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Quiet Em

(3,014 posts)
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 12:55 PM Aug 2025

If people are upset over the Cracker Barrel logo change

then they should thank their lucky stars that the logo change is the only thing that is distressing them in life.

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Midnight Writer

(25,737 posts)
1. I reckon people upset over the Cracker Barrel sign are pretty much distressed by everything in their lives.
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:06 PM
Aug 2025

This outrage epidemic is a psychological addiction. The more they get, the more they want.

Bettie

(19,872 posts)
3. The whole thing reminds me
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:31 PM
Aug 2025

Of when my brother had a hissy fit over the ATM asking if he wanted to continue in English or Spanish. He lost his mind, was enraged…that he had to push him be more button.

I don’t speak to him anymore, but that was not the last straw. I made an effort.

mike_c

(37,132 posts)
4. half the country is in a state of permanent grievance
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:32 PM
Aug 2025

They will ALWAYS react stupidly to stupid stuff.

D. Spaulding

(517 posts)
5. When you become so online, that you feel you have to
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 01:44 PM
Aug 2025

respond to everything as if it's the end of the world.
And you think your opinion is of some relevant importance.
And you identify so deeply with things that really are inconsequential and apply a partisan tinge to everything...
Then it's really time to reexamine your life

Mark.b2

(807 posts)
6. The online world is nothing like the real world...
Sun Aug 24, 2025, 03:15 PM
Aug 2025

I’ll spend my evenings online, get riled up and assume everyone is the same. I’ll go to work the next day or go hang with family or friends or to church on weekends, and the everyone is fine. I get it that I pay much more attention to politics and the news, but that’s not the norm.

I do better now in taking breaks. With football season starting next weekend, I can focus my angst more on that! lol

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