Nothing matters.

[PCIntern]

Lying. Cheating. Stealing. Shooting churches full of people. Genocide. Bribery. Collusion with an enemy. Suppressing voters. Helping the super-rich get richer. Polluting air and water.

The list goes on and on. Forever. And no crime is too heinous that its commission cannot be defended.

It is reductio ad absurdum time in America.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Kick and Rec for the tragic truth of today.

[misanthrope]

2. Welcome to the human race

There's nothing new in any of these actions or motivations except where technology is concerned.

[HAB911]

36. We are but chimpanzees with nukes

&t=10s

[misanthrope]

44. Yep**

nm

[defacto7]

3. K&R

[Matthew28]

4. Yep

And this is proven by the reality that people keep voting republican.

[bronxiteforever]

5. Kick and recommend.

[dalton99a]

6. A borderline third-world shithole with nuclear weapons

ruled by a demented asshole and his crime family.

And Republicans are perfectly okay with it

[BigmanPigman]

7. The only good thing about this happening now is that

the fucking moron isn't here to tweet more meaningless BS about it.

[ProudLib72]

14. He's keeping abrest of the news while he's in Japan

and will be tweeting as soon as he gets a moment to himself.

[wasupaloopa]

8. And the people doing those things say it is gays and liberals and immigrants who are the cause of

all our troubled

[lindysalsagal]

10. Yup. I went over to freeperville today and they blame it on the libruls: We're ruining the world

and making people lose their minds.

All the while saying they'll all bring gunz into church from now on.

But my question is, "Why does the supreme being allow it?"

[sandensea]

9. Sad, but true.

America has a very active and powerful fifth column, and Reagan's nixing the Fairness Doctrine 30 years ago has given them their way - for now.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. Yep. That's how the puke-brigade is able to remain ...

in their state of self-righteous error. They've got a frickin reich wing lie-machine reinforcing an truly alternate reality. They no longer know the difference between reality and delusion, and don't want any conflicting noise, like facts and documentation.

The bible actually says something about the danger of deceived people losing the ability to discern truth from lies, good from bad.

[mountain grammy]

11. Devolving into nothing.

That's how I feel. So damned depressing.

[Wednesdays]

12. Nothing matters.

[PCIntern]

13. Thus my title.... nt

[Auggie]

15. K&R

[Vinca]

16. But, hey, as long as you don't disrespect the flag and the national anthem, it's all good.

[coolsandy]

17. EVERYTHING MATTERS! WE HAVE TO MAKE IT MATTER. Don't buy into the depression they are trying

to throw at us. If nothing matters to us, to whom will it matter? My children and grandchildren matter, my entire family matters. Other people's families matter.

I don't won't despair to over take us. We have lots to matter. If you get too depressed take a look at a Syrian family and the hungry kids sorrowful mourning mothers and wives.

If I have to be alone in saying this but life matters to me. Love matters to me. Kindness matters to me. Fighting the evil foisted upon us matters to me. Getting rid of the hate matters to me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. You are so right, dear coolsandy!

Your post deserves to live as its own post, so others may see your most welcome optimism!

I hope you'll do that.

If you do, I will kick and rec it!

[7962]

32. Thats right. It starts with our families and then extends to our friends.

I'm happy to see tomorrow come and hope to do the things I have planned in the near future. I'm not going to waste life by giving up. Ive had too many friends who have died way too young to do that. And many who have had health issues that prevent them from just taking a day trip.

There are many more GOOD things that happen every day, but they don't make the news because its nothing "sensational".

[Dragonfly]

33. Fully agree that doing all that we

can to convene kindred spirits to help fuse love and common sense together ASAP is the way to go. Part of the reality of humanity's diminishing state-of-being (depression-induced} comes from the real awful news of the day. And, yes, fear-propagating elements work 24/7 to weight our souls down, too. Like both Nicolette Larson and Neil Young have sung: "It's Gonna Take A Lotta Love."

[Skittles]

18. they loves them some Russia but call liberals COMMIES

go figure

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. Talk about being comfortable with cognitive dissonance!

🥜🥜🥜🥜

[Skittles]

42. the truth is

teabaggerism = communism

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. Feels like something worse than that, to me.

Like, the little island community in Lord of the Flies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Nihilism is not a solution. Lots of things matter and always will. Regain perspective. . . . nt

[Turbineguy]

21. Putin and his minions

have turned this country inside out. The idea is to get us hating and shooting each other without knowing why.

[Initech]

22. Land of the free, my ass.

We are not free when every day Americans have less than $1000 to their name and we live in fear that we'll get shot at no matter where we go in public.

That, to me, ain't freedom.

[Pepsidog]

23. Sad but true

[riverbendviewgal]

24. My NJ High School teacher predicted this in 1964.

He taught me US History. He said empires implode in 200 to 250 years existence for all of the above reasons. He's an old man now. He wrote me a few weeks ago. And commended me for choosing Canada as my country "for all the right reasons".

[Honeycombe8]

26. Reductio ad absurdum

I had to look that up.

Reductio ad absurdum

In logic, reductio ad absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"; or argumentum ad absurdum, "argument to absurdity" ) is a form of argument which attempts either to disprove a statement by showing it inevitably leads to a ridiculous, absurd, or impractical conclusion, or to prove one by showing that if it were not true, the result would be absurd or impossible.

Wikipedia

[LenaBaby61]

27. Nothing matters.

This shooting, like all of them will unfortunately be forgotten next week or when tRumputin tweets something stupid, or crazy, or when thuglicans bring up the fact that the "Democrat" primary was rigged and stolen from Bernie Sanders by Hillary, Or that Hillary illegally gave our uranium to the ruskies.

It's also "helpful" if you will to the NRA that this shooter was white. thuglicans/tRumputin will come up with the excuse of "This man was suffering from very severe mental problems." SAD that it's come to this, but if this shooter had been anything other than non-white, thuglicans, tRumputin would be saying "See, EVERYBODY needs a gun to protect themselves because of this murderous thug/animal." Thug/animal means anyone other than a white person 😐

[Squinch]

28. Some things do matter: your vote and the vote of your ten best friends, and the

votes of their ten best friends and so on.

It's the only way out of this mess.

[DemoTex]

29. Incoming!

Prepare for a barrage of Thoughts & Prayers.

[Amimnoch]

30. It does sure as hell feel that way.

KnR.

[Loge23]

31. Everything's broken

...and what ever isn't, will be.
(apologies to Mr. Dylan)

[SergeStorms]

34. That's "red" America for you.

"Family values", and all that stuff. Like the Gambino crime family, and the Manson family, all rolled up into the Trump crime family.

Don't laugh, this is what "red" America is teaching their children. It's 'Idiocracy' on steroids.

[secondwind]

35. K&R for our country

[yuiyoshida]

37. "Nothing really matters, anyone can see ...

Nothing really matters to me...Anyway the wind blows... "

Freddy Mercury, Queen,

[niyad]

40. k and r

[stollen]

41. And we're at half staff again

If that isn't a metaphor for the US, I don't know what is.

[Initech]

45. NRA + Infowars + Breitbart - No lives matter.