember, these are the people who think America is the center of the universe, all other nations are 3rd world shitholes, and that the military exists to shoot brown people they don’t like. Hence my seething hostility toward them.

@Zincy  
I’m curious. Does the term ‘patriot’ only apply to Americans? No hostility intended.

@gasmaskangel
 
Incidentally, the same people who make those kind of statements, tend to be the ones that claim to be “true Americans” and decorate all of this belongings in flag motifs. They believe that because they put a Red’White&Blue bumper sticker on their car and own a gun that it makes them a true patriot. Cowards the lot of em.

@Zincy  
I feel ya on that one. Any sort of smug callousness irritates the shit out of me, but I’ve got enough a personal stake in this issue that I’d be next in line to hand out ass whuppins.

Violent rant inbound.
 
With the recent disruptions across the world, and talk of prolonged conflict on the horizon, a certain type of…person has emerged from the woodwork. People have probably noticed by now that I have an extreme respect and deep connection to the military, and as such tend to get a little…defensive of our boys and girls in uniform.
 
Well, recently, the talk of sending our troops back into the fray has unleashed one of my most hated phrases. “They know what they signed up for” or any variant there of. If ever there was a more callous, cowardly, despicable statement to be uttered I have yet to hear it. My first question to people that I see use this statement, as it’s mostly been online and never irl, is to ask them if they’ve ever served, and not once have any of them answered yes. My response after that is to point out how those soldiers he/she are so callously dismissing are the reason their fatass can sit in front of their computer screens and how they are too much of a pants-pissing coward to actually join up. I swear to the Goddess on-high that if I ever hear someone say that directly, they best pray I’m in a good mood lest I rearrange their face with a tire-iron.
 
And any talk of our troops being “expendable” will elicit from me nothing short of barely containable hostility and my considerable fury. Anyone who says this needs to be given an M16 with no ammo and dropped in the middle of Syria with a target painted on their back in 6 bloody languages.

I don’t like it when people censor historical facts just because it doesn’t feel right. The children will know eventually and conflicting statements might confuse them. What’s done is done and covering them up won’t make it go away. It will always be a part of us, better to learn from it than make the same mistakes.

Anybody who misuses the term “literally.”
 
I’ll just let Reynolds speak for me.

@Sono  
Sorry to hear that, dude.

I feel mad because I posted a piece I worked really hard on and it’s getting ignored. Heck the person I made it for helped me with it and says it’s a fantastic sketch…but then I post it and it gets a couple likes and that’s it. Some previous drawings which are doodles are MUUUUCH more popular.
 
I think I’ve bitched about it before but it’s just really hurting me to work so, so hard on a picture then to have everyone look the other way, it makes me feel like I don’t belong in any art community.

Can people actually be willing to talk about things? For once? Without shit being thrown?

You ever see one of those relationships, romantic or otherwise, where one or both parties is put simply a plague sent to spite the virtuous?
 
And one or both parties will still claim to love the other, in a manner that makes their behavior all the more unforgivable?
 
Can you imagine having to decide which of the dual realities that person lives in is the one you will meet them on?

Well, i did talk with my friend. And everything went to hell. Dunno why i was expecting things to go in another way.
 
Oh well, a burden has been lifted from my shoulders at least.

I’m slightly peeved. So, I just posted in the Religion thread about how an airmen has been denied re-enlistment because he refused to say the last 4 words in his oath “so help me god”. He’s fully within his constitutional rights to do so, thanks to Article VI and the first amendment.
 
I’ll keep the religion part in the religion thread. What I’m going to vent about is a congressional issue. Back in 1946, the Supreme court issued an opinion that basically said religious oaths in the military are a no-no, but 4 years later because of Cold War nonsense, Congress decided to ignore the Supreme Court and the US Constitution and make the oath end in “So Help Me God”, however they left an exception in that non-religious or non-Christians could “affirm to the state” instead. However, in 2013, the congressional armed forces committee, an entirely civilian co-committee formed of politicians, decided to amend the oath to require the religious part and remove the exception, and the military is powerless to change it without congressional approval.
 
So not only do those bloody cowards in congress buck the Constitution, the buck the military to, and every serviceman and servicewomen defending out nation. Fuck the Congress, damn wanna-be nobles.
 
Here’s an article on the subject

@gasmaskangel
 
You can thank the tail-end of the behaviorist movement for holding us back on that front, putting the kibosh on the cognitive studies. Watson and Skinner, did a lot to move psychology forward, but inadvertently held it back. Turns out the “black-box” is pretty damn important.

@Zincy  
Indeed it can. Hell, last I checked the study of how we think and the effect our thinking has is one of the big areas where we still know pretty much nothing.

@gasmaskangel
 
Of course, I’d never advocate replacing science with mysticism. But, sometimes mysticism can be useful, when you boil away the supernatural and examine why people believed in the first place. The mind is a powerful thing, and it can work wonders on itself.

@Nathan Drake  
You’ll get no argument from me.