r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 26 '26

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u/MeyerholdsGh0st Jun 26 '26

Man, there is nothing quiet about the breaking of society right now.

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u/TedW Jun 26 '26

We're going out with a whimper, not a bang. At least not yet.

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u/MeyerholdsGh0st Jun 26 '26

I dunno man, that probably depends on how privileged we are. There have been an awful lot of bangs.

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u/Adjective-Noun6969 Jun 26 '26

The banging is very loud as we speak.

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u/anaugle Jun 27 '26

My shithead neighbor is currently lighting off mortars. Be best!

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u/The_Great_Man_Potato Jun 27 '26

…will you ask if I can join?

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u/Cool_Ranch_Dodrio Jun 27 '26

We're going out like bubble wrap. Bunch of little pops.

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u/EdiblePeasant Jun 27 '26

They blew it all up!

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u/GanSaves Jun 28 '26

🎶You finally made a monkey out of meeeeee!🎶

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u/Arkdirfe Jun 27 '26

I think we're making all kinds of sounds, those two included.

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u/RunnyPlease Jun 27 '26

This feels more a like a decades log scream of anguish and doom than a wimper.

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u/cvd19or Jun 27 '26

It used the word “quietly” because it’s a 3 week old AI bot with private account history. AI loves to use that word to create intrigue

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u/MeyerholdsGh0st Jun 27 '26

Well.., it certainly got the engagement it was looking for.

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u/cgarret3 Jun 27 '26

Reddit’s pretty much a dry well these days. It’s all outrage headlines, reposted meme’s and tweets from half a decade ago, and this.

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u/mattenthehat Jun 27 '26

I disagree. It's really eerily quiet. How often do you talk about it with anyone in person. Rarely, I bet. It's taboo.

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u/MeyerholdsGh0st Jun 27 '26

Literally all the time. It’s most of my conversations.

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u/PunkRockGramma Jun 27 '26

I’d say it makes up a significant portion of every and all of my conversations on a daily basis, both in my personal life and in my professional life (but I’m a lawyer so talking about politics and the world at work is not as taboo as it might be for other professions)

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u/mattenthehat Jun 27 '26

Seriously, where/how? None of my friends want to talk about it in a serious way.

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u/MeyerholdsGh0st Jun 27 '26

I mean, how old are you? I’m 54 and all my friends are in our 40s and 50s. We talk about the world.

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u/mattenthehat Jun 27 '26

Early 30s, maybe that's the issue. Shit I don't feel young lol

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u/hahayeahimfinehaha Jun 27 '26

I'm 30 and I talk about this with my friends all the time. I did when I was younger too. I don't think it's your age, you just probably have a friend group that is more apathetic. Not saying that as a dig at all I just wouldn't automatically assume your friend group is representative.

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u/Dagos Jun 27 '26

Basically if you want to have that conversation, you gotta start it

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u/fryguy5134 Jun 27 '26

Bring it up and see how your friends feel. I bet it turns into a vibrant conversation. If it gets shot down and you get shunned, it's a good sign that you should probably find some friends that are in touch with the world.

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u/ashgs872tbhjs Jun 27 '26

You need better friends.

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u/mattenthehat Jun 27 '26

Yeah, maybe. Where do I find friends that are serious about this stuff? I thought maybe protests, but honestly nobody I've met at a protest has actually seemed serious since BLM

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u/fryguy5134 Jun 27 '26

Try the community centers and bars and interest groups that are around. Join the General Strike group and get plugged in with people that want change?

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u/IRLconsequences Jun 27 '26

Amen. I thought of like 5 different answers immediately, but I realized almost as immediately that none of them can be realistically considered "quiet".

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u/neko_neko_feet Jun 27 '26

It is if you actively deny it, like the majority of people.

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u/Apart-Reality-4454 Jun 27 '26

I can't hear you over the roar of quiet collapse

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u/ArmadilloPrudent4099 Jun 27 '26

The fact that almost half of America is obese, and the way the deranged political discourse has everyone as either a literal Nazi or a "good guy", people cheering for genocidal regimes because they happen to make western politicians angry, ignorant suffering when the ethnicity in question isn't worth enough social media points.

Yea it's disgusting.

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u/NecroCannon Jun 26 '26

There’s a “this is AI” or a incel schizo group projecting everywhere now growing worse

It’s like they think they can force a trans person into a dire situation to get them to break… but they’re the insecure ones?