I’ll start:

Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.

Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state

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    As a Scot, it’s annoying seeing people think that we are a “colony” of the English, because they do have an assumption of Scotland and England as different nations with different cultures and (sometimes shared) histories but assume that England annexed us illiegaly. we only formed the Union with England because we fucked up in our own efforts at imperialism, which we massively failed at and fucking bankrupted us. I would say that deciding to try and join the likes of England, France, Spain, the Netherlands etc in colonialism was the single worst decision that we ever made. Although one argument could be that the 1320 deflation of Arbroath talked about the sovereignty of the people and the 1707 Union was done against the wishes of the people, but that doesn’t make Scotland a full blown “colony”. Especially if many of us still support this union and/or willing joined the English as British imperialists. In many aspects, Scotland and England are different. But in some, we’re the same.