The world is absolutely done.for

[MelodyMayKerr]

America has gone insane. Executing people on the streets for suspecting them of being immigrants. The rapist-in-chief marauding around the world doing what he wants. Israel mass murder children (& adulrs) in Gaza and call anyone who protests an antisemite.Other world leaders stand by and do nothing.
The climate iw shafted. Probably heading for 1.7° or worse, probable mass migration and associated wars. Hundreds of thousands dead in Ukraine. British economy f**ked. Musk heading to Trillionairedom while billions have next to nothing. Everyone glued to their phones, social life dead, mass anxiety and depression among young people.
Im honestly sick of the world now.

Very true

Yep, it's never been this bad. Oh wait I just remember that during WWII the Nazis devised and built and industrial system utilised for mercilessly gassing millions of people. Go ahead and tell to that mother who is choking to death while holding their baby in inside one of diabolical contraptions that your world is done for.
Newsflash: life has always been shit for most of the population. War and conflicts have been main drivers for the most part of human history. Humans have always lied, killed and raped.

Get off social media and give your head a wobble, sweetheart.

I’m sorry that’s made me LOL. Cowering in your mud hut listening to the maurauders slaughter and rape the rest of your village whispering to your loved one “it seems hopeless darling but don’t worry, one day they will invent the Sony Walkman and make Forrest Gump”.
We only know they were on a forward progression and had a better future (wherever that means and whatever it was isn’t linear) with the luxury of 1500 years of hindsight. They lived in the moment like you do. They felt despair and terror when the news came in that another longboat had been sighted like you do (except you’re just reading stuff on social media or listening to the news).
We are not uniquely in danger now. We’re probably safer now than ever before.

Can't remember where, but I once saw a post that said "The idea of impending Armageddon is very convenient because it means you don't have to do anything". Yes, some stuff is objectively terrible, and deserves to be shouted about but...

As Mr Rogers once said, "Look for the helpers". And, even better, be a helper. There's always something to do to make the world a tiny bit better, if not on a global scale then at a community level. The people sitting around saying "there's no point, everything's going to shit" have been there for millennia, and they've always been wrong.

Nope, she's weaponosing antisemitism. You think it's nice for Jewish people reading her OP?

To the posters trying to insinuate I’m evil
personified: I said “IF that’s true she made some bad choices”. I’ve watched the (ungory version of the) video now. She didn’t step out of the vehicle when armed officers told her to. The video is extremely unclear as to what actually happened beforehand. It’s all really confusing. She didn’t deserve what happened to her at all. But I can see why it happened. “Angry men with guns tell woman who’s been ‘causing trouble’ to get out of the car and instead she drives off”. It only took that one rogue angry guy to use his authority to kill. It does happen all the time in America though - I think people are more shocked bc she’s white and a mother.

I agree it’s horrific and shouldn’t have happened. Those men shouldn’t even have guns, and this is the reason I’d never live in America.

Oops -didn’t mean to quote that post there.

But if you want to go down that road - have you seen what the Palestinian’s did to those innocent kids at the nova festival?

The OP and those frothing along with her, should be venting on the CITME board. It's a dedicated space for posting one sided inaccurate hysteria.

We’re DEFINITELY safer than ever before. For one, in 1900 - so only 125 years ago:

In 1900, the average life expectancy at birth was around 32 years globally, but varied significantly by region, with more developed nations like the US around 47 and UK males at 44, females at 48 years, heavily influenced by high infant mortality

You did not mention Hamas killing Jews?

You’ve completely missed the point here Dollyfloss. This Israelis deserved that because they are evil colonialist murdering bloodthirsty rat scum. Also they control the world and hoard all the money and drink the blood of children at Easter. However please don’t say they have horns as that is anti Semitism which we don’t tolerate.

You misunderstand me. I'm not suggesting that in extremis people were either better off or more hopeful. I'm pointing out that there is a difference between a harsh life that nevertheless shows signs of progression (someone invents a better plough, traders arrive with stories of other places with better land) and a world where we may believe we have seen it all and had it all, yet its slipping away. I'm not suggesting for a moment it was better then. It was a general comment on the idea of hope versus loss of.

Nah, not juicy enough. Rolls off the tongue better to bash the Jews.

Lets not have an evil-off on this thread. Just because one party does evil deeds, it does not make the evil deeds of the other acceptable.

No, you don't get to dictate what's brushed under the carpet. There's been way too much of that going on AND it's still happening as per this OP.

The world has to hope it can navigate the next three years then pray the next president isn’t Vance, Europe needs to really stick together, increase its defence spending substantially and quickly and forge new alliances with Canada, Australia etc to help counter the threat that is now very much Russia, China and the US

You can continue to debate to decide which party is most the evil if you wish.

Who said it did?

Are you reading comprehension skills working today?

There was a lot more to the shooting of the white woman in Minneapolis, she was known to them for various reasons and had been extremely hostile previously.

I will continue to acknowledge two sides to a story, yes.

Im just waiting for ww3 to start.
Or some sort of war.

Yep. And OP, get off the news, get off your socials, go outside and take a walk. We're in no more danger than we ever were.

Classic Mumsnet response.

We've had nuclear weapons since the end of the 2WW.