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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat the hell is wrong with so many human beings?
We say that life is sacred. The most important thing. We pay a fortune to get educated. We pay a fortune to look beautiful, or to care for ourselves (doctors, dentists) - or on pharmaceuticals, or all manner of snake oil "health" products, or make up, or clothes.
Yet so many throw it away because an orange haired ignorant goon tells them to. So many throw caution to the wind and put themselves at risk and put others at risk.
Human beings ARE an oxymoron - with an emphasis on the moron.
We are witnessing recent months where it has to go down in history as some of the most blatant, stupid behavior possible by a so-called intelligent species. As one who lives in NC, it is just an utter embarrassment to have read about some of the bullshit being said and going on at the "open NC" type events....
We have far more bugs than features, it seems. I've never been so utterly disgusted with so many.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,281 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)any species that does not adapt to changing conditions does not survive. What parasite kills its host without another host to move to? The human species. We are killing the only planet we can live on. We are killing our own selves in the meantime. It just doesn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint.
Plenty on the right do not believe in climate change or evolution. They think that by refusing to evolve, they can avoid believing in evolution and refuse to evolve. What they fail to realize is that evolution takes millions of years. It might not happen in their lifetimes, but in time, it will. They are so short-sighted that they cannot see past their own lifetimes. They are such idiots.
I'm sick of the rest of us having to suffer while we wait for them to wise up and quit acting like whiny babies pitching temper tantrums. They are going to be the death of the rest of us. It is ridiculous.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)"It just doesn't make sense from an evolutionary standpoint."
Sure it does. 99% of all species in the history of the planet are extinct. They come and they go. Why? Because they failed to adapt. Failing to adapt is by far the norm, not the exception. We, as a species, are failing to adapt. And it's normal.
But I think that you're implying another thought. As a human species, we're clearly not trying hard to adapt. In fact, we're denying the need to adapt, which is quite a bit worse than making a good try. It only means that we'll die off sooner than later. We don't have the species-wide intelligence to grasp the meaning of survival, and what it will take to stay alive on a livable planet. We just don't care. Case in point: this weekend's partying at Lake of the Ozarks. These social gatherings are happening everywhere.
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misanthrope
(7,405 posts)So you're not wrong on that one.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)before it wipes us out
RobinA
(9,878 posts)this far. This is certainly not the first or the worst pandemic to ever hit humans, and here we are! Along with most of the original pandemic bugs that have gone around.
We are very smart as species go, but being "smart" should not be confused with "always doing what is considered 'smart' at a given moment." Who knows. Maybe the virus mutates in two years, gets much more virulent, and the people exposed this time around are the only ones with any immunity. It could happen. Then who's "smart"?
DownriverDem
(6,207 posts)of America started in the 1970s. We are reaping it now. I never thought there would be a red v Blue about the coronivirus and yet here we are. I just don't get it. I have to do all I can to not wish bad things on righties because of it all.
Luciferous
(6,068 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)showcasing the rampant narcissism that has always been here but without viewing platforms????
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)misanthrope
(7,405 posts)They feed off each other.
certainot
(9,090 posts)it is not monitored and challenged by the people who should be challenging it, and because it's a 95% monopoly that can repeat lies all day long to 50 mil a week.
it's thee only unique advantage they have and ignoring it for 30 years has been the biggest political mistake in history. all other RW media platforms are monitored and challenged, like fox and social media.
it will truly be a shame and testament to monumental incompetence by the dem and progressive orgs if we don't start seeing progress unitil after limbaugh croaks (he's still croaking on the radio today) and the rw radio monopoly that was built around him falls apart because they can't find anyone who can lie and spin for 3 hours a day with such royal sex-on-the-wrong-brain certitude.
trump knows he's going to lose the most important and secret weapon he has aand without limbaugh to make excuses for him all day, sell his lies and the next supreme court pick, attack his critics, and keep gop senators in line, he's fucked. most gop senators know it starts with limbaugh and the local state blowhards all have to follow his lead.
dems need to accelerate the process - with a little activism aimed at rw radio advertisers and the 87 universities that support 260 limbaugh stations, the ad industry will be pushed to democratize talk radio and end this orange shit
it wouldn't take much
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)With so many able to, at least, talk to each other on the phone or at least wear PPE if we do have to go out and be around people, I don't understand why so many have made it a literal temper tantrum to show their asses about it. Why do they feel the need to pitch a temper tantrum and show their asses? It has to be that cult of personality thing with Trump. I just don't get it. I don't like anyone that much. Hell, even Joan Jett could not talk me into that kind of stupidity, not that she would.
certainot
(9,090 posts)from fakenewsradio.org
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
all those stations followed limbaugh's lead in first calling covid a liberal hoax, then saying the death rates are exaggerated, making fun of mask wearing, and screaming to reopen
they yelled HOAX in a covid theater for 2 months to enable trump and should lose their licenses
if one of those schools was pushed to merely have a public discussion about finding apolitical alternatives for sports broadcasting the advertisers will freak out and the other schools will be shamed to doing same and more advertisers will freak out until rw radio falls apart
MLAA
(17,165 posts)I say the planet and the animals we kill will all have the last laugh and get their revenge. I sure hope there is life on other planets and it is far smarter and kinder than humans.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)It's been a favorite topic of psychologists, logicians, and ethicists for years.
Plato's Cave is one discussion of the phenomenon. Plato was a pretty smart guy, but once again he managed to ask the questions without the slightest clue to the answers.
Yeehah
(4,525 posts)and just accepted the fact there are a lot of stupid assholes in the world.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)I had this same conversation with myself earlier. I have lost all hope for our species. We deserve to die off and give the planet to those who value it...the plants and animals.
NJCher
(35,435 posts)Google that subject line. The nation mag has an excellent article on this topic.
Also see Thomas Friedmans opinion piece on trump challenging Mother Nature to a duel.
I would post both those items but am on my iPad and have limited abilities.
Nature Man
(869 posts)John Ludi
(588 posts)that exceeds the carrying capacity of its biosphere inevitably suffers a die-off. Having a highly developed neocortex and opposable thumbs, humans have found various colorful ways of making their exit...but the end result will be the same.
Smoke 'e if ya got 'em.
betsuni
(25,142 posts)bluestarone
(16,723 posts)It's called tRUMPISM!! and WOW the infestation is DEEP! It's been here a long time BUT putin, RUMP, and rethugs brought it to the surface! WE need a vaccine to WIPE IT OUT!!! NOV. BLUE WAVE is All we have. We better get it RIGHT!!!
Initech
(99,915 posts)And sadly the more they keep listening to assholes like Limbaugh and watching Fox News, the worse it's going to get.
RobinA
(9,878 posts)is quite in evidence on this supposedly liberal board lately. Some hate is not OK, some is.
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Texin
(2,585 posts)what "good Christians" they are and how the prize the "sanctity of life", but they are flushing there own lives down the toilet in the attempt to defy ordered sheltering-in-place practices. They care about an embryo in the wombs of women, but they don't give a damn about themselves or others enough to just gut it up and deal with not having freedom to range unfettered in a fucking pandemic for which there is no vaccine and remedy. And forget about God's charge to Adam and Eve to take care of the Earth and its inhabitants -- all of them -- on two feet or four feet. They're trashing their own homes. Their ONLY homes.
Ilsa
(61,676 posts)Jake Sully : [as Jake pleads for Eywa's help in attacking the "Sky People"] If Grace is there with you - look in her memories - she can show you the world we come from. There's no green there. They killed their Mother, and they're gonna do the same here. More Sky People are gonna come. They're gonna come like a rain that never ends. Unless we stop them. They chose me for something. I will stand and fight. You know I will. But I need a little help here.
Neytiri : Our great mother does not take sides, Jake; she protects the balance of life.
Jake Sully : It was worth a try.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)wearing a mask is akin to "communism". This is the same guy who said that he thinks our problems all started when women were given the vote. Too stupid to breathe.
McKim
(2,412 posts)Their need to belong is greater than their love of life! Trump tweets to them and they feel that they belong to something greater than themselves. He makes them feel important and that he understands their anger at being shafted in life with diminished lives. He taps into their anger about how unfair it is that they have had stagnant wages for decades, lost jobs as they watch the educated classes and one percent era making out like bandits. Granny D, a peace activists told democrats long ago to pay attention to the poor and help them out, get to know them in a respectful way. Too many didnt listen. But we are now!!!! I have a lot of hope about Biden and the people he has gathered around him.
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)1. Social media, which has provided for an 'immediate gratification/validation' of the worst of human behavior
2. Trump, who has provided the beacon, the path and the leadership for all of humanity's worst instincts
3. Humanity's worst instincts
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Common sense, not so common?
The evil overlords have used their means to push their agenda?
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)They haven't developed despite lifetimes of opportunities. So, the brain, solely concerned with survival, ego, physical success, dominates their Minds.
BlueTexasMan
(165 posts)They don't! They hate commies! (That would be us.) I believe Mc Carthyism created an underlying fear in the the nation that persists today and that coupled with the idea that communism and socialism are the same thing generates their blind devotion to protecting America from the godless masses.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Paranoia is as old as this country. Communism is just the latest whipping boy.