"I'm the victim". The American Way.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Thelatest stand-your-ground shooter who shot an unarmed teenwhen they were in separate vehicles.

The skater Wagner who was gifted into the Olympics and then cried '[expletive]' after receiving her score.

The exceptional nation who spends a decade ruining two countries, one of which had nothing to do with 19 men who flew planes into 2 buildings.

Winter ends up being, you know, winter.

Local ads for ambulance chasers: 'In a wreck? Get a check!', 'Get all the money YOU deserve!'

All of us Americans are victims aren't we?

Hell of a lot easier than taking responsibility.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Sometimes victims are legitimately wronged/suffering. Whiners just whine.

[go birds]

moving this to first world problems

[pioneer98]

I blame our government.

Part of this is that we just think too highly of ourselves and/or this feeling of entitlement so many seem to have. It's not good enough to make the Olympics. You need to win, and if you don't, it's the judges' fault.

Part of it I think is that people worry way too much about things outside of their control. I suck at it too. Olympic judges are one thing but all these hot button issues are out of our control, too. Like gay marriage or, for me, gun control. I can cast my vote and maybe influence a few other people to my way of thinking. That's about it. But voting day is only 1 of 365 days, and I can probably only influence a couple dozen people at most out of the 314 million in our country. So its best to not even worry about most of these things because they are out of your control. Like I said it's a lot easier said than done though, especially with the media in this country always trying to stoke people into outrage.

[ghostrunner]

We should take responsibility for winter?

[Jocephus]

Part of this is that we just think too highly of ourselves and/or this feeling of entitlement so many seem to have.

cant help but think of the american idol audition process

[lukethedrifter]

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[planet planet]

I don't know, I think after 2008 most people lost whatever inflated sense of entitlement they used to have, given that many people are underemployed and/or haven't received a real wage increase in years.

[Jocephus]

the job creators also feel like victims too. its quite a curse.

[jim]

I don't know, I think after 2008 most people lost whatever inflated sense of entitlement they used to have, given that many people are underemployed and/or haven't received a real wage increase in years.

Not sure about that. Classic case of this attitude was the first day I was in Mexico. A t-storm chased everyone off the beach at about 3:30, so everyone came in to check in at once. It was pretty chaotic in the lobby but I didn't care because they gave everyone our little drinking bracelets early. So as far as I was concerned they could have taken all day. This Mexican gal comes out from behind the desk with a bunch of paper in her hand and starts speaking in Spanish to the group - you know because we are in Mexico and probably 80% of the clients are South Americans and speak Spanish as their native language. This American dude standing next to me just screams out to her to "Speak English".

What a dick. You see [expletive] like that all of the time. Sense of entitlement is kind of bred into us.