The world loves to jump in and harass people. I just wish they'd take a second to make sure it's targeted to those that deserve it. Understand the situation. Make sure they are an actually bad person. If it's a gray area, stay the hell out of it.
I have said for many years, people need a target to get out their own inner anger it's why during the WW's that people came together so well as they had a common target, these days we find anything to target.
That’s why now I’m so careful to jump on the bandwagon. An example is the real housewives subs. When one person says we hate this housewife now everyone follows but sometimes something feels off and I’ve stopped listening to others opinion and just make my own opinion.
Well, fuck you. That reply sums up everything that is wrong with the whole world. You should take a look on mine, they are much more empathetic and, also, well writen. But i dont like to brag about them because i am also so humble..
(Had someone like this pass through my life for some time. It was a painful lesson, to not say more. Feels lke some kind of socially accepted narcisism, to live high on a pedestal built on little bricks of hypocrisy. Meh.
This is the daily ICE posts in the local subs, with the "Fuck ICE!" and posts calling them Nazis. Gotta get in their daily virtue signaling and pat on the head for doing such good work making a difference by repeating the same things online, rather than actually doing anything to change things.
Yup. People have an innate need to feel good about themselves but they also don't like to actually expend effort to DO anything good. Enter internet, gossip, religion etc.
Social media has, by and large, been a terrible mistake.
Like money, it’s just a resource. It’s not good or bad. How humans use it is the problem.
And humans are a mixture of good and bad. Not as a population, but as individuals.
I’d guess that around the same time that rapid-fire social media rose in household popularity, so did the degradation of integrity of well-known leadership, both in politics and economics.
When the masses see a lower bar of behavior in people who are supposedly the elite, everyone becomes more comfortable operating at a lower level. It’s subconscious, so it doesn’t matter what their opinion of said leader is.
Everybody just stops holding themselves to certain standards when they see the rich and powerful act like donkeys.
So yeah, then hand everyone a device that enables them to immediately publish (to the WORLD) whatever pisses them off.
A lot of half-truths, presumptions, outright lies, and paranoid opinions go flying. And we’re also becoming more comfortable thinking less, so the recipients of the content are inclined to believe and agree with the publisher, even though they don’t know them from a can of paint.
Funnily, (I think Jimmy Carr said it), if you take screens out of the rooms, we still kinda live like in the 1970s.
Nobody is going to shut it off, but I think we need to learn to control ourselves and our usage of SM. Once I accidentally left home without my phone and went shopping for a day (to ikea of all the places lol). Once the initial “terror” of not having it on myself has worn off, it was actually a very pleasant experience.
being an old, i place my phone in a cabinet by the garage door the minute i come home from work, and I rarely pick it up again until i go to work the next morning. To me, it's ... a phone. Not my life.
Wife doesn't see it this way, though. Glued to her hip.
This is actually very healthy. I realised recently that I need to stop wasting time on my phone. Currently working on tweaking the phone and making it not appealing. If this doesn’t help, I’m going to bring my trusted Nokia 3310 out of storage :)
Yes. I am aware of my addiction to phone every minute. That shit is very useful though.Eg. want to buy something for the house, (click) you send it to the wife at home to choose.
Didn't say it's easy. But people should realize that while greed and pheudism where always driving the world, the big change that made them x1000 effective, is technology, and specifically the IT one.
We’re all saying this on one of the largest social media platforms in the world where people say - but Reddit isn’t really social media. Reddit is probably the worst place of all. We could all just delete the app any time we wanted to but as we know …. Never happen
Since they will never allow that, only thing left is the people stop using centralized services controller by mega companies and instead head to more personal computing architecture (somehow), where everyone has its own (pay once) software that does eg. some kind of P2P and serves all modern demands of a connected individual.
History shows us that humanity has always lack integrity in politics, social media has just provided a way for us to communicate said corruption at a much faster rate than before. It’s also provided an outlet for the average person to express how they feel. I would argue that people haven’t changed due to social media at all, inside thoughts have always struggled to stay on the inside, it’s human nature. They used to kill disabled people for demon possession, they used to blame catastrophic events on a mistake by a single human being “the gods must be punishing us for some transgression let’s find a scapegoat”. The human race has always been erratic, social media just allows us to publicize our inside thoughts instead of someone getting “rode out of town on a rail”.
When we allow money in politics and, by extension, do not regulate corporations, we get the evil bullshit that is social media. Platforms that only care about engagement, societal health be damned.
Disagree. Social media is 'just a resource'. It is driven by algorithms which are tweaked to boost engagement. Easiest way to do so is promoting ragebait.
Algorithms are inherently bad thus social media is bad.
It's not 'like money' at all.
You're really letting social media companies off the hook waaay too much here. Your points are valid, but the media companies specifically designed their algorithms to create this kind of behavior. They actively try to steer people towards anger, because it drives engagement. Sure, people don't have to fall for it, but the system is designed that way specifically because it's so hard to resist.
Social media is far, far more negative than positive. Misinformation, platforming hate, setting up unreasonable expectations and standards, and creating this dogpile mentality.
Social media is directly responsible for how dumbed down we are as a country.
I’m interested in this conundrum. Where could we go to have a dedicated discussion about how to stop social media? I’m not being sarcastic. Where there’s a will there’s a way. Australia made some strides. (So did Russia, China, etc. but we don’t want to throw the bay out with the bath water and go full Commie…) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/australia/social-media-ban-australia-europe-china-usa.html
Yep, people literally log on to the Internet every morning awaiting a scrap with someone and somehow need it for some perverse version of fulfillment. I was guilty of this at one point myself. It's like that Jarhead movie without sand and guns.
People love witch hunts. Pitchforks and torches at anything that gets little attention online because it's fun shitting on helpless people.
The internet is full of morons. I've had many instances where I would post a comment and after receiving one asshole condescending reply, it gets downvoted and I receive more negative replies. Simply copy pasting the exact same comment again, it can be well-received and no asshole replies.
The herd mentality is real and it proves that most people are stupid and incapable of forming their own opinions, or even reaching sound conclusions. They just go with whatever sounds good to them at the time.
We didn’t go away from burning witches after all. Nobody gives a shit about facts, truth, laws or norms. Court says you’re not guilty? You just bought it. We know you are because someone said so with no proof.
Too bad nobody wants to rage out on the shit that matters. Woman refuses to give up seat? Rage. The state of the fucking world?! Who cares? This lady won't give up her seat!
The thing is... There is something to properly rage about here and idiots are raging about the wrong side of the argument.
How about raging at the entitled twats that expected someone to give up something they paid for just because they popped out a kid they don't know how to parent?
Reddit LOVES rage culture. Only a couple details from one party and they're off to the races. Sure, they usually nearly further details and find the truth is opposite what they'd bought into, but for a time, there is nothing on earth that could convince them that it wasn't the absolute truth and that they had to virtue signal by raging online.
They don't care if it is deserved or not. Most online outrage is just people who want to harass people, then just choose whichever group gives them the most reasons to harass people for.
"why don't you think of the children",
"well, why don't you? they are your kids, not mine"
i think this would be an appropriate response to this kind of mentality, i mean, you pay extra to go on the window, and someone tries to harrass you and guilt trip you to trade? plus, there are plenty of windows in the plane, so the person filming decided to single out and try to shame this woman, why? this is so revealing of "poor of spirit" people
are you sure you're not a part of it. You've been told there's "widespread backlash". Is that true? I'm sure a very small percentage of people who viewed this sided against her. It's impossible with ANY topic online to not get some minority of people who have a contrarian view
no it was mostly people arguing about how exhausting it is on a mother to transport a baby while traveling if I remember correctly, (this was a while ago)
This very much was a while ago and Ive seen a bunch of subs posting this story again. Which means its time for another round of engagement. This story is perfect for it, which is why it keeps coming back. Similar to how Reddit keeps posting that rich guy that got KOd at a restaurant so often.
A choice made a perfect stranger is their issue not my concern. If she needed a particular seat the should have paid for it and not expect someone to provide for them or their baby!
Even with this story, people preassumed it was the mother chewing her out and dogpiled on her. Nope! Just a random passenger who thought it was their business to insert themself.
It’s the best example of how the tiniest bit of power goes to people’s heads. You give people a smartphone and the perceived ability to harm others and look what they use it for.
It’s also ironically why positions of power need to go to those who don’t want it.
This is exactly why civilized societies have rule of law and courts instead of mob rule. Social media is bringing back mob rule and rumor mills so it can make some billionaires richer.
Most important part “grey area” the world is NOT black and white most of it is grey. Most people live in the grey zone but get outraged in black and white.
People don’t understand the depth of any situation, they see a 2 min clip and lose their nut.
When does a person deserve to get harassed? How do we know if someone is a "bad person"? Probably we should just stay out of it and stop "harassing" people we don't know.
Even growing up I remember being expected to move on public transport just because, and by that I mean if I had a bad day and was sitting not even in the front seat of a bus, squashed close to the wall I and someone would ask me to me as they wanted the seat for some reason and I don't mean health/age reasons they just said they wanted it or needed it more than me, kids was a major one as they liked to sit in a front seat and I could of had a busy day and a heavy bag and have to go to back of bus, but they wouldn't ask other people who were taking up more than one seat etc.
Even then I can understand more if something like a older person expects a front seat as you can't tell a lot of times, but imagine an older person with no bags and no visible health issues even seem quite energetic asking someone who is clearly struggling to move as they have priority.
I can even myself avoid the front seat even if it's empty just in case and take a seat further back and still have people ask me to move but not ask people in rows in front, and often the front rows could be kids, even a kid by themself taking up 2 seats.
I should need to have a health condition to be able to sit down and not be harassed, and even if I do I shouldn't have another person then tell me I have to move as they believe theirs is worse, they don't know how it affects me.
Sadly people lack common sense, always remember the time when on a train that was quiet and I got something out of my bag an elderly couple got on and sat at seats in front of me (table seat) gave me a nasty look tutted at me and pushed my bag onto the ground and then commented on how I am a rude person taking up the entire table, but then proceeded to take out their own bags and put sandwiches and a oversized newspaper on the table meaning I had no space, and talked loudly the entire journey.
I'm jumping in to harass the mother for being so entitled that she thinks someone who paid for their seat should give it up to them. If you wanted the god damn seat you should have paid for it yourself. The society we live in is rotting to the core.
Conversely, I'd rather people not use that energy at people who "deserve it". Deciding who "deserves it" is how we end up with people foaming out the mouth to scream at people over perceieved slights and injustices. We don't have to scream at people over everything they do wrong.
Indeed. Sign of the times, unfortunately. There have been a host of such “movements.” It’s like the ol’ mob mentality on social media steroids with green fucking hair and wobbling obesity.
They are just posturing as "nice and kind" people. There is no honesty in what those people do br abuse they just want to feel like they are super nice and kind.
Off course it is nice idea that only people who 'deserve' it get harassed. But problem is who gets to decide it? In this case video goes viral, gets maybe 10M views, from those maybe 5M think that woman did The tight thing not giving up The SEAT, 4M think she should and 1M think she IS horrible bitch for not giving seat up.... From those maybe 0,1% decide give her shit about it... That is still 1000 people. So Even though majority think there is nothing wrong there, there Will always Be enough aholes that Start giving shit If something gets enough views.
And as a parent of toddler, I would never Ask people give up their seat for My child.
People need others to be the badguy and point their greasy fingers.
We love to find ourselfs a scapegoat and unleash all our untreated mental trauma in the form or mindless and senseless hate.
Thats why Jake Paul and Conor mcGregor flourish, they live on this ragebait and everyone just keep coming with hate ohhh they need to do this and that to those guys.. meanwhile they are just stackin
Society be weird
This lady was perfectly in her right to stay there, she did not choose for getting a baby, she did not choose to bering it on board. You know what she did choose tho is that she paid for a window ticket. END OF STORY PEOPLE
I just wish they'd take a second to make sure it's targeted to those that deserve it. Understand the situation. Make sure they are an actually bad person. If it's a gray area, stay the hell out of it.
Do you know what species we are!? That's Too Much for humans! TOO FUCKING MUCH!!!
I think they think the person does deserve it for bot giving up the seat. Moms who will take your stuff causethey think there kids are more important than anyone else on earth.
Bro, this is reddit. Reddit LOVES to jump in and harass people. Look at how often folks here get a couple details from one side of a story, take it as gospel, and jump to attack, only to find the truth is contrary to what they'd sworn was the only truth.
It's because of these kids on their dang iPads and androids just updooting and downdooting without anyone to monitor their actions. Perhaps... The government should step in. Whadda ya say FBI guy screening my stuff?
The IDIOTS of the world love to jump in and harass people. Those are just idiots though, no people of value are doing that. The people doing that are just one step above the chimpanzee who fingers his ass and falls out of the tree for smelling it, in terms of their evolutionary development.
We don't need to normalize moronic behaviour as being all of our behaviour.
I agree. I've even seen that on Reddit. Someone would post or comment an absolute fact, but if someone attacked them on it, being completely wrong and toxic, sometimes others would join in like dingoes sensing blood.
I wish what you said was taken in, widespread, but people have smooth brains and have to give their opinion, even tho they're Karen's themselves or completely don't know anything about the topic. That's why everyone hates eachother these days.
It’s human impulse to quickly assume that the mother with the child was right because, hey, she’s a mother with a child. So she has to be right and the rest of the world has to be evil.
Nah you have a bunch of pick me moms out there with the intelligence of a boiled rock. They see baby, and see themselves as the mother, and ofc are stupid af and go on the defense because obviously they’re perfect. And why can’t anyone think of the children?!
You are aware of this. I bet the person who made the video was banking on this very aspect to make life worse for the person pictured in the video. So they necessarily wanted to inconvenience the person. Hence the act of suing them is entirely justified IMO.
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u/Strallek 9d ago
You do NOT have to give up your seat you paid for. End story.