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