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I agree. and I will seek help wherever I can find it. Just don't expect me to come back here again, at least not for a long while.

I wish it was that simple. A whole number of things have been torturing me - Covid, NFTs taking over the gaming market, the idea of President Trump returning, apocalyptic climate change, and yes, military conflicts. That comment was, as I say, the last straw. The circumstances have been awful these days. Now I'm just another putz who needs a straitjacket.

No, I'm not dead. That last post was the result of a nervous breakdown; as a result of that, I'm leaving this forum for good. It'd been coming on a long time, but when @KittenLITERALLY endorsed starting World War III... that was the straw that broke the camel's back. You guys are just too difficult to live with. I'm out of here for my own safety and wellbeing. I never want to see you warmongers again.

What will it take to get you people to see we are dead! DEAD! We did this to ourselves! We are a pack of sorry sinners who completely destroyed our once proud nations and are about to destroy the Earth! We're all going to die! We're all going to die! This city, this nation, and this world are doomed. Fare thee well, for I did not wish to see the day when you people gleefully invite atomic fire to rain from the sky. I'll see you in Hell, where we all belong.

Come now, it's quite obvious they wanted to install Trump as dictator, just nobody wants to admit it.

Oh, pack it in, the pair o' yer!

I dunno, it seems to me they agree we've become a laughing stock.

Not particularly, no. I'm just saying this will all have died down before the next general election, and the Tories will have gotten their voter base back.

You know what it is? They just wanted us out of the way so they could go out and have fun. The only question is how in God's name did it take a whole year for this to get out!?

Meaning nothing; the only way they're assuming power at this point is if a revolution occurs - which I doubt.

Let's put it like this: things just cannot be any worse. We as a nation have proved to be miserable failures.

The sad part is that's only part of the problem. His approach to foreign policy may end up accidentally sparking World War III.

Well I am now.

Nothing a little executive order can't fix.

Sir, need I remind you that there are MILLIONS of people dead, and millions more starving in the streets ON WHICH THEY WERE THROWN OUT TO DURING A PANDEMIC BECAUSE OF HE AND HIS GOVERNMENT FAILING THEM WITH HIM AT THE HELM?!?!?! Now... now imagine four more years of that. EIGHT more years! SIXTEEN! The thought is enough to drive anyone crazy!

The 2024 election is going to end with all of us disappearing six feet under!

Trump still wins, he has a massive fanbase who will undermine the opposition however they can. Needless to day, I'm SHITTING myself at the idea of a second Trump presidency!

oooooo no. I was starting to like the guy.

Knowing my luck, it'd probably get struck down for copyrights. Putting a copyright on history, who does that?

I.. I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me.

This is the most demoralising thing... I've ever read. Yeah - worse than Orphan 55. Basically, Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act or whatever is the ONLY thing that's keeping the Internet together at this point. In a few months, it'll probably be gone, and in the wake of it, millions of sites shut down, probably including this one. Meanwhile, a regressive news monopoly lobbies for draconian copyright laws which drive Wikipedia and the Internet Archive underground. Most all American libraries are closed, and 1984 is "banned", with all physical copies destroyed. Worse still, the US, doubtless under a second Trump administration, listens to lobbies from fossil fuel conglomerates and withdraws from all climate agreements. They cause so much damage as a result that there is no way of saving the environment. Massive refugees are driven from poorer and warmer countries hit hardest by soaring temperatures and natural disasters. And, if Orphan 55 is to be believed, World War III will be fought over the remaining pockets of arable land. Ultimately it'll be too much to bear - I'd throw myself into a canal somewhere. My ashes will probably be used to fuel the great uprising against the Evil Empire. This is our fate. This is what we chose. There is no turning back.

And there it is, the first sign that Trump will win a second term.

It says there's a virus or malware on it!

Both.