Spent a morning out on the town on my day off, and everyone is just fucking buried in their phones 24/7. This realization was so absurd to me

Of course I’m not exempt from this shit, but no wonder people are having so much trouble making friends and creating meaningful relationships in this day and age. So fucking bleak

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      Yup turns out having a majority of your population think “it’s me verses society” isn’t great for that society.

      Extra hilarious how Americans will tell you about how it’s a part of Chinese culture to fuck other people over to get ahead as they raise millions of people out of poverty every year.

      Meanwhile in America people don’t support universal Healthcare because other people might benefit from it.

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      I think so too, and judging by the “no veggies at dinner, no bedtimes” outbursts that blow up around here sometimes, Hexbear isn’t immune to it either.

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          Not in those exact words, no, but one example I can immediately think of was the cairn struggle session where some contrarians said they’d be pleased to stack rocks (at the expense of local environments and their ecosystems) just to stick it to the “scolds” was in the same spirit, just spiteful petty bullshit for freedom’s sake. joker-amerikkklap