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.
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.
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
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.
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
Cars. Even on this site cars don’t get enough hate.
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.
I want trams
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.
I agree that’s appropriate use, but I hesitate sometimes because I’ve heard road rage stories that scare me.
As someone who’s had a gun pointed at them in traffic, I feel you.
i hate cars but since they’re mandatory to live i try to not think about how much i hate them
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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.
Just the LED headlights
What about the rest of the car? Terrible invention. Ruins planets.
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.
One singular time. That’s how often I’ve seen a restaurant have both Alioli (Spanish, vegan) and Aioli (French, not vegan), and the pretentious font and italics the menu used made it difficult to see, and 98% of people would have assumed it was a typo anyway.
I personally blame the French for adding eggs to Spanish alioli and taking out the first L.
Immanuel Kant
based, we immanent in this house, take your transcendent critique back to liberalism
Kant is a bit out of left field lol, but I agree, fuck Kant
He had the categorical imperative to measure skulls and insert humans into racial hierarchies.
Tldr goog kant race theory
Yeah I hate Kant for multiple reasons, too. It was just funny to have a bunch of very mundane, everyday things to hate, and then Immanuel Kant.
Yeah he’s also a fucking nerd
Not to mention he literally endorses snitching because you shouldn’t lie. Fuck off.
See? He doesn’t get as much hate as he deserves.
I should do more philosophers
Most famous philosophers were bastards.
Alcohol in mouthwash when we were younger
They still put alcohol in mouth wash.
not as much as it used to be, around 40 proof if I remember. It was already traumatic enough as is for me to accidentally get a mouthful of whiskey when I was three, but having to do something similar as a part of the cleansing ritual from a young age should get shat on
LED headlights on cars and LED lights in general.
LED headlights when aimed properly are amazing. LED headlights when aimed poorly are the devil. Also fuck trucks with their high ass headlights that are blinding even at a reasonable following distance.
But I’d like to add that LED bulbs in halogen housings aka “poverty beams” should be made 200% illegal. If you commit this heinous act just go straight to the gulag. Halogen housings don’t have the sharp cutoff needed for LED headlights, and pair that with the type of person to do this not being the type to aim the headlights properly and they’re a legit hazard to the roads.
I will endure being called a fucking luddite for the rest of human history if it means banning LEDs from the earth.
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.Incredible list
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
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!
More that LEDs enable designs and bazinga sales tactics that appeal to the lowest common demonitor of first time car buyers. The kind who think they need to invest in a potential lighthouse.
It’s probably something that is very easy to fix. Like manditory adjustments of the LEDs and some sort of software update to crank down the lumens or whatever. But that requires actual regulation that our politics are too weak to enforce. It’s partciular fustrating because much of the complaints is this crash-out rheotric where you end up wasting alot of time with people who have no interest in engaging with the issue but expect you to be their therapist.
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
We had to dock my old dog’s tail because the vet was worried that she would wag it too hard into a doorframe and break her tail. I hope it didn’t hurt her too much.
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:
Yeah, I think you got it right with Reagan really fucking with them. I worked at a place with a lot of people who were supposedly “progressive”, “counter culture” etc etc and when I unionized it came out just how many gen x people were suuuuper anti union, or “I’m pro union just not here”. It took the most work to try to flip them, I was really shocked but then I figured they were exposed to the most propaganda and witnessed how dismal unions were at their worst
i feel like boomer is just in practice gen Xer, could be wrong tho
Yeah too chicken shit to stand by what is said. “Oh thats not what he meant”. Both em and boomers do thd same for shit trump says
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.
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
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
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)
this one is so deeply strange to me, like they made it up it’s not a real existing cultural appropriation so why would people so uncomfortable with chinese people choose for that to be the thing? they could’ve chosen other languages plausibly white or adjacent that’d still indicate the cosmopolitan space culture
My armchair analysis is that it’s a common theme in futuristic space media to show that the Earth is much more united now that there are other worlds with which to fight, form tenuous alliances, etc. China is the biggest, most distant Other, so merging them into the American melting pot in your lore is the strongest way to make that point.
If two political bodies that were once very distinct in the past are now just provinces in a single nation, the cheapest way to extend that pattern into the future is to do what they did. It’s a bit cliché but I wouldn’t consider it the worst writing sin in the world if they had just made the characters and casting reflect that.
Side note: across Firefly and Dollhouse, there aren’t that many black characters either, and a uncomfortably large proportion of them are villains.
i think it might have taken the place of 80s media being all “everything is going to be Japanese” after Japan’s bubble burst and the PRC was (more visibly) on the rise
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.
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)
The whole culinary fancy pantsy trend really drives me up the wall
