it's gita time: Like this is where Karen energy is needed. You need to be on that “can I speak to your manager” shit. Act like you’ve been double charged for your salad and need a refund.

Being really annoying is praxis. Phone, email, fax, show up in person if that’s an option. Just don’t let up until you’re too irritating to ignore.

the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you won’t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

You have to be SOOOOO annoying and hopefully convince other people around you to be equally annoying

Like this is where Karen energy is needed. You need to be on that “can I speak to your manager” shit. Act like you’ve been double charged for your salad and need a refund.

Facts. When my dog had a UTI, we couldn’t get the vet to write a script over the phone. So I went to the office with full Karen energy asking for 5 minutes to talk to the vet. 20 minutes later I left with the script. It was being the worst version of myself and I felt bad, but I got what I needed.

Being a total asshole has saved my life and the lives of loved ones on several occasions when officious insurance pricks were all "nothing we can do" OH YEAH MOTHERFUCKER YOU WANT SOME?!

This is literally the tactic the right have used for decades and it's time the left did the same.

YES GOD THANK YOU PLEASE

Are we seriously going to let the right beat us on being stridently petty and outraged? That's like Kenya letting the Welsh beat them in the marathon. (No offense to the Welsh. I just wanted a funny sounding country. And sorry for thinking your country's name sounds funny but...come on.)

Now that you've said it I think it actually does sound funny

Kinda. But there is no mirror image. Demands from the right are pleasing to donors and newspaper proprietors. From the left, not so much.

And the right will bomb or shoot you. Or try to kidnap and murder you

Yes, obviously. No mirror image, like I said.

I was agreeing with you! But also we didn't talk enough about how fucking scary the right has always been in the US

Always has been and always will be everywhere. The leaders are psychopaths and the followers are afraid of their own shadow. And liberals will always prefer fascism to socialism. And revolutions just put a different bunch of cunts in charge. And fuck off nihilism, I am not havin' it.

Because I now live in San Francisco, I get to vent my anger directly into Nancy Pelosi's inbox and let me tell you: it helps.

Oh hell yeah tell her I said fuck you

I once sent "As a born and raised Californian, your stance on this is embarassing"

BEAUTIFUL

I did that to Kathy Hochul when she proposed a mask ban. Knowing (from former students who were interns in congressional offices) that they count pro/con and characterize the emotional tone in reports to the electeds, even if those guys never listen to (or read) their own messages.

Kathy Hochul deserves alllllll the angry messages.

I literally started “as a native New Yorker” and went high dudgeon from there.

Just wrote her again, thanks for the reminder.

Be this lady. Yes.

Never underestimate the power of weaponized bureaucracy and Big Karen Energy. The far right hasn’t. I used to do victim’s advocacy in the ER and channeling my mother’s midwestern passive aggression worked wonders with hospital staff, cops, and COs.

Called the State Legislature in NC when the mask ban was under consideration. Told them we were on our was to Asheville/Biltmore and just turned our car right round. (Absolutely true). Asked if we were going to have to leave wheelchairs at the border next. Mama was MAD. 😡

the time to be a Karen is over it's time to be a CAREn

YES

Such good points. Solid. 💯🏆

And it wasn't even a GOOD salad. THERE WERE NO GLUTEN FREE ALITOS.

Hahahahahha

Spite can be a very powerful motivator indeed.

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