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oh boy another struggle session

Everyone is being nice

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.

if we’re gonna do generational warfare

what if we don't

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Im going to say s since no one has said it before

Also daylight savings time, AMLO banning that is the best thing he did with no negatives

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.

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

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

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

Animal exploitation

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

NATO

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.

Sándwiches that are too big to take a reasonable bit