Where's my America?

[deannalw]

I just heard a tidbit on this mornings news about 'empathy tents' being set up at Berkeley. They're set up in times of trouble or expected strife and woes. These tents are there for the folks full of angst, nervous twitters, depression or just upset a lil bit. You can get a soothing shoulder massage and a bag of goodies with a real sweet note inside.

Are you fucking kidding me?

These aren't first aid tents at an event or on a schoolyard playground, these are for supposedly grown ass people to come get a widdle hug when the world is getting you down. Like your shoelaces just aren't quite the right color.

This really dismays me... among other maniacal and devious crap going on, it sends a terrible message to the younger generation. The people that offer safety pins on their clothing to signal they're a 'safe' person to speak with is they think just like you and won't distress you with 'hate speech' that boils down to anything they don't want to talk about or questions about why they belief what they belief. It infuriates them when they can't come up with answers to simple questions.

No more do you hear the phrases 'get over it' or buck the fuck up' No, now we have huge blocks of people believing they have the only right to free speech. The rest of us get free speech when it matches theirs. This has been true for awhile but it's never been this bad, this blatant and in your face as now. Now we have people starting fires, breaking windows, assaulting people that dare have different ideas as them.

My mom was a democrat, my dad a republican. I loved when some of their friends would be visiting and they'd sometimes get into a wonderful political debate.

That's what it was. Discussion about what was going on in a peaceful but sometimes firey talk. Discussion with people with opposing viewpoints. Can you imagine?

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

You can't discuss anything or resolve any problems with them so they can all go pound sand as far as I'm concerned

 

[JakeStarkey]

Wow! How stupid is that?!

 

[TNHarley]

This local counsel place(the court uses them for drug and alcohol counseling) has started to do a free "adult transition" class. For people ages 16-25 to transition to adulthood because they know how hard it is.
I don't understand it, really. Transitioning wasn't hard for me. I just got my own toilet paper and wiped my own ass.
My local tax dollars are supporting classes for people to learn how to wake up on time and pay their bills on the right day.
Ridiculous. This generation is a bunch of dumb, entitled pussies.

 

[gipper]

The left and the statists destroyed the country long ago. We are just progressing slowly down the road to serfdom...and Jake likes it.

 

[Mac1958]

I just heard a tidbit on this mornings news about 'empathy tents' being set up at Berkeley. They're set up in times of trouble or expected strife and woes. These tents are there for the folks full of angst, nervous twitters, depression or just upset a lil bit. You can get a soothing shoulder massage and a bag of goodies with a real sweet note inside.

Are you fucking kidding me?

These aren't first aid tents at an event or on a schoolyard playground, these are for supposedly grown ass people to come get a widdle hug when the world is getting you down. Like your shoelaces just aren't quite the right color.

This really dismays me... among other maniacal and devious crap going on, it sends a terrible message to the younger generation. The people that offer safety pins on their clothing to signal they're a 'safe' person to speak with is they think just like you and won't distress you with 'hate speech' that boils down to anything they don't want to talk about or questions about why they belief what they belief. It infuriates them when they can't come up with answers to simple questions.

No more do you hear the phrases 'get over it' or buck the fuck up' No, now we have huge blocks of people believing they have the only right to free speech. The rest of us get free speech when it matches theirs. This has been true for awhile but it's never been this bad, this blatant and in your face as now. Now we have people starting fires, breaking windows, assaulting people that dare have different ideas as them.

My mom was a democrat, my dad a republican. I loved when some of their friends would be visiting and they'd sometimes get into a wonderful political debate.

That's what it was. Discussion about what was going on in a peaceful but sometimes firey talk. Discussion with people with opposing viewpoints. Can you imagine?

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

You can't discuss anything or resolve any problems with them so they can all go pound sand as far as I'm concerned

The predictable result of a culture that that has been distorted by hypersensitivity and ideology.

First there were participation medals, then white shaming, then safe spaces, now empathy tents.

Of course. Is anyone here really surprised at this point?

Anyway, to answer the question posed in the thread title, it's most likely gone, just as many here wanted.
.

 

[Mr Natural]

Oh my God! The Horrors!

 

[norwegen]

When snowflakes rule the world, the world needs a network of safe spaces and empathy tents to prevent an avalanche of meltdowns.

 

[Corky]

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

GOP president

GOP Congress

Nitwit

 

[norwegen]

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

GOP president

GOP Congress

Nitwit

Hence the snowflake meltdown. You just affirmed her point.

Nitwit.

 

[Penelope]

This is a history of "your" USA.

List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States - Wikipedia

 

[OldLady]

I just heard a tidbit on this mornings news about 'empathy tents' being set up at Berkeley. They're set up in times of trouble or expected strife and woes. These tents are there for the folks full of angst, nervous twitters, depression or just upset a lil bit. You can get a soothing shoulder massage and a bag of goodies with a real sweet note inside.

Are you fucking kidding me?

These aren't first aid tents at an event or on a schoolyard playground, these are for supposedly grown ass people to come get a widdle hug when the world is getting you down. Like your shoelaces just aren't quite the right color.

This really dismays me... among other maniacal and devious crap going on, it sends a terrible message to the younger generation. The people that offer safety pins on their clothing to signal they're a 'safe' person to speak with is they think just like you and won't distress you with 'hate speech' that boils down to anything they don't want to talk about or questions about why they belief what they belief. It infuriates them when they can't come up with answers to simple questions.

No more do you hear the phrases 'get over it' or buck the fuck up' No, now we have huge blocks of people believing they have the only right to free speech. The rest of us get free speech when it matches theirs. This has been true for awhile but it's never been this bad, this blatant and in your face as now. Now we have people starting fires, breaking windows, assaulting people that dare have different ideas as them.

My mom was a democrat, my dad a republican. I loved when some of their friends would be visiting and they'd sometimes get into a wonderful political debate.

That's what it was. Discussion about what was going on in a peaceful but sometimes firey talk. Discussion with people with opposing viewpoints. Can you imagine?

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

You can't discuss anything or resolve any problems with them so they can all go pound sand as far as I'm concerned

Needing a hug isn't the end of the Free World as we know it, Deanna.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

GOP president

GOP Congress

Nitwit

What does that have to do with liberal pussies in college?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

When is Beauregard Sessions going to Indict and Prosecute Hillary Clinton............"we all know she is guilty"...why is Hillary Clinton not being Prosecuted as Promised ...I was told there would be Prosecutions ...............

 

[Penelope]

The left and the statists destroyed the country long ago. We are just progressing slowly down the road to serfdom...and Jake likes it.

Seems to me the capitalists have control. I do agree we are on the way to serfdom, ruled by the elites. Total control, slave labor. While most are too far left or too far right for me, we all know who has the power and what the uprisings are about.

 

[ChrisL]

Lol!

 

[Penelope]

Maybe because the median income has not grown much at all since the 1980's , but the millionaire and billionaire club has.

Every country is doing bad, there is no growth anywhere , just maintaining and hanging on by a thread. The elites make their money in hedge funds, a legalized form of gambling and the poorer go to casinos and lottery lines.

Who is the greedy bunch here, what do the students in colleges see for their future, polluted earth, slave labor, unless one is lucky enough to be born into the upper middle income or above.

Work is something everyone needs and most want to work, but where are the jobs?? Automation has taken many US jobs,

and that is why Bill Gates said we need to tax robots.

Now Paul Ryans want to take away health insurance. Have you seen the new tax plan. Its blatantly saying F...K Y..U to the working people. Giving workers pennies and the rich millions in tax savings.

What do you expect from the college people.

 

[deannalw]

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

GOP president

GOP Congress

Nitwit

Derpity-derp dippity do. This pussification of people has been going on for decades and steam rolling down hill.
Has nothing to do with who's in power this minute

 

[deannalw]

I just heard a tidbit on this mornings news about 'empathy tents' being set up at Berkeley. They're set up in times of trouble or expected strife and woes. These tents are there for the folks full of angst, nervous twitters, depression or just upset a lil bit. You can get a soothing shoulder massage and a bag of goodies with a real sweet note inside.

Are you fucking kidding me?

These aren't first aid tents at an event or on a schoolyard playground, these are for supposedly grown ass people to come get a widdle hug when the world is getting you down. Like your shoelaces just aren't quite the right color.

This really dismays me... among other maniacal and devious crap going on, it sends a terrible message to the younger generation. The people that offer safety pins on their clothing to signal they're a 'safe' person to speak with is they think just like you and won't distress you with 'hate speech' that boils down to anything they don't want to talk about or questions about why they belief what they belief. It infuriates them when they can't come up with answers to simple questions.

No more do you hear the phrases 'get over it' or buck the fuck up' No, now we have huge blocks of people believing they have the only right to free speech. The rest of us get free speech when it matches theirs. This has been true for awhile but it's never been this bad, this blatant and in your face as now. Now we have people starting fires, breaking windows, assaulting people that dare have different ideas as them.

My mom was a democrat, my dad a republican. I loved when some of their friends would be visiting and they'd sometimes get into a wonderful political debate.

That's what it was. Discussion about what was going on in a peaceful but sometimes firey talk. Discussion with people with opposing viewpoints. Can you imagine?

The lunatic left is destroying my country with their vile, disgusting and immature behavior and I despise them for it.

You can't discuss anything or resolve any problems with them so they can all go pound sand as far as I'm concerned

Needing a hug isn't the end of the Free World as we know it, Deanna.

I never said a hug was, oldlady. I'm all for hugs in the correct time and place. I wrote this early this morn before coffee and ain't terribly impressed with my writing or getting my feeling across, but I still think it's clear I don't believe the actual hug to be a problem in America. It's the bombardment of the idea that you must be safe from any and all disappointments, disagreements or strife of any sort in life. Whoever said life ain't fair and that life can be a bitch were correct and one shouldn't be sheltered like a hothouse rose and given to believe they will never experience a life with no negatives. A healthy dose of reality is a good thing

 

[deannalw]

Maybe because the median income has not grown much at all since the 1980's , but the millionaire and billionaire club has.

Every country is doing bad, there is no growth anywhere , just maintaining and hanging on by a thread. The elites make their money in hedge funds, a legalized form of gambling and the poorer go to casinos and lottery lines.

Who is the greedy bunch here, what do the students in colleges see for their future, polluted earth, slave labor, unless one is lucky enough to be born into the upper middle income or above.

Work is something everyone needs and most want to work, but where are the jobs?? Automation has taken many US jobs,

and that is why Bill Gates said we need to tax robots.

Now Paul Ryans want to take away health insurance. Have you seen the new tax plan. Its blatantly saying F...K Y..U to the working people. Giving workers pennies and the rich millions in tax savings.

What do you expect from the college people.

WTF?

 

[TheOldSchool]