#disgusting i hate this country

[arosetolivefor]

[bunnymedley]

in another win for england being a complete scumhole that should sink to the bottom of the ocean there is now an advertising billboard outside my workplace from one of the newspapers essentially just saying 'should trans women be allowed in sports?'

[vonneybeth]

Created by u/Various_Software_817

[akiizayoi4869]

"Women sleep their way to the top" ok so then why aren't there more women at the top.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

shut up biden shut up obama "there's no place for this kind of violence in amercia" "there is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy" Y'ALL ARE WAR CRIMINALS!!! y'all don't get to condemn violence just bc it's the brand of violence that impacts you oh my god oh my god oh my god

[gio-cosmo]

No way. No actual fucking way

[lulubelle14]

I’m over America 😒🤦🏽‍♀️

[mjsensei259]

Hey so I'm a raging leftist and all who is very Anti-US Military because I do recognize how abusive and corrupt it is, but also as someone with PTSD, wishing all military members "I hope you get PTSD" is fucking disgusting.

A lot of people who join the military are

Not fully aware of the government's bullshit behind the scenes

Join to pay for education, immigrate, etc and

MANY PEOPLE ARE MANIPULATED INTO IT, WHICH IS LITERALLY SOMETHING THESE PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGE???

I have PTSD, I've had it for years, it is a debilitating illness that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. PTSD nearly fucking killed me multiple times and even though I'm in treatment and am recovering slowly, as far as I know, I'm one bad PTSD episode from losing it all again.

I also have a very close friend who joined the military to immigrate because there were no other legal options and illegal immigration is far too risky for their situation. THEY'RE DOING IT TO FUCKING SURVIVE.

When you sign that contract, there is almost no way of escaping, many, and I mean MANY people don't realize or find out about the corruption until it's too late. For all you know, that person you just wished one of the most horrible mental illnesses on is a victim of the oppressive nature of the army that you supposedly care about so much.

You can't claim to hate the awful system that is the US while also treating victims of said awful system like shit.

If you wish this horrible illness on people who join the military without knowing their full story, fuck you. Genuinely, fuck you.

[xadenviolct]

Warning! Incoming Political Post!

So I've been on a major political wave (I mean, I always am, but this whole thing between President Zelenskyy & He Whose Master Is Put*n has just turned it up to a thousand), and I just had to get a lot off of my chest.

I get a lot of constant variations (especially from family in this super small red state in southern USA that I can't stand) of how I got to this point in my beliefs, considering how different they are from the rest-- as in, not Republican. Not even REMOTELY.

Cause we're as liberal as we can be over here, let's be honest.

I normally don't go into it in great detail; it's not worth the effort of exhaustive conversation because it's not like they really WANT an answer; they just want to feel superior and all that crap.

But anyway, I wrote up this nice little thing earlier tonight, and thought I'd share it here. Just because:

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And if you choose to ask "what 'radicalized' me"-- I mean, if you want to use such a word-- I'll list off the following:

-- "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you" was constantly upheld as the RIGHT thing. The "Golden Rule", if you will. Be good to people. It's not (or shouldn't be) that hard.

-- Be kind. Love. Share. You know, "be like Jesus" behavior. Welcome the outcast. The whole thing of "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, [ ... ] / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me [ ... ]"

-- I read. I've read a lot. Ninety-nine percent has always been fiction, yes. But that doesn't mean it doesn't tell you things, teach you things. Helps you grow and think and in a lot of instances, from other perspectives, too. I am from the generation that grew up with "The Hunger Games" ; I know the points made in classics such as "1984" & "The Handmaid's Tale" & "Animal Farm" & "Fahrenheit 451". (And they are NOT a "step by step guide to create a better world, FYI. Just saying. I know it seems there are some who are a bit confused on that.)

-- In connection with the above, it isn't just books, but other forms of media as well (movies, TV, etc.), such as "Star Wars", "V for Vendetta", "The Matrix", "A Bug's Life", among SO MANY more. Most fantasy and/or Sci-Fi usually has some political underpinning to it, and art has always been political, made its statements. From the very beginning of humanity making art, there has been political statements within them. Be it blatant and in-your-face or far more subtle, it's always been there.

-- I have also studied history. History was probably my second-favorite subject (literature/writing/etc. being first), and especially history in either -a) the ancient world (think ancient Egypt, the Asian Empires, etc.) or -b) the European history specifically surrounding WWII. Don't know why my interest got so specific there, but it did. The rise of fascism, the "how could people do this" questions, the psychology of the human mind behind those who not only orchestrated it (the ones in power) but who PUT them in power, or who turned a blind eye, or what have you-- It has ALWAYS fascinated me. Always.

-- The human MIND (psychologically speaking) is fascinating. The "why" is fascinating. It's one of the main reasons tying to a particular organized religion was always a problem-- no one could ever (satisfactorily) answer that question for me, because ultimately it would end up with "you gotta BELIEVE". There would undoubtedly be that point where the answers would hit a wall, and it would be a "just because" type of answer, be it "Tradition" or "Faith" but whatever it was, it was never truly satisfying.

-- In connection with so much of that as well, seeing people who proclaim to be Christian, who proclaim to be "good people", acting as far from the whole "What Would Jesus Do" as it was possible to be--the pure and utter HYPOCRISY on such blatant display-- how could it NOT "radicalize" me?

(Because I have absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind that if Jesus was to return today, as he was in the Bible and not as the GOP MAGA has corrupted him, American Christians especially would be the FIRST IN LINE to crucify him all over again. I am BEGGING you to prove me wrong...)

And just for those who might need a REMINDER on who the Jesus of the Bible was (you know, the one you claim you follow, you worship, etc.), here are just some of his characteristics:

long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless

radical, nonviolent, revolutionary

hung around with lepers, hookers, crooks, sinners

community-organizing, anti-slut-shaming, Middle Eastern Jew

anti-wealth, anti-death penalty, anti-public prayer

NEVER anti-gay

NEVER called the poor "lazy"

NEVER justified torture

NEVER fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest of people

NEVER asked for a co-pay to heal the sick or injured

told his followers to "Feed the hungry", "House the homeless", and "Welcome the stranger"

There's a hell of a lot more, of course, but I'm sure you get the point. When it comes to people ACTING Christ-like in their behavior, their actions, American Christians fall far, far short. Down in the dirt, really. And FAR below American atheists and agnostics, for example.

-- The state of the world in general, especially with the financial side of things. My generation "did what we were supposed to" in the terms of graduating high school, going to and graduating college, etc. etc. But because of previous generations and a multitude of many variables, the STATE of the world we entered as adults is a mess. A complete and absolute UTTER mess.

-- The hoarding of obsessive, excessive, ungodly wealth at the very top, "claiming" it will trickle down when all evidence points to the opposite, while paying slave wages. While not raising wages because "prices will rise" but then prices somehow rise ANYWAY and--what's this? Profits are at an all-time HIGH! Would you look at that!

--Greed. Hypocrisy. The utter disgust of how the WORST of humanity is just out in the open, and (especially in the last oh... 17-ish years) has taken a complete upturn to the max. It is no surprise at all to me that the presidential election of 2008, when Barack Obama was elected as the first Black president of the USA, is when that ugliness started to creep out. And when the Orange Felon got elected in 2016, DESPITE everything that would have previously derailed ANY OTHER POLITICIAN'S path, it only got worse.

Just as it has only grown worse SINCE.

He has basically allowed people to be their worst selves. With having received little to no consequences for his disgusting behavior, it is--in a manner of speaking--as if saying to the country, to the world, "As long as you HATE who we HATE, we're good." The hatred is what bonds them. Which is so ANTI-Jesus it's not even worth pointing out but again--they'd be the first in line to crucify the Savior they proclaim to worship and believe in.

-- When prejudice, hatred, hypocrisy, greed hold more value in a society than anything else, the society is NOT a good one. It just isn't. One cannot argue that it is, no matter how you try and spin it. No matter what a cult leading con man might mouth off.

And for a party that SUPPOSEDLY is all about "small government" and not having government all up in another person's business-- man, the GOP sure does like to get all up in a person's PRIVATE business. (Like their healthcare, their religious preferences, their educational preferences, their reading material... and if they're a woman-- it's a thousand times MORE invasive.)

Talk about HYPOCRISY!

(Yes, this post got long. Yes, this post could also get a hell of a lot LONGER. But I will stop. For now.)

[relivethisdream]

[pineconedrop]

So just kinda processed the whole only females and males exist or whatever

So I no longer fucking exist, lovely. Love that.

[sumarmzthesadseal]

I fucking hate performative activists because what the fuck do you mean you hope gaza becomes a parking lot and you're gonna stop boycotting just bc one Palestinian woman said don't support Kamala Harris

[mythictold]

Looking to immediately vacate if anyone wants to legally adopt me and my mother.

[v-207]

i despise my friends

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.

[iwatcheditbegin]

I was devastated in 2016 now I just feel numb