Politic Leanings and Suicide

[olieolieoxenfree]

Hello, I am curious about one's tendency to have suicidal thoughts relating to their political leanings. I have noticed a large number of people who have certain political beliefs and I'm wondering what is a more exact number for each side.

I have met a lot of people in real life that say they are centrists or apolitical who have either voted for the same party throughout their life or have voted for a candidate who was on the far end of either spectrum, so that is why there is not a choice.

The options for left and right totalitarian includes most of the left and right's belief's but unlike the other options, choose it if you prefer it in a more totalitarian state. The same goes for anarchist option.

If you have another option for the left and right, let me know and I will add it to the choices

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Whatever gets me the most safety and resources, it really depends on which stage of life I'm in and where I am in the world. I don't believe in anything. Right now I guess any option that would allow me to get a hold of N or a shotgun or one where I'd just be executed humanely.

 

[olieolieoxenfree]

Hello, I am curious about one's tendency to have suicidal thoughts relating to their political leanings. I have noticed a large number of people who have certain political beliefs and I'm wondering what is a more exact number for each side.

I have met a lot of people in real life that say they are centrists or apolitical who have either voted for the same party throughout their life or have voted for a candidate who was on the far end of either spectrum, so that is why there is not a choice.

The options for left and right totalitarian includes most of the left and right's belief's but unlike the other options, choose it if you prefer it in a more totalitarian state. The same goes for anarchist option.

If you have another option for the left and right, let me know and I will add it to the choices

My views have changed from one side of the spectrum to the other throughout my life, and one of the more recent times I have thought on committing suicide was when there was a lot of political discord in the USA last year. Mid last year was also the last time I have watched the news, and it is also the last time I have thought about suicide solely due to politics. So I will not talk about current events.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I voted traditionalist and capitalist even though I'm more ambivalent than anything. Part of my suicidality comes from everyone around me almost everywhere I go, except here, being filled with strict progressives who hunt down anyone that even dares to disagree with them. I feel like the way the world's turning out might be positive for some people and that older generations are partly to blame for some of the world's problems but I'm honestly going to hate it when the younger generations of today take their place and reach middle age.

 

[olieolieoxenfree]

Part of my suicidality comes from everyone around me almost everywhere I go, except here, being filled with strict progressives who hunt down anyone that even dares to disagree with them.

I am in the same spot. There was a lot going on in the USA recently and couldn't take it at one point.

 

[Goodbye710]

I voted traditionalist and capitalist even though I'm more ambivalent than anything. Part of my suicidality comes from everyone around me almost everywhere I go, except here, being filled with strict progressives who hunt down anyone that even dares to disagree with them. I feel like the way the world's turning out might be positive for some people and that older generations are partly to blame for some of the world's problems but I'm honestly going to hate it when the younger generations of today take their place and reach middle age.

I'm from gen x and have a very hard time in society now. I no longer go out in society and have shut myself in.

Wherever I go, I feel like there is always someone who will take offense with anything I say. I feel everyone is so hyper focused on what I believe instead of if I am a good person or a bad person like years ago.

I feel while many baby boomers were very mean to us gen x because of selfishness and being overworked, I feel the younger generations are by far way worse. Not that gen x was ever that wonderful but I feel we had a more laid back attitude like the silent generation.

I dread what the future will be like when gen x starts to age out of society and the younger people have taken it.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm from gen x and have a very hard time in society now. I no longer go out in society and have shut myself in.

Wherever I go, I feel like there is always someone who will take offense with anything I say. I feel everyone is so hyper focused on what I believe instead of if I am a good person or a bad person like years ago.

I feel while many baby boomers were very mean to us gen x because of selfishness and being overworked, I feel the younger generations are by far way worse. Not that gen x was ever that wonderful but I feel we had a more laid back attitude like the silent generation.

I dread what the future will be like when gen x starts to age out of society and the younger people have taken it.

This echoes my sentiments exactly and I'm at the very end of the millennial generation. Might be because my dad was a boomer and my mom is within the oldest Gen X year. I feel like I can't even relate to other millennials sometimes and yet I still get riled up by anti-millennial stuff from both boomers and Gen Z...

 

[Ignorado]

There's a quote that i don't remember who said, but it's something like this: if you are socialist during your twenties, you have heart; if you are right-wing when you're adult, you have head.

But i'll make a change and put another part: if you're apolitical nowadays, then you've reached the truth, because there's no such thing about left or right, it's all part of the same game. A game that you don't have any control and the only purpose is to divide and to weaken our society for evil interests.

There are big people, big people who really control all the trends, the economy, the wars and mainly how we're gonna live and how to think. I won't tell the names because i can be banned from here, but unfortunately that's how the world works. Ignorance is a bliss nowadays.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

There's a quote that i don't remember who said, but it's something like this: if you are socialist during your twenties, you have heart; if you are right-wing when you're adult, you have head.

Dang I must have neither. It would be so typical of me if I were to live to my 40s and completely flip flop into becoming left wing only then to continue rebelling against my generation. Get me out.

 

[Ignorado]

Dang I must have neither. It would be so typical of me if I were to live to my 40s and completely flip flop into becoming left wing only then to continue rebelling against my generation. Get me out.

Don't blame yourself, we're all in the same boat.

 

[Life sucks]

Politics is shit. Be pro-choice and give me N

 

[GrumpyFrog]

I no longer vote at all because I'm severely disappointed in the whole circus and don't believe any of the candidates are much better then the others, or that one side of the argument is inherently more rigth (no pun intended) than the other. I half-heartedly check the news to make sure someone outstandingly atrocious is trying to get to power, if they do I will probably actively oppose that (hey, I even helped making Molotovs once, big time revolutioner here, lol), but I have yet to witness that as well - lately when people scream and cry about atrocities I look and it's always just your normal, mundane, garden variety awful again. So if apolitical isn't an option, where do I stand there?

 

[Green Destiny]

I've never been good with politics, haven't looked into it since middle school a decade ago. Where I stand is basically towards the Left where I believe in health care for all, equality all that good human stuff (that's left isn't it? correct me if i'm wrong) and think that Capitalism for all and what it is, is simply Greed from top to bottom. Minimum wage is $7.25 for people that work upwards of 40 hours per week while guys like Bezos, Musk and plenty of other Corporate heads make money by the literal second. Thousands on thousands of people are homeless, yet even more houses sit empty and vacant because of it's astronomical housing prices. And with all of this constant death and misery that was only amplified by the Covid outbreak, the people who represent our so called great country sit on Capital Hill doing FUCK ALL while the everyday American suffers and dies. Why should giving financial aid to a countries citizens be a thought that's constantly put on the back burner for months when they're starving and losing their homes by the minute? Why is one Political group set on digging their heels and ignoring a dying country (Republicans) while the other doesn't have the spine to stand up to them, consequences be damned? (Democrats) To end this unnecessary rant, should the human race and the world in general live on thousands or dare I say millions of years from now it'll be because they saw how the U.S imploded on itself and learned from it's mistakes. But my generation and the one after mine? I see very little hope for us.

 

[995]

I've never been good with politics, haven't looked into it since middle school a decade ago. Where I stand is basically towards the Left where I believe in health care for all, equality all that good human stuff (that's left isn't it? correct me if i'm wrong) and think that Capitalism for all and what it is, is simply Greed from top to bottom. Minimum wage is $7.25 for people that work upwards of 40 hours per week while guys like Bezos, Musk and plenty of other Corporate heads make money by the literal second. Thousands on thousands of people are homeless, yet even more houses sit empty and vacant because of it's astronomical housing prices. And with all of this constant death and misery that was only amplified by the Covid outbreak, the people who represent our so called great country sit on Capital Hill doing FUCK ALL while the everyday American suffers and dies. Why should giving financial aid to a countries citizens be a thought that's constantly put on the back burner for months when they're starving and losing their homes by the minute? Why is one Political group set on digging their heels and ignoring a dying country (Republicans) while the other doesn't have the spine to stand up to them, consequences be damned? (Democrats) To end this unnecessary rant, should the human race and the world in general live on thousands or dare I say millions of years from now it'll be because they saw how the U.S imploded on itself and learned from it's mistakes. But my generation and the one after mine? I see very little hope for us.

I swear trump tried to do something about this.. but now he's impeached innit

 

[262653]

Give me a (natural) number between 1 and 9 inclusively.

 

[Luchs]

I believe that concerning politics and depression there is somewhat of a miserable middleground. Centrists, moderatesor apolitical people seem to mostly be content with their lifes, while extremists have great goals, motivations and something to live for. However inbetween the two I'd say the most misery lies. People there see how garbage the world is, have a vague notion of how they want to fix it, but lack the motivation of extremists and zealots. I'd say the majority of depressed people politically reside here, at least from personal experience.

 

[olieolieoxenfree]

@Green Destiny If those were not rhetorical questions, but rather serious, I will answer. The Republicans realize that money doesn't grow on trees and needed to open the country up sometime soon. The Dems wouldn't let them. If our country was not full of sedentary fatasses who smoke and drink to excess, we would most likely have a lower death rate from COVID.
I don't believe $7.25 is a fair wage anywhere, but $15 is too high for TX especially. I got a promotion to kitchen manager last year and only make $15. If they hire some snot nosed teenager, which they have, that earns $15/hr, I would require at least $20. which would most likely upset my direct supervisor unless they themselves got a substantial raise. I would be severely overpaid as my job is enjoyable to me, and I don't want my hours to be cut just because someone is stuck working at McDonald's or other fast food places because they are a lazy piece of garbage. Those are the only places that pay minimum wage, most restaurant bussers start at least $9. Even White Castle in Kentucky starts at $12/hr. If you are getting paid $7.25/hr anywhere, leave

 

[KleinerWolf]

Funny how the vote results are posted publicly.

 

[Sensei]

I'd label myself a reformist, non-vanguardist, democratic socialist. I used to be quite an idealist, but I become more and more of a nihilist for every day that passes. Politics and suicidality don't really mix very well.

 

[olieolieoxenfree]

Funny how the vote results are posted publicly.

Is that odd? I selected the option to post it public since I thought others would like to see as well.

 

[ohhgeeitsme]

Reading some of these comments made me realize I really need to go ahead and kill myself. I need to stay away from political discussions.
But I will say this.. while I do lean left (help those that need help, that kind of thing), there is a whole lot about that side that bothers me, like not allowing free thought and trying to turn this place into a nanny state. So really, I don't belong anywhere and don't trust anyone.

 

[Amumu]

@Green Destiny If those were not rhetorical questions, but rather serious, I will answer. The Republicans realize that money doesn't grow on trees and needed to open the country up sometime soon. The Dems wouldn't let them. If our country was not full of sedentary fatasses who smoke and drink to excess, we would most likely have a lower death rate from COVID.
I don't believe $7.25 is a fair wage anywhere, but $15 is too high for TX especially. I got a promotion to kitchen manager last year and only make $15. If they hire some snot nosed teenager, which they have, that earns $15/hr, I would require at least $20. which would most likely upset my direct supervisor unless they themselves got a substantial raise. I would be severely overpaid as my job is enjoyable to me, and I don't want my hours to be cut just because someone is stuck working at McDonald's or other fast food places because they are a lazy piece of garbage. Those are the only places that pay minimum wage, most restaurant bussers start at least $9. Even White Castle in Kentucky starts at $12/hr. If you are getting paid $7.25/hr anywhere, leave

For those who work : -Their boss will ask them to work harder when they work
-Their boss will cut their hours because they cost more.
-In the end, they are worse off and less paid.

For those who don't work : -Far more unemployment
-So, less career prospects in the long-run.
-In the end, they are worse off and less paid.

Other consequences: - Higher general prices

The list of undesirable consequences of high minimum wages goes on.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

 

[Skathon]

Mine are not listed.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

This echoes my sentiments exactly and I'm at the very end of the millennial generation. Might be because my dad was a boomer and my mom is within the oldest Gen X year. I feel like I can't even relate to other millennials sometimes and yet I still get riled up by anti-millennial stuff from both boomers and Gen Z...

Every generation that exists, or has existed, complains about those that older or younger than them - it is nothing new. Everybody thinks that everybody else (besides themselves) has ruined society or the world. I think in reality though that problems such as cruelty, narcissism and greed are species-wide issues and not a generational ones, because the world has always been harsh.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Every generation that exists, or has existed, complains about those that older or younger than them - it is nothing new. Everybody thinks that everybody else (besides themselves) has ruined society or the world. I think in reality though that problems such as cruelty, narcissism and greed are species-wide issues and not a generational ones, because the world has always been harsh.

True, I think the same problems just find new ways to manifest themselves and plague each generation.