short and to the point

[sadisticsiren]

what the hell is wrong with people? seriously. new orleans is in utter ruin, the death toll in mississippi is steadily rising, people are without shelter, food, water and all i hear are people whining about the price of gasoline. it's disgusting! is this what we have become? we are more concerned with our wallets than the welfare and safety of

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[knightofbob]

I wish I could tell you you're being pessimistic, but the only good I've seen has been the massive hit Wal-Mart is taking.

I can't have empathy for the situation. I have sort of a sympathy for people I work with who have family members they haven't heard from. I have trouble sympathizing with the survivors, though, and I blame the media. It's hard to feel sorry for people complaining--complaining--that they lost their new TV in the flood, or other such trivialities. The only thing I've read so far that has made me feel bad was an account from a man whose wife told him to look after their children right before their house was torn in half and he lost his grip on her wrist

[sadisticsiren]

you're absolutely right. but that always seems to be the case doesn't it? we are so busy playing policeman/babysitter/bank/savior for everyone else that when tragedy strikes home we're like wtf? what do we do now? and gawd forbid anyone step to the plate to help us when we need it.

it's so fucking ridiculous! we actually have the nerve to act as though we are a model nation. model for what? dysfunction? what a fucking mess. we are like that kid on the playground who gives away all his toys so that the other kids will like him but all the kids just make fun of him behind his back. *sigh*

[prismdragon]

My brother and I were having that exact same discussion, yesterday

[sadisticsiren]

as much as i hate to pull this card out, i gotta, if this shit had happened in the fucking hamptons or beverly hills lil' georgie would have tripped over himself to get sufficient aid there.

i've seen news reports on various news sites showing white people chest deep in water carrying food and the caption reads something along the lines of "so and so walking through chest deep water carrying bread they found at a local grocery store" and you'll see a picture of a black guy wading through the same water carrying food and you'll see a caption that reads "so and so walks through chest deep water carrying food that was looted from local grocery store". how the fuck is it that they are both in the same situation but they are seen completely differently by the fucked up, so-called unbiased media

[knightofbob]

I was just reading an article about that over at Snopes earlier. The fact is that the pictures were from different agencies, and the photographers actually witnessed the black man emerging from the supposedly closed grocery store in the one instance, and that the other merely witnessed a white couple carrying what he could only assume to be sustenance among what revealed itself to be foodstuffs floating in the flood. I'm not saying it won't come up, but it isn't fair to paint this particular instance as racist.

[sadisticsiren]

so they witnessed the black guy looting but they assumed that the white people found the food floating in the water? that's what i'm talking about kob. everyone is looting, white, black, it doesn't matter. i just find it infuriating that it's assumed that the black man was looting while the white folks found whatever it is that they had. it's the fact that regardless of what may or may not have been seen by each individual reporter it comes across in a bad way. it's not fair to assume that the intent is racist but it sure as hell comes across that way.

[knightofbob]

It's an unfortunate coincidence, but that's all you can really credit it as.