It happens every time someone posts about injustice, corruption, or authoritarian overreach:

Some half-awake contrarian rolls into the comments and drops the laziest, most cowardly phrase in the modern playbook:

“Get a life.”

It’s the digital equivalent of a shrug and a smirk—designed to silence, to belittle, to imply that caring too much is the real problem. Not injustice. Not abuse of power. But you. For noticing. But us. For not silently watching the walls fall down around us.

So let’s break it down.

Why Do People Speak Out on Social Media?

Because it’s a primary public square now.

It’s where conversations happen.

It’s where elections are shaped, narratives are built, and silence is interpreted as consent.

When someone raises hell about policy, about fascism creeping in through the back front door, about lies becoming law, about hatred as a policy—they’re not doing it because they’re bored.

They’re doing it because they still believe participation matters. Because history has shown us what happens when people don’t speak up.

You don’t say “get a life” to someone ringing the fire alarm.

You say it to the people playing cards in the basement while the house burns down.

Apathy Is Not a Personality

If you think tuning out makes you cool, it doesn’t.

If your political ideology is “whatever,” you are not free—you’re just tranquilized.

And if your entire contribution to public discourse is calling people “obsessed” or “dramatic” for refusing to normalize authoritarianism, then you are part of the problem.

Indifference is the life blood of tyranny.

And in this climate, staying silent isn’t neutral—it’s permission.

Get a Life? This Is Life.

We post about politics because it decides whether someone can afford insulin.

We post because courts are being stacked, rights are being stripped, and leaders are behaving like kings with no consequences.

We post because some judges are trying to do their part as equals with the executive branch and being ignored with no ramifications.

We post because due process matters, due process is the most important right a person within the borders of this country has, regardless what you think of that person.

We post because if you don’t speak up now, you don’t get to play victim later.

So next time you want to type “get a life,” stop yourself. Ask instead: why does this person care? Why don’t I?

Because the world doesn’t need more spectators. It needs people who give enough of a good God damn to raise their voice—even if it’s just a post, a comment, a shout into the algorithm.

And if that makes you uncomfortable?

Good. That’s called waking up. Now get off your ass and do something.