AIBU to fed up with Virtue Signalling

[Dipi79]

Just that, really.
It's great that people are doing things for others/being considerate, but doesn't posting on Social Media seem a bit boasty?

It inspires me to be grumpy and miserable as fuck

Me too 🤣🤣😇

OK..I like the clapping. My DS loves it, but he is cconvinced it is for the army.

I hate the facebook shite. Particularly the commentary about supermarket queues and amazing home ed plans.

My life is currently shit, my family's life is shit and we have friends with shit lives too.

We are waiting for the day when this is all over and we can find out what life will look like when the crisis is over. Probably shit.

Those mental health ones get my goat. I’ve had anxiety (from an abusive marriage and a work bully) and been a bore about it at times, and during those times many of my friends were not there for me, not at all. Fine, people have different tolerance levels. But to then go and post that if you, a vague “you”, need to talk to someone they are there for you (repost and share if you’re a hypocritical wanker who likes to say they want to listen to your problems, but don’t really, please don’t actually call as I do not want to hear about it), well that’s not on. That’s just wanting to show you’re caring without doing the work.

I'm sick of the expression virtue signalling. People seem to love showing they know what it means on here! Guess we all have our bugbears!!

I have one "friend" muted at the moment because she kept posting how she was daily going to different supermarkets to get shopping, after she had secured a much coveted delivery slot, and somehow managed to also get in that people needed to stop buying all the food, all the time, as there was no toilet roll, followed by a juicy picture of her toilet roll stockpile.

Agree. Massively. And I HOPE NONE OF YOU PEOPLE CLAPPING VOTED TORY, because if you did, you are ridiculous buffoons 😂😂

My husband is a supermarket delivery driver.

Last night he was delivering to someone and a neighbour of theirs applauded him. Ffs calm down,

I'm sick of the expression virtue signalling. People seem to love showing they know what it means on here! Guess we all have our bugbears

I know a lot of people don't like the expression but I find it so accurately describes what some people do. I suspect I am guilty of overusing it, especially on here. Sorry.

I'm fed up of being nominated for stupid "challenges" to show what a strong woman I am etc etc.

I don't do any of them. They make no difference to anything like that icd bucket shit everybody was doing a few years ago.

I was a fan of the first clap. It was a nice community thing, a show of support etc.

Doing it every week takes the magic away I think

But the latest thing I've seen is someone trying to start a 'clap for the kids' at 3pm on Sunday because 'they've been such heroes staying inside, their world has changed, aren't they brave' etc. Most of the kids I know are having a lovely time playing all day with mum and dad home and a garden to mess about in and are not heroic in the same way as, oh, I don't know, a frontline NHS nurse. Fucking ridiculous.

Oh, and the dancing on the doorstep to S Club 7 thing. Cringe. At this rate there'll be a collective clap 5 times a day for various people.

Fizzysours
And I HOPE NONE OF YOU PEOPLE CLAPPING VOTED TORY, because if you did, you are ridiculous buffoons

Many people voted tory to try to salvage the economy and actually help the NHS as a consequence. The ones who don't understand that and pretend labour would have been a solution and things would be better today are the ones who are ridiculously deluded.

Give your head a wobble and do your research.

Doing it every week takes the magic away I think

only if the numbers get so low that you start noticing how many people are dying, we are not there yet.
They do it abroad, it's nice.

Salvage it from years of Tory mismanagement-I’m just looking in their manifesto for measures that proposed to take to ‘actually help the NHS’

Justincasecakehappens

Many people voted tory to try to salvage the economy and actually help the NHS as a consequence. The ones who don't understand that and pretend labour would have been a solution and things would be better today are the ones who are ridiculously deluded

Give your head a wobble and do your research

Right, so people voted Tory because they want to "help the NHS", despìte the past 10 years of serious underfunding by that same Tory government? That makes no sense whatsoever. Labour may or may not have been a solution, but it's the Tory's who chose to underfund the NHS. Telling people to "give their head a wobble and do their research" is patronising at best, and misguided at worst.

@JustInCaseCakeHappens I just wobbled my head, and my master's in social sciences fell out. Tories always thing socialists are thick. We are not, we prioritise differently. Because we prioritise society, not individuals.