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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sándwiches that are too big to take a reasonable bit

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Tripping on DXM. This drug is the OTC poison of choice for desperate teenagers, and that unfortunately gives it a very bad reputation.

But DXM is actually one of the safer hallucinogens out there so long as you get a DXM only product and don't mix it with certain other drugs. It's definitely the closest thing to Ketamine you can buy at walmart or amazon, that's for sure. Highly recommend that one.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Im going to say crackers since no one has said it before

Also daylight savings time, AMLO banning that is the best thing he did with no negatives

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

okay i'll go with the first thing i thought of. people who gatekeep/fake claim other people's mental illnesses. especially if it's just behind official diagnosis (which is classism). doing that does so much harm to vulnerable people in service of trying to make it seem like people with your mental illness aren't "cringe" to weirdos who like eugenics

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

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)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Things that don’t get as much hate as they deserve I’ll start:

Idaho

The post is off to a strong start. I'll add Nebraska to it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

all i know about nebraska is that it's where the corn is

[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago

streamers
cape shit
putting too much sauce on things
marketers
putting things in bicycle lanes
american cinema in general
belgium

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