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FirstLight

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15. exactly...

Reply to KT2000 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 14, 2020, 07:08 PM

Oct 2020

and just thefact that America has this whole "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality...no handouts, because if you are poor you are either bad or unlucky or both :eyeroll: sad

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Why is so many in this country not caring for their fellow citizens? [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2020 OP

Self absorbed and selfish. BigmanPigman Oct 2020 #1

I saw one woman on CNN -- freedom, can't wear a mask, socialism, whatever dawg day Oct 2020 #2

I'm curious about this too. I sometimes wonder if America is producing more Mike 03 Oct 2020 #3

In the book, "The Sociopath Next Door", by Martha Stout Zoonart Oct 2020 #6

I'd believe it... America is the most selfish country in modern times FirstLight Oct 2020 #13

LOL. yep. Zoonart Oct 2020 #14

The air, water, and food are a thousand times cleaner than just 50 years ago. former9thward Oct 2020 #11

I'm wondering what generation of American citizenship are most of the Trumpers. Boogiemack Oct 2020 #17

End stage capitalism. KT2000 Oct 2020 #4

exactly... FirstLight Oct 2020 #15

I think a lot of these people had tough childhoods and never learned empathy, kimbutgar Oct 2020 #5

I have been Delphinus Oct 2020 #7

People with narcissism and I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2020 #8

I believe it bdamomma Oct 2020 #23

The rest of the world has not been doing it. former9thward Oct 2020 #9

Their doing something right. Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2020 #10

Why are they having new outbreaks? former9thward Oct 2020 #12

But their numbers are still better than ours. Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2020 #16

What numbers? former9thward Oct 2020 #18

We have 215,887 dead UK has 43,018 Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2020 #26

You do know, don't you. the UK is much smaller than the U.S. former9thward Oct 2020 #28

Wow. Codeine Oct 2020 #30

Ahem. . . Codeine Oct 2020 #31

We live in an internet troll society now. rownesheck Oct 2020 #19

This phenomenon is in the UK as well Shermann Oct 2020 #20

I think our society has been eroding... stillcool Oct 2020 #21

Lack of education bdamomma Oct 2020 #22

Because for 40 years Trumpocalypse Oct 2020 #24

Exactly! I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2020 #29

They obviously aren't worried THEY are going to die. And they are selfish, so when ooky Oct 2020 #25

I've seen some of the clips. It doesn't seem like the thought of protecting others ecstatic Oct 2020 #27