There are many things that are obviously true, but people still refuse to see them. We can take some simple examples - let’s say, you can know that somebody is being a terrible friend or partner to you. They are literally a walking red flag, but it is what it is because you love them, you have fun together and you just choose to look away.
Well, there are things with similar principles that everybody knows but just chooses to look away - such as that alcohol is no good for us or our phones are just robbing us of our time and attention. So, one Reddit user recently posed a question online asking folks to share things that are blatantly true, but that people still choose to ignore. Scroll through and share your opinion!
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There is no super secret cabal of shadow brokers manipulating things to go their way, it's the super rich doing it very publically right in front of everyone with impunity
In the U.S. this used to be under control. Once you "earned" over a certain amount the tax rate went up. Then politicians drastically lowered the rate (Reagan was the worst of them) so the wealthy could amass ridiculous amounts of money. And now all that money is used to bribe not just politicians, but fund lobbyists (to get more money, of course) and buy courts. Yet voters keep putting grifters in office and then whining that they can't get ahead.
Giving billionaires tax breaks isn't helping regular working people at all.
And it never has, but the rich keep pushing the discredited "trickle down" trope that dense voters keep falling for. Spoiler: Your chances of becoming one of the wealthy are about as likely as you becoming president. Yeah, ain't gonna happen. Stop enabling the wealthy from stealing from you. Eat the rich.
Climate change is real, it is happening , and is an existential threat to future generations.
The climate change denial is being funded by the fossil fuel industry.
A C-section is a MAJOR surgery and some ppl want them right back at work or doing all the housework 🤦♀️
Social media is poisoning our children’s brains, as well as many adults.
One fears for a society that cannot identify clear and present dangers.
In America, we could have better. We could have healthcare and infrastructure and utilities and innovation *unrivaled* in the world, but we just... won't let ourselves have it.
Corporations control America, not the parties.
History does indeed repeat itself
Yeah, humans aren't too original. And the old scams continue to work, generation after generation.
That most religions are scams designed to sucker money from people by preying on their fears and insecurities.
That paying attention to your smartphone while driving can lead to deadly consequences.
Trickle down economics doesn’t work
The trickle is the wee wee that politicians do on us from a great height
Narcissistic abuse. People really don’t believe victims most the time. I hope to bring awareness to it.
Government subsidies contribute to big oil profits. They are turning in $4-5 billion profits per quarter but still get government handouts. WTF?
If no one gets paid enough money no one can afford to buy things. If no one buys things they won't make as much and then people lose jobs. Companies are all about under paying and over profit, but those same employees are the ones that are paying their bills.... If your employees cant afford your products you have a problem.
Economies are dependent on money being exchanged. The 1% cannot keep an economy running because they invest far more than they spend. Poor and working class people spend money...and there are a LOT of us. The 1% won't suffer because money actually trickles UP.
People are being easily manipulated by the Faux Outrage Machine.
The vast majority of the population is easily manipulated. Rupert Murdoch just turned it into a business empire. Thankfully his expenses lately have included $787 million for pushing outrageous lies that got people killed.
A grown child going No Contact with their parent means that their parent must have done something to break the innate trust a child has toward their parent. It's the child who needs understanding in this situation, not the parent.
Children are "programmed" to love their parents, it's what ensures their survival etc. That love is deep and doesn't go away just because a parent was a little mean once. It requires consistent betrayal of the childs trust, abuse/neglect/etc.
I would agree with this the majority of the time, but not every case is like this. I have a narcissistic family member who walked out on all of us (including her parents) because we refused to allow her to continue to gaslight us all. Her parents tried HARD to care for her but wouldn't stand by and watch her abuse her children so she went No Contact 30 years ago.
Amazon is actually terrible. It’s full of cheap junk and counterfeit items. There is no reason for Bezos to hoard so much wealth.
Bezos is a wealth hoarder for the same reason a dog licks his balls: Because he can.
Stop buying from him then. Go support local businesses, walk in their shops, physically represent.
It's hard to support something that's no longer there. Amazon may have destroyed more local businesses than Walmart.
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So why does BP keep featuring advert threads full of Amazon links? For shame!
I understand what you are saying but one doesn't go with the other. Bezos does have too much wealth. Amazon is not all junk; there are great books, clothing, food, and other things that are not junk and still at a good price.
"Bezos does have too much wealth". In what sense? He is probably earning money at a much higher rate than he can physically spend it (at least in a meaningfull way, by bying stuff that he needs). When you get past the point where you can buy everything you'll ever neeed or can dream of then you move into the territory of too much wealth, and aquirering more just becomes kind of pointless. All those money represent someone's hard work, and that is, in my honnest opinion work that could have been spend on making something of greater value that just increasing the number on Bezo's bank accont. That we bind all that effort so a few people can play a game of dïck-measuring seem outright stupid. lets instead give them a certificate that says "congrats you've completed the game of capitalism" once they gets past $1bn and tax the hell out of them from there, so the money gets back to work in the society.
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And yet no one seems to care about how they handle the Customer Returns in the warehouses. Whatever. People will be ignorant as always.
Amazon was a good idea. But it failed. Something like communism, to be honest.
Unless you search for a specific part or model number all you're going to see is useless cheap knock offs because these people have learned how to scam the algorithm.
When are you people going to STFU about Bezos and Musk and all the rest? Their very, very inflated "wealth" tallies, (which continue to reported for the express purpose of feeding the outrage machine and keeping the simple minded masses distracted and feeling powerless) are directly tied to the amount of STOCK THAT THEY OWN. Bezos own roughly 10.5% of amazon stock....we've watched his "wealth" rise and fall along with the valuation of AMAZON. It went from $120 billion when Amazon was valued at $1 trillion, to $260 Billion when it topped $2 trillion, back down to $140 billion...in the span of TWO YEARS. Recent headlines citing that Musk "lost" $200 billion dollars in the span of a few months....because the STOCK CRATERED. They do not have hundreds, or even 10's of billions in the bank. They have STOCK, which most of these billionaires are precluded from selling because they are executives, board members or the public face of said company.........
They need both approval from their board, AND the SEC before selling significant amounts of stock...because if these individuals were to be seen as "dumping" too much, it could cause a panic, the stock price would crater, the company would close and 100's of thousands if not millions of people would be left unemployed. They spend money, by taking out loans, which are DEBT, just like your mortgage is DEBT. They are betting that the value of the company will increase, incentivizing them to grow...at the point they are forced to sell stock to pay off these loans, that is TAXED. Musk paid $11 billion in federal taxes last year, and i don't care if that doesn't "sound right" it's easily verifiable. Bezos "lost" $100 billion after the pandemic "boom" because everyone stopped buying everything from amazon....causing the company valuation to crater. That's all people need to do. Stop giving these companies money, complaining accomplishes nothing.
Load More Replies... I'm very glad we have alternatives to Amazon in The Netherlands, and that I have the financial room to decide to pay a little more to get my stuff from other sources.
I haven't bought anything at Amazon for at least a decade. People are also lazy, and shop at Amazon, rather than another site, like the actual company. It is easy to avoid Amazon!
Me either. Difficult to find things sometimes, so I've learned to live without. Not worth giving that scumbag any more money.
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So, you'd be OK with Bezos if he just spent a lot more of his wealth. How does that make the rest of us better (real economic answers please)?
In a practical sense, it would be great if he would spread some of that wealth to the workers who have made him a success. It's a start, anyway.
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Rubbing scents on your skin will not cure cancer or any other disease. There is some evidence that lemon oil has anti viral properties because lemons do and the menthol from peppermint oil can help alleviate headaches….but swallowing essential oils or rubbing them on your feet is not effective 99.99% of the time.
The system works for those for whom it was made to benefit.
The US Constitution was written by white, male landowners, so of course the first thing they did was disenfranchise everyone who wasn't a white, male landowner.
No legitimate business makes you pay money to work for that business. So many people in an MLM do not understand this, but yet shell over hundreds to thousands every month to maintain their "platinum XL Diamond-coated/Bleached A*****e" tier of their membership to Herbalife or whatever they belong to as an MLM.
(I live with someone in my graduate school who drank the Herbalife Kool-Aid...)
Anyone have a clue as to why that picture was chosen to illustrate this particular posting? Normally there is some logic but I am struggling to find any connection between Herbalife and Chelsea Football Club
Our phones are robbing us of our attention and ability to enjoy life
Your phone isn't "robbing" you of anything. Your choice to waste vast amounts of your time and energy on c**p you can't control is what is wrecking your life.
That everyone is the main character of their own story happening simultaneously with everyone else's storyline
It's only annoying when someone tries to be the main character in everyone's story.
If the government wanted us to have it, we would have had it by now.
If you live in a democracy YOU are the government. Your vote decides who makes policy. Stop voting against your own interests. If you really wanted it, you wouldn't vote for the tool who denies it to you.
Noses. They're literally right there, in front of all of our faces and eyes, and yet, 99% of the time we completely ignore its presence in our sight.
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Big one these days: human rights should be universal, but aren't. The basic things needed for survival are regularly denied or made more difficult for vast swaths of our species for arbitrary reasons, usually by local majorities against local minorities.
That sometimes you are not entitled to your opinion. If your "opinion" contradicts facts, is racist, racially prejudiced, homophobic, transphobic, etc, then it is not an "opinion". It's bigotry.
Shaky ground here. Of course I agree that everyone, no matter what, should be treated with equal respect, and some opinions are totally off base. But you are entitled to whatever opinion you like, regardless of how wrong it is. What should be done instead of banning wrong opinions is educating people about the right opinion. Banning opinions has historically not been a great decision.
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Daylight Saving Time, aka The Great Clock Manipulation, is coming year around because commerce wants it, not because it is helpful. It's good for business but bad for humans.
That rational people can disagree about many of these 'blatantly obvious' things.
And even if they disagree they are not necessarily; racists, stupid, uneducated, nazis, rednecks.
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Being able-bodied is temporary for 100% of people. 20% are currently disabled, so stop being mean to them. One day it will be you.
Big one these days: human rights should be universal, but aren't. The basic things needed for survival are regularly denied or made more difficult for vast swaths of our species for arbitrary reasons, usually by local majorities against local minorities.
That sometimes you are not entitled to your opinion. If your "opinion" contradicts facts, is racist, racially prejudiced, homophobic, transphobic, etc, then it is not an "opinion". It's bigotry.
Shaky ground here. Of course I agree that everyone, no matter what, should be treated with equal respect, and some opinions are totally off base. But you are entitled to whatever opinion you like, regardless of how wrong it is. What should be done instead of banning wrong opinions is educating people about the right opinion. Banning opinions has historically not been a great decision.
Load More Replies... Daylight Saving Time, aka The Great Clock Manipulation, is coming year around because commerce wants it, not because it is helpful. It's good for business but bad for humans.
That rational people can disagree about many of these 'blatantly obvious' things.
And even if they disagree they are not necessarily; racists, stupid, uneducated, nazis, rednecks.
Load More Replies... Being able-bodied is temporary for 100% of people. 20% are currently disabled, so stop being mean to them. One day it will be you.
