You know, I've been taking a look at Facebook and Twitter over the last few days, and as usual, after something profound is revealed or occurs, people are flooding the news news feeds with their memes and their thoughts on the issue. And obviously the abortion situation has taken hold. And there's something unique about this moment, though I'm wondering who these messages are meant for because we just spent at least the last five years in a massive division mode, right?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:28
But in this situation, to your point, if this goes the wrong way, it'll just be a ripple effect outward and it's a bad thing. But I think talking is incredibly important for the sake of talking. I'm not saying that noise is bad, but if you can form sentences that have a point that help you feel like you're speaking into the world and not into your belly button, I think that keeps our democracy flowing, whatever flavor it is
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:33
But I think everybody has to decide for themselves that this is the only thing we can do in a democracy. We can go out, we can vote, and we need to shut up. We just need to vote. We all need to get out there. We need to vote and we need to play
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:14
You can regulate this decision for me. And that's like the dumbest of the dumb. I don't know. It's like we're handing over power to somebody else to control us. How stupid are we really? How stupid are we? I think women in this country need to wake up and say, get out of regulating what I can and cannot do. You are welcome to preach. Go ahead and preach, but you cannot regulate
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:43
And your religion has no place in the broader conversation in a nation that is supposed to have a separation of Church and state. So it just made me wonder, like, okay, I get it. But what's being accomplished, I guess. But yeah, the point of a release, a mental health release, I would agree, is very important because I think we all feel we are living in the most bizarre times that we've experienced
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:47
It builds it's a collective feeling of outrage, but also of just connectedness. And that's it, man. Like, we're here on this Earth for 2 seconds. If we could feel connected and not insane. Wow. We did a good job. Like we did it. Yay. Thank you for helping me not feel completely out of control. And that's it. We did it
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:41
Yeah, Sudha, you know, when I see the women who vehemently and passionately support this happening, that women having their rights taken away, I can't even begin to understand it. The weirdest thing for me personally is that I know a couple of women who back in their day were a little wild and one had two abortions that I'm aware of and the other had at least one. And now they're out there today because they're MAGA supporters
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 2:24
It's just going to be here. What does it solve? It's interesting because I would even wager that voting doesn't solve anything. Right. A lot of these people who you're talking about, they probably voted. Right. And they have Biden in office. Right. The mighty Trump got vanquished. Or did he? I don't know. I guess so. I guess in some ways he did. Obviously, he's not in office anymore. Got forced out
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 3:45
And especially when you have groups of people that have deleted all voices of opposition from their pages wholesale, like there is no one left that could potentially provide a counterpoint or have discourse because we don't have discourse anymore. Right. You have talking points, bumper sticker catchphrases that people throw back and forth at each other, often in the form of memes. And it goes nowhere, does nothing. And so that's my point here
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:49
So in the midst of all this, when they're doing things the way that they're supposed to be doing it and there is no change, you can imagine how upset people must feel, which is why social media is so powerful, because it does create change. It may not seem like it, but this is the number one trending topic on Twitter, for example. It's trending everywhere on every social media platform
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:21
Yeah, you make some fair points there. You know, I believe that online rhetoric and memes most certainly played into all of the scenarios you cited. Black Lives Matter, unfortunately, the insurrection, the Me Too movement we're seeing. But in each one of those scenarios, you can also see some overzealous, overreaching effects. Me too. We're watching the Johnny Depp trial right now
Chelsea Hanawalt
@allowthesun · 4:56
One, does it make me feel good when I see the post or how does it make me feel when I see this person? Like these type of posts? Because then on Instagram I follow random people and then sometimes it's like, okay, this post is making me uncomfortable. Isn't comfortable for a good reason. Do I need to think about these topics?
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
He said that if you truly understand something and if you truly gauge what you try to learn and then what you're trying to talk about, you'd be able to explain it in the simplest possible terms, I. E. The final technique. So the left fails here because, as I said, highly speculative of me, but most of the meaning from the left is happening in activism and the activism mostly seems to be acquired rather than inherent. And it has been annoying for sure
