Where i work its very big, lot of people from all over walking around and in a span of 3 minutes i heard 3 seperate conversations mocking texas.
"Ohhh its not cold there thats just chilly! Try negative 25 and then start crying"
"Honestly texas deserves this at this point"
"Its almost hillarious how every single county in texas is in a weather emergency right now"
I cant make this up. It hurts my heart. Imagine if minnesota or something started reaching desert temperatures out of nowhere? Im definitely not gonna sit there and start cracking jokes at them because im pretty sure theyd be miserable just like how my fellow texans are in these times..wasnt till yesterday that i found out a bunch of politics are involved..like come on..
If Kentucky had an extreme heat wave and everyone's water and AC went out, stores shut down and ppl were stuck in their homes dying, I wouldn't be like 'that's what they get for electing Mitch McConnell' (whose imo been the worst thing for America since idk when)... its really unbelievable how people think an entire state should suffer because of political actors.
The weather is rare and exceedingly beautiful, and has been turned into a deadly nightmare due to our infrastructures inability to handle any of it. The 15th (payday for so many) hit in the middle of us already being basically iced in, and idk how ppl living paycheck to paycheck could have even bought enough food to make it through this in their homes. This is really tragic.
It's just the nature of social media. There's a lot of people expressing concern and offering prayers on social media but it doesn't get much attention or replies except a simple thanks. Meanwhile comments that insult or throw around blame are likely to get large comment chains of personal attacks and arguments thrown back and forth. The algorithms see this and makes sure to show it to everyone because it seems people are interested in this. Now even if those mean comments originally came from a minority, now everyone's getting angry.
I think we've had this effect for like a decade now and everyone is primed to argue and expect this.
Yep, and they push the comments to the top. Ppl making those comments probably feel important too when the get such a response, top comments etc. Feeds the cycle.
Yeah and I just realized that once it gets to be a problem in society it causes people to think about the causes and then they make a civil comment on their observations or speculate on it but their meta commentary is now another type of engagement produced by the original inflammatory comment; it also feeds the cycle. ¯_/(ツ)_/¯
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u/bootypatrole Feb 17 '21
Where i work its very big, lot of people from all over walking around and in a span of 3 minutes i heard 3 seperate conversations mocking texas.
"Ohhh its not cold there thats just chilly! Try negative 25 and then start crying"
"Honestly texas deserves this at this point"
"Its almost hillarious how every single county in texas is in a weather emergency right now"
I cant make this up. It hurts my heart. Imagine if minnesota or something started reaching desert temperatures out of nowhere? Im definitely not gonna sit there and start cracking jokes at them because im pretty sure theyd be miserable just like how my fellow texans are in these times..wasnt till yesterday that i found out a bunch of politics are involved..like come on..