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What makes you most angry?

What makes you most angry?

  • Foreign affairs (Israel/Gaza, Ukraine/Russia, etc)

    Votes: 16 34.8%
  • National affairs (Trump, supreme court, congress, disaster response, etc)

    Votes: 28 60.9%
  • State Affairs (infrastructure, Governor, major criminal prosecutions, etc)

    Votes: 6 13.0%
  • Local Affairs (City/Town infrastructure, utilities, works, minor crime suppression, etc)

    Votes: 3 6.5%
  • Community affairs (Very local, stuff in your neighborhood and nearby)

    Votes: 4 8.7%
  • Home affairs (Domestic stuff, family, kids, "real life.")

    Votes: 7 15.2%
  • Online affairs (Twitter, YouTube, here, etc)

    Votes: 3 6.5%
  • Other 1

    Votes: 10 21.7%
  • Other 2

    Votes: 3 6.5%

  • Total voters
    46
I am pretty angry that none of those seem to make me angry.

Angry. You said Angry. Not worried or concerned... but angry?

I have moved on from anger in my life... to amusement or interest or whatever.

Angry? No time for that anymore.
I have seen you angry. I think anger drives a lot of what we do. Like seeking out videos of police misconduct. Those aren't amusing. They don't evoke enjoyment.
 
Saran Wrap. They haven't figured out how to get that shit to stick to anything but itself yet?!
 
People with no morals.
 
Republicans and bad drivers.
Bad drivers really get my goat. If you can believe it, I actually swore and gestured(not that gesture) at one less than a week ago. But Immediately I felt bad and hoped they didn't hear me. I have done stupid things behind the wheel as well, intentionally, recklessly, and accidentally. Republicans are a bit mixed bag of people I can't judge too harshly overall, I must take individual temperatures.
 
People with no morals.
Morals, principles, self driving ethics, whatever they want to be called, I agree. People that need a group to feel certain in their actions. But I feel that is a behavior that can be unlearned, and principles, morals, ethics taught.

I am not discounting exceptions to the rules, there are some pyschopaths and such that never learned, but even they are not all unreachable.
 
In Nazi Germany, simmering anger was twisted into murderous hate, scapegoating entire communities and unleashing a genocide that claimed millions of lives. Anger blinds even the gentlest souls, turns neighbors into willing executioners.

MAGA wants us to walk that path, they want us to turn our anger into hate. Despite attempts to stereotype Americans, MAGA is not a stereotype of a certain group of people. MAGA is solely a belief system that depends on hating their opponents; a political movement that harnesses hate. Take away their hate, and they have nothing but a coup that puts the wealthy in power at the expense of The American Way. And that pisses me off to no end.
 
I have seen you angry. I think anger drives a lot of what we do. Like seeking out videos of police misconduct. Those aren't amusing. They don't evoke enjoyment.

That is a quick anger that is over in seconds. More like disbelief or dismay than anger. Most of the things on your list seem more like institutionalized anger. What we see, no you really, here at DP is deep seated internalized anger by the majority. Divisive.
 
It's pretty apparent
Not to MAGATS et al.
Yes and when biden was trafficking children to MS13 members / "LOST" >85K children, 1,000 of people killed & Raped coming to the DEM's Open boarder ect.....
That is a false claim. Lucifer loves it when folk bear false witness. Jesus, not so much.
And now Trump stopped that from being a thing !
That is BS, "it" never was a thing, Trump did nothing to stop something that wasn't happening.
Can I get an Amen, or are you still rooting for evil ?....
^^^^True IRONY!
Sorry but that was a REAL Picture of what the DEM's have FORCED on to SMALL CHILDREN !.....
No it isn't.
Another false claim, more bearing false witness.
It's discussing and it on the heads of all those who voted DEM, even when it obvious that they are sick and evil !
That includes me, you know, right.

Calling me sick and evil is one one more example of bearing false witness.

Exodus 20:16
King James Version
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Howdy neighbour! 👋
(Just so you don't forget the FACTS)
I have never forgotten the true facts.

When you actually present some of your own, I will make note of it.
<Needless Idiotic Image Snipped a Second time>
Have a great day. 😘
 
This is what I meant by uncivil. This isn't attempting to know @LouC or why he believes what he does or even what he really does, or who he is as a person, because most of this is just an effigy pinned on people to abuse. Not seeking knowledge or understanding or compassion, which is required from us to solve the problems you so clearly care deeply about. Gotta do more work than angrily shake your fist at the sky.
Luke 23:34
 
That is a quick anger that is over in seconds. More like disbelief or dismay than anger. Most of the things on your list seem more like institutionalized anger. What we see, no you really, here at DP is deep seated internalized anger by the majority. Divisive.
A quick anger that is internalized. And adds up. Trust me, you have not been on this end of it.

And I see everybody's anger, and I'm trying to focus and redirect it.
 
Not to MAGATS et al.

That is a false claim. Lucifer loves it when folk bear false witness. Jesus, not so much.

That is BS, "it" never was a thing, Trump did nothing to stop something that wasn't happening.

^^^^True IRONY!

No it isn't.
Another false claim, more bearing false witness.

That includes me, you know, right.

Calling me sick and evil is one one more example of bearing false witness.

Exodus 20:16
King James Version
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Howdy neighbour! 👋

I have never forgotten the true facts.

When you actually present some of your own, I will make note of it.

Have a great day. 😘
We also should not be so quick to judge, no matter how well we think we know someone. It took me a lot of self control not to deconstruct your post and point out all the ways it could be better. But then I'd be judging too. I prefer the one you sent me, and speaking for myself with compassion not anger. If I say nothing when it bothers me, after saying it to him, I am a hypocrite.
 
One of the things that makes me somewhat angry is how many of our institutions (GOP, Supreme Court, universities, big business, media such as Paramount, law firms, etc) have acquiessed and kissed Trump's ring.
 
One of the things that makes me somewhat angry is how many of our institutions (GOP, Supreme Court, universities, big business, media such as Paramount, law firms, etc) have acquiessed and kissed Trump's ring.
I was surprised to see it from Hollywood.
 
It’s weird how you pick someone innocently reading to kids as the problem when there’s actual children being raped or starving to death in this world.
Seeing that must be considered an equal or greater trauma. Of course that is probably not truly what they believe, but I can not otherwise reconcile the dissonance required.
 
I voted national affairs, since anything the US can do to influence foreign affairs is dependent on the intelligence, wisdom, competence, courage, and integrity of the administration in power.

Taco and his sycophant tacquitos lack all of that.
 
I voted national affairs, since anything the US can do to influence foreign affairs is dependent on the intelligence, wisdom, competence, courage, and integrity of the administration in power.

Taco and his sycophant tacquitos lack all of that.
Thank you for sharing. I can tell you are angry about that.
 
It was a vote for national affairs for me, by a wide margin. It’s simple- I want to live my life in these United States with just a shred of freedom from the federal government. You know, with a little bit of autopilot where the precedents and cultural norms of the country are a given and not turned upside down every minute of every day. I don’t need some political cause to dominate what I’m experiencing in my day to day life like the red hat wearing sycophants do.

When I turn on the news on my television or radio, I’d like the lead stories not to be of whatever Trump is doing or saying on his God-awful social media platform, with biased media outlets like Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax running cover for this administration’s transgressions.

I’m tired of the constant flow of chaos out of Washington, and the Republicans in Congress in lock step with the Supreme Court by abdicating their oaths and going along with Trump because they’re cowards.

Change isn’t necessarily a good thing, and that’s certainly being proven by the idiots in Washington right now.
 
Oh, and one other thing that grates me about national affairs: this coming Thursday, the Iowa State Fair begins. Living nearby, I usually make about three days worth of trips down there to experience it all, from the food to the exhibits to the farm animals. Unfortunately, a lot of the nation’s politicians think it’s necessary that they make an appearance.

I wish these self-important morons would just stay away, especially in a non-election year. Their very presence, to remind everybody of the politics that people are at the Iowa State Fair to escape, isn’t welcome.
 
Oh, and one other thing that grates me about national affairs: this coming Thursday, the Iowa State Fair begins. Living nearby, I usually make about three days worth of trips down there to experience it all, from the food to the exhibits to the farm animals. Unfortunately, a lot of the nation’s politicians think it’s necessary that they make an appearance.

I wish these self-important morons would just stay away, especially in a non-election year. Their very presence, to remind everybody of the politics that people are at the Iowa State Fair to escape, isn’t welcome.
I dunno. I'm about free speech, and the fair is public, with reasonable restrictions. From my perspective, a stage or pulpit with a rambling person and red white and blue bunting is an American pastime of fairs that coexist with the noise of the rides and smells of the animals, grease, and sugar. Whether I agree with them or not. It does not make me angry they are there.
 
I dunno. I'm about free speech, and the fair is public, with reasonable restrictions. From my perspective, a stage or pulpit with a rambling person and red white and blue bunting is an American pastime of fairs that coexist with the noise of the rides and smells of the animals, grease, and sugar. Whether I agree with them or not. It does not make me angry they are there.

Twain said if you have the opportunity, always go see a circus. If you don't have that opportunity, go see a politician.
 
Twain said if you have the opportunity, always go see a circus. If you don't have that opportunity, go see a politician.
I prefer the noise of lawnmower races to the drone of a pulpit or the fear of tent collapse at a circus.
 
I prefer the noise of lawnmower races to the drone of a pulpit or the fear of tent collapse at a circus.

There's nothing draws me to a fair anyway, except my grandchildren.
 
There's nothing draws me to a fair anyway, except my grandchildren.
It used to be the food and ballpits. Then the animals and rides. Then the antiques animals and food. And repeat the cycle generationally. Until hopefully I am where you are one day with still a reason to go.
 
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