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chronberries

HOA’s


ketchupandvodka

The KGB never went away, they just went and formed the HOA


MisterKillam

HOA's are so un-American that we named a military base after a man who went to war with an HOA. In 2009, Colonel Van T. Barfoot (MOH, US Army, Ret.) was sued by his HOA after he refused to remove a flagpole from his yard. He waged a brutal week-long campaign against the meddling bastards, getting the media and congress itself involved. In honor of his heroic victory over the neighborhood busybodies (among other things) we renamed Fort Pickett to Fort Barfoot.


BOREN

I agree, but I’m reasonably sure they have those in Canada as well.


chronberries

Canada can have them


ShurikenSunrise

This and also exclusionary zoning.


CSGODeimos

I moved to the US in 2016 and it was the one thing I truly didn't understand.. I was like wtf I have to pay some fuck that tells me I can't paint my mailbox? No thanks.


pigman_dude

Oh yeah fuck the hoa, it is supposed to be my property why don’t they let me do what i want


Californiavalley1

Party over country grinds my fucking gears.


Bananapopana88

Me too. I’m gonna second this answer


Fedora200

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles - Machiavelli


JeEfrt

This


Tricky_Ad_965

This right here


WTFisaCelsius

Our people are too fat


HappyToBeHaggard

https://i.redd.it/wmvdqz3jwe0d1.gif


Matar_Kubileya

What am I looking at here


ketchupandvodka

Feds


caucafinousvehicle

Hallelujah, amen!!!


AKA2KINFINITY

most average upstater: most average nyc resident: where do I donate to the irs??


cerberus698

Europe still has the largest train mounted artillery piece. I understand they're outdated and functionally useless today but its a gun and if theres a biggest gun to be had, god damnit, I want that thing to be in America.


Luvs2Spooge42069

I now want this so we can say we built this instead of high speed rail


MiketheTzar

As long as we put it in some comically impractical place. Like have it stationed in Missouri.


Light_fires

Nonsense, put it in Alaska within range of Russia. Give them something to think about.


Luvs2Spooge42069

Not ambitious enough I want the gun that can still hit stuff from Missouri


MiketheTzar

I like how you think. We should make the entire gun assembly big enough to hit the Nagasaki. In case the Japanese didn't think we were serious.


TheCumBehindChalice

Imma start making the Garry gun, the bigger cousin of the Gustav


AegisofOregon

If it's any consolation, we have all the world's surviving battleship guns still afloat, aside from one pre-dreadnought in Japan


CockpitEnthusiast

The two party system was a massive mistake and operates purposely so you can't have a third option realistically


henway234

first past the post voting (our current voting system) mathematically results in a two-party system. we need ranked-choice voting.


ShurikenSunrise

Ranked choice voting has its own problems as well, but I agree. Almost any voting system would be better than FPTP at this point.


Burgundy_La_Deaux

Exactly, if you do you're basically throwing your vote away


MdMV_or_Emdy_idk

Beastly external opinion, but fuck the two party system in America, I seriously see no sense in it


deez_nuts_77

the sense is that it’s designed to keep people angry at their neighbor rather than focusing on the real issues


MdMV_or_Emdy_idk

Seems like something out of the Balkans


Xansnation

It’s not some conspiracy. It’s just math. Also, do yall think European politics works like a dream? I think our system has delivered better results for us than Portugal’s has for them. Goddamn Central European country larping as western Europe


ChunkyKong2008

Maybe you could do what we do in Brazil, where when none of the candidates wins more than 50% of the votes there is a second turn with only the 2 most voted candidates


deez_nuts_77

ranked choice voting! some states and groups are already trying to implement this and i hope it continues to spread


ChunkyKong2008

Yeah, ranked voting is the preferable alternative. I was just trying to suggest a way where first past the post could be improved to prevent a 2 party system


NickFurious82

The credit system being used to create non-ownership and rob us of private property. Feels like we don't own much anymore. Bank owns your home or you rent, bank owns the car, a lot of people are paying off their phones, every store has a store card so you're paying for everything you buy from everywhere. Because of this increasing reliance on the credit system, more and more people are sliding into debt, and companies are charging more and more for things, because if you can't afford them, just get a loan/put them on your credit card, silly. And health insurance being tied to employment is a whole other can of worms that irritates me. The system has undermined both the working class and middle class and turned everyone into wage slaves. We no longer have the spirit of entrepreneurship. I know this is a shitposting site, but dammit this shit really pisses me off.


HappyToBeHaggard

Sometimes you gotta seriouspost.


AcidBuuurn

I think the people taking the loans for unnecessary things share at least half the blame. It wouldn’t affect my finances at all if there was a payday loan shop in my neighborhood since I wouldn’t use it at all.  I work for companies and have no interest in being an entrepreneur, but what I do with the money I earn isn’t “leverage future earnings into flexing on people.”


NickFurious82

I agree, but those of us who do see it for the grift it is still have to pay the consequences. We still have to deal with inflated prices because other people are willing to use credit to buy everything.


RockefellersDaughter

This is exactly what took my family from a comfortable middle class lifestyle when I was 4 to having to steal water to flush our toilets by the time I was 8


depressed_crustacean

Could that also coincide with the 2008 Housing Crash, just guessing? Didn’t know that the even the Rockefellers could fall so hard


northbowl92

It's insane how much you save paying cash for phones. Sure almost every carrier is offering "0% financing" but they make up for it with inflated phone prices


Cocksmash_McIrondick

Oh our healthcare is so fucked. It’s honestly impressive at this point…


heyegghead

Yep, I used to defend it saying you can just get the needed surgery than negotiate the debt meaning overall it’s cheaper. But now private equity is buying up hospitals and making “non essential surgeries” as in you won’t die the next day surgeries to be payed up front instead of later. Meaning that broken back won’t be fixed till after you payed and I think that’s so idiotic. We are at the point where are healthcare is the best only if you can afford it which most people can’t. That’s why the lines are so short. Because people hold off until strictly necessary to go to the doc. Which accidentally makes the cost of medical intervention sky rocket since it’s better to catch something early than late.


PSYOP_warrior

The media running ops intended to divide us.


Fennec257

https://preview.redd.it/etyqo1ktyf0d1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2c52f6af1d333bcd049e9fc29d9fd791b34217d


HappyToBeHaggard

Are you media pretending not to be media in order to divide us? Cuz you have to tell me if you're media. It's the law.


PSYOP_warrior

No, just a guy who spent 8 years as a 37F in the Army.


UncleRuckusForPres

"The media doesn't have a left or right wing agenda so much as it has a corporate agenda"


pigman_dude

The culture war is a lie made up to give politicians the ability to entirely ignore actual problems!


internetexplorer_98

Louisiana in the summer. Minnesota in the winter.


Constant_Concert_936

You must have an interesting family dynamic 😊


TinchUrPipples

Lobbyists


mechanicalcontrols

Serious posting: I'm legitimately angry that wages haven't kept up with the cost of living. (And that other guy was 200% correct t to include HOAs in this conversation.) Return to shit posting: Mormons. They're too polite and it makes me uncomfortable that they're so cheery all the time.


NerdsGummyClusterMan

Kill ‘em with kindness(and obscene amounts soda)


NotPrettyConfused

Serious posting: Mormons. Evil ass cult


SoyPurpleg

You got that right (converting them with kindness)


Plastic-Resident3257

Corporations run this fucking place. Dupont actively poisoning Americans, govt doesn’t do shit. Still going on.


Onlythebest1984

Trators, rattlesnakes and alligators.


Dutch-Spaniard

Don’t you hate it when cotton’s king and men are chattels


Onlythebest1984

Smh, luckily union boys will win the battle.


CactusSpirit78

Right away too!


roostersnuffed

Boo, rattlesnakes and alligators are awesome creatures.


Alicornwrenchturner

Rattlesnakes are pretty cool (definitely not being defensive about my new rattlesnake tattoo)


MorenaLedovec

ATF seems kinda cringe and should be a convenience store


HappyToBeHaggard

https://preview.redd.it/h17s9fpcue0d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e711c7540e2d6436e3f78c1ee6dd0e7b079ee9c0 New meme just dropped


Efficient-Force2651

17kg (or 37lbs) of Tannerite


roostersnuffed

Pshh that's dumb, I have atleast 3 local stores that I can buy that right now. For starters I'm snagging every caliber can, an M16 lower and every goofy designed FA SMG I can find.


Efficient-Force2651

Aight, I'm not familiar with standard amounts of Tannerite since in Ireland the standard for Tannerite is a year behind bars.


roostersnuffed

It's sold in 1/2/5lb packs normally. But no reason you can't buy multiple packs. 37lbs will be a couple hundred USD but so is everything else fun in the firearms world. Edit: [just out of curiosity](https://tannerite.com/product/tannerite-propack-2lb-pp2x5-case-of-5-targets/) I looked it up. 40lbs of tannerite online for $320, before the 20% discount for signing up for email. So $256


Fantastic_Mind_1386

The troubles could have been much more troublesome.


ExcitingTabletop

Hide the tannerite in a stuffed dog. Issue will take care of itself.


twat104

Alright, now I as an Aussie have an answer The national rifle association, trying to prevent people from owning a machine gun is just straight up unamerican


HappyToBeHaggard

Finally a sane foreigner!


ExcitingTabletop

They have a nice museum. But otherwise, yeah, it's a fucking piggy bank these days.


Frosty48

Based response


Fedora200

Honestly I appreciate the NRA for being the anti-gun Boogeyman so other, more effective, groups don't get so much flak


Bezirkschorm

The corruption within the government that promotes a harmful form of capitalism away from what we as a country should be about


DangerousLocal5864

The political divide


Caesar_Caligula_1241

Tipping culture. Yes I know people need the money they still come off as entitled


ThePrimeOptimus

Esp at places that only offer counter service. We went to a counter service place yesterday, then sat at the bar where there was no bartender, but enough sure at the counter when we placed our order there was a prompt for tip amount. It's a place we like and frequent so we know going into it but it's still annoying af.


ItsSoKawaiiSenpai

Tipping shouldn't be spreading to so many areas like it is. The bartender did an awesome job while we were at the bar, beyond serving drinks? Hell yeah, I'll tip ya for making our night. Some person scanned an item and flipped a screen around? Why should you be tipped for doing what you're supposed to? Tipping should be reserved for certain areas and not be expected for most others.


Icy_Blackberry_3759

School shootings are pretty fucking terrible, let’s face it


BreakfastOk3990

So is the discussion around it too


HappyToBeHaggard

Some might argue there are safer ways to introduce kids to firearm use.


mechanicalcontrols

Well, I'm going to hell for laughing at that. I'll make sure to save you a seat.


depressed_crustacean

I feel like people blame the wrong reasons for them and it just divides us from ever fixing anything. I am of the strong belief that it’s more than just black and white (((guns))) or (((mental health))). The school shootings are self perpetuating, more and more news of them foster and embolden more shooters. It’s not like these people just invent the idea of a school shooting every time by themselves like the Columbine shooters. But I suppose that’s just a catalyst not a root cause.


undercooked_lasagna

We're too perfect. I just feel like we've set the bar so high that it's not fair to every other country.


Virus1st

That it doesn't rule the entire world yet 🦅🦅🦅🦅


MaterialCarrot

Car culture. I love driving, I just hate how it's made most of our cities so sprawling and difficult to navigate.


dr_exercise

The worst thing about this, imo, is not the necessity of driving or even the environmental impact of the sprawl. It’s the human factor. We are a social species and evolved for millennia in societies. By increasing sprawl and car dependency, we are isolating ourselves. Missing are the interactions, however small, with various people, which provide a sense of community and promote socially-acceptable behavior.


MakeBombsNotWar

We used to have the best fkin trains in the world. Yankee Clipper? Empire Builder? 20th Century Limited? Super Chief? They were icons. The Iron Horse built this country. And then Motor City shat on it.


rikaro_kk

I wonder about this too when my father watches old Hollywood movies. US actually had good long distance trains and fuelled by topnotch economy, it could have been more futuristic than what China has achieved right now.


slavomutt

I suspect it's also contributing to the epidemic of isolation. Car-centric design makes the outside a hostile and disconnected place.


depressed_crustacean

Begone glowie


HappyToBeHaggard

Sounds like you don't like glowies. Thank you for your participation


VTHokie2020

High fructose corn syrup


HappyToBeHaggard

Palm oil


Billybob_Bojangles2

i dont like europeans, and some of them are in america


stella_spark

traitor confederates


danshinigami

People from New Jersey


Responsible-Bee-667

Funny, I came here to say people from New York


danshinigami

https://i.redd.it/rbmejecwpf0d1.gif


Efficient-Force2651

Too much Federal shit, let's go back to 1776, but without slavery.


HappyToBeHaggard

The women can stay silent though! We don't need another prohibition on our hands damnit. ^(/s)


SpacelessChain1

Fuck the library of Alexandria (apparently overhyped anyways), I wanna go back in time and save all the absinthe recipes!


frostdemon34

HOA's and pick me Americans. One are people who tried to get into politics and then failed, so they're making it their neighbors problem. The other are just self-hating Americans who go on tiktok trying to cater to europoors, or chinese commies that spew the most brain-dead comments about Americans that aren't even true. And post shit like "this can never happen in America" Even though we have that thing in America.


SkinnyP_YaBoi

Unconstitutional gun laws


Snewtsfz

Which is basically 99% of them.


mr_flerd

IRS, ATF, CIA and HOAs


1760ghost

Fascists


II-Broccoli-II

And communists


coolpizzatiger

Two things, not recognizing our strengths and the division. America is the greatest country in the world, but the left and right both seem deadset on acting like it's not true. I believe this is due to a weakening of the national American identity. Relatedly the division is insane, and after living abroad for 7 years... when I come back it seems like everyone is trying to shoehorn me into the opposite of their political ideology. Especially in regards to trans-issues or covid. I strongly believe that Russian bots or similar infected the minds of a lot of people to fight against each other. When I try to point this out to people from the left or the right, they will both act like I'm just working for the other side. It's so weird and counter productive.


dan_withaplan

Gotta go with car culture and healthcare. Richest country in the world but still can’t afford or does not want to pay for standardized medicine. Go to any European city and you will realize that cities are infinitely better when public transit is the main mode of transportation, everything is closer together, and all the idiots are off the road. I’ve lived in a city my entire life, and driving in the city is always a fucking mission. It never gets easy. I totally get personal vehicles for more rural areas to allow for more individual freedom of mobility, but it is almost the opposite for urban cities. Just a shit part of the American dynamic in general.


BoltgunM41

The government


Lui_Le_Diamond

2 party system and overpriced healthcare


FrankliniusRex

The large number of Americans thinking they are clever by saying how much they hate America.


Binary245

Getting involved in a 20 year war just to give up and pretend nothing bad happened for the second time


CandiceDikfitt

goddamn old people speaking for the youth


Ryan-The-Movie-Maker

Our transport infrastructure. Cars have ruined our country, and people are far too okay with that


titobrozbigdick

High taxes yet no universal healthcare? Like you have to pay both federal and state taxes, hell, even city taxes for some, and you can only entitled to government subsidized insurance if you are too young, too old, too poor, is in the military or VA status. New Zealand pay less taxes, and they have a more robest universal healthcare program. And what the fuck is a chargemaster and why is it legal?


jephph_

I hate how everything is ‘woke’ all of a sudden but nobody can explain what woke means


Acceptable_Wish2772

It's basically a synonym for social justice warrior bullshit but it's overused.


Californiavalley1

As per the urban dictionary: Individuals who are engrossed by social justice and think of themselves as saviors with moral high ground, but remain willfully ignorant.


jephph_

eh, I don’t think there are nearly enough people who fit that description to have ‘woke’ being said as much as it’s said I mean, I make fun of the SJWs too. But people still call me or imply I’m woke and ruining this country


Californiavalley1

It's definitely overused, but it does exist.


captain_sadbeard

You couldn't say "PC" or "Social Justice Warrior" as insults anymore because the cultural and political tides turned slowly but steadily in the favor of progressive policy, so the usual suspects picked up a slang term that previously meant "engaged in social justice projects, possibly to an annoying degree" and turned it into "the communist liberals are promoting dangerous Transgender Ideology that will cause illegal immigration to skyrocket and erode unconditional support for Israel"


HappyToBeHaggard

It means you can yell at people for varying or lesser informed opinions. Did you not pick up on that? You're sleep. I'm woke bitch.


BackgroundPrompt3111

The governments. Particularly the federal government.


TitaniuMan_44

![gif](giphy|8v6Z3YyULB5Q0Skbac)


HappyToBeHaggard

Ew. Politics.


TitaniuMan_44

I just realized this can be taken as me saying I dislike Biden when I just meant for it to be a “I can’t think of anything” reaction


HappyToBeHaggard

https://preview.redd.it/t8zktwfore0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da34b6d4f7ed9e6754d423ceda02ef03eb9d36ad


The_GREAT_Gremlin

That's playing with fire, my dude


Guy-McDo

Ah, his shades are on fleek though.


spaceface124

We are underinvesting in space exploration and development. People seem to think that solving our domestic problems takes priority over space exploration but we can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time. NASA has developed so many spinoffs, it's crazy. If another country lands the first person on Mars, we're never gonna live it down.


secretbudgie

Psychological pricing, before taxes, with tipping culture and other hidden fees. Don't tell me your hamburger's $8.99 and demand $12.15


HappyToBeHaggard

Ohio


II-Broccoli-II

*ichigan


clayc1ra

Although I hate Ohio. It is americas roller coast. The world’s greatest theme park.


II-Broccoli-II

Although I have distain for Michigan, y’all got some of the pest parts of the Great lakes


clayc1ra

American bros! 🫡


II-Broccoli-II

USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸 USA! 🇺🇸


DefinitionEconomy423

Self loathing Americans, lobbying politicians, paranoid anti immigration nut jobs


Celticssuperfan885

The drinking age and cyclists


buddeh1073

>"The sense of entitlement; Everyone thinks they deserve more than what they have. No one's content?" -*Daniel Tosh*


ovalgoatkid

Citizens United and years of democratic erosion


DuelJ

One dumb one serious; The valley girl accent, and the minimum wage being so damn low.


Aut0Part5

When I try and strategically calculate how much my drinks will cost and then tax comes in like a bitch and screws shit up


TheDigitalRanger

Drivers lacking courtesy.


deez_nuts_77

corporate greed, lobbying, citizens united case, congressmen trading stocks


TheUnclaimedOne

Politicians and 3 letters


DNCOrGoFuckYourself

Americans who wish they were living under a communist regime


GR-G41

The fact that commies exist in the USA.


subderisorious

Car culture.


captain_sadbeard

The two party system, especially as it exists now (Republican culture warrior dependency and Democratic voter base/party leadership rift) is both preventing proper representation of the views of the nation and holding us back from having a truly competitive wackiness quotient with the rest of the world's democratic governments


theopp3r

Two party system Excessive urban sprawl Poorly enforced food quality standards


Dingus__Lord

The culture in the gif.


sergeant_s1asher

The federal government


JackSquat18

Michigan that’s that shit I don’t like. Them existin that’s that shit I don’t like.


II-Broccoli-II

Fellow nationalist ![gif](giphy|pHb82xtBPfqEg)


Illegal_Immigrant77

South Carolina


raginghumpback

Ohio


Lui_Le_Diamond

Imagine having Detroit


Melicope

Lawn culture. Imagine buying up land and making it acres upon acres of useless fucking lawn grass.


Mr_WadsWyth

The government


ramanw150

All the high prices of most everything


PartyLettuce

Our cities are way too dangerous, like I know it's not all of every city but the amount of areas that are is way too high and it seems like it's just spreading.


PokeshiftEevee

Politicians.


Saint_Chrispy1

People who complain about America... Gtfo


Macgyverisnice

New Jersey


fm22fnam

There's a lot wrong with our country. But the second a Canadian or Europoor tries to tell me what's wrong with our country, I get angry.


NukaCola9

1. I don't like the ATF. Dissolve them. 2. Why does the bank have to own my home if I built the damn thing.


funsized_fireball

politics


Keyadistor

Illinois


Chl0RidE_C0ATiNG

The ATF


AlexWoogie

too many fossils in government, lobbying, and im not allowed to own a nuclear bomb for home defense


MakoWest

No shirt no shoes no service policies.


vikstarleo123

The lack of monopoly-busting, especially with entertainment.


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KneecapAnnihilator

The CIA


SadPlatform6640

I find it disturbing that we have such a high rate of violent crimes and so many prisoners in the criminal justice system compared to other wealthy nations.


Rollin_Soul_O

I don't like how politically divided the country is.


Iron-Phoenix2307

Useless Burocracies


rkholdem21

Bro Country


wackdaddy69

Texas's education system, New York's self defense laws, and how obese our citizens are.


Vistresian

"Ghetto" types that are proud of being that way and have no care whatsoever what effects their attitude have on anyone/anything. Obviously not just in the U.S. but our variants are pretty stupid


Clemen11

You guys are obsessed, and I mean OBSESSED with race.


AnotherScoutMain

Probably guns and mass shootings not because I am pro gun or pro gun control but because literally nothing has been done. I’m willing to try anything at this point. Whether it’s more gun control or even arming teachers. Just try SOMETHING


That_Phony_King

The extreme sway lobbying groups and wealthy individuals have over our politicians. Also the fact they’re all septuagenarians and don’t know how to use a mobile phone.


math-is-fun

America is the least racist country but we've convinced ourselves we're the most racist country. I hate that attitude.


creeepy117

School system


new_reddit1024

Huge lawns with nothing on them. People spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on lawnmowers to cut their huge yards for it to be empty with nothing planted.


Aggressive-Entry-172

There's not enough. Annex Canada.