OK please bear with me – who in the name of god feels more comfortable or better or soothed about their life by calling a stranger, who knows nothing about their situation, who has a little button that calls the cops on them and could get them involuntarily hospitalized or shot… I mean seriously I’m an introvert and whenever I’m that depressed I’m not exactly…outgoing.
the supreme court literally gave biden unchecked power and he’s done fuck all with it. you should want unchecked power so you can actually improve conditions.
[edit June 2025: HE WAS FUCKING EIGHTY FOUR YEARS OLD!! WHAT CAN THEY DO TO YOU AT EIGHTY FOUR!! CANCEL EVERYONE’S DEBT NATIONALIZE HEALTHCARE THE PLANS EXIST JUST GET HOPPED UP ON OLD PEOPLE DRUGS AND HIT THE FUCKING BUTTONS YOU OLD BASTARD JESUS CHRIST – GUESS WHAT, RESPECTFULLY NOT DOING THAT OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T DO SHIT TO SET THE PRECEDENT THAT TRUMP WILL ACT WITHIN WASHINGTON NORMS
oh no please check my power i didn’t want to do anything ooh no pls pls check it
contacting my representatives is exactly as useful as writing a letter to santa
this is insane. why can’t we vote for them not to be able to do this? isn’t this a democracy?
i try to put in the disc, hit play, and just walk away so i miss all the garbage and the paragraphs warning me about prison time. kinda kills the mood
i remember growing up I’d literally get a buzz off a good thread or from reeling off a good post. it felt so incredible being able to communicate with people across the world and be taken seriously, evaluated on the merits of my words rather than dismissed due to age or race or anything. and most of all, it felt like this special secret between you and other dorks. now everyone has phones in their pocket. going on twitter is like going to mcdonals.
i wonder if this is correlated with the loneliness increase / the loneliness gap. if you’re a guy, lonely, prone to depression, in a crumbling post-capitalist society that’s getting more malignant by the day…how much will to live can you have
In the US children get shot and killed at school on a monthly basis and all the government can think to do is age-gate porn and ban books