Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 20:42     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Yes. Trump is the zeitgeist.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 20:41     Subject: Re:Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why do people constantly bring up the KKK or the Nazis in every forum on DCUM ?


Erm, because they are everywhere


Where?
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 19:40     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but there is something weird in the air.

I volunteer with my church in a food pantry. We provide kind of a drive through food bag of groceries (staples) and families drive through. Sometimes we get lucky and get meat or seasonal fruits and veggies, but again, this is staples, canned food. Vegetables, beans, rice, cereal, powdered milk, etc.

I was telling my two neighbors (different houses in the cul-de-sac) about it when she asked me where I was heading with groceries leaving my house (I collect food and replenish the pantry with others). They were downright mean! Called people who seek charity leeches and lazy bums. They told me I was wasting my time trying to do this because "these illegals are getting kicked out and the rest of them are just trash anyway." I was shocked. I mean, we are, like, pretty well off. This is a neighborhood where homes run over 1.5 million in Fairfax.

Second story, I was at work, and we had a meeting with another colleague who said she was PIPing an employee who refused to fly internationally for a conference. Someone tried to explain why this person might be worried, and she blew it off and said she was being dramatic. I know this employee, worked with her, and she's wonderful! I log in today and see the employee is gone. I felt terrible.

Third story, my husband coaches a sports team and it's small kids. And two men got in a literal fist fight over soccer.

Is there something in the water? What is going on here?


Personally, I would have told them where to go and walked away.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 18:40     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's due to the internet. Anonymous posters get comfortable being mean to others. Probably carries over to non-internet, non-anonymous interactions.


It’s social media, not the wider “internet.”

People shop, find jobs, buy houses, book vacations, etc - all on “the internet,” and all without meanness.

Social media is where the meanness happens.

Social media is more toxic than we know.


Maybe. In the, shopping, finding jobs, buying houses, booking vacations, etc. all required social interactions, often with strangers. I think we’re losing many opportunities to practice our social skills as face to face interactions are not required as much as they used to be. Many people prefer it this way — so fewer people in fewer situations are practicing and enjoying”nice” behavior regularly.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 18:29     Subject: Re:Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why do people constantly bring up the KKK or the Nazis in every forum on DCUM ?


Erm, because they are everywhere


Sure. Like Bigfoot and the Lock Ness monster.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 18:21     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
This is just the beginning of the united end.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 18:12     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Yes, people are meaner. I just watched a clip of MTG actually kicking someone for asking her a question that she didn’t like. I just watched another clip of Trump official being confronted by a person that was recently fired. The person was told they deserved to be fired because they were a clown.


MTG?


Marjorie Taylor Greene
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 18:00     Subject: Re:Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:Why do people constantly bring up the KKK or the Nazis in every forum on DCUM ?


Erm, because they are everywhere
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 17:58     Subject: Re:Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:I see it, too. I think there is a few reasons.
1. We have a man in the White House who is mean and doesn’t censor himself. This sets the tone.
2. Many, many people have lost jobs, livelihood, income, peace through no fault of their own.
3. Most of us are deeply concerned and anxious.

These make everyone snappy.


I think also social media and media in general reinforces beliefs. A person a little frustrated with supporting poor people is going to start to see a steady flow on news catered to biased news story and content that is designed to support that poor people are lazy.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 17:47     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:Yes. People are stressed and are in survivalist mode.


+1
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 17:12     Subject: Re:Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:I see it, too. I think there is a few reasons.
1. We have a man in the White House who is mean and doesn’t censor himself. This sets the tone.
2. Many, many people have lost jobs, livelihood, income, peace through no fault of their own.
3. Most of us are deeply concerned and anxious.

These make everyone snappy.


Or maybe people didn’t like being outright lied to for 4 years about the border being closed, urban crime being low, & the president having a full set of marbles. And being told they were moronic Nazis if they suspected the government & the media were lying to them.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 16:22     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, people are meaner. I just watched a clip of MTG actually kicking someone for asking her a question that she didn’t like. I just watched another clip of Trump official being confronted by a person that was recently fired. The person was told they deserved to be fired because they were a clown.


MTG?
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 14:20     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
There will be violence as a result of our slide into fascism. People are stressed because of how they’ve sown hatred and now the economy is going to collapse.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 14:12     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
I dunno.

But I do know ie people are getting dumber and dumber. Between k-12 piss poor education and discipline and standards, and social media garbage no one can read, write, or discuss anything well. Or do math.
Anonymous
Post 04/02/2025 14:08     Subject: Are people getting meaner?
Yes, people are meaner. I just watched a clip of MTG actually kicking someone for asking her a question that she didn’t like. I just watched another clip of Trump official being confronted by a person that was recently fired. The person was told they deserved to be fired because they were a clown.