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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
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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.
Both Are In The Wrong But Look At How The Pictures Are Depicted
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...
As Mica stated. The phone still uses Wifi and tower positioning without you even knowing about it. That's how an app used to monitor workers does it here, doesn't matter if you allow it to use GPS or not.
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This happens to me as well. I'll say something or go somewhere and later get bombarded with ads for whatever I said or wherever I wad near, it's creepy af!
Had almost the same creepy thing (not in the US): needed my teeth fixed, never googled something like that (which my phone or laptop), then the ad "dentures for 31-year olds"popped up everywhere. And yes, that is also my correct age
For whatever reason, every time I go to a protest march, I start getting ads for Fox News and BlazeTV. How is it the internet has a liberal bias again?
Okay, but explain how when we joked in our living room with each other that we should get a coffin for our "vampire" son to sleep in, I suddenly started getting casket ads. I didn't visit a casket shop. We merely had a private conversation in our own home. "Alexa, are you listening to us?" "I only listen when you say the 'wake word'." "B******t."
Alexa always listens to everything you say, how else would she know you said here wake word? You can only hope that everything you said before the wake word isn't processed...
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Recently something even more unsettling happened to me. I went to the drugstore looking for some specific cosmetics (I had turned off localization and i definitely DID NOT google these items). The very same day google started to show me ads with the very same items I was looking at in the store. Creepy.
This happened to me the day I went to see EndGame. I literally spent about a week avoiding spoilers because I had to work nonstop so instead of going opening week I went the second week. The point is right after the movie, I went on YouTube and all I see in the home section is Avengers s**t. Which freaked me out because I always turn my phone off before watching movies at theaters and nothing I watched on YouTube a week prior had anything to do with the Avengers.
I can beat that. Driving down a street, I open my Facebook page, we were driving past a restaurant. Literally, a nanosecond later, I received a notice. It said “Have you been to this restaurant?” I mean we were just driving by it.
It has ceased to surprise me that I may search one day for something and all of a sudden I am getting inundated the next day for ads for that product. Privacy? HAHAHA...never again.
I now turn my phone off when I leave the house.... got tired of being tracked everywhere I go.
Scary s**t. Try not having your cell phone turned on at all times.
Why else would you go to the optometrist unless it was to get your vision checked? My dentist can only check my eye teeth.
I'm probably in the minority but I appreciate things like this. Why would I want to see a heart medicine commercial or whatever when my actual current problem is vision and I'm obviously looking for solutions?
I have a cell phone but it hasn't had service for about 7 years. I just use it in case I need to call 911 or if I need a flash light. No service, no gps turned on, no wifi turned on. I was talking to my husband the other day about stuff that I have never googled before in my life, and later that day and ever since then I have had ads and pop ups and spam emails about this particular subject. His cell phone was still in his car so I know it wasn't his phone that "picked it up". We don't have web cams or anything. I had to have been my phone. I'm so creeped out by this. It's not right
Then it must have been the microphone (like Raroa in a previous comment wrote)
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Legit. I've turned most of google's settings off and have an ad blocker. But after googling engine oil once I got "sponsored" ads in my facebook feed for months. It's actually kind of cute- because of the ad blocker and turned off Ad personalisation the algorithm is confused and now gives me different generic ads about condoms and clubs.
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...
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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.
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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. :-)
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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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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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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
Load More Replies... try not to upsetany more left wing narratives or you might find yourself banned from every mainstream social media platform
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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. :-)
Welcome to Australia! Thankyou for bringing your culture, cuisine, language(s) & contribution to our beautiful, multicultural, multilingual community. <3
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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