[DannyAlberta]

an amusing article from the website End of the American Dream.

here it is in full for those interested: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archive...ely-insane

even as a canadian, this stuff drips with more than a bit of truth, despite the obvious intended humour. here is a selection of some of my favorite stuff from the article:

Quote:

Before we had televisions and radios and computers and movies and the Internet, people actually had to do the hard work of thinking for themselves. But now we are all plugged into this giant “matrix” that tells us what to think, what to believe and how to feel about things. And unfortunately, the people that are telling us what to think and believe are delusional themselves. ... The following are 19 signs that you live in a country that has gone completely insane…

#1 When those occupying the highest offices in the land tell you that an $18,000,000,000,000 debt is “under control“, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

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#4 When dressing up sex dolls in fashionable clothing and photographing them is considered to be art, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

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#6 When a boy can sue his high school for not letting him use the girls’ restrooms and win $75,000 in “damages”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

#7 When people that want to have sex with their own family members start demanding “equal rights”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

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#10 When 30 million of your fellow citizens are taking antidepressants, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

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#16 When Congress has to pass a law to keep federal workers from watching porn all day long, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

#17 When the number of payday lenders is greater than the number of Starbucks locations, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

the article closes out by asking for additions to the list.

mine would be:

#20 when a major state university suspends all its fraternities and sororities based only on an anonymous and sensationalized account of gang rape, which later proves to be false, and yet people are still defending the author and the supposed "victim" who fed her the false account, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.

[emilian]

I am at the same sentiment. I made a topic on the same idea. Hope is lost.

[Eskhander]

#4 is an understatement. I've seen impressionist (I guess) drawings of anuses that win awards

[CRR]

21. When being morbidly obese is called "plus size" and women are told that they are all beautiful.

22. When traditional (and biological) gender roles are considered sexist and oppressive, whereas 58 gender options are considered the new normal.

23. When writing a book about self improvement and becoming better at picking up women is considered misogynistic, whereas when a woman talks about taking 100 feet of dick, she's considered empowered.

[Guitarman]

24. When the world believes in "man made global warming" despite the fact that there has been no warming for 18.5 years, that current climate and weather is nothing unusual in geological context, and that all the best evidence points to solar and cosmological influence as being the real climate drivers.

[DannyAlberta]

I had all but forgotten about this thread.

Here's a new one based on more recent events:

#25: When a special little snowflake student at Columbia U makes up a rape hoax to get attention (including carrying around the mattress she had consensual sex on for a full school year), essentially ruining the man's life and career as a student, and instead of being prosecuted for it is lauded in the press, supported by her teachers and even invited to watch the State of the Union, you live in a country that has gone completely, utterly and totally insane.

[N°6]

It is correct to put usurious debt at N°1. To the ancient and to the medieval man, usury was seen to be the sum of all sin, the cause of the rest.

It is why medieval teaching held that usury was worse than murder because it not only caused it, it cause other ills.

[8ball]

#26 when you overhear 2 fat girls at work complaining about their tinder matches you live in a country that is in dire need of....

[Agreddor]

27 when you live in a country where gay marriages are legal