What the F#%k is wrong with people?

Let’s skip the pleasantries. What the f%#k is wrong with people?

I’m not talking about policy disagreements or ideological divides. I’m talking about the daily flood of soul-curdling nonsense that makes you want to walk into the sea. I’m talking about the kind of willful ignorance, cruelty-as-a-branding-strategy, and internet-addled brain rot that now passes for public discourse.

We’re watching a slow-motion collapse, and people are live-streaming it for likes.

A woman screams at a Starbucks barista for not honoring her expired coupon and walks away feeling victimized. A man hears a politician propose universal childcare and compares it to Stalinism. Someone’s aunt on Facebook posts a meme about chemtrails being a UN plot to sterilize Americans—and ten people nod along in the comments like it’s gospel.

Meanwhile, ICE agents are raiding neighborhoods like we’re reenacting the Stasi in hi-def and surround sound. Elected officials are openly pining for a return to the 1950s—minus the unions and polio vaccines, of course. The Supreme Court can’t decide whether to side with the Constitution or a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, and people still think voting in presidential elections fixes everything.

This isn’t just stupidity. This is active, cultivated, industrial-strength stupid. It’s what happens when the internet merges with capitalism and both get weaponized by authoritarian cosplay enthusiasts in MAGA hats.

We’ve built an entire culture around grievance. Being offended is a virtue now—but only if you’re offended in the right direction. A drag queen reading a book to children? “Moral collapse.” A cop kneeling on someone’s neck until they die? “Let’s wait for all the facts.”

What the actual f%#k.

And don’t tell me this is just how it’s always been. That it’s the media, or social media, or partisan spin. Yes, those are accelerants. But the fire? The fire is us. Our inability to think critically. Our craving for easy answers. Our loyalty to team over truth.

We could fix a lot of this. We know how. Better education. More civic engagement. Stronger communities. Holding people—especially powerful people—accountable. But instead, we double down on the circus. We buy tickets, bring popcorn, and boo the wrong clown.

We vote for candidates who openly mock democracy, then act shocked when institutions erode. We reward billionaires for firing half their workforce and replacing them with broken chatbots. We trust influencers over experts because their thumbnails make us feel seen. This isn’t political discourse—it’s reality television with a body count.

What scares me…wait. What really scares me…nope. One of the things that really scares me isn’t that people believe absurd things. It’s that they want to. Because believing absurd things means you never have to change. Never have to reflect. Never have to ask, “Could I be wrong?”

It’s comforting to believe the world is rigged against you rather than admit it’s partially rigged because of you. If everything is someone else’s fault, you never have to take responsibility—or action. Just keep scrolling, keep reposting, keep marinating in your preferred algorithmic echo chamber. Just keep hating the people that they tell you to hate and you never have to consider the feelings, rights or pain of those people (or anyone really).

So yes, I’ll ask again—what the f%#k is wrong with people?

The answer might be: we’ve mistaken attention for validation, rage for righteousness, and ignorance for authenticity. We’re sick, not just in the head, but in the soul. And unless we start calling this out—not politely, not gently, but loudly and relentlessly—we’re going to keep spiraling.

This isn’t about left or right. And it isn’t about right or wrong. It’s about who we are and who we are becoming. Hint: it’s not a pretty picture.