askchapo

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

We’ve all noticed the r-word making a comeback but even terms like “lame,” "dumb," and "stupid" are ableist and should not be used. Colonial terms like “looting” and “thugs” and “savage” always piss me off. Using the word "dark" to refer to anything negative is obviously not okay.

I can’t stand when people use “child” or “childish” as an insult. No one is easier to radicalize than kids. And it’s not because they’re ignorant or underdeveloped, it’s because they haven’t been propagandized into loving capitalism. Even relatively wealthy kids get very little out of capitalism. Kids are addicted to video games because they have no other control over their lives and are desperate for any kind of escape from this hellhole. Video games provide a world where work actually results in obvious achievements, while the vast majority of humanity is trapped in a world of endless toil with all the results and benefits going to a tiny minority.

It drives me crazy when people say your brain isn’t fully developed until you’re 25. Bruh our brains never stop changing.

Body-shaming when we all know that beauty is a social construct.

Sándwiches that are too big to take a reasonable bit

Animal exploitation

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

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.

Alcohol.

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.

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

to be fair, this is me half of the time

Big agree on Idaho, and somewhat on the gen x'ers. Ive really been wanting to camp and explore Idaho because it seems really pretty, but it makes me pretty damn nervous. I'm white even, but dress alternative or whatever so I feel like there might be some kinda singling out outside of Boise, maybe.

I think some of this generational stuff depends on where you land, kinda feel like there are 2/3 different grouoings in each category. but ive noticed that a lot of gen x'ers I know seem to have turned from apolitical to reactionary. My parents are early gen X and they all of a sudden decided to become trump supporters, they've been separated for years too so they developed independently. Lame since many gen xers grew up with Rage Against the Machine and/or System of a Down. Some late gen x/early millenials can be chill though but seem to fall into this trap as well.(I am a mid millenial if it matters)

Reality TV