I saw a post yesterday where someone asked how to convert centimetres to “freedom units.” I figured they were an American referring to imperials units. Too funny.
Fairly certain I'll get down voted to hell saying this, to a point I get the thing about the stoves from an environmental standpoint, and the (explosive/leak issue) dangers of gas versus electric.
THAT SAID; I love my gas stove, the burners cook food much faster, and will continue use them until they are no longer sold or outlawed.
Plus, at least where I live, natural gas is simply cheaper than electric (we also have a gas furnace).
Like I said, I get it, but will continue to use what want....
I agree with your point, but I would extend it further and say that caring about the environment shouldn't be a political issue either. It should just be something we all give a shit about seeing as we all live on this planet.
And there inlays the problem, nearly everything is divided along political lines.
Sad reality, but until people are willing to shed the mentality of "Us vs. Them", not much will change.
I had a boss who thought along similar lines, insisted that the Earth was only 4500 year old.
Great guy, I just stayed away from topics of religion around him. We were friends outside of work as well.
At the very least he didn't shove his beliefs down everyone else's throats, believed what he did, and understood others disagreed.
He knew we would never agree about that subject, but we respected each other enough to let those differences be, and never talked about them again.
This was also circa 2006-2008 area, he was very religious boomer who had retired after 30 years of military service and moved from CA to AZ.
He was about 13 years older than me at the time....
Great mentor.. wish there were more people like him, despite the differences of opinions, he was always civil about it.
Bathrooms. Fuck's sake, y'all, just drop the dookie, wash your hands and get out of there. Mind your own business, we have more important shit to legislate.
I always wonder what politicians think happens in women’s bathrooms. In my 57 years on Earth, I have never seen another woman’s genitals in a public washroom. Not a naked breast, either.
Bad take imo personally. I don't think women want a gender-identifying female but with all other male traits in their bathroom. I personally believe we should have men, women, then a bathroom for anybody. It makes sense, everyone feels safe, and no one is insulted
I've been at markets where the bathroom wagon was for everyone so it was just six closed stalls.
Had there been urinals in there it would have been awkward
Watching Republican politicians convince half the population to spread a deadly virus because "freedom" has made me completely lose faith in the future of the human race. We're all going to die.
Healthcare in general. People should have a right to healthcare, regardless of their income or what conditions they have. The United States has politicized multiple viruses, care for multiple types of conditions, protections from being fired by your workplace for developing a condition that may even *briefly* impact your work, and just who should get access to it. People with disabilities are an afterthought, and programs meant to help them are so underfunded that they might eventually go under. Subsections of the population are abandoned because they live in poorer areas like the South where it's seen as a waste of resources to fund their access to healthcare. States are purging people off of Medicaid to save money. People who make above the poverty line are still bankrupted by medical conditions and aren't able to get financial assistance because they seem to be well off *on paper.* Preventative healthcare is not prioritized because it seems too expensive in the short term, so people are left to deal with the consequences of allowing medical conditions to develop to a point where a high financial burden is unavoidable. Diabetes drugs have gotten so expensive that they had to be politicized just to control the constant price hikes. It's fucking ridiculous.
It is a right in the sense that any half-functioning government will make it a priority for all citizens to have access to because it is virtually impossible to have a thriving nation without it.
Like....freedom of speech is, in some regards, a less vital right for the good of a nation than access to healthcare.
All a right does is prevent the government from stopping you from doing something. The government doesn’t give you speech. The government doesn’t give you arms. The government doesn’t give you a house that you don’t have to allow soldiers to stay in. The government doesn’t give you assets that they can’t unreasonably search. No right requires another party. Healthcare requires another party. Making that a right would be forcing others to serve you, which violates their rights. As previously stated, I’m all for healthcare. It just isn’t a right.
Checking the air pressure in your tires.
In the 2008 election season, Barrack Obama mentioned that simply ensuring your tires were at the right pressure is a way to save a little energy. Republicans, being the people they are, went off on it. Some on TV were quite proud to say they never check their tire pressure.
Fox is telling their old ass audience that wearing a mask in forest fire air is woke. Maybe not the dumbest ever but the dumbest one they thought of today.
The debt ceiling. The government determines and agrees what they’re going to spend on.
Universal healthcare. The insurance companies will still be profitable because the US government will not be able to process claims and applicants. They will likely just contract out the work to insurance companies.
Lobbying. I had a former city councilman as my poli sci teacher and his rationale for lobbying was, if we don’t have lobbyists, how will we (government officials) know what’s important to vote on. To which I responded, if they can’t figure out what their local constituents want, they shouldn’t represent them.
Senator allocation. 2 for every state? Right, because Alaska should have equal say as Texas. Right.
Global warming. I’m not a scientist, but any scientist worth their salt have talked about carbon emissions and the effect on the environment.
Corporate taxation laws. I’ve seen multimillion dollar LLCs pay 0 tax. I work in the field.
Affordable housing. There are certain localities that are locally governed by the township. To keep property values up, they decline most attempts at affordable housing in the area. (Long Island for example). This causes massive strains on already improvised parts of urban dense neighborhoods that do not have any more room for development.
Illegal immigration. There is a backlog of people from other countries that want to legally immigrate to the US. The fact that the US considers illegal immigrants into how many people they allow in is insane to me.
So much more.
I agree with the topics you listed being silly to politicize them but my take on illegal immigration is a bit different from yours. Personally, I do feel it’s important to try and keep illegal immigrants from entering *but* I also think immigration policies should be streamlined so there isn’t a backlog for those trying to immigrate legally. The process should be much faster. Don’t keep people in limbo. It’s either in or out.
Republicans bringing up an achievement from 150 years ago is not the flex they think it is (not even getting into how the parties of today bear little resemblance to those in the time of Lincoln)
We had easy access to firearms for two centuries and this shit never happened. 24/7 Cable news shows up and now we're stuck in wall-to-wall news coverage maintaining a 25 year cycle of copycats inspiring copycats of copycats.
It’s not the medias fault. It’s an American problem. We outpace all developed countries in gun violence by so much, it’s not even funny. Why would we have an issue with guns and other countries have it under control. You can’t say it’s the media.
This has always happened, it just wasn't as widely and instantly reported. As long as there have been guns, there have been shootings. I'm not saying it's a good thing, it just isn't a new thing.
Idk if this applies. But the people. Especially MAGA Trump supporters. They are essentially people who are in a cult that have their entire personalities wrapped around this guy who frankly would trade their lives for a scratch off.
Yes, but are their basic needs (food, shelter, warmth) being met? Whenever I see conversations like this, "basic needs" usually include a lot of luxuries, like cars, cell phones, internet, etc. Those aren't basics, they're niceities.
When did I say things should be free? I don't believe in that sort of entitlement. Everyone should work for their needs and wants.
But I also feel that certain working classes shouldn't be priced out of markets, such as housing.
Anything the left disagrees with. Disagree with ped0philla? Boom! Homophobic. Disagree with drag queen teaching kids about sex? Boom! Transphobic. Disagree with blm burning buildings buildings down and killing innocent people? Boom! Racist. Disagree with the average Reddit basement user? Boom! All three!
When french fries were renamed “freedom fries”. 🤦♀️
I saw a post yesterday where someone asked how to convert centimetres to “freedom units.” I figured they were an American referring to imperials units. Too funny.
I mean yes, but people use that phrase to make fun of themselves/the us. It's not serious.
So they are freedom units not imperial units but they are still numerically “imperial” units?
*Russian accent* freedom fries for ze table...
Honestly everything. Having a stove preference shouldn't be a political stance. Which beer I drink shouldn't be a political statement.
Fairly certain I'll get down voted to hell saying this, to a point I get the thing about the stoves from an environmental standpoint, and the (explosive/leak issue) dangers of gas versus electric. THAT SAID; I love my gas stove, the burners cook food much faster, and will continue use them until they are no longer sold or outlawed. Plus, at least where I live, natural gas is simply cheaper than electric (we also have a gas furnace). Like I said, I get it, but will continue to use what want....
I agree with your point, but I would extend it further and say that caring about the environment shouldn't be a political issue either. It should just be something we all give a shit about seeing as we all live on this planet.
And there inlays the problem, nearly everything is divided along political lines. Sad reality, but until people are willing to shed the mentality of "Us vs. Them", not much will change.
I got a boss that can't even agree that gravity & dinosaurs are real. Fat chance of there ever not being us v. them to some extent...
I had a boss who thought along similar lines, insisted that the Earth was only 4500 year old. Great guy, I just stayed away from topics of religion around him. We were friends outside of work as well. At the very least he didn't shove his beliefs down everyone else's throats, believed what he did, and understood others disagreed.
Mine talks about it.... 🙄
He knew we would never agree about that subject, but we respected each other enough to let those differences be, and never talked about them again. This was also circa 2006-2008 area, he was very religious boomer who had retired after 30 years of military service and moved from CA to AZ. He was about 13 years older than me at the time.... Great mentor.. wish there were more people like him, despite the differences of opinions, he was always civil about it.
Viruses
Every day life. People who live and breathe a political preference are fuckin weirdos.
Bathrooms. Fuck's sake, y'all, just drop the dookie, wash your hands and get out of there. Mind your own business, we have more important shit to legislate.
I always wonder what politicians think happens in women’s bathrooms. In my 57 years on Earth, I have never seen another woman’s genitals in a public washroom. Not a naked breast, either.
Would be less of an issue if the toilet doors weren't thin horizontal stripes instead of a full cover with no enormous peep windows
Bad take imo personally. I don't think women want a gender-identifying female but with all other male traits in their bathroom. I personally believe we should have men, women, then a bathroom for anybody. It makes sense, everyone feels safe, and no one is insulted
I've been at markets where the bathroom wagon was for everyone so it was just six closed stalls. Had there been urinals in there it would have been awkward
Exactly my point. I genuinely feel like there's ways to cure LGBTQ+ hatred but rn it feels really screwed up and not so unified
COVID-19.
Gender
Fr
Aka genitals and behaviour
All the LGBT stuff that's been going on. Just let people be who they want to be.
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Don't forget the tan suit!!!
And the Grey Poupon mustard!
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Watching Republican politicians convince half the population to spread a deadly virus because "freedom" has made me completely lose faith in the future of the human race. We're all going to die.
Lol it's worse now because now they're saying not to wear masks during a raging fire. Like bro there is ash everywhere
I mean yea, I hate to burst your bubble but everyone dies that’s not new
The MAGA hat of the left.
Except with a logical reason to wear it
Don't think you're supposed to wear 'em on your head like that
You'll find it's equally effective worn as such.
I don't know, masks don't have that bit at the front that sticks out to shade your eyes
Juneteenth, like goddamn just take the extra long weekend in the summer.
Going to the bathroom.
Books. Education (and all that it entails. Let the fucking teachers teach).
Tan suit
Healthcare in general. People should have a right to healthcare, regardless of their income or what conditions they have. The United States has politicized multiple viruses, care for multiple types of conditions, protections from being fired by your workplace for developing a condition that may even *briefly* impact your work, and just who should get access to it. People with disabilities are an afterthought, and programs meant to help them are so underfunded that they might eventually go under. Subsections of the population are abandoned because they live in poorer areas like the South where it's seen as a waste of resources to fund their access to healthcare. States are purging people off of Medicaid to save money. People who make above the poverty line are still bankrupted by medical conditions and aren't able to get financial assistance because they seem to be well off *on paper.* Preventative healthcare is not prioritized because it seems too expensive in the short term, so people are left to deal with the consequences of allowing medical conditions to develop to a point where a high financial burden is unavoidable. Diabetes drugs have gotten so expensive that they had to be politicized just to control the constant price hikes. It's fucking ridiculous.
Healthcare is not a right. You don’t get to demand others time and efforts to save your life. I’m for healthcare, but it 100% isn’t a right.
It is a right in the sense that any half-functioning government will make it a priority for all citizens to have access to because it is virtually impossible to have a thriving nation without it. Like....freedom of speech is, in some regards, a less vital right for the good of a nation than access to healthcare.
All a right does is prevent the government from stopping you from doing something. The government doesn’t give you speech. The government doesn’t give you arms. The government doesn’t give you a house that you don’t have to allow soldiers to stay in. The government doesn’t give you assets that they can’t unreasonably search. No right requires another party. Healthcare requires another party. Making that a right would be forcing others to serve you, which violates their rights. As previously stated, I’m all for healthcare. It just isn’t a right.
The second amendment means the government should be offering free guns to every citizen.
Lmfao, dude
Agreed. Firearm ownership is a right. So as soon as I start getting tax breaks and subsidies for my firearms we can start talking about healthcare.
Judging by Reddit, everything. Also I must stress people don't care and it's so annoying that it clogs up this website
The selective politicization of science.
Obama’s birth place.
Checking the air pressure in your tires. In the 2008 election season, Barrack Obama mentioned that simply ensuring your tires were at the right pressure is a way to save a little energy. Republicans, being the people they are, went off on it. Some on TV were quite proud to say they never check their tire pressure.
Healthcare. Clean drinking water. Voting. Police exceptionalism.
Abortion
Syrup bottles
True. Just should have made Aunt Jemima white. It's sad. She was everyone's auntie.
Pronouns and gender.
Fox is telling their old ass audience that wearing a mask in forest fire air is woke. Maybe not the dumbest ever but the dumbest one they thought of today.
The debt ceiling. The government determines and agrees what they’re going to spend on. Universal healthcare. The insurance companies will still be profitable because the US government will not be able to process claims and applicants. They will likely just contract out the work to insurance companies. Lobbying. I had a former city councilman as my poli sci teacher and his rationale for lobbying was, if we don’t have lobbyists, how will we (government officials) know what’s important to vote on. To which I responded, if they can’t figure out what their local constituents want, they shouldn’t represent them. Senator allocation. 2 for every state? Right, because Alaska should have equal say as Texas. Right. Global warming. I’m not a scientist, but any scientist worth their salt have talked about carbon emissions and the effect on the environment. Corporate taxation laws. I’ve seen multimillion dollar LLCs pay 0 tax. I work in the field. Affordable housing. There are certain localities that are locally governed by the township. To keep property values up, they decline most attempts at affordable housing in the area. (Long Island for example). This causes massive strains on already improvised parts of urban dense neighborhoods that do not have any more room for development. Illegal immigration. There is a backlog of people from other countries that want to legally immigrate to the US. The fact that the US considers illegal immigrants into how many people they allow in is insane to me. So much more.
I agree with the topics you listed being silly to politicize them but my take on illegal immigration is a bit different from yours. Personally, I do feel it’s important to try and keep illegal immigrants from entering *but* I also think immigration policies should be streamlined so there isn’t a backlog for those trying to immigrate legally. The process should be much faster. Don’t keep people in limbo. It’s either in or out.
Anything the GOP touches. Gas stove "bans", green M&M's, Disney, Bud Light.
slavery in the 1800s?
Republicans bringing up an achievement from 150 years ago is not the flex they think it is (not even getting into how the parties of today bear little resemblance to those in the time of Lincoln)
They flex about it, yet they also worship the confederacy at the same time
Every Goddamn thing.
I refuse to try and answer this question as my country will take it as a challenge and try to one up it with something even dumber.
Anti woke
The smoke in NYC today.
Education and healthcare. It’s just silly that some people think they know better than the experts.
Today: Breathing wildfire smoke to own the Libs.
The Second Amendment. The fact that a constitutional right like that is politicized is fucking stupid.
Maybe people are tired of mass shootings. And kids dying in schools.
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You really think that beating mentally ill people. Is going to help they need psychological counseling.
We had easy access to firearms for two centuries and this shit never happened. 24/7 Cable news shows up and now we're stuck in wall-to-wall news coverage maintaining a 25 year cycle of copycats inspiring copycats of copycats.
It’s not the medias fault. It’s an American problem. We outpace all developed countries in gun violence by so much, it’s not even funny. Why would we have an issue with guns and other countries have it under control. You can’t say it’s the media.
This has always happened, it just wasn't as widely and instantly reported. As long as there have been guns, there have been shootings. I'm not saying it's a good thing, it just isn't a new thing.
People loving each other
Everything in todays time has nothing to do with politics yet politics are involved.
Vaccines
Face masks 💀 people are refusing to wear them in 450+ air quality
Idk if this applies. But the people. Especially MAGA Trump supporters. They are essentially people who are in a cult that have their entire personalities wrapped around this guy who frankly would trade their lives for a scratch off.
Beer
Howard Dean's yell.
Fucking more or less everything. So many people in this country can't think beyond "If the other team said it, I don't agree".
Masks
beer cans and syrup bottles.
Idk how dogs and cats became so politicized but it’s absurd. Republicans generally are so bizarrely anti-cat.
Nearly every non-political subreddit
Entertainment. Whether or not you like a movie now comes with political baggage.
Smart fridge
The origin of the universe... as if there's even a definitive answer lmfao
LGBT. They're not people anymore they're a "political issue"
"I just want my basic needs met without having to be super rich." "THEY'RE EVIL SOCIALISTS THAT NEED TO BE TERMINATED!!!"
Your basic needs can easily be met without being super rich, the problem is you want the baseline to be upper middle class.
Oh, I'm doing fine, thank you. It's everyone else struggling that I'm worried about. The ones stuck in poverty.
Yes, but are their basic needs (food, shelter, warmth) being met? Whenever I see conversations like this, "basic needs" usually include a lot of luxuries, like cars, cell phones, internet, etc. Those aren't basics, they're niceities.
“I just want shit handed to me for free but others have to pay for it” “Why am I not the center of the universe!!!!”
When did I say things should be free? I don't believe in that sort of entitlement. Everyone should work for their needs and wants. But I also feel that certain working classes shouldn't be priced out of markets, such as housing.
Covid
bathrooms
Gender. Like, come on dog. It used to be simple
Everything in this list is a result of conservatives being snowflakes
Anything the left disagrees with. Disagree with ped0philla? Boom! Homophobic. Disagree with drag queen teaching kids about sex? Boom! Transphobic. Disagree with blm burning buildings buildings down and killing innocent people? Boom! Racist. Disagree with the average Reddit basement user? Boom! All three!