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While we may imagine a dystopian future of thought police, killer robots, and nuclear fallout, the real future predictions are much more boring. Instead of being brutally brainwashed and enslaved by fascist, authoritarian regimes, we have willingly enslaved ourselves. By allowing the top 1% to get exponentially richer, we drown in a sea of debts, tech, advertising, endless wars, environmental destruction, addictions, depression... the list goes on.
Brilliant, isn't it? But it's ok; there's always Facebook to scroll through (Bored Panda too, obvs), Netflix to watch, chemical-laden meals to consume, manufactured outrages over a mermaid's skin color to comment on. Who's got time for thoughtful resistance in this sick, sad world? Even those that think they are resisting by electing bigoted billionaires, bankers and Eton toffs to represent them are simply playing into their hands, as their dishonest, scaremongering claptrap divides us ever further over political, racial and gender lines!
Sometimes we need to take a step back and see the forest for the trees. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, contains some pretty terrifying examples of present-day dystopian society, things that make you realize that beyond all the distractions of trying to survive and thrive in the rat race, something's not quite right with this world.
So if you didn't find the sinister scenes of mindless automatons chanting “send her back” chilling enough, scroll down below to get a reality check on the spookily Orwellian society we are allowing to be constructed, and let's see if we can fix our near future in the comments! If you want to see even more proof of our dystopian world, be sure to check out our previous list!
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#1
Immigrants
The term 'boring dystopia was coined by the late academic and cultural theorist Mark Fisher in 2015. He used it to refer to the "bland, mildly coercive signs that abound in late-stage capitalist society, which foster a vague sense of isolation or unease."
He started a Facebook group that documented these signs as a way to develop consciousness about the world around us. "It was understood from the start to be a consciousness-raising exercise, encouraging people to perceive the actual state of Britain rather than the PR state," Fisher said in an interview with Vice. "Which is surprisingly hard, because there's this mixture of Silicon Valley ideology, PR and advertising which distracts us from our own aesthetic poverty, and the reality of what we have. Which is just all these crap robots…"
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#2
This Is Caleb. Caleb Has A Degree In Zoology And Asks His Customers What Their Favorite Animal Is. He Gives Them Facts While Completing Their Orders!
#3
Real Problem
"Boring Dystopia was partly about the fact that no one can care about stuff any more," said Fisher. "It's not that they don't care, but in a city like London, or any intensely pressured urban metropolis—add to that the pressures of capitalist cyberspace and people just feel like they perpetually have no time."
"Our resources for caring are depleted, and that has aesthetic consequences."
#4
Charity
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Saddest part is that a lot of celebs even get paid to promote a charity.
#5
Put The Blame Where It Belongs
Kathie Leonetti 6 years ago
Let's not forget the politicians and celebrities who fly all over who have huge SUVs .
The Facebook group was short-lived, with Fisher quickly becoming disillusioned with Facebook itself. "For me the point at which the group started to go downhill was when it became like every other Facebook group. It was just recirculating 'content' and sending links, keeping people inside what I would call capitalist cyberspace instead of looking outside at their own environment. It felt like it was reinforcing the condition it was intended to displace," he explained.
"It didn't work at that scale, and you could feel that it wasn't the right place for it… It was just an experiment, and Facebook probably wasn't the right platform. I didn't want it to be diluted."
#6
A Child Can’t Stay On The Transplant List, Solely Because He’s Homeless
#7
Calling An Ambulance In USA
After Fisher's tragic death in 2017 at the age of 48, his work remains as his legacy and is as important and relevant as it's ever been. His 2009 book Capitalist Realism is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the modern world, and his 'Boring Dystopia' group lives on mainly in the subreddit r/ABoringDystopia.
What do you think? Are we truly living in a boring dystopia? Scroll down below to see the rest of the examples for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
#8
Stealing An Education
#9
Need Books? Donate Plasma!
#10
I Had To Pay $39.35 To Hold My Baby After He Was Born
Hans 6 years ago
And on top, medically absurd. For the health of mother and baby, studies show that this early bonding, especially after a c-section, is invaluable! It has been found that it mitigates problems otherwise associated with c-sections, such as weakness is the baby and breast-feeding-related problems. And it will greatly reduce the risk of the mother become depressive after birth. But hey, the hospital could earn money if any of this happens, and the baby-food industry just waits for all these babys who "simply do not like breast milk". This is vile!
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
It’s also disgusting that you have and pay for insurance yet you still have a balance. What’s the point of insurance?
Amy Pattie 6 years ago
WHAT THE HELL IN AMERICA YOU HAVE TO FRICKING PAY TO GIVE FRICKEN BIRTH???? WHAT. NO SEROUSLY. THIS IS SHOCKING.
Antanas Simkus 6 years ago
When my daughter was born, the total bill for everything was about 42k $. t was in Manhattan, Mount Sinai Hospital, really good, and they took care of everything, but yeah, you gotta sell your house to have a baby f you don`t have insurance :(( Sad but true.
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Bacony 5 years ago
If you wanna see Great America, go back a thousand years. Yeah, we kinda screwed it up.
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Matt Atfield 6 years ago
We've had two emergency c sections in Australia for our kids. We have paid $0 for the whole thing
Foxxy 6 years ago (edited)
Wait what??? I wish that was a joke. My aunt had her son 3 months early, has an emergency cesarean, stayed in hospital for a week or so, her son was in neonatal ward for 3 months with round the clock care etc and she had to pay nothing. Medicare paid for it all. So glad I live in Australia.
Danby Drongo 6 years ago
@HOUSE... cough, cough, been to Death Valley lately... and as for creepy crawleys... (cough, cough) Donald J Trump!
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Carol Emory 6 years ago
Over $13k to give birth to a kid? That's insane as well. And how did they deliver 79 C-sections?
M O'Connell 6 years ago
A 79-minute use of the delivery room for the procedure, perhaps?
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
I even read from a guy who had to pay $25 to hold his new born child for 5 minutes. America's health system is very sick.
Mica Fiverline 6 years ago
Once again, the american "healthcare" system continues to baffle me...
Dave G. 6 years ago
like your country's healthcare is better. lol. must be why everyone keeps coming here and keep raving about how much better our healthcare is. myself included (immigrated to the united states from soviet union)
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Courtland Bibb 6 years ago
I have skin cancer on my shoulder, In Atlanta I was bleeding and needed a new bandage. Went into the Er, told them what I had and what I needed. They didn't believe me. Told me it was "Drug seeking behavior and an std." I am still curious what kind of parties that doctor goes to that std's present on the shoulder. When they finally took the bandage off and realized I was right. The Er doc said it was, "above his pay grade and I should find a doctor that makes me feel comfortable." Then they had the balls to send me a bill.
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
Paying almost 2k dollars for giving birth at hospital? I mean, our medical treatment is really bad, but at least Its free in Czech
Random Panda 6 years ago (edited)
If I understand correctly it's 13k, 11.6k of which are paid by insurance and then she still has to pay another 1.6k. Absurd. In Bulgaria it's about 1.5k dollars to give birth at a private hospital (part of which can be covered by additional medical insurance which some employers provide for their staff), government ones are free.
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Country Nana 6 years ago
This is pathetic. Y'all are on the warpath about something of which y'all obviously know nothing. Skin to skin care is needed when a baby needs IV or oxygen. At least 1, if not 2, trained personnel need to monitor the vital signs of the baby and check on positioning of the child. What I find totally incredible is how ENTITLED and UNEDUCATED y'all are. Do YOU spend money for education and then go to a job where YOU don't get paid? How are these people supposed to live, while y'all get everything for free?
Dave G. 6 years ago
country don't bother with facts and logic liberals dont even know what those are. they will just read your comment, their eyes will roll back in their heads, a little drool will dribble out of their mouth as they mindlessly hammer the "downvote" button
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Andrea Delden 6 years ago
OMG! This would all be covered in Canada! It looks like this lady had good insurance but she still had to pay $1626.52!
Lana Belysheva 6 years ago
You just gave birth to a new tax payer! It's public service! They should pay you!
Country Nana 6 years ago
Sometimes preemies need skin to skin contact for their health. In truth, the mom and babe need a great deal of help from nurses/or respiratory therapists. It used to be the babies just stayed in their isolettes until a blackout caused people to discover this. Do I think it's a legitimate charge. Don't let someone who is uneducated or wants to cause problems fool you by distorting the facts.
auntyj 6 years ago
This has been around for a while, it was the fee for an extra midwife to stay in theatre with the Mum & baby, as I gather otherwise the baby would’ve gone to the nursery. Still extremely weird, we routinely do skin to skin in theatre, and even if we don’t for some reason, the baby stays with it's parents. Nurseries don’t exist in Australia, babies room in unless they’re ill and have to go to ICU.
Country Nana 6 years ago
It doesn't. You just have the baby wherever you want. You don't have to pay someone who's trained and studied - nurses pulling 12 hour shifts, checking your meds 6 times before you take them to make sure you are who you are and not getting the wrong meds. Just invite someone who hasn't paid for their education and who has to work for a living. They charge nothing. And if something goes wrong and you have a tragedy you have nobody but yourself to blame. You can sue yourself for malpractice - and, hey! You don't even need a lawyer for that!!!
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Donna Cheung 6 years ago
I'm more interested in the "quantity: 79" of delivery by c-section...
Sue Clasen 6 years ago
Wow I must consider myself being lucky of being Spanish and having the Social Security we have here, and that when in comes to very serious problems even private hospitals transfer patients there. Transplants are only allowed in public hospitals. 25 years already being the N° 1 in donations and transplants.
Kirsty Fleming 6 years ago
I'm in the uk. Free healthcare. When I had my son I got a life threatening illness and had to stay in hospital for over a month. I would of died without medical care. Genuinely curious, what happens in an emergency where u will die without help but there is no chance in hell u could afford thousands, then or in the future
Seth Stephens 6 years ago (edited)
Am I an idiot? Because I cant make these numbers add up to $13280
Bobert Robertson 6 years ago
My wife had 2 C-sections in Ontario, and all we got was a bill for upgrading to a private room for something like $100
Trix 6 years ago
Dude, talking to your wife about how to breastfeed her child which almost every mum knows how to as an instinct, cost even more. But I guess that's freedom and Murica for you?
Country Nana 6 years ago
That's not true at all. My daughter and I suffered terribly trying to nurse our first babies. Would you like to have open wounds on your nipples ( or penis) and then have a pit bull with no teeth clamp down on them? I used to rock backward and forward from the pain. It wasn't until I had help with my 4th and 5th baby that a friend who was a lactation consultant helped me. Most women nowadays get a lactation consultant and that's real PROGRESS!!
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Maria Isabel Katto 6 years ago
OK, so the full amount, hug included was $13,280.49??? I guess that if someone does not have insurance, that hug would be the last as the baby should be sold to pay for that bill.
Granstef Ghostlapin 6 years ago
For all the human being, the real madness is on the 13280.49 $ bill that you have to pay to have a child !! It's totally free in all the civilised contry in europe (U know, all those places where they don't speak english !)
Robert Robi Z 6 years ago
It appears having a baby is very expensive even before the buying of food, diapers and school books begins
Robert Taillon 6 years ago
In CUBA all medical care are of highest quality and FREE, for everyone, all the time, plus no waiting. Can you appreciate what difference it makes in everyday life? Same thing for education, at all levels. Can you appreciate the difference.
Petya Georgieva 6 years ago
Delivery c-section and they charged for 79 units? Please, someone explain this.
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
During a caesarean, many people become shaky, nauseous, uncomfortable, even faint,” Grant explained. “These are normal physiological reactions. In order to facilitate skin to skin in the OR, an extra nurse needs to be available to assist.” Bull s**t. my boys mom had them by c section an we didnt need an extra nurse in Canada.
Tom Hardeveld 6 years ago
That is one of the most disturbing things ever. A mother holding her child for the first time is one of the most amazing moments in somone's life. Sucking money out of that... it is just making me want to vomit
Heather Resendiz 6 years ago
Let's not overlook the "contractual allowance adjustment". If an insurance company pays it pays almost 50% less than they expect an uninsured person to private pay. If an uninsured person could afford to pay 50% more than an insurance company then they would have insurance.
Janine Randall 6 years ago
Not that it's any better or worse, but these are probably "exploding" charges. The data entry person enters one code, and a bunch of others pop up with it as well. That's why I always check my medical bills to make sure I wasn't charged for something I didn't have, or fight about the cost of something I did have.
TheAnimeGirl 6 years ago
That's outrageous, paying to hold your own child. This is what's wrong with this world!
Danby Drongo 6 years ago
...and in New Zealand you have to pay an unbelievable $0 when giving birth. Totally outrageous... we need the US system here like yesterday and... oh, wait.
Leslea Freeman 6 years ago
I live in Canada so they usually send a private nurse out to your home to help you with nursing for a couple of hours. Just once to your home and you will get some consulting whilst you are in hospital. This is free for us , the government pays this. But I would have paid for a lactation nurse $60. It sounds like a lot but it is worth every penny. Breastfeeding sucks...no pun intended. It hurts and sometimes is near impossible. Not all first time moms know what to do , it is hard.
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Joyce Berman 6 years ago
That's ridiculous. But those in socialist countries pay for it, too; it's just in their taxes.
Anet Arteacher 6 years ago
Interestingly you can actually refuse to pay certain charges if you think their fraudulent. That really screws up the hospitals accounting. On lesser charges they usually let it go then. You could also argue your costs down. If you have to pay out of pocket always argue your costs down.
Doreen Pinkham 6 years ago
This facility didn't deserve the consideration of the OP who blacked out the name. I would love to know who and where it is.
Lu 6 years ago
31,000 for a c-section. Canada: don’t even bat an eyelid. I wish everyone didn’t have to worry about the cost of having a baby.
Leslea Freeman 6 years ago (edited)
And here in Canada the government pays you a monthly cheque until child turns 18. It is around $600/ month till kid turns 6yrs old then it goes down $100. So, $500 every month till 18yrs old and free dental for all kids til l18! I think it is something like 4 kids you get this amount for each child then after 5 or more they do not pay as much for additional kids. If yourtax bracket is a certain amount these prices will go down, I gave the low end, so the best case scenario.
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C Hypercube 6 years ago
I'm surprised they didn't charged for the baby's first breath. *U.S. health care system. Ripping you off since birth*
Grace Smith 6 years ago
It’s worth $39.35?!?!? FUCKINGN $39.35 FOR A CHILD?!?!?!? CHILDREN ARE WKTH SO MUCH MORE AND THIS IS RIDICULOUS
Toni Crabtree 6 years ago
Greed and corruption rule. Those that can change it won't. They benefit from it.
Leslie Parker 6 years ago
The doctor must not have been smiling, else they’d charged you for that too.
Country Nana 6 years ago
Yes, some of these comments aren't making sense. They aren't clear as to their point.
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Sue Sanders 6 years ago
That's totally unreal, like from a SciFi movie or something. And "lactation consult"? Give the Mom a laptop and she can Google the information. Probably a YouTube video on the subject. Geez.
Country Nana 6 years ago
That's completely not true. Each nursing couple is different and a mom can find one baby easy to nurse but be screaming from nipples that look like hamburger with the next. I speak from experience.
Load More Replies... SarcasticGamer 6 years ago
Ah...like a shady mechanic sneaking things onto your bill...lovely...
Country Nana 6 years ago
Getting lactation consultation in the hospitals is a victory won by the LaLeche League (IMO, one of the best organizations in the world) who've been fighting since the 1940's-'50's for this. Unfortunately, similarly to the anti-immunization groups, people have become spoiled by the way of life that people had to work for over decades. If this weren't so sad I'd enjoy the irony.
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Kimberley Thom 6 years ago
wtf? How much would the charge have been if she left the baby there? There shouldn't be a charge to hold what comes out of you. Especially when the charges for everything else to get to that point is already expensive.
Petteri Lohikoski 6 years ago
Yeah nothing is free... nurse has to do extra movement for that.. but do that money go to the nurse...
Sophia Trinh 6 years ago
How did you even have 79 C-Sections? Also, why on earth should anyone have to $13280.49 JUST to give birth???
Jewels Vern 6 years ago
Childbirth is not a medical condition. It is a money pump for the hospital.
similarly 6 years ago
In Japan, 20 years ago, when my children were born, it cost about 300,000 yen (about 3,000 US dollars) for the delivery and a 10 day hospital stay. This is one of the very, very few things not covered by Japanese insurance ... but no problem. Our town paid 100% of the cost for all babies born.
Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) 6 years ago
What is even the alternative? Not letting the mother hold her newborn baby?
Country Nana 6 years ago
This is the problem when posters don't know, or tell, the complete truth. People start believing outrageous things.
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Nancy Massi 6 years ago
Some years ago I was teaching in a private school and getting a dirt salary. The school did provide insurance and I got a much needed surgery. In recovery some paper booties were placed on my feet I did not want or ask for, and I requested they be removed. A friend who worked at the hospital told me it was her job to find items they could charge the patient/insurer, and three months later, I received a second itemized bill from the hospital. One charge was $20 for paper booties and another was $50 for an enema I had never had administered, but was credited to my name. I refused to pay. My insurance refused to pay for anesthesia for that surgery, too. I called them up and explained that surgery to remove cyst-filled Fallopian tubes generally required anesthetic, and would they please cover that for me? Thankfully, they did.
Shannon Richards 6 years ago
This is going to continue as long as do not have a single payer health insurance system. Hospitals are FOR PROFIT and, by law, they must treat every single person who shows up in ER even if they don't or can't pay. So, they balance it out by overcharging everywhere and everything else. It would be cheaper to have a baby in a hotel room with a private nurse.
Country Nana 6 years ago
There are big problems with the medical industry, but that doesn't mean that single-payer insurance is the answer.
Load More Replies... BrokenAngel 6 years ago
Yeah...I'd start going up the chain about that AND the $61 to tell you to let the baby suckle!🙄
Jim Ellington 6 years ago
That's a bargain. I waited five hours to get a prescription for ibuprofen. The bill was close to $7000.
Chonky Lilo 6 years ago
I bet there's more to your story. Did you go to the ER or medical office for some ailment, had a battery of tests done before figuring out that all you needed was an anti inflammatory?
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Jessica 6 years ago
This is the reason why I can't understand why people actually want to come here
Country Nana 6 years ago
Maybe you don't understand how difficult it can be to live in other countries. And how different they are culturally. In Finland you do not have the freedom to choose any name you want for your baby. It has to be state approved. Did you know that? My sister-in-law in the UK had to wait 1 1/2 years to see a specialist about her migraines and get a prescription for a medicine that an American could get in less than a week from their regular doc. It's easy to believe that the grass is greener on the other side.
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Country Nana 6 years ago
Hey, my daughter works hard to take those photos! They aren't provided for by the hospital. And the photographers don't even get all that money, because they work for a middleman.
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TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
It’s called capitalism lol not saying I think it’s good or bad but it’s what it is with lower taxes than other countries and medical being a business to cash grab
Uchman 6 years ago
Your taxes are really not THAT low compared to like UK. Its a lie you guys have told each other for so long.
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Tacitus86 6 years ago
It's not even just this. The medical industry is so hyper inflated. I like that trump is forcing hospitals to have to publish the cost of their procedures so you can now make them compete for your business. More steps like this need to happen.
Country Nana 6 years ago
The organization my husband works for initiated their own study and dropped their prices.
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AzKhaleesi 6 years ago
Holy c**p so all three of my kids cost a minimum of 118.05 just to hold them??? They are my friggin kids! I made them not the hospital. Well at least now I get to tell them this. I will somehow make it funny.
Country Nana 6 years ago
No. Not unless your child needed oxygen or had to be in the NICU. Then you need one or two trained people to make sure the premie or child with problems can be held properly, all the while monitoring vital signs . You don't have to pay to do it, if you choose to take yourself and your compromised baby out of the hospital and take it off the oxygen or IV or whatever it needs.
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Ani-87 6 years ago (edited)
In America, not in Finland or not even in Europe. The law here states it’s around 43$/night and usually they stay in the hospital for 1-3 nights if there are no complications. Obviously the cost is much higher but that’s what they charge, at least couple years ago. C-section doesn't cost extra, neither does the pain medication. If you stay in a family room afterwards, no extra cost for the baby but the companion/spouse who comes there has to pay but there is a limit of 765 dollars (basically 1 to 2 weeks in a family room I think, not sure) which means afterwards you don’t pay anything. Obviously you need to have insurance but having a baby does not come with a price tag like this. That is insane!
Country Nana 6 years ago
Should a doctor, who pays nowadays over $100,000 a year in student loans, get paid nothing? Do you know how hard most of them work? I'm talking about small town family practitioners who spend few waking hours at home with their families and never know when they might face an emergency placental abruption or other life endangering situation.
Load More Replies... Chonky Lilo 6 years ago
I'm familiar with this line item charge, it is actually justifiable based on the additional staffing and safety checks necessary to carry out the "skin-to-skin" procedure. I get why people who see this charge on their bill would feel confused and feel indignation. I think it would be better if they just bundle it with the main procedure so as not to cause confusion.
wandile dludlu 6 years ago
It's not paying for the C-Section, It's paying for having your child handed to you to hold them that irks me and everyone out.
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Anything Different Would Simply Be Un-American
Beverly 6 years ago
There is one thing we can do: Get out and vote. Vote for the senators and representatives who aren't afraid to push for single-payer, universal health care. And if someone calls you a socialist, tell them to look at Japan, which a) is hardly socialist, b) has the world's longest life expectancy, and c) has a well-established universal health care system.
#12
Health Care
Tamara Neimet 6 years ago
Don't have to wait for it. Come to Ukraine, we are constantly crowdfunding some sick child's care.
#13
Watch This Advert Or Choke To Death
María Hermida 6 years ago
If you need to watch a video before trying to do something to help, it doesn't matter whether there are ads or not; the person will probably die anyway. That's the reason why everybody should learn some very basic first aid skills, like the Hemilich Maneuver, at school, instead of soooo much useless rubbish.
#14
Only In America Would A Restaurant Display On The Wall That They Don’t Pay Their Staff Enough To Live On
#15
Public Relations
Miklós Nagy 6 years ago
And people working in the media industry earn way more than any manual laborer or most of the engineers, scientists, medical doctors...
#16
Remember The Panama Papers?
#17
"Today My Client Was Excited To Push The Elevator Buttons On The Way To Her First Deportation Hearing"
Koalamonster 6 years ago
My niece is 5. I cannot imagine her having to represent herself in any legal matters. I'm 30, and I can't imagine representing myself in any legal matters.
#18
I Don't Like This Episode Of Black Mirror
#19
Capitalism In A Nutshell
#20
Good Article. No Surprises. “It’s Not About Wanting A Pay Raise Or Extra Income, It’s Just About Wanting A Livable Wage”
Daniel Morgan 6 years ago
And yet Trump has the audacity to say how amazing the country is doing and how everyone is wealthier than ever. Prick.
#21
Both Are In The Wrong But Look At How The Pictures Are Depicted
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
The blindfold of Lady Justice is eaten by the moths and she turns out to be a racist, conservative b!tch.
#22
Not A Bad Plan
Koalamonster 6 years ago
I knew a girl who got Hep C from her ex-boyfriend. Her insurance would not pay to fix it unless she was very very ill. As far as I know she still has it. Had she gone to jail she would have been treated and it wouldn't be an issue anymore.
#23
It's All About Priorities
#24
Bathroom Sticker
#25
Teeth Are A Luxury Only Paying Customers Are Allowed
Koalamonster 6 years ago
I still have all of my teeth- one of them just stays in my drawer now.
#26
Ambulances For 3k? Lets Just Call An Uber
Luis Milian 6 years ago
in the US, the cost for an ambulance to take you to the ER is as expensive as buying a new car.
#27
Positive News
#28
This Feels Straight Out Of 1984...
#29
This Is How Expensive It Is To Attempt Suicide In The US
#30
Open Office
Miklós Nagy 6 years ago
The 90s when people were angry about their well paid, stable jobs and about their peaceful life...
#31
His Gofundme Goal Was Only $750
#32
China Be Like
#33
This Is Just Sad
#34
Well Ok Then
Oathbraker 6 years ago
Perpetuity? Wow, that's nice of them. /s Seriously, how do they still win millions of dollars by selling overpriced stuff and treating their customers like this? How?
#35
Quite The Town Character
#36
Oh..
Carol Emory 6 years ago
And this is the generation we are raising. Kids being nannied by computers, video games and digital assistance. I can't imagine what personal interaction is going to be like for these kids when they become adults.
#37
Actors Dressed As Homeless
Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
They also move the general public from public film locations and replace them with actors who play the "general public". It's about having control over what is being filmed. The demographic of those being moved to accommodate a public film location, is not the issue at hand.
#38
Really Makes You Think...
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
Prisons are nothing more than a corporation. Someone is getting paid and it’s absolutely disgusting. You clearly don’t see them as people at this point
#39
Equality Award
#40
Breaking: Billion Dollar Company Does Bare Minimum
#41
A 6 Year Old Having To Even Think About This Is Tragic
#42
When You Raise Money To Keep Those Without Money Out
#43
And They Wonder Why Pirating Is On The Rise Again
Koalamonster 6 years ago
This is why I have a hard time buying things digitally. You don't own any of the music or movies, you own a license to watch/ listen to that media. Sure there are still license agreements with physical copies of media- but as long as I have something that can read the disc I don't have to worry about it.
#44
This Is (Not) How You Increase Employee Morale
María Hermida 6 years ago
This employer should be sent to a work camp in North Korea, or to a factory I'm China. Forever.
#46
"Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over"
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
In America a broken taillight could kill you, if you're black. At least the jury would have another piece of evidence to dismiss.
#47
Kids Can Pick Themselves Up At School. Work Won't Do Itself
Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
"commitment" may not be the issue here at all. 2 key points: 1. employer must be clear on the expectations of their staff, and hire accordingly. 2. employees must be clear on the expectations of their job, and behave accordingly. (if the boss agreed to let them go home 30mins early, 3 times a week, the boss needs to honour that agreement, or renegotiate with the appropriate notice). Besides, there are MANY solutions to this, that has nothing to do with how "committed" a person is to a job. eg shorter lunch breaks on the days she needs to leave early / longer days on the other days when she doesn't need to collect her kids / other staff can pick up overtime to cover the extra 30mins / ensure she completes her required tasks within her day, regardless of the length of the day. Often, it's about *productivity* while working, vs the hours working. (from a manager who fought to keep my VERY productive staff, who needed some compromises due to outside commitments)
#48
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Global Warming Is Exciting!
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British Army Recruitment Ads...
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It Would Actually Be Cheaper To Give Home To The Homeless
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago (edited)
You could fight the cause or you could fight the symptoms. Oregon officials are obviously unaware of the fact that fighting the symptoms will never solve the problem.
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María Hermida 6 years ago
"You have a heart attack, a cancer or a stroke before the age of 40. Then we discard you like a used tissue. But we don't care, because there are hundreds of doers queueing to replace you" this should be the second part of the ad.
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Fair And Balanced
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Monopoly, A Game Originally Made As A Commentary Of Landlords And Property Costs, Now Openly Mocks Millennials For Their Collective Poverty. Nice
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Buy A "Video Game System" Instead Of Unionizing Please
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Can't Afford Housing? Be Homeless!
Katharine Lancaster 6 years ago
I did that as a mom when I was 28 years old. It was awesome. No. No it wasn’t. It f*****g sucked. It took 5 months to save up enough money to get a place. It wouldn’t have taken so long, but day care is expensive when you don’t have any family to help you. Or to be more specific, your family doesn’t really give a s**t about you or your child. (I’m not being an a*s here. I was actually told this.)
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"Using Alcohol To Cope With Crushing Poverty-Now With Friends!"
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It's A "Moral Responsibility"
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Hugo Raible 6 years ago
Because they are there earlier than everybody else to prepare. Makes total sense to let them do this instead of sending somebody just to unlock the door.
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Daria B 6 years ago
It's still a threat, because the leaders of many countries look up to the USA and want to follow their political and economic example.
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Frances M 6 years ago
When I was a teenager my dad was given the chance to move to the USA and the entire family got green cards and social security numbers. I’ve never been so happy that he turned down the job and we stayed where we are. While some of my family did go back in later years for a few months, no one wanted to live there full time and moved to Australia instead. :-)
Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
Welcome to Australia! Thankyou for bringing your culture, cuisine, language(s) & contribution to our beautiful, multicultural, multilingual community. <3
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Maci Mae 6 years ago
I feel like most of these are American issues. I live in the USA, and I'm so sick of everything wrong with our country. My 11 year old sister is already worrying about affording college, and I actually felt guilty for calling an ambulance for my mom when I found out how much it had cost. When I go to school, I automatically make a plan for how I would get out of an school shooting. It cost $300 for me to go to Urgent Care and find out I've had Tendonitis in my wrist for 6 months. And, compared to the kids being held in cages, my family is lucky. I'm hoping I'll be able to save enough money to go to college in Canada, and hopefully live there when I'm old enough. For now I just get to sit and watch while my country falls to pieces :(
Bonnie Clyde 6 years ago (edited)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unless you immigrate to Canada you won't be able to avail yourself of most of the Candian public services. Also, the tuition rates for international students are usually 3 or 4 times the cost for a domestic student. And they still have to get extra health insurance or pay out of pocket in many provinces. Personally, I'd welcome you here - but it's harder than most folks think, so I guess start planning early? One of my American friends even married a Canadian after going to school here for years and she didn't qualify for permanent residence until she was in her 40s. She had to keep going to school (as an international student) for ages because she could only get a student visa - and no school means visa is over and she'd have to leave. We need a swap program where a pro-oil/gun/etc Canadian can just trade citizenship with a socialist American. :p
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Jace 6 years ago
America: Land of the free for only the wealthy and the ultra-privileged. I was born here. I grew up here. I’m in poverty here, after struggling since age 15 to work in the “real world”, where your employer can abuse you to the point where you end up on disability (if you’re lucky; I COULD be homeless and worse off, but I suppose they could still drive me to that point with further social system cuts). What a shithole country. It is getting shittier by the month, as our current dumpster fire administration makes it even better to be rich and even worse to be poor. And yet, people support Trump and his cronies because they think he hates the same people they hate. No, the democrats weren’t fixing this s**t, either. Vote anti-corporate, or you will just be voting for more of the same. Under republicans, it’s like an impending disaster in realtime. Under democrats, it’s a boring dystopia that people are slowly acclimated to.
Dave G. 6 years ago
interesting because im neither wealthy or ultra privileged and am in fact a lower class immigrant from a formerly socialist country. i seem to enjoy the same freedom here as everyone else, and i can tell you that i would much rather live here than the country I moved here from (the USSR). it sounds like you might actually not know how bad other countries have it, possibly because you've lived in america your whole life. am i wrong? have you ever actually experienced life outside the US, and especially in a socialist country like cuba or north korea? curious to know
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Bilal Ali 6 years ago
Hmm. This is US centric. Are these possibly first world problems? It's a shame that there are not examples from other parts of the world
Dan Beck 6 years ago
That's the point. Americans love to spout off about it being the greatest country in the world, but in all reality, it's only good if you're rich and white.
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cutzemitherz 6 years ago
I am from Germany and I have to say that I am completely shocked right now. I didn't know that it's that bad in America and I cannot imagine living like this. I feel so sorry...
Bei Stenhaug 6 years ago
Im completely gobsmacked. I'm from Sweden and it would never ruin someone to get ill, financially that is
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Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
A patriot wants what's best for the nation's long-term well-being : Healthy, educated, productive citizens. A corporation wants slavery and political anarchy. Guess who's winning in America?....
David Buchan-Terrell 6 years ago
This American Society is on a suicide slide. If all you do is complain on Facebook it will not get better.
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats all they're good at, complaining and permanently being a victim of everything. they don't even have it that bad but they always need something to whine about
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The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
This is the stuff that makes me scared for my future, as a 15-year-old girl living in America. A lot of adults are making decisions that don't affect them, but do affect my generation and my life. I don't want to live life like what is shown here....
Maci Mae 6 years ago
Me too! I’m 14, and as I get older I get more and more scared about where our society is going. I wish there was a way we could make a major impact, but whenever I try to give my political ideas I’m brushed off because of my age.
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CheeseOnToast 6 years ago
What did Trump call it? The greatest nation on earth. Deluded idiot.
Dave G. 6 years ago
folks from other countries like me actually have a name for this phenomenon of you americans constantly whining about petty nonsense in your country and about how much worse you have it than other countries you've never lived in. we call it "first world problems". look it up. you guys are literally a meme now
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Dave G. 6 years ago
clearly you havent learned much about the world as if you think this is messed up you would be far more horrified by events like holodomir (my family were among the millions murdered in the ussr)
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Artex Gorilla 6 years ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, USA is the worst place in the world and i'm yet to be convinced otherwise.
Ceredwyn Ealanta 6 years ago
As an Aussie, I'm not really fond of our concentration camps or the idea that one in five people in Australia now work two jobs in order to survive while our leaders give themselves a raise, or that one lunatic of an ex-PM described windmills as 'Dark Satanic Mills' this week, or that there was a huge defunding of our major scientific organisations. The lesson is mostly that none of us can afford to be overly complacent these days, and we all need to work on standing up for science and supporting one another.
Load More Replies... Tom Hardeveld 6 years ago
In the Netherlands, where I live, if your grandma dies and left you some money, the governement gets 70% of that. 70%!
#Letallexsistwithdignity 6 years ago
I'm some countries women are executed, forced to marry, have their genitals mutilated all ignored by the article. This was clickbait.
Dave G. 6 years ago
I know right. It's basically just a communist propaganda piece
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N S 6 years ago
For anyone wondering, America is a f****d up country, nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", just a pile of capitalist pigs and b******t.
Dave G. 6 years ago
as an immigrant from the soviet union who moved to the united states in 1994 and became an american citizen in 2003, i can safely say that you have absolutely no idea what a "f****d up country" is and are probably 12 years old
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
glad you enjoy waiting weeks for urgent care, having your limbs amputated because you couldn't get treatment in time and paying more in taxes than anyone else on this contintent
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Arielle Sherrill 6 years ago
This whole article made me sick. Not because of how “bad” the average American has it because of the anti-American tree-hugging liberally political agenda behind it. If you feel this country is so bad, leave.
Dave G. 6 years ago
amen! I'm an immigrant and this offends me too. I love America. My family came here from the ussr. We fled a fascist socialist dystopia, a real one where people starved to death from man-made famines, a country where the government would send a miniature kangaroo court to your home and execute you in your backyard, labeling you a "kulak" (clenched fist) for not giving up all of your food and property to the government so your children can starve. These spoiled American brats have the nerve to complain about the US being "dystopic" and about how evil capitalism is when my family literally starved to death in their homes from a man made famine created by a bunch of socialists who believe in the same toxic ideology they do. If you think this is bad as an American imagine seeing this through the eyes of an immigrant who fled from socialism like I did. It's beyond disturbing
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Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
We don't need a wall at the border. Just post this on some big billboards.
Dave G. 6 years ago
i have a better idea, how about all of you who hate it so much just leave to make room for us immigrants who actually appreciate it here? you know there is a very good reason why people risk so much to come here, including my family and me. your post is an insult to immigrants who actually like america and know how good it really is here because we actually have lived in other countries and know what its like outside
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Niall Mac Iomera 6 years ago
I worked for IKEA; in a year of record profits so high they made front page news; our Christmas bonus for nearly foundling profits: A two dollar scratch ticket.
nanashi 6 years ago
ngl when my sister had to be in US for work for a month one time, she brought with her all the common meds she could take because we heard how ridiculous the price for medicine there. also she was so scared of the idea of forced tipping. how do you know how much to tip? or to who?
Dave G. 6 years ago
most of this article reads like some kind of thinly veiled communist propaganda piece. attacks on capitalism galore (what's your alternative? socialism? like that's any less dystopic? Dont' forget holodomir. I never will since my family actually died in it). The article does raise good points about the cost of ambulances, the injustices suffered by employees in the service sector and the shadiness of big government, but the idea that capitalism is our enemy is pretty ludicrous if you actually have any rudimentary knowledge of world history and economics. Capitalism is actually the only thing that is keeping us from having to stand in a bread line or have our roof collapse on our heads while we sleep like folks in socialist nations like Cuba do. I wish this site didn't always try to put a far-left twist on everything. You think the US is "dystopic" but you never saw and went through the things my family and I did in the USSR. Our dystopia made yours look like Beverly Hills!
#Letallexsistwithdignity 6 years ago
How about making this a feature where the problems of certain counties are exposed? Then, our glorified views can be challenged.
Charley CharleyEx 6 years ago
If you are outraged by this article, you need to read The Bell Curve. It's your life story.
Jon Payne 6 years ago
Charley... who might the author be? P.S. -I’m not outraged.
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Lemon Garnished Potato 6 years ago
*flips through dystopia notes from my writing* What the- these are basically the same. What in the wide wonky world?
Martina Vitmanová 6 years ago
Every time I hear something this twisted about America, I love my country a lot more. Imagine, most universities are FREE. You just have to be good enough to pass exams to get there and that is that. And if you find yourself in need of an ambulance, you pay NOTHING. You just get driven to the closest hospital, taken care of, because we all have health insurance. If you are suicidal, you get help, not more debts. Jesus, I knew Trump was an a*****e, but this isn't just about one dumb president, is it.
Dave G. 6 years ago
you know most of this is just left wing propaganda and not an actual reflection of how americans feel about their country right? most of us actually love the US. its just we have a vocal minority who love whining and complaining about everything and it makes it look like things are worse here than they are. I immigrated to the US from the soviet union and I love it here, would never want to live anywhere else. I can't tell you how thankful I am to my family for bringing us to America
Load More Replies... Neo Conderson 6 years ago
Since most of the pictures were actually pictures of tweets made by people who just don't know how the world works, or by people who have a vested interest in fostering fear and dismay and anger, I think we can come to one conclusion: THE number 1 contributor of dystopian depression is Twitter. Get rid of twitter and a whole lot of people might actually feel better about life. Barring that, just stop reading Twitter, okay? You're literally going to kill yourself with bad emotions for stuff that isn't even true. You are being played if you believe this stuff. And it's costing you your physical and mental health.
Dave G. 6 years ago
finally an intelligent comment! I was starting to lose hope
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Flavia Slag 6 years ago
Health care cost became so expensive when business corps took over Healthcare to make a buck. The best hospital I ever worked at was run by Doctors, not business men.
Dave G. 6 years ago
better than pretty much everywhere else, so idk. i immigrated here and i love it. never want to live anywhere else
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Matias Panula 6 years ago
This is why I love my home country Finland. I can ba a socalist and pay for the wellbeing of my fellow contrymen and wemen cause we have this thing called equity
Dave G. 6 years ago
your country only works that way because of its small size and cultural homogeneity. your system would never work here in the million years. we are very different from you. in fact i don't think your system will even work for you that long either. it works now but it will probably fail eventually. i dont think your system is sustainable on any level, especially not on a scale as large as the US
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Theresa McManus 6 years ago
This is pretty ridiculous. Stop trying to find s**t that you think is wrong and just go be a good person. Sheesh.
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats asking too much from the left. being a good person isn't even a concept they're familiar with
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SirPatTheCat 6 years ago
Tbh it's easier to die in America than live there...and this is coming from an American if that isn't depressing enough...
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats weird ive been alive for 30 years and have always found living easier than dying here
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
try not to upsetany more left wing narratives or you might find yourself banned from every mainstream social media platform
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ktdidit 6 years ago
i know, maybe act instead of talk about all of these issues. No problems were ever solved by making up witty post's instead of actually contacting your state, congressman, maybe even put in an effort to write a letter or 5? thats the problem with America . Everyone wants to complain but when it comes to taking action ...crickets
Dave G. 6 years ago
not only that but they complain about the most dumb and mundane things. its always capitalism or trump's fault. it's always someone or something holding them down. bunch of whiny permanent victims. i am an immigrant who immigrated to america in the early 1990s and i love it here. im very thankful to be fortunate enough to have made it here. i hate socialism (i am from the soviet union and my family were murdered by socialists, literally) and I love america. you'll notice 99% of the time its always an american complaining about this stuff. you'll never hear us immigrants from socialist countries complain about america. we love it here and are very grateful for everything we have here. americans have no idea how good they have it!
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
I immigrated to the united states in 1994 and I think it was great then and is still great now, although a certain group of radical left wingers seem intent on making it much less great than it should be
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AnnaB 6 years ago
I'm an American and this makes me want to scream and slam my head against the wall. If I could afford to move to another country, I would do it in a split second. THAT's how much this country has failed its citizens.
Dave G. 6 years ago
please hurry and move so that there is more room for immigrants like me who are actually grateful to be here
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Fran Morasco 6 years ago
Not sure what nickname the generation that is responding to this post has. But it should be the PT Generation There's no Participation Trophy to sit back and want/demand what others work for. Thank your parents for misguiding you all
CbusResident 6 years ago
We must all remember, there never was a golden age, there is no land of utopia. I do agree though, we in the US need to consider copying those Scandanavian countries, but on healthcare, not just their damn trendy furniture and pop bands.
Dave G. 6 years ago
uhm yeah there was. Postwar America was absolutely a golden age. Socioeconomic conditions in the US, even for people who were historically oppressed was light years ahead of what we have today. also the scandanivian countries' systems only work due to their small size and cultural homogenity. do you honestly think a country as massive and diverse as the US could ever sustain something like that? I get it, you're a left winger and you hate america, but to outright deny that there was never a golden age is profoundly ignorant. Postwar America absolutely was a golden age. It wasnt until the oil crisis of the 70s that things started going back to hell
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Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Here is a list of the "American Dreams", which that "society" is trying to push to the rest of the world, and whoever doesn't want to accept it, is either a "Communist" or "lives in a cave". I wish politicians of the world would stop kissing that capitalist a*s!
Dave G. 6 years ago
lol nobody is "pushing" this on the world my family immigrated here knowing full well what problems the US has. Your problems are nothing compared to the ones we suffered in the USSR. So please speak for yourself. This immigrant is proud to be a naturalized American citizen since 2003 and I love America. I'd never want to live anywhere else, especially the socialist dump we came from!
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Lena Hudson 6 years ago
I was struck by something similar a short while ago: Earlier today I was on a celebrity gossip site (my secret guilty pleasure lol) and there were back to back articles about Cardi B and Miley Cyrus. The comments section of both pieces were dominated by someone I shall dub White Supremace Barbie. On the Cardi piece she dripped venom and disgust at how the singer talks, dresses, her entire way of life was deemed low-class and hideous. Miley though, according to WSB (the article tells us how Miley had a few years where she basically acted identical to Cardi), was "soooooo funny lolll" "My hero cuz she dgaf" etc. Scary thing was I'm sure he commentator herself was totally unaware of her blatant racial bias. She appeared to be half my age though, so I didn't even challenge the kid. Just left the website feeling a little bit more aware and scared sh**less at how much we are regressing. Sorry for the essay.
Dave G. 6 years ago
"supremace" lol i'm still laughing. how old even are you like 12?
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Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
It is truly depressing when we see what we are deliberately doing to our own species. Please read my article entitled "Why are we doing this to ourselves?" which suggests how we could actually wipe out so many problems so easily. https://moralismblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/why-are-we-doing-this-to-ourselves/
Dave G. 6 years ago
i agree i mean did you see what the socialists did to ukrainians during holodomir? im glad nothing like that happens in america
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Daria B 6 years ago
It's still a threat, because the leaders of many countries look up to the USA and want to follow their political and economic example.
Load More Replies... Frances M 6 years ago
When I was a teenager my dad was given the chance to move to the USA and the entire family got green cards and social security numbers. I’ve never been so happy that he turned down the job and we stayed where we are. While some of my family did go back in later years for a few months, no one wanted to live there full time and moved to Australia instead. :-)
Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
Welcome to Australia! Thankyou for bringing your culture, cuisine, language(s) & contribution to our beautiful, multicultural, multilingual community. <3
Load More Replies... Maci Mae 6 years ago
I feel like most of these are American issues. I live in the USA, and I'm so sick of everything wrong with our country. My 11 year old sister is already worrying about affording college, and I actually felt guilty for calling an ambulance for my mom when I found out how much it had cost. When I go to school, I automatically make a plan for how I would get out of an school shooting. It cost $300 for me to go to Urgent Care and find out I've had Tendonitis in my wrist for 6 months. And, compared to the kids being held in cages, my family is lucky. I'm hoping I'll be able to save enough money to go to college in Canada, and hopefully live there when I'm old enough. For now I just get to sit and watch while my country falls to pieces :(
Bonnie Clyde 6 years ago (edited)
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but unless you immigrate to Canada you won't be able to avail yourself of most of the Candian public services. Also, the tuition rates for international students are usually 3 or 4 times the cost for a domestic student. And they still have to get extra health insurance or pay out of pocket in many provinces. Personally, I'd welcome you here - but it's harder than most folks think, so I guess start planning early? One of my American friends even married a Canadian after going to school here for years and she didn't qualify for permanent residence until she was in her 40s. She had to keep going to school (as an international student) for ages because she could only get a student visa - and no school means visa is over and she'd have to leave. We need a swap program where a pro-oil/gun/etc Canadian can just trade citizenship with a socialist American. :p
Load More Replies... Jace 6 years ago
America: Land of the free for only the wealthy and the ultra-privileged. I was born here. I grew up here. I’m in poverty here, after struggling since age 15 to work in the “real world”, where your employer can abuse you to the point where you end up on disability (if you’re lucky; I COULD be homeless and worse off, but I suppose they could still drive me to that point with further social system cuts). What a shithole country. It is getting shittier by the month, as our current dumpster fire administration makes it even better to be rich and even worse to be poor. And yet, people support Trump and his cronies because they think he hates the same people they hate. No, the democrats weren’t fixing this s**t, either. Vote anti-corporate, or you will just be voting for more of the same. Under republicans, it’s like an impending disaster in realtime. Under democrats, it’s a boring dystopia that people are slowly acclimated to.
Dave G. 6 years ago
interesting because im neither wealthy or ultra privileged and am in fact a lower class immigrant from a formerly socialist country. i seem to enjoy the same freedom here as everyone else, and i can tell you that i would much rather live here than the country I moved here from (the USSR). it sounds like you might actually not know how bad other countries have it, possibly because you've lived in america your whole life. am i wrong? have you ever actually experienced life outside the US, and especially in a socialist country like cuba or north korea? curious to know
Load More Replies... Bilal Ali 6 years ago
Hmm. This is US centric. Are these possibly first world problems? It's a shame that there are not examples from other parts of the world
Dan Beck 6 years ago
That's the point. Americans love to spout off about it being the greatest country in the world, but in all reality, it's only good if you're rich and white.
Load More Replies... cutzemitherz 6 years ago
I am from Germany and I have to say that I am completely shocked right now. I didn't know that it's that bad in America and I cannot imagine living like this. I feel so sorry...
Bei Stenhaug 6 years ago
Im completely gobsmacked. I'm from Sweden and it would never ruin someone to get ill, financially that is
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
A patriot wants what's best for the nation's long-term well-being : Healthy, educated, productive citizens. A corporation wants slavery and political anarchy. Guess who's winning in America?....
David Buchan-Terrell 6 years ago
This American Society is on a suicide slide. If all you do is complain on Facebook it will not get better.
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats all they're good at, complaining and permanently being a victim of everything. they don't even have it that bad but they always need something to whine about
Load More Replies... The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
This is the stuff that makes me scared for my future, as a 15-year-old girl living in America. A lot of adults are making decisions that don't affect them, but do affect my generation and my life. I don't want to live life like what is shown here....
Maci Mae 6 years ago
Me too! I’m 14, and as I get older I get more and more scared about where our society is going. I wish there was a way we could make a major impact, but whenever I try to give my political ideas I’m brushed off because of my age.
Load More Replies... CheeseOnToast 6 years ago
What did Trump call it? The greatest nation on earth. Deluded idiot.
Dave G. 6 years ago
folks from other countries like me actually have a name for this phenomenon of you americans constantly whining about petty nonsense in your country and about how much worse you have it than other countries you've never lived in. we call it "first world problems". look it up. you guys are literally a meme now
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
clearly you havent learned much about the world as if you think this is messed up you would be far more horrified by events like holodomir (my family were among the millions murdered in the ussr)
Load More Replies... Artex Gorilla 6 years ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, USA is the worst place in the world and i'm yet to be convinced otherwise.
Ceredwyn Ealanta 6 years ago
As an Aussie, I'm not really fond of our concentration camps or the idea that one in five people in Australia now work two jobs in order to survive while our leaders give themselves a raise, or that one lunatic of an ex-PM described windmills as 'Dark Satanic Mills' this week, or that there was a huge defunding of our major scientific organisations. The lesson is mostly that none of us can afford to be overly complacent these days, and we all need to work on standing up for science and supporting one another.
Load More Replies... Tom Hardeveld 6 years ago
In the Netherlands, where I live, if your grandma dies and left you some money, the governement gets 70% of that. 70%!
#Letallexsistwithdignity 6 years ago
I'm some countries women are executed, forced to marry, have their genitals mutilated all ignored by the article. This was clickbait.
Dave G. 6 years ago
I know right. It's basically just a communist propaganda piece
Load More Replies... N S 6 years ago
For anyone wondering, America is a f****d up country, nothing to do with "freedom and democracy", just a pile of capitalist pigs and b******t.
Dave G. 6 years ago
as an immigrant from the soviet union who moved to the united states in 1994 and became an american citizen in 2003, i can safely say that you have absolutely no idea what a "f****d up country" is and are probably 12 years old
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
glad you enjoy waiting weeks for urgent care, having your limbs amputated because you couldn't get treatment in time and paying more in taxes than anyone else on this contintent
Load More Replies... Arielle Sherrill 6 years ago
This whole article made me sick. Not because of how “bad” the average American has it because of the anti-American tree-hugging liberally political agenda behind it. If you feel this country is so bad, leave.
Dave G. 6 years ago
amen! I'm an immigrant and this offends me too. I love America. My family came here from the ussr. We fled a fascist socialist dystopia, a real one where people starved to death from man-made famines, a country where the government would send a miniature kangaroo court to your home and execute you in your backyard, labeling you a "kulak" (clenched fist) for not giving up all of your food and property to the government so your children can starve. These spoiled American brats have the nerve to complain about the US being "dystopic" and about how evil capitalism is when my family literally starved to death in their homes from a man made famine created by a bunch of socialists who believe in the same toxic ideology they do. If you think this is bad as an American imagine seeing this through the eyes of an immigrant who fled from socialism like I did. It's beyond disturbing
Load More Replies... Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
We don't need a wall at the border. Just post this on some big billboards.
Dave G. 6 years ago
i have a better idea, how about all of you who hate it so much just leave to make room for us immigrants who actually appreciate it here? you know there is a very good reason why people risk so much to come here, including my family and me. your post is an insult to immigrants who actually like america and know how good it really is here because we actually have lived in other countries and know what its like outside
Load More Replies... Niall Mac Iomera 6 years ago
I worked for IKEA; in a year of record profits so high they made front page news; our Christmas bonus for nearly foundling profits: A two dollar scratch ticket.
nanashi 6 years ago
ngl when my sister had to be in US for work for a month one time, she brought with her all the common meds she could take because we heard how ridiculous the price for medicine there. also she was so scared of the idea of forced tipping. how do you know how much to tip? or to who?
Dave G. 6 years ago
most of this article reads like some kind of thinly veiled communist propaganda piece. attacks on capitalism galore (what's your alternative? socialism? like that's any less dystopic? Dont' forget holodomir. I never will since my family actually died in it). The article does raise good points about the cost of ambulances, the injustices suffered by employees in the service sector and the shadiness of big government, but the idea that capitalism is our enemy is pretty ludicrous if you actually have any rudimentary knowledge of world history and economics. Capitalism is actually the only thing that is keeping us from having to stand in a bread line or have our roof collapse on our heads while we sleep like folks in socialist nations like Cuba do. I wish this site didn't always try to put a far-left twist on everything. You think the US is "dystopic" but you never saw and went through the things my family and I did in the USSR. Our dystopia made yours look like Beverly Hills!
#Letallexsistwithdignity 6 years ago
How about making this a feature where the problems of certain counties are exposed? Then, our glorified views can be challenged.
Charley CharleyEx 6 years ago
If you are outraged by this article, you need to read The Bell Curve. It's your life story.
Jon Payne 6 years ago
Charley... who might the author be? P.S. -I’m not outraged.
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Lemon Garnished Potato 6 years ago
*flips through dystopia notes from my writing* What the- these are basically the same. What in the wide wonky world?
Martina Vitmanová 6 years ago
Every time I hear something this twisted about America, I love my country a lot more. Imagine, most universities are FREE. You just have to be good enough to pass exams to get there and that is that. And if you find yourself in need of an ambulance, you pay NOTHING. You just get driven to the closest hospital, taken care of, because we all have health insurance. If you are suicidal, you get help, not more debts. Jesus, I knew Trump was an a*****e, but this isn't just about one dumb president, is it.
Dave G. 6 years ago
you know most of this is just left wing propaganda and not an actual reflection of how americans feel about their country right? most of us actually love the US. its just we have a vocal minority who love whining and complaining about everything and it makes it look like things are worse here than they are. I immigrated to the US from the soviet union and I love it here, would never want to live anywhere else. I can't tell you how thankful I am to my family for bringing us to America
Load More Replies... Neo Conderson 6 years ago
Since most of the pictures were actually pictures of tweets made by people who just don't know how the world works, or by people who have a vested interest in fostering fear and dismay and anger, I think we can come to one conclusion: THE number 1 contributor of dystopian depression is Twitter. Get rid of twitter and a whole lot of people might actually feel better about life. Barring that, just stop reading Twitter, okay? You're literally going to kill yourself with bad emotions for stuff that isn't even true. You are being played if you believe this stuff. And it's costing you your physical and mental health.
Dave G. 6 years ago
finally an intelligent comment! I was starting to lose hope
Load More Replies... Flavia Slag 6 years ago
Health care cost became so expensive when business corps took over Healthcare to make a buck. The best hospital I ever worked at was run by Doctors, not business men.
Dave G. 6 years ago
better than pretty much everywhere else, so idk. i immigrated here and i love it. never want to live anywhere else
Load More Replies... Matias Panula 6 years ago
This is why I love my home country Finland. I can ba a socalist and pay for the wellbeing of my fellow contrymen and wemen cause we have this thing called equity
Dave G. 6 years ago
your country only works that way because of its small size and cultural homogeneity. your system would never work here in the million years. we are very different from you. in fact i don't think your system will even work for you that long either. it works now but it will probably fail eventually. i dont think your system is sustainable on any level, especially not on a scale as large as the US
Load More Replies... Theresa McManus 6 years ago
This is pretty ridiculous. Stop trying to find s**t that you think is wrong and just go be a good person. Sheesh.
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats asking too much from the left. being a good person isn't even a concept they're familiar with
Load More Replies... SirPatTheCat 6 years ago
Tbh it's easier to die in America than live there...and this is coming from an American if that isn't depressing enough...
Dave G. 6 years ago
thats weird ive been alive for 30 years and have always found living easier than dying here
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
try not to upsetany more left wing narratives or you might find yourself banned from every mainstream social media platform
Load More Replies... ktdidit 6 years ago
i know, maybe act instead of talk about all of these issues. No problems were ever solved by making up witty post's instead of actually contacting your state, congressman, maybe even put in an effort to write a letter or 5? thats the problem with America . Everyone wants to complain but when it comes to taking action ...crickets
Dave G. 6 years ago
not only that but they complain about the most dumb and mundane things. its always capitalism or trump's fault. it's always someone or something holding them down. bunch of whiny permanent victims. i am an immigrant who immigrated to america in the early 1990s and i love it here. im very thankful to be fortunate enough to have made it here. i hate socialism (i am from the soviet union and my family were murdered by socialists, literally) and I love america. you'll notice 99% of the time its always an american complaining about this stuff. you'll never hear us immigrants from socialist countries complain about america. we love it here and are very grateful for everything we have here. americans have no idea how good they have it!
Load More Replies... Dave G. 6 years ago
I immigrated to the united states in 1994 and I think it was great then and is still great now, although a certain group of radical left wingers seem intent on making it much less great than it should be
Load More Replies... AnnaB 6 years ago
I'm an American and this makes me want to scream and slam my head against the wall. If I could afford to move to another country, I would do it in a split second. THAT's how much this country has failed its citizens.
Dave G. 6 years ago
please hurry and move so that there is more room for immigrants like me who are actually grateful to be here
Load More Replies... Fran Morasco 6 years ago
Not sure what nickname the generation that is responding to this post has. But it should be the PT Generation There's no Participation Trophy to sit back and want/demand what others work for. Thank your parents for misguiding you all
CbusResident 6 years ago
We must all remember, there never was a golden age, there is no land of utopia. I do agree though, we in the US need to consider copying those Scandanavian countries, but on healthcare, not just their damn trendy furniture and pop bands.
Dave G. 6 years ago
uhm yeah there was. Postwar America was absolutely a golden age. Socioeconomic conditions in the US, even for people who were historically oppressed was light years ahead of what we have today. also the scandanivian countries' systems only work due to their small size and cultural homogenity. do you honestly think a country as massive and diverse as the US could ever sustain something like that? I get it, you're a left winger and you hate america, but to outright deny that there was never a golden age is profoundly ignorant. Postwar America absolutely was a golden age. It wasnt until the oil crisis of the 70s that things started going back to hell
Load More Replies... Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Here is a list of the "American Dreams", which that "society" is trying to push to the rest of the world, and whoever doesn't want to accept it, is either a "Communist" or "lives in a cave". I wish politicians of the world would stop kissing that capitalist a*s!
Dave G. 6 years ago
lol nobody is "pushing" this on the world my family immigrated here knowing full well what problems the US has. Your problems are nothing compared to the ones we suffered in the USSR. So please speak for yourself. This immigrant is proud to be a naturalized American citizen since 2003 and I love America. I'd never want to live anywhere else, especially the socialist dump we came from!
Load More Replies... Lena Hudson 6 years ago
I was struck by something similar a short while ago: Earlier today I was on a celebrity gossip site (my secret guilty pleasure lol) and there were back to back articles about Cardi B and Miley Cyrus. The comments section of both pieces were dominated by someone I shall dub White Supremace Barbie. On the Cardi piece she dripped venom and disgust at how the singer talks, dresses, her entire way of life was deemed low-class and hideous. Miley though, according to WSB (the article tells us how Miley had a few years where she basically acted identical to Cardi), was "soooooo funny lolll" "My hero cuz she dgaf" etc. Scary thing was I'm sure he commentator herself was totally unaware of her blatant racial bias. She appeared to be half my age though, so I didn't even challenge the kid. Just left the website feeling a little bit more aware and scared sh**less at how much we are regressing. Sorry for the essay.
Dave G. 6 years ago
"supremace" lol i'm still laughing. how old even are you like 12?
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
It is truly depressing when we see what we are deliberately doing to our own species. Please read my article entitled "Why are we doing this to ourselves?" which suggests how we could actually wipe out so many problems so easily. https://moralismblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/why-are-we-doing-this-to-ourselves/
Dave G. 6 years ago
i agree i mean did you see what the socialists did to ukrainians during holodomir? im glad nothing like that happens in america
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