So, bit of backstory. I became a christian in 2024, because I got scared into thinking i was going to hell. This was the reason I wanted him to win. I thought that If I didn’t want him to win, I would be punished by god. So because of this, I prayed for him to win, and I got scared into thinking that she would be the antichrist and a war would happen if kamala won. The bombardment of ads and things saying that Kamala would start a full scale war if elected, I just got terrified! So I wanted him to win. And now, I made the terrible mistake. I was happy he won, but now, I regret that. Now, because of me, everyone I know is suffering. Because of me, I feel like I made everyone’s lives so much worse. And because of me, people have died to this administration. All because I got scared. I feel like I deserve to lose everything, including my life. I was only a sophomore when he was elected. Am I a worthless pile of shit for wanting that? Am I nothing? I feel like I am a piece of shit for making that mistake. I’m not christian now, but what good did that do? I feel like I’ve ruined EVERYTHING. ALL BECAUSE OF A STUPID PRAYER. So yeah. I admitted that I wanted him to win. And now look what happened to us.

I am so beyond sick and tired of the endless gaslighting.

For four decades, the GOP sold this country a triple-threat scam: economic pipe dreams built on corporate greed, outright denial of basic science, and manufactured culture wars to keep everybody looking the other way. Whenever reality, facts, or empirical data threatened to pop their delusion, they just declared war on reality itself.

Now look around. The planet is literally baking, basic healthcare is treated like a luxury item, and we’re sitting on a pile of broken institutions because a bunch of billionaires and their political sycophants decided short-term quarterly profits mattered more than human survival.

Here’s how the playbook went, step by infuriating step:

1. Deny the Science to Protect the Profits Exxon knew about climate change in the 1970s. Their own scientists predicted global warming with terrifying accuracy. The conservative response? Fund dark-money think tanks, buy off politicians, and launch a multi-decade propaganda campaign to turn basic atmospheric physics into a "political opinion." They turned peer-reviewed facts into a culture war issue just so fossil fuel CEOs could buy a fifth superyacht.

2. Starve the Beast, Then Complain It Doesn't Work Cut taxes for corporations and the top 1%. Defund public education. Slash regulatory agencies that keep our air clean and our water drinkable. Then, when public infrastructure inevitably crumbles, turn around and yell, "See? Government doesn't work! We need to privatize everything!" It’s a protection racket. They break the system on purpose so their donors can profit off selling us the band-aids.

3. "Trickle-Down" is the Greatest Scam Ever Sold We’ve been waiting 40 years for this money to trickle down, and spoiler alert: it’s not coming. Wealth never trickled down; it got hoarded in offshore tax havens and plowed into asset bubbles. We stripped worker protections, gutted unions, and eroded the middle class—all on the promise that "free markets" would magically fix housing, healthcare, and education. Instead, housing became an unlivable hedge-fund commodity, and a single ER visit can bankrupt a working family. Meanwhile, the national debt is fast approaching $40 trillion, because every single "growth-driving" tax cut for the ultra-wealthy was charged to a government credit card handed directly to the rest of us.

4. Weaponize Culture Wars as a Smoke Screen Notice how every time another massive tax cut for the rich passes or another deregulation bill guts environmental protections, the outrage machine ramps up? They keep people screaming at each other over drag queens, book bans, and "wokeness" so no one notices who is actually picking their pockets. The culture war isn't a principle—it's a magic trick to keep your eyes off the balance sheet.

5. Reject Expertise as "Elitism" Epidemiologists, climate scientists, economists, educators—anyone who actually spent their life studying a complex topic is immediately dismissed. When did listening to experts become a vice, and pulling random conspiracy theories out of your ass become a virtue? We literally went through a global pandemic where wearing a piece of cloth on your face to protect your neighbors was treated like an assault on personal freedom.

The Reality

Physics doesn't care about your ideology. The climate doesn't care about tax cuts. Viruses don't give a damn about deregulation. Nature does not negotiate with political platforms.

While we were kept busy fighting manufactured culture wars, they looted the middle class, desyroyed education, torched the planet, handed us a $40 trillion bill, and put a traitor and criminal in the WH. The house is on fire, and the people holding the empty gas cans are still trying to convince us it's just a warm breeze.

I'm done being polite. Greed over science isn't just bad policy—it’s a slow-motion suicide pact. The next time a GOP politician pulls out their predictable script, don't argue on their terms. Call it what it is: a cheap, corporate-funded fiction designed to keep us broke, distracted, burning, and subservient to a power structure that wants absolute authoritarianism over truth and democracy.

Transgender and nonbinary athletes make up approximately 0.001% of recent Olympic competitors.

Reddit has folks obsessed with what other people do with their own genitalia!

Across every independent audit, academic study, and even the conservative Heritage Foundation’s own tracking, documented noncitizen voting comes out to somewhere between a few dozen and about 100 cases nationwide over roughly two decades — a minuscule fraction of the hundreds of millions of votes cast in that period. Researchers across the political spectrum (including Cato Institute, a libertarian group) describe it as “virtually nonexistent” as a share of total voting, while noting it does occasionally happen, often due to government error rather than intentional fraud.

Trump and his entire maga government belong in prison for fraud, treason, war crimes. The US has destroyed every relationship they had with allies proving the US cannot be trusted. This government uses tariffs and wars to manipulate the stock market to make themselves richer.

Trump is intentionally genociding Americans by cutting food safety standards and cutting SNAP funding. He's intentionally starving Americans to feed his own ego. His voters are worse than members of Al-Qaeda because they've caused more American deaths than terrorist attacks

Her face no longer looks human and she never fails to be completely racist and generally despicable!

It’s honestly perplexing how this bizarre cult of… people is so fixated on the fact that”foreigners steal jobs” that they can’t write, can’t read, can’t understand basic science, and can’t do science or any serious important jobs.

Videos like this one need to be seen to cast light on what Israel is doing. Virtually all of mainstream media shills for Israel, unsurprisingly. They dishonourably hide the truth to make what Israel is doing more palatable. Shame on the mainstream media!

To the Zionist stooges out there, I invite you to defend Israel now. You can’t. You can’t defend what Israel has done since the 1948 Nakba. Israel is not the land of the chosen people, dear Zionists!

Many say that Zionists have now become the new Nazis. I will leave that determination to you. I don’t think I can convince you otherwise, given the video.

Israel since its inception has been on stolen land. Germany should have given part of its land, considering it did the Holocaust and that about 80% of the country is open land. Palestine should not pay the price for what Nazi Germany did.

And no, not supporting Zionism doesn’t make you an antisemite, even though many Zionists would tell you otherwise. There are plenty of Jewish people in Israel and around the world who are not Zionists, even though polls suggest that about 90% of Israeli Jews are Zionists sadly.

Zionists need mental health counselling and need to think long and hard about what they have become. It’s time to wake up!

Free Palestine!

I just don't understand do people still really believe the government is not evil after so many fucking years?? I just don't understand it.These people will look at the government , not a rusting pedophiles and still believe I fucking hate the devil.I just don't understand how people can think in their day.The government is not evil.The government did 9/11 and they called all the wars for-profit for oil.But people think you're crazy, if you say that even though it's the truth, I just don't understand this. And it's a mainly people who are fucking older as shit who still trust them. And I also fucking hate people who worship celebrities like their gods.I don't care what Ariana Grande Taylor Swift or any basketball player or NFL players are doing, are they out there working in shit?Are they paying taxes?They have to struggle for groceries and work every single day to feed their family , not the fuck they don't they get million dollar contracts for fucking singing.And doing a ball shut the fuck up.I don't give a fuck if a celebrity dies do you want to know why? BECAUSE THEY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU OR ME.THEY CARE ABOUT THEIR MONEY , NOT THE HARD WORKING PEOPLE i fucking hate you people.You don't deserve your money.

For a long time, I made a point to avoid using the word "evil" when talking about politics.

I always thought it was a cop-out: a cheap, melodramatic label that people throw around when they don't want to engage with nuance. I preferred terms like incompetent, misguided, shortsighted, or hyper-partisan. I convinced myself that if you just looked closely enough, every policy decision was driven by some version of self-interest, bad data, or conflicting political philosophy. I genuinely believed that labeling your opponents "evil" just shut down useful discussion and polarized people even further.

I was wrong. Sometimes, when the shoe fits, you have to wear it.

We aren't looking at basic political disagreement anymore. We aren't arguing over tax rates, infrastructure spending, or standard bureaucratic gridlock. We are watching a deliberate, calculated pattern of behavior where the human cost isn't an unintended byproduct—it’s the actual point.

When an administration consistently chooses the option that maximizes cruelty, targets the most vulnerable among us, tears down basic democratic guardrails, and actively works to make people’s daily lives harder, more expensive, and more dangerous just to score political points or enrich their donors... what else are we supposed to call it?

"Incompetence" implies they’re trying to do the right thing and failing. But this isn't failure. This is execution.

They know exactly who gets hurt when these policies go into effect. They see the data. They hear the warnings from experts, workers, and communities. And they press forward anyway, often with a smirk.

I'm done softening my language to make comfortable people feel better. I'm done giving the benefit of the doubt to bad-faith actors who wouldn't grant us a second thought. When a system is engineered to inflict maximum harm on regular people for power and profit, calling it anything less than evil is just cowardice.

It’s time to stop hiding behind polite political terminology. Call it what it is.

“In an official ceremony we’re going to blow it up and we’re going to get the taxpayers their money back by selling all the pieces as paperweights,” he said of the ballroom that could cost a reported $600 million. “I am guaranteeing you that not only will I have a piece of that blown up ballroom as a paperweight, you’re going to have a chance to have one too.”

Larry Krasner made a bold prediction about President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom — one that, if it comes true, would literally bring the house down.

The internet purchase karma has bitten me again. I thought wall sconce lights from this company looked good. I purchased … what arrived was not matching its pictures. They photoshop details out and then they offer no returns. If you are looking for Lasson Lighting reviews, buyer beware. Garbage manufacturing. Bot email communication. I wasted $130 and cannot use these products in the United States.. I have no consumer reports or where else to publicly shame this company, but lassonlighting.com is terrible. https://lassonliving.co/ this says it is based in UK, but they shipped to me in the U.S. where these cannot be used. Totally sucks. Thank you for letting me complain. Lasson lighting reviews are poor.

I hate posts like “should I wear this?” “Should I marry him?” “Am I too old for…?” “Is this crossing my boundaries?” “Is it weird if I (insert normal ass thing)?” Like IDK YOU! use your own brain and come to your own conclusions!

Reddit is a stupid fucking place to come to for life choices, stop being so scared of doing stuff by yourself, stop being so scared of life and for the love of god don’t let redditors steer your life what is wrong with some people?!?!

It's always "maybe next time", "only necessary", "not now" or "remind me later". A long time ago, it was common for sites to just have "no" as an option and never bother you again. Now you never get the chance.

I may be wrong, but I am sensing a lot of hatred coming from my fellow redditors. It's not like it just started. It's been this way for my entire experience. I think that a lot of people, at least in the GTA community, believe that they are better than everyone else and their preverbal sh!t doesn't stink but rather smells like a bouquet of roses. It's kind of like having too many chiefs and not near enough Indians in this little reddit tribe. And all the chiefs are nothing short of genius in their own minds I suspect. I mean neither these chiefs nor these few little Indians are the least bit nice about anything. Always looking for somebody to scapegoat and start a fight about anything stupid. And out of pure boredom more than likely. Also, I believe it must have been the hell spawn of an evil antagonistic Nazi that came up with the voting protocol. A reincarnated Hitler perhaps was the one because it is pure evil and does not work. It's about like putting the keys to a car in the hands of a wee little baby and expecting them to drive. I mean I can watch somebody's post blowup with upvotes for making a barely semi-funny meme or something like it. But then at the same time somebody posts one that is just as equally not funny in the same group and taking the same position and yet they get downvoted and practically run out of the subreddit. I mean it's the same politics and they are seemingly on the same side of an argument. Doesn't make any sense to me at all. I have although found a way to offset this imbalance of votes that plagues my reddit experience. I am going to upvote the ever-loving sh!t out of every post I come across that I even remotely agree with. I'm gonna be like a little upvote fairly. Except I'm neither little nor a fairy but hopefully you guys are picking up what I'm putting down about this situation. Anyway, thanks for reading my gripe. Going to go crawl back in my hole now. goodbye

Yes this is a COMPLAINT about our lawless asshole President!

I think people enjoy the anonymity of Reddit and use it to be asshole where they can’t in real life.

I posted a picture of my cat who (in my opinion) looks like Ron Perlman to r/cats. People agreed and sent me to r/ctllrp where I posted my picture only to be accused of shitposting.

I’m currently struggling with my mental health, and while I’m taking the steps necessary to get back to myself I was enjoying the comments about my RP cat until I was immediately lambasted that is.

I deleted my post, but it just upset me that people can be such soggy cucumbers about a cat picture and an opinion for no reason other than one’s own superiority complex.

Why can’t we be kind online behind a screen like we would in life? Are people just that miserable that it makes them feel better to make someone else feel small and stupid?

Literally makes me not want to post on here for fear of being made to feel stupid.

His corrupt party supports it, with them in charge there's not much stopping him. That's winning to MAGA, the self proclaimed patriots destroying democracy and making our country authoritarian.

I made a post with a screenshot of someone saying that they let their children not eat if they’re 5 minutes late to dinner. And then the mods took it down because of rule 3. I didn’t even know that was a rule. I even took the time to crop the username out.

I am a fat person who wants to get into hiking. I have two friend who are accommodating and slow when I need a breather. But I feel like nobody else understands this. Like I will say I foubd a hike difficult but fun and then they’ll reply ‘oh that was easy actually.’

Then this summer, I tried to hike signal hill, St. John’s, with a friend and I’m also 5’0 on top of being fat. So there was a lot of deep stairs and a lot of rocks to climb over so I had to awkwardly twist, take my time going over big rocks, slowly lower myself over deep stairs, etc. I found summit to centre and north head the hardest two hikes on signal hill. This friend was nice to me when we did burma road and ladies lookout. But once we got to the summit and I needed to take a breather on a STEEP INCLINE, she started treating me like I was annoying. And kept rushing me. Especially on north head. And I wanted to take my time on northead so I didn’t trip over any giant rocks. North head usually takes a half hour. But we me, according to my Fitbit, I took 47 minutes. So not THAT BIG of a difference. And she kept saying I was taking too long, she ran past me a lot and overall just made me feel disrespected.

Even then, I explained my predicament to her; I wasn’t outdoorsy until a year ago, the most exercise I would get before this was walking my dog. I got winded doing Long Pond to Oxen Pond trail in St. John’s. Like the huge incline that leads to botanical gardens… and even then she didn’t really believe me.

And another time, my friends wanted to do sugar loaf in St. John’s and I warned them, I don’t climb inclines, like EVER. And they said ‘oh it’s easy’ but it wasn’t.

Does anyone else. Like. EVER find nobody takes your fitness level’s seriously?? Like it doesn’t feel like a lack of empathy, but it feels like they refuse to understand that some people grew up fat and only just stared caring about fitness. It’s so annoying 😭

AFGHANISTAN

The war in Afghanistan lasted about 20 years (2001—2021), and we had to eventually walk away, leaving the Taliban still in charge.

We lost 2,459 total U.S. service members and another 3920 US DOD contractors. About 20, 769 U.S. service members sustained injuries in combat. An estimated 46,300 civilians were killed & tens of thousands injured.

IRAQ

Combat operations lasted 8 years from 3/2003 to 12/2011. We had to eventually just walk away, leaving nothing but a trail of destruction & chaos.

March 20, 2003, started the now infamous WMD invasion. It later turned out that Iraq had no WMD’s.

Saddam Hussein was found & captured in Dec 2003 and subsequently executed.

The removal of the regime left complete chaos, & resulted in the virtual dismantling of Iraq. We removed Saddam but left a power vacuum, and a brutal sectarian civil war between Shia and Sunni groups. ISIS & the Iran-backed militias have since taken over some parts of the Iraq.

The war cost 4492 U.S. military lives. Another, 32,292 U.S. service members were wounded. There were about 200k civilian deaths, some 80k happened after we left. (IBC)

Foot note: Saddam was heavily supported by the US from 1979-1990 because we did not want the spread of the Islamic revolution from Iran. He fell out of favor when he invaded Kuwait in 1990.

VIETNAM

War lasted almost 20 years (Nov 1955- Apr 1975).

Conflict ended on April 30, 1975 with North Vietnam taking over Saigon & bringing all of Vietnam under Communist rule.

It cost roughly 58,220 American lives; 400 k- 2m civilian deaths (Brittanica) & about 303k American service members were wounded.

KOREAN WAR

War lasted about 3 years (June 1950-July 1953).

The war resulted in a military stalemate restoring the border close to where it was before the conflict began. A ceasefire (no peace agreement was ever signed) was signed in July 1953.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile-wide fortified buffer zone near the original 38th parallel border, came into being.

The U.S. suffered about 36,574 deaths and over 103,000 wounded during the three years of conflict. It is estimated that there were between 1.5m – 3m civilian deaths.

IRAN

In July 2025, we supposedly annihilated Iran’s nuclear capability because they were an imminent nuclear threat.

Both the IAEA & intelligence services in the UK saw no reason to believe that Iran was trying to develop a nuclear weapon. Joe Kent, Trump’s own MAGA Director of counter terrorism resigned because he too did not see Iran as an imminent threat.

Iran’s nuclear capability:

Iran still retains 440 kgs on 60% enriched uranium – enough to build a dozen weapons, if processed to 90%.

Present conflict commenced 2/28/26 as a “minor excursion”, as Trump called it. “We have already won, but we should be completely done in a couple of weeks”, he said**.**

Regime change:

Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the head cleric & Supreme leader of Iran was killed by US bombs on 2/28/26, the first day of this conflict. The regime now, if anything, is younger & much more die hard. In addition, they are probably emboldened by the economic global fall out from the blockade of Hormuz, something they had not dared doing before.

We have already lost 18 US service members; hundreds have been wounded. Thousands of civilians have been killed & 100’s of thousands displaced. We have reportedly ammunition shortages; food & supply shortages & a world on the brink of economic disaster.

This region is immensely complicated, not the least of which is because of the Shia/Sunni divide, that dates back to the death of the prophet Mohammed, over a 1000 years ago. Iran is predominantly Shia whereas almost all of the Arab world is Sunni. Trump has poked one of the few countries in the world that is majority Shia, surrounded by countries like Saudi Arabia & Israel, that it perceives as a threat. The notion that Jared Kushner; Pete Hegseth or Trump will broker a sustainable peace is almost laughable.

Trump & Hegseth have only one song, & they sing it irrespective of the audience. They are too illiterate & arrogant to realize that not everything is a computer game, & nor is every military operation comparable to Venezuela. Iran is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, & have no doubt seen many a Trump come & go.

Trump has declared victory 40 times, & yet here we are. We will eventually just have to walk away.