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Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent. – Brian Schatz	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You feel so helpless. – Rich Kovach	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless. – Barb Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society. – Janice Hahn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I have never felt as helpless as I did that night. All I could do was watch on and hope that my loved ones would make it. – Ameer Alsamman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What they did that day, they did with impunity, figured there would be no action taken against them. I felt dehumanized, I felt little, i felt helpless, and it hurt me. – Michael Jennings	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans. – Dick Durbin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I'm going to continue to do it until I could no longer do it, i refuse to be helpless. I refuse to be hopeless, and I refuse to give in. – Frank DeAngelis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
On Monday, the Do Not Give Me A Cigarette Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say Shirt besides I love this R&B craftsman R. Kelly was found liable on nine counts of sex dealing and racketeering, with the last option charge including demonstrations of pay off and sexual double-dealing of a youngster. Kelly was likewise observed to be disregarding the Mann Act, a sex-dealing rule that — for Kelly's situation — connected with the transportation and intimidation of two ladies, including a minor. Kelly could look up to life in jail at his condemning, which will happen on May 4. The present liable decision always marks R. Kelly as, a his hunter popularity and fortune to go after the youthful, the helpless, and the voiceless for his own sexual satisfaction, said Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, acting U.S. lawyer from the Eastern District, outside the Brooklyn town hall where Kelly's decision was perused Buy this Shirt https://teechip.com/do-not-give-me-a-cigarette-under-any-circumstance – Do Not Give Me A Cigarette Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say T Shirt	added by teeshop 1 year ago
We( The Islamic Center of New Mexico) thought after burial of these two young men( on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate, waking up Saturday morning to Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . ''( Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . '') death, the whole community just feels helpless. There's a lot of fear. – Tahir Gauba	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Now I'm very limited. I feel like I'm kind of helpless. You feel like you can't depend on yourself. You have to depend on others to help survive. – Ana Duran	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This lawsuit will hopefully result in common sense policy changes so that no parent or child or community ever has to feel as helpless as Oxford has coming out of this situation. – Ashley Ross	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When I found out it was my child, it took the breath out of me, it took some life out of me as well. It just made me numb and helpless because I wasn't there to protect my son. – Tyre Sampson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
People feel helpless, they feel like they want to do something and so they're online scrolling and they're sharing things that they think are true because they're trying to be helpful. – Claire Wardle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging. – Said Thompson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle. – Brett Hankison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As soon as I returned fire through that window the threat stopped, and I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle. – Brett Hankison	Found on CNN 2 years ago
( I feel) anger, fury, rage. I feel despondent, helpless, hopeless, frustrated, but also it motivates me. It encourages me to help be a voice for people who can't be a voice and want to say these things, or can't say these things, like teachers. – Patty Murphy	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don't think that journalists are as helpless as they sometimes present themselves when these kinds of changes are suggested. – Jay Rosen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These are children who do not even know what's their second name, where they hail from, their tribe, their religion, most of these children came from a very difficult background. Most of them saw when their parents were killed. They are confused and in a helpless state. – Zannah Mustapha	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Many people in the community feel helpless, but they also realize the power of prayer and the power of our historic theology. – Marcus Yoder	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's really no way to know which child with Covid will get a cold and be just fine and which child will be critically ill, it's just a very helpless sensation for families to feel like there is nothing they can do for their child. – Mary Taylor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our minds would always rather feel guilty than helpless. – David Kessler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He was talking to me about he’s terrified for his own life and he feels so helpless and doesn’t know what he can really do from there, he said the night before, the Taliban had come to his house and they broke a ton of windows in his neighborhood and they also broke the windows in his cars. He said all he could do was shelter in place because there’s really nothing he can do. – Mariam Farzayee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You feel so helpless.

– Rich Kovach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was a horrible sound to listen to someone, just literally watching somebody die in front of you, you feel so helpless.

– Barb Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society.

– Janice Hahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have never felt as helpless as I did that night. All I could do was watch on and hope that my loved ones would make it.

– Ameer Alsamman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they did that day, they did with impunity, figured there would be no action taken against them. I felt dehumanized, I felt little, i felt helpless, and it hurt me.

– Michael Jennings

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm going to continue to do it until I could no longer do it, i refuse to be helpless. I refuse to be hopeless, and I refuse to give in.

– Frank DeAngelis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On Monday, the Do Not Give Me A Cigarette Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say Shirt besides I love this R&B craftsman R. Kelly was found liable on nine counts of sex dealing and racketeering, with the last option charge including demonstrations of pay off and sexual double-dealing of a youngster. Kelly was likewise observed to be disregarding the Mann Act, a sex-dealing rule that — for Kelly's situation — connected with the transportation and intimidation of two ladies, including a minor. Kelly could look up to life in jail at his condemning, which will happen on May 4. The present liable decision always marks R. Kelly as, a his hunter popularity and fortune to go after the youthful, the helpless, and the voiceless for his own sexual satisfaction, said Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, acting U.S. lawyer from the Eastern District, outside the Brooklyn town hall where Kelly's decision was perused Buy this Shirt https://teechip.com/do-not-give-me-a-cigarette-under-any-circumstance

– Do Not Give Me A Cigarette Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say T Shirt

added by teeshop
1 year ago

We( The Islamic Center of New Mexico) thought after burial of these two young men( on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate, waking up Saturday morning to Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . ''( Muhammed Afzaal Hussain . '') death, the whole community just feels helpless. There's a lot of fear.

– Tahir Gauba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Now I'm very limited. I feel like I'm kind of helpless. You feel like you can't depend on yourself. You have to depend on others to help survive.

– Ana Duran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This lawsuit will hopefully result in common sense policy changes so that no parent or child or community ever has to feel as helpless as Oxford has coming out of this situation.

– Ashley Ross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I found out it was my child, it took the breath out of me, it took some life out of me as well. It just made me numb and helpless because I wasn't there to protect my son.

– Tyre Sampson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People feel helpless, they feel like they want to do something and so they're online scrolling and they're sharing things that they think are true because they're trying to be helpful.

– Claire Wardle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I received a frantic message from one of [her] caretakers at the orphanage saying that there were bombs going off and they were fearful for their lives, it was beyond scary and you feel helpless. Trying to aid children from a continent away is challenging.

– Said Thompson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As soon as I returned fire through that window the threat stopped, and I felt pretty helpless, like there is no way we can challenge this guy with an assault rifle.

– Brett Hankison

Found on CNN
2 years ago

( I feel) anger, fury, rage. I feel despondent, helpless, hopeless, frustrated, but also it motivates me. It encourages me to help be a voice for people who can't be a voice and want to say these things, or can't say these things, like teachers.

– Patty Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don't think that journalists are as helpless as they sometimes present themselves when these kinds of changes are suggested.

– Jay Rosen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are children who do not even know what's their second name, where they hail from, their tribe, their religion, most of these children came from a very difficult background. Most of them saw when their parents were killed. They are confused and in a helpless state.

– Zannah Mustapha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many people in the community feel helpless, but they also realize the power of prayer and the power of our historic theology.

– Marcus Yoder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's really no way to know which child with Covid will get a cold and be just fine and which child will be critically ill, it's just a very helpless sensation for families to feel like there is nothing they can do for their child.

– Mary Taylor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our minds would always rather feel guilty than helpless.

– David Kessler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He was talking to me about he’s terrified for his own life and he feels so helpless and doesn’t know what he can really do from there, he said the night before, the Taliban had come to his house and they broke a ton of windows in his neighborhood and they also broke the windows in his cars. He said all he could do was shelter in place because there’s really nothing he can do.

– Mariam Farzayee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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