They know I have a filtration system and enjoy comedy. That’s my whole personality right there!

Nope! I’m just smiling at you without using the cringy *smiles at you* asterisks. Now you understand my intentions and future smiles will be decipherable 🙂

I see how you might confused, but mine isn’t sideways, and it doesn’t have a nose, see? 🙂

I’m being dead serious :-(

I respectfully disagree. They’re useful for conveying tone or emotion without needing to be wordier to do so. You say it’s lazy, but I see efficiency. If you’re annoyed, it’s because you personally see reason to be annoyed. They’re not objectively annoying. Some people are obnoxious with it, sure, but that’s not the fault of the emojis themselves. Take it easy, man 🙂

It’s honestly so weird. The whole ritual needs to be done away with

I like all emotes. There really should be more of them

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Like it or not, Harry Potter was massive. Popular things get memed. Popular people (actually, people in general) all suck in some way. Your favorite movie? Directed by a pedophile. Favorite show? Several racist cast members. Favorite book? Transphobe. This is just what humanity is. Enjoy the memes, ignore them, or continue shouting into the void. This will never stop happening though.

The brain never actually stops developing. We just have more fully realized hardware into our 30s, but we truly never stop maturing

Only the Holy Grail. Guess this one’s gone over my head.

Are you okay?

Blah blah blah. We’re not a monolith. But I can confidently say you personally have some demons. Sorry America’s one of em. I still didn’t do jack shit to you, but stay mad I guess. That’ll accomplish something.

Woosh.

I’m saying you are portraying exactly the traits that make America suck. Including the poor reading comprehension. Be better.

He who controls the flow of information controls the “truth”. This is an abusable lever of power. If someone is being silenced, they can effortlessly be branded as a liar, because the arbiters of truth leave no lies behind. Welcome to the game.

You embody everything wrong with America.

Man, all I did was be born here. I didn’t settle anywhere but where I was allowed. I’ve never killed anyone. I never opted in to being American, and opting out is hard as shit. Agreed, the America we have is a pile of donkey shit, but I didn’t shit that pile. Most of us didn’t. Vent your anger elsewhere.

Yerp. Presentation is everything

What is this? I love it.

What’s with America and refusing its workers basic comfort while they work? Does it really not know how to decouple slavery from paid labor?

I hope China’s considering the same for the US. Mutually assured AI destruction.

My initial thought. I’m sick of seeing the same desperate headline repeated ad nauseum. Either give me the news that he croaked, or I’m gonna stay assuming he’ll run in 2028, with a worryingly non-zero chance of winning. And he will continue not-dying throughout the remainder of that term.