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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] 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hey Soul Sister by Train

Absolute dogshit

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (22 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

home printers

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Btw Idaho used to have the largest percentage of mandarin speakers in the united states. Boise had a vibrant chinatown. Its absolute whiteness is a recent construction. (Ignoring all the natives besides)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The movie "Pacific Rim." Shit was corny as hell

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be honest, MOST of the US is similar to Idaho. Most anywhere that isn't within an hour or so of a large city is a complete backwater filled with racist white assholes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean in a sane world the whole United States would be associated with virulent racism, but there are certain geographic areas that get a stronger association in the popular imagination. Idaho I think has flown under the radar for far too long.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Creating an advertisement aimed at children should be punishable by death and I'm not joking

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

FUCK ADS ALL MY HOMIES HATE ADS

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

idaho's really bad

montana's full of nazis or whatever too but at least weed and abortions are legal here, the idaho panhandle is a weird half hour drive through raw fascism between WA and MT

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its called the Northwest imperative. West Coast is already founded on utopianism and the northwest, especially as a white-only classical liberal utopia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I hear eastern Oregon is absolutely teeming with Nazis. Probably a lot more in total numbers than Idaho or Montana.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Right wing politics: most overrated garbage one can imagine. This applies to leftists too. You don’t hate the right and everyone part of it nearly enough.

Hard agree on Idaho, though. As far as I’m concerned, any part of the US that isn’t Hawai’i or maybe some parts of NY and San Francisco are “the deep south” it’s all the same and none of this dogshit culture matters.

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