So let me get this straight…
You came to America on a student visa—here to study. And somehow, you ended up burning the American flag, chanting “Death to America,” blocking emergency services, and vandalizing property… and now you’re surprised your visa got revoked?
You’re living in this country, attending our schools, eating our food, benefiting from our freedoms and infrastructure, possibly even funded by American tax dollars—and yet you stand on American soil and protest America?
That’s not courage. That’s hypocrisy.
You don’t get to enjoy the blessings of this country while simultaneously calling for its downfall. You don’t get to study here, use our resources, and then act like you’re being wronged when your stay is cut short because of your own actions.
@stella_immanuel My 25 year old daughter was required, as a federal employee, to get the vaccine. She ended up with myocarditis, had a menstrual cycle that lasted for months…followed by not having one for months & is now being told she may not be able to get pregnant.😡😢😩
Regardless of how you voted for the US Presidency, I don’t see how it serves you to root for his failure. There have been times the person I voted for didn’t win, but then you get behind the winner in hopes it will benefit us as a nation. I’m never going to root against the United States. Ever.
Some asked what could have been done differently in LA - I do lunges for a living and even I can figure this out:
1. Have existing reservoirs filled. If repairs are needed do them during rainy season or after new ones are built.
2. Build the new reservoirs Californians voted to fund in 2014 - not one is complete.
3. Stop using tax payer dollars to fund crazy sh!+ like drug kits to the homeless and fund desalination plants.
4. Increase funding to the fire department - don’t cut it.
4. Do prescribed control burns!
5. Create fire breaks.
6. Divert the water for the smelt fish back to urban areas. - when the fire retardant and fire waste washes into the ocean those fish are screwed way worse.
6. Get nut farmers out of Cali and into another state. It takes 1.1 gallons of water to grow an almond.
7. Make sure during fire season the mayor is in LA so someone can declare a federal emergency - this way the navy choppers that drop water could have been deployed immediately. Not days later.
8. Call in the National guard before all of LA is on fire and being looted.
9. Force the privately owned utility companies to update their 100 year old equipment so it doesn’t fail and start fires and kill people and animals.
11. Recall Gavin Newsome.
RIP "Privilege" and the Death of Resentments
This is a good day to tell you that the term “privileged” is over. For about ten years now, this term has been used as a weapon against others. That’s over now. This characterization of someone as “coming from a place of privilege“ or the accusation of “a privileged way of thinking” is nothing more than expressions of resentment, and a distraction from the gifts the accuser has themselves.
I don’t care who you are, there is some way that you are better off than someone else. I don’t care what your situation is, you are right now blessed with something. Maybe you have both legs, maybe you have your sight, maybe you have a place to live, maybe you simply woke up today, maybe you have a couple of days of sobriety, maybe you got to do something nice for someone, maybe you made the rent this month when you didn’t think you would, maybe you saw a pretty flower today, maybe a worst case scenario this year didn’t turn out so bad, and maybe little surprises happened this year that you absolutely did not expect. You have got something you can be happy about. You have something that you can be grateful for.
Everybody is born with a basket of skills and talents and opportunities. No one else gets your particular basket. You have talent and skills and opportunities in your basket that other people don’t have. And other people have skills and talents and opportunities their basket that you don’t have. Be grateful for what you’ve got. No one else has one like yours. 1/2
This is one of the consequences of the “trophies-for-everyone” upbringing of the early 21st century.
Basically, children were shielded from processing emotionally challenging experiences. My theory is that their parents were the first generation that en masse went to therapy, and learned that much of their negative feelings about themselves were due to how their parents treated them. Most of these parents did the work and recovered from that experience. However, they also vowed to ensure that their own children would not be on a couch in 20 years, having to recover from these parents themselves.
And so, these parents bubble-wrapped their kids’ feelings. They didn’t want them to experience defeat (hence trophies for everyone, and not just the winners). They eliminated the experience of a kid not being a guest and not the focus at a birthday party (by making sure the departing gift bags everyone got were full of items of greater value than the present they themselves brought). They eliminated the experience of the kids working out conflicts themselves (by the teachers at the schools insisting that the kids come to them immediately when a conflict with another kid arose). They eliminated the kid experiencing the poor results of not having done the class assignments (by parents calling teachers on the kids’ behalf to get a better grade (including college, btw)).
All to say, this was child abuse. These parents handicapped these kids by not letting them process defeat, disappointment, being left out, frustration, etc as children, so they could build those coping skills. And so, now you have a whole batch of adults processing all that for the very first time, with no practice, and no muscles in those areas. Truly handicapped.
Hopefully, these now-adults will learn these lessons on their own, but that takes guts. Now you know why this batch of kids created the Victim Olympics for their present-day adult selves.