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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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[–] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 84 points 5 days 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.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 48 points 5 days 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.

[–] MidnightPocket@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

FUCK ADS ALL MY HOMIES HATE ADS

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[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days 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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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 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.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ads aren't there to convince you to buy something. Ads are meant to place subconscious familiarity with a brand so the next time you're shopping for a product you haven't bought before, you're subconsciously biased towards the brand that wormed into your brain through ads.

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[–] Real_User@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago

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

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[–] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 70 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Cars. Even on this site cars don't get enough hate.

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

honkies honking their car horns

agony-shivering

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 54 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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 :))))))))))"

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You wrote out my thoughts exactly

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[–] acab_means_cop_Dva@hexbear.net 50 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days 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

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days ago (26 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.

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Firefly, for three reasons.

One, the "heroic" war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.

Two, Whedon's sexpest behaviour during production.

Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.

I feel like The Avengers is more responsible for cementing it into culture, but yeah, I have no desire to revisit Firefly despite liking it when I first watched it.

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Four, they all speak Mandarin because of some historic cultural amalgamation, but there's not a single Asian person on the crew (or in the show that I can remember)

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate

Bro people have always hated us, boomers hated us, now gen X and zoomers hate us lmao. We are cheesy as fuck nerds because advertising tried too hard to sell us "cool" when we were kids so when we hit our twenties we instead embraced being cringe as shit. Well, some of us did, the others became Ben Shapiro's.

gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth

Which is funny because gen Z aren't even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

Anyway no, I'm not going to hate gen X because generational warfare is stupid and phases like 'gen -insert letter-' were just invented by marketing to categorise advertising demographics.

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[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Foster care. I don’t have a leftist analysis of this. Just a lot of personal experience and bitter hatred. It’s a violent ass institution that’s rife with abuse, racism, and class warfare

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think something like 65% of foster children end up homeless as adults if not more. I agree, it is totally fucked. Child Protective Services as well. I couldve been taken away from my mom when I was young... I lived a very traumatic childhood but who knows what the hell couldve happened to me if I was placed in foster care

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Foster care and the welfare of and for the children need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 5 days 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

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[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I will never forget doing a cross country road trip with my friend from Canada who had never been to the US, and as we cross the border from Idaho to Montana, and we're stopped at a light and he turns to me with a complete straight face and says, bewildered, "So Idaho is not a real place right?"

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

The Spuds Have Eyes

[–] Sulv@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

162 comments

cereal1 oh boy another struggle session

Everyone is being nice

cereal2

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 24 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Idaho is a very beautiful place, it's a shame Chuds have completely dominated it.

-I dunno if it's everywhere or local to the midwestern city I live in but they've quietly gotten rid of all the school busses, so now every school zone in this relatively large city has enormous lines that choke every road in and out of every school in the city twice a day for two hours. It's a massive inconvenience to the entire city that's been justified as a 'cost savings' when in reality it's just throwing that cost onto everyone else in a less efficient way.

-Low hanging fruit but Harry Potter. There's a lot of anti-Rowling sentiment these days that tries to separate her from the world she created but it's very obvious that all the nasty shit about her made it into the series. Obviously around here people don't generally like the books but the general public has not seriously read them since they were children and thinks they're awesome.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days 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.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago (4 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.

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hey Soul Sister by Train

Absolute dogshit

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

if we’re gonna do generational warfare

what if we don't

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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Someone mentioned Belgium earlier in this thread, so I'm going to go a step farther and say the Netherlands. Yes, the cycling infrastructure is the best in the world and a decade ahead of every other country. Yes, the train system is pretty damn great with most lines getting at least 2 trains an hour. However, the Dutch seem to be remarkably proud of their colonial history, almost as much as the Brits according to this article. It's still a neoliberal country and is the home of Shell Oil. The country also has a sprawl problem-I would call it bike sprawl-where much of the country is rowhouses and the transport seems designed around bikes and cars. This is still steps ahead of most other countries but the Dutch seem to be somewhat allergic to building more dense neighborhoods. The local bus service is also somewhat lacking, with less frequent service than in comparable countries depending on where you are. Oh also the dutch "language" is a joke.

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[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days 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.

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago

home printers

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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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[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 16 points 5 days 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

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