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Ever get mad over something that probably didn’t deserve the amount of rage you were giving it? Ever get #triggered, as they say? You get pissed, start ranting and riling everyone up within distance about not only what an injustice this is, but why they should be pissed too. Now, how many times during one of these episodes have you had any amount of self awareness? Never, right? It’s always afterwards that you realize your 8 month boycott of Amazon never touched their stock value, and they didn’t lose your order on purpose.
Now more than ever is this true thanks to social media’s ability to instantly expose us to a world of potential grievances. We see something and we fly off the handle. Even worse, we fly off the handle on a public platform designed to agitate both the emotions that caused our tantrum in the first place, and attract the attention of an infinite amount of trolls that feed off unnecessary online outrage. Read an article that Starbucks displaced 1,000 villagers in Nicaragua so they could sell more Cold Brew and you’re rallying all 213 of your followers faster than a Presidential Political Action Team. Someone in government dare to do something? Not on your watch. You’ve got a blog post that’ll put that Sonofabitch away for life once it reaches the right people.
Once upon a time manic pettiness was easy to spot and was almost endearing. Sizzler’s refused to comp Grandpa’s order they got wrong in ’78, and he hasn’t been back since. That’s kind of funny. Sure you’d like to go to Sizzler, but you respect Grandpa sticking to his guns and maintaining his principle so you don’t push the issue. My mom told me my dad once rode around for a year with a sign in the back of his truck telling people not to buy from a local dealership. Stuff like that is almost folksy in its harkening determination.
But in 2017, the outrage has become so perpetual that rather than try to glean any type of principality from this raging behemoth, we’re better off to rage first and ask for forgiveness later. Everyone’s existentially pissed and demanding absolute loyalty over trivial grievances. This is an old joke that’s been making its way around Twitter for a while now, but I still love it.
Maybe if we all had Clippy reminding us to pump the brakes we’d stop burning bridges because no one joined our Whole Foods boycott..
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BBisgard45
Golf Pro in B/CS TX trying to trick the PGA into certifying me to give swing advice for a living.
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Agree with your point, but that will not stop me from consistently trolling Roger Goodell on Twitter
You’re doing the lords work
Never change
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One of the things all NFL fans can get behind is that man has seaweed for brains
unlike the players who will actually have seaweed for brains from all the undiagnosed and unreported concussions?
On the bright side, most computers don’t work in 40 feet of water yet and people only have so much oxygen to become petty with before they have to return to the surface for air.
I gues it is better down where it’s wetter
Yeah it’s insane. The PC world is out of control. I made a comment once about Garth Brooks not being that great of a country artist and I was told I might have been born with mental problems because someone else didn’t agree with me. Him being #triggered made me #triggered
The word “triggered” makes me #triggered.
Once trained a girl and told her to do “girl push-ups” because she couldn’t do normal ones, and some lady working out in the area ranted for 10 minutes about why that offended her. If people had that energy to fight against issues that actually mattered, we might actually get somewhere.
To be fair, he IS that great of a country artist. I won’t take your head off over it though.
If someone said that FGL or Keith Urban was good country music i just might fist fight em.
From what you’re describing, I’m not sure I’d describe “someone called me a retard because they disagreed with my assessment of a country musician” as “politically correct.”
To be fair, you said “he kinda sucks.” Which subjectively can be your truth. But album sales, awards, and massive popularity all point to you being wrong.
And I don’t see anyone calling you dumb for voicing your different opinion.
Everybody on the internet needs to chill.
All a joke guys. All a joke.
Have a great afternoon
You need to see someone live before you can judge them. And Garth is one of the greatest live performers of all time. But there are always exceptions to the rule. Like Luke Bryan. Never see him live.
Sounds like the opposite of PC…
Still butthurt about that, huh?
Now we’re going down a triggered hole I can’t escape
Laying down the Hammer on JD’s latest post huh?
Also what’d you shoot on the course this weekend?
Older generations are exponentially pettier, they just don’t have the platform to express it.
Maybe once they take care of getting all their Facebook content copyrighted they can start using it for what it’s really meant for.
In high school I worked at a McDonald’s and my favorite people were the ones that would get super pissed and say “I’m never coming back to McDonalds again!” Only to be back two days later.
If anyone simply had the stones to not apologize when someone was offended in a public setting, the world could make significant progress. But instead, everyone kowtows to any slight or #microaggression.
There is literally nothing more satisfying than telling someone “I don’t apologize, here’s why: . . . .”
A few professors do, such as Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein.
Everyone cares so much about microagressions. Yet no one talks about macroagressions and that shit kills!
it’s because everyone thinks their opinion is the best one and the one everyone should agree with, if I don’t like the color red and you do, I’ll get shoved into a corner and continually called a “racist” or “phobe” towards the color red until I compromise my own beliefs and sense of self and agree with you. One universal thought machine of PC and hate within. Sad!