(And no, I am not going to capitalize the word.)
All you "professional panic-er's" haven't got enough to do. Clearly. We don't need more town criers. The market is saturated, there are no openings. Maybe apply for a real job, one you can handle, one you are well qualified for. Try flipping burgers at McDonalds. I hear they are paying over $20 bucks an hour now in California.
Every other email, video clip, newspaper article, industry trade paper, every financial report is "all apocalypse, all day"… and all the same.
Oh no, it’s the apocalypse.
The apocalypse is coming.
We're in the apocalypse.
See? Look at Gaza, it has to be the virus, oops, sorry, I meant THE APOCALYPSE!
The finance people are the only ones with anything legitimate to complain about.
Have you all learned nothing whatsoever over the last three plus years of covid/climate change mania? Has it not become crystal clear that the entirety of mass media, all your social media, your parents, the people at work, even the majority of "NPC on the street" mouths are completely controlled by a handful of people running countries and companies that limit free speech with constant censorship, cancel culture, and pre-determined, AI vetted, targeted messaging?
Have you still not learned that everything you think you know, and just about everything "everyone" is sure of, is 99.999% gas lighting propaganda supporting false narratives?
Can you name any? C'mon, try hard.
I can fire off a list, off the cuff, several pages long!
Can we all just calm down and curb the "End Times Enthusiasm" a bit? Maybe take it down a notch,
OR THREE?
Take the misery going on right now in Gaza for example. Just because I tend not to indulge in religious or political discourse, I am not unaware of it. I won't proselytize or preach. I know better than to take a side or parrot other opinions. I want you all to just stop for a minute and look at a map.
The Gaza strip is a piece of land that is a little over seven miles wide and twenty five miles long. That works out to just 140 square miles of coastline, adjacent to a tiny country that would be as unknown and foreign to most people as Djibouti were it not for the US flooding it year after year for decades with enough money, military and weapons to bury all 140 square miles of Gaza in paper, steel and gunpowder!
Gaza is the same size as Detroit. It is smaller than Philadelphia, larger than Edinburgh, smaller than Dublin, half the size of New York City, and twice as large as Washington DC.
It is one third as big as Los Angeles, one fourth as big as London, one fifth as big as Cape Town, one tenth the size of Yosemite National Park, three tenths the size of Phoenix, Az., and four times larger than Disney World.
At 10,762 square miles, Israel the same size as Hawaii. It is a third larger than New Jersey and half the size of Lake Michigan.
HAMAS is funded by Israel and run by Mossad, like ISIS was funded by the US and run by the CIA, and the rocket attacks you hear Israel whine about are mostly fireworks. The idea of Israel defending itself from Gaza terrorists is like me begging for sympathy after punching a kitten in the face.
You tell me. Does that conflict qualify as a "World" War?
Or does the rest of the world have to be persuaded a bit, somehow, to get involved?
Israel is SEVENTY SEVEN TIMES larger than Gaza and it is drowning in guns and ammunition. They have bullets for breakfast, landmines for lunch, depleted uranium munitions for dinner. All this armament is the personal gun collection of a psychotic lunatic who just loves the smell of napalm in the morning, who also just happens to have a nuclear missile concealed carry permit from the US.
What is so shocking about Israel and a guy like that using Gaza as a firing range? The backstop is the damn Atlantic Ocean!
If this was a Las Vegas prize fight it would be like 5'9", 235 pound Mike Tyson defending his title against a 443 foot tall, 18,095 pound challenger.
No, this is more like a hacked up retread of "Escape from New York" edited for time and content.
Personally, I cannot be more appalled by the violence, more ashamed of my own country for enabling and condoning it, or more sympathetic to those who have become victims of it, but it is a flash in the pan and without your help and encouragement it would end about as fast as that fictitious Tyson fight would.
And let me just preempt all you would-be commenters, before you wear out your fingertips penning editorial admonishments. Don't take my use of satire as a reason to try and suck me into this bullshit.
THAT CONTINUE TO BRAZENLY STERILIZE, DEPOPULATE, IMPOVERISH
AND COVERTLY TORTURE EVERYONE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET!
If you are going to take a swing at anything, make it count.