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
The whole culinary fancy pantsy trend really drives me up the wall
Paul Volcker. When it comes to the architects of the neoliberal era, everyone talks about Hayek and Greenspan and Thatcher and Reagan. But no one mentions Volcker despite the man literally having the weaponizing of interest rates to break unions and the spending power of the working class named after him, the eponymous Volcker Shock.
if we’re gonna do generational warfare
what if we don’t
People are very intent on it
Just do what I do and point out that generationalism is almost entirely made the fuck up and almost entirely serves to pit the working class against itself
We’ve all noticed the r-word making a comeback but even terms like “lame,” “dumb,” and “stupid” are ableist and should not be used. Colonial terms like “looting” and “thugs” and “savage” always piss me off. Using the word “dark” to refer to anything negative is obviously not okay.
I can’t stand when people use “child” or “childish” as an insult. No one is easier to radicalize than kids. And it’s not because they’re ignorant or underdeveloped, it’s because they haven’t been propagandized into loving capitalism. Even relatively wealthy kids get very little out of capitalism. Kids are addicted to video games because they have no other control over their lives and are desperate for any kind of escape from this hellhole. Video games provide a world where work actually results in obvious achievements, while the vast majority of humanity is trapped in a world of endless toil with all the results and benefits going to a tiny minority.
It drives me crazy when people say your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25. Bruh our brains never stop changing.
Body-shaming when we all know that beauty is a social construct.
The r-word never left. The 2000s and early 2010s was famed for the slur-comedy/south park/jeffrey star humor. Its like 5-6 years max and not even that because 2014 was the start of the SWJ cringe compilation era.
Someone mentioned Belgium earlier in this thread, so I’m going to go a step farther and say the Netherlands. Yes, the cycling infrastructure is the best in the world and a decade ahead of every other country. Yes, the train system is pretty damn great with most lines getting at least 2 trains an hour. However, the Dutch seem to be remarkably proud of their colonial history, almost as much as the Brits according to this article. It’s still a neoliberal country and is the home of Shell Oil. The country also has a sprawl problem-I would call it bike sprawl-where much of the country is rowhouses and the transport seems designed around bikes and cars. This is still steps ahead of most other countries but the Dutch seem to be somewhat allergic to building more dense neighborhoods. The local bus service is also somewhat lacking, with less frequent service than in comparable countries depending on where you are. Oh also the dutch “language” is a joke.
The only reason why the Dutch like bikes is because it allows them to be rude with less separation between them and their target.
The Dutch character is a horrible combination of arrogance and smol bean syndrome.
smol bean? Not really. More like thinking they reason incarnate and would force their own 12 year old to pay for the meal they ate during a family gathering in a restaurant.
Seconding this as a Dutch person, especially on the “allergic to dense development” part
If America is a country built for cars at the expense of all else, the Netherlands is the same but built at bike scale. Like these are just suburbs dawg, yeah the bikes are great and wayyy ahead of the rest of the world, but many other countries just build more dense so you can just walk everywhere and take the train rather than have massive bike parking lots at every station. Again, the biking and trains are great but it’s just a different kind of suburb. I think the Dutch refuse to build taller because they would rather make another polder instead.
You haven’t seen Emmen. Has poor transit to boot.
One thing I should point out is that while we do cycle a lot, car ownership is still super high, so even in a model city like Houten the streets get cluttered by households having 2 cars each.
My explanation for the aversion is that we refuse to shake off an antiquated view of the Dutch landscape where our cities are small and low-rise with a lot of rural areas. So we may not be on Belgian levels of sprawl (we did get some measures against that in the seventies) but medium-sized cities are everywhere and as a result motorway traffic is high. The motorway between Amsterdam and Utrecht is 5 lanes in each direction.
I know Switzerland sprawls a lot too but they also have more railroads connecting them all, at least.
Oh, and Dutch people are the epitome of the neoliberal subject.
Animal exploitation
Alcohol.
Im going to say
s since no one has said it beforeAlso daylight savings time, AMLO banning that is the best thing he did with no negatives
I second the bleach demons
Sándwiches that are too big to take a reasonable bit
Agreed I love a nice little bit of meat, cheese and a few veggies slop your favorite sauces and you’re done. None of this weird making a sandwich bigger than my head business, life isnt Scooby-Doo.
Scotland is one of my hobby horses.
Now you’d think that they were a poor uwu wittle baby who were conquered instead of willingly joining in order to get more of that colonial pie as they spectacularly failed at establishing their own colonies. Scottish people have deluded themselves into thinking that they went through the same thing as the Irish rather than acting as the attack dogs of the English for the last 300 years, ironically also in Ireland. Being marginally less bad than the English is no great feat.
Usually its people conflating lowlands with highlands. Lowland scots are northumbrian anglo saxons who became part of the Kingdom of Scotland and therefore identify as such, but they arent celtic (well no more than northern english). While Highland Scots are the norse-celtic “victims of english oppression” (the oppression was done by lowlands scots in accord with “true” english officials)
Also there were “catholic english” migrants in Ireland that sided with the irish and got oppressed by england as well, while the scottish settlers in the north, well acted as settlers.
Yeah, the main reason it gets me riled up is that the domestic aristocracy of Scotland, which is from the same group of people that make up and have made up the vast majority of Scottish people for centuries, are treated as foreign. It is an easy way to wash your hands of any sins, just pretend that you’re part of the outgroup. It is a bit like Swedish people or Norwegians claiming they were opressed by identifying with the struggles that Sami people endure at their hand.
The same courtesy is rarely afforded the English who were also systematically cleared off land during the enclosures of the commons so it could be “better exploited” by land owners. England gets treated as a monolith despite there being many outgroups that were similarly persecuted by the state (Quakers, Romanichal, Irish Travellers, Lollards etc).
Canada.
We’re trying so hard to be like the USA but we already have meagre healthcare and a couple labour laws that people really don’t want to give up. I’d bet money that a proportional amount of people compared to the States is racist, sexist, and all the phobics. This country was built on slavery and unending genocide too and people here act like we’re so much better. Fake ass oil company country
The only - ONLY - reason that we’ve gotten away with being so shit is that we’re every so slightly less shit than our immediate and only neighbour to the south. If we compare ourselves to like any other OECD or G7 country we’re a disgrace (particularly with respect to how little we spend on social programs/services but also shit like poverty and police violence)
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.
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.
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.
FUCK ADS ALL MY HOMIES HATE ADS
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)
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.
I remember learning that Disney Channel used to push specials about fish and ocean life before Finding Nemo was revealed so that potential viewers would already have a more positive reception to the film when it was released.
Creating an advertisement aimed at children should be punishable by death and I’m not joking
Reality TV
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
