I am done arguing about the election for this week, since it's getting to a level of idiocy shameful even for Americans. Meanwhile, speaking of moronic behaviour, was wasting some time on Pogo while I scanned images for an hour, conversing in French with some very nice members, when someone new came into the room and demanded they speak English, since this was America. I informed her that they weren't in America, as Pogo is an international site, and that she was free to speak English (or bilingual as I was) but that there was nothing wrong with speaking more than one language. She started ranting about them living here and probably not paying taxes, and I pointed out, again, that they weren't in America, but in Paris, and they pay to play there, which means they did pay to a country they don't live in, since Pogo is American-owned. I told them (since they couldn't understand English and I was basically going back and forth between the two groups) that there is a muet button by her nickname which will allow them to ignore her, and that she was being racist, but that I would gladly play with them. It's just such ignorance that makes us all look bad, especially since if she were actually a paying member herself, she would have gotten the UK one-year anniversary badge about a week ago and known it was an international site, but... generally the internet isn't limited to one country, especially a huge site like Pogo. Also, a lot of people have been having public conversations on there that would have been better left to private since they were one-on-one dramafests. One person spent forever fighting with someone else who wouldn't stop being friends with a third person on the site merely because he wasn't talking with her as much as she'd like, despite still talking to her.
The level of stupidity in my neighborhood has always been high, but is rapidly increasing as well. I know that's a general 'given' when you live in the slums, but things have been turning violent and I can't handle the stress of going out of my house anymore.
At Krogers, I was waiting in the car while my mom went in, and after 30 mins of what this guy was blasting with his windows open (you could hear the words even across the parking lot), I had to storm out and go for security, because, I kid you not, part of the words were "My dick is so hard ... If the bitch fucks with me she gonna get her cherry popped." As if the children there need to be exposed to that, and I am so glad mine wasn't with me. I was pretty pissed, called him a wanna-be rapist, and said some other things, because I am a rape victim and any 'culture' that glorifies raping virgins because they can't get laid - well, saying I don't respect that is a major understatement. I'd go so far as to say people who enjoy that song should be castrated.
Then last night, my parents and I were smoking on the porch, and some stranger comes up to the edge of our yard and starts rapping some bullshit, and he's about 12 years old. I rapped back, it escalated, my dad went to go get some stuff from inside, but things like this are a daily occurrence. The night before, our neighbor came to our yard threateningly and was trying to do something to our car, and the lady he lives with (has his kids but they're not married) called her a bitch and stuff. There's a lot of history there, but I just can't handle any more society. My PTSD is worsening, and I can't reach my therapist, and the fact that those people leave their kids with a child molester for a babysitter and their son assaulted mine just doesn't make me friendly at all. We were friends at one point, until I got a star of david tattoo, and they found out I was dating a jew.
When did it become a negative thing to educate yourself, and a positive one to be a criminal?
