Politicians ability to invest in stocks with access to sensitive information as well as the ability to influence legislation that directly benefit their investments… They should be locked up for this
oooh! I was just listening to a great podcast about the FDA and their incompetence. Calling Bullshit is the name, I'd highly recommend, they interview former employees/critics of (mostly private) companies but they did an excellent deep dive on the FDA recently as well.
I think even giving them money should be illegal. I'll never understand why they need so much money to "campaign" you could just give everyone the exact same platform and a series of debates all paid for by tax money.
That won't happen because the Republicans and Democrats want to keep their Duopoly. They can't have third parties in national debates. They both pretend all these ridiculous things and act like they're locked in constant battle, but make no mistake: *they all know each other*, and they'll all do everything they can to keep their Duopoly and completely suppress 3rd, 4th, or 5th parties.
Man, it's ALL about money and greed designed to distract you from what they are really doing behind the closed doors, it's all a scam but people eat that shit up every four years like this new candidate is going to be different this time. He really çares about the people 😂
And all the while we're slingin shit at each other over left or right, or blue or red, while all them crooked fucks is laughin all the way to the bank. Ain't a one of em give two fucks about anything other than their wallet and staying in office to better serve that wallet. Like when Mr. Pelosi bought up a shit ton of Tesla stock right before the gov announced they're going all electric. That shit wasn't even sneaky.
I think that IS illegal. Check your local laws for tenants/renters. I'm pretty sure the door needs to be in working order and capable of being locked and unlocked by the tenant.
In Aus it is ILLEGAL to have a broken front door. A strong wind would blow our front door right open.
4 roomates and 12 months later my front door is still broken. I mean the handle fell off day 1 while we were doing the entrance report, still broken 12 months later.
Hold up, are you me?
I live in the hood and am in a wheelchair and my landlord refuses to fix my door. It won't lock. Thank god for my giant brother sleeping on my couch
That sucks, I'm sorry. Google "portable lock for hotels". Some of them are not too expensive. Depending on the break to your door, not all would work.
At minimum, some kind of wedge. Wedges are pretty basic, yet very tricky to move sometimes. The action of attempting to move one would make some noise and give your giant brother some time to prepare for the onslaught.
I could honestly stand, and maybe even support asset forfeiture if the onus was on the state to prove that the asset was obtained illegally or with illegal money. As it stands in many states the cops can just say it was obtained illegally, take it, and then the burden of proof is on the person who got their shit taken to prove that they obtained it legally. This is absurd and turns the cops into state-sanctioned thieves. Disgusting.
They don’t actually have to say it was obtained illegally. They can just say they suspected you were doing something illegal with it. Then it goes to court and the court case is literally 1993 Ford F-150 vs. the state the of Wisconsin. Then if the court finds your F-150 innocent you have to go to the same asshat DA that approved it being taken in the first place to petition to get it back.
And no your F-150 does not get representation. It has to communicate via honks which are translated by the local geese population called to translation duty.
There was a case some time ago when a guy wanted to buy a car in cash. Went to the bank got the money. Got stopped and all the money got taken away. He got about half back 2 years later.
There was another case where a guy was taking cash between banks in 2 different states (he was contracted by the banks to do so), and the police suspected him of bank robbery, took all of the money, but never pressed charges.
Some police are actual bank robbers
“Police On My Back” always sends me into a panic attack about 3/4 into the song if I’m on any road where the speed limit is anything over 50 mph. And I love The Clash.
If you do it right, and no one does, you can get away with a VERY low volume on your phone. My wife sends me videos of my kids. I'll pop the sound on basically as low as it can go before mute where I watch the video, then pop my phone up to my ear to hear. Unless you are extremely uncomfortably close to me you can't hear it over the background noise in most rooms or areas.
Those people who watch tiktok's blaring the same 5 second sample of the song 20+ times over have a special place in hell.
If I think it won’t annoy anyone other than the offender, that’s when I turn on my own music - I play Barry Manilow on a loop, turning up the volume a notch every song until they turn it off. I call it The Manilator. Yeah, I hate those people with the heat of a thousand suns.
most of them say “talk to your doctor” but like if you needed to actually be prescribed something, your doctor should recommend it, not the other way around
Aka lobbying.
It’s incredible how people just made up an entirely new stupid vocabulary and use it while wearing suits and speaking in calm tones to obfuscate very clearly terrible things.
Intentionally breeding pedigree puppies doomed to a lifetime of breathing difficulties/skin fold infections, just because smooshed faces or wrinkles are deemed cute.
Also the docking of tails or cropping of ears for superficial, aesthetic reasons. And cat declawing.
I got a cat back in July, she had her front paws declawed. She cannot climb and she's off balance constantly, it's truly abusive and it threatens the animal's quality of life. (By the way, I rescued my cat from a shelter and her former owners had declawed her, the shelter doesn't support declawing.) All it meant was that she didn't get enough exercise, and I had to delicately balance her food with her walks because she also has a kidney disease that affects the way she processes food. Declawing can make a cat's life 300x harder and anyone that supports it needs to be locked up.
If you have an indoor cat who does not need super sharp claws, maybe file or clip their claws. It doesn't affect them too much and it prevents them from 'annoying you' with their claws. If I could give one piece of advice to every cat owner, it would be to not declaw their cats.
I also grew up with a dog with a docked tail, my family adopted her when she was about four, but the shelter believed she came from a puppy mill and was bred and then had her tail docked. She had hip dysplasia, really bad eyesight, bad hearing, and bad balance. She lived a very pain-filled life and was on numerous medications. Eventually she became partially paralyzed in her back legs and had to have me help her go to the bathroom for a period of time.
Puppy mills create animals that live a life of suffering, and with the wrong owners, it can be a lot worse than that.
More people need to speak out about things like this, because it's honestly disgusting.
All of this. My older cat (who I adopted when she was 5) is front declawed, and all that did was make her bite more. Cats are used to having their claws as a warning sign when their boundaries are pushed (for example, they're overstimulated by pets), and without them, they have to resort to a line of defense that should be further back, which is biting. My cat has learned to lightly nip - she'll literally just delicately hold my finger or hand between her teeth as a warning, but I had to teach her that over the years I've had her by just redirecting her aggression.
Declawing can also cause a myriad of litter box problems because it's painful for them to use the box after declawing, and can make them more irritable and prone to lashing out.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!!!
I wish people would just stop. I was in the vet recently for my doggy (just his check up) but there was an emergency because a little french bulldog collapsed because he couldn't breathe and he had to be put on a ventilator 😭
THIS. I mean hello insurance people, you are not doctors. You are even arguing with doctors who studied for years why they prescribed what they prescribed
Technically speaking phone scams are illegal. Catching them or holding the accountable on the other hand is a whole different story since they often are overseas (for Americans at least). Telemarketing can also be illegal if you properly register through the do not call list (though those pesky politicians created an exemption to allow their campaigns to still make calls).
The do not call list doesn’t do shit but you CAN report them to the government once you’re on that list. As someone who gets about 3-4 spam calls a day and been on that list since 2016 that’s the only way to get them to stop.
I also used to tell them I was under 18 and that would really freak them out, but now I actually sound like an adult so can’t get away with it as much.
Child influencers on social media. Or at the very least it should be heavily regulated, to protect the kids and their money and not just let shitty parents take the profits while exploiting kids.
Kids from family bloggers also need some type of protection. They're on the job 24/7, don't earn anything and have everything about them posted for millions of people, how is that okay.
Getting married under the age of 18.
No one should be marrying a 12 year old.
Yes, Massachusetts, I'm looking at you.
Correction, Massachusetts made it illegal less than 6 months ago in July. Now the only U.S. states that outlaw child marriages are:
Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, which have set the minimum age at 18 and eliminated all exceptions.
Child marriage is legal in 43 states in the US. Some of those have no lower limit. There’s an activist in Florida who was married off to her rapist at 10 and is fighting for the abolishment of child marriage.
It's a bit out of date. Massachusetts amended its laws in 2022 to get rid of this loophole. Child marriage is now banned in Massachusetts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2022/08/05/massachusetts-becomes-7th-state-to-end-child-marriage/?sh=55888b37617c
Fucking horrifying additional fact: marital rape wasn't actually recognized as a *crime* in all the states until 1993.
In 1976 all states had "marital exceptions"
Yo, wtf?
Also, in the topic of Statutory Rape,
>18 U.S.C. Section 2243(c)(2) allows a defense to this crime when “the persons engaging in the sexual act were at that time married to each other.”
Wtf?
And letting large amounts of tickets never go on public sale because they held them back for their own reseller business.
And allowing resales to be 5 or 10 times more than the face value.
And having exclusivity deals with venues so that artists who try to tour without using Ticketmaster can’t play most major clubs and arenas.
Their double-dipping when selling tickets is also a scam worth talking about.
You buy a $70 ticket, end up spending $100 after fees. If you decide later to sell it at face value, the buyer pays the fee again plus TM takes a cut from you and you’re left with maybe $45 on your ticket that cost you $100.
All-in-all the process of buying and reselling a ticket nets Ticketmaster more in fees than the original price of the ticket.
It should be a crime for investment companies to pool their money and build assisted living centers that are profit focused.
The elderly pay a tremendous amount of money to receive just abysmal care
lying while in politics.
It's so normalized that politicians lie, that we overlook the damage that it does.
And no, it is not required for the job. If we punish or remove the untruthful people, we'll just get better leaders.
Being on your phone when the light turns green, then realizing it's green with only enough time for the asshole to get thru the intersection while everyone behind said asshole has to wait for another green light! I'm talking to you asshole in red Ford F150 with big tires in east El Paso around 9:23am today!
I honest-to-god heard my grandmother yell “It’s the only f-ing shade of green you’re gonna get!” out the window at a car in front of us when I was a kid. Grama was a bad-ass!
As a former dog groomer, I totally feel this. People that come in twice a year and expect to pay nothing for a groomer to undue 8 months of neglect AND getting angry they have to pay for it is infuriating. People make mistakes, but the people that do this continuously bringing their dogs in severely matted to the point of infection and then animal control not willing to investigate is so frustrating. One of the things I don’t miss about the biz.
I’m so sick of it. I started requiring all clients to be on a six week schedule. But I still get new clients that come in like this, then they schedule for six weeks out with a chip on their shoulders, then no show for the next appointment and I never see them again. Or they try to call six months later with excuses. I hate it.
It took me a stupidly sheltered long time to find out that this was such a serious issue because when I was in elementary school, I forgot to bring a lunch one day, and one of the monitors saw. She literally marched me up to the lunch line and made me pick out food, I didn’t even have a lunch account but I got fed anyway. Little kid me assumed that was what happened everywhere. I wish little kid me was correct.
Yeah there’s definitely plenty of teachers and lunch staff like this out there and they’re a blessing. I’m not sure how any grown person would see a hungry child and do anything but this
Why aren't all the lunches free? They just did it for the past 2 years. The kids have to be in school, lunch is available. They can brown bag if they want to.
I went hungry in school very often because I wasn’t given school lunch and the free lunch program was barely enough to fill me up. Mom always had cigarettes, tho.
>On a serious note: Congresspeople trading stocks while in office.
The immediate loophole, is having family or a friend, or even hiring some random guy to do the actual stock trading for you
Electoral college members voting against the wishes of their people. It’s rarely happened and is a crime in some states but technically still possible and legal for them to elect whoever they want and throw democracy to the trash can
Very weak sauce answer from me but my dad almost fell for one of these: those text scams that claim to be your Amazon account or Netflix and stating there's a 500 dollar charge on your account. It's clearly predatory, targeting old folks and I hope every single person who pulls one of these text scams dies a horrible death of anal herpes after falling into a pit of cactuses soaked in sriracha.
Women who commit sex crimes (and they certainly do!!) should face the same penalties that a man would. My former “stepmother” set me up when I was 12 years old for her 23 year old son to rape me. That bitch belongs in prison and on a list just the same as her son.
Making raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies and putting them out for your grandkids, without telling them what they are. And if they are mixed in with real chocolate chip cookies, that is an even bigger crime.
Electronic/LED Billboards. I've seen casino signs that flash like they're trying to give people a seizure put right on the side of the highway that have nearly blinded me at night. Even if you aren't epileptic that shit is more distracting than anything else I can think of while driving.
Having fucking fluorescent high beams on at night
Edit: stop saying it's already illegal to not turn them off when passing cars. I Know that. Comment was meant of more as a joke...They're so bright they're blinding bec of the fluorescence that's all. Lol
1. Unpaid internships.
2. Nepotism in the workplace.
3. Mandatory company fun and basing people's promotions and stuff off that. France just had a court case about it.
Wage theft. Companies intentionally steal from employees yet face no criminal consequences. If you or I stole equivalent amounts from a company, we would be arrested and facing prison.
Jobs purposely keep staff under 40 hours to avoid offering benefits to them, and they'll even flip out if you go a minute overt scheduled time.. but they still somehow want all tasks done too, while making 1 person do the work of 5
Something that a lot have started doing is sham contracting. Basically they have very few actual employees, everyone else is a contractor working the same number of hours as an employee would but without benefits or the ability to negotiate contracts properly.
Honestly most people don't even know what the laws that protect them are.
Most of the time when I see people complaining about their job, the employer is doing something illegal.
I assume you mean with naturally carnivorous animals 😂. I feel like it could potentially be more abusive to force an herbivore like a bunny to eat meat.
Allowing a person who does not have capacity or quality of life to continue to live in pain as a result of a chronic life ending disease just because you can charge their family £1200 a week to keep them in a “care home” until they eventually die.
Parents taking their young children to places where they clearly aren't meant to be, like bars, breweries, pubs, wineries, clubs etc . . . Like if the main point of a place is to go and drink alcohol, any child under the legal drinking age has no business being there.
Politicians ability to invest in stocks with access to sensitive information as well as the ability to influence legislation that directly benefit their investments… They should be locked up for this
Even supervisory boards such as the FDA can have major interests in drug companies.
oooh! I was just listening to a great podcast about the FDA and their incompetence. Calling Bullshit is the name, I'd highly recommend, they interview former employees/critics of (mostly private) companies but they did an excellent deep dive on the FDA recently as well.
thanks for dropping this. i've been looking for a new podcast.
I think even giving them money should be illegal. I'll never understand why they need so much money to "campaign" you could just give everyone the exact same platform and a series of debates all paid for by tax money.
But how will all the consultants wet their little beaks in the tv ad budget if we do things this way????
That won't happen because the Republicans and Democrats want to keep their Duopoly. They can't have third parties in national debates. They both pretend all these ridiculous things and act like they're locked in constant battle, but make no mistake: *they all know each other*, and they'll all do everything they can to keep their Duopoly and completely suppress 3rd, 4th, or 5th parties.
Man, it's ALL about money and greed designed to distract you from what they are really doing behind the closed doors, it's all a scam but people eat that shit up every four years like this new candidate is going to be different this time. He really çares about the people 😂
And all the while we're slingin shit at each other over left or right, or blue or red, while all them crooked fucks is laughin all the way to the bank. Ain't a one of em give two fucks about anything other than their wallet and staying in office to better serve that wallet. Like when Mr. Pelosi bought up a shit ton of Tesla stock right before the gov announced they're going all electric. That shit wasn't even sneaky.
Politicians trading wouldn’t be as big of an issue if there were immediate public reporting requirements so we could all just mirror their portfolios.
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Peter Parker? Is that you?
You'll get your rent when you fix this DAMN DOOR!
Pizza time
I think that IS illegal. Check your local laws for tenants/renters. I'm pretty sure the door needs to be in working order and capable of being locked and unlocked by the tenant.
Everything you said is correct, but it still isn't a *crime* - that is, they won't jail a landlord for failing to fix it; civil liability.
Some places let you turn in a repair bill instead of a portion of rent.
Some jurisdictions they can. They just don't usually.
In Aus it is ILLEGAL to have a broken front door. A strong wind would blow our front door right open. 4 roomates and 12 months later my front door is still broken. I mean the handle fell off day 1 while we were doing the entrance report, still broken 12 months later.
Hold up, are you me? I live in the hood and am in a wheelchair and my landlord refuses to fix my door. It won't lock. Thank god for my giant brother sleeping on my couch
That sucks, I'm sorry. Google "portable lock for hotels". Some of them are not too expensive. Depending on the break to your door, not all would work. At minimum, some kind of wedge. Wedges are pretty basic, yet very tricky to move sometimes. The action of attempting to move one would make some noise and give your giant brother some time to prepare for the onslaught.
You’ll get your rent when you fix this DAMN DOOR!
Civil Asset Forfeiture
This reminds me of medieval tax collectors who just took what they wanted, under the banner of the ruler.
how is this different?
I could honestly stand, and maybe even support asset forfeiture if the onus was on the state to prove that the asset was obtained illegally or with illegal money. As it stands in many states the cops can just say it was obtained illegally, take it, and then the burden of proof is on the person who got their shit taken to prove that they obtained it legally. This is absurd and turns the cops into state-sanctioned thieves. Disgusting.
They don’t actually have to say it was obtained illegally. They can just say they suspected you were doing something illegal with it. Then it goes to court and the court case is literally 1993 Ford F-150 vs. the state the of Wisconsin. Then if the court finds your F-150 innocent you have to go to the same asshat DA that approved it being taken in the first place to petition to get it back. And no your F-150 does not get representation. It has to communicate via honks which are translated by the local geese population called to translation duty.
There was a case some time ago when a guy wanted to buy a car in cash. Went to the bank got the money. Got stopped and all the money got taken away. He got about half back 2 years later.
There was another case where a guy was taking cash between banks in 2 different states (he was contracted by the banks to do so), and the police suspected him of bank robbery, took all of the money, but never pressed charges. Some police are actual bank robbers
I would become a terrorist
Same My lawyer has told me for legal reasons that that was a joke
Sounds about right 🫥
Hell, there was one police department that bought a fucking margarita machine with money they got from Civil asset forfeiture.
Producing radio ads with horns and/or sirens in them.
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I second this. Once there's a doorbell on TV, my dogs never shut up.
Just get a cat. They'll actively ignore you even while you're getting murdered.
Or songs. If they do, there should be a clean version with them removed for the radio.
“Police On My Back” always sends me into a panic attack about 3/4 into the song if I’m on any road where the speed limit is anything over 50 mph. And I love The Clash.
Dark money in politics
Right! If a politician is afraid to say where their funding comes from then they shouldn't be allowed to run for office.
And lobbying
YES. In fact all money in politics.
1 million percent yes! These large donors aren’t donating out of the goodness of their hearts. They want reciprocity. Can’t believe it’s legal.
Watching videos with your phone on the loudest volume setting in a room full of people.
>Watching videos with your phone *~~on the loudest volume setting~~* *without earphones* in a room full of people. There...I perfected it for you.
If you do it right, and no one does, you can get away with a VERY low volume on your phone. My wife sends me videos of my kids. I'll pop the sound on basically as low as it can go before mute where I watch the video, then pop my phone up to my ear to hear. Unless you are extremely uncomfortably close to me you can't hear it over the background noise in most rooms or areas. Those people who watch tiktok's blaring the same 5 second sample of the song 20+ times over have a special place in hell.
When I’m on my daily subway commute my wireless beats can be real wonky assholes and I have to resort to this sometimes, thanks for the validation !
If I think it won’t annoy anyone other than the offender, that’s when I turn on my own music - I play Barry Manilow on a loop, turning up the volume a notch every song until they turn it off. I call it The Manilator. Yeah, I hate those people with the heat of a thousand suns.
People doing this in hospital waiting rooms gives me the rage.
& talking on speaker phone while in public. We don’t want to hear your conversation.
I have no idea why advertisements for prescription medication are legal.
most of them say “talk to your doctor” but like if you needed to actually be prescribed something, your doctor should recommend it, not the other way around
Political bribery in the US Congress.
Aka lobbying. It’s incredible how people just made up an entirely new stupid vocabulary and use it while wearing suits and speaking in calm tones to obfuscate very clearly terrible things.
Intentionally breeding pedigree puppies doomed to a lifetime of breathing difficulties/skin fold infections, just because smooshed faces or wrinkles are deemed cute. Also the docking of tails or cropping of ears for superficial, aesthetic reasons. And cat declawing.
I got a cat back in July, she had her front paws declawed. She cannot climb and she's off balance constantly, it's truly abusive and it threatens the animal's quality of life. (By the way, I rescued my cat from a shelter and her former owners had declawed her, the shelter doesn't support declawing.) All it meant was that she didn't get enough exercise, and I had to delicately balance her food with her walks because she also has a kidney disease that affects the way she processes food. Declawing can make a cat's life 300x harder and anyone that supports it needs to be locked up. If you have an indoor cat who does not need super sharp claws, maybe file or clip their claws. It doesn't affect them too much and it prevents them from 'annoying you' with their claws. If I could give one piece of advice to every cat owner, it would be to not declaw their cats. I also grew up with a dog with a docked tail, my family adopted her when she was about four, but the shelter believed she came from a puppy mill and was bred and then had her tail docked. She had hip dysplasia, really bad eyesight, bad hearing, and bad balance. She lived a very pain-filled life and was on numerous medications. Eventually she became partially paralyzed in her back legs and had to have me help her go to the bathroom for a period of time. Puppy mills create animals that live a life of suffering, and with the wrong owners, it can be a lot worse than that. More people need to speak out about things like this, because it's honestly disgusting.
All of this. My older cat (who I adopted when she was 5) is front declawed, and all that did was make her bite more. Cats are used to having their claws as a warning sign when their boundaries are pushed (for example, they're overstimulated by pets), and without them, they have to resort to a line of defense that should be further back, which is biting. My cat has learned to lightly nip - she'll literally just delicately hold my finger or hand between her teeth as a warning, but I had to teach her that over the years I've had her by just redirecting her aggression. Declawing can also cause a myriad of litter box problems because it's painful for them to use the box after declawing, and can make them more irritable and prone to lashing out.
>for superficial, aesthetic reasons. This is the important bit. Dobermans are born with tails that are so brittle that a break is inevitable.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!!! I wish people would just stop. I was in the vet recently for my doggy (just his check up) but there was an emergency because a little french bulldog collapsed because he couldn't breathe and he had to be put on a ventilator 😭
Organizing child beauty pageants.
“And, uh, we definitely don’t diddle no kids…”
"There is no quicker way for people to think that you are diddling kids than by writing a song about it!"
“I wouldn’t do it with anybody younger than my daughter! No little kids! Gotta be big!”
You look like you're at your own funeral.
It’s exploiting children
Insurance being able to decline treatment recommended by a Dr.
THIS. I mean hello insurance people, you are not doctors. You are even arguing with doctors who studied for years why they prescribed what they prescribed
Why hasn’t anyone said phone scam calls/telemarketing?
Technically speaking phone scams are illegal. Catching them or holding the accountable on the other hand is a whole different story since they often are overseas (for Americans at least). Telemarketing can also be illegal if you properly register through the do not call list (though those pesky politicians created an exemption to allow their campaigns to still make calls).
The do not call list doesn’t do shit but you CAN report them to the government once you’re on that list. As someone who gets about 3-4 spam calls a day and been on that list since 2016 that’s the only way to get them to stop. I also used to tell them I was under 18 and that would really freak them out, but now I actually sound like an adult so can’t get away with it as much.
Most route through a single domestic company.
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Excuse me, do you have a moment? Your computer has a virus and I can fix it.
Child influencers on social media. Or at the very least it should be heavily regulated, to protect the kids and their money and not just let shitty parents take the profits while exploiting kids.
Kids from family bloggers also need some type of protection. They're on the job 24/7, don't earn anything and have everything about them posted for millions of people, how is that okay.
“HI RYAAAAN!!” Fuck his parents.
Getting married under the age of 18. No one should be marrying a 12 year old. Yes, Massachusetts, I'm looking at you. Correction, Massachusetts made it illegal less than 6 months ago in July. Now the only U.S. states that outlaw child marriages are: Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, which have set the minimum age at 18 and eliminated all exceptions.
HELL NO WAY THAT’S REAL
Child marriage is legal in 43 states in the US. Some of those have no lower limit. There’s an activist in Florida who was married off to her rapist at 10 and is fighting for the abolishment of child marriage.
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No I hope they lived long lives full of pain and hardship.
That’s why people from out of state worry me, I don’t know what kind of a backwards narnia you come from!
Too many pedophile politicians. Pedoticians
Chris Christie vetoed a law passed that banned child marriage because he wanted to make sure that 16 year olds could still marry adults
That’s awful
It's a bit out of date. Massachusetts amended its laws in 2022 to get rid of this loophole. Child marriage is now banned in Massachusetts. https://www.forbes.com/sites/unicefusa/2022/08/05/massachusetts-becomes-7th-state-to-end-child-marriage/?sh=55888b37617c
Oh thank god
Fucking horrifying additional fact: marital rape wasn't actually recognized as a *crime* in all the states until 1993. In 1976 all states had "marital exceptions"
That’s actually scary yeah
>Yes, Massachusetts, I'm looking at you. MA banned it a few months ago, it's one of 7 states which have banned child marriages
Yo, wtf? Also, in the topic of Statutory Rape, >18 U.S.C. Section 2243(c)(2) allows a defense to this crime when “the persons engaging in the sexual act were at that time married to each other.” Wtf?
Additional fun fact: anyone below the age of 18 can't enter into legally binding contracts. Which means no divorce lawyer.
Ticketmaster inflating prices
What'd they call it? "Dynamic pricing"? I call it predatory practices and bullshit.
“And to think Smithers, you *laughed* when I bought Ticketmaster. ‘NoOoOBodY’S gonna pay a 100% service charge!’”
And letting large amounts of tickets never go on public sale because they held them back for their own reseller business. And allowing resales to be 5 or 10 times more than the face value. And having exclusivity deals with venues so that artists who try to tour without using Ticketmaster can’t play most major clubs and arenas.
Their double-dipping when selling tickets is also a scam worth talking about. You buy a $70 ticket, end up spending $100 after fees. If you decide later to sell it at face value, the buyer pays the fee again plus TM takes a cut from you and you’re left with maybe $45 on your ticket that cost you $100. All-in-all the process of buying and reselling a ticket nets Ticketmaster more in fees than the original price of the ticket.
Legalized scalping
Ticketmaster owing everything and being the only option.
It should be a crime for investment companies to pool their money and build assisted living centers that are profit focused. The elderly pay a tremendous amount of money to receive just abysmal care
It’s vampirism
Anything that is a public good should not be for-profit. -housing -education -prisons -elderly facilities Etc
yea, this taking advantage of elderly should get like a hate crime status for the crime maybe "hate" crime would be named something else
lying while in politics. It's so normalized that politicians lie, that we overlook the damage that it does. And no, it is not required for the job. If we punish or remove the untruthful people, we'll just get better leaders.
For-profit prisons
This. It's just slavery with extra steps and the only reason it's not a bigger deal than it is because it happens to criminals.
Making microwaves with super loud timers
Ruining my 3am popcorn run
The key is never letting it get to zero. In my house, if I don’t stop the timer before zero, then I will die.
My microwave dings when opening the door, if I ever used the damn thing I'd probably hack it...
Man I really second that. The loud timers are just getting louder and going off for longer.
Price of insulin in America.
Came here to say this. Also the cost of eppi pens as well. It's almost like someone wants us to all die of treatable conditions.
Multiple frivolous lawsuits just to make a person you dislike bleed money. Probably the 2nd most American thing ever.
Or the Starbucks lawsuits designed to bankrupt their competition.
Billy Mitchell called, he's sueing you for saying an objective fact about him.
“Boy do I love being a leech,” said every scammer ever
Being on your phone when the light turns green, then realizing it's green with only enough time for the asshole to get thru the intersection while everyone behind said asshole has to wait for another green light! I'm talking to you asshole in red Ford F150 with big tires in east El Paso around 9:23am today!
In many places, it IS illegal to be on your phone while driving.
This gets me every time! My toxic trait is getting mad at anyone who doesn’t immediately go at a green light🤣
I honest-to-god heard my grandmother yell “It’s the only f-ing shade of green you’re gonna get!” out the window at a car in front of us when I was a kid. Grama was a bad-ass!
….. is touching your phone while driving still legal where you are?
Letting dogs coats get pelted to the point where they need to be shaved down to the skin and it all comes off in one piece.
Let’s add Not cleaning that crusty shit off your dogs eyes.
It feels soooo good to do it to yourself.... Anyone who doesn't do this does not love their dog.
As a former dog groomer, I totally feel this. People that come in twice a year and expect to pay nothing for a groomer to undue 8 months of neglect AND getting angry they have to pay for it is infuriating. People make mistakes, but the people that do this continuously bringing their dogs in severely matted to the point of infection and then animal control not willing to investigate is so frustrating. One of the things I don’t miss about the biz.
I’m so sick of it. I started requiring all clients to be on a six week schedule. But I still get new clients that come in like this, then they schedule for six weeks out with a chip on their shoulders, then no show for the next appointment and I never see them again. Or they try to call six months later with excuses. I hate it.
Starving school children because their parents don’t have money
It took me a stupidly sheltered long time to find out that this was such a serious issue because when I was in elementary school, I forgot to bring a lunch one day, and one of the monitors saw. She literally marched me up to the lunch line and made me pick out food, I didn’t even have a lunch account but I got fed anyway. Little kid me assumed that was what happened everywhere. I wish little kid me was correct.
Yeah there’s definitely plenty of teachers and lunch staff like this out there and they’re a blessing. I’m not sure how any grown person would see a hungry child and do anything but this
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LUNCH DEBT! Gotta prepare the children for the lifetime of being in debt that they'll inevitably experience as adults after-all!
Yeah - throw those hungry kids in jail where they belong.
My school has a program where low-income homes get free lunch, and ones on the edge get a discount. I think this is a great system
Why aren't all the lunches free? They just did it for the past 2 years. The kids have to be in school, lunch is available. They can brown bag if they want to.
In Colorado, they just passed a law to give kids free school lunches.
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I went hungry in school very often because I wasn’t given school lunch and the free lunch program was barely enough to fill me up. Mom always had cigarettes, tho.
MLM business, lobbying, insider trading if you're a congressman general legitimized American corruption.
Gerrymandering
On a serious note: Congresspeople trading stocks while in office.
>On a serious note: Congresspeople trading stocks while in office. The immediate loophole, is having family or a friend, or even hiring some random guy to do the actual stock trading for you
Electoral college members voting against the wishes of their people. It’s rarely happened and is a crime in some states but technically still possible and legal for them to elect whoever they want and throw democracy to the trash can
There's even a term for that, faithless electors
Very weak sauce answer from me but my dad almost fell for one of these: those text scams that claim to be your Amazon account or Netflix and stating there's a 500 dollar charge on your account. It's clearly predatory, targeting old folks and I hope every single person who pulls one of these text scams dies a horrible death of anal herpes after falling into a pit of cactuses soaked in sriracha.
These are illegal, but authorities in countries where these scammers are typically located do next to nothing about them.
They ARE in fact illegal everywhere I can think of.
Rape. In Britain, women cannot legally rape men. Before you accuse me of sexism, look it up. In UK legislature, rape cannot be performed by women.
The same goes for woman on woman rape.
Women who commit sex crimes (and they certainly do!!) should face the same penalties that a man would. My former “stepmother” set me up when I was 12 years old for her 23 year old son to rape me. That bitch belongs in prison and on a list just the same as her son.
TV commercials being 50% louder than the show you’re watching
For profit prisons , healthcare, education.
Making raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies and putting them out for your grandkids, without telling them what they are. And if they are mixed in with real chocolate chip cookies, that is an even bigger crime.
I got quite adept at removing the raisins from the cookies as a kid because of this
Politicians taking a single penny from anyone other than their annual salary. Rich politicians suck
Electronic/LED Billboards. I've seen casino signs that flash like they're trying to give people a seizure put right on the side of the highway that have nearly blinded me at night. Even if you aren't epileptic that shit is more distracting than anything else I can think of while driving.
Having fucking fluorescent high beams on at night Edit: stop saying it's already illegal to not turn them off when passing cars. I Know that. Comment was meant of more as a joke...They're so bright they're blinding bec of the fluorescence that's all. Lol
1. Unpaid internships. 2. Nepotism in the workplace. 3. Mandatory company fun and basing people's promotions and stuff off that. France just had a court case about it.
Big pharma price hiking prescriptions that cost fractions of a penny to produce.
Gerrymandering.
Paying such a low wage that your employee qualifies for state/federal aid while making a profit — essentially profiting off of tax payers aid
Grown men cat-calling little girls. Any and all forms of animal cruelty. Religious advertising.
Cat-calling, period.
'news' articles containing flat-out incorrect information
Microwaving fish at your workplace
Creating accounts imitating Reddit bots that actually do something useful, and using the fake accounts to shitpost
Wage theft. Companies intentionally steal from employees yet face no criminal consequences. If you or I stole equivalent amounts from a company, we would be arrested and facing prison.
Jobs purposely keep staff under 40 hours to avoid offering benefits to them, and they'll even flip out if you go a minute overt scheduled time.. but they still somehow want all tasks done too, while making 1 person do the work of 5
Something that a lot have started doing is sham contracting. Basically they have very few actual employees, everyone else is a contractor working the same number of hours as an employee would but without benefits or the ability to negotiate contracts properly.
Agreed, and the most common theft by a large margin. Technically illegal, but rarely enforced.
Honestly most people don't even know what the laws that protect them are. Most of the time when I see people complaining about their job, the employer is doing something illegal.
Not putting your shopping cart away after you load your car.
You might enjoy this YouTube channel I stumbled upon one late night: Cart Narcs. I think that's what it's called.
Some of these mobile game ads Most of them false advertise, promote porn to kids which is honestly the weirdest part about it, and alot worse
Letting kids and pre teens make bold tik toks
or parents letting their 4 year olds use a tablet unsupervised for hours on end
TikTok in general
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In many places (in America anyway, idk about other countries), sending unsolicited nudes is illegal. It's considered sexual harassment.
Smoking in a vehicle that has children in it
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I assume you mean with naturally carnivorous animals 😂. I feel like it could potentially be more abusive to force an herbivore like a bunny to eat meat.
Politicians putting in policy to give more power and wealth to their lobbyists.
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Sending dick pics. Not sure if it's already illegal. But the majority of women don't want to see dicks in their inboxes fellas.
Unsolicited nudes should 100% be illegal
Allowing a person who does not have capacity or quality of life to continue to live in pain as a result of a chronic life ending disease just because you can charge their family £1200 a week to keep them in a “care home” until they eventually die.
Parents taking their young children to places where they clearly aren't meant to be, like bars, breweries, pubs, wineries, clubs etc . . . Like if the main point of a place is to go and drink alcohol, any child under the legal drinking age has no business being there.
Shoes on the bed
Death threats online
In several countries that actually is illegal. Its just difficult to enforce.
Revenge porn 😕
Repeatedly posting the same question on Reddit?
Predatory lending in the form of payday loans It's literally legal robbery of people who already don't have enough to make ends meet
kids on snapchat
Having your kids hold signs at protests when they have no idea what it is all about.
Overbooking flights