I know it is nothing to take seriously and ruin your mood over but... being from Turkey, I'm so tired of seeing what we call "conscience masturbation"on social media with people saying things like, "I feel ashamed to have a warm house" because of the earthquake. I was called a heartless monster for stating this. It's perfectly understandable to feel terrible & traumatized about what's happened. I'm not talking about that. Though I find such statements extremely unhinged, cringy and insincere. Why should I be ashamed to have a roof over my head because of a tragedy? It is people who allowed those buildings to be erected that should be ashamed. I'm sure people trapped under the rubbles would prefer if you donated or helped them instead of making it about yourself on the social media. Hell, if I died like this, I'd want my family to be happy that they didn't end up in my situation; my demise will already have hurt them immensely, why the extra tragic sauce to make it worse?

Instead of being ashamed and acting like you are a pure saint maybe protest against the government, question why rescue efforts were so late, why in a country which has been known to be on fucking dangerous fault lines have thousands of cardboard buildings. This is what I am talking about - not criticising "being sad and affected" by it, hell, anyone with a semblance of empathy & humanity in them would be hit like a truck after a disaster of such magnitude, this is not the point.

Sorry about the rant but this really annoys me so much, felt like blowing some steam off. Our nation has the maturity of a 14yo kid collectively. All emotions, empty gestures, no learning, no deriving lessons. It happened in 1999. It happened in 2011. It happened in 2023. It will happen soon again in Istanbul and in the east. Wish we could do more than being ashamed for living like normal people and make sure that everyone in this country can do the same.