“We somehow transitioned from ’don’t trust everything you read on the internet’ to letting 15-second video clips dictate our entire worldview.”

"Unfortunately, the rise of therapy speak has done this. Look, I understand, sometimes you have a shitty day, and you don't want to do stuff. But now it's 'my social battery is drained,' 'I have to protect my peace,' etc. It really comes down to you just being a damn flake, but when you give people 'mental health'-based reasons, they can now feel morally okay with being a damn flake."

"I think the rise of smartphones came so fast that society didn’t come up with etiquette quickly enough for people to be shamed about this sort of thing."

"Trump stands alone as someone without a lick of political experience going straight to running for president, taken seriously by the voting population, and then winning. And we are deeply suffering the consequences of voting someone like him into office. And I'm still surprised the majority of the American public who voted for Trump still don't see how batshit this was and how horrible the result of normalizing this has become."

"Sensible Party: 'We gave my results to a baker, and we're gonna unveil a cake! YAY!' Not-So-Sensible Party: 'An update to a story broken earlier today, a pink-smoke forest fire continues to consume the lives of the helpless.'"

"I hate this shit. I work in two restaurants, and at one of them parents will just let their kids blast two or three iPads at full volume the whole time they're in there. If they can't go 45 minutes without whatever cartoon or YouTuber they're watching, there's a problem."

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