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from an american perspective, the concept of insurance and healthcare is disgusting.

Neoliberalism

ICE abductions. Election denialism. AI.

EDIT: Two more: Over-policing. Surveillance state.

Edited September 11Sep 11 by stupidattractive

People with short/long sightedness having to pay to see

Murdering intelligent animals for greed

For profit prisons

Wiping your sh!tty ass with just dry toilet paper

that you can't unpress an elevator button
when you pick the wrong floor

Taking pictures of strangers in public.

tate mcrae + ella langley

Basically anything to do with money

9 minutes ago, stupidattractive said:

ICE abductions.

this one sends me bc most US citizens do not have an indigenous native american ancestory. so they pick & choose who is eligible to stay.

working to live.

In no order, off the top of my head:

-Gambling. Some of our biggest streamers, celebrities, athletes be promoting, in broad daylight, gambling partnerships with the likes of Kalshi, Polymarket etc, and no one bats an eye?? Why are gambling sites now a mainstay on news??

-For-profit healthcare. Though "largely" an American problem — at least most visibly — this idea that healthcare is, and should be, only for those that can pay insane amounts of money is...absurd. Even in nations with "free" healthcare, this idea has been manifesting through documented cuts to the public system.

-Steroids and peptides for fitness/aesthetics. I'm very susceptible to this, and I have considered them every other day on my fitness journey ddd. But what stops me is the inanity of it all: I could hop on discord, place an order for vials of unregulated peptides, inject them into myself — without knowing the long-term effects — and begin losing weight. With a huge fraction of social media fitness influencers quite literally being on roids, it feels like one is "missing out." People (mostly men) would rather die young in their early-late 30s/40s with the body they want rather than get there later. And it sucks because I "get" it

-Across politics, this idea that "good things" are not possible, only the "best of two evils." I will not even get into how many generations of potential political activitists and movements we've lost to this corrosive ass idea that all electoral politics is simply a case of choosing the lesser of two evils.

-In terms of career, the idea of hardwork is mythologized to the point of absurdity fact is, most billionaires or millionaires do not "work hard," and the idea that you should subscribe to a version of that aspirationally is quite literally a psyop. This isn't to dissuade people from giving the best they can, but the ways in which hardwork is touted as this path to success in the alleged meritocracy () we live in is...ridiculous.

While I do partake, alcohol consumption

Conscription. I always thought it was strange how those male kpop idols put their lives on hold and go off to the military for 2 years and everyone acts like its completely normal.

Homosexuals

10 minutes ago, Dragonfly said:

that you can't unpress an elevator button
when you pick the wrong floor

You can do it by pressing the button twice, at least in my country.

straight white cisgender men

Israel

Democracy as the supreme form of governance

Working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Having to pay for basic necessities like water, electricity, shelter...

That this is the only way to live life

11 minutes ago, Specter said:

In no order, off the top of my head:

-Gambling. Some of our biggest streamers, celebrities, athletes be promoting, in broad daylight, gambling partnerships with the likes of Kalshi, Polymarket etc, and no one bats an eye?? Why are gambling sites now a mainstay on news??

-For-profit healthcare. Though "largely" an American problem — at least most visibly — this idea that healthcare is, and should be, only for those that can pay insane amounts of money is...absurd. Even in nations with "free" healthcare, this idea has been manifesting through documented cuts to the public system.

-Steroids and peptides for fitness/aesthetics. I'm very susceptible to this, and I have considered them every other day on my fitness journey ddd. But what stops me is the inanity of it all: I could hop on discord, place an order for vials of unregulated peptides, inject them into myself — without knowing the long-term effects — and begin losing weight. With a huge fraction of social media fitness influencers quite literally being on roids, it feels like one is "missing out." People (mostly men) would rather die young in their early-late 30s/40s with the body they want rather than get there later. And it sucks because I "get" it

-Across politics, this idea that "good things" are not possible, only the "best of two evils." I will not even get into how many generations of potential political activitists and movements we've lost to this corrosive ass idea that all electoral politics is simply a case of choosing the lesser of two evils.

-In terms of career, the idea of hardwork is mythologized to the point of absurdity fact is, most billionaires or millionaires do not "work hard," and the idea that you should subscribe to a version of that aspirationally is quite literally a psyop. This isn't to dissuade people from giving the best they can, but the ways in which hardwork is touted as this path to success in the alleged meritocracy () we live in is...ridiculous.

You sound exactly like my intrusive thoughts when I'm trying to relax.