It's a pretty simple thread and I hope that it will grow some activity and peak some interest. Any valid points or useful information can be linked back and used to make threads to discuss things in further detail. Feel free to share how you feel here, however if you would like to provide details, proof, graphs, data, ect. I highly encourage you to create another thread so that it can be discussed on topic there.

Single payer and other socialist programs. Maybe even eugenics.

23337 Healthcare in the US is a serious issue for me. I just can't understand how people wouldn't be fine with a moderate tax hike in exchange for providing complete medical care to everyone. Or perhaps most would be; it's just that health and prosperity isn't in the best interests of the insurance lobby. I'd welcome a tax hike for improved social services like education and health if I wasn't concerned about how the current taxes are actually being spent. With problems like an overfunded military and overpaid politicians, combined with politicians that care more about maintaining their position than actually doing their job, I really wish I had a say in where my taxes are spent. It's driving me to actually follow politics a little more so i can make an educated vote come election season. 23339 Maybe even eugenics. I'd love to be told i'm wrong about this, but isn't it a known fact that the earth can only support so many humans? I'd imagine that eventually some tough decisions will have to be made with regards to population control, espicially if we keep polluting the environment.

Turquoise wrote: 23337 Healthcare in the US is a serious issue for me. I just can't understand how people wouldn't be fine with a moderate tax hike in exchange for providing complete medical care to everyone. Or perhaps most would be; it's just that health and prosperity isn't in the best interests of the insurance lobby. I'd welcome a tax hike for improved social services like education and health if I wasn't concerned about how the current taxes are actually being spent. With problems like an overfunded military and overpaid politicians, combined with politicians that care more about maintaining their position than actually doing their job, I really wish I had a say in where my taxes are spent. It's driving me to actually follow politics a little more so i can make an educated vote come election season. 23339 Maybe even eugenics. I'd love to be told i'm wrong about this, but isn't it a known fact that the earth can only support so many humans? I'd imagine that eventually some tough decisions will have to be made with regards to population control, espicially if we keep polluting the environment. Americans are real fans of the whole doomsday deal, eh? Yeah, we'll have to take care of that, but I'd let the future governments worry about that, since it's not nearly as close to us as most people would have you believe. They'll be making those tough calls long after we've rotted in the dirt.

The american public education system is a fundamental betrayal of The American Dream and only a small portion of the country seems to realise there is even a problem.

Proprietary software https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/europe-going-kill-free-software-have-you-contacted-your-states-rep

Vosaiu wrote: "Social justice" i.e. raising minorities up by letting them step on the heads of the majority

Social Justice If it's access to opportunity I don't have an issue with it. Unless it involves quotas. My main issue with it are the ideologues, or SJWs, which aren't even representative of those whom they say they're fighting for (most of them tend to be young white guys). They ignore anyone who doesn't fit their narrative (which most of the time disinfranchises some of the same people they're "fighting" for). They aren't even solving the root problems that they are trying to tackle, all their "wins" are superficial (safe spaces don't solve shit, just adding more diversity doesn't solve the lack of diversity, shutting down the other side doesn't mean you're right). The worst part though is that they're just hypocrites and lack the self awareness to even realize it. The sad part is that they're actually having a chilling effect in universities and they're trying to expand it into law.

The liberal lash back, american "progressives" have been confused for liberals, causing a lashing out towards all left policies. So the youth of today are moving extremely far right or far left removing any centrist concepts.

People still judge each other based on appearence. As if they're not the same under their's.

Some of society's problems that concern you?

Backlash

floattube wrote:
Backlash wrote:
floattube wrote:
The way people treat other people and strangers. Just because I can't lift a 100 pound bookshelf to your car alone doesn't make me a "little bitch" and I shouldn't be fired just because you can't be half-assed to help me.

Bad day, huh?

Granted this is coming from people who drink their pain away.

Makes fun of people for complaining about hardships in life
Resorts to psychoactive substances to deal with their own

People like that oughta jump off the nearest cliff. I'm so sorry. D:

floattube

Backlash wrote:
floattube wrote:
Backlash wrote:
floattube wrote:
The way people treat other people and strangers. Just because I can't lift a 100 pound bookshelf to your car alone doesn't make me a "little bitch" and I shouldn't be fired just because you can't be half-assed to help me.

Bad day, huh?

Granted this is coming from people who drink their pain away.

Makes fun of people for complaining about hardships in life
Resorts to psychoactive substances to deal with their own

People like that oughta jump off the nearest cliff. I'm so sorry. D:

Also if I try to defend myself I end up looking like this:

But anyway, I'm just gonna end this here. I don't wanna use a forum to whine
(my friend sent this to me, i just realized the 9gag thing don't lynch me pls)

Miia-sama

Fact that people still believe the wage gap myth is real, "safe zones," and the fact that everything gets blown out of proportion
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Amato Masaki

Its the feel when u got rejected by the society
(e.g : you are poor & ur friends are rich af and being a cunt)

and also somewhat interaction problem because you are mute...

its depressing

Senpie

One of socieities biggest problems that troubles me is the lack of research people do and the knowledge they acquire.

MAUSJAUS

I think a lot of people who get tatoos all over their body, dye their hair, and listen to trap music despite living in the suburbs are going to feel awkward when they reach senior age.

see: Corey Feldman

Turquoise

Lokorfi wrote:
Society's nearsighted bias towards any type of world issue is a big no-no.

It's hard for people to understand what life is like in other parts of the world when they're so detached from it. It's easier for people like us who are used to interacting with people all over the world and seeing all kinds of perspectives, but for Dale Everyman who has a 9-5 desk job and comes home to teach his son how to play baseball, the $0.20 increase in gas prices is a bit more concerning than the kids getting shot up in Syria.

Americans have a bigger problem with this I think because we're so far away from any other major countries. In Europe you can meet people from multiple different countries and cultures just by going for a drive, but here I'd have to travel overseas or a couple thousand miles down to mexico. Personally I haven't traveled farther than one state over in the past 12 or so years.

I don't really know how to fix it though. It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.
ramblerambleramble

tn5421

Turquoise wrote:
Lokorfi wrote:
Society's nearsighted bias towards any type of world issue is a big no-no.

It's hard for people to understand what life is like in other parts of the world when they're so detached from it. It's easier for people like us who are used to interacting with people all over the world and seeing all kinds of perspectives, but for Dale Everyman who has a 9-5 desk job and comes home to teach his son how to play baseball, the $0.20 increase in gas prices is a bit more concerning than the kids getting shot up in Syria.

Americans have a bigger problem with this I think because we're so far away from any other major countries. In Europe you can meet people from multiple different countries and cultures just by going for a drive, but here I'd have to travel overseas or a couple thousand miles down to mexico. Personally I haven't traveled farther than one state over in the past 12 or so years.

I don't really know how to fix it though. It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.
ramblerambleramble

Incidents close to home, even if minor, will always be more important to people than something, even a massive tragedy that happens halfway across the world. It's simply how we prioritize things. I don't even think most people mean to be biased as such, either.

It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.

It is easy to say something is better when you're not the one that will lose your livelihood and possibly your life as the result of someone else's decision about what's best for you.

s a d l i f e

tn5421 wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
Lokorfi wrote:
Society's nearsighted bias towards any type of world issue is a big no-no.

It's hard for people to understand what life is like in other parts of the world when they're so detached from it. It's easier for people like us who are used to interacting with people all over the world and seeing all kinds of perspectives, but for Dale Everyman who has a 9-5 desk job and comes home to teach his son how to play baseball, the $0.20 increase in gas prices is a bit more concerning than the kids getting shot up in Syria.

Americans have a bigger problem with this I think because we're so far away from any other major countries. In Europe you can meet people from multiple different countries and cultures just by going for a drive, but here I'd have to travel overseas or a couple thousand miles down to mexico. Personally I haven't traveled farther than one state over in the past 12 or so years.

I don't really know how to fix it though. It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.
ramblerambleramble

Incidents close to home, even if minor, will always be more important to people than something, even a massive tragedy that happens halfway across the world. It's simply how we prioritize things. I don't even think most people mean to be biased as such, either.

It's easy to say globalization is better for the world, but Dale doesn't want his jobs being outsourced to India.

It is easy to say something is better when you're not the one that will lose your livelihood and possibly your life as the result of someone else's decision about what's best for you.

It's not even about being close or far from home. It's about influentiating your life directly or not. And some random people dying in some random place couldn't be more abstract to your everyday guy.
And in that sense globalization doesn't help even a bit on general. Atleast on major countries you get products and news from all kinds of places. But it still doesn't matter to the majority of people if kids are dying or earthquakes are happening or planes are crashing.
Just take a look at urban violence in general for an example. It's unacceptable, and that happens everywhere (which means it's going to affect everyone at some point) and it's a problem since always. But it just gets buried under other problems until it gets "you".

floattube

I can't get an "entry level" job without 5 years experience.

Yuka

When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

floattube

Yuka wrote:
When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

Backlash

floattube wrote:
Yuka wrote:
When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

floattube

Backlash wrote:
floattube wrote:
Yuka wrote:
When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

My girlfriend and I make the same amount so it isn't that big of a deal to us lol. And it is for sure a generational thing. My dad told me that I always had to pay when I first started dating my girlfriend, but that was 3 years ago and she hasn't broken up with me so I guess it doesn't matter.

Yuka

Backlash wrote:
floattube wrote:
Yuka wrote:
When men have to pay for a meal, like boiiii I can buy my own food (just feed me treats tho)

My girlfriend and I switch off on who pays. I hate when people tell me I have to pay because I am a man. This isn't the 1940's anymore.

I've heard conflicting voices on these sorta issues. On one hand, you have girls on Reddit who recall the annoyance when their date kept bringing up how wealthy he was. Yet on the other, you've got older folk who'll bail on a marriage just for being not as well-off as when they started; or so I've heard.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'll bet the Great Recession shook up a lot more cultural guidelines than we'd care to admit.

For me, it's if you went out with the intention of not paying because you haven't got the money, you shouldn't of gone out. When someone pays for your meal it's like a gift, not an expectation

Noriko

I'm exhausted by all of the hostility; hostility over anything and everything. I'm scared to give opinions, hell, even just talk due to the fear of backlash. It's so tiring...

malmon

Noriko wrote:
I'm exhausted by all of the hostility; hostility over anything and everything. I'm scared to give opinions, hell, even just talk due to the fear of backlash. It's so tiring...

Yeah, I'd rather stay on @[deleted]'s good side as well. He can be pretty scary 😉

Hexd

what country are you in?

Backlash

Hexd wrote:
what country are you in?

Allemagne.

LucianDreamer

I hope there'll be no third global conflict.

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