Social Media "activist" are so pathetic
Added 2024-11-12 17:53:31 +0000 UTCdo something or do nothing but if its the latter SHUT UP.
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I was called out and called up action thank you Kenya
daydreamrose
2024-11-19 09:21:44 +0000 UTCThank you thank you thank you!! I know for me, I’m not someone who is going to be on the ground protesting but I’ve done my part by donating things, being in the background and promoting protests, doing work with organizations. I think people need to look at things that they are good at and use it to help a bigger purpose than themselves.
naya C
2024-11-17 23:06:16 +0000 UTCWhen Roe v. Wade was overturned, I realized that Republicans know how to play the long game way better than Democrats. A lot of people didn’t go vote to uphold Roe v. Wade because we never thought that it would actually be overturned. and the Republicans were banking on that fact and were correct.
Dynasty Andrews
2024-11-17 16:28:16 +0000 UTCthis episode was REAL ASF!! The internet activism is getting to be way too dang much because is so disingenuous a good portion of the time which is so disheartening cause so many people ARE suffering and instead of actually figuring out way to help communities we’re freaking yapping??! This all NEEDED to be said so thank you Kenya!
L
2024-11-15 23:05:48 +0000 UTCpicking up my book as we speak because i was called out !!! time to put the phone down !!!
mau
2024-11-15 23:02:52 +0000 UTCKenya thank you for helping me get to work today with this podcast. Please please please do one on college football. I’m so saddened (unserious I know) on how college football has changed in just the last couple of years
Elizabeth Irino
2024-11-15 19:41:25 +0000 UTCBrooo I get into it with people ALL THE TIME about cherry picking info that only supports their opinion. I rather be right PERIOD than win an argument 😂
G'ne Love
2024-11-15 18:20:45 +0000 UTCEverytime we have these topics, you always know how to articulate/explain things really good and I always appreciate it.
Lavender1495
2024-11-15 18:05:16 +0000 UTCAs a grad student studying librarianship, I still have trouble reading, but I still make the effort. But there’s audiobooks, Libby, OverDrive, Scribd/Everand, hell even YouTube has books online!!! FIND THE TIME for things you care about.
Dani
2024-11-15 17:18:27 +0000 UTCthe reading is privileged discourse this week🤦♀️🤦♀️
Briana Ivy
2024-11-15 17:06:40 +0000 UTCThis is literally so timely because a Talking Heads on Twitter try to come for me because I said the way that she was talking about immigrants and Palestine activist after the election was cruel and then she thought she could lecture me on the election and I’m like I’m a union organizer . Trump is trying to destroy the NLRB. I literally have knocked and canvas and Phone bank for, Kamala and I hate that bitch. Why do you think that your berating of Palestinians and non-voters is more than what I do just because I said that it was out-of-pocket.
Halimat
2024-11-15 15:18:53 +0000 UTCThank god I never got into Twitter because it seems like it’s hell now. Also, I hate reading physical books (dyspraxia &!attention span lol) but I love audiobooks. There is always work arounds!!
Sammy J
2024-11-15 01:30:40 +0000 UTCinternet activism is 95% fantasy and delusion that these ppl are doing something important and 5% actually just complaining into the ether like everyone else, bc that’s all it is, ppl that have no real purpose in life that want to feel purposeful so they posture and perform activism to feel like they’re doing something and they’re not doing anything actually substantive, and they’re too self centered and superficial to realize that’s all they’re doing, and you’re right they don’t actually want to do any of these things bc just yapping and pretending that you’re doing something is easier than doing the actual work that activism entails lol
ceeitrus
2024-11-14 01:22:06 +0000 UTCthis podcast ep inspired me to pick up my first book in months, so thanks 🙏
rudi!!!
2024-11-13 20:18:58 +0000 UTCAgreed on the bum part. That being said, most of these bums escape being called bums because the parents don't like that they raised bums. Son's struggling lololol.
Chris
2024-11-13 19:20:07 +0000 UTCDeleted twitter on my phone last night and have read 24 books this year. I guess the reason I can see accessing libraries etc as a privilege is bc i live in the middle of nowhere and my husband got me a kindle in order to be able to read. I also only work 2 days a week so I am able to read often. But you’re right you will make time for what is important to you🤷🏽♀️ When i worked a lot I prioritized rest, now that I don’t I prioritize education.
earf
2024-11-13 18:07:41 +0000 UTCpeople not wanting to actually get in the fucking field is so real. it's literally just weaponized incompetence at this point because people will be like "well i don't vote cause i don't know about all that stuff" "i don't boycott cause i don't really know about all that stuff" "i don't know about politics so i don't get into talking about all that stuff" and have the same god damn access to the internet as the rest of us and the same free public libraries. they can get on tik tok and watch a 50 part expose series on some random person they've never met in their life but can't search up "palestine conflict explained" or "affirmative action explained" or literally anything else that would take up less than an hour of their time. it's honestly pathetic. and as someone who HAS done a lot of community organizing, protesting, etc, it's extremely disheartening how some people just.... do not care 😭 no matter how much it actually affects them, they really don't give a fuck. but regardless EYE will still be getting in the field cause i ain't about to sit on my ass and let all this bullshit happen.
jewel
2024-11-13 17:19:22 +0000 UTCNot me almost getting stabbed/beaten up in RL😅. It's been getting ridiculous around here lately, stupid kids playing 'hard knock life' and 'tough guy' steppin to any everyone. I'm not having it, I live here and so do people I care about. These keyboard warriors boil my blood, get out there and do something????
Rainy Feathers
2024-11-13 17:01:10 +0000 UTCI’m sooo over it… like everything is a joke to these people. It’s really irritating.
Treena Mathieu
2024-11-13 16:29:52 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this tweet that was like "Oh now all of a sudden everybody is a reader" and it's like ...GOOD???? Like YES, PLEASE, EVERYONE *SHOULD* BE A READER. If people picked up books like they do bad habits, we wouldn't be where we are now!!! Everybody running out to buy Stanley cups and knock off van cleefs because they're trendy, but reading being a trend is where yall draw the line????
DariaanMichelle
2024-11-13 15:46:57 +0000 UTCThe streets need a sports episode!
emily
2024-11-13 15:21:04 +0000 UTCI got SO fed up with Twitter and it wasn't even the activists tbh, it was 1. The rampant white supremacy that's only growing by the day that drove me away from the app. 2. I was feeding waaaaay too much into the mindless brain rot of scrolling and I could feel it literally suck my joy away. I wasn't even having fun on the app, I was just doing it cus I didn't feel like doing anything else. I would literally close the app and immediately open it back up just because it was there LOL. So I just decided it was better for me to just delete it and honestly, without the app on my phone, I barely even think about it.
DariaanMichelle
2024-11-13 15:09:20 +0000 UTCI’m so glad you’re tired of the privilege conversation like??? Someone says hey you guys should read because reading is importance and here comes the WELL ACTUALLY and it’s like oh my gosh you really can’t do ANYTHING 😭😭 you’re here on twitter but you can’t find a free book online… you can’t type “book title PDF/ebook” at all… okay… and I’m not going to act like I’m the biggest reader, but at least I’m honest and aware about what I can do if I want to read more
T.H.
2024-11-13 10:05:56 +0000 UTCI has a conversation with my sister a year ago about EVERY SINGLE ONE of these topics and said THE EXACT SAME THING it’s crazy
anuschilis
2024-11-13 09:29:06 +0000 UTCPressed play on the podcast after taking a phone call and first thing was “Soiled ass sheets sending tweets” 😭 that’s a bar
Elias A.H.
2024-11-13 05:08:44 +0000 UTCi would LOVE a podcast or two abt ur sports opinions especially ncaa women’s basketball!!
janell
2024-11-13 03:16:09 +0000 UTCthe girl that got shot was Malala ! i couldn't stand when people were trying to drag her. they could never make me hate Malala !
Jessica Jiménez
2024-11-12 23:37:38 +0000 UTCI read more but it’s heavy hitter romance (erot) so I am like, maybe I should pick up more non fiction 😂
Eboni Haynes
2024-11-12 23:08:54 +0000 UTCYeah my understanding of that discourse was that people were trying to highlight the systemic barriers to literacy. Being able to read for information and read with ease is a privilege that many people have never had due to lack of access to (quality) education. When 21% of the US is functionally illiterate, being able to read fluently is a type of privilege. Also there are people who are disabled in such a way that makes reading inaccessible. Not everyone has to be a reader, we all have a role to play in the revolution and not everyone needs to read Marx/Engels/Chomsky/etc.
Jennifer B
2024-11-12 23:05:59 +0000 UTCThe last 20 seconds is so real lol
Queen
2024-11-12 22:50:22 +0000 UTCThe overconsumption makes me sick to my fucking stomach. Literally the easy, "activist", thing people can do to save the planet, is to not spend spend spend. And yet...
Alex U
2024-11-12 22:44:35 +0000 UTCLiterally just say you're a leftist because you want iintellectual superiority over others... not because you caare about people. And people who just complain complain complain irritate me so much. It just makes me not want to care about their opinions anymore. Like I agree, let the serious people be serious, just because you are miserable and hate your life and are apathetic to anything hopeful, doesn't mean I have to be.
Alex U
2024-11-12 22:40:52 +0000 UTCI see a lot of people who rather be funny than thoughtful and accurate on social media and it’s just exhausting and I don’t even use Twitter
Eboni Haynes
2024-11-12 22:33:23 +0000 UTCI think you were talking about Malala Yousafzai
Ixa
2024-11-12 22:29:17 +0000 UTCAlso it’s not like there are not protests on the weekend if you can’t do weekday. I’ve seen nurses/ doctors get off a shift and join us during a protest. There are others way you can help if you can’t protest
Ixa
2024-11-12 22:27:09 +0000 UTCPlease do a Sports era episode! Need to discuss the Chiefs evil magic...
Rafeeat
2024-11-12 21:17:33 +0000 UTC“Can you leave serious people alone?” Is such a quote. They’re so angry for no reason like please
Reyhan
2024-11-12 21:14:57 +0000 UTCI was just thinking about my plan to help in my community with my boots on the ground (soup kitchens etc.), this was right on time
Dee
2024-11-12 20:39:47 +0000 UTCPLASTIC BOTTLES. THAT PART
beeg
2024-11-12 20:39:43 +0000 UTCno shade, those same folks don’t need to be in control of the funds either 😭
momo
2024-11-12 20:37:44 +0000 UTCThis blows me!!! Like damn, you can’t even stop yourself from buying shitty products that you are well aware are made by modern slave labor????
Ian
2024-11-12 20:26:44 +0000 UTCMaybe an unpopular opinion but I think this applies to a lot of leftist social media creators too— some of them seem to really believe that making content is the activism, and that feeds into their viewers feeling as if watching the content is activism. That’s just (barely) self-education!
Ian
2024-11-12 20:22:12 +0000 UTCI literally have to use CGPT for work and I HATE it. Outside of that I NEVER touch that site like it’s such an insult. I can’t stand hearing people say “oh just make a workout routine with chat gpt! Just write an email with it!” Like why???
Mariah L.
2024-11-12 20:21:52 +0000 UTCBRROOO everything aside one of the biggest things I was dreading about the election was nonstop hearing ppl regurgitate these “y’all voting green need y’all ass beat” takes. Are we still in 2016????
Mariah L.
2024-11-12 20:20:06 +0000 UTCNothing but TikTok search and ChatGPT
Mariah L.
2024-11-12 20:19:12 +0000 UTCOuu Kenya you stepping on toes with this one 🤣 the paywall complaint is wild cause a simple Reddit search will tell you the best paywall blockers. People don’t know how to RESEARCH anymore
Mariah L.
2024-11-12 20:18:53 +0000 UTCThe original post came from a disabled organizer and was misinterpreted. They weren’t labeling libraries as frivolous luxury. Unfortunately, matter libraries are still inaccessible to marginalized people. You could give people resources but if no one teaches them how to read and use those resources, then they are left behind.
Serena
2024-11-12 20:14:13 +0000 UTCPeople misunderstanding that reading is a privilege tweet when the whole point is that we need to help others, we can't expect everybody to do it on their own. Y'all didn't just know about the library resources, there was people who were advocating for more funds for libraries and signing people up for library cards, actually helping people learn how to read
KRYSTAL
2024-11-12 20:12:11 +0000 UTCi have also deleted twitter and i’m so much happier
ischristinaok
2024-11-12 20:09:52 +0000 UTCeveryone on twitter think they are a political commentator when the graphic they were talking about wasnt even nation wide it was about a county in Georgia! I am also going to try to ween myself off twitter and tiktok bc half the stuff on theRe is the worst takes possible ! I already read but im going to read more. i’m thinking about joining the dsa. i want to figure out how to help the community (i will also not be going door to door) but my god democrats/leftists sometimes have a loser mindset like we got to a little something!
Liz Huerta
2024-11-12 20:07:33 +0000 UTCYou read me with the whole 50 pages thing. I read about 1 to 2 books a month but stay talking about how im such a reader. I need to get in the trenches 🙈
Peter
2024-11-12 20:05:39 +0000 UTCI knew it was getting dark for the left when people started shaming others for… voting?? Like we lost the plot soooo quick
Taylor Haynes
2024-11-12 19:51:00 +0000 UTCLIAM PAYNE’S ENTIRE TOXICOLOGY REPORT mannnn 😭😭😭😭✋🏽✋🏽✋🏽✋🏽
Taylor Haynes
2024-11-12 19:38:45 +0000 UTCI cannot stand when people constantly pointing out everything that will go wrong! "we can't protest because we'll get arrested blah blah", "some of us are too tired from our jobs" okay so I guess we should all fuck off then because NOTHING will be legal! nothing will be easy! the revolution is not just gonna be handed to us lmao
Sharell Scott
2024-11-12 19:29:41 +0000 UTCThe way I had been in a 2 month long reading slump, and that reading discourse made me get up and open libby 😭
ummm
2024-11-12 19:27:38 +0000 UTCWhat really made me feel crazy is seeing all the talk on that app and no one was at the polls… Like all of those states red was mind boggling and it clicked, like the right talked their shit but THEY WENT TO THE POLLS. People online got so swept up in the discourse and the virtue signaling and it cracked
Taylor Haynes
2024-11-12 19:25:11 +0000 UTC“YOU PEOPLE CANT DO ANYTHING”
Taylor Haynes
2024-11-12 19:22:29 +0000 UTCNow THIS was the commentary I needed to hear today!
carly gill
2024-11-12 19:18:27 +0000 UTCPlease speak on it Kenya! As someone who has been a community organizer for the youth, the way some of these negros online talk about Black kids like they are doing ANYTHING of substance blows me. Contributing no type of support and then they wonder why young black people don't take them seriously in their real lives.
skylar
2024-11-12 19:09:41 +0000 UTCaudio 🤩
beeg
2024-11-12 19:04:45 +0000 UTCThe AI thing is a pet peeve of mine, people acing like they can’t not use ChatGPT as if they weren’t living without it 5 years ago. Meanwhile its the reason the world will not meet its climate goals😭
Alejandra
2024-11-12 18:58:33 +0000 UTC“I miss when bums was bums and they were okay with being bums” that should be a book title. A national movement
Jenny
2024-11-12 18:57:06 +0000 UTCWhen I tell you I ran. WHACK THEM BITCHES
Vic
2024-11-12 18:32:20 +0000 UTCthey were saying reading is a privilege bc some people dont have libraries... fully capable of downloading reading apps on the same device they're tweeting from but unwilling to do so. the people who wanted it enough found ways to make it happen, i refuse to entertain the excuses
mari
2024-11-12 18:30:29 +0000 UTCUpdate on the reading discourse since ur off twitter: going to libraries is a privilege because ‘third world countries don’t have libraries’ ok !
Danielle A
2024-11-12 18:28:31 +0000 UTCTHEY CANT STOP SHOPPING AT SHEIN SMH
Janiah A
2024-11-12 18:27:56 +0000 UTCThis social media activism is so performative, it makes me sick. I'm absolutely not built to be an activist but I know damn well most of everyone else on Twitter ain't doing it the way we used to in the past either. They sitting up on Twitter complaining just like I am like girl bye 🤣
DaniFaee
2024-11-12 18:22:37 +0000 UTCgirl I completely agree!!! I’ve been off twitter, that app forces you to argue about shit you barely care about lmao. And tiktok was intended for entertainment purposes only, people who go on there to learn things are mentally ill. Youtube and the podcast app are the only social media I fw because I get to see and hear only the things I care about from people I respect and I’m a more sane person for it
India Barrow
2024-11-12 18:19:56 +0000 UTCThere's a whole lot of slacktivism going on. People who don't even know their neighbors talking about community organizing
Whitney Jarrett
2024-11-12 18:18:35 +0000 UTCGirl I’m 26 but idgaf I’m joining my Democratic Party committee and i want a SEAT. Cause im sick of them not being good at the jobs in rural areas. Im donating to food pantries, im finna put flyers out around my complex and encourage a rent strike, im about to start working at the library on top of being an ESL teacher. im not joking. Im not going yall im not!!
Mycah
2024-11-12 18:17:49 +0000 UTCI needed to hear this! Thank you for sharing!
Tiana
2024-11-12 18:15:16 +0000 UTCThe election woke me up… I’m trying to scroll on social media less and read more books! Even though I’m still scrolling, I feel good about the books I’m reading and trying to understand the world better. So I can quote sources other than a tik tok or tweet I saw (no shade, still valuable)
Jenny
2024-11-12 18:10:28 +0000 UTCand I thought I was the crazy one when I saw that reading is a privilege tweet....
Dairus Wilson
2024-11-12 18:09:44 +0000 UTCsports commentator Kenya 📣📣📣📣
Jenny
2024-11-12 18:08:30 +0000 UTCThis is how I feel about all these political leaning streamers. Just arguing in circles with no conviction or nothin
pasteleclectic
2024-11-12 18:05:20 +0000 UTCIve given up on twitter, anytime im about to tweet I think “It’s literally not that serious” Beyoncé news will always find me irregardless lol
De Sol
2024-11-12 18:01:35 +0000 UTCI had to uninstall tiktok because of it
Mariam
2024-11-12 17:58:50 +0000 UTCHaven't even watched yet but these do nothing mfers fucked up 2021 and 2022 for me
Mharris Mharrs
2024-11-12 17:58:04 +0000 UTCAnd is. Everyone showing they ass after this election
evette grant-stuart
2024-11-12 17:55:40 +0000 UTCYesss draggg them weirdos
B Ann
2024-11-12 17:55:11 +0000 UTC
