10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer

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  1. raytri

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    It's also just another example of authoritarian nations fantasizing about the "decadence" of the West and America, and telling themselves America is a hollow power, with weak people who do not have the stomach to stand up to REAL men like Putin.

    And then they, like their predecessors (Hitler, USSR, Saddam Hussein, Taliban, Al Qaeda), discover otherwise.

    America has plenty of problems. But I would much rather have our problems than Russia's. And weak we are not.
     
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    You can give a reference for example on Somalia. Or Iraq. Once you think it will be a justification for the decomposition of American society. Is not it?
     
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    Maybe you have not noticed, but the author - an American. Not Russian not Lebanon, not Japanese. Once again, the author - an American. Or do you write a comment about not knowing what?

    Do not flatter yourself.
     
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    Societies and cultures change. Except for perhaps people are overly medicated, most is no different than has been going on forever. The internet/250 TV channels just makes us more aware of it. Today a guy boils someone; in yesteryear Lizzie Borden took her axe and gave her mother 40 whacks and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.
     
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    I am sure they watch the Nation, they need to know when they have gone too far, as for me myself, you are delusional. Pssst, you are getting real close to that line in the sand, cross it and that will be that.
     
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    Sure. It's a high-profile example of the kind of thing that has gone on throughout human history.

    I'm not denying the existence of immorality, I'm denying your claim that it is suddenly so much worse today than it was in the past. The stupidity of the list your quoted (and wrote?) is that it presents singular (relatively) recent incidents which alone do absolutely nothing to support the claim of a general decline from some undefined moral high-point. The other problem is that it is largely based on perception and reporting of incidents and not necessarily the reality of what is (and previous was) happening.
     
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    Nope, it is not. Ignoring your own ills I see, afraid someone in the next office might see you reading them and you would be called down to the basement for re-education?
     
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    look!!! its Moscow!!!!

    :roflol:
     
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    The author article - an American. You did not notice this? ....Although you for this had to strain the brain.
     
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    The author is indeed American -- but he's a nutcase posting his thoughts on the web, not someone to be taken seriously. First clue: the name of his website is "The Economic Collapse". This isn't someone coming at events with an open mind -- this is a guy who already has reached his conclusion, and everything he says will support that conclusion, even if the facts don't fit.

    So my comments were aimed at folks like yourself who take people like this seriously, as if it paints an accurate picture of American culture or society. You want it to be true. But it's not.
     
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    lol!!!! you keep making me laugh with your jokes!!! thank you. :)
     
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    In other words, you are saying that the information given on the links on the crimes - a lie. Protests in Ferguson, for example, - a lie. And you call the author article - an idiot?
     
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    They are not all by the same author, I can give you some from Russians if you prefer, but then again you would simply ignore them also. There are no so blind as those that refuse to see.
     
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    well naming an asteroid 'wormwood' right before it hits us doesn't really prove a prophecy lol

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    No, I'm saying his perspective on the facts is ridiculous.

    He links to a handful of sensationalist crimes, and tries to imply that they are common (they're not), such things never happened before (they did) and that they imply a fundamental change in American culture (they don't).

    It'd be like saying all Russians are corrupt dictators just because Putin is.
     
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    I am glad that you like. By the way there is a site with the ability to connect to the source, knowing IP. Want I give you a link? By the way site the English language. A little bit of skill and know all about the competitors.
     
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    the bible talks about their God talking to them from a burning bush, that sounds like the way the devil is supposed to speak to us, in flames, maybe the devil wrote the bible

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    Smart americans can see the cause for the implosion of social order, for it isn't actually rocket science.

    The society a young person grows up in conditions them. If you look at America, and understand that the way it is, is conditioning the youth, we can only expect it to remain as rotten as it is, or to even get worse. And if you think that the sort of society one lives in doesn't condition, you have no understanding whatsoever of what our ancestors knew all too well. The reason that we controlled what the young saw on tv, in film, is because it conditions them. And then we went all stupid, and thought you could wash clothes in dirty water and get clean clothes.

    Having a decent society, an ethical one, comes with hard work, and conditioning people to be decent, ethical. For it just doesn't happen naturally.

    Just look at what popular culture is conditioning people to be. I was not conditioned to be what popular culture finds good today. I was conditioned by two parents, by my church, by my school, by my neighbors to be moral, ethical, personally responsible and socially responsible. I was conditioned to be in that manner by tv programming and by the movies. Immorality was not put up as exciting, but looked down on. And you cannot say that about this society today.
     
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    I think the people of Detroit to disagree with you. And do not make me list the other cities. Such as: Flint, Michigan \ Oakland, California \ St. Louis, Missouri \ Memphis, Tenn \ Birmingham, Alabama \ Cleveland, Ohio,.... and many others.
     
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    lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    make believe threats from Moscow are soo funny!!!! :woot:
     
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    What do you think you're saying? Because what you're saying makes no sense. For instance, what would the people of Memphis, Tenn., disagree with me on?
     
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    I am not arguing the above facts, I agree. What I do not do is take critics from agents of the Russians, their society is not one to emulate or be especially proud of.
     
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    I wanted to help you. But despite your disbelief and insulting words, I'll give you a link. http://www.shodanhq.com/ use. And remember my kind word.
     
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    10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer

    maybe Russia should worry more about Russia.

    they have massive alcoholism.

    117 Russians own 35% of all Russia's wealth.

    their Federal revenue is dropping fast, due to sanctions, collapse in oil prices, collapse in currency value, fleeing of capital.

    they now have $40 billion in new social obligations to Crimea.

    ...oh yes, Russia has some major problems to deal with before pointing the finger at the USA.
     

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