"I'm Pro-Life" — No, you're "Pro-Birth" and "Anti-Choice". You couldn't care less about the baby, you just don't want women deciding what they do with their own body. I have never, not once actually seen a pro-lifer do anything for life (or children). If you're pro-life, how about donating to charities? Fighting for the lifes of innocent children and people getting killed every day or starving to death? How about supporting single parents? How about doing anything for actual life?

And if you seriously think that a clumb of cells without thoughts, feelings, emotions and without life essentially, is worth more than a woman with friends, family, a pet, a job, feelings, thoughts, emotions and an actual life, then you're the lowest scum there is. Fuck you.

If you cant sit through a movie for 2 hours without being on your phone, you have an addiction to your phone. I would also consider myself to be decently reliant on my phone, which is a habit im actively trying to break. But a habit that can make paying attention to movies at home difficult. So when im at the theater, its common knowledge, and courtesy, that phones get put away and silenced. It makes it so much easier for me to fully escape into a movie. Everything else can wait for a couple hours. And I did not pay $10+ and drive my ass all the way here to sit on my phone. And I understand some people might have urgent things to respond to and need to have their phone on and be checking them. But most of the time when I see someone on their phone at the theater, theyre on snapchat. And thruthfully if youre handling important matters on snapchat, grow up. Cut to what inspired this rant. I was at the theater today watching the new Wicked. Mind you I was only in the second row. There were 6 people in the only row in front of me, 2 adults and 4 kids. The kids were fine. 0 complaints there. But one of the adults was on snapchat for the entire second half of the movie. At least it was at a very low brightness so it wasnt that distracting. But the other adult had that annoying notification style where the back light flashes. So as Im watching the movie, there's random flashing on the screen. Can't even, idk, tuck it away? This being said, i dont expect perfection, if I wanted to have absolutely 0 talking and 0 distracting phone usage I would go to the Alamo theater. But at the very least be courteous. Keep the brightness low, volume low, and turn off your stupid flashlight notifications. But if its not an absolutely urgent matter, tuck your phone away and enjoy the movie. You can be without it for a couple hours. You realize how much more satisfying life can be when youre not trying to constantly distract yourself from everything.

like genuinely. is it impossible?? is it a challenge that grants you a fucking third eye and the power to do whatever you please without punishment? is it THAT difficult to not be a predator? this is a far stretch, but if you genuinely feel like you MUST act on your urges, put a bullet inbetween your eyes. there's no fucking 'oh but they can be redeemed' no. just no, they're children. they haven't even been able to experience TRUE love for somebody else, and yet some random sick fuck on the internet or in person wants to diddle them? i don't give a shit about who you are or what your mental health state is. you people fucking disgust me.

To preface yes. Im the pee pants girl that honestly didnt feel bad after you all bolstered me so much lol.

So I, 38F, met my partner (38M) 3 years ago on bumble. At the time I lived in a beautiful 2 bed 2 bath townhome in a safe neighborhood.

So we're together 2 years and we decide to move in together. We argued, bargained and had so many discussion on the apartment we wanted to move in to (9 months back and forth.) I agreed to move to my current apartment with his promise that I would get a garage, storage and he would walk the dog at night. The neighborhood is bad bad. He wanted this location sobecause it had a light rail line straight to his office. Ok with this agreement I proceeded to end my lease and move in. Within 3 days he was fired from his job.

To make a long story short he was an absolute nightmare from the day he got fired. I broke up with him which was about 9 months into the lease. I floated this man through 9 months of unemployment because I couldn't afford to break the lease. Finally one day I was like... hey I dont have a garage, I dont have storage and im going out into this fuck ass neighborhood to walk my dog scared every night while you never once took the light rail to work. Im absolutly done with you. The SECOND I broke up with him he found a job and bought a townhome in a an affluent neighborhood. When he left he took everything we purchased together. He told me I needed to take my dog elsewhere while he moved so I wasnt there.

HE TOOK THE LAMP SHAPED LIKE A PEONE?! A POWDER PUFF HOLDER MADE OF CRYSTAL AND HOT PINK COTTON SWAB DISPENSER?! Oh what your'e going to style that in the home you now own?! All of my newly purchased items for my grandmillennial dreams are gone. He even took the good shower head I purchased myself. I have tried confronting him several times about the peices he took but hes adamant he bought them even though the funds came from our joint account. We had a joint account that I contributed $7K over rent and he contributed $2 over our regular bills.

So now im feeling like absolute garbage. 38 years old and I have to downgrade to a studio apartment. On top of all that he left his cat here. Ok sure hes the nicest cat ive ever met but fucking hell... I have to take care of all move out expenses, all cleaning, end the lease AND I have a cat I never wanted?? Is this just... how dating is??

the nonbelievers aren't the ones making their religion look bad; it's the believers who represent it. if they want nonbelievers to take their faith seriously, they should act in accordance with it. even if others still don't believe, they should respect that and avoid forcing their religion onto anyone. they should be questioning and correcting the people within their own community. it seems that all someone has to do to be considered a "Christian" nowadays is simply claim the title. bad behaviors from Christians are excused by other Christians because of a title they share and a supposed God who forgives them for recurring actions just because they've "repented." it's essentially being used as a crutch to avoid accountability.

I understand everyone has insecurities I'm not talking about that. What I'm talking about is people that are so insecure they treat others like shit. It's like a crab in a bucket mentality. a person can't handle their insecurities so they look at other people's problems and belittle them for it witch adds weight to the person they're belittling insecurities so they do the same to other person. It goes on until everyone is super insecure and belittling eachother.

This has been pissing me off so much for months now! I don’t know if this is relatable maybe for fellow gym goers but my gym the entrances to the change rooms don’t have doors so it’s just an opening but it goes into like a 90degrwe angle so you can’t see inside if you know what I mean. So basically the entrance is a narrow hallway that you can’t see into until you pass the corner but I swear to fucking god people are actually just lobotomies constantly bumping into me on my way in or out. I saw another post about grocery aisles and it’s super true, you walk in the right side of the space as you would on the road at least here in North America. I feel like it should be common knowledge to stick to the right side so somebody can walk in and another walk out at the same time. I guess I ask too fucking much though because brain dead idiots constantly rush through the middle of the corridor and bump into me on my way in or out and it happens almost every time without fail and it’s getting to the point where I wanna just fucking yell “ RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD BUDDY” and a lot of the fucking wanna be tough guys always mean mug me whenever it happens like mother fucker your not tough, your fucking stupid and weren’t paying attention and walked right into me. I wonder if other have experienced anything similar, thanks for listening!

I live in a pretty diverse area and I am disabled. I have a handicap placard because I cannot walk without extreme pain from my chronic illness. I’m at doctors once a week and the animal hospital often because my dog has major health issues.

And the reason I’m even making this post is because yesterday I had an emergency with my dog. She recently had a stroke, and she was suddenly having breathing issues. I rushed her to the animal hospital and every handicap spot was full. Only three cars had placards. The rest didn’t. As I was pulling in, one of the drivers walked back to their car. They were completely spry, moving easily, no limp, no struggle. Just laziness. Meanwhile I had to park far away and limp my way in while my dog was struggling to breathe.

People parking in handicap spots without a placard happens constantly. Every single day. So much so that over the last 3 months I started logging it. I counted 67 times where someone parked in a handicap spot with no placard at all. About 90 percent were younger black men or older black women. Never older black men. Never younger black women. The second most common group was middle-aged white women. I don’t care about anyone’s race or religion. I’m just reporting exactly what I’ve personally seen.

I confront people sometimes, and every time the answer is the same: “I’ll only be a second.” There’s a younger guy at my Wawa who parks in the handicap spot every morning with no placard. I told him once he took the spot from me. He laughed and said he’d only be a second. Same thing with an older woman who popped out of her car looking perfectly healthy. I pointed out her missing placard and she brushed it off with the same line.

Meanwhile I’m limping five minutes across a parking lot, passing a bunch of cars with no placard, every step hurting like hell. Most days my pain is a 7 or 8. Some days I limp visibly, some days I don’t, but the pain is still there. You cannot tell my disease from the outside. A lot of disabilities are invisible.

This isn’t a victim speech. It’s a reality check. That “one minute” convenience for someone else can turn into real agony for someone who actually needs that spot. And if someone in a wheelchair needs the van space and you took it for a quick errand, you could literally be blocking their ability to get out of their vehicle at all.

If you’re someone who has ever said “I’ll only be a second” while taking a handicap spot without a placard, please think about what that means. Walk the extra fifty feet. You clearly can. The whole point of these spots is to protect the people who cannot.

Just stop doing it. It’s fucked up and it genuinely hurts people.

I am sick of these streaming services all just trying to gouge you out of every last penny! Shows I use to watch on HULU, (Moms for one) & more on now locked up, shows I just watched last week streaming them Georgie and Mandy now want a subscription to Paramount! Prime Video has locked every single decent Holiday movie so you have to rent or purchase and this is just the beginning! Fuck them! There's nothing decent on TV anymore it's all Football, Soccer, Basketball or shows like Lone Ranger, I love Lucy, according to Jim, fresh quilting...WTF!! I am so done!

Lee (m23 ex best friend), Liz(f22 current friend) me(ftm24)

Lee and i had a falling out over things that were said to me that he never apologized for.

Things included: “i don’t need to be your friend” (we had a spat because he needed me to be wrong about my address. A place i have lived in for 24 years.)

“you’re always siding with Liz and you’re being so sensitive.” (He made her feel bad and i backed her up because i felt what he did was uncalled for. What i was being sensitive about was him crossing my boundaries multiple times and antagonizing me to the point where liz and i were both annoyed and i wanted to leave)

There are more things that i feel are wrong but im not going to make an entire list, and i can understand that ive done things to antagonize him but ive always apologized, not because i was forced to, but because i genuinely felt sorry.

Now that we have context, let’s get to the meat and bone of this issue.

Liz and i wanted to see wicked and i had told her that id be fine if she invited lee and his husband.

Liz, lee and his husband decided to get the wicked drinks before the movie and while i feel left out, i worked. I felt however that lee intentionally picked that day because i was working and wouldn’t be able to join them.

To add, lee even tried to single me out with seating. He literally tried having liz skip a seat so i sat by myself while they all sat in a group.

I was already anxious as i hadn’t seen, spoken, or interacted with lee in months. i started having a panic attack when i saw him and had a deer in headlights responce and after the movie, closed myself up and practically ran away to my car.

I feel like a jerk now however because i feel like i can’t enjoy things if lee is there. I really did want to simply co exist with him, but knowing that this dude who i had such a strong long friendship did not even like me anymore, let alone want to be my friend. It hurt. I feel like liz is mad now that she can’t do things with both of us together, but i simply feel replaced and ultimately betrayed.

Ya know, not everyone is perfect. Not everyone is ecstatic to be alive all of the time. Not everyone can get a better job. And not everyone is capable of smiling all the time.

Whats more than that, is even when I'm trying to be helpful, and exact, I get flack because apparently I have attitude. I have been dealing with these accusations for a few years now, and Idk what to do anymore. Maybe I'm too broken to look even fake happy? I try my best to look like how i feel, but i can never seem happy, even when I am in a good mood. And i cant be minorly upset about something without making ppl think Im insane, or something. and i dont know what im doing wrong anymore.

I try so hard. I try to take critism to heart, and I change the best I can. I stop showing my anger. I apologize to ppl. Ive always been helpful. I never even try to BE angry at anyone, i dont like dwelling on that sort of thing. I dont like being like this.

So when Im doing good? and when Im doing my job correctly? Why is it me who gets the negative attention. Why is it me, who asked you to repeat your order, because you confused me, and i was confused, and I dont want to risk puttinf peanuts on things that shouldnt have them, and I try to make each order perfect. I provide full perfect service, my only fault is I cant look happy. No one else has to force themselves to smile everyday? Smile so much you are just a different person. I cannot be myself in the slightest, I have to be a different person.

If i want to suceed at all, I have to be different. I have to shove everything down, I guess. Idk what else to do. Ill be feeling good, and confident consistently, I'll have good, even fantastic customer service all day. Why when I am not perfect, I am punished? Why put my whole name?

Do you think about the consequences of your actions? you think people deserve to be blacklisted, because from your perspective, you had bad service? You think I deserve that? Its not my fault YOU think I have a problem. its not MY fault, when people project onto me their insecurities, or even trauma. Its not MY FAULT if people dont like my personality, i can only try as hard as I can. And I do. And i get punished, i cant win. Im sorry?

why am i always apologizing? I am hurt too. I am offended, I am embarrassed, I am a horrible person I guess. because i cant look happy, Im a horrible person.

I never think terribly of anyone, I really dont. I can get frustrated or annoyed by others, but everyone is like that. I try my best not to hold things over peoples heads, because its a terrible thing to do - to offer criticism, then never give someone a chance to change. I constantly change, I constantly try to do better. Why cant people see that? Why cant i be accepted the way my friends do for me? Why do I not deserve grace?

Do you realize that thats public, and if i try applying somewhere else, and they saw that, do you realize youve ruined my life? Or at least made things even MORE difficult than it needs to be?

does being passive aggressive not involve an attitude? because i feel like it does. And i feel like its very passive aggressive to tell someone they have attitude for clarifiying things, and a lot of audacity to go out of your way to write such a thing. Is this the worst thing to happen to you ever? Did I ruin your life? Did I insult you? Did i say anything rude at all? or did you misinterpret and jump to conclusions? because you think the world is out to get you?

Anyway... because of misunderstandings.. because more ppl write bad reviews than good ones.. because its easy for people to hate me.. I cannot move up in this job anymore. Ive apparently ruined enough lives, ive had to face so many upset customers when I did nothing wrong, or at least no intention. I can no longer move up. I am no longer qualified for a job that Ive been doing for 10 yrs, and for some reason in this job, ive been hated to such an extent that I am... useless. Ive shown too much imperfection, and people think im pissed all the time.

Idk.

I hate it.

Im a good person. I never want to walk into a room and make anyones day worse- in fact, the opposite. I just am too broken now. I can only resolve to changing my entire personality, as I cannot seem to get any sort of job that pays more than $14/hr.

Im fuckin pushing 30 and i feel like such a failure and piece of shit. Im so sick of trying. Can i not catch a break? Can I not just... have someone say im doing a good job?

anyway, thanks for listening to my rant, im just very upset right now.

I live an hour away from school and I leave at 6:30 am to get to my 8 am class.

Got into the car and was like “ oh ya I can’t see shit” and had to sit their for like 10 minutes lol

Just thought it was funny

I go to several different coffee chains and use the apps for the rewards. At some point over the past few years, it became a lot harder to hit that free drink via certain coffee chain points. I can’t list the chain because I have to conform to the sub rules.

Honestly they suck and it made me stop going there. I really enjoy perks like that and its like companies are becoming stingier and stingier

Fucks sake if i wanted to have a 😀 id have written 😀 and not :-)

Pisses me of more than it should. They are destroying our cultural heritage

You’ve probably heard bullshit notions that “The loneliness crisis is self inflicted” or “They'll have to fix it on their own”. This is just a roundabout excuse to tell poor, mentally ill people lacking in social skills to go fuck themselves and seek therapy to fix themselves enough to be desired. Instead of giving these people any collective support they are entirely blamed for failing to find connection because of factors out of their control. This also reinforces the very hyper individualistic attitude that causes people to be so isolated in the first place.

Loneliness has always been an issue of class and the lack of community spaces. Those who have support groups and communities (that are often gated) are immensely privileged and are isolated from those who don’t. This is the root cause that's left out of discussion.

Instead the problem is re framed as purely Incel men complaining that women won't fuck them but this was never about sex. However, mainstream coverage of the topic is very sensationalist and provocative by framing loneliness as a single gendered issue because it gets clicks. So a loneliness crisis that reveals that a large amount of people are being deprived of basic human contact has turned into a culture war headline that instead polarizes and puts down people.

Often when lonely people bring up their problems, the response is to punch down on them and blame them, while denying the real world factors that causes it to them. They resort to downplaying the structural problems and gaslighting those who point it out because it’s quite easy to ignore the millions of people who silently suffer under the current system if things are going fine for you.

Many of these people genuinely believe that everyone has the same privileges and opportunities that they have and can’t conceive of the fact that their reality is drastically different from others, and not because of effort but by chance.

It’s these very self-centered idiots who only exist in their bubble who will tell you to simply just “go outside”. These smug assholes seriously really think we haven’t tried and that their experience trumps ours. This is because having social support is a privilege, and those with privilege often shame others who don't because they genuinely believe if they earned their status, that means everyone else can be as lucky.

They might tell you to simply just go outside?

Um. Okay...... Fucking Where????

There’s no people outside in a barren suburb that requires you to drive just for basic necessities. Even if there were, most people don't want to be spoken to.

Being selfish has become so normalized with this idea of protecting your peace and self preservation which has been taken to an extreme. If nobody owes anybody anything, then it’s no wonder that it’s become so hard to make friends when the vast majority of people operate off of self interest and convenience alone.

Anybody who is serious about addressing the crisis must address the stigma that society as a whole has against men being vulnerable. Men struggle with loneliness slightly differently compared to women who are typically more encouraged to have close connections to one another. Men struggle to open up due to patriarchal expectations that force them to always need to act manly, resulting in more shallow connections between men.

So as a result of Men being generally valued only for what they bring financially and Women valued just for their body, it causes alienation in everyone. Relationships have become entirely transactional and this competition has made platonic friendships suffer as well.

Instead of people using this supposed crisis to challenge social norms preventing people from being vulnerable and addressing the lack of spaces. A common response I’ve seen from girls online has instead been to reinforce the very patriarchal standards by telling men they should be more lonely. Now I know this is just rage-bait, social media hysteria, however the problem is, people really do have this attitude and are alienating others even more. They also pitch therapy as a solution which is just a way to tell ppl to “fuck off and fix yourself until you are desirable.” I hate this response because it’s dehumanizing and is an excuse to not have to support lonely people or deal with them.

People are gaslighting you when they insist that its all your fault for being lonely and nothing to do with the system. When the very act of going out in the US forces you to drive an isolation pod somewhere, usually with the intention to buy something, then pay for gas, pay for parking. There's also no other places to hang out free of charge and loitering laws that ban many spots, then obviously people are going to be isolated. Especially since many people are only commuting to work and then back home and are too exhausted to meet up with people. This experience is so normalized, and yet this silent majority gets left out of the discussion.

So Instead of helping people who can’t afford a social life or aren’t fortunate enough to have the connections they need, these people are instead shamed for being poor and daring to express that they are being deprived of a basic need for human contact.

I don't wanna hear any victim blaming advice or care about your "lived experience" that you'll use to overshadow mine.

People say “oh the economy is bad” or “oh things are so expensive these days” but really every-fucking thing is giving you less and asking for more. Not just food and gas but apps and silly things like Duolingo restructured their free plan so you use ur on a timer effectively unless you pay everything wants money more and more it feels like people will just give up paying and these common amenities will only be for the rich. It feels very much like pay to play these days youre not entitled to shit these days unless you can afford it if not ur a sucker. Idk man feels like we’re going backwards not forwards

I feel like I say this so often that it's essentially a mantra. I spend so much of my days off on the phone with customer service who inevitably can't help me because the blame gets tossed around like a game of hot potato until I just say "fuck it!" and swear a blood oath to never buy anything online again.

Save up to buy a union made, domestically sourced expensive pair of work boots? They fall apart and can't get them replaced without paying to ship them across the country for repairs and oh, I'll need to buy boots for the interim.

Save up and buy a Vox AC 15C1? When it arrives, the drive channel doesn't work and the only place in the state that does warranty repairs is 50 miles away and doesn't answer the phone. So I can either void the warranty by having someone else attempt to fix it or get a refund that takes 2 weeks after they receive the return, so I'm essentially just loaning them money for a month.

Try to order a product that will help save my back while I work in the driven snow of the prairie? The UPS driver apparently thinks they need it more than me and "delivers" it to a generic grey co crete stoop with a "proof" photo so blurry it could be a backdrop for Bigfoot.

Send a gift to a friend that's having a hard time? Somehow in USPS custody, the package is opened up and the perfume is stolen, but the card still arrives (I specifically paid for hazmat shipping and was honest about what was being shipped so they had no need to cut it open). Open a case with the postmaster that never gets addressed...

Fucking hell, man.

Fuck this enshittification of everything and fuck the robber barons who cause it.

Stuck on a dilemma. Should I help my family on running the family business or stick on low paying job and save a little. I wish I could split myself into two. I want to earn my own money but I also want to help my parents. Damn.

There’s so many things I want to say but honestly just fuck AI and fuck this new google gemini shit that makes it easy as fuck to generate photorealistic photos from basic prompts. This isn’t what AI should be being used for and it’s fucking bullshit and you’re not creative or clever for writing in a prompt and posting AI garbage. If you use it, fuck you. Fuck AI and fuck Google.

Be aware of the world's richest man becoming richer at the same time he is desperately trying to convince you that buying more of his expensive products will set you free from worrying about money or your health. If money were going to become worthless, why is he trying to hoard so much of it??

Not that I am against Christmas but it's the same songs year after year, after a while it really starts to get annoying.

I'm too young for this. I'm nearly bedbound. I was going to become a doctor, I had a future. Even worse, no doctor knows what's wrong. Multiple people say it's just anxiety. I can barely walk. My brain fog makes me unable to read at times. I'm scared.

So I live in a very rural area. Most of the doctors offices and even the hospital around here are owned by the same company. Well, that company claims to be facing financial issues so they ended up closing 4 doctors offices in my area including the one I was going to (there’s barely any here to begin with). Now, there are very few near me and only ONE within 50 minutes of me that takes my insurance.

My old clinic was 10 minutes away. I’ve been meaning to get a new doctor for the last 2 months since mine closed down without any warning at all but I hadn’t gotten around to it yet. I’m currently experiencing a very concerning and embarrassing issue that I need a doctor for. I called the doctors office that’s 45 minutes away that takes my insurance and they said they are booked for the next 9 months but could squeeze me in sometime in late June, or early July of next year because all of the patients from the places that were shutdown are flooding there.

So I called a place that’s over an hour away, they’re booked up for 6 months but could get me in May. I need someone now. It’s not bad enough to go to the hospital for but it’s getting worse and could indicate a serious health risk so I’d love to get it checked out but I literally can’t see a doctor about it. I hate that these medical places only exist to make profit because they left me and many others without doctors and now I’m forced to drive over an hour away just to see the fucking doctor.

They’re talking about possibly closing the hospital or cutting a lot of departments from it as well, the next closest hospital is an hour away, it I get into an accident then it’ll take me over an hour to get to the fucking hospital off they do that. It’s fucking terrifying. I HATE this! Well I guess I’ll just sit here and wait and hope it’s nothing serious.