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Btw Idaho used to have the largest percentage of mandarin speakers in the united states. Boise had a vibrant chinatown. Its absolute whiteness is a recent construction. (Ignoring all the natives besides)
Boise's chinatown was reincorporated (read: ghettoized) into a separate town government in 1967, in backlash to the growing Chinese population flipping a mayoral election the wrong way. The resulting Garden City is almost completely surrounded by Boise.
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.
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.
Usually its people conflating lowlands with highlands. Lowland scots are northumbrian anglo saxons who became part of the Kingdom of Scotland and therefore identify as such, but they arent celtic (well no more than northern english). While Highland Scots are the norse-celtic "victims of english oppression" (the oppression was done by lowlands scots in accord with "true" english officials)
Also there were "catholic english" migrants in Ireland that sided with the irish and got oppressed by england as well, while the scottish settlers in the north, well acted as settlers.
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
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
CPS is also racist as shit. anecdotally, im white, so when they visited me they had no interest in even asking me if anything happened. then this black kid i knew growing up got taken from his mom for basically nothing (don't remember what it was exactly i met the guy years ago) and put in a shitty foster home where the lady running it was also racist
Foster care and the welfare of and for the children need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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.
"Israel"
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
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.
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?"
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
home printers
Reality TV
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.
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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