World and politics stuff is hurting me now again

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Start, I just wish everybody would call off any comments about Trump or his administration/supporters here. I don't want it to become a bashing thread. I have felt unsafe about the world for the last 10 years, it seems to be so divisive and high-stakes right now. I have already been through enough doomsday prophecies and catastrophe scares since the 2012 Mayan calendar came and passed.

I know there is that alleged chemical attack in Syria this weekend, and the US said they will retaliate in some way, and it's possible now that things will get out of hand and Russia or China will destroy America. I'm not saying that I believe that with certainty, but the odds seem to be getting so much worse. It doesn't help that we are divided on both sides and one of them can't even imagine *gasp* not wanting to belittle or otherwise derail the President we have now.

I wish I can talk about this to anybody I'm closer to in real life, but my parents are only coming off to me as misunderstanding or angry and otherwise all I have left to sit on is "there is nothing I or anybody else can do to stop it". So, I guess I have nothing else to look forward to until the end of everything here. I want to taste many foods I never got to taste, I want to lose my virginity and get a new partner, improve my social skills, all of that seems under the shadow of tensions in the world that can kill us all, anyway. I actually feel envious of my parents generation, they had to deal with fearing the USSR, but it passed anyway without actual WW3. I don't know if we're so lucky today, no matter how people try to convince me otherwise. I always go back to being skeptical of it instead.

It's got to the point where I now can say I feel like I want to vandalize or destroy something.

worrying about those things won't change them one whit, so there is no sense worrying about it. "action is the antidote to despair." meaning, distract yourself with work that suits you.

Yeah, if it weren't for small short-term distractions (like how I am a music freak), I would have been going more crazy. I'm still thinking it sucks, and I don't want to be told that I shouldn't worry. I know what you're saying, but it's not working right now.

There are some people who shouldn't ever listen to the news. They just can't take it.

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There are some people who at certain times in their life, have to shield themselves from the news. Although they may want to be informed, they may be going through something very high-stress (like a new baby, or fighting cancer) and the news just makes everything harder.

If either of these applies to you, then just go ahead and avoid hearing about the awful things going on in the world ... either forever, or at least until you can hear the stuff without being too damaged. You have to do what's best for YOU. Becoming unglued by the state of the world does not help anyone or anything, so protect yourself as needed.

Just because I might not like Trump----doesn't mean I won't like YOU for liking Trump.

The US is a democracy. You can like whomever you want to like; I might not agree with it. Then again, many good friends disagree with each other.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were great friends from the Revolution. They had radically different political beliefs. They remained friends.

It petrifies me too. I do not see the purpose in nuclear bombs, because if one of those are used, every single person will die and no-one wins, and isn't life supposed to be about life? Aren't wars supposed to be about winning? Who invented these f*****g nuclear bombs? Life is a miracle and the world is so beautiful, and yet Kim Jong Un wants to destroy it. I hate him and all of his supporters. But I am very uneducated about all this, so it's best I don't say too much otherwise I will sound dumb. I often get outwitted by members here when talking about wars.

But I've heard of big "World War 3" scares most of my life. I remember there was all a big scare thing back in 2002 or 2003, when I was 12, but I can't recall what it was, but it was something to do with war. Then there was the swine flu epidemic in 2009, which didn't come to anything, even though the media sounded like it was the new plague and the deaths from it were being counted and broadcasted. I wasn't too afraid about the 2012 thing because in the UK nobody really talked about it.

I know it's hard not to worry about all these scary goings-on, but the way I see it, there are probably more frightful experiments and plans happening what I and most others don't even know about that is going on right now as we speak, and quite frankly I rather not know about it.

The thing what is currently panicking me is all the talk of the NHS collapsing. That is the last thing this country needs, as so many of us have relied on the NHS for decades and so we don't have health insurance or anything, and so those of us who are not rich will just be left to die suffering without any medical care. It's scary.

If you don't look at daily news, but at the views of geostrategists like george friedman, that helps.

Basically, right now is pretty safe if you're nit in an arab country. Who's going to nuke anyone right now for what reason? - ww1 and 2 were only world wars, because all the colonies had to fight each other too, in alliance with their colonizers.
But the potential enemies of the west don't have colonies in the west, i.e. it's North Korea, for example - but they're on their own.
If China were to join them... They'd still only be able to come via air for a while. No land troops are going to attack the US or Europe anytime soon.

Russia can only attack Europe, but then: Europe is their main customer of oil and gas...


Diplomatic Contacts and so on might deterriorate further, but a global warbis rather unlikely. Local nationalism, stupidity eyc, yes. But war is a tool for reshaping birders, mainly, and I don't have the feeling most places are worried about where their borders are, too much these days.