So I came across this video by a creator that shall not be named, in which they basically said that turning black characters white is racist, but turning white characters black isn’t, because black people need representation.

To me, their points are literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. If you need good representation so bad, why don’t you write your own damn stories, with your own damn characters? Then you can make them whatever color you want.

This list is coming from the top of my head. Here is a list of major food companies that do not have a market in Israel or support its politics. (This doesn't include Arab or Armenian companies; it's safely assumed that most will side with Palestine immediately.)

If you can't find where exactly the company stands on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then you can always look up the CEO's stance • usually on Instagram or X. If you can't find their public social media or political followings, you can usually look up scandals between the CEOs' respective major chains and the discrimination issues with Muslims (either corporate or franchise).

Looking at their halal-to-kosher ratio can work, too! (I think it is somewhat effective.)

Long list of companies supporting Palestine, made short: In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, Panda Express, Ben & Jerry's, and believe it or not, even Krispy Kreme jumped through this aisle!

In-N-Out is an interesting case. Its CEO (Lynsi Snyder) made a post praying for Israel, and another post calling for peace in the Middle East (no mention of either Israel or Palestine) all in one page. (Update; Dec 9, 2023: I think a lot of people confusing praying for with supporting a country. It's unpredictable, but maybe she sees herself or the Israelites — the "true" indigenous peoples of Israel — as Israelites.)

Jack in the Box has not officially sided with Israel or Palestine. (See below for more details.) However, their items tend to be more on the "halal" side than on the "kosher" side. That was from a Google search of the fast food name and "Muslims" at the end. (Turns out they support Palestine!)

When I replaced Jack in the Box in the search bar with McDonald's, there was at least one scandal that popped up from more than a year ago. Starbucks is worse than McDonald's, which in turn is worse than Yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and The Habit). No incident regarding Jack in the Box though!

Chick-fil-A (actually, nope): Well, it's complicated. NEITHER of their items served are either halal nor kosher. But that's not the bad part. The bad part is: The Cathy family has a relative that works for The U.S. Sun, and Chick-fil-A does nothing about it! Aurielle Weiss is the journalist for a US subsidiary of a British tabloid. It is a very biased magazine outlet, siding with Israel and not even recognizing Palestine. (Unfortunately, it looks like Chick-fil-A may not be on our side this time.) EDIT: They are at least closeted anti-Zionist; Chick-fil-A's Cathy family does not offer kosher food.

Panda Express: Gladly, they have no HQs in Israel. But they have HQs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Also, CEO Andrew Cherng's home country of China wiped Israel off its maps, but no word from him yet. Saudi Arabia is mad about the US' superpower activites, but the UAE is even more clear about its stance • its government condemned Israel's strip of Palestinians' independence and human rights. (Ka-chow…mein sauce! Panda Express supports Palestine.)

I just want to save some images on Reddit and be able to view them on my PC. Same thing I've been doing for years. Right click, Save-As... Images are JPG or PNG. A well known format that has worked very well for decades. Even just a few days ago I was saving Reddit images in JPG format. Now today I go to save some pics and suddenly for some idiotic reason it's only letting me save as WEBP. Come to find out later, Windows can't even open these files and therefore won't even show thumbnails while browsing through the folder. So now I got a ton of saved images I have no idea what they are.

And now I have to open them with GIMP and export the stupid things to JPG.... for each and every one I download (and don't even get me started on how LONG it takes GIMP to load). What a HUGE fucking waste of time! When I'm viewing the images in Reddit, somewhere in the link it'll show "FILENAME.jpg?auto=webp" , which obviously means the image is already in JPG format but the dumbass thing is converting it to WEBP. I tried editing the link multiple ways to make it give me the ACTUAL JPG and stop converting it to WEBP crap, but that doesn't work and only returns a 403 error.

Who's bright idea was it to screw with something that already worked WELL and turn it into a serious inconvenience?

(EDIT - I'd just like to add that I've been using a Firefox extension called "Save webP as PNG or JPEG". Works quite well. Lets you save WEBP images in various JPG quality (also has a right-click menu option). I know there are others, but I've been using this one for several months and it has always worked fine. Quality was always at least the same as the WebP image even when zoomed in very close).

We know Ari has a pattern of being a home wrecker. She takes joy in dating, taken men and persuading their partners to leave marriages and long-term relationships to be with her. But that she also cheats in almost every single relationship she has been in too. So she's a homewrecker and unfaithful.

She also treats customer service employees like trash. There was video evidence of her at a bakery licking donuts, putting them back and being mean to the employees.

She doesn't mind cosplaying as different races when she's white/ Italian. We saw her as black, Asian, and Hispanic.

When there were negative discussions of her and Mac Miller dating, she threw him under the bus, claiming he was toxic and she didn't feel like a girlfriend anymore. Nomi never mentions Mac being a toxic person and, to this day, only puts him in a positive loving light even though she was betrayed.

Mac Miller was in a long-term relationship of 6 to 7 years with Nomi Leasure. They were childhood sweet hearts. Mac Miller cheated on Nomi for Ari and ultimately broke up with her to be with Ari. There's speculation that during their 2 year relationship, Ari cheated on Mac with Pete she herself denies it, but it does track given her dating record.

Paige Niemann is an Ariana Grande impersonator she started impersonating Ari when she was 16 cause people always compared them. Ari does tutorials on hair, makeup, and dress on how to look like her, but Ari doesn't like Paige because of how close they look alike. Ariana made a post calling out Paige, saying what she does weird and asking her to stop. Knowing her fans would then spam Paige's social. Some go as far as to tell Paige to off herself. When let's be honest, Ariana doesn't even look like that. She's admitted to having plastic surgery. If we look at old pics, we would know she has had work done to her nose, chin, eyebrows, lips, and breast. Meanwhile, Paige only uses makeup.

So let's review Homewrecker Unfaithful Manipulative Self absorbed Not nice Two faced

He is such an annoying personality and I try to block his channels but he has so many of them.

I just find his Fedora wearing type personality and fake British accent to be incredibly annoying. He probably has the most punchable face on youtube.

This is a very, very long one with no TL;DR. Sorry n' Shit. The only disclaimer I have is that this is my opinion, but this is the internet so I can only expect so much from people in how they interpret this.

These demonstrations, protests, riots, and civil unrest has fired up a lot of passionate people - including myself. As emotions surface during and over the demonstrations, things are getting out of hand on both sides of the protest line and I want to make a few things as clear as possible for people - and touch on a few things from my personal perspective.

The Issues:

Police in America kill murder unarmed civilians and get away with it. The police brutality that goes on within our legal system is fucking revolting. The law enforcement, legal and judicial system is FUCKED - and it needs severe reform. NOW. The major issue surrounding all of that is that there is an extremely racist prejudice within these systems against POC, on top of a system that is designed to incarcerate and financially bleed you dry. That is not okay in any way shape or form, but that doesn't mean white people are exempt from the bullshit within this system. There is a large sentiment that these demonstrations are about a strictly racial issue and to that I say - how dare you? How many decent men have had their children taken away from them due to an ex with a grudge, because of the way this system is set up? How many people are doing basically life simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time? A very close friend of mine is looking at doing hard fucking time for defending himself with a legal firearm - and everyone involved was white. How many rapists, child molesters and crooked CEO's walk fucking free because of this system - yet how many hungry people stealing food and weed dealers trying to make ends meet are doing significant time? How many decent people got fucked because the other guy had a better lawyer? Just because the murder of George Floyd was racially motivated (fuck you for saying otherwise - a man was murdered over $20), doesn't mean the resounding response is. Trust me, I want the racism that's prevalent within our system to be removed, I want it removed from my society entirely, but trying to say that the only issue here is race is like trying to say the reason your car won't drive is because it has no gas in it - when it doesn't have an engine either. Yeah - no fucking shit it's vital to remove racism, but having a system that isn't designed to absolutely fuck anyone who gets near it and is instead based on humanitarian values wouldn't have racism in it anyways. As a white person? I'm scared for my freedoms when I'm around police, if I was black I'd be scared for my life. Neither are okay - and the latter should have ended in 1886. Not to mention - our cops have absolutely no responsibility towards the public. Check this shit out. On top of that? It's pretty fucked up that a country can supply resources to combat protests incredibly easily, but can't do the same to combat Covid. What the fuck does that tell you about our governments priorities??

The Atmosphere:

America is on fire right now, and everyone is fucking pissed about something. Let's list some things that people could be absolutely pissed about right now. A few quick examples: Politicians just bailed out the rich amid a pandemic that caused 40 million to become unemployed, while citizens get charged with terrorism and politicians lie about infecting colleagues; after politicians took the virus seriously enough to commit insider trading but not enough to protect the public. With all of those wrongs against the American people, nothing has been done within our system - and there has been no serious outrage or condemnation from other countries (not that it's their problem). If you aren't mad about the virus (it's just a hoax!) then you're mad about the response or lack there of. Let's say you aren't mad about the virus, the response and you aren't unemployed. The global economy just went belly up and you've been locked in your house for months. Everybody is fucking pissed.

The Protests:

Across our entire country and even abroad, protests have taken place with attendances in the tens of thousands over the injustices happening in America right now. The world needs to stand in solidarity with America right now - even though we may do not deserve it. The world laughs at our politics, laughs at how fucking rigged the elections are and wonders how our police and politicians can get away with such horrible things; Then in the same breath says that the American public is responsible for the choices of their government. What's that bullshit? You don't get both, asshole. That aside, the world did not aggressively stand with Hong Kong even though they do deserve it. Hong Kong warned the world what would happen if they did not - and now it's happening in America. It doesn't fucking matter if it doesn't happen in your country, or if your system isn't broken. What happens when most of the world's superpowers are governed by oppressive governments with iron fists? You will feel the impact if America fails right now, even if it's years from now. The world needs to stand together and have one voice. One resounding message that we will not tolerate these atrocities and they will be met with condemnation and resistance across the god-damned globe.

The Riots:

The people who are losing their lives, and the small businesses being destroyed that are the livelihoods of many, is absolutely un-fucking-acceptable. With that being said, assuming that even the majority of these people that are doing this are protesters - is fucking absurd, and you should be ashamed for even thinking it. Firstly, you have to accept the fact there are provocateurs present. Large. Scale. Protests. Always. Have. Anti-Protesters. Period - End of Story. For example - protests for LGTBQ+ rights? Always have people present who are protesting the protest with signs that say "God hates F*gs". ALWAYS. So if there's a very volatile civil unrest protest being held AT NIGHT over a blatant fucking murder - what kind of people do you think are going to show up in protest of the protest? There are racists in America that would use this civil unrest as a way to burn down black neighborhoods and murder innocent people - it's just a fucking fact. Accept it. On top of that - there have been allegations going around that some police officers are the ones starting some of the riots and acting as provocateurs. If these protests cause a country-wide investigation into the police force - don't you think the one's getting away with constant excessive use of force and abuse of power are going to try and ensure that doesn't fucking happen? What do we do in America during elections and other things? Smear Campaigns. 2 + 2 = Crooked cops are gonna show up and try to destabilize the protests to make it seem like excessive force is necessary. Couple that with the fact of how I pointed out that everybody is pissed about something - even if they don't give two flying fucks about the protests. That place you worked at for years that just fired you? That bank that foreclosed on your home, or repossessed your only transportation to work because you couldn't make ends meet? Yeah, fuck them, right? So keep all of these motherfuckers in mind when you see reports of "senseless rioting."

Not to mention that whether you like it or not some of this destruction is 100% justified and warranted. The public took over and set fire to a Police Station - one that has systematically allowed and enabled racially motivated police brutality for DECADES. Let that mother fucker burn to the god damned ground. Because you know what? Obviously peaceful protests haven't fucking worked because we are still dealing with this shit, day in and day out - and nothing is improving for the American Public - especially POC.

The Police Response:

There's a lot of fucked up shit out there coming to light. There are people claiming that the same cops that were kneeling with protesters - soon after assaulted, gassed, or pepper sprayed those same peaceful protesters. At this point in time they are just allegations but based on proof of WAR CRIME LEVEL OF FORCE - I doubt they're lying. Reporters are getting shot at, arrested, and maced - how do you think they're going to treat protesters?? The police are responding to peaceful protests over police brutality with even more police brutality - and we're not backing down. Personally? I think that if you're a "good cop" - you should resign until the end of the protests. You feel our pain? 40 million jobless - suffer with us. Not to mention that if every single officer that actually disagreed with the system left the "blue line" and joined the protesters, then the only ones who will put that uniform on are the ones itching for violence. Because you know what? Protesters have protected police, protesters have been protecting infrastructure. Anything you think you're doing to help on the police side - you can do on our side with us. Stop being a two-faced pussy hiding behind your badge. You are not there for our safety, you're there to incite violence and oppress the protest - and I refuse to believe your lies otherwise. Your badge is soaked in the blood of the innocent.

Conclusion and Final Points:

This is turning into another civil war - and not because of the American public. We want peace - we want the corruption and racism within our system to fucking end and we want police and politicians held as accountable for their actions as the public is. It's turning into a war because the change we want is not happening. We have tried being peaceful about the things we want changed. JFK said that "Those who make a peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - and the American people feel like their protests aren't doing shit anymore. The Occupy Wall Street protests accomplished what, exactly? What has Black Lives Matter achieved exactly? If it had caused some sort of countrywide investigation, George Floyd might still be alive. (Not to mention Zimmerman was acquitted due to our flawed legal system.) I'm not trying to bash the efforts of the movements - they're more than admirable - but what results did they actually achieve in the long run? What proof do we have that our peaceful protests are actually being heard anymore? They haven't significantly changed the system since women got rights IMO.

America is careening headlong into a revolution - and by fucking god is it going to get bloody.

Edit 1: So not only did the first autopsy had some serious discrepancies but the Floyd family had an independent autopsy review it.. Absolutely proves how corrupt this system is. Then Trump calls for MORE AGGRESSIVE responses from police and states. Yeah - this won't escalate to a civil war... /s. Not to mention this shit.

BIG EDIT: Post was before Trumps address a few hours ago.

Trump essentially, in my mind, just declared war on the people. That (which to be honest I am still processing and thinking over) scares me for only one simple reason. What happens when America labels something as "terror(ist)"? We actually have congressmen saying it fucking publicly. Now, I feel like simply because I give a shit about my fellow man and support the protests and some of the destruction (as I explained in the post) - I've been labeled an enemy of my country.

I'm watching a news story live right now (CNN) of an entire bridge worth of people being detained by military police. There have been no reported injuries, but that's a very select place and it's on camera. They are arresting people en masse, right after releasing many from the prisons (kinda weird but OK). My wife just showed me a facebook message from Philadelphia of reports that groups of civilians are "practicing their 2nd amendment right". I don't know the validity of these reports yet, but there have been whispers of armed military and civilians all over the country.

I am not "scared", but I am fearful about how much bloodshed is going to happen - or is happening. My president has been literally spouting racist rhetoric and claiming ignorance, saying he's an ally of peaceful protests while explosions from flash grenades can be heard pushing back peaceful protesters. He's threatening our states, and making people fear for their lives. We have a fucking psychopath at the wheel right now - and people are willing to die at this point because if you didn't feel like your freedoms were being taken away before now you do.

My wife just told me that there's reports that her hometown police department just got a $200K approval for increase in funding - while the Waldorf school she went to (focuses on arts, music, agriculture) - just got their budget cut. My country is preparing for war - and it's going to be on our own soil. More and more is unfolding every single minute right now, and I personally do not know what to do. I got married in February with the intent of backpacking Europe for 6 months the second we got the chance, starting in Ireland. Obviously put on hold - but now I'm torn if I should leave. This is not okay - and it doesn't matter where I live I will never be okay with letting these things go without speaking out. I do not think that I could leave while my country (as much as I hate what it is become) is torn apart from the inside out while someone says he's "Making it Great Again."

It angers me so much that no one saw the writing on that wall. Making it great again as if it was once great before. Back when segregation, gentrification and blatant racism was socially acceptable. He's been spewing rhetoric and people have finally taken notice.

The people here are as isolated as North Korea in the sense that through our media, we have no comprehension of the true scope of the atrocities our government has committed in other places around the globe - to people just like us. Honestly, I feel naive for thinking that they weren't going to eventually going to do the same here. They bled america dry - and still bleed us in relief bills. Our economy collapsed and they know that there's civil unrest coming so they MADE IT about race. I'm convinced of it at this point. I'M MAD ABOUT THE SYSTEM BUT EVERY OTHER WORD OUT OF THIS REPORTERS FUCKING MOUTH IS "BLACK".

I'm literally shaking and crying at this point because I don't know how to handle this. I legally carry - I'm just as likely to go out and defend what I know in the fibers of my fucking soul to be right with my fucking life - and then I look at the woman who drove me to chemo and sat with me while I had poison being pumping into my fucking chest - and I know that the only way I KNOW I can keep her safe is to flee. If I do that I become what I hate, a hypocrite.

For other countries that stand with us in solidarity - that see our plight and feel as helpless as we did with HK: Wait. This is not your fight yet. I really really fucking hate to say that - but you cannot doubly risk the lives of your own for a foreign country like that so quickly. America has it's military, police, and citizens armed to the fucking teeth - now it feels like they're being pointed at each other; all during a pandemic. My country couldn't mobilize to protect us from the virus, but they can mobilize to oppress us while we beg to stop being killed. DO NOT believe the rhetoric you may hear from our government. Journalists are being attacked, our president mobilized that military to "keep us safe" from ourselves. We are on the very brink of civil war.

Yet I don't know what my countrymen will do. Will they fight? If so... Idk if I can't. Will they just accept this? Let it go? We're past the point of nothing changing - everything has gotten WORSE. Now we're almost forced to keep protesting, keep rioting (in some people's minds). It seems some have decided to fight. The only ones rioting are police - they escalated this.

But this is the plea from an American willing to die to prove that we are all equal and deserve basic human fucking rights:

If we fight, and we start to lose. Show these mother fuckers how much karma is a fucking BITCH.

We can coordinate through social media - send in agents (or radical citizens) covertly. Work with Canada (Mexico might have some back deal shit - their government ain't so hot either) and send them in quietly - do to America what America has done to the world. "Save us from ourselves." Because at that point - America has fallen. Hell, America is falling. At that point - the only thing that comes from America falling is the same thing happening around the world once we're "under control."

At the end of the day, to be painfully honest - if there's going to be another world war...

Well maybe it deserves to be on our soil.

Yah yah yah racism is wrong but you know what. When I’m driving with my racist uncle trying to explain that not all blacks people are bad and we get rear ended by some ‘gansta mother fucker’ who demands we ‘break him off something’ and ‘will beat yo ass if you call the police’ with no license plates. When NFl players rush fans screaming about ‘Where you from dawg where you from dawg!’ Cuz you know gotta represent da hood as an nfl player…. You know what stop acting like ghetto thugs and maybe you won’t be viewed aS ghetto thugs. Such a strange idea right?

‘transphobe’ this, ‘your transphobic’ that, no i’m fucking not. how the fuck is that transphobic, what gender have you transitioned to, to warrant the use of (i fucking kid you not i have seen some of these): clowncat/clowncatself, cat/kittyself, cloud/cloudself, ♠️, Z, gore/goreself. you can name a random word and make it a fucking gender now, and it’s all because of fucking tik tok

the only people who use these are desperate, attention seeking, gen z, chronically online white girls who can’t last a singe second without tik tok. i have been called abelist and transphobic but it simply doesn’t add up, who the fuck is that transphobic or abelist to? you can’t transition from a basic white girl to a fucking cat or cloud can you? of tik tok was never a thing, i can guarantee that they would be normal, functioning members of society and not some fucking weirdo on the internet with some made up ‘gender’ and calling people transphobic if they call you out on it.

thanks for coming to my rant

This is place if business and I am going to spend five minutes with you, tops. I will most likely never see you again. We don't need to have a conversation. There are other people waiting.

We would already be done, you would be on your way, and other people will have also been done and on their way already if you had not felt the need to spend TEN MINUTES explaining to me that you prefer she/her pronouns. I never said anything that included a pronoun. This conversation was completely useless

You have now inconvenienced literally everyone else here for absolutely no reason. Congratulations

I feel like this is a safe place to say this, but I really don't find him talented, and only two songs from his discography are listenable to me. He can't sing, he can't dance, he can't write; the only thing he does decently is rap.

The worst part is that when you say his music is garbage, a thousand people come out calling you racist or classist. Dude, I'm Latino, and I'm not like that just because some American who thinks we twerk and party every day tells me so.

I don't know, with so many good Latino artists, most of them underrated, it sucks that our biggest representative is a guy who can't even jump without breaking his knee. Female artists are held to a much higher standard than that.

Did I listen to some of her songs and enjoy like 2 of them? Yes. But also I can’t elk those songs are super cheesy. It’s so obvious that she is a fan of Taylor swift bc she literally makes the same kind of music. It’s so cheesy not at all deep metaphorically at all, and she sang about an “ex” all in most of her music . And I can understand people making music abt their ex, BUT THIS GUY WASNT EVEN HER EX. He just said “oh I don’t want to date you bc your too young for me rather wait til your x age.” And bc things change over time he fell in love for someone else and that makes HIM the bad guy??? Drivers license was trash. I definitely don’t want to live in a world of Taylor swift and her little inspiration clones everywhere. Makes me sick. She overrated and over played and vampire made me physically cringe, how did someone allow her to release that.

Using a throwaway account here but I am sure I am going to get some flak for posting this but at this point I am too fed up and frustrated to even care.

I live in Canada in an area with a substantial South Asian/Indian population that seems to be growing by the week. I live in a pretty diverse area with lots of Arabs, blacks, Chinese, south-east Asians and a whole lot of Europeans (mostly eastern European/slavic) For the most part we get along, even though we mostly stick to our own ethnic groups.

I am a frequent buyer of fast food. I know it’s not the healthiest option out there but whatever. I’m a little overweight but make a decent enough amount of money where I can afford to get the odd burger or fried chicken here and there. I’ve had mostly good customer service experiences and some bad ones such as getting the wrong order. Each time the cashier or whatever worker was kind enough to apologize and fix the order for me and send me on my merry way. No fuss. No bullshit. In and out without a scene.

Then the Indians moved in...

And they started buying up a lot of the fast food franchises. And this is where I started to notice a significant decline in the quality of food I was getting.

Now I get it. You’re ready to ram down my throat the fact that shitty customer service exists in all races and ethnicities and that I’m unfairly signalling out a certain demographic over a few bad experiences. Well here’s the thing…

Like I mentioned earlier I frequent fast food restaurants quite a bit. When you frequent them as much as I do you start to get to know the staff. You also start to notice when a once diverse kitchen and front counter of fast food employees suddenly becomes entirely Indian. Like entirely Indian. Every single one of them.

About 90% of the terrible fast food experiences I have had have been within the last two years and all of them have consisted of restaurants with a 100% Indian staff.

I’ve read a few threads on this. The Indians show up, buy a franchise, cut the hours and/or let go of all the white and non-Indian employees, replace them all with Indian workers then begin with cutting corners in the restaurant itself in order to save money. Chicken is fried in old cooking oil that isn’t changed as regularly as it should be. Toppings on sandwiches are skimped. Napkins and cutlery are kept away from the public and kept under the counter, forcing you to practically beg for an extra napkin. Want an extra sauce or ketchup packet? Forget it. It ain’t gonna happen.

This pattern makes me believe that the whole “Indians are cheap” stereotype is more than just a stereotype. You might reply with “WeLL tHaT’s PaRt oF tHeIr CuLtUrE” to which I’m going to reply with: Really, if their culture is to be so damn cheap that you can’t spare one more napkin with my order, than to hell with them and their culture. Give me a break.

I first started noticing this pattern with the local Popeyes Chicken down the street from where I live. The Indians moved in and bought the franchise. Slowly all of the white employees were phased out. I started to notice that they weren’t in the restaurant as much until one day I walked in and sure enough the entire place was staffed by all Indians. I made my usual order and waited for it to arrive. Pre-Indian arrival, that basic 4 piece order with fries took no longer than 5 minutes to be prepared, it took almost 15 before I got it. Looking around the restaurant there were only 2 maybe 3 other people in there. There was no reason for it to take that long. Whatever, I thought to myself. Maybe it was a fluke. Can’t judge these people based on one experience. I’ll give them another chance. I grab my tray and head over to the other counter where the napkins and utensils used to be. Where are they? I thought to myself. I go back to the cashier. “Sorry, could I get a napkin, please?” The cashier looked at me with derision, like I just insulted his ancestors. He pauses, reaches under the counter and pulls out a single small rectangular one ply napkin. I had just ordered a four piece. One napkin is not going to cut it. “...could I get another one, please?” He looks at me like I’m trying to rob the place. He pauses, reaches under the counter and hands me another singular one ply napkin. That was an odd encounter I think to myself. Whatever, I’m hungry, let’s eat. I grab a seat, grab my first piece of chicken and… it looks and feels.... Off. It’s a lot soggier than usual and it smells funny. I take a bite. Yep, that’s what’s up I think to myself. This was cooked in old unchanged cooking oil. Gross. I don’t want to make a scene. I eat what I can and throw the rest out. That was a bad experience and after the weird look I was already met with over a napkin, I wasn’t going to take it further. I left but it wouldn’t be my last time.

The second time I went with a friend. We ordered an 8 piece chicken combo with fries and split it. There were about 5 people in the store and it took us about 30 minutes to get our order. Right away when we walked in there, there was a funny smell in the air. Turns out it was the old oil that the staff still had not changed. While my friend and I waited for our food all you could hear in the back is the staff all yelling at each other in a language that wasn’t English. Some were working, some were literally standing and doing nothing. We got our food, we sat down and looked at the chicken. “Holy sh!t what did they do to it back there?” my friend stated. The chicken smelled awful. The pieces were smaller than usual and when I went to pick up a drumstick, the thing was so greasy that all the skin slid off and fell on the table in what I could only describe as the most God-awful goopy mess I’ve ever seen. Maybe, because I was still in my 20s and didn’t really care, but I don’t know why my friend and I still ate it anyways.

My friend has a much bigger appetite for fried chicken than I do so I never went back to that Popeyes unless he was with me or he wanted to go. But I hate to say it, we still went back to that Popeyes a few times after that. And each time the quality of customer service and food just continued to decline. Wait times became longer. The smell, quality and portions of the food became worse. I finally got fed up with the place after that same friend and I put in an order for delivery. We were on our way home from a job a few towns away and were about 30 minutes away from my place. I was driving and my friend put in an order to that Popeyes for delivery. Knowing that we were 30 minutes away from home, we figured that by the time we got home we’d still have a few more minutes for the food to arrive anyways. Sure enough, in 30 minutes we were home and it took another hour on top of that for the food to arrive. By now we were both annoyed but too hungry once the food arrived to even care. We opened up the food only to find that the food was not only cold but was missing items that we had specifically ordered. I was pissed. My friend called to complain and the employee on the other line kept playing stupid with us the entire time. My friend and I gave them enough crap to force them to come back and fix the order they got wrong (a rare victory amongst Indian fast food workers) but by the time they sent their delivery guy back to drop it off, it was cold again. I cut my losses and never since then went back to that Popeyes. I left the nastiest, most scathing review that I could on every review page I could find, something I have never done before and never missed an opportunity to tell my friends and everyone I knew to never go to that Popeyes, even citing my past experiences with them.

Pause. Well now you’re probably thinking, it’s just one restaurant. It’s one Popeyes in a city with many different fast food options. Maybe it’s just that one restaurant that has garbage Indian workers. You can’t base your opinion on one restaurant with an all Indian staff. And yeah, I wish I could end my story right here and tell you it’s just this one place staffed by “a few bad apples.” And if that were the case I’d end this story right here but it only goes downhill from here.

My beloved Tim Hortons. I could drive in and out of that drive thru and get my coffee in under 30 seconds flat. For real I’ve timed it. The staff in that place worked like a well oiled machine. Efficiency was their game. They had this one older lady work there that was not only a fast worker but she had this upbeat, friendly, and chipper attitude to her that made each visit there a pleasant one. My friends and I would hang out at that Timmies and when she worked there it was always a good experience. We loved her and we loved that she was good at her job.

Then the Indians moved in…

I started noticing that I was seeing that older lady there less and less and the place became staffed by more and more Indians. One day, that older lady wasn’t there anymore. Found out from a friend of mine that saw her that as soon as the new Indian franchise owners took over the place then cut her hours and started hiring more Indians. It got to the point that they started booking her for no hours at all which forced her out. It broke my heart to hear that but I was willing to give the new management a chance to prove their customer service to me and they didn’t. 30 seconds flat to get a coffee? Forget it. I was the second car in line and it took me 15 minutes. Here I was in the drive thru thinking that the guy in front of me had ordered the entire store only to find out that he had ordered 3 coffees. I went inside once and was literally the only guy in the store and only 2 cars in the drive thru and it still took me 15 minutes to get one coffee. Just like the Popeyes the entire Indian staff working there were all yelling at each other in a different language and none of them seemed to coordinate how to do anything. I ordered one coffee but how they were behaving you’d think I was asking them to conduct open heart surgery. When I finally got my coffee it was either burnt or missing sugar or cream. Want to order food from them? Forget it. It would be either burnt or not done the way you asked for it. Every time you went in there they acted like you were somehow burdening them with an order of one coffee and they’d loaf around huffing and puffing as if it was the most difficult thing to ask for. I used to stir coffees before. It’s not a hard task. After a few failed attempts for them to get my order right in a timely manner I gave up. Now, I find I can drive an extra 3 minutes to the next Tim Hortons and still get my coffee in less time than I would from the one I used to go to.

Next was the local KFC and the pattern was the exact same. Before the Indians = good service, good food, small wait times. After the Indians took over = bad customer service, poorly made food, and longer wait times. Not to mention, literally every single Subway sandwich shop.

I’ve given up on these people. The KFC halfway across town is staffed by mostly black people. Good food and no problems there. The local Burger King, staffed by Arabs and Muslims. Great service no issues there. Every other Tim Hortons’ staffed by white people. Fast service and no issues. Any other fast food establishment where only 1 or 2 Indians work. No issues there. I go into any fast food establishment completely run and staffed by Indians, problems, problems and more problems.

I don’t understand how these people can function perfectly fine everywhere else in society, except in fast food restaurants. I don’t run into any problems with Indians at convenience stores, gas stations or cell phone providers. Hell, some of them even make terrific doctors and professionals, but sh!t, ask an Indian to flip a burger, fry a piece of chicken or stir a coffee and all of a sudden it’s completely beyond their comprehension. They get confused. They take forever and they completely mess up your order.

Then when you confront them on their poor service, ask for a refund or ask them to fix the order they screwed up, they get all defensive and refuse. You end up in a whole other drama fueled battle on its own.

I’m not a “Karen.” I’m not some “the customer is alright right” kind of asshole. I’ve worked in customer service and in fast food before. I get it. It can be hard. You can deal with some garbage people. But me? I’m just a slightly overweight guy that just wants the service and product that I paid for. I’m not trying to make a scene. I just want to buy some fried chicken and a Timmies coffee and not get ripped off over it. Is that too much to ask for?

I’m done with doing business in any business or franchise run by Indians. I’m sick of the old “Yeah, well bad customer service happens in a lot of places…” Yeah well for me that bad customer service and bad food seems to be happening overwhelmingly in places run by one specific group of people. So that’s it. If I walk into a place and see all Indians staffing the place, I’m walking out. No fuss. No scene. No negative comments. Just doing a 180 and walking out the door. If I have to drive a little further for better service than so be it.

Feel free to let me have it in the comments. I don’t care. I just needed to get this off my chest because it’s been bothering me and this is the one place where someone might hear me out. Thanks for reading.

TL;DR Indians are terrible at running fast food franchises so I don’t go to places run by Indians anymore.

I’m sorry but this is utter bullshit.

Like I ain’t a real fan of yours if I don’t wanna see you naked?

What the fuck is going on with this world.

I’ve had this on my mind for a while and just need to post it to get it off my chest.

First off - I'm bisexual and non-binary myself. I'm 21 and have been in the LGBTQ community for over 5 years. So I know what I'm talking about here.

I've been noticing this trend for a long-ass time and finally felt the need to just rant about it. A lot of LGBTQ kids/teens/young adults seem to have this obsession with making their entire lives and personalities revolve around their gender/sexuality.

This can get super irritating and make talking to some of them feel like a chore. They'll constantly go off about "how gay" they feel, how much they just love being gay/trans/etc, or (and this is the most annoying one), how annoying and stupid straight/cis people are. Basically what anyone who knows what Tumblr was like in the mid 2010's the "Tumblr personality". Yes, I'm aware straight people can act like this too. But you know what? It's also annoying as hell when they do it, too. Meaning the reverse is just as annoying.

But don't get me wrong, this is not an anti-LGBTQ post (why would it be? I'm part of it myself). And I don't even hate these kinds of people, or want them to change themselves to become something entirely different. I really just want them to tone it down. Not only is it annoying, but it's unhealthy. It's unhealthy to center your entire personality around what it essentially a label. A label is not who you are. For the same reason you can't make vague claims about entire groups of people and have them be accurate (Yes, I see the irony in saying that. But this isn't about all LGBTQ youth, it's about a specific mindset that affects many of them).

Centering your entire life around a pre-conceived label or title just isn't good for your health or personal development. And that's also probably a reason so many LGBTQ kids I talk to have anxiety or "joke" about having depression/not being able to make friends. Of course it's going to be hard to make friends when you only ever allow yourself to interact normally with a specific type of person.

I would also argue that this "Haha I'm so gay, straight people suck!" type of personality is actively harming LGBTQ people (not just youth) as well. It makes straight/cis people learn to hate us, even if it is just a joke. Just like how LGBTQ people get offended by homophobic/transphobic jokes (even if they're not serious), straight/cis people are going to get pissed off by jokes targeted at them, too. And they're going to take them seriously.

My advice to LGBTQ kids/teens? Lighten up, learn when to stop talking about yourself, and please - Explore yourselves. Explore yourselves beyond just your sexuality/gender identity. Find out your hobbies, your interests, your goals in life. Find more things to talk to about with other people. This will help you make more friends, and present yourself in a less threatening manner. And don't force others to walk on eggshells, either. Realize that not all of us (not even every LGBTQ person) understands sexuality/identity perfectly, and instead of going off about how stupid straight people are, instead educate them so they aren't stupid on your subject.

I'm sorry for this rant, I know it's going to come off to someone out there as cynical and offensive. I really don't mean it in that way. People who act the way I'm ranting about aren't annoying in the, "Ugh, you piss me off!" kinda way, it's more of a, "Sigh... Why can't you learn!?" kind of annoying. The kind where I don't want you to change yourself or go away, rather, I just want to see you act better. Because I know these people can act better if they would just realize how they look to most people.

I’m pretty sure if you’ve been on TikTok you’ve probably heard of this so called “movement”, so basically it’s a movement to keep people from immigrating into Europe. Before anyone calls me a racist the only reason I sorta agree with this movement is cause sadly a lot of people give immigrants a bad reputation by committing crimes (I’m saying this as someone with immigrant parents), and I also think that immigration should be more well regulated so that the wrong people can’t get in

Disclaimer: This is absurdly long - and one fucking hell of a rant. With that in mind, this is my opinion and it comes from immense amounts of thinking, questioning my initial opinions, and new things happening every single day. I'm going to be exceptionally blunt and brutal on so many different topics, and if that causes you to feel "personally attacked" by this in any way (because I am pulling NO punches here) - then you're 100% part of the problems in this situation. In some cases, I provide solutions; In others, I do not. I'm just a slightly smarter than average guy with a lot of facts, some strong opinions and a lot of passion. I'll never have all the answers - sue me.

TL;DR: First - starting at low level law enforcement, all the way up the chain to the president, widespread arrests need to happen right now. Prosecution can happen after we finalize the systematic reform necessary to adequately hold them accountable. Let them rot in a cell until then. Second - The American people need to realize and act upon the fact that our issues are systematic, including our elections and law making processes, and take the steps necessary to change them for the people. Third - The people need to "appoint" and get behind a new presidential candidate (the favorite now is Biden - HA), one that isn't proven to be two-faced or part of the fucking problem; And throw absolutely everything they have behind them. Fourth - America needs to set the precedent for the entire world that this bullshit, in every facet of society, will no longer be tolerated. We have entered the modern era - fucking act like it.

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Part One: Taking the tangible first steps necessary to making an actual change.

Finding a place to start when it comes to listing the issues that need change is like trying to list the stars in the sky without equipment, so I'm just going to pick one and start to run with it. Essentially what these protests are about is: "Rules for thee, but not for me". Literally. Accountability. When everything is said and done, yes, this is about a racial prejudice that is prevalent within our legal and law enforcement system - but it stems from those who carry a certain status (police in this case) getting away with literal murder because the system is designed to let them. A post of mine from a few days ago explains my opinion about how this isn't just about race. Here's an excerpt:

Our country failed at preventing a mass pandemic. It failed at stopping the collapse of our economy. It failed at preventing the worst job losses ever recorded in our country. The government did however, succeed in making you pissed at the person standing next to you, who's going through the same nightmare as you, simply for the color of their fucking skin. Trump knew a period of civil unrest was coming, and he managed to make it about the same thing our country had a war about over 150 fucking years ago.

Congratulations - you just fucking played yourself.

Racism within our systems is a serious fucking issue, which is the main priority right now, but trying to fix a singular issue (racism) within a system that is fundamentally broken will not logically fix the larger issues at hand (corruption and no accountability), nor make any long-term tangible difference because of that fact.

To return to the fact that the biggest single issue right now is accountability, I want to point out a few things that I think highlight this issue perfectly. In Buffalo New York, two officers were seen on camera pushing a 75-year-old protester to the ground so hard that he immediately started bleeding from his ear. First their statement was that "During a skirmish involving protesters, one person was injured when he tripped and fell." Video proved that they were blatantly lying. PBA president John Evans said that "The officers 'did nothing wrong' and were 'simply following orders.' Hmm.. Where have I heard that before...? The two officers responsible for shoving the man were suspended without pay, so in response, 57 officers resigned from the forces's Emergency Response Team - in support of the officers - not the "accountability." Just this ONE example shows that, not only will officers support each other when wrong, caught on camera, and punished for it - but the departments and the fucking mayor will cover for the officers as well.

"Mayor Byron Brown said he wants the two suspended officers to get due process. 'I am not calling for them to be fired.' Speaking of the injured man, the mayor said, 'He was asked to leave numerous times last night.' Police felt that it was important to clear the area before fights broke out among the protesters, the mayor said."

How the fuck does that work?? You want them to follow due process, but are not calling for them to be fired, never-mind arrested. How can you simultaneously have your head that far up your ass - and still be able to lick fucking boots until they shine? The "DuE pRoCeSs" that is associated with police is the fucking problem - and you're advocating for them to have lenient punishments within the same exact systems we're demanding reform in. You're the one who should be fired. All 59 officers involved should be arrested. Period. They all showed who they care about.

Any officer that has been caught on camera committing acts of police brutality during these protests, as well as before hand - should be immediately arrested and thrown in jail with no bail posted. The curfew isn't to "stop the rioters" - it's an excuse to quell the protests in general via excessive force and "justified" arrests. This is a small article explaining just some of the ways curfews have been used to restrict the freedoms of individuals in America in the past, and IMO this video proves a bias (call it racial if you want) in these curfews. Plain and simple. The government did it at Standing Rock, what makes you think that they aren't trying to end the protests here just to get their way again??

Let's start to move up the chain, shall we? So - we touched on a single mayor, how about De Blasio? The point is - law enforcement personnel have been backed and covered for in every step of the government. How about a Senator calling for war crime levels of force? (To the people saying he wasn't being serious - he served in the 101st Airborne in Iraq. He knew what the fuck he was saying.) What about a congressman calling for Americans to be "Hunted down like terrorists in the Middle East." Let's go higher than that. The white house press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly said that "police have a right to defend themselves" against protesters - and that no tear gas or rubber bullets were used to push back peaceful protesters at the white house. (Press Conference. Relevant Video of Trump's speech.) Even though overwhelming evidence to the contrary made them change their tune in a later statement. The issue with a "right to defend yourself" according to police, is that the second they get scared like a little fucking bitch - they are allowed to execute someone. (This man was on his knees with his hands up. The officer was in his patrol car.) Does this look like the "best interests" of the people to you??

My point is - I couldn't give any less of a fuck about what position you hold in our society. If you're acting against, or calling for action against, the best interests of the american people - you should be immediately arrested and put in jail. Additionally, we cannot try and follow the due process that is already in place for these people. Especially Law Enforcement. We have to wait until the reform necessary to actually hold these criminals accountable for their actions is passed. Throw them in prison without bail, with a court date "Pending Law Reform." Because guess what? That's gonna get that ball rolling real fucking quick. Lots of things need to change immediately. Including the fact that Trump is president. He should be impeached and arrested. Period.

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Part Two: Law Enforcement is just the tip of the iceberg.

This one, you're gonna have to open your mind about and accept the fact that you've been repeatedly lied to. It sucks, but deal with it. This Independent Survey titled "Police Integrity Lost: A Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested" delves into the issues surrounding police officers committing crimes and the rate in which those crimes are recorded and prosecuted. Here's a couple excerpts, but I suggest you take the time to read through a bit of it.

The contrast between the topic's substantive weight and comparatively light coverage within the scholarship is mostly due to an absence of suitable data. The traditional sources of data and methods of study, whether official statistics, self-report surveys, or direct observations, either do not exist in any usable format or are ill-equipped to identify, count, or provide the basis for empirical analyses of instances in which police perpetrate crimes themselves.

The first general observation is that police crimes are not uncommon. Police officers get arrested for crimes with some regularity in jurisdictions around the nation, including rural areas, small towns, suburbs, and large urban centers. Law enforcement officers in the current study were arrested at a rate of 0.72 officers arrested per 1,000 officers, and at a rate of 1.7 officers arrested per 100,000 population nationwide. Of course, only a small percentage of the total number of law enforcement officers will ever be arrested for a criminal offense, but our data directly contradicts some of the prevailing assumptions and the proposition that only a small group of rotten apples perpetrate the vast majority of police crime. Those assumptions relate to previous studies, journalistic investigations, and special commissions that described the misconduct of a single and/or handful of rogue officers operating within a single and/or handful of jurisdictions. The assumption that only a small group of rogue officers perpetrate crimes also presumably stems from traditional notions and public expectations regarding the straight-laced, law-abiding police persona. In contrast, our method provided for the identification of an unprecedented number of police crimes that occurred within virtually every sort of place, and the opportunity to draw some conclusions about how often these events occur across the nation. The data demonstrate that police crimes are not isolated events, and that hundreds of police officers every year get arrested for crimes including assault, rape, robbery, and murder across the United States.

The current research project identified and analyzed an unprecedented amount of data on the arrests of nonfederal sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. The research data collection methodology was designed by Stinson (2009) and allows for the aggregation of information on the phenomenon of police crime that would not otherwise been possible (Payne, 2013). It would also be very difficult to process and code the content of the vast amount of raw data analyzed in the current project without sophisticated database resources.

Not only does this study basically say that police officers committing crimes is incredibly fucking common, but that they hardly get arrested (never-mind convicted) of those crimes because of the way the system is set up. Also, IMO, it calls into question the credibility of law enforcement as a whole, including the Department of Justice that allows these issues to go unchecked. I could go on much longer about law enforcement - but as I said: Just the tip of the iceberg.

Our electoral college is FUCKED, and so are our elections. I mean, really fucked. Our elections are slanted in a way in which the minority of voters have more power - it's called Gerrymandering. As in, a smaller group in our country holds more weight in our elections than others. I really do not know how else to explain this. Your vote doesn't fucking matter with the way our system has come to be. It just doesn't anymore. The 2016 election proved that - and so has the preliminaries for 2020. Bernie had more independent financial donors than any other candidate, and he didn't have enough support? Are you kidding me? This literally shows that more Americans were supporting Bernie than any other candidate, and he dropped out that early?? I wasn't even given a chance to vote for him. Don't you dare fucking tell me that this shit is a fair election in any way shape or form.

Now lets get into some scary shit. It doesn't fucking matter if we have an election. Here's a couple excerpts from that link...

The main reason for this phenomenon – that is, increased regime failures in the year after an election – is linked to the effect that an election has on resolving so-called “coordination problems”. Coordination problems arise when individuals can realize a gain without contributing to the process of realizing it. The democratic system of government is a classic example of a coordination problem – East Germans who stayed at home in 1989 and watched the demonstrations against Erich Honecker’s regime are today benefiting from German democracy on a par with those who participated actively in the demonstrations.

Active participation in demonstrations, however, comes at a price. First of all, you may lose a day’s work, but the main risk lies in the fact that participating in such demonstrations is often directly hazardous for your health. Dictators use violence to suppress movements within civil society.

As a demonstrator, you risk being beaten up, imprisoned, tortured and, in extreme cases, killed – simply for having joined a demonstration. Accordingly, a key problem for anyone who wants to topple a regime is quite simply how to mobilize enough people.

The survival of an authoritarian regime depends highly on its ability effectively to suppress other groups in society or to incorporate them into its own alliances. Dictators who understand when a group should be suppressed and when it should be incorporated within the regime will stay in power longer than dictators who either blindly suppress all groups or undermine their own position by bringing too many groups into the regime.

This is where elections are important. Elections reveal information about potential opponents and challengers who are particularly strong, and accordingly where a dictator should concentrate his resources. Similarly, an election reveals information about the effectiveness of the dictator’s own organization. A key problem for a dictator is that he may quickly find himself in a situation where he no longer receives reliable information from his underlings. If a dictator has asked to get 95 per cent of the votes in a particular constituency but only gets 78 per cent, he will know that his local apparatus in that area is less effective than it claims to be. Such information is invaluable for any leader.

Oh - "Trump's only being rough because they're rioters! Trump and the police are perfectly justified!" Uhhhhh - Fuck you. This is a cop showing bias to Proud Boys. (Remember this from two paragraphs ago?? ^{"or to incorporate them into its own alliances. Dictators..."}) Fucking hell - we're one step away from having gas chambers. Get your fucking head out of your ass. Now, do I need to start talking about our Healthcare system? What about the fact that we have a serious incarceration problem because America has made slavery legal? How about our bullshit tax system? The wealthy got a tax break in the Covid bill, but those rich fucks were already not paying taxes to the tune of 45.7 billion between 2014 - 2016. After the botched attempt at protecting the country from a virus that caused 40 million to become unemployed, while citizens get charged with terrorism and politicians lie about infecting colleagues; after politicians took the virus seriously enough to commit insider trading but not enough to protect the public. How fucked up is it that our government spams us with so much fucking bullshit - that we think our stimulus checks are JUNK MAIL? Oh yeah - it's "just Trump" or "just the police". The naivety in the air right now is fucking deafening.

"VoTe SoMeOnE nEw In." - yeah.. First - Can I just ask you why you think that solving the issue of a broken system is to continue to use it? Just curious. (I legitimately want your opinions on that one.) I really think we should scrap the fucking system as it is, personally I love the idea of the Venus Project going worldwide. Since that is arguably not something I will see in my lifetime.. Think about this: Our constitution was written before we had indoor plumbing or modern electricity. Rewrite that shit! Start fucking over! You adapt (evolve!) or you go extinct. Too much has changed for that shit to even be applicable anymore in most situations - We just slapped a bunch of sticky notes on that bitch and called it a legal system!! The fuck is wrong with you?!? Additionally, I think we should remove the status of "President" and instead have an appointed "speaker for the nation". All he does is speak on behalf of a panel of scientists, educators and other experts of many fields (all of which have their own panels for specific areas of expertise within that field), and the elected officials that work within the legal system simply go to the aforementioned panel and say "Hey, this is the problem - this is our proposed solution." Then the panel decides based on years of fucking study and expertise how to best go about solving the fucking issues using their fucking brains. Then the speaker just tells the people. No more political figures writing laws in fields they know absolutely nothing about. This is fucking bullshit and all of you fucking know it.

For arguments sake... here's a start.

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Part Three: We need a new "favorite" candidate.

Trump. Biden. Jorgensen. Those are the three that we are currently left with that I'm aware of, and frankly I haven't really heard shit about Jorgensen. People keep saying how you should vote Biden, because we need to "PlAy ThE gAmE" in order to remove Trump, yadda-yadda blah-blah-blah. Trump obviously has to fucking go. But Biden is one of the fucking reasons that these racial and law enforcement issues are so bad in the first place. (VP for Clinton when the "Tough on Crime" bills were passed. Advocated to Clinton that they should be harsher.) Now he's sitting here going to protests and advocating for change in things that he helped put in place in the first place. He's just another two-faced, lying, racist sack of shit, who also has a thing for touching fucking kids. Stop fucking thinking that the lesser of two evils is reason to elect a fucking piece of shit. Just because he's less of a piece of shit doesn't mean he's going to fix or do anything you fucking want. He can't even remember when he's on fucking TV, or when the fuck he was VP of our country - why do you expect him to remember these protests next month? You're trying to elect a racist, two-faced, pedophile with dementia - because he's better than Trump. WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN POWER IN OUR COUNTRY?!? Oh! Oh! This racist will help us end racism! Pick him!

Were you dropped on your head after eating lead paint chips as a baby? Because what the fuck is wrong with you and the way you think??

As a country, we need someone completely new that isn't steeped in two-faced bullshit, and isn't a fucking TV personality and failed "entrepreneur". I don't know too much about Jo Jorgensen to be honest, but she seems far better than Biden and Trump, and if you couldn't get behind Bernie then you could probably get behind her. She's in favor of free-market healthcare (eh, better than single payer - not as good as universal publicly funded healthcare IMO, but whatever), she says she "supports individual liberties" and "shrinking the government" - which is also good. The thing is, I haven't been able to dig up things that she's done within her political positions during her career except for when she ran for other offices - so I can't tell if she's a two-faced liar or not. BUT - she's been maintaining her position that the government should have far less power. So at least her campaign positions are consistent - win or lose. On top of that, she received a BS in psychology at Baylor Uni in 79', followed by a Master's in Administration from Southwest Methodist Uni in 80', and in 02' she received a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Clemson Uni. She's pretty god damn smart and good at understanding how people think and why they do what they do. She's a pretty solid fucking choice in comparison to the other two fucking two-face bigots.

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Part Four: The world is watching, and will react accordingly.

I don't really need to elaborate too much on the first part, this bullshit is live across the globe. The vast majority of people are sitting at home, waiting out this virus. Guess what? The world's eyes were already on us when our Covid death toll was reaching 100,000. Then as they were watching our country erupted into chaos.

Trump has declared war on the American people. He has labeled an organization (whether you believe it exists or not is besides the question) as a terrorist organization. Even though he has no power to do so the fucking FBI said that he has no fucking proof to even say that. Slap a fancy name on something, call it "terror" and go to fucking war. That's what this country has always done, which is the biggest fucking issue right now. Do you know how many fucking proxy wars America has played a role in? Do you understand how many places we've destabilized and exploited? We need this shit to fucking STOP - and as the (arguably) most powerful nation on the face of the fucking earth, it's up to us to hold those within our borders responsible for their atrocities both domestically and abroad. The violence needs to END - as does the hypocrisy and corruption. If we can manage to do it here, maybe we can inspire (not force) other countries to do the same.

This is it. This is what happens in late-stage capitalism when the system gets repeatedly exploited over and over again. We either ensure that we hit fucking rock bottom first before we build this back up by stripping everyone from their positions that have been abusing them and getting away with hurting the american people, or we pretend like we're not trying to build a house on fucking sand without any sort of solid foundation; because worst case scenario? If the rest of the world sees America fall into something that by definition is a fascist dictatorship - then they will take that shit seriously. How could they afford not to??

The world has seen violations of the Geneva convention, he's using violence and curfews to try and silence protesters saying he "Didn't know they were there", we have seen Trump break fucking laws and start to remove political opponents very quickly. This is a textbook takeover - and we have to stop it.

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Conclusion: Get your heads out of your asses, fuck you if you aren't in favor of massive reform, and have a good fucking day! #BLACKLIVESMATTER

Edit: thank you for all the kind words and discussions! If you feel this should be read by more people please spread it - crosspost and linking in comments (don't just take my words as your own please). People are saying I should run for office... idk about all that, but if this post is enough for people to say that, then maybe this does need to be read by more people.

Like why just why

Let start by saying if your’re lgbtq that’s fine and that’s not what I’m mad about. The reason I’m mad is that it doesn’t concern me. If you’re gay why do you need my validation.

I don’t care if Danny the Walmart checkout guy is a queer, non-binary, neurodivergent who’s pronouns are zey/zer. If I’m only going to talk to you once in both our lives it’s not going to kill you to be called the wrong pronouns.

Lastly I just want to say again if you’re gay, that’s fine, just please stop telling me. As it does not concern me.

Obviously recent events have been putting a spotlight on Will and Jadas relationship. I typically couldn’t care less about celebrity relationships but it’s disgusting how poorly Jada treats Will. The only reason she is still relevant is because of Will. The only reason people give the slightest of shits about anything she does or what she has to say is because of Will. She had to be hands down one of the most ungrateful, entitled,and nasty people I’ve ever seen. I saw a interview where Will said he spent 3 whole years and hired a entire team to help coordinate Jada’s surprise 40th birthday. After three whole years of planning he unveiled his surprise Jada said that the party was a “ridiculous display of Wills ego.” Not to mention that she openly admits to cheating on him and how she “never wanted to marry him” regardless if they just now classify their relationship as “open” we all know that Will was deeply hurt by her cheating, and she had 0 remorse. She claims that she was “forced to marry him” you’re a grown ass woman, you don’t have to Mary anybody you don’t want to. No matter how much they pressure you, it’s ultimately your call. Keep that BS excuse for yourself. That fact that people continuously back her disgusting actions and attitude is absolutely mind boggling to me. Fuck Jada Smith, Will deserves much better.

I tried posting a more peaceful version of this to the r/cars sub but they immediately blocked every single post, and then banned me. I wasn't being mean or anything, just asking why loud cars are not illegal. When they banned me, I got even angrier.

A few seconds ago, as I'm typing this, I can hear yet another super loud car flying down the freeway that's over a mile away. It sounds like a NASCAR racer lost its way and ended up on the 495 outside of DC. But it doesn't matter where I am, because I've been all around the nation in the past few months and I see the same problem everywhere. Super loud cars and nobody is stopping them.

Some people say "oh don't be mean, those are poor people and they can't afford to fix their car." Bullshit. Every one of these vehicles I've seen on the road is some decent looking mid/economy car like a Civic that has been intentionally upgraded with an after market exhaust. Sometimes you'll see a Lexus or BMW doing this. It rums the gamut.

The guys who like loud cars will say shit like "it's SUCH an adrenaline rush to drive a loud car." Great. It's also fun for me to smoke a cigar, but you know what - I don't do that indoors or near others who cannot consent to my habit. Don't force your habit on us, and just like second hand smoking, loud cars affect our health in quite a negative way. Google it. Humans aren't intended to hear constant super loud cars. It forces all of these micro-stresses on us that you might not perceive, but your body does.

(I also do know that there are some people out there with loud cars that have "silent mode" and they only turn on the loud part when they get to a designated loud area like a racetrack, much how I only smoke my cigars inside cigar shops or my outdoor patio... I like you people. But the rest of you are complete assholes, and I'm coming for you)

I think the majority of these people just have small penises and want someway to show the world how cool they are. And that's pretty much what the rest of us think.

I know California and New York are pushing out legislation to fix this. California is testing sound cameras that will automatically ticket loud car owners, much like our speed cameras do in the DC area these days. I'm happy about that because law enforcement, even in states where having a loud car is illegal, don't really seem to give a fuck. And it's not like they need some advanced technology or a drug sniffing dog to find these cars... just roll down the window and follow the sound. Nice and simple.

I also know that by 2030, electric vehicles will be over 50% of the new vehicles sold in the US, so the days of these dinosaurs are numbered. But that's 8 years away and it's a simple legal issue that we can fix as citizens if we band together.

I'm not going to wait though... I have been talking to some friends and we are going to build a hunter drone that can target loud vehicles (which is easy for a computer + sensor to do because their sound signature might as well be a glowing beam into the sky), pursue these vehicles at a respectable altitude (20ft) and then when the car hits a stop light, the drone will enter attack mode, fly to the mufflers, and shoot spray foam into the mufflers, which should disable the engine and really piss off the owner. It will annoy traffic, but we have to start somewhere.

This is my Project Mayhem, and I hope others join me. Until more of our elected officials take action on this and treat it like a public health issue, we may have no choice but to take matters into our own hands.

As a black person, Im pretty fed up with this bullshit. I'll never understand why people think that just because blackwashing isn't racist, that it's right, or some shit like that. Leave characters the fuck alone- It's not hard. And this is common as shit with Anime characters. I get it. Us black people get little to no representation in anime shows/movies. So obviously, some of us are going to want to make fan art of black anime characters. There's nothing wrong with that. But here's the issue. Instead of people just making their own black anime characters, That THEY made themselves. They just google anime characters and just edit them so that they have dark skin. and then it gets praised because it's showing "representation", Sorry to break it to you, but no it's not. It's changing a character's skin tone because your to lazy to draw your own goddamn anime character. If you want to make a black anime character, or an anime character that's poc, just make your own goddamn anime character. Like, the fact that people see this shit as showing "diversity" is the funniest thing to me. Just leave characters be. MAKE YOUR OWN CHARACTERS. I swear- I dont even give a fuck if people hate on me for saying this- This needs to be said. I mean, a week ago, I literally saw somebody blackwash natsuki from DDLC, and they weren't even poc- Then i asked them why they did that, and they said that it was a "Headcanon" of theirs. Im legit shedding fucking tears- PEOPLE ARE HEADCANONING RACE NOW?- What's next, are they gonna start headcanoning if characters are alive or dead or not?- Also, you cant headcanon somebody something if the creators already confirmed what they were. For example. Let's say i made a show. It had a girl named Ava Banks. Let's say i confirmed her to be bisexual or lesbian, or something along those lines. If i, the creator, confirmed her to be bisexual or lesbian, you cant headcanon her as straight or pan or any of that. But, you would be able to headcanon her gender since i didn't confirm what it was. Anyways, I just went completely off topic- But my point is, blackwashing isn't showing representation,and for the love of god, LEAVE CHARACTER'S THE FUCK ALONE.

Watched the Oprah interview. Not only does Meghan have a few million from being an actress, but Harry has like 50 million dollars from Diana’s trust fund. And he acts like he went broke, and is trying to make ends meet working at Costco. Give me a break, bud. I would love 50 million dollars to my name.

This couple needs to stop this nonsense. You chose to be married into the royal family, Meghan. And this isn’t a former presidents family or the Hilton’s. Yes, you have to curtsy, yes you have to abide by specific rules. You chose it. And you chose to leave. These are all choices you made! That’s on you. But don’t complain about “losing” all your money and your other privileged opportunities given to both of you by birth and marriage... especially when you chose to leave! No one feels bad for you.

Wake up sweetheart...

He literally shot people in self defense, who had been pursuing and attacking him unprovoked and were going to kill him

If I were in Kyle's place I would have done the same

Kyle is innocent and should spend 0yrs in prison

What a fucking power-tripping douchebag u/awkwardtheturtle is. She's a literal fucking sexist and mods hundreds of subs to enforce her stupid-ass anti-male rules. She doesn't fucking deserve the 2 million karma she has. I love turtles but this turtle I would love to just fucking Mario-style stomp on.

Abortions are now a felony in the state of oklahoma. Which is beyond apalling, but it gets fucking worse. Now, every person in recent years that has had one is now on a goddamned list. I am on a fucking list. Like some sort of terrorist. To top it all off, doctors must now report positive pregnancy tests and miscarriages.

Do you fucking know how insane this is?! What ever happened to doctor-patient confidentiality? And the miscarriages? They need to report it just in case it's actually an abortion.

This is insane. I am not a fucking baby factory. I am not a goddamned cow. I shouldn't be treated like cattle because some idiot with a tiny fucking dick decides that "mY fUtUrE hUsBaNd" has more say over my body than I do.

What's next? Contraception is illegal because it prevents the life of a future child? Are women going to be intiturionalized for "imaginary female problems?!" How about using women as property for trade? After all, we are just one step above that at the moment.

I don't tive a shit was anyone else thinks. This is a goddamned nightmare. Stitt's policy of signing every anti-abortion bill that crosses his desk is fueled by nothing but stupidity and malicious content.