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A Series of Well-Earned Insults Directed at the American People

Mark Scofield
7 min readJun 22, 2023

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A people who are supposedly part of the human race.

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You’re not humans. You’re not even rats.

Even rats could recognize what your doing to me as abhorrently sinful.

45,000 of 230,000 suicides each year are attributed to unemployment. We do nothing. If it were because of terrorism, I shudder to think about the lengths we would go to to try and stop it.

I came up with a theory a couple of weeks ago that seems to hold true: All suicide is murder.

And not by the person who committed suicide. Somehow, they calculated that your risk of death rises by 66% when you lose your job. Shitty supervisors have a higher rate of success than someone who is actively out to commit murder.

Psychologists studying the method of suicide found a connection between the method and the reasoning of the victim. Suicide by gun is an execution. Suicide by overdosing with pills is a mercy killing to escape pain.

In my haste and desperation, I tried to access government benefits. Now, I get texts and phone calls all day from vultures trying to sell me new car insurance. See what I mean when I say America is sick?

Today was my…

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Mark Scofield
Mark Scofield

Written by Mark Scofield

Coming out of the shadows. No more pseudonym. Humans are designed to fail. I'm Exhibit A. Often writing semi-fictional history and autobiographical stories.

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