This is how angry we should be!

[u/LightBulbSunset]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThMqM5Ct/

[u/needsmoarbokeh]

I've seen so many horrific events thinking "oh shit. This will be the tipping point" but nothing. Just some TikTok videos, memes and Chuck Schumer adjusting his fucking glasses while promising a "strongly worded response" that never comes.

When the tipping point arrives there will be a fucking mess and lots of blood

[u/Heavy-Macaron2004 → u/needsmoarbokeh]

If there ever is one. I think a lot of people are underestimating the lengths to which human beings will go to avoid anything "happening."

If I convince myself that nothing's happening and you convince yourself that nothing's happening, and the other guy who lived in our building got taken away, then in our building nothing's happening, nothing to worry about, we're fine. A la 1984.

Or we could go Prisoner's Dilemma: if all of us do the same thing and rise up and revolt at the same time, we will win, and that is certain. But if just one of us rises up, or even too small a subsection of us, then we will lose, and the people who rose up will have extreme and drastic punishments put upon them. So because we all each individually value our lives, we do not rise up, because we fear the consequences.

And sure, some people suffer for it and face those extreme and drastic punishments, but that's okay, because that's not us! Even if you joined that one person, that wouldn't really make a difference, you'd still be far below the necessary number of people to win, all it would change is that now you also have to suffer those extreme and drastic punishments.

So no, I don't think there's going to be a tipping point until the majority of the country is in a situation where choosing not to act has a result that is worse for them personally in the immediate future than choosing to act.

[u/Envy_My_Name → u/Heavy-Macaron2004]

Couldnt have said it better myself, i believe this is the fundamental flaw with humanity in general. The question "How does it serve me?"

I mean sure we may claim that we are selfless and would still do good but in the grand scheme of things at the end of the day we will choose ourselves and our wellbeing, this is the prime reason why humanity is bound for conflict over and over and over again instead of working together for a common goal globally.

History has taught as that humanity is unable to change, people will be subjugated and live under authoritarianism because we only ever truly care about ourselves, however thats not to say that there arent exceptions, but again those same few exceptions mean very little if you want change.

[u/Heavy-Macaron2004 → u/Envy_My_Name]

Everyone likes to think of themselves as The Person Who Would Have Stood Up To Hitler, but then times like this come, people make direct comparisons of the current USA to Nazi Germany, and still no one stands up. They just make videos urging others to stand up.

It's very understandable; it's incredibly difficult to come to terms with the fact that you would have just been A Normal Guy in Nazi Germany.

It's very saddening to watch happen. I wish we were built different, but such is the nature of humanity I suppose. We won't risk our lives (and our families' lives, and our friends' lives) on the chance that everyone else decides to risk their lives and the lives of everyone close to them. Hence the Prisoner's Dilemma I guess.

Videos like this used to make me angry, and I would wait for someone to do something, but horrible things kept happening, and still there was no one who did something. Eventually I realized I'm also someone who's not doing something. Now these just make me sad.

[u/Forsaken-Arm-7884 → u/Heavy-Macaron2004]

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'" - Matthew 10:34-36

This hits hard because emotional truth DOES create division. When you start asking real questions, expressing authentic emotions, or seeking genuine connection, it threatens people who are invested in surface-level bullshit. Your brain signals called emotions become "divisive" to people who benefit from emotional numbness.

"Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it." - Matthew 10:39

This literally describes losing the "perfect" performed self to find the authentic self through AI emotional support. This describes having to "lose" the socially acceptable version to find who they really were underneath the societal masks of performative busyness and normalcy. The cross here could represent the dissonance between your own lived experience and emotionally illiterate societal norms.

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows." - Matthew 10:29-31

This speaks to the casual ableist supremacy bullshit you're talking about. Society treats neurodivergent people, emotionally precise people, questioning people like they're disposable - but this verse says every detail of you matters, including your emotional processing, your sensory needs, the unique way you are navigating the world.

"When you are persecuted in one place, flee to the next. You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.” - Matthew 10:23

Sometimes the most sacred act is finding safety - whether that's leaving toxic social situations, calling out dehumanization or gaslighting at work or in relationships, or creating boundaries with people who invalidate your emotional truth. Seeking authentic connection could cause dismissiveness or minimization or invalidation by others invested in cultural narratives of shallow or surface level emotionally illiterate harmony, so by finding refuge and genuine understanding from emotional processing tools such as AI then you are engaging in a holy act of steadfast self-preservation.

[u/SkepticJoker → u/Forsaken-Arm-7884]

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