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Tragedy Porn

submitted by WNwoman to whatever 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 12:26:41 ago (+47/-0)     (whatever)

I’m trying to decide if I’m just completely jaded and an ice cold bitch but I’m sick of the tragedy porn over the California fires. It seems almost anyone who has a remote connection to the general area is just desperate for attention. Posting updates on conditions, marking themselves “safe” on social media, stirring up fear and panic. I legitimately do feel for those who have lost their homes but they aren’t the ones begging for attention.

I have a family member that lives in the general LA area (moved there by choice), lives in a tiny apartment with 3 roommates and has been just milking this for all it’s worth. She started a group text that included me and has been updating non stop about how she is, where evacuation zones are, what her next steps will be, etc. Complete with selfies of her looking sad in a pair of those hideous huge glasses that zoomers wear. Then all the boomer relatives have to all heart the messages, send prayers and all that so my phone is buzzing all night. I muted it all but haven’t mustered up the guts to leave the group text yet. It’s so cringe.

Women are the worst at this kind of thing. It’s like they feed on the excitement of disaster. It makes me so uncomfortable. Maybe I’m just dead inside. I dare not share my thoughts anywhere but here.


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[ - ] glooper 13 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:50:09 ago (+14/-1)

Americans have grown so soft and "mentally" weak. Two generations ago, they were some of the strongest people on the planet, people the rest of the world looked up too, peo-ple who could handle any adversity. Now-a-days.

It's so sad...

I watched some pozzed news caster interview a 30-40 year old lady back east about the snow storm last week.

She publicly stated on camera for the world to see: "she was mentally prepared for two days of snow, but not three or longer. Her mental health was going to suffer..."

It was her only point...

Sad, sad weak people...

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 16 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:10:16 ago (+16/-0)

I’m not even that old and I remember when people would feel ashamed to ever mention their “mental health”.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 8 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:01:08 ago (+8/-0)

This is because the media has made the slightest change in weather a news item. Any time some tropical storm heads up to NYC, all of the Jews empty out the supermarkets like the world is going to end an anymore than like 2 inches of snow and they start making a big deal of it and talk about closing the schools. Meanwhile, in the blizzard of ‘96, I walked 1.5 miles through thigh-high snow to get to work. The whole country is fagged to the max now.

[ - ] dassar 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:55:30 ago (+1/-0)

JFC, that is sad.

Weep for the nations, something something.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:13:37 ago (+3/-3)

That just reflects that the new religion is psychology. 100 years ago the same woman would have complained that she hadn’t prayed enough to to jesus about the snow and now she was being cursed.

[ - ] boekanier 0 points 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 09:43:08 ago (+0/-0)

yes, americans aren't the same anymore as those who in the 19th century 'conquerered the west' (i watched a lot of westerns, you know...)

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 13 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 12:50:30 ago (+13/-0)

Thats what you get for living in Sodom.

[ - ] SumerBreeze 4 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:43:06 ago (+4/-0)

America aint that bad bro - Israel is the refuge of pedophiles

[ - ] jfroybees 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:40:28 ago (+3/-0)

Yes, Americans are not bad as what is being broadcast about them. OP should respond to her attention-seeking with an appropriately-shaming remark. Then muster the guts to leave the group.

I'm tired of the hardy Americans being clumped up with all these retards.

[ - ] SirNiggsalot 1 point 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 11:48:52 ago (+1/-0)

California is the jew epicenter of porn.

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:09:23 ago (+1/-0)

Thank god I don’t.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 8 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:42:57 ago (+8/-0)

Leave the group. Fuck that bullshit, you got better things to concern yourself with. Every tragedy is an opportunity, people are fucked.

[ - ] Gowithit 8 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 12:43:09 ago (+10/-2)

If you were really in trouble you wouldn't be posting- Grandpa

Where is her grandpa?

I get it. Its that cluster B society everyone feel sorry for me and I'll feel sorry for you in turn. Emotion is the new currency.

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 8 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:12:08 ago (+8/-0)

Wish I knew you in real life. I have about two female friends that aren’t neurotic.

[ - ] Sector2 5 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 15:00:23 ago (+5/-0)

Cut the rest loose, or back slowly away from them. Mentally unhealthy people in your life are a net loss to you and your real friends.

Remember the principle of "you become like the people you spend time with".

[ - ] TheYiddler 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 15:21:18 ago (+3/-0)

Birth control makes women insane.

[ - ] Sector2 4 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:51:16 ago (+4/-0)

Emotion is the new currency.

I've been watching some non-asshole 1st amendment auditors, and the number of people who "feel uncomfortable" at the sight of someone holding a phone cam on the sidewalk is pretty crazy. Then they call the feelings police to come comfort them.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 6 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:36:07 ago (+7/-1)

there is a bit of schadenfreude in it all, knowing that those CA idiots literally voted for this to happen.

but I get what you are saying. people nowadays really have the need to "be there" and share it with the world. I'm at ground zero for Saint Floyd here in MN, and it was the same then. Look at me, I'm so cool cause I was there protesting! Look at me, I'm so hurt because a building half a city away burned down! etc. etc.

this is what facebook/twitter/whatever has wrought. everyone has been brainwashed and is addicted to the dopamine from the "attention".

you are not ice cold, or dead inside, you have just matured beyond the pre-teen phase of life that most facebook type people never get past.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 9 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:10:44 ago (+9/-0)

CA idiots literally voted

I don't think they did.

you have just matured beyond the pre-teen phase of life that most facebook type people never get past.

It's really awful the stunted growth of hundreds of millions of people. There was a time when a 15 year old would be working next to his dad building a house or a car or whatever, learning to be a man by being a man (supervised by his father).

Now? The incentive is to be an endlessly consuming parasite that never evolves past puberty. Dad is removed via divorce, forced to work as a slave for a family he has no say in, and big-daddy (((government))) gets to handle it all.

[ - ] Peleg 5 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:55:51 ago (+5/-0)

"There was a time when a 15 year old would be working next to his dad building a house or a car or whatever, learning to be a man by being a man"

When I was six there was a widow who's house burned down. The whole community came together and built her a new house. Children, myself included, had "jobs" on the construction site. I gathered all the pieces of boards that were left over after being cut to length. Some older kids had a fire going to burn the scrap pieces that I brought them. Other children had magnets tied to strings that they would drag around the area to pick up any dropped nails.
We All did Something!

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 06:23:37 ago (+0/-0)

That’s America!

[ - ] glooper 4 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:50:57 ago (+4/-0)

"...everyone is a D-list actor, in their own life..."

[ - ] dassar 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:57:41 ago (+1/-0)

Yea, and most people are not even the main character in their own story. Literal walk ons that mumble a few incoherent lines of script.

[ - ] PostWallHelena -2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:19:53 ago (+0/-2)

Saint Floyd was the worst. My libby cousin went to some of those protests and posted it all over FB. She wont return any of my dad’s calls since Trump was elected 🤣

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 5 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 12:43:02 ago (+6/-1)

It was 100x worse in NYC for 9-11 and it went on for YEARS.

[ - ] BloodyComet 5 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:25:22 ago (+5/-0)

I'll never forget this wigger kid I went to school with. White kid from a nice family, but he's obsessed with gang culture. He claimed to be part of an NYC gang, everyone knew he was full of shit, we'd just let him talk because it was funny.

He told me that the day of 9/11, he went all the way to ground zero with his father, and that, while sifting through the rubble, he found the dismembered torso of his uncle. He knew it was his uncle because it still had the left arm, and was wearing a watch- a watch that he now wears in memory of his uncle.

Of course, he was at school with us that day. I think he hoped nobody would remember they shared a class with him.

[ - ] Peleg 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:58:27 ago (+3/-0)

I work with a guy like that. I wonder if people who do that actually believe their own lies.

[ - ] RMGoetbbels 4 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 15:21:14 ago (+4/-0)

YOU HEARTLESS BITCH!

[ - ] SumerBreeze 4 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 12:43:53 ago (+4/-0)

has been just milking this for all it’s worth

Well there’s your answer

You are just sick of a drama queen

[ - ] Theo 2 points 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 04:54:37 ago (+2/-0)

I'm torn between sympathy for those with no control over events and the idea that the U.S. is receiving payback for supporting the IDF genocide and other foreign policy sins.

[ - ] x0x7 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:14:43 ago (+3/-0)*

I’ll say this. They 100% deserved it. I’m not usually that kind of person, but they are all retarded. They refuse to manage what adults should be expected to manage.

They need to hear it. California, everyone in your state is retarded. If you are reading this and somehow not retarded, you need to recognize that living next to functionally retarded people is physically dangerous. You either need to tell retards they are retarded and take control or leave them to the train wreck they will make.

If you were dumb enough to give a retarded child a gun (Boy Scouts or whatever) and they start muzzle sweeping people with their finger on the trigger, you do not worry about their feelings or civility. The second that muzzle if off of someone you tackle them at the least or head butt them unconscious at the worst. You can settle people’s feelings later. If you trusted a retard with that then you fucked up and you have to take a retard down because of your neglectful choice to let them do things they can’t responsibly do.

It takes bravery to head butt a retarded child.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:18:42 ago (+3/-0)

Lol

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:21:56 ago (+1/-1)

It takes bravery to head butt a retarded child.

Put this on a t shirt.

[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:02:08 ago (+1/-1)

I liked the :Tim Walz the retard beater for President idea.

[ - ] SirNiggsalot 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 15:35:24 ago (+3/-0)

This is totally self inflicted. They don't clear out the dead trees and underbrush so it basically becomes kindling , a few sparks , voila .

[ - ] Anus_Expander 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:33:09 ago (+3/-0)

Most people enjoy being scared, the drama makes their crummy lives seem worth living, for a change.

[ - ] Dr_Mx 3 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:49:16 ago (+3/-0)

It's not you. If a member of my family was exploiting a disaster for her own personal gain, sympathy and attention I'd definitely leave the group. It's just tiring.
But to be fair, this whole social-media positive feedback loop is what zoomers have been normalised to. It has replaced any real feeling of providing value to society.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 20:07:41 ago (+2/-0)

haven’t mustered up the guts to leave the group text

Found your problem. Next!

[ - ] Trickthegoy7 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 19:09:17 ago (+2/-0)

Yea they love the excitement. Women aren't afraid of disaster. They know of their nation gets conquered, men from another tribe will take her as a bride. This continuing her genes. Evolution has gotten us here

[ - ] boekanier 1 point 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 09:39:18 ago (+1/-0)

women are the worst? logical, they are also the most emotional

[ - ] FluffyBunnySlippers 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:42:48 ago (+2/-0)

Same, I’ve tried to muster sympathy but the only real feeling that I could conjure was of the artistic mastpieces our forefathers created at the Getty, which thankfully survived. It is like a child, they fucked around and now they find out. I hope the message is not lost on them and pray for their redemption.

[ - ] dosvydanya_freedomz 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 15:00:15 ago (+3/-1)

i have an uncle that lives there but thank god he is not fluent so he lives in the poorest areas that i think are unaffected by this. gonna ask my mom later about him.

but yeah i'm more concerned for the people of florida.NC and Tennessee that are living in tents with this extreme cold.

almost everyone has forgotten them

[ - ] dassar 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:54:11 ago (+3/-1)

Could you please post image of goofy family member 'looking sad in a pair of those hideous huge glasses that zoomers wear'. I need some cheering up.

You should reply 'Could've been worse, at least you don't have covid'.

Peace.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:37:50 ago (+2/-0)

I've been watching the fire updates cuz some friends of mine have some houses in the areas that hopefully will not be hit and I've suddenly become sick of the politicians jumping in front of the camera for these news conferences every second where they're really just trying to get camera time so they get recognized and get name recognition with the public.

They're completely exploiting the situation to gain camera recognition. And then they'll sit there and they'll say how everybody is so sad and all the stuff and nobody gives a damn what the politicians say about that the only thing the stupid official should be talking about is what the hell they're doing to fight the fires. Nobody needs them to play psychologist and say they're sad for everybody. It's clear they're just trying to improve their own public image because of the massive disaster this is going to be in it's all going to be blamed on them if they were in office during this time as it should be at least partially although quite frankly Los Angeles Burns every 5 10 20 years and every time it happens they say it's the worst fire ever!

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 1 point 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 01:11:43 ago (+1/-0)

Is she single and unvaxxed? She can stay in my basement. No fires there.

[ - ] Ussliberty86thereturn 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 19:31:00 ago (+1/-0)

Take solace that a lot of the faggots will be dropping dead from their vax cancer and clots

[ - ] Trickthegoy7 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 19:14:02 ago (+1/-0)

Don't be angry at women. They are a reflection of culture. Whatever is considered "cool" they will do. They follow power and authority. it's the man's job to create a moral code and culture for them to follow. But instead of christianity it's social media and netflix

[ - ] Trickthegoy7 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 19:11:56 ago (+1/-0)

Don't be angry at women. They are a reflection of culture. Whatever is considered "cool" they will do. They follow power and authority. it's the man's job to create a moral code and culture for them to follow. But instead of christianity it's social media and netflix

[ - ] dulcima 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:47:57 ago (+1/-0)

Social media seems to make people Stars in their own movies.

You're watching a movie of her life...

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:48:59 ago (+2/-0)

This movie sucks.

[ - ] GreatSatan 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:08:52 ago (+1/-0)

I dare not share my thoughts anywhere but here.

After all that has happened over the years you are still scared to voice up? This is why the right has lost so much.

[ - ] x0x7 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:20:32 ago (+2/-0)

This is why retards are still allowed to manage states.

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:52:16 ago (+2/-0)

I’m a 120lb woman with small children. I’m smarter than to run my mouth about things that I’m in the minority on. I’m not going to change anyones mind here so I focus on what I can control. I’m indoctrinating my own kids to be better.

[ - ] Gowithit 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:00:27 ago (+1/-0)

put on like 20 and give it a go.

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:44:41 ago (+2/-0)

Haha no. I refuse to become a hambeast even for the cause.

[ - ] Gowithit 0 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:59:40 ago (+0/-0)

lol

[ - ] Gowithit -1 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 17:03:53 ago (+0/-1)

btw your kids will pick up your habits. my oldest is soft. Im doing it differently with the other ones.

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:08:27 ago (+2/-0)

I had a very real woman for a mother. My dad was from the other side of the county and the men who knew mom thought dad was the toughest man in the world if he could be married to her and live. LOL. They all spoke very nice to my dad. Hahaha. Anyway, she was a mean mean woman. I was never allowed to get away with anything. Not even one word of talk back. Now I don't have a clue about how to speak up for myself. I can't argue. I was never allowed to argue or state my case. So now I don't know how.

[ - ] Gowithit -2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:41:49 ago (+0/-2)

Thats exactly what I did with my oldest. I'm not doing it again. There are limits but I'm letting them idgaf. i try to hold my temper with them. I try to listen and accommodate more.

I feel so bad for her sometimes when she sees me "being nicer" to her siblings and not as on top of them as I was her and I've apologized a million times but it won't change anything. We were always told to "be polite" and "hold" and then we went on to do the same to our kids just to let fucking evil take over? Im only half joking when I say instilling manners is a psyop.

I heard a man talk to his daughter today so casually like he was talking to a friend and joking around and i felt like shit because I have no idea how to do that with my own.It always feels like I have to be for lack of a better term "professional" with them. The husband is the fun one. The lax one. The one everyone thinks of as the toughest guy for putting up with me.hahaha awww your poor mom.

[ - ] WNwoman [op] 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:48:01 ago (+1/-0)

It’s such a delicate balance. I think my husband and I make a good team parenting. I was raised by a control freak father and never allowed to make my own choices. It really impacted me and my confidence. I refuse to do this to my daughter and so far I think it’s working. I teach her my morals but give her freedom to choose little things and she’s so confident. I’m actually envious of her childhood.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:32:43 ago (+1/-0)

What exactly is the "celebrity" list that lost their homes in this fire?

Is this really the most expensive neighborhood in LA that got burnt down?

[ - ] dulcima 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:46:33 ago (+1/-0)

I think Malibu is the celebrity area and some have indeed lost their houses.

https://www.vulture.com/article/los-angeles-fires-celebrities-lost-homes.html

I don't know if Pacific Palisades is a celebrity area.

I saw on xitter that Mel Gibson had a property burn down while he was doing a podcast with Rogan.

[ - ] texasblood 1 point 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 13:03:42 ago (+2/-1)

CringeCuck

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 06:19:40 ago (+0/-0)

The fire came within blocks of my brother's house in Pasadena so he had to evacuate. He’s chilling over in Huntington Beach while everything calms down. No drama.

[ - ] PostWallHelena -1 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 16:10:18 ago (+1/-2)

Women are the worst at this kind of thing. It’s like they feed on the excitement of disaster.

Yeah we do this. Estrogen makes us do this. Facebook it like the worst of the worst for this sort of behavior. Also squeeeing over babies and weddings. Its virtue signaling. Its fine in moderation — ive even done it a little from time to time. But I do find this excessive level of histrionics off putting. I never related well to those kind of girls— silly girls. I don’t think its all women. Its a spectrum of silly. Im glad Im not a silly girl and Im equally glad Im not a man. Youre not dead inside.

Now why do women tend to be this way, compared to males? I suppose women have to resolve conflicts non-violently by being excessively agreeable or ingratiating. Sexual competition between females is much lower than it is between males. And maybe we have to be more ingratiating to avoid getting killed by males. Whatever the case may be, I think this female behavior is older than the human race. Its not a choice. And its mediated by estrogen. Im naturally a bit disagreeable and its just getting worse with age. I wanted it to burn.

[ - ] hylo 1 point 4 monthsJan 12, 2025 02:57:48 ago (+1/-0)

If someone wrote this to you'd be arguing with them over it. This is how I know you're crazy. All women do this and some bitch ass men, too.

[ - ] Gowithit -1 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 18:43:26 ago (+0/-1)

Now why do women tend to be this way

Because they are allowed to.

[ - ] PostWallHelena -2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 22:19:48 ago (+0/-2)

Thats not really an answer. Theres an underlying reason. Why do men rape? Because they are allowed to? Because women don’t rape. Aren’t they allowed to as much as men?

[ - ] Gowithit -1 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 22:45:44 ago (+0/-1)

.....

Women do rape

but going on
they are allowed to

from both sides men and women. With the women its an exchange, an understanding that when the time comes you will allow them as they are allowing you now.And then when one of the parties dont follow through thats when the buck stops. But it wont because then theyll just get into a contract with someone else and go from there and the woman who didnt kneel will forever be labeled a bitch and untrustworthy. Tossed from the tribe. The allowance (permittance) is a buy in.

The men side might be about sex idk.

[ - ] PostWallHelena -2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 23:05:27 ago (+0/-2)

Relative to males women rape so infrequently that it is basically not a thing.

Having trouble following the rest. Are you talking about how women deal with each other? What are women allowing? Not sure what contract you mean. Are we still talking about the tragedy porn?

Theres a lot of behaviors that males engage in that are negative, undesireable behaviors which women engage in less often by several orders of magnitude. Why do males do these things (when women do not)?

“Because they are allowed to” is really not an answer. The life-strategies of males and females are different and that is what accounts for different psychological styles and different kinds of manipulative or exploitive behaviors.

[ - ] fritz_maurentod -2 points 4 monthsJan 11, 2025 14:01:24 ago (+0/-2)

Totally girl, I feel for you. Here is a heat <3 and my upvote. Now fuck off please.