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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] 19 points 3 days ago

home printers

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

Sándwiches that are too big to take a reasonable bit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Animal exploitation

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

As a Scot, it’s annoying seeing people think that we are a “colony” of the English, because they do have an assumption of Scotland and England as different nations with different cultures and (sometimes shared) histories but assume that England annexed us illiegaly. we only formed the Union with England because we fucked up in our own efforts at imperialism, which we massively failed at and fucking bankrupted us. I would say that deciding to try and join the likes of England, France, Spain, the Netherlands etc in colonialism was the single worst decision that we ever made. Although one argument could be that the 1320 deflation of Arbroath talked about the sovereignty of the people and the 1707 Union was done against the wishes of the people, but that doesn’t make Scotland a full blown “colony”. Especially if many of us still support this union and/or willing joined the English as British imperialists. In many aspects, Scotland and England are different. But in some, we’re the same.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days 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] 6 points 2 days ago

The whole culinary fancy pantsy trend really drives me up the wall

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The only thing wrong with Pacific Rim is that it wasn't a four hour long cut of big ass robots clowning big ass monsters in every biome on Earth. I want to watch Gipsy Danger cut a Kaiju in half with the People's Elbow from the top of a mountain. Lemme see Striker Eureka smash a Kaiju into a railway so an incoming Shinkansen blows through its skull like a kinetic rod. Shit, one of them wielded a ship like a baseball bat, let me see a train used as a whip or a garotte. Midair Kurosawa blade jump that ends with a Kaiju landing intact and then slowly sliding apart in two pieces while the Jaeger slowly gets up.

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