The diary of Anne Frank is falling behind

[ColinEssex]

Not everyone who speaks with an accent is Mexican.

Gosh, so glad you pointed that out. You learn something every day.

Col

 

[Isaac]

I know my brother in law (Mexican national) has a degree in Accounting plus experience.

He is a regular, stand-up guy with past experience and references.

Many firms cannot find employees, so they are farming out some of their more basic accounting to the Internet, to get around not finding people in the USA.

Why not give my brother in law a Visa? He wants to come here and Work, pay Taxes, buy a Home, raise a Family.

I have read extensively about the current nature of society, ethnicities, racism/casteism/whatever you want to call it, religious tensions, etc., in India.

I am a bit worried about that exploding here. You get one in a position of I.T. leadership, guess who they approve for more? The same of course.

Not surprising, but it's a trend that I think has gotten so singularly focused it might not be for the best.

Plus, we share a border with Mexico. It is in our BEST INTEREST to treat them as well as is fair to do. (Don't you try to maintain a soft spot in your heart for your next-door neighbors? I know I do, it just seems right. I try to accomodate/watch out for them a bit more than the average neighborhood resident)

Easily granting Visas to their skilled workforce when they live right next to us and we don't have enough workers here any more seems like a no-brainer!!

 

[Isaac]

To paraphrase, people with guns kill people, not always, but often enough. I don't think Texas is that liberal.

 

[Steve R.]

In the US, we've always had guns and in the past, we had more guns. Did we have mass murders in the past? I don't know but I'm pretty sure they are a product of the 20th century.

Additional thoughts.

• News is now instantaneous, 24/7, and has become headline click-bait. In the past, many sensational stories may have dissipated before traveling too far. So a person in Los Angeles many never heard of an incident in New York.
• We have many more people now than in the past. More people means more societal problems. It also does not help that many societal (mental?) problems are treated through (ineffective?) drugs as @Pat Hartman and others have pointed out.

 

[Isaac]

Sane people are not mass murders. Sane people kill for emotional reasons or for vengeance and frequently with no prior planning. They use various weapons, knives, drugs, guns, etc. Frequently, it is whatever is at hand like something heavy or sharp or even a car. I always loved the scene in "Fried Green Tomatoes" where the older women freaks out and bashes her car repeatedly into the car the young chippies just exited while shouting out that they may be young and fast (they snuck in front of her to take the parking place she had been waiting patiently for.), but she was older and had better insurance. Was the woman crazy as she was destroying their car?

If you were to examine the mental health of mass murders (almost always men BTW), you would find them to have some mental health problem. Many of them gave warning signs of impending action. Therefore many mass murder events could have been prevented but we are too politically correct to handle the problem. Even when dangerous behavior is reported to the police and FBI and coorabated, they don't/can't do anything because they would be accused of violating the "rights" of the dangerous person. I guess it is better to just let the crazy person go out and kill.

In the US, we've always had guns and in the past, we had more guns. Did we have mass murders in the past? I don't know but I'm pretty sure they are a product of the 20th century.

We emptied our mental hospitals in the 80's and let all those people out to become homeless because it just wasn't "fair" to keep them in mental hospitals. Of course, without supervision, they didn't take their meds and their conditions worsened to the point where many became dangerous. This precipitated the homelessness crisis we face today.

And now all of our children seem to have some "condition" that requires drugs. How many of the younger mass-murderers were on prescription drugs for hyperactivity, depression, autism, etc? How many had been victims of bullies that the schools never reprimanded or stopped from injuring other children because the parents would have sued the school if it had taken action. How many had been victims of abuse or neglect at home? Can we at least talk about this instead of running off and passing new gun laws that won't do anything to solve the problem?

It would be interesting if we could take every child (or adult), pre-Adderall, and somehow magically quantify their overall disruption to life - theirs and others. Then take their life post-Adderall, (while on), and magically quantify the overall disruption to their life and others'.

I will say, I've taken it, and Elon Musk is right - you do have to be careful about it causing you to obsess inexorably about an issue, as well as somewhat increasing the piquancy of any otherwise-organic state of anger.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if God is up there shaking his head at the meds we use that actually cause more harm than good.

But he doesn't have to study that - he can just watch schools trying to persuade 11 year old girls that they may wish to morph into boys - doing that at the exact stage in life where we all know every human becomes a bit confused and uncomfortable with their body/sexuality....is really a form of psychological torture and molestation. No wonder people are angry.