TheUglyTruth

Why are people around the world voting against their best interests? Can anyone explain this to me? Like how do you vote for people who say they will takeover and change the laws to suit them? Or have modern humans lost their best survival instincts?

Funny how this happened only after his politics changed.

I'm genuinely shocked at how stupidity and wilful ignorance have somehow become socially acceptable. Worse, they're actually being applauded 🙃 We live in an age where information is literally at our fingertips, yet somehow critical thinking seems to have gone out the window. People complain about failing governments, broken promises and deteriorating societies, yet refuse to question the very systems they keep supporting. People preach tolerance while attacking their own for daring to disagree. They celebrate compassion while showing absolutely none to anyone outside their ideological bubble. And somehow, questioning any of this makes YOU the problem? 😂 When did thinking for yourself become controversial? When did feelings become more important than facts? And when did being morally self-righteous become a substitute for actually being a decent human being? I could go on and on. I'm not even angry anymore. I'm just profoundly disappointed in humanity. We've never had so much information available to us, yet we seem increasingly unwilling to actually think about any of it. What a bizarre time to be alive 🤦‍♀️

That's what a sense of entitlement looks like.

I'm extremely concerned that the people of my country neither know the laws of this country nor the constitution. I know reading comprehension is hard...but Google is free.

Is this not aiding a criminal? Is that not a crime?

You don't have to like Tommy Robinson, agree with his views or support everything he's said to question how the UK authorities have treated him. That's the thing about freedom of speech and civil liberties. They're not supposed to exist only for people we agree with. There is a difference between holding someone accountable under the law and using the law to silence dissent. And that distinction deserves scrutiny, regardless of who's involved. If your principles disappear the moment someone you dislike needs protecting, were they ever principles to begin with? 🤔

Maybe what humanity has lost isn't empathy, intelligence or even morality. Maybe it's duty and honour. We've become so obsessed with our rights, our feelings, our identities and what society owes us that we've seemingly forgotten what we owe each other. When did personal comfort become more important than responsibility? When did doing what feels good become more important than doing what's right? We demand respect without demonstrating integrity. We demand change without accepting sacrifice. We demand accountability from everyone except ourselves. And perhaps that's why everything feels so divided. We've built a society that celebrates individual freedom but increasingly forgets collective responsibility. Because what good are rights if nobody feels a duty to uphold them? Just a thought 🤔

I'm genuinely starting to question whether people have lost their basic survival instincts 😅 Governments around the world are becoming increasingly divisive, yet somehow people keep turning on each other instead of questioning the people making the decisions. You protest because your country is falling apart, destroy your own communities in the process, allow your original cause to get completely hijacked, and then wonder why nothing changes? And somehow, you end up supporting the very same policies you were protesting against? 😭 At what point do we start questioning whether governments are actually solving problems or simply benefiting from keeping everyone divided? You can call something compassionate, progressive or humanitarian all you want, but that doesn't automatically make it practical or sustainable. And just because a policy doesn't affect you personally today doesn't mean someone else isn't paying the price for it. I'm genuinely confused. When did feeling morally superior become more important than considering the actual consequences of our decisions? 🤔

Stop letting these people in. PLEASE STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRIES BEFORE YOU LOSE THEM!

Does anyone know what level of apocalypse gets us out of work? Apparently i’ve been overestimating it...

Thomas Sowel was better than both of those gents 🤣

Something a bit more personal that I need help with - Genuine question because I've been thinking about this and I actually don't know what the answer is. Why is it that when it comes to severe childhood bullying, the person who was bullied is basically told to "let it go" because everyone was young? I'm not talking about someone calling you ugly once in Grade 6. I'm talking YEARS of torment. Humiliation, exclusion, gossiping about someone's family and personal problems, physical shit, deliberately making someone feel worthless... and doing it to multiple people. Then everyone grows up and the people who did it just... move on? They get careers, families, normal lives, and everyone pretends it was just silly school drama. Meanwhile some of the people on the receiving end are still unpacking that shit 15+ years later. And no, I don't mean ruining their lives or publicly destroying their reputations. I don't even think I'd want money. But where is the accountability? Is an apology too much to expect? An acknowledgement that "yeah, I did some really fucked up shit to you and I'm sorry"? Because "we were kids" feels like such a cop-out to me when the damage didn't magically stay in childhood just because the people causing it grew up. I'm genuinely curious what people think. At what point are you allowed to want accountability without being told you're bitter and need to let it go?

All these people on the left have something in common - their all narcissists.

So...you don't care about women being raped in SA? I mean we have a GBV problem...enough said 😅

Genuine question for Westerners: Why does it sometimes seem easier to mobilise politically for people who entered a country illegally than for your own citizens who are homeless, struggling to afford food, waiting months for healthcare, or unable to find housing? I’m genuinely trying to understand the moral framework here. Because if your government already cannot adequately care for the vulnerable people it is responsible for, how does adding more people to already strained systems become the compassionate option? And at what point does “compassion” become more about feeling morally righteous than whether the policies actually improve anyone’s life? You can care about migrants as human beings AND still believe a government’s first responsibility is to its own citizens. So what am I missing?

Maybe the problem is actually way more basic than all of this. Maybe humans just cannot be trusted with concentrated power. The more I look at completely different countries, governments and ideologies throughout history, the more I keep seeing the same damm pattern. We create systems based on what people should do with power, while history repeatedly shows us what people actually do once they have enough of it. They protect it. They expand it. They justify why they need more of it. And eventually the institutions that were supposed to serve people start serving the people who control them. That's why I keep coming back to socialism, Marxism, authoritarian regimes, state capture, even what we're watching develop in parts of the West now. The ideologies and circumstances aren't the same, but the vulnerability is: concentrated power in the hands of humans. And maybe that's where we get political discourse wrong. We spend so much time arguing about which ideology has the nicest intentions instead of asking what happens when corrupt, greedy or power-hungry people eventually inherit the system. Because they will. I don't want a political system that works beautifully when good people are in charge. I want one that can survive when they're not.

This is disgusting and animal abuse. Like its not cute or funny.

Can someone genuinely explain to me what has happened to people's ability to think for themselves? Because I'm struggling. Some of the most basic, common sense positions are now apparently "far right" simply because somebody slapped the label on them. And instead of stopping for five seconds and asking, "Wait... is this actually unreasonable?" people immediately pick a team and defend whatever their team is supposed to believe. And before anyone starts, the right isn't exempt from this either. That's actually my entire point. When did politics become choosing a team and then outsourcing your entire brain to it? You can agree with someone on immigration and disagree with them on abortion. You can support welfare and still believe it needs limits. You can believe discrimination is wrong without pretending every inequality is discrimination. You can support helping people while acknowledging that resources aren't infinite. You can think capitalism works better than socialism while still criticising corporations. These things aren't contradictory unless your entire worldview has been reduced to LEFT = this and RIGHT = that. And that's what I don't understand anymore. Where are your actual principles? Because if your opinion changes depending on WHO said something rather than WHAT they said, that's not a principle. That's tribal loyalty. If your side does something wrong, say it's wrong. If someone you dislike makes a good point, admit they made a good point. If new information proves you wrong, change your fucking mind. That's called thinking. Instead, everything is labels, teams, buzzwords, moral grandstanding and blaming somebody else for absolutely everything. Nobody seems capable of scrutinising their own side anymore. Nobody wants to take accountability. Everyone is convinced the other team is the source of every problem on Earth. And then we wonder why political discourse has become completely braindead. Can we just human again, please? Seriously. What the fuck are we doing?

Coward. @Coll1313 do you also do this in real life to people when you dont like what they have to say? Childish. No wonder people don't like engaging with this type of American. You wouldn't last a day in Africa.