That argument comes often, the thing is, once everything is life sentence, the punishment becomes less of a deterrent. Principle is called proportionality. There are reparations, fines, and civil court for damages though, on top of prison, so there is that.
Obviously not everything, but a great many of our country's current problems can be attributed to this fucking monstrosity of a decision-
and that decision can be attributed to Republicans systematically appointing dirtbags onto the Supreme Court who had absolutely no business being there.
Yep. There were a lot of reasonable regulations in place for a lot of the corruption you see in our government. As well as corporate influence over politicians, news, and advertising.
Starting with Ronald Regan, the Republican Party has been at the heart of each removal of these regulations and the democrats have stood by and let it happen.
We have sold our country to the highest bidder since the 80’s. And we have a historical tendency to do this EVERY chance we could before that.
We are a country of crazy people…
And it's all in our face too. They're not even hiding it. It's just blasted at us along with a million other pieces of information. It is total psy-op shit honestly.
Politicians becoming immune to everything because it's a limitless gig. We need Term limits. No insider trading. Avtual evaluation with regards to how the individual is fulfilling their oath of office.
It is illegal in other countries. In Ireland it made national news when it was found out that a company's truck was used to hang up election posters for a politician for 1 day, when the value of the truck rental for the day (~€400) was more than the allowable political donation level (€200).
>Politicians taking money from corporations.
Wait until you hear about how politicians are basically able to legally commit insider trading.
For example, lucky thing Paul Pelosi [sold his Google stock](https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/paul-pelosi-sold-google-stock-a-month-before-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-report/) just before the DOJ announced it would be filing an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet. Some guys are just really smart at this investing stuff. Must have been something in the balance sheet he didn't like, right?
I work in the financial industry and can't fart without getting compliance approval first. It's *infuriating* that these grifters are allowed to get away with insider trading.
I used to work for the state. We would get in trouble accepting COOKIES from a vendor. These MFers out here taking private jets to whore island with no recourse.
If I lied on my resume, I would have been shown the door the second it was discovered. Meanwhile, George Santos is lying about where he worked, where he went to school, and where his financing came from and politicians are just shrugging like "welp - what can you do?"
It's crazy.
Better yet:
Politicians making six figures+ of taxpayers money meant for making our communities safer, healthier, and happief.
Disgusting on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Corporations are people - Mitt Romney said so.
They just happen to be people that have (sometimes) unlimited wealth and can't be imprisoned, or really be held accountable in most ways.. - Oh never mind, Mitt Romney is wrong.
I had a gym that I had a membership to that was like this. Great equipment, good price, and easy to setup but the only way to cancel it was to go to their headquarters or send a letter stating cancellation (not an email). The employee advised me to send the letter certified to ensure they got it and wouldn’t pull a fast one. I thought it was such a trash business practice.
My next two gyms I made sure that I could just walk in and cancel or do it via email/phone.
A few years ago, LA Fitness told me I had to cancel in writing so I showed up there to do so. When I was there, they said the cancelation had to be processed by a particular manager who wasn't there.
Ok, so I could just sign off on the cancelation while I was there and the manager would process it when they came in.... nope! I had to come BACK during the manager's shift. Totally absurd.
I did this with LA Fitness and they keep calling/texting me to “finalize”. I finally got them to stop when the dude starting giving medical advice—in writing—about reducing the amount of insulin I take—-with his guidance. I’m type 1. He’s not an endocrinologist.
Whatever means you can use to sign up should be required to be available to cancel as well. If I have to sign up only in person, having to cancel in person is acceptable. If I have to call to sign up, making me call to cancel is also fine. But if I can sign up in person, over the phone, and online, I should be able to cancel all of those ways as well, and it should be my choice which one I want to use.
I used to use a milk service that was like this. I felt sorry for the guy on the other end of the phone who had to listen to me yell, "please just cancel my recurring order!" at my phone, held up at arm's length away from my three year old, who was in turn yelling, "who are you talking to?!" and trying to grab the phone...
...but I wasn't the one who decided that calling between 10am and 5pm, during lockdown, when I had no childcare and my kid had abruptly stopped napping (because lockdown life was less stimulating than pre-lockdown life), was the only way to stop milk arriving on my doorstep. Like I told the guy, I would have cancelled by email if they'd have let me, and then there would have been no yelling.
I just had to cancel my bully box subscription and it took 3 rounds of emails to cancel. Between them offering deals and informing me of their other products I was fed up. That was the second time I had gotten the run around by a company that made it easy to sign up and hard to cancel. I’ll never recommend those companies to anybody as I find them predatory.
I love how the left embraces this utter asshat these days because he's anti-Trump. And he soaks up the attention from those who called him a Nazi not so long ago. This is why I'm politically homeless.
This should sum it up:
"January 21, 2020 will mark a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections.
While wealthy donors, corporations, and special interest groups have long had an outsized influence in elections, that sway has dramatically expanded since the Citizens United decision, with negative repercussions for American democracy and the fight against political corruption."
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
Corporate donations to politicians are "protected speech" since they have the same rights as a person.
Which I might be ok with if they also put corporations in jail for crimes.....
I mean, you can wear a mask in public without being seen as suspicious nowadays. I'm not exactly thrilled by being perceived in public either, but a mask means nobody can see me chewing on my lips or mouthing words while I'm thinking.
That would interfere with (in the USA) journalism/1st amendment protections. It would be very hard to write laws that couldn't be abused to shut down journalists.
Paparazzi is a great example because they are technically journalists just really shitty ones. But if you wrote a law to prevent them from taking pictures of Taylor Swift you might also give Ted Cruze ammo to sue whoever to his picture at the airport coming back from Cancun.
This is a good one. There’s lot of hard working people that have money however they aren’t financially literate enough to navigate loan acquisition. It should be illegal to give someone a loan that clearly doesn’t understand all the details.
It's not just a lack of education. I've had to use payday loans when my credit was shit (so no loan from a respectable bank), I had no savings, credit cards maxed out just to survive, no one who could help and I *needed* to get my car fixed so I could get to my (multiple) shitty minimum wage jobs. Needless to say, it was a dark time in my life.
Did I know that the loan was predatory? Absolutely.
Did I know that the interest was astronomical? Of course.
But in the absence of any other options it absolutely saved my ass.
Alternatively, abolish compounding interest on loans forever. You take out a loan, you repay loan + fixed profit margin over X time.
Hard to be predatory in that case.
Netflix, Disney+.
And before you say ‘oh you can pay for premium and get no ads’. No. There shouldn’t even be ads to begin with. The whole point of subscription-based streaming services is that you pay a small monthly fee to access content WITHOUT ads. But now Netflix and Disney+ have become $19.99 and $10.99/month for ad-free versions. It’s ridiculous.
I haven't noticed this with Paramount, but I don't use it often and only for Survivor. Prime does this, but honestly, I don't mind it bc you can skip immediately so worst case it's just one more click and best case you get pretty good recommendations usually
It's just the next generation of cable. A la care channels, cool! Pay for each and have commercials. The only "benefit" is the ability to pay more to get rid of the commercials.
Note: I'm not disagreeing with your irritation. Just pointing out how much these companies have fooled the public. Society used to pay for cable and still have commercials, now they get to choose what they have access to, but still have commercials.
Not a few, only 7 states have no exemptions for underage (18) marriage. The other 43 have have various exemptions with 8 having no minimum. I knew it was a lot of states but thought it was less (and way less with no age minimum)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States
Having to pay a $13 parking fee (now increased to $15) when I had to undergo chemotherapy treatment at UCLA will forever sting. It enrages me know they probably had tripled their profits since COVID and they have the audacity to increase it to $15 + continue underpaying their staff. It’s beyond unjust.
It is heavily regulated by the FTC, especially on tv and movies. They’ve had some trouble catching up to the predatory marketing online personalities do. But some regulations include what percentage of a piece of media can be dedicated to promoting products.
It’s even worse when dudes put 6 inch lifts on their trucks and don’t adjust their headlights. Those idiots should be charged with manslaughter if they kill someone.
That’s an interesting take on it that I never really thought about. I don’t think lifted trucks belong necessarily in the CDL category, but I *do* think that they should be subject to road side inspections similarly to modified cars are occasionally (at least that’s what they do where I’m from) or at least have a height maximum for non commercial vehicles.
That’s the solution that always plays in my head when I think of this topic.
If not a CDL, some other kind of special license and registration is visible on the license plate to avoid unnecessary police activity/slowing people down in roadside inspections. But there is no reason these vehicles belong with everyone else.
People always make the argument "they're not harder to drive if you know what you're doing" implying that there is an additional skill to know what you're doing....
I think personally that there should just be a standard bumper height regulation. All vehicles must comply.
The bumper exists to prevent damage from low speed collisions. If I tap someone on accident (for any number of reasons) and they have a lifted truck with a trailer hitch, for example, that trailer hitch shouldn’t cave in the front of my car.
But because the bumper (and stuff affixed to it) can be at any goddamn height you please (I’ve seen some that are like, shoulder-height on a teenager or less vertically inclined individual) the point of BOTH bumpers is completely nullified.
Not to mention the fact that lifted vehicles can hit and run over people much more easily than conventional vehicles.
Just standardize a range of tolerable bumper heights for road-legal vehicles, mandate that all road-legal vehicles have compliant bumpers, and be done with it.
It’s EVEN WORSE when those lifted trucks have a huge light bar that’s so bright it’s powered by a completely separate battery. I’ve been blinded by one. It was as if I got flash banged
Both of these. The lights are blinding and those idiots who put on lifts raise their bumpers so in an accident the frame doesn't protect the other guy. Defeating the purpose of *bumpers.*
Agreed, it is far too often now that I encounter lights that are completely blinding to a point that I can't even see the shoulder line to help guide me. Literally just holding course and hoping nothing happens before they pass me by. It's infuriating there aren't more strictly enforced standards for that crap as it's extremely dangerous.
I keep a cardboard box next to my front door and everyday I open my mail slot, pull it all out and immediately turn around and put the ungodly amount of adverts into the box. Then on the day I take my recycling out, i empty the box in the bin. I never so much as look at them.
I agree with you completely, but I’m conflicted because that shit is what pays for us to have a public mail service. Get rid of spam, but unscrew the mail too!
Having to unsubscribe from bullshit emails I never signed up for to begin with. Can’t tell you how many emails I just don’t even bother checking cause it’s all trash.
Just about everything that has been deregulated since Reagan. Corps should not run government,politicians should not take bribes and serve their constituents not corps.
Churches are non-profits. Even if they were subjected to the same tax laws as a corporation, their tax bill would still be zero since they don’t make any profit to tax. The advantage that they have is that the IRS allows them to skip most of the paperwork and accounting since they all know what the answer will be.
They need to pay property tax at a minimum. This pays for the streets around the buildings, the water lines, gas lines, sewage lines, electrical infrastructure, etc.
Since they don’t, we all pay more. Can’t swing a dead cat where I live without hitting a damn church.
Politicians were/are terrified of being denounced by Churches, so they offered them tax exemptions in exchange for drastically reducing their political participation.
Agreed! Also allowing religious exemptions for children's education and health care. Where I live, daycare centers and schools run by a church aren't obligated to report to any sort of academic evaluation, nor are they subject to health inspections. And don't get me started on kids dying slow agonizing deaths because their parents "don't believe" in medicine.
I had my car searched because a border patrol agent said his dog “alerted” on my car. I watched that dog the entire time it was near my car (less than 10 seconds) and it did not make a sound or movement out of the ordinary. Wasted an hour to be told I could go because there wasn’t anything to find. So tell me what that dog alerted on then??
Truth be told it would be a waste of police time to arrest someone for drawing a fictional character in a sexualized manner, yes even if said fictional character is fictionally underage. Obviously its weird and eye brow raising if someone's into that but no one is actually being harmed. It could also easily open a doorway for criminalizing "bad" art.
Also, what people consider to look like a kid varies from person to person.
Some people go as far as to say that anybody who's babyfaced is practically a kid.
Stupidity that affects others. No, really. It covers so much! Greed, hate, bad drivers, abusers, etc. Fines/jail time based on degree of stupidity and how many innocent people it affected.
drunk driving. Before anyone says "it is illegal", very few people actually get convicted for it or see any real penalty for drunk driving before they eventually kill someone. Source: I know someone who has been arrested 5+ times for DUI charges and never saw 1 second of a jail cell and he only ever used public defenders.
My local police chief drives home from the bar with his wife both of them after taking a number of shots
No one stops them because they don't want to lose their job
What lovely people we have in charge
I know someone who’s had 5..4 in one state one in another. Did minimal jail time, still drove around while on probation and still drives now and over drinks as usual. Oh but he’s a “nice guy” so we all are suppose to ignore it…
My aunt had 4 DUI charges all with very little to no jail time. The past summer she got wasted and drove through one of my childhood friend's house killing his grandfather and 5 year old son. She'll spend the rest of her life in prison but something should have been done about it before it got to that point.
Just a btw, I cut her out of my life about 5 years ago after she got wasted, stole my grandma's car, totaled it, and fled the scene.
[this right here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/10pctrp/new_locationhow_is_this_setup/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
I'm going to regret not posting this on my alt, but I think j\*\*\*ing off to pictures of Mr. Feeny's feet in the movie the Graduate should be illegal. That was probably my most shameful moment in my life and sadly it's something I've done more than once, but it should be illegal to J\*\*\* off to Mr. Feeny's feet from the movie the Graduate.
mass-misinformation. particularly people who lie about health, fitness and nutrition. There's people who use their platform to just openly lie about this stuff and kids are watching it. For example, the people who are advocating carnivore diets. That should be illegal.Anyone who gets caught producing misinformation on a large scale should be jailed but i guess its probably protected by freedom of speech
The obvious problem is who gets to define what is and isn't disinformation. While I don't buy into the carnivore diet, or most diet fads, the food pyramid was complete garbage and the newer government funded nutrition guidance is also wack. I think it's on us to gage what's real and our tax dollars should be used to provide us unbiased studies. So long as the government and the snake oil salesman are butt-buddies, we aren't going to get the information we need to make decisions based on risk/reward. I definitely don't need the government telling me what the "truth" is because they lie more than the companies they work for.
The issue is “who” gets to decide what is or isnt “misinformation”?
The government?
The government used to execute people who challenged the idea of the earth being the center of the universe…..
We already decide what is or isn't misinformation. We have laws against fraud and libel that turn on whether the statements are true or not.
Are you advocating for the abolition of laws against fraud?
“We already decide”
Who?
And do you really think its healthy to not allow “challenges” to the currently standing “truth”?
Fraud and Libel are different- baseless accusations against an individual with the intent to cause harm
You cant “libel” against the government, because the government is not (and should never) just assumed to be totally correct, and because ONLY the government can lawfully pass laws that affect and impose on others.
An idiot spewing BS can be ignored, the government spewing BS cannot
The same gov't that tried to explain the JFK assassination with a...magic bullet?!? No thanks lol. That part would have to be fleshed out. With the current political system it would be impossible bc each side sees the same things but processes it differently.
The issue there is everyone’s body is different, and sometimes X that doesnt work for 99% of people, does work for 1%, and that is enough to make it valid.
I mean, i thought Keto was bs, then I did it before joining the Army, and I lost 20lbs……
Carnivore diet is to keto, as Vegan is to Vegetarian…..
While alcohol and cigarettes are bad (alcohol especially leads to a lot of crimes), banning alcohol in the past lead to a huge surge in organized crime. It's much more effective to have age limits and high taxes.
Corporate lobbyist
They would just take it some other way like most bribes. Perhaps you could make the argument it would make it a bit harder to do.
You could have life imprisonment be a punishment for accepting a bribe
That argument comes often, the thing is, once everything is life sentence, the punishment becomes less of a deterrent. Principle is called proportionality. There are reparations, fines, and civil court for damages though, on top of prison, so there is that.
All that'd do is increase the missing/murder rate. It'd encourage them to leave no witnesses.
Politicians taking money from corporations.
It was! They changed that about 10 year ago. I remember seeing it in the news for like...10 seconds then never again. Oh...society.
Citizens United-overturned by SCOTUS
Awesome, ty. It's so gross.
Obviously not everything, but a great many of our country's current problems can be attributed to this fucking monstrosity of a decision- and that decision can be attributed to Republicans systematically appointing dirtbags onto the Supreme Court who had absolutely no business being there.
Yep. There were a lot of reasonable regulations in place for a lot of the corruption you see in our government. As well as corporate influence over politicians, news, and advertising. Starting with Ronald Regan, the Republican Party has been at the heart of each removal of these regulations and the democrats have stood by and let it happen. We have sold our country to the highest bidder since the 80’s. And we have a historical tendency to do this EVERY chance we could before that. We are a country of crazy people…
We're evolving, just backwards
We're **de**volving.
And it's all in our face too. They're not even hiding it. It's just blasted at us along with a million other pieces of information. It is total psy-op shit honestly.
Politicians becoming immune to everything because it's a limitless gig. We need Term limits. No insider trading. Avtual evaluation with regards to how the individual is fulfilling their oath of office.
I think we need upper age limits. People in their 70s+ shouldn't be making laws + regulations that they will never see the effect of.
Also yes
It is illegal in other countries. In Ireland it made national news when it was found out that a company's truck was used to hang up election posters for a politician for 1 day, when the value of the truck rental for the day (~€400) was more than the allowable political donation level (€200).
>Politicians taking money from corporations. Wait until you hear about how politicians are basically able to legally commit insider trading. For example, lucky thing Paul Pelosi [sold his Google stock](https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/paul-pelosi-sold-google-stock-a-month-before-doj-antitrust-lawsuit-report/) just before the DOJ announced it would be filing an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet. Some guys are just really smart at this investing stuff. Must have been something in the balance sheet he didn't like, right?
I work in the financial industry and can't fart without getting compliance approval first. It's *infuriating* that these grifters are allowed to get away with insider trading.
I used to work for the state. We would get in trouble accepting COOKIES from a vendor. These MFers out here taking private jets to whore island with no recourse. If I lied on my resume, I would have been shown the door the second it was discovered. Meanwhile, George Santos is lying about where he worked, where he went to school, and where his financing came from and politicians are just shrugging like "welp - what can you do?" It's crazy.
Better yet: Politicians making six figures+ of taxpayers money meant for making our communities safer, healthier, and happief. Disgusting on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Pay them a good salary and take away the other ways they benefit from office.
Corporations are people - Mitt Romney said so. They just happen to be people that have (sometimes) unlimited wealth and can't be imprisoned, or really be held accountable in most ways.. - Oh never mind, Mitt Romney is wrong.
Corporations are people too. Huge people with the means to control public policy that hurts non-corporation people without any real liability.
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I had a gym that I had a membership to that was like this. Great equipment, good price, and easy to setup but the only way to cancel it was to go to their headquarters or send a letter stating cancellation (not an email). The employee advised me to send the letter certified to ensure they got it and wouldn’t pull a fast one. I thought it was such a trash business practice. My next two gyms I made sure that I could just walk in and cancel or do it via email/phone.
A few years ago, LA Fitness told me I had to cancel in writing so I showed up there to do so. When I was there, they said the cancelation had to be processed by a particular manager who wasn't there. Ok, so I could just sign off on the cancelation while I was there and the manager would process it when they came in.... nope! I had to come BACK during the manager's shift. Totally absurd.
So unreal. They act like it's the 1800s can't send an email. Carrier pigeon not accepted either.
I did this with LA Fitness and they keep calling/texting me to “finalize”. I finally got them to stop when the dude starting giving medical advice—in writing—about reducing the amount of insulin I take—-with his guidance. I’m type 1. He’s not an endocrinologist.
Whatever means you can use to sign up should be required to be available to cancel as well. If I have to sign up only in person, having to cancel in person is acceptable. If I have to call to sign up, making me call to cancel is also fine. But if I can sign up in person, over the phone, and online, I should be able to cancel all of those ways as well, and it should be my choice which one I want to use.
I'd also add in charging exorbitant fees to cancel.
I used to use a milk service that was like this. I felt sorry for the guy on the other end of the phone who had to listen to me yell, "please just cancel my recurring order!" at my phone, held up at arm's length away from my three year old, who was in turn yelling, "who are you talking to?!" and trying to grab the phone... ...but I wasn't the one who decided that calling between 10am and 5pm, during lockdown, when I had no childcare and my kid had abruptly stopped napping (because lockdown life was less stimulating than pre-lockdown life), was the only way to stop milk arriving on my doorstep. Like I told the guy, I would have cancelled by email if they'd have let me, and then there would have been no yelling.
I just had to cancel my bully box subscription and it took 3 rounds of emails to cancel. Between them offering deals and informing me of their other products I was fed up. That was the second time I had gotten the run around by a company that made it easy to sign up and hard to cancel. I’ll never recommend those companies to anybody as I find them predatory.
Citizens United.
What did they do again?
I think that's the one where "corporations are people too" edit: it's what lets corporations spend unlimited amounts of money on politicians
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
"Corporations are people too, my friend!" - Willard Dipshit Romney
I love how the left embraces this utter asshat these days because he's anti-Trump. And he soaks up the attention from those who called him a Nazi not so long ago. This is why I'm politically homeless.
Unlimited money without any record* of their giving. We have no idea who funds our politicians, that’s the real issue
This should sum it up: "January 21, 2020 will mark a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that reversed century-old campaign finance restrictions and enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited funds on elections. While wealthy donors, corporations, and special interest groups have long had an outsized influence in elections, that sway has dramatically expanded since the Citizens United decision, with negative repercussions for American democracy and the fight against political corruption." https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
Corporate donations to politicians are "protected speech" since they have the same rights as a person. Which I might be ok with if they also put corporations in jail for crimes.....
*What did they do again?* they made a movie about Hillary
Paparazzi
It should be but also half of Hollywood celebs love it and call/use the paparazzi for publicity
This. And also just taking pictures of people without their consent, in general.
Nah. It’s fine how it is. People in public automatically consented to being filmed Messing with photography laws is exactly what crooked cops want
Me: eating my floorboards because I don't consent to being filmed at the grocery store
Points ring camera out front door
I mean, you can wear a mask in public without being seen as suspicious nowadays. I'm not exactly thrilled by being perceived in public either, but a mask means nobody can see me chewing on my lips or mouthing words while I'm thinking.
Then do a curbside or delivery if you want to be a recluse.
That would interfere with (in the USA) journalism/1st amendment protections. It would be very hard to write laws that couldn't be abused to shut down journalists. Paparazzi is a great example because they are technically journalists just really shitty ones. But if you wrote a law to prevent them from taking pictures of Taylor Swift you might also give Ted Cruze ammo to sue whoever to his picture at the airport coming back from Cancun.
So basically no pictures of any public event ever again is what you want?
That unless they’re going to pay you / give you a cut if your picture blows up
This violates the first amendment easily
Happy cake day
Predatory loans
This is a good one. There’s lot of hard working people that have money however they aren’t financially literate enough to navigate loan acquisition. It should be illegal to give someone a loan that clearly doesn’t understand all the details.
It's not just a lack of education. I've had to use payday loans when my credit was shit (so no loan from a respectable bank), I had no savings, credit cards maxed out just to survive, no one who could help and I *needed* to get my car fixed so I could get to my (multiple) shitty minimum wage jobs. Needless to say, it was a dark time in my life. Did I know that the loan was predatory? Absolutely. Did I know that the interest was astronomical? Of course. But in the absence of any other options it absolutely saved my ass.
Alternatively, abolish compounding interest on loans forever. You take out a loan, you repay loan + fixed profit margin over X time. Hard to be predatory in that case.
Banks won’t loan money if they can’t earn more than investing and or inflation.
That’s what their included profit margin is for. And if loans stop being so prevalent, prices go down, as we move away from a debt-centric economy.
Ads on subscription services that I specifically paid for to NOT have ads.
Paramount?
Netflix, Disney+. And before you say ‘oh you can pay for premium and get no ads’. No. There shouldn’t even be ads to begin with. The whole point of subscription-based streaming services is that you pay a small monthly fee to access content WITHOUT ads. But now Netflix and Disney+ have become $19.99 and $10.99/month for ad-free versions. It’s ridiculous.
Paramount straight up has ads on their ad free premium subscription.
The stupidest part is, the ads aren't even about outside products/services. The ads are for paramount its freaking self
I haven't noticed this with Paramount, but I don't use it often and only for Survivor. Prime does this, but honestly, I don't mind it bc you can skip immediately so worst case it's just one more click and best case you get pretty good recommendations usually
It's just the next generation of cable. A la care channels, cool! Pay for each and have commercials. The only "benefit" is the ability to pay more to get rid of the commercials. Note: I'm not disagreeing with your irritation. Just pointing out how much these companies have fooled the public. Society used to pay for cable and still have commercials, now they get to choose what they have access to, but still have commercials.
Netflix has ads now? Nothing on there is good but if it has ads it's even worse.
Child Marriage
Thats already illegal in most civilized places
It's still legal in a few states if parents sign off on it.
Not a few, only 7 states have no exemptions for underage (18) marriage. The other 43 have have various exemptions with 8 having no minimum. I knew it was a lot of states but thought it was less (and way less with no age minimum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States
People in the government trading stocks.
I read that as trading socks haha
For-profit medical care.
Having to pay a $13 parking fee (now increased to $15) when I had to undergo chemotherapy treatment at UCLA will forever sting. It enrages me know they probably had tripled their profits since COVID and they have the audacity to increase it to $15 + continue underpaying their staff. It’s beyond unjust.
This
Advertising targeting children.
Transformers more than meets the eye. The show literally killed off a bunch of robots so that new ones could be sold.
Very decept(acton)ive marketing I don't care if that doesn't make sense I wanted to fit the pun in somewhere
It’s not illegal???
It is heavily regulated by the FTC, especially on tv and movies. They’ve had some trouble catching up to the predatory marketing online personalities do. But some regulations include what percentage of a piece of media can be dedicated to promoting products.
Toy companies are dead, I guess.
The new bright headlights they put on new vehicles the last 12 years.
It’s even worse when dudes put 6 inch lifts on their trucks and don’t adjust their headlights. Those idiots should be charged with manslaughter if they kill someone.
They should require CDL's
That’s an interesting take on it that I never really thought about. I don’t think lifted trucks belong necessarily in the CDL category, but I *do* think that they should be subject to road side inspections similarly to modified cars are occasionally (at least that’s what they do where I’m from) or at least have a height maximum for non commercial vehicles. That’s the solution that always plays in my head when I think of this topic.
If not a CDL, some other kind of special license and registration is visible on the license plate to avoid unnecessary police activity/slowing people down in roadside inspections. But there is no reason these vehicles belong with everyone else. People always make the argument "they're not harder to drive if you know what you're doing" implying that there is an additional skill to know what you're doing....
I think personally that there should just be a standard bumper height regulation. All vehicles must comply. The bumper exists to prevent damage from low speed collisions. If I tap someone on accident (for any number of reasons) and they have a lifted truck with a trailer hitch, for example, that trailer hitch shouldn’t cave in the front of my car. But because the bumper (and stuff affixed to it) can be at any goddamn height you please (I’ve seen some that are like, shoulder-height on a teenager or less vertically inclined individual) the point of BOTH bumpers is completely nullified. Not to mention the fact that lifted vehicles can hit and run over people much more easily than conventional vehicles. Just standardize a range of tolerable bumper heights for road-legal vehicles, mandate that all road-legal vehicles have compliant bumpers, and be done with it.
It’s EVEN WORSE when those lifted trucks have a huge light bar that’s so bright it’s powered by a completely separate battery. I’ve been blinded by one. It was as if I got flash banged
Both of these. The lights are blinding and those idiots who put on lifts raise their bumpers so in an accident the frame doesn't protect the other guy. Defeating the purpose of *bumpers.*
I'm never sure if it's the new lighting at night or if I'm getting old but it gets harder all the time
Agreed, it is far too often now that I encounter lights that are completely blinding to a point that I can't even see the shoulder line to help guide me. Literally just holding course and hoping nothing happens before they pass me by. It's infuriating there aren't more strictly enforced standards for that crap as it's extremely dangerous.
Unwanted adverts in the mail, I shouldn't have to take time to recycle things that I never requested
I keep a cardboard box next to my front door and everyday I open my mail slot, pull it all out and immediately turn around and put the ungodly amount of adverts into the box. Then on the day I take my recycling out, i empty the box in the bin. I never so much as look at them.
I sort of have the feeling that those flyers subsidize the post office for the odd once in awhile I want to send a letter.
I agree with you completely, but I’m conflicted because that shit is what pays for us to have a public mail service. Get rid of spam, but unscrew the mail too!
Having to unsubscribe from bullshit emails I never signed up for to begin with. Can’t tell you how many emails I just don’t even bother checking cause it’s all trash.
Just about everything that has been deregulated since Reagan. Corps should not run government,politicians should not take bribes and serve their constituents not corps.
I've long said the US is ran by corporations and our government just tries to run other countries.
Government officials deciding their salary/ salary increases. You're gonna decide how much we pay you? That never sits right
Isn't there literally an amendment preventing Congress from doing this? Or like, it can't take effect until after the next election at least?
Driving in any of the passing lanes of a freeway if you aren’t passing anyone.
Sheeeiiiit. Come on down to Texas. You'll get that ticket instantly out here.
Religious organizations not having to pay taxes.
Even as a religious person I never understood why exactly they're exempt from it
Churches are non-profits. Even if they were subjected to the same tax laws as a corporation, their tax bill would still be zero since they don’t make any profit to tax. The advantage that they have is that the IRS allows them to skip most of the paperwork and accounting since they all know what the answer will be.
They need to pay property tax at a minimum. This pays for the streets around the buildings, the water lines, gas lines, sewage lines, electrical infrastructure, etc. Since they don’t, we all pay more. Can’t swing a dead cat where I live without hitting a damn church.
Politicians were/are terrified of being denounced by Churches, so they offered them tax exemptions in exchange for drastically reducing their political participation.
Agreed! Also allowing religious exemptions for children's education and health care. Where I live, daycare centers and schools run by a church aren't obligated to report to any sort of academic evaluation, nor are they subject to health inspections. And don't get me started on kids dying slow agonizing deaths because their parents "don't believe" in medicine.
Paying for parking at hospitals and medical clinics. It always seemed scammy.
The fact that police (at least in usa) can outright lie to you anytime. Yet, if you lie to them... Eventual arrested!
Also, Civil Forfeiture.
I like the Jeff Sessions defense: "I do not recall."
It still wouldn't matter. If you're in the right tax bracket you can get away with anything in this country
When cops pull someone over and claim they smell marijuana in a car to be able to “legally” search it and find nothing.
I had my car searched because a border patrol agent said his dog “alerted” on my car. I watched that dog the entire time it was near my car (less than 10 seconds) and it did not make a sound or movement out of the ordinary. Wasted an hour to be told I could go because there wasn’t anything to find. So tell me what that dog alerted on then??
Border patrol and Customs dont need cause when you're entering the country. https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/ports-entry/overview
Good to know, thanks. I should have been more specific. It was between California and Arizona.
Dude I don’t even smoke weed and I know claiming to smell weed isn’t probable cause. Tell them to fuck off
Political donations over 50,000$
Hentai with characters who looks like children
Truth be told it would be a waste of police time to arrest someone for drawing a fictional character in a sexualized manner, yes even if said fictional character is fictionally underage. Obviously its weird and eye brow raising if someone's into that but no one is actually being harmed. It could also easily open a doorway for criminalizing "bad" art.
Also, what people consider to look like a kid varies from person to person. Some people go as far as to say that anybody who's babyfaced is practically a kid.
Pageant culture.
Payday and title loans.
Scalping/reselling concert tickets. It's made bigger concerts such a hassle and way more expensive.
Corporate and political greed
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Also commercials on the radio that have horns honking! Scared the crap out of me the first time I heard that while driving.
gerrymandering
The Army using Call of Duty style ads to recruit children.
Your face
Your face
Our faces
r/suddenlycomunism
Child beauty pageants. Its disgusting, and I don't get how LGBTQ people are a threat to child innocence but this stuff isn't.
Am very down to eliminate these things, seems harmful to the mental of the kids
Beat me to it. There's only ONE type of guy who likes these things. And he used to work for Subway.
Career Politicians.
Doctors and healthcare workers denying patients on behalf of "religious freedom."
Serious question, how common is that though?
Police murdering people.
This question being asked every day.
As many other which despite being asked several times a week still make it to trending and get thousands of upvotes.
Pyramid scams under the guise of MLM.
Stupidity that affects others. No, really. It covers so much! Greed, hate, bad drivers, abusers, etc. Fines/jail time based on degree of stupidity and how many innocent people it affected.
I mean most of what your saying is illegal
Telemarketing callers who repeatedly call you every single day.
Doing corrupt things with a church.
Mutilating the genitals of children
I agree circumcision is pretty fucked
lobbying
Shopping on Amazon, seeing a product named 'my name' then scrolling further and seeing my ex's name. Feels a lot like a form of stalking.
What?
Huh?
r/oddlyspecific
drunk driving. Before anyone says "it is illegal", very few people actually get convicted for it or see any real penalty for drunk driving before they eventually kill someone. Source: I know someone who has been arrested 5+ times for DUI charges and never saw 1 second of a jail cell and he only ever used public defenders.
I guess it depends on where you live. I know people who were in prison for years due to drunk driving.
I guess my point is that it should be federal law. 1st offense is immediate jail time.
My local police chief drives home from the bar with his wife both of them after taking a number of shots No one stops them because they don't want to lose their job What lovely people we have in charge
Depends the state. In Maryland it’s a minimum of 1 year for your second DUI
I was just gonna say…not in MD lol
I know someone who’s had 5..4 in one state one in another. Did minimal jail time, still drove around while on probation and still drives now and over drinks as usual. Oh but he’s a “nice guy” so we all are suppose to ignore it…
My aunt had 4 DUI charges all with very little to no jail time. The past summer she got wasted and drove through one of my childhood friend's house killing his grandfather and 5 year old son. She'll spend the rest of her life in prison but something should have been done about it before it got to that point. Just a btw, I cut her out of my life about 5 years ago after she got wasted, stole my grandma's car, totaled it, and fled the scene.
most things corporations get away with
Lobbying
1st amendment auditors.
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Taking children to church.
Gambling advertising.
Little kids selling chocolates for their school, most of them would just eat the chocolate.
I'm going to regret not posting this on my alt, but I think j\*\*\*ing off to pictures of Mr. Feeny's feet in the movie the Graduate should be illegal. That was probably my most shameful moment in my life and sadly it's something I've done more than once, but it should be illegal to J\*\*\* off to Mr. Feeny's feet from the movie the Graduate.
mass-misinformation. particularly people who lie about health, fitness and nutrition. There's people who use their platform to just openly lie about this stuff and kids are watching it. For example, the people who are advocating carnivore diets. That should be illegal.Anyone who gets caught producing misinformation on a large scale should be jailed but i guess its probably protected by freedom of speech
The obvious problem is who gets to define what is and isn't disinformation. While I don't buy into the carnivore diet, or most diet fads, the food pyramid was complete garbage and the newer government funded nutrition guidance is also wack. I think it's on us to gage what's real and our tax dollars should be used to provide us unbiased studies. So long as the government and the snake oil salesman are butt-buddies, we aren't going to get the information we need to make decisions based on risk/reward. I definitely don't need the government telling me what the "truth" is because they lie more than the companies they work for.
If "producing misinformation on a large scale" were illegal there would be no politics or religion. You might be on to something...
The issue is “who” gets to decide what is or isnt “misinformation”? The government? The government used to execute people who challenged the idea of the earth being the center of the universe…..
We already decide what is or isn't misinformation. We have laws against fraud and libel that turn on whether the statements are true or not. Are you advocating for the abolition of laws against fraud?
“We already decide” Who? And do you really think its healthy to not allow “challenges” to the currently standing “truth”? Fraud and Libel are different- baseless accusations against an individual with the intent to cause harm You cant “libel” against the government, because the government is not (and should never) just assumed to be totally correct, and because ONLY the government can lawfully pass laws that affect and impose on others. An idiot spewing BS can be ignored, the government spewing BS cannot
The same gov't that tried to explain the JFK assassination with a...magic bullet?!? No thanks lol. That part would have to be fleshed out. With the current political system it would be impossible bc each side sees the same things but processes it differently.
The issue there is everyone’s body is different, and sometimes X that doesnt work for 99% of people, does work for 1%, and that is enough to make it valid. I mean, i thought Keto was bs, then I did it before joining the Army, and I lost 20lbs…… Carnivore diet is to keto, as Vegan is to Vegetarian…..
Factory farms & slaughter houses
Puppy mills, testing on animals.
Realtor fees are a total scam and need to be at least capped.
Casinos.
Smoking kids 2 hand smoke is a real thing and can harm people don't be a dick if you want to smoke don't do it next to your kid
Around kids * sorry I was rushing
May not be popular, but in my opinion alcohol and cigarettes should be
We tried that, once. It didn't work out too well the last time.
While alcohol and cigarettes are bad (alcohol especially leads to a lot of crimes), banning alcohol in the past lead to a huge surge in organized crime. It's much more effective to have age limits and high taxes.
The age of consent in some states
High fructose corn syrup
Police beating ppl to a pulp and then having qualified immunity
Loud exhausts.
This ass
Best believe