#american problems

[beemovieerotica]

I remember there being PSAs on facebook and stuff a long time ago about watching out for cars with police lights on them but that don't have any actual official markings, because there was this (real or not) scare of people with modded cars pretending to be cops and robbing people I guess

but I just saw the most normal honda civic suddenly turn on police lights + a siren and go speeding down the road and it's like. okay so now we're expected to believe any car with lights and a siren is legit, lest we defy the panopticon. on what legal level am I required to freeze and put my hands up for a vehicle with no visible ID showing it's actually a government car. oh right I'll get shot if I dont. I fucking hate it here

#american problems

[revcleo]

#Poll #Coffee #Tea #american problems #I am assuming little difference in coffee cultures between the two large north American countries #Other than one goes to Starbucks and the other tîm hortons #Everyone knows usians like a big gulp but do other north Americans?

[theeminentlyimpractical]

counting on my fingers to figure out if it is too late to rant at my mutuals

#fuck u time zones #american problems

[pumpkin-panik]

Irrationally pissed off post timeee: I don't think a lot of people realize how shitty the work climate is in the U.S. it's quite irritating. I'm thinking about this because I'm trying to get a job, in highschool, so while I don't need to pay rent, I'm still gonna have to pay car insurance and stuff. Assuming that in the area I live in, most people working entry level jobs. make around 10 dollars an hour, based on the area I live in, it'd be 15-20 hours of work at least, a month, just to pay car insurance. At 10 dollars an hour, it would take around 30 hours of work to pay for a standard apartment. If you're a college student, you are going to struggle. Work life balance won't be a thing in my future, and I simply have to prepare in high school so that I'm not overwhelmed too much. Doesn't help that in my case, it's fucking hard to get employed. I'm autistic, and while I have, for lack of better terms, low support needs, I don't have some of the skills that they want, or my skills are heavily lacking, this is mostly in the social skills department. When will people realize that America isn't a glowing beacon of hope. It's just shit, coated in fools gold foil.

#angry #america #random #job #jobs #workers #work #working #work life #work life balance #american problems #problems in America #work problems #work industry problems #this might be anti-work #antiwork? #autism #i am autistic #america sucks #fuck this country #fuck this #fuck the government #this isnt a joke post #not a joke #not joking #this is not a joke

[anteroom-of-death]

America is the most propagandized country on the planet. No other people actually buys their country's bullshit at the levels that most Americans, regardless of political affiliation, do.

#personal #america #american problems #america is a failed state #to quote a song america is a fuckin disease get on your back or down on your knees #propaganda #politicking #spicy takes #im not up for debate so dont start shit

[timelessclassicmovies]

When you live in America and it's 3pm on a Sunday, so you're scrolling the turnadette tags on Tumblr hoping for a scrap of news, waiting for @miss-ute to post her turnadette scene video.

#call the midwife #shelagh turner #patrick turner #turnadette #American problems

[thefirsthogokage]

Hahahaha

Insurance has denied covering anymore PT, even though my back still hurts

Hahahaha

🙃🙃🙃

Don't you just love when Insurance companies say they know what's best for a patient over medical professionals

Hahahahaha

#the self #fuck the american healthcare system #chronic pain #chronic injury #fuck insurance companies #american problems #only in america

[xoxo-bunnydumpling]

Sometimes I just cannot take Democrats either. Not to the degree that I can't take Republicans but fuck meeee...do you even know how purely fucking terrible Joe Biden is? Aside from his bad makeup and even worse facelift do you know what he's done and what his track record is like?

By all means, vote for him again because the other choice is gonna be even worse but you cannot convince me he's some kind of messiah. He's not saving us, he's not letting the brown kids out of cages, he's not strong enough or hard enough or determined enough to fix anything that needs fixing. He's the doorstopper we need to keep some specifically terrifying bullshit from getting in, but that's it. It could have been ANY Democrat. He's not special at ALL.

I have never been more convinced in all my years of knowing what the fuck is going on that the hard work is ours to do. It's never gonna be a dude in a suit that does it, no matter what color his tie is.

#american politics #american problems #biden administration #time to do the work #democrats #republicans

[family-confrontation-and-bonding]

I am proposing the following:

We are allowed to keep daylight savings IF we move the date of it to Black Friday. People will be so discombobulated by the hour switch that store crowds will be reduced. Also, instead of two days of people being cranky in public, we just get one.

#Black friday is a hell scape #so is the time change #fuck it #so is the USA #america #american problems #holidays #winter holidays #thanksgiving #USA

[mina-martin]

Since I don't want to soapbox in my fanfic author's notes...

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Anyone who thinks a good thing has happened, yay babbies not being aBoRtEd, is not paying enough attention. Nevermind the ridiculousness of ‘life begins at conception’. Roe v Wade was about privacy, and one woman’s abortion just happened to be the private medical procedure to bring the greater legal issue to light. Judge Clarence Thomas has literally stated he’s going after LGBT+ rights, contraception, and other privacy rights next. While he’s married to a white woman! Who was involved with the January 6 riots to upend peaceful transition of power! Samuel L. Jackson has apparently nicknamed him Uncle Thomas, I won’t use it myself but I think it fits.

I won’t even type the names of the other justices who voted in favor of this, you know which two especially can rot in hell.

Women suffering miscarriages of wanted pregnancies will die, see the story of Andrea Prudente literally happening now as this is going down. Women in abusive relationships will either be forced to carry a pregnancy that ties them to someone they want/need to escape from, or they’ll be harmed by the abusive partner who wants the potential baby gone by any means necessary. Children – 13, 12, 11, 10-year-old children – will be forced to stay pregnant and give birth to their rapist’s babies even though their bodies are literally too small for that to be safe. Suffer the little children indeed, I really hate those hypocritical pro-lifers wanting to ‘save the children’. Women in poverty or other similar situations wanting to focus on the children they already have and love, will be stretched beyond their breaking point and the whole family will suffer. Fertility doctors are already stopping treatment for couples trying to start a family. Some states don’t allow women to be divorced while they’re pregnant, looping back around to that abusive partner scenario. Also, since all my examples so far have been “this all claims to be pro-life and for the children but look at how much damage to children and families it will actually do”, let me state: women are more important than the fetus they carry and if they don’t want to be pregnant and give birth, they should the right to that bodily autonomy. And of course throughout all of that and more, BIPOC women are always more at risk.

Let’s begin with a little history lesson – the pro-life movement in American began because of racism: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480

Next – technology has skyrocketed since the 70s, obviously. “So you're getting an abortion in the era of surveillance capitalism”. This thread and the information it links to is so super important: https://twitter.com/caitlinrcruz/status/1540498513829793795 The twitter thread has an good infographic but if you want to skip straight to the guide: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

This article is full of resources, “28 Ways To Protect Abortion Rights & Reproductive Freedom”, listing organizations to donate to, how to get involved politically, who to follow on social media, what to stock up on :https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/abortion-rights-resources

It’s a pretty comprehensive list, some of organizations and ideas include:

ACCESS is a podcast that “pulls back the curtain, demystifying abortion by bringing you real, first-person stories and expert perspectives.” https://www.apodcastaboutabortion.com

Keep Our Clinics “supports independent abortion providers nationwide... [it] financially assists small, community-based clinics with funding that covers security, building repairs, PPE and hazard pay, legal fees, and community education and advocacy.” http://keepourclinics.org/

Instead of donating to national Planned Parenthood it’s better to focus on the smaller state level now. Here’s a grassroots google doc for abortion funds in each state: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-aDTsZXnKhMcrDmtcD35aWs00gw5piocDhaFy5LKDY/mobilebasic

I’m also seeing posts advocating parsley tea to help bring about miscarriage, but it looks like an old wives tale that does more harm than help: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/07/238817/parsley-tea-period-miscarriage-abortion

Saved this link back in February, it’s an international organization that offer online consultations and mail order medication: https://aidaccess.org/

And of course, a book rec, “New Handbook for a Post-Roe America,” use this site to buy it from anywhere other than Amazon and maybe at a local indie bookstore near you: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781644210581 or this amazing site: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/search/results?q=New%20Handbook%20for%20a%20Post-Roe%20America%20

I don’t have the energy right now to talk about how the good ol’ US of A is turning into a fundamentalist Christian dystopian hellscape, or how the loudest pro-lifers have the most bizarre and completely inaccurate ideas about how medical care or women’s’ bodies work. And I hate that nothing encapsulates how this minority of absolute nutjobs are dragging others into hell with them, than the state of Texas, where they’ll force women to have them innocent babies only to not give a crap about protecting them from madmen with an AR-15 just a few years later.

#roe v wade #abortion rights #reproductive rights #reproductive health #bodily autonomy #pro choice #legal abortion #abortion #womens rights #womens health #reproductive justice #roe vs. wade #american problems #united states #living in america #women's rights #women's issues #women's health

[revcleo]

Hey, yanks, your government has set up this page to try and get money back from your boss if you're owed back pay

this seems good

check the website above, it's an official dot gov site, it looks like this:

#american problems #america #usa #it'd be nice if the tories did this also I'm pretty sure I'm owed wages

[aelusnovaamora]

kinda weird how obesity is such a problem in the us when we have the whole culture about "eating everything on our plates" while companies have more than doubled the calories and massively increased the portion sizes in the past 50 years and are more unregulated than every other developed country in the world. i wonder how that happened.

#america #obesity #american problems #social issues #corporate greed #corporate manipulation #government corruption

[clueless-day-dreamer]

It's always the jocks, isn't it?

#funny #humor #american problems

[cobaltaugustao3]

My constant struggle when writing PWP

#fanfiction #fanfiction writer #fanfiction writing #writing #writing struggles #writing fanfic #pwp fics #ofmd fanfic #writer problems #american chopper #writing memes

[samwithhair]

IT HURTS SO BAD TO POOP

#america #american problems #UUUGGGGGHHH #AAAAHAAAAA #I CANT SHIT #i cannot

[ravenousnightwind]

Do you think that the NRA or gun manufacturers give a damn about how many children die at the hands of someone who possessed a gun they provided to? Of course they don't. Just like them pro life people don't really care about children once they're no longer children. Much less actually care about kids after they're out of the womb. No, people dying in schools, that's propaganda baby, that's what makes guns sell. Don't you get it? They're Mr and Mrs gunsmith lol. (That's a joke I repurposed from toystory, don't be a dick and take it seriously)

It's about greed. It's about what sells. If they really cared about kids dying in schools, they'd do something to regulate who gets access to guns and what type of guns. And for the people who say oh guns don't kill people? Shut up, Larry, that's bullshit. Guns are tools designed to kill or hurt. So yes, guns do kill people. Even if it takes a person to wield said weapon, it doesn't mean it isn't designed to kill. You're just trying to find a shitty excuse for the purpose of your own twisted idealisms.

I'm not saying these weapons can't be used for protection, but I'm saying that it's not okay where things are and where they're going right now. The answer to violence isn't to provide the means for more violence. It's to prohibit access to tools that ought of been checked through appropriate systems for the sake of the safety of everyone in the community.

But do you know why it isn't? So they can get more money, so they can donate that money to infiltrating politicians who were paid off by this blood money, so they can then direct policies to kill more people in marginalized communities. I'm not saying this is exactly the prime directive, but I am saying it's happening in one way or another.

The only way to stop it is to research who we elect and get up in their business so we know they're not insanely corrupted or paid off, and tell them to change the policies so child deaths from guns don't happen. So people in general don't get murdered. Obviously it's complex and more so than I can ever explain, but either way, shit needs to change because all this bullshit about rights being taken and people just allowing people to die and children dying cuz some kid came to school with parents weapon, it's very very un-American. It's sick. It's disgusting. And anyone who supports these things well. Maybe you ought to think about what if it was yourself in the same position as the rest of us.

#f the nra #gun ownership #gun rights #american politics #anti lgbt laws #lgbt politics #lgbtq rights #child murder #gun laws #american problems #unamerican #us politics #political rant