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[hops]

Pretty much any country in Western Europe, barring Greece, really.

As... doing particularly better than the US or that is having political problems?

Since Italy, the country that still suffers from widespread corruption, is in there.

Yeah but you mentioned dire straits. Barring the refugee crisis and Greece shitting its pants and the famine in countries wrecked by WWII, most of the issues with Europe are old issues which are getting better while the states is getting worse.

[Neonivek]

True.

The States problems I feel were telegraphed but no one could foresee just how much tension and pressure was built up.

Mostly I think it is polarization and moralization finally taking its toll. People blame PC culture (for problems on the left) but to me that is more a symptom of the overall way US ideology/politics have been set up. The "You are with me or against me" mixed with a nice helping of moralization "You are with me, or you are a bad person" mixed in with the constant overwhelming victim/victimizer dichotomy "You are with me, or else you are killing America" has caused things to boil quite nicely.

All the while everyone is blaming everyone else and are surprised when the other side might have objections: "You are the scum of the earth! hey wait... why are you so angry? Stop being unreasonable" with a side dish of "So we failed you, but look they are literally hitler... you should be on our side"

Trump is bad enough, but he has been made into a idol of "Everything wrong in America" and is shoved in everyone's faces so constantly it is unavoidable.

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But probably not as bad as what is happening in say Russia.

[hops]

To be fair this is said by a magic warrior woman whose race is responsible for most of humanity's problems.

[Neonivek]

Yeah basically that. A perfect summation

[heydude6]

To be fair this is said by a magic warrior woman whose race is responsible for most of humanity's problems.

What show is that from? Seems like it has a nice art style.

[Neonivek]

What show is that from? Seems like it has a nice art style.

Steven Universe

If you do decide to watch it, stick with it for a while. A lot of people say it doesn't get good until its second two parter.

[Rose]

This is also said by a member of a group of people that pinned all their problems onto one person, but those problems didn't end when that person was killed.

[EnigmaticHat]

In her heart of hearts, I don't think Pearl would deny that she's any different.  She's just too prideful to admit how many unresolved emotional issues she has.  Or I suppose, how huge her *single* unresolved emotional issue is.

[Rose]

Or I suppose, how huge her *single* unresolved emotional issue is.

Which is that she'd even go after mayor dewey if he had pink hair?

[EnigmaticHat]

Or I suppose, how huge her *single* unresolved emotional issue is.

Which is that she'd even go after mayor dewey if he had pink hair?

That ship, is despicable.

Spoiler: what I think of it (click to show/hide)

But yeah, if we put aside that sin against nature then you are correct.

Serious discussion that is actual spoilers up until decently recently:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Its not just that she has the hots for Rose.  Rose didn't understand that love could have negative consequences.  Pearl threw herself wholeheartedly into both fighting under Rose and crushing on her, and didn't distinguish between the two.  Her problem of course, but you would think at some point in, IIRC, 5,400 years Rose could have given her the "monogamy isn't for me" talk?  Except of course Rose would just think of it as a good thing that Pearl was head over heals for her, without thinking about how that would effect Pearl.  Now Rose is dead and Pearl lost the main pillar of her whole life, and she has trouble moving on because to her alien mind Steven and Rose intuitively seem like the same person.  Other things Rose's "love everyone unconditionally" schtick has messed up: her early relationship with Greg.  The romances she was implied to have with other humans.  That one rebel who was really, really, REALLY pissed at Rose for caring about her enemies and allies too equally.

[Neonivek]

Mmmm getting disliked for my political views is fun (it isn't)

Then again I don't couch them in a way that is palatable for people.

THEN THEN again no one knows my political views because they seem all over the place and most people just project that I am "Whatever I am not"

[Paxiecrunchle]

Seeing people take joy in watching small animals die, made me rather sad today.

[pisskop]

ummmm.proxy violence is a fantastic stress reliever.

Violence and ager, frustrations often get shifted into other endeavors.

Some might say that ... you invest your psychic energies into other activities and thus sate your id at the expense of creating the potential for cogdis when you must confront these suppressed feelz?


Even whole countries engage in proxy slapfighting.  Russia and US are like bros at this point.  Its a secret love, that bonds them.

[scourge728]

ummmm.proxy violence is a fantastic stress reliever.

Violence and ager, frustrations often get shifted into other endeavors.

Some might say that ... you invest your psychic energies into other activities and thus sate your id at the expense of creating the potential for cogdis when you must confront these suppressed feelz?

Video games are a much better way for proxy violence than small animals

As for that thing about psychic energies, I'm 99.99999999% certain that it's nonsense, no offense

[pisskop]

now im mildly sad.

may this one ask why?