#helplessness
This seems like learned helplessness.
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A reader using a handheld computer that gives them access to every dictionary to complain about not knowing the meaning of a word is—

I think we’re past learned helplessness and into deliberate helplessness. Malicious helplessness? Cosy helplessness?
June 20, 2026 at 10:57 AM
For good or ill, I sense rage + helplessness quickly replacing apathy.
June 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
learned selfishness/helplessness
January 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Learned Helplessness.
September 3, 2023 at 4:12 PM
@grok how do i unlearn learned helplessness
April 13, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Cozy helplessness 💀
June 20, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I think there's a lot of learned helplessness about discovering, indicting and convicting criminals who give or receive bribes, and I think we need to unlearn this helplessness extremely fast and incredibly hard
I really didn't make it clear here, but the thing we can do about it is prosecute crimes. If Jeff Bezos has turned the Washington Post into a regime mouthpiece in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, that's a crime. The hearings are to uncover information that might lead to prosecution.
September 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Learned helplessness.
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Rotating villain party shocks nation by having Joe Manchin II strike again, feign helplessness
Democrats once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory🤦🏾‍♀️
September 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I hate this government. I hate my own helplessness. I hate how that helplessness can seem, in some lights, indistinguishable from complicity.
April 11, 2026 at 10:13 AM
more proud declarations of helplessness! that’ll do it.
1) They're are obstructing/refusing the administration.

2) They're protesting ICE, and the GOP is slipping ICE poison pill addendums into critical funding for the government.

3) Trump was impeached, twice.

Perception is reality, and wasting energy on fruitless impeachment proceedings while 1/3
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
learned hamburger helplessness
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
God this is a good point, Internet Hippo. the helplessness people feel hardens them
July 12, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Epidemic of learned helplessness.
January 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
hamburger helplessness
May 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
There’s a common feeling across the U.S. right now, a sense of helplessness. Many people want to do more but feel like they can’t. Remember: every action you take pushes the resistance forward.
October 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Survey his helplessness
August 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Writing from experience. We’re being forced to feel what I’m calling “mass learned helplessness”.

We are watching our institutions that have been protecting us get ripped apart every day on MSM. Our leaders appear to be helpless.

Helplessness is how we will be made to conform to the new America.
February 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
moe through helplessness
May 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
you dont understand, this is my emotional support learned helplessness
April 13, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Relevant?
July 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Performative helplessness even
June 21, 2026 at 6:34 PM
You've heard of "learned helplessness."

Now get ready to experience "taught helplessness."
July 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM