I’ll start:
Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.
Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state
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oh boy another struggle sessionEveryone is being nice
Ads. They’re everywhere and they’re all awful. Google deserves even more hate for doing that spat last year to try and prevent ad blockers. Don’t invest 500 billion into streaming video over the internet if you don’t want people to block your shit ass ads for Alex Jones pills and quacky pseudoscience, idiots.
Creating an advertisement aimed at children should be punishable by death and I’m not joking
I seriously a culture of ad destruction should be created.
There are millions of people with anticapitalist leanings now. Yeah they might not be full blown communists but they’re against this shit enough to take small actions they know they won’t be caught for. Get millions of people actively destroying ads whenever they have the opportunity to and it’ll form a small stepping stone to doing more radical things.
FUCK ADS ALL MY HOMIES HATE ADS
It’s so unbelievably egregious. I remember hanging out at my dad’s and he was watchin’ some football game, and I was aghast at how much time was taken up by ads. I remember asking him “How do people stand having so much of what they’re trying to watch pushed aside for ads?” Not to mention how many ads there are on the screen all over the stadium, the graphics, the announcers’ scripts, etc.
Any entertainment I watch online with ad-blockers, so whenever I visit my family and they have the TV on I’m blown away by how constant the ads have gotten, like how short the segments of the actual shows are relative to the frequency and length of the ad-breaks between them. I don’t know how they put up with it in general.
If I could even be bothered to remember what was advertised I would go out of my way not to buy it.
Ads aren’t there to convince you to buy something. Ads are meant to place subconscious familiarity with a brand so the next time you’re shopping for a product you haven’t bought before, you’re subconsciously biased towards the brand that wormed into your brain through ads.
Especially on phones. On desktop with large monitor and adblock i barely register them if i see them at all, but when i try to tap anything internety on my phone every fucking sentence or picture of content is gated behind at least one swipe of ads. Like how do people even tolerate that shit.
the sheer number of people I know that still use chrome despite me telling them that chrome is the reason their adblocker doesn’t work as well and doesn’t work at all on youtube blows my mind. They care enough to use an adblocker but then the most intrusive ads (long video ads, midrolls, etc.) they just shrug.
And thats not to mention the huge number of people that just don’t block any ads. Ads are literally spyware in addition to being annoying, but apparently that’s fine
My version of ublocker still works on my Chromebook so I fly with it.
that I for sure understand, it ain’t broke… (although chromebooks are just google data harvesters through and through, I personally would run linux on it and ditch chromeos, but thats just me)
CW: Animal abuse
Cosmetic Dog/pet tail docking. It’s cruel, unnecessary, and frankly when these rich white people at the dog shows start talking about “breed standards” you have to wonder what they are really projecting there.
The American/British Kennel Club or whatever it is needs to be burnt to the fucking ground, they are responsible for so much normalised animal cruelty
Cars. Even on this site cars don’t get enough hate.
I want trams
It’s really sad when people get upset that there is a future where they aren’t trapped in their twenty year old Honda civic four hours a day.
and honkeys
honkies honking their car horns
Sometimes honking is necessary to get everyone off their phones so they notice the light turned green
This fits perfectly with how underhated cars are because in any type of built up enviroment at night or when there’s people not in soundproofed metal cages around indiscriminately sounding off the 110dB airhorn from inside one so some idiot in another one doesn’t make you wait two minutes longer because you’re both in the stupidest form of transportation, is ridicolous. I’m literally walking ova heah, fuck off with the noise.
Car horns should be louder on the inside than the outside honestly.
Yeah, agitation work has left me sadder and wiser, seeing how many people drive staring straight down at their phones.
streamers
cape shit
putting too much sauce on things
marketers
putting things in bicycle lanes
american cinema in general
belgiumAnimal exploitation
Oh, I forgot to mention what I think deserves more hate.
Cringe compilations. For some reason they’ve come back in the spotlight. I thought they died in the 2010s but I guess Trump winning has made people nostalgic for 2016.
Anti-woke shit deserves to be made fun of more too, as does general right-wing self seriousness.
Ableism seems to recently have gotten really fucking out of hand too. I feel like people in general have become way shittier towards anything out of step with the capitalist status quo. I feel like that whole desperation to be normal and fit in deserves to be mocked, rather than the current trend of hating on people for being “special” which in itself reeks of ableism
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LED headlights on cars and LED lights in general.
Salary pay.
Forced overtime. I don’t give a shit I’m getting paid more.
Calling mayonnaise aioli.
Charging additional money for your food because you call your mayonnaise aioli or any other bullshit fancy words to exotisize your dish.
The Korean War for inflicting Korean army stew (Budae Jjigae) and other culinary disasters upon the Korean people.
Alcohol in mouthwash when we were younger
Houses who’s house numbers are hard to see from the street while driving before the advent of our Google overlords releasing maps.
Calvinists and any of their ideological descendants.
Lawn maintenance
Dust build up on surfaces in homes.
Mosquitoes
The fourth earl of sandwich for making sandwiches etymologically synonymous with his title. God damn English noblility.
Immanuel Kant
Potholes in the road
Americanized Chinese food.
Fucking yum yum sauce.
A lack of actual ethnic foods from around the world in the U.S across the U.S.
The Sweds for the abomination of subjecting mackerels to being tinned in cans with tomato sauce.
Cities where its businesses and public centers do not have bathrooms for the public, like Seattle.
If you want me to give your “aioli” any respect, then it better be: vegan (no eggs or any other kind of binding agent), so garlicky it makes me vampire-proof, and made with pungent and spicy southern Spanish oil.
Fuck off with your runny, shitty mayo.
Everybody and their moms complain about LED headlights. It’s a really handy dialectic than what they think actually doesn’t matter in the market or our so called liberal democracy.
It’s a plot by big bulb to make more profits off of forcing obsolescence on an entire perfectly finely lit world by cramming it full of lethal junk that’s easier to manufacture to fail at planned times, cheaper to make, but easier to price gouge on! The auto and insurance companies are in on it too! More taxpayer spending to line their pockets making “safer” cars while profiting off of people getting injured because of unsafe lighting conditions caused by their devil lights by sucking the blood of the innocent with jacked up prices for being blinded by the devils lights and causing harm then being denied for coverage by the tight-fisted insurance kulaks!
What’s wrong with LEDs?
Punishes every oncoming driver for the crime of being born with eyes
They’re evil objects
There isn’t a better way to illuminate something
i’d rather stare at the sun
Salary pay
Salary pay is awesome if you get overtime, which I understand is not the case in The Burger Reich. But in
for example you get time and a half pay for extra hours worked, and it’s nice not having to clock/log your hours all the damned time.
Firefly, for three reasons.
One, the “heroic” war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.
Two, Whedon’s sexpest behaviour during production.
Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.
Four, they all speak Mandarin because of some historic cultural amalgamation, but there’s not a single Asian person on the crew (or in the show that I can remember)
Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.
I feel like The Avengers is more responsible for cementing it into culture, but yeah, I have no desire to revisit Firefly despite liking it when I first watched it.
whedonistic
Aaaaa
Does that mean quipless dialogue is anwhedonic?
One, the “heroic” war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.
What?
In the audio commentary of the pilot episode (it’s been 10,000 years so might be a different episode) Whedon talks about the war being space US Civil War and Mal is inspired by the confederate soldiers who went west after the war because the inner planets = manufacturing power and center of government like the north, and outer planets = agrarians who are having their ‘rights’ trampled like the south. Obviously it’s a prime time show from 2001 written entirely by white people so there’s no discussion of slavery, the closest it gets is one episode does feature an outer planet guy who ‘owns’ people via their debts to him
I’ll be damned
There’s a whole lot of dogwhistle language that “Confederate history buffs” would recognize. For example, how Mal occasionally talks about his side rising again.
I think that’s less dogwhistle and more Whedon is just a bit stupid. It’s very bog standard evil sleek shiny empire vs. ragtag bunch of loveable misfits, more in line with Star Wars. The entire crew is way too progressive, excluding Jayne who is explicitly the asshole, for them to be reactionary US confederates.
tbh the gen xers I’ve met are just are reactionary as the average boomer, they just have this veneer of “I’m just a laid back cool dude, man :)” where they’ll say the same reactionary shit as boomers but instead of being sincere about it and getting worked up the way boomers do, they’ll suffix it with “but I’m just joking man :) or am I? :))) don’t be so serious bro :))))))))))”
You wrote out my thoughts exactly
My biggest issue with Gen X is since they all got mind broken by Reagan even the libs are centrist shithead types from the ones I’ve met. Like with boomers sometimes you’ll get a union person who’s still got some of the old left fire, Millennials may be cringe but a lot are still left-libs being pipelined into socialism.
The amount of X leftists just feels really low to me.
“We have leftists in gen x”
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Foster care. I don’t have a leftist analysis of this. Just a lot of personal experience and bitter hatred. It’s a violent ass institution that’s rife with abuse, racism, and class warfare
Foster care and the welfare of and for the children need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
How should it be done?
I’d want to look more closer towards the Soviet and all other socialist state systems. If I recall, Anna Louise Strong’s books, specifically ‘this Soviet world’, have sections detailing the treatment of orphans in the post-revolutionary war period. I remember being rather impressed with what I read at the time. I also can think whatever adjustments I’d personally make would include working on destigmatizing the negative perception of being an orphan or a foster child among a plethora of other subjects that would need to be addressed.
Insofar as I’m concerned no child should be subject to abuse or alienation regardless of the circumstances of their birth or life.
I think something like 65% of foster children end up homeless as adults if not more. I agree, it is totally fucked. Child Protective Services as well. I couldve been taken away from my mom when I was young… I lived a very traumatic childhood but who knows what the hell couldve happened to me if I was placed in foster care
CPS is also racist as shit. anecdotally, im white, so when they visited me they had no interest in even asking me if anything happened. then this black kid i knew growing up got taken from his mom for basically nothing (don’t remember what it was exactly i met the guy years ago) and put in a shitty foster home where the lady running it was also racist
I feel like that goes without saying, but that example just really illustrates how fucked it is. I’m sure being white contributed to my not being separated. I remember the social worker being a black lady, but a broken system is a broken system
Capitalism
The whole culinary fancy pantsy trend really drives me up the wall
You know what, autocorrect. Sometime in the last 5 years autocorrect on my phone started suggesting the dumbest shit. I can literally type out a full word that grammatically makes sense and autocorrect will replace it with some other bullshit.
