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These 30 Pics Show How Dystopic Our Society Already Is, And It’s Pretty Terrifying
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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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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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."
Charity
Saddest part is that a lot of celebs even get paid to promote a charity.
Put The Blame Where It Belongs
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."
A Child Can’t Stay On The Transplant List, Solely Because He’s Homeless
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!
Stealing An Education
Need Books? Donate Plasma!
I Had To Pay $39.35 To Hold My Baby After He Was Born
Anything Different Would Simply Be Un-American
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.
Health Care
Don't have to wait for it. Come to Ukraine, we are constantly crowdfunding some sick child's care.
Watch This Advert Or Choke To Death
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.
Only In America Would A Restaurant Display On The Wall That They Don’t Pay Their Staff Enough To Live On
Public Relations
And people working in the media industry earn way more than any manual laborer or most of the engineers, scientists, medical doctors...
Remember The Panama Papers?
"Today My Client Was Excited To Push The Elevator Buttons On The Way To Her First Deportation Hearing"
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.
I Don't Like This Episode Of Black Mirror
Capitalism In A Nutshell
Good Article. No Surprises. “It’s Not About Wanting A Pay Raise Or Extra Income, It’s Just About Wanting A Livable Wage”
And yet Trump has the audacity to say how amazing the country is doing and how everyone is wealthier than ever. Prick.
The ONLY thing I do not like about this post is that Trump deserves to be called something far, far worse than a prick.
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Agree. Many of us have these same issues I think. I think the difference is accepting that life WILL have challenges. Financial or otherwise. I’m a designer and struggle financially. My brother is a doctor and has a child with severe, permanent medical issues. Different struggles.
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Healthcare workers & teachers are so important to our society and are treated so dismal.... it's shameful!
I'm a freaking Pharmacist with similar issues although not as bad I'm sure. I became a pharmacist to provide a better life for my family at the encouragement of my mother (and thankfully I like the job and love helping others), but what most people don't realize is that while I make more money, I also am in debt due to student loans more than most people. I owe over $250,000 in student loans and because of high monthly payments and high debt to income ratio, I can not even obtain a loan for over $85,000 to buy a house. That doesn't get me much of a house in a safe neighborhood if at all that isn't in major need of repair. So I live with my parents or in a cheap apartment. I borrowed the least amount I needed and lived frugal while in school... our system is so messed up. Teaches should definitely be paid so much more!
There was a TV commercial a few years ago for a bank debit card featuring a young woman acting the part of a kindergarten teacher in her class. She said she often had to buy supplies like “Paint, crayons, hamsters...” So she set up her debit card to make an automatic deposit to her savings account in some amount whenever she makes a purchase, as a way to regularly save money for these expenses WHICH SHOULD BE PAID FOR BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. (This adds insult to injury because teachers are so underpaid already.) The commercial made this disgraceful situation seem like it’s a common practice that no one questions or protests against. This is one of the shameful scandals in the U.S. that doesn’t get enough publicity.
sad but true in lot of cases all where you live and its not trumps fault its paid political whores who have been in office Years ...
Typical of most teachers - we have 2 and 3 jobs to keep food on the table. After 35 years in the classroom (and as an award winning teacher) I can not recommend a person to go into education. You can make more in an office job with only a tenth of the stress.
In many states there is no union for many teachers. In my state there was a very strong union which is why we had benefits and fair salaries. I had to buy supplies when my own school district would not fund their own classes appropriately. No teachers should have to buy supplies and no District should form their budget based on the fact that the teachers will buy supplies.
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Uhg, I feel so sorry for teachers in the US... They earn way more than they make now. I've recently become a teacher in Europe (at a public highschool). And I'm quite happy with my starter salary (€2700/month), even though the work pressure is often high and the days often long. Work pressure is increasing because there are not enough teachers in our country. I bet it's the same in the US, but on a much larger scale. Still happy to be a teacher though, and I hope at some point things will change for US teachers (and health care workers etc. etc.).
People who go into that profession must know how the salaries are. Go into a different career direction if you want to make more money. If people started ditching the profession because of the pay, then and only then will the system change. There is so much waste and mismanagement of money going on with education dollars. A shortage of teachers might open people's eyes to it and redirect the money where it needs to go.
Find a better job. Standard of living isn't the same everywhere. Personal merit, education, and skills get one a better job along with better bargaining for raises. Regardless, not all are good or smart enough to do higher-paying work. Personal choice is what keeps most in their 'bad predicament'.
bunch of c**p and lies.. teachers make more than most and they hold kids hostage for more, every year.
To be fair, my friend is a 1st year substitute teacher, and makes $5hr more than my husband who has been at his job for 20 years.
America... (oops, sorry, "Murica) the greatest (ripoff) country in the World. Especially if you're not white. No wonder the rest of the world mentally spits on your political system. Corrupt is far too kind of a word for it.
This is absurd! The future of a country depends on their children and the children depend on their teachers. What will your future be? Who will your future leaders be? Will the brightest want to lead or just make money? Without the help of teachers the average and below average will grow up not knowing anything about any other country but their own! Oh yeah, that happens now, American students graduating from college don’t know where Canada is!
pfft here in Canada teachers are paid pretty well, starting at about 50k a year.
Did they mention your salary when they offered you the job? More brilliant life planning.
I'm sorry not buying it...sure a starting teacher may have a low wage...but they have full insurance,401k,benefits.. But a 20 yr teacher has to be making 50 grand easily..where the f does she live..Beverly hills
You are delusional, a lot of teachers do not make that much. And $50K is not enough if you are a single mom with kids.
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This is disgraceful when some scumbag selling junk stocks is allowed to scoop off millions from pension funds .
Second jobs, or if they're lucky, a working spouse.
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The blindfold of Lady Justice is eaten by the moths and she turns out to be a racist, conservative b!tch.
Not A Bad Plan
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.
It's All About Priorities
Bathroom Sticker
Teeth Are A Luxury Only Paying Customers Are Allowed
I still have all of my teeth- one of them just stays in my drawer now.
Ambulances For 3k? Lets Just Call An Uber
in the US, the cost for an ambulance to take you to the ER is as expensive as buying a new car.
Positive News
This Feels Straight Out Of 1984...
This Is How Expensive It Is To Attempt Suicide In The US
Open Office
The 90s when people were angry about their well paid, stable jobs and about their peaceful life...
His Gofundme Goal Was Only $750
China Be Like
This Is Just Sad
Well Ok Then
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?
Quite The Town Character
Oh..
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.
Actors Dressed As Homeless
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.
Really Makes You Think...
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
Equality Award
Breaking: Billion Dollar Company Does Bare Minimum
A 6 Year Old Having To Even Think About This Is Tragic
When You Raise Money To Keep Those Without Money Out
And They Wonder Why Pirating Is On The Rise Again
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.
This Is (Not) How You Increase Employee Morale
This employer should be sent to a work camp in North Korea, or to a factory I'm China. Forever.
This
"Hey Siri, I'm Getting Pulled Over"
In America a broken taillight could kill you, if you're black. At least the jury would have another piece of evidence to dismiss.
Kids Can Pick Themselves Up At School. Work Won't Do Itself
"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)
Mass Shootings Are Becoming So Common There Now An Event On Snapchat
Global Warming Is Exciting!
British Army Recruitment Ads...
It Would Actually Be Cheaper To Give Home To The Homeless
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.
More Depressed Workaholics
"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.
Imagine Covering The Stars With Advertisements
Fair And Balanced
Monopoly, A Game Originally Made As A Commentary Of Landlords And Property Costs, Now Openly Mocks Millennials For Their Collective Poverty. Nice
Buy A "Video Game System" Instead Of Unionizing Please
Can't Afford Housing? Be Homeless!
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.)
"Using Alcohol To Cope With Crushing Poverty-Now With Friends!"
Comcast Truth
Seen At An Elementary School...
It's A "Moral Responsibility"
"Why Is A Donut Shop In Charge Of Opening A Train Station?"
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.
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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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. :-)
Welcome to Australia! Thankyou for bringing your culture, cuisine, language(s) & contribution to our beautiful, multicultural, multilingual community. <3
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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 :(
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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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.
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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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
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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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...
Im completely gobsmacked. I'm from Sweden and it would never ruin someone to get ill, financially that is
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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?....
This American Society is on a suicide slide. If all you do is complain on Facebook it will not get better.
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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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....
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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What did Trump call it? The greatest nation on earth. Deluded idiot.
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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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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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.
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.
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In the Netherlands, where I live, if your grandma dies and left you some money, the governement gets 70% of that. 70%!
I'm some countries women are executed, forced to marry, have their genitals mutilated all ignored by the article. This was clickbait.
I know right. It's basically just a communist propaganda piece
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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.
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
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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.
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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This was an eye opening post. America has become such a s**t hole country since you know what.
thats a bit of a stretch considering that countries like cuba and nigeria are still a thing in 2019. if your standard for a "s**t hole" is the US then what does that make them?
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We don't need a wall at the border. Just post this on some big billboards.
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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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.
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?
1. It's not forced. It's voluntary. I'm not a huge fan of how it's put together, but there it is. 2. Read a travel guide, maybe? They're absolutely everywhere.
Load More Replies... 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!
How about making this a feature where the problems of certain counties are exposed? Then, our glorified views can be challenged.
If you are outraged by this article, you need to read The Bell Curve. It's your life story.
Charley... who might the author be? P.S. -I’m not outraged.
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*flips through dystopia notes from my writing* What the- these are basically the same. What in the wide wonky world?
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.
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... 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.
finally an intelligent comment! I was starting to lose hope
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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.
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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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
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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This is pretty ridiculous. Stop trying to find s**t that you think is wrong and just go be a good person. Sheesh.
thats asking too much from the left. being a good person isn't even a concept they're familiar with
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Tbh it's easier to die in America than live there...and this is coming from an American if that isn't depressing enough...
thats weird ive been alive for 30 years and have always found living easier than dying here
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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
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... 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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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.
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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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
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.
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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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!
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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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.
"supremace" lol i'm still laughing. how old even are you like 12?
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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/
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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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... 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. :-)
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Load More Replies... 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 :(
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... 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.
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... 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
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... 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...
Im completely gobsmacked. I'm from Sweden and it would never ruin someone to get ill, financially that is
Load More Replies... 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?....
This American Society is on a suicide slide. If all you do is complain on Facebook it will not get better.
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... 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....
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... What did Trump call it? The greatest nation on earth. Deluded idiot.
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... 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... 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.
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... In the Netherlands, where I live, if your grandma dies and left you some money, the governement gets 70% of that. 70%!
I'm some countries women are executed, forced to marry, have their genitals mutilated all ignored by the article. This was clickbait.
I know right. It's basically just a communist propaganda piece
Load More Replies... 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.
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... 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... 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.
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... This was an eye opening post. America has become such a s**t hole country since you know what.
thats a bit of a stretch considering that countries like cuba and nigeria are still a thing in 2019. if your standard for a "s**t hole" is the US then what does that make them?
Load More Replies... We don't need a wall at the border. Just post this on some big billboards.
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... 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.
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?
1. It's not forced. It's voluntary. I'm not a huge fan of how it's put together, but there it is. 2. Read a travel guide, maybe? They're absolutely everywhere.
Load More Replies... 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!
How about making this a feature where the problems of certain counties are exposed? Then, our glorified views can be challenged.
If you are outraged by this article, you need to read The Bell Curve. It's your life story.
Charley... who might the author be? P.S. -I’m not outraged.
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*flips through dystopia notes from my writing* What the- these are basically the same. What in the wide wonky world?
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.
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... 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.
finally an intelligent comment! I was starting to lose hope
Load More Replies... 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.
better than pretty much everywhere else, so idk. i immigrated here and i love it. never want to live anywhere else
Load More Replies... 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
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... This is pretty ridiculous. Stop trying to find s**t that you think is wrong and just go be a good person. Sheesh.
thats asking too much from the left. being a good person isn't even a concept they're familiar with
Load More Replies... Tbh it's easier to die in America than live there...and this is coming from an American if that isn't depressing enough...
thats weird ive been alive for 30 years and have always found living easier than dying here
Load More Replies... try not to upsetany more left wing narratives or you might find yourself banned from every mainstream social media platform
Load More Replies... 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
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... 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... 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.
please hurry and move so that there is more room for immigrants like me who are actually grateful to be here
Load More Replies... 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
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.
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... 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!
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... 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.
"supremace" lol i'm still laughing. how old even are you like 12?
Load More Replies... 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/
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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