Comments by "Im Caj" (@KratostheThird) on "The United States is Becoming a Lawless Dystopia" video.

  1.  @RJ-wx3fh  I think part of this problem today started with smartphones. Back in 2007 when I was working my way towards a college degree I don't recall too many college kids having a smartphone. Steve Jobs was making headlines for advertising his first generation iPhone which for the time, seemed like a major tech breakthrough. None of us would predict the impact of smartphones on our western society. Looking back, I personally think forcing everybody to walk to a desktop computer and directly hook up a line to the internet was better. High school and college kids respectively didn't spend as much time on the internet, for one it was far slower 20 years ago, and two it wasn't used for much outside of e-mail and casually browsing the web for fun. Friendster was the social media platform of the time and it never got big like MySpace. Most of us young folks had outside lives, jobs to commute to and actual family to interact with outside of electronics. Nowadays I can't even walk down the local city street without seeing a bunch of 14 - 25 year old kids stare into their smartphones. Good chance it's a iPhone 13 Max or whatever smartphone they have on them. Got to be trendy and keep up with the tech. It's an absolute joke. Tech and the internet are killing society. I'm beginning to think the Amish and people who are looking into a Kaczinski philosophy are more in tune with preparing for actual challenges. Not screaming over a video game, or being upset that your friends didn't approve of the TikTok video you sent them the other night. Modern society is boring, materialistic and shallow.
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  2.  @radagast7200  This explains why Los Angeles is a hellscape.
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  3.  cindybin2001  Here in America it’s easy to find. Maybe not so easy to find for you guys.
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  4.  @Gunners_Mate_Guns  That they do.
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  5.  @garethbattersby  So you played the video game then.
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  6. Hurricane Katrina already did a lot of damage. Often it's not mother nature doing the damage in humanity, it's other humans being bad.
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  7. You live in New England, which is predominately blue (Democrat). So I'm not surprised to see this happen.
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  8.  @leonardkenyon  Seems the political pendulum has swung the other way. A decade ago in the year 2012, it was the Right giving America a bad reputation because of Obama existing as president and the issues of the time like gay marriage. 10 years later, in 2022, it is the Left giving America a bad reputation. So what happened? I blame the government. I blame the trillion dollar corporations. Namely Amazon. Jeff Bezos, shouldn't be too surprising if he has deep connections. Regardless, the America we knew is dead and gone. These days I'm just working with family and friends, and making money at my job. The super rich have made America into a dystopia. You have to be a fool to not say that they have.
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  9.  @leonardkenyon  Like what Amazon is doing.
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  10.  @Captain_Draco  The movie did poorly at the box office, but it's generally considered a cult hit among movie goers. Those gangs seemed more humane and based when compared to the utter dreck we have today.
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  11.  @kellysouter4381  Give America a few years give or take. But it's inevitable at this point.
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  12.  @oakson3045  Portland is a hellscape. I know, because I've been there countless times throughout my 36 years of existence.
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  13.  @AndTheCorrectAnswerIs  People need to understand that those old John Wayne and Gary Cooper movies were made mostly for entertainment. That's why every film they made there had to be at least some conflict, some crime event to happen that would result in a shootout scene. Otherwise more people would be bored which would of resulted in the films being box office flops. I suppose people think horses that were specifically picked for those old Hollywood movies were able to gallop while they drawn stagecoaches full of people and supplies across large distances, without getting tired.
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  14. Portland needs this desperately.
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  15. I wish more people would realize this.
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  16. Neither do Chicago or Portland.
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  17.  @randacnam7321  I will be in full approval of that.
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  18. What is your hometown?
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  19.  @Gunners_Mate_Guns  What he did he say? I can't read the comment he left behind.
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  20. The reason California is bad is because it is one of the leaders of leftist politics which has resulted in countless homeless people who are violent and unpredictable. California was better, but that was when my Baby Boomer parents were quite young.
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  21. It's stuff like this that makes me miss the 90's.
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  22. @Limone & Lime Globalization. NAFTA is also responsible for this mess we have today.
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  23.  @BlueEyedMomof378  Yes, which is why the younger generations are suffering right now.
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  24.  @andrehashimoto8056  At least 50 years, if not more.
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  25. Because he would.
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  26.  @cb-gz1vl  San Fran is a poster boy example of a dystopia.
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  27.  @malumnexus7919  We need to be vigilantes.
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  28. Innocent days indeed.
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  29.  cindybin2001  And they’re going to grow up hateful and despicable in society. We think teens today are bad. It’s going to get worse.
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  30.  @katiegwynn4495  You sound like a Millennial who just got dealt with bad luck, like me.
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  31. Refreshing to hear someone finally using his brain.
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  32.  @donlimbargo5865  This is how racism starts and spreads. People making blanket statements about a group, be it an entire country, a minority, a majority race, whatever. Random idiots on the internet use them because of how easy it is to access the internet these days.
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  33. LA has sucked for decades. It's just another city for the Woke Left to spread their filth.
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  34. I assume when you talk about Los Angeles you also talk about South Central LA, which has been bad for a very long time. Inglewood, Compton, Long Beach can be pretty bad. Orange County likely has a different demographic who fall in a different class of wealth. But when I was there years ago I didn't think it was bad at all. Seattle, Portland, Chicago are all leftist hellscapes. One of my friends recently ran into some Antifa supporters in Portland, he had no choice but to leave. San Francisco is up there too, that's another hellscape. Orange County, Palm Springs and Pasadena probably aren't that bad.
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  35. What the Left are doing in a nutshell.
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  36. And we know who is responsible.
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  37. Because that's exactly what's happening. Back then the internet was purely a luxury, only a few people had it and it was old dial-up that took 5 - 10 minutes to load a website.
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  38. I noticed the decline with SF even many years before this. But I didn't think it would get as bad as it is today.
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