People are wound pretty tight right now. (Page 5 of 5)
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Originally Posted By snubfan: In part, we are witnessing decades of parental dysfunction, educational indoctrination, media manipulation and moral decay unfolding into chaos. Add any additional stressors, like the economy, wars, substance abuse, the breakdown of law & order, the absence of common sense, the organized destruction of America to the mix, and the powder keg is primed. ^Well said. |
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Originally Posted By Lexington: Agreed. Mass psychological manipulation. Originally Posted By Lexington: Originally Posted By osprey21: And the internet ain't helping, it's become mass psychosis dominated by algorithms. Agreed. Mass psychological manipulation. That's why I just stick with arfcom, where my anger is carefully curated the old fashioned way. |
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I haven't seen, or experienced, an episode of road-rage in seven years. We don't even hear a car horn at a stoplight until the tourists arrive, and it stops as soon as they leave. The old aphorism is true to a great extent in this part of the country...an armed society is a polite society. |
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Originally Posted By Emeoba69: It’s not Covid bad but we never got back to baseline pre pandemic levels. Road rage is noticeable higher than I remember it. I stay off facebook, Twitter, and Reddit about politics. This place is the most negative place I regularly visit online. I have to take breaks from it from time to time with all the “they want my wife and daughter raped and want me dead in a ditch so I don’t buy nabisco cookies anymore” rants. Ditto for me too. Fuck all other social media. As it is this place can be mind poison if you never take a break. |
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: I bumped into my local democrat State delegate last Election Day. He’s the author of Virginia’s Assault Weapons Ban. I shared my opinion of him. I may have come across as “wound too tight” during the encounter. He was visibly shaken. 
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: What really amuses me is when people say that this is either a good thing or inevitable. That the American middle class as it was, was some kind of historical accident and that eliminating it means we are getting back on track. The quantities of debt much of the world is in are unsustainable in the long term. The only question is what the weakest link is and when it will fail. |
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Originally Posted By joemama74: Part of it is the heat. We haven't really cooled down here yet. The longer Summer drags on, the shorter tempers get. Expected to get to 95 with a heat index of 100. Not really pumpkin spice latte weather. It’s always PSL weather |
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| I have noticed people driving very aggressively - especially running up and tailgating/swerving side to side/aggressively passing. Some always did (stereotypical brodozers, ninja bikes, etc.), but it seems to now be younger women and people in smaller cars. It's especially entertaining (and annoying) when they do it to a full size/extended expedition that is already going 10-15 over. As if I'll even see you when you're that close? |
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Originally Posted By ThrustMyStoma: aint nobody got no moneyy Not 100% true. Broke impoverished Americans managed pretty well for 230 years. Almost like they shared a general moral ethic. This is a carefully plotted systemic breakdown of a moral framework. There are those who yearn for the pre American global death and madness. |
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I love it here in "The Land of Smiles". I never see any fights, i have not even witnessed a heated argument. No road rage. Even at one of the busiest 4 way intersections in Pattaya. There is no traffic light, no stop signs. People just work it out. You have cars, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, three wheel food scooters, bicycles, push carts and pedestrians all walking in the street as there is no sidewalk. I have sat here hundreds of times and never saw one accident. Notice the lack of honking horns also. ETA Plus it is hot as fuck here so the heat isn't an issue. .  MY FAVORITE TRAFFIC WATCHING BAR |
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Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: I remember you said that in the VA thread. I hope he hasn't forgotten about that exchange. I hope sometimes as he's going to sleep at night that comes back up in his mind. Originally Posted By Lieh-tzu: Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: I bumped into my local democrat State delegate last Election Day. He’s the author of Virginia’s Assault Weapons Ban. I shared my opinion of him. I may have come across as “wound too tight” during the encounter. He was visibly shaken. I remember you said that in the VA thread. I hope he hasn't forgotten about that exchange. I hope sometimes as he's going to sleep at night that comes back up in his mind. I remember that as well. Whenever one of that politicians Facebook posts appears in my feed, I remind him he's a piece of shit who should feel overwhelming shame for his betrayal of his state and nation. Every little bit helps. |
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Originally Posted By ThrustMyStoma: aint nobody got no moneyy This. When Diesel fuel is hitting close to (or over) $7 a gallon....that's not good. Fuel prices, food prices, etc, are draining people dry.....but hey, we have bases on Greenland now, and we have "Lake America"..... 
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Originally Posted By TheLASwamp: Wait until the communists get back in power again. Their vengeance tour is going to make what's happening now feel like the good old days. Yep. They were able to put thousands in prison on a trumped up whim last time....just ask the J6ers. Marxist type personalities thrive on mayhem and causing death is their sick sport. The Gulag Archipelago should be required reading for everybody on the planet. |
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Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: It's not that bad. Smash one tailgate while loading a trailer and never live it down. I did also rip the bumper off my service truck one time, but that was a whole thing. I slid off the driveway while backing a trailer in to a jobsite and a stupid tree stopped me. I remember one DA boss I had - he was driving his work truck, pulled forward into a steep rocky bank damaging his front bumper/grill. (Then) Got out of the truck screaming and yelling at us, "You all should have been watching for me." Everyone just looked at each other with the WTF? look. Dumbass damaged his own truck, then got mad at us, for doing it.  I walked off the jobsite a few weeks later, for good - over behavior like that. He lost his temper and started throwing tools - a weedeater and a chainsaw. I just laughed at him and told him "Your throwing your own tools, who's the dumb ass?" 
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If you believe in the Butterfly Effect, or if you're just a good person or try to be, make a point to be blatantly polite in traffic, like letting someone in in front of you. IMO you'll eventually spread that good vibe. 
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Originally Posted By meestermurphy: I tried doing this multiple times on Instagram (resetting my algorithm), but it kept creeping back to negative doomer rage bait shit. Deactivated it in March and my life has been much better as a result. Everyone around me thinks I’m weird, but not wanting to consume poison when everyone else is just goes against modern society. Originally Posted By meestermurphy: Originally Posted By FMJshooter: Social media algorithms rely on rage bait. Everyone is getting pumped with shit that makes them angry all day everyday. I tried to trick my Facebook algorithm into showing me only positive stuff, it didn't work at all. I tried doing this multiple times on Instagram (resetting my algorithm), but it kept creeping back to negative doomer rage bait shit. Deactivated it in March and my life has been much better as a result. Everyone around me thinks I’m weird, but not wanting to consume poison when everyone else is just goes against modern society. None of this is new. Rage bait has been around for a while. It worsened in 2020. We can blame “politician x”, “policy y” or “incident z” all day/every day, but much of today’s problems could be tolerated easier if the magic little box in our pocket would stop telling us how much the world and other people suck. There’s also just an abundance of perpetually miserable people who enjoy negativity. There’s a shit load in GD alone. |
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Originally Posted By Morgan321: It is inevitable because so much of our standard of living is enabled by debt. Both at the individual level and national level. Bullshit. A comfortable standard of living has nothing to do with excessive spending. Look at the 50s and 60s. The American middle class was comfortable and booming, debt was low nationally and individually. People have changed in their outlook and expectations, healthcare costs and welfare have grown exponentially because of unrestricted immigration, media fed entitlement, and out of control government spending on the national, state and local level, resulting in higher income and property taxes, school are teaching nonsense instead of common sense. A good standard of living is not enable by debt, irresponsibility on all levels has led to where we are now. |
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Originally Posted By Morgan321: It is inevitable because so much of our standard of living is enabled by debt. Both at the individual level and national level. Bullshit. A comfortable standard of living has nothing to do with excessive spending. Look at the 50s and 60s. The American middle class was comfortable and booming, debt was low nationally and individually. Many people (not all) have changed in their outlook and expectations, healthcare costs and welfare have grown exponentially because of unrestricted immigration, media fed entitlement, and out of control government spending on the national, state and local level, resulting in higher income and property taxes, public schools are teaching nonsense instead of common sense. A good standard of living is not "enabled by debt", irresponsibility on all levels has led to where we are now. And it's still possible today. Dave is right about this.  Retiring with nothing is no one's fault but yours! |
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I don't understand why everyone says Instagram feeds make them angry. Mine is quite calming. It's just knives, guns, attractive Asian women, and people saying things that would be considered wildly bigoted but not untrue. Don't know what social media feeds yall are looking at. |
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Originally Posted By seek2: MSM is trying their hardest to make them wound even tighter. |
Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth, on that very day his plans perish.
Psalms 145/146
When his breath departs, he returns to the earth, on that very day his plans perish.
Psalms 145/146
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Originally Posted By MaxFenig: The people in this thread who blindly say "I haven't seen it" haven't left their house in weeks. The people out seeing it every day don't have time to talk about it in this thread My shop is open to the public on a busy street. im at home to sleep and eat. Im not seeing it. the only thing I can say is I'm not on social media and I don't really watch the news. I don't leave my home wound up. when Covid hit I was shut down for a month and from watching the news and stuff online I thought it would be a shit show when I reopened. Not the case. |
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Originally Posted By luscioman: People can commit murder and expect to get off of the have hormone issues. Clearly you don't understand depression. Depression gives you carte blanche. And what difference does it make if the babies are born and then killed? They're basically still fetuses, clumps of cells that are like parasites on the mother. |
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Originally Posted By JaredGrey: Twice a day, during my commute, I pray that God will help me treat everyone I meet with grace and gratitude. I always make sure to get everyone cheerfully, and when people ask me about my day, I try to give the earnest impression that today is the best day of my life. During covid, a man publicly maligned as a Nazi by the lying press stated on Instagram "Keep your fears to yourself, share strength with others " and I've tried to incorporate that motto into my life ever since. We are so incredibly lucky to be alive. We can either make our time here better for the people around us, our we can choose to inflict suffering on them. I don't understand the people who pick option 2. - Thank You, for that - I have been trying to live my life like this, for the past few years. It has made me a much happier person. A lot of people tend to make themselves miserable and by association, those around them. |
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Originally Posted By TheLASwamp: Wait until the communists get back in power again. Their vengeance tour is going to make what's happening now feel like the good old days. Originally Posted By TheLASwamp: Originally Posted By Ulster: It's going to get worse before it gets worser. potato v2 still has two years. Oooo scary |
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Originally Posted By imq707s: This. When Diesel fuel is hitting close to (or over) $7 a gallon....that's not good. Fuel prices, food prices, etc, are draining people dry.....but hey, we have bases on Greenland now, and we have "Lake America"..... Hmm, sure seem to have thousands for tattoos, though. It's getting hard to find anyone under 30 who isn't a walking cartoon. |
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Originally Posted By MikeJGA: So, you were on your phone in traffic, cutting people off and they "are wound pretty tight"?????? Put the fucking cell phone down while driving. Originally Posted By MikeJGA: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Today was wild. Started off normal, then I went to a jobsite to help out and had to break up a fight before it started. One of my guys yelled to a truck driver, he didn't listen, so he yelled louder. Truck driver jumped out of the truck and they were toe to toe instantly. I got in between it fast enough to keep anyone from swinging. Both of them were wrong, but they were both ready to get after it. I said "Can everyone just calm the fuck down and you guys can kill each other after this truck is empty? I'm on the chute, get back in the truck." Got the trucks gone, job done and we went different directions. I fucked up in traffic and cut out in front of someone. He beeped, I rolled down my window and apologized...boy that didn't work. The guy was flipping the fuck out. I'm convinced if we weren't actively moving on three lanes he would have jumped out. He kept screaming out the window as I changed lanes and took my turn. I was on the phone with my dad at the time, so he heard the whole thing and goes "People are fucking crazy right now", then told me a story from yesterday of him almost hitting a guy walking up on on ramp to the highway when he ran out in front of him and the guy tried to goad him into pulling over to fight. If prices keep climbing, everyone is going to have to up their meds or something. So, you were on your phone in traffic, cutting people off and they "are wound pretty tight"?????? Put the fucking cell phone down while driving. I didn't have my hands anywhere near my phone. Both were on the wheel. |
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My week is just going to be weird I guess. I just had to yell at an Amazon driver. Dumbass kid. I have two hunting dogs, one is a prick and appears to be a prick when strangers pull in. A smart person wouldn't just open the door to him. My delivery instructions state that there is a dog, and that all packages should be left under the mailbox, as the dogs may get aggressive if you enter the property. He swung the door wide open, nearly got bitten and I ran out of the house to call of the dog off. I said "Did you read the delivery instructions?" and got "Bruh, I don't see the delivery instructions until I get here." That's not even close to what I asked. Take two seconds and read the instructions, and don't open your door to strange dogs that are barking at you. I've been stuck in my truck countless times while a client wrangled a dog when I pulled in for an estimate. You think a delivery driver would have it figured out. People are fucking losing it man. |
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Originally Posted By Osprey61: Hmm, sure seem to have thousands for tattoos, though. It's getting hard to find anyone under 30 who isn't a walking cartoon. Originally Posted By Osprey61: Originally Posted By imq707s: This. When Diesel fuel is hitting close to (or over) $7 a gallon....that's not good. Fuel prices, food prices, etc, are draining people dry.....but hey, we have bases on Greenland now, and we have "Lake America"..... Hmm, sure seem to have thousands for tattoos, though. It's getting hard to find anyone under 30 who isn't a walking cartoon. Our tat shops are doing a booming business. Did Lake America hurt your feelz? |
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Originally Posted By -OdieGreen-: Went to the store last night. Paid $8 for my deodorant. The container is so flimsy you could bend it in half. One of the kids requested Hamburger Helper. It was $3.50 a box. In addition, the boxes are now 7 ounces of noodles instead of 12. This morning I will be paying $5+ a gallon of gas. I used to live very comfortable. Now I’m on the cusp of check to check, and I’ve cut out almost all excess spending. I haven’t even bought a gun in 6 months. It’s fucking stupid. ETA: Meanwhile my choices are send foreign countries billions and pay more for gas and groceries for the cause I don’t care about, or send other countries billions while being labeled a racist white nationalist because I think my kids should be put before illegal immigrants in my own country. Fuckin Maddening isn't it. |
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Originally Posted By fxntime: People wonder why ''I take the long way home,'' IE, I go the back routes that few people travel. If it's highway or the byway, I'm the guy on the byway. Lots of roads around here are 2 lane highways with assholes riding up on your ass 2 feet behind you, especially dicks with CDL's and overloaded gravel trucks last truly inspected in G Bush Sr's presidency. So I go off the mains and about the only thing to fear is the insidious deer set on auto destruct. I'll mosey down to the Hillsdale fair Monday for free vet day, I'll stay off 95% of any main road and enjoy the trip there and back. I did the same in my travels a few years ago, outside of a few areas and Ohio [nothing to see in that state but cornfields  ] I ran secondaries and lower and it was a great relaxed drive. Any highway I drove, I kept expecting Mad Max being chased by a biker gang with a semi truck convoy backup with drivers in flip flops and turbans...............Years ago when I had some long commutes, I found out about some covert routes that not many knew about and it'd be a little longer way with more winding roads and turns but way less traffic and stressful. Its when I first got Sirius XM too so I'd listen to the one station that played old radio story broadcasts or Howard Stern reruns before he flipped his lid and went full commie retard. Anyways it was relaxing and became something I enjoyed after awhile. Im sure those routes are probably overrun now or changed completely. |
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Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: My week is just going to be weird I guess. I just had to yell at an Amazon driver. Dumbass kid. I have two hunting dogs, one is a prick and appears to be a prick when strangers pull in. A smart person wouldn't just open the door to him. My delivery instructions state that there is a dog, and that all packages should be left under the mailbox, as the dogs may get aggressive if you enter the property. He swung the door wide open, nearly got bitten and I ran out of the house to call of the dog off. I said "Did you read the delivery instructions?" and got "Bruh, I don't see the delivery instructions until I get here." That's not even close to what I asked. Take two seconds and read the instructions, and don't open your door to strange dogs that are barking at you. I've been stuck in my truck countless times while a client wrangled a dog when I pulled in for an estimate. You think a delivery driver would have it figured out. People are fucking losing it man. That one is on you. |
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Originally Posted By Butternut: If you believe in the Butterfly Effect, or if you're just a good person or try to be, make a point to be blatantly polite in traffic, like letting someone in in front of you. IMO you'll eventually spread that good vibe. |
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Originally Posted By snubfan: In part, we are witnessing decades of parental dysfunction, educational indoctrination, media manipulation and moral decay unfolding into chaos. Add any additional stressors, like the economy, wars, substance abuse, the breakdown of law & order, the absence of common sense, the organized destruction of America to the mix, and the powder keg is primed. Thanks Obama |
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Originally Posted By Hostile1: I talked to a few of the guys at the dealerships a year or two ago. They explained to me that people are one illness or a blown tire away from devastation. Apparently the overwhelming majority are leaving well outside of their means. Originally Posted By Hostile1: Originally Posted By fxntime: Originally Posted By ThrustMyStoma: aint nobody got no moneyy The mass quantity of quads, watercraft, SxS's, new trucks and the like says otherwise. I talked to a few of the guys at the dealerships a year or two ago. They explained to me that people are one illness or a blown tire away from devastation. Apparently the overwhelming majority are leaving well outside of their means. I’m starting to see them go up for sale. Lots of people with varying incomes are finding out that maybe they shouldn’t have bought that (insert shiny bauble). All my friends are bitching about gas, diesel and groceries. Today I passed by a double wide out in the country with a couple of newer full size pickups (one was a dually) and a Mercedes SUV in the drive. In the front yard were two Razor SXS for sale. I’ve also seen a few 4 wheelers for sale around in yards that I never noticed before this week. I also know a guy that just sold his Rolex watch. Trades worker that does well financially, but not Rolex well. Lost his ass on it too from what I gather. Anecdotal, but I bet it’s going on everywhere. |
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For the last two years I’ve had a growing urge to “get away” from everyone. I keep fantasizing about taking my family to Alaska or something. I’m sure that’s a dramatic overreaction but still, I just don’t want to be around people anymore. I’ve noticed everyone seems to be short fused and unpleasant as well. |
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Originally Posted By fike: That one is on you. Originally Posted By fike: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: My week is just going to be weird I guess. I just had to yell at an Amazon driver. Dumbass kid. I have two hunting dogs, one is a prick and appears to be a prick when strangers pull in. A smart person wouldn't just open the door to him. My delivery instructions state that there is a dog, and that all packages should be left under the mailbox, as the dogs may get aggressive if you enter the property. He swung the door wide open, nearly got bitten and I ran out of the house to call of the dog off. I said "Did you read the delivery instructions?" and got "Bruh, I don't see the delivery instructions until I get here." That's not even close to what I asked. Take two seconds and read the instructions, and don't open your door to strange dogs that are barking at you. I've been stuck in my truck countless times while a client wrangled a dog when I pulled in for an estimate. You think a delivery driver would have it figured out. People are fucking losing it man. That one is on you. How? The instructions say not to enter the property. Seems pretty cut and dry. |
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