The events that made you realize America is f'ing stupid?
Well, make that "Americans" are f'ing stupid. America as a country is a grand experiment, the greatest government concept in the history of the world. But many Americans don't deserve to live here.
I'm 70 years old... can't really recall the exact moment when I became so cynical... maybe it was inside a church, I don't recall....
But without question the two biggest AMERICANS ARE FUCKING STUPID ALMOST TO THE POINT OF EVIL events I know are:
- Sandy Hook and DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
- The election of a fat, ugly, moronic racist rapist to the presidency.
And it really tells you something when Uvalde can't make the top two.
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..controlled by the Rich puppet masters.
I do remember saying "Well, we can kiss any minimum wage increase for many years"
Unfortunately, I was correct. 
President we'd ever had in Carter, to a monster who refused to even say the word "AIDS" because his vile puppeteers were telling him "Hey Ronnie, go easy on this AIDS thing 'cause it's taking out just the right people." And murca just cheered him on four 8 years, and idolize him to this day.
in prison stripes on a bedsheet with the words NIXON NEXT, fastened it to a broomstick, and hung it out her window with a light focused on it. Plenty of shouts of approval and horn-honking from passers-by.
... the "career" of Crooked Donald shows much stupidity. But ...I first noticed it with GWB. From the beginning, when he "won" the Presidency in the Supreme Court... to the war on Iraq due to 9/11 and the anthrax letters (neither of which came from Iraq)... to his destruction of the US economy. I think most people treat GWB well. I think, generally, people don't recall how bad the economy got under GWB, with no Covid. And most people would say the anthrax letters were sent from Iraq, if they even remembered them at all.
as he looks like he has really gained weight lately. 
The Misguided Focus on 1619 as the Beginning of Slavery in the U.S. Damages Our Understanding of American History
The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/
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The overstated significance of 1619—still a common fixture in American history curriculum—begins with the questions most of us reflexively ask when we consider the first documented arrival of a handful of people from Africa in a place that would one day become the United States of America. First, what was the status of the newly arrived African men and women? Were they slaves? Servants? Something else? And, second, as Winthrop Jordan wondered in the preface to his 1968 classic, White Over Black, what did the white inhabitants of Virginia think when these dark-skinned people were rowed ashore and traded for provisions? Were they shocked? Were they frightened? Did they notice these people were black? If so, did they care? In truth, these questions fail to approach the subject of Africans in America in a historically responsible way. None of these queries conceive of the newly-arrived Africans as actors in their own right. These questions also assume that the arrival of these people was an exceptional historical moment, and they reflect the worries and concerns of the world we inhabit rather than shedding useful light on the unique challenges of life in the early seventeenth century.
There are important historical correctives to the misplaced marker of 1619 that can help us ask better questions about the past. Most obviously, 1619 was not the first time Africans could be found in an English Atlantic colony, and it certainly wasn’t the first time people of African descent made their mark and imposed their will on the land that would someday be part of the United States. As early as May 1616, blacks from the West Indies were already at work in Bermuda providing expert knowledge about the cultivation of tobacco. There is also suggestive evidence that scores of Africans plundered from the Spanish were aboard a fleet under the command of Sir Francis Drake when he arrived at Roanoke Island in 1586. In 1526, enslaved Africans were part of a Spanish expedition to establish an outpost on the North American coast in present-day South Carolina. Those Africans launched a rebellion in November of that year and effectively destroyed the Spanish settlers’ ability to sustain the settlement, which they abandoned a year later. Nearly 100 years before Jamestown, African actors enabled American colonies to survive, and they were equally able to destroy European colonial ventures.
These stories highlight additional problems with exaggerating the importance of 1619. Privileging that date and the Chesapeake region effectively erases the memory of many more African peoples than it memorializes. The “from-this-point-forward” and “in-this-place” narrative arc silences the memory of the more than 500,000 African men, women, and children who had already crossed the Atlantic against their will, aided and abetted Europeans in their endeavors, provided expertise and guidance in a range of enterprises, suffered, died, and – most importantly – endured. That Sir John Hawkins was behind four slave-trading expeditions during the 1560s suggests the degree to which England may have been more invested in African slavery than we typically recall. Tens of thousands of English men and women had meaningful contact with African peoples throughout the Atlantic world before Jamestown. In this light, the events of 1619 were a bit more yawn-inducing than we typically allow.
Telling the story of 1619 as an “English” story also ignores the entirely transnational nature of the early modern Atlantic world and the way competing European powers collectively facilitated racial slavery even as they disagreed about and fought over almost everything else. From the early 1500s forward, the Portuguese, Spanish, English, French, Dutch and others fought to control the resources of the emerging transatlantic world and worked together to facilitate the dislocation of the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas. As historian John Thornton has shown us, the African men and women who appeared almost as if by chance in Virginia in 1619 were there because of a chain of events involving Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and England. Virginia was part of the story, but it was a blip on the radar screen.
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That is when I really figured out that the little cynic inside of me was more right than wrong. That is when I became:
The Cynical Cynic!! (tm)
More blown steam than a locomotive!
Able to leap tall piles of bullshiat in a single bound!
Look, up in the sky... it's a wet blanket! It's an Eeyore!
Its... The Cynical Cynic!
Strange human from a small town with bile and negativity far beyond that of mortal men. And, in his disguise as a worn down, middle aged Boomer (by one month, I might add!), fights a never ending battle. (We don't know what, because it has all proven to be useless so far.)
(kinda?)
Seriously, that whole situation just changed me on everything. The fact that so many people bought into it without even once looking at the fact that those who were pushing this narrative were blatantly just pushing their own agendas and using this as a smokescreen/launching point. And, destroying lives left and right. (I know of too many good male teachers who had to quit after that, because the 'hype' of that shiat just would not let go and they ran into too many issues with parents and others who felt that, since they were male teachers (And single! My stars and garters!!), they HAD to be up to something... because we all know teachers are comely but dowdy females who never marry and are practically nuns their entire lives. I can attest that this attitude goes on to this day.)
