Governments fear mongering people into doing what they say. Shutting down people’s lives from fear of death from Covid, a government sanctioned and authorized “pandemic”. Now, it’s normal for governments to dictate people’s lives. Lame.
The requirement for people to post their lives online, in the early days if the Internet the general rule was you don’t post personal information online, now it’s gone the complete opposite direction, I’ve met multiple people who write you of as “strange” just because they can’t poke through your Facebook/Instagram/snapchat/twitter.
I don’t keep social media accounts because it doesn’t intrest me, and have been told multiple times that people don’t trust me because I don’t air out everything I think on an online platform.
Offices of all types (medical, billing, tech support, etc.) only doing business on a callback basis. Customers and clients are expected to be continuously available to receive a call at the office’s convenience.
We have all become unwilling, unpaid, on-call employees of most every company we deal with.
This is the thread that made me make an account and what a pain it was to find without having saved it anywhere. I’ve been holding out for someone to say it, but havwn’t seen it specifically.
Single use plastics. I still remember the weird feeling of doom when learning the world population and making the quick relation to disposable plastics, constantly being told “but it’s only a little bit.” A little bit for several thousand years, per billions, is too many bits.
The best way I’ve found of making people realise how much waste they generate is to ask them to imagine having to bury it in their back yard. Every week.
That’s pretty much what we do: bury it somewhere else.
Positive attitude towards billionaire philanthropists. First, they made a fortune on the result of labor alienated from workers, then they threw a pitch and became good guys
Aren’t there even to this day completely pacifist tribes in South America and I wanna say island tribes somewhere out in or around New Zealand or New Guinea?
No idea but wasn’t exactly thinking of tribes as society. More the overall whole of humanity. I wonder if we’ll ever achieve a world without hate (excluding exstinction).
Sorry I knew what you were going for, I just took issue with the word society, because not calling those tribes a society is a kind of colonizer mentality. It’s actually really sad, one small tribe is in the rainforest and they keep getting killed and rolled over, sometimes literally, by Brazilian mining companies.
I’m in a job that’s good enough that I may be able to buy or build a small house of my own in the near future - but first I have to wait for everyone who is currently selling their houses to panic for no reason in particular, plummeting prices, kicking people out of homes they’ve lived in for a decade or more, and causing all kinds of mayhem. And then when I get a place of my own I’ll be subject to this absurdity directly every five to ten years like clockwork!
Said the Anglo supremacist who has benefitted actively from generations of looting and genocide committed upon rest of the world. BRICS+ is announcing payback time for a few millenia, do not worry. We shall see a change in the tune of your ilk within a decade, when your ilk no longer will say “both sides bad”.
BRICS+ is announcing payback time for a few millenia
ehhhh I don’t think this is remotely true. Literally every single country in BRICS is still trying to maintain good relations with the US, the main thing China wants to do is create an alternative to the US-centric global trade network and the main benefit this brings to other countries is that they can’t be sanctioned as easily. “Payback time” won’t happen unless a majority of the world signs on and they all agree to sanction the US and Europe (which would be hilarious but is never gonna happen).
The US without imperialism is like a leech that can’t parasitize. Of course people are trying to maintain good relations, but that is especially due to the fact that the end result will be destructive and they don’t want the US to get rowdy while it still can.
Anglosphere will pay indirect reparations in the form of dependence on BRICS+, since the latter holds most of the money, natural resources and manufacturing capabilities. They will not be sucked dry in one jab, but rather it will be a death by a thousand small cuts for the empire.
i mean sure, but that’s also reductive. a strong china weakens the USA & imperial core, which then weakens the most other states & gives leftists breathing room
We are run by an oligarchy of nihilists that gladly want to make humanity go extinct to buy yachts they can already afford.
I am constantly told I need to lower my expectations for everything day by day, and then told I am entitled for simply wishing for the life a white boomer had in the 60s. If that makes me entitled, what does that make the white boomer that DID get to experience all that? No, I’ll never own a house, now even renting is out of reach. Looks like porky’s all set with his workforce and the only jobs left pay 14 an hour tops.
Just how fucking boring this world is. Look around you, there is so much to see and do and you will never experience any of it because you were not born a multimillionaire. You will never experience the beauty of Sierra Nevada, you will never get to enjoy Niagara Falls, even if you are lucky enough to have stable employment. Americans proudly call vacation a thing of the past, and the few times people do go on vacation, it’s practically suicide for their career.
Bigotry is somehow being paraded as this noble thing, actually and that actually being tolerant is supposedly this sign I’m some big dumb-dumb.
If blue cities are so bad, why are property values there so high? Shouldn’t red areas have higher property values since most people are fascists and want to live in a place where minorities are more optimally oppressed?
If this country hates me so much, why isn’t it easier for me to simply move to another one? Even kkkanada would be leagues better than this shithole.
Some of the worst atrocities being justified because it is for “the economy”. Ol’ Vivek argued that climate change isn’t real because if it was, the consequences of doing something about it would hurt “the economy”, as if consumerism is a human right that transcends clean air and water. Hence my first point about us being run by nihilists. If they sincerely believed in God, they wouldn’t be doing this, or be claiming “it’s okay, I’ll be dead before anything bad happens! YOLO!” They only believe in their God whenever they need a justification to do whatever they want. Ironically, God seems to tempt more people into sin than Satan and Lilith combined
Cost of flight and hotel, or cost of gas and wear to your vehicle if you drive, time needed to take off work if needing a half day’s drive to reach. Time+Money=freedom which is something American’s that live below six figures incomes just don’t fuckin’ have.
If blue cities are so bad, why are property values there so high?
Regulations stifling the building of new accommodating housing. Large cities in some red states have massive apartment complexes. Up to you to decide if you like that living arrangement but it lowers prices.
Speed traps in the US. I had to explain to my son that the reason why we have to drive 45 mph for half a mile on an interstate is because there is a convenient side street in the middle of that stretch of road where the police can wait.
I actually appreciate cops keeping people to the speed limit. It is much safer for everyone.
Edit: While I appreciate cops doing this, I actually think it shouldn’t be their job. We have meter readers handing out parking tickets. I think non LEO civil servants could issue citations for speeding too. That would free up cops to be arseholes somewhere else.
Sure, if the town didn’t suddenly drop the speed limit for half a mile right as it goes around a curve that gives the cops a place to hide and give out $20 tickets with $200 court costs that people pay online. I don’t know for a fact, but I’d bet money that the court costs go to the town (and from there to the police department), while the fine itself goes to the feds. An abrupt 45 mph zone on an interstate doesn’t protect anyone, it lines the pockets of the police department that has jurisdiction. It’s fucking predatory.