Talking to damn near anyone about politics in today's day and age is one of the most frustrating things you can do. Talking about the government or anything dealing with the political landscape of today instantly becomes polarizing and infuriating. It's like people just don't care or understand what's really going on around them. Instead of investigating anf learning about the world they live, they decide to randomly tune into mainstream news and just regurgitate the talking points they see their favorite blast into their heads. Where is the integrity and the care about other humans? It sickens me that people really think highly of our military, when you say how high the budget people respond that we need our military to defend us. We haven't been attacked since Pearl Harbor and even that seemed kinda funny. 9/11 was clearly an inside job, it's no use in even counting that. But besides that, we've never fought righteously whatever that means. All of our wars are pushed by the arm of the military industrial complex. We take resources from countries and military manufacturers make money hand over fist selling us the weapons we use. We ran out of bombs in Yemen, do you know how much fucking money that is? Why are we not talking about how we randomly drop bombs indiscriminately killing people who are literally starving to death? The news that people watch is talking about Oprah's Golden Globe speech. WHY THE FUCK DOES THAT MATTER? We have people dying every single day in hoods all across the country, and if they don't die they end up in jail. Why are we arresting so many people instead of attempting to fix the root problem in these neighborhoods infected with these problems. If there were access to opportunites who in their right mind would go do illegal shit to land them in jail. If they had the opportunity to legally take care of their family, who in the fuck would give that up to do dumb shit in the street? Deteriorating schools, no access to capital, no jobs that pay beyond minimum wage, police hostility, decimated neighborhoods, hopelessness, and all the other bad shit that contributes to people not caring about their lives. It's not hard to see these conditions are obvious if one takes a stroll through any affected neighborhood. You'll see children completely directionless trying to find their way. But these are the same children who get locked up for a decade due to a mistake they made as a teenager. The system pisses their life away and doesn't bat an eye. With the recidivism rate so high they're very likely to end up back in prison again. These issues could be fixed very easily but no one thinks about these things because the media doesn't mention them. It's sickening how much control the media has over the mind of the people, it's like hearing the same thing over and over convinces people that it's true somehow. Who fucking cares about Russia, Justin Timberlake, or any of this other shit when our military is killing innocent people and calling it patriotism. It feels like people won't wake up until the government starts doing this to their own citizens. It's slowly getting there, it's already a police state where protestors and any type of disruptors are being arrested.