Five years after the coronavirus outbreak, many Americans say public behavior in the United States has changed for the worse, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.

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    I’d walk that back to the first trump campaign. That’s when assholes decided it was ok to come out of the closet and abandon all pretenses at having any objective reasoning behind it. The whole “snowflake”, “liberal tears”, and “fucking the country up is ok as long as it pisses off the libs” thing really got rolling.

    Don’r forget, we had trump convoys harassing people, nazis at protests starting fights, laws made so that it is ok to run over protesters…. Yeah, the shitty behavior thing was in full swing prior to Covid.

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    I always knew deep down inside that most people are shit head assholes.

    Covid brought me a lot of validation in those feelings.

    The other thing people are missing is that Covid came about during trumps presidency and it was Trump that TRULY showed me how fucking abhorrent a huge amount of people are in this country.

    As a result I have a lot less respect and regard for the common person.

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    I don’t think people have been parenting at all for over thirty years and as a result we have become a nation of self unaware entitled shitbags with IQ’s in the double digits at best.

    Idiocracy is fucking real life.

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      It sure does feel like that sometimes. Maybe to much emphasis on childhood being never over and western society viewing childhood as a period free of consequences, as if that could ever be true. As if they front load heaven for afluent people and suggest it could be permanent if only they believe in it and pay up.

      But unfortunately they aren’t stupid. Self unaware people can be shockingly smart and think themselves in the right crowd through brazenly dumb logic.

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    Covid was the the grand reveal of what average americans actually are.

    And 50% of average americans are self centered, hateful pieces of shit that deserve a fist shoved down their throat and a red hot rod shoved up their ass.

    25% are genuinely decent people who would make any sacrifice to protect people they’ve never will, and probably never would meet.

    and the remaining 25% make a big show of trying to decide between which one of these two groups of people are the actual good people. (and then, regardless of who they say or how they act, end up perfectly in line with the 50% )

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      Hey now. Some of are rude now because we had to deal with the 50% for so many years. Eventually, to stop explaining yourself and start telling them to lick toilet seats.

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      I think it was the Trump presidency, which coincided with the pandemic. Every piece of shit who rightfully kept their bad behavior under wraps was shown someone rewarded with the presidency for being an absolute human crusty cum sock and decided to go mask off. Then they banded together, like a hateful, musty pile of jizz saturated teenage laundry.

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        In one respect, Hillary Clinton was right. How she named the seething mass of ignorant hatred was spot on.

        The Deplorables.

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        100% this.

        I think it had been building for years due to ever increasing numbers of people behaving badly behind pseudonyms online but the majority of asshats still maintained the illusion of not being asshats. Trump’s first ascendancy gave all those closet asshats permission to no longer care about maintaining illusions.

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    Because of COVID, or just within the last few years? I’m not sure the rudeness was caused purely by the pandemic, because gestures broadly

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    Let me tell you why I’m rude.

    I’m standing in line for a return at Target. This old karen with a “Grandma for Trump” shirt on walks up behind me.

    I’ve been waiting for at least 10 minutes and nobody is there. I’ve got all the time in the world, the workers have seen me, all good.

    Karen starts bitching to me about how the “lazy n****rs” won’t serve her here. it’s happened tons of times.

    I look this old bitch in the face and say, “fuck off you racist old cunt. nobody owes you shit.”

    she got all red in the face and sulked off to whatever crackden she crawled out of.

    I’m rude, because of the audacity of racist white old fucks who just need to mix their meds juuuust right for the deep sleep.

    if y’all racist pos are that fucking miserable, do the world a favor and fuck right off to a hole in the ground.

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      I think the rest of us need to realize what you probably already have; It’s easy to stay quiet because you think speaking up won’t make a difference. But your voice (online and real life) carries more weight than you realize. Speak up, don’t let these assholes exist unchallenged. Make them afraid again.

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      The fucking gall of some people… How many times has she pulled that gem out in public and gotten positive responses for her to be so confident and non-chalant about saying that to a complete stranger?

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    This it’s me so let me explain. First of all fuck you, second I don’t owe you shit, third get the fuck out of my way and I won’t have to be rude bitch

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    America has hollowed out its public school system, and then wonders why products of that system have reduced in quality?