what political or social injustice riles you up the most?

[brianmanahan]

for me it is cases where celebrities and sports stars get fines + community service for a drunk driving homicide, while an average person would get 10-30 years in prison for the same crime

 

[piasabird]

Tatoo's. Why not just tatoo stupid on their forehead?

I work at a community college and someone thought it would be a good idea to put photos and stories up about people with tatoos. I think people need some better role models. I quit watching TV because everything just sucks.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The free ride for behavior that athletes and frats get at many colleges that would get the average student kicked out.

 

[IronWing]

Free coffee but no free soda.

 

[brianmanahan]

Free coffee but no free soda.

ARGHHHHHHH i hate this!!!!!

 

[Moonbeam]

If I were going to get bothered by something it would be allowing myself to be bothered by something. The only thing I can justify feeling about being alive is gratitude. It is this joy in being, I think, which caused man to invent God, and of course, it was the universe in which gratitude can exist that caused it to create man.

 

[Chops McGandhi]

data caps. Communication line monopolies *First World Problems* :whiste:

 

[nehalem256]

Tatoo's. Why not just tatoo stupid on their forehead?

I work at a community college and someone thought it would be a good idea to put photos and stories up about people with tatoos. I think people need some better role models. I quit watching TV because everything just sucks.

Well some people get names or words tattooed on their neck...

 

[Angry Irishman]

Politically, it's people who zealously align themselves with political parties or ideals that are usually too far to the right or left. It just leads to endless partisan politics with no chance for compromise.

 

[Broheim]

the retarded notion that we have poor people here in Denmark, just because you can't afford the latest ipad does not make you fucking poor, get back to me when you can't put a roof over your head and food on the table.

 

[Jadow]

muffed punts

 

[Hyraxxx]

The biggest social injustice that riles me up the most is prison rape. The justice system knowingly allows these crimes to happen. But it's ok because these subhumans in prison are the victims.

 

[ivwshane]

I don't know about being riled up but I don't understand how crimes by people get worse punishment than corporations.

For example: if a person kills another person they can be sentenced to death or life in jail, their life is essentially over. Now if a corporation kills someone via negligence on their part, they get fined. To me it would make more sense to have their corporate charter revoked and the company disbanded.

 

[nehalem256]

I don't know about being riled up but I don't understand how crimes by people get worse punishment than corporations.

For example: if a person kills another person they can be sentenced to death or life in jail, their life is essentially over. Now if a corporation kills someone via negligence on their part, they get fined. To me it would make more sense to have their corporate charter revoked and the company disbanded.

You do realize if a person kills someone via negligence they don't go to prison for life right?

Even if someone kills some via drunk driving they don't usually go to jail for life.

And of course lets look at the real results of disbanding a corporation. Say some VP screws something up that results in someone dying. Do you really want to put potentially 1000s of people out of work just to stick it to the corporation?

 

[StrangerGuy]

The second most would be people who choose to commit vile actions like producing children they can't reasonably raise and still have the cheek to defend their actions as a right, and actually catering to those depraved is the first.

 

[ivwshane]

You do realize if a person kills someone via negligence they don't go to prison for life right?

Even if someone kills some via drunk driving they don't usually go to jail for life.

And of course lets look at the real results of disbanding a corporation. Say some VP screws something up that results in someone dying. Do you really want to put potentially 1000s of people out of work just to stick it to the corporation?

Good job you have recognized that different crimes have different punishments. Do you really want to nit pick a complete hypothetical situation or was my point not clear enough?

Do you think that if the punishment were as severe as that that corporations would make sure mistakes with consequences don't happen? What if the CEO were made to take responibility and the resulting punishment? Do you think companies my think twice?

So yes, if a company commits an illegal act they should be punished accordingly and yeah people will be out of work, it's called accountability.

 

[Acanthus]

Privacy Violations by companies and nations.

Lack of a comprehensive medial care system.

For-profit healthcare.

 

[Acanthus]

the retarded notion that we have poor people here in Denmark, just because you can't afford the latest ipad does not make you fucking poor, get back to me when you can't put a roof over your head and food on the table.

It is all about relative poverty.

Denmark is one of the top nations in the world for taking care of its poor.

It is actually economically beneficial to have a strong social welfare system.

 

[Acanthus]

data caps. Communication line monopolies *First World Problems* :whiste:

Honestly, if we set aside the hot button issues this is the biggest one for me.

A company here in Ohio was given a shitload of money from ARRA to run fiber to every county in Ohio. (more correctly, the company i am speaking about got the contract to do about 1/3 of Ohio in the South)

The company was given this money on grants, and benefited tremendously from these grants. I live next door to a switching station for this fiber route. If i want business class internet connectivity, best they can do is 12mbit down 12mbit up for $3600/month. Plus a multi hundred dollar installation fee to run copper next door.

Who the hell is going to pay that? This is like bandwidth pricing from the 90s.

 

[Acanthus]

Well some people get names or words tattooed on their neck...

We call those hard to cover up tattoos everlasting jobstoppers.

 

[sportage]

Two words. Nonconstancy and hypocrisy.
With,
#1. Religion.
#2. politics.
#3. Law.
#4. War.

Example? Civil rights dealt with all four.

 

[Murloc]

that there are countries where the people can't ask for a popular vote on important issues, and yet the politicians think it's right that way.
See any EU country about the EU membership.

 

[Broheim]

It is all about relative poverty.

Denmark is one of the top nations in the world for taking care of its poor.

It is actually economically beneficial to have a strong social welfare system.

that is true, but I'll use an example that was brought up in the media not long ago. Tania is a 28 year old single mother of four, she has never worked a day in her life but after taxes she takes in almost $60k/year, she has a large apartment (about the size of your average danish house), the family has 3 cellphones, internet and cable tv, they go on vacations each year (last year it was turkey, the year before that bulgaria), she smokes and from pictures of her apartment I could see plenty of bottles of white wine hanging from a wine rack (not that cigarettes and white wine is reserved for the rich, but they are "luxury" items). She herself has said she is not poor, in some countries she'd be a 1%'er with that income for god's sake, but I still have to listen to bleeding hearts talk about how bad people like her have it.

our welfare system has served us well for a long time due to our small size and demographics, but I feel like punching a dolphin right in the mouth every time I have to hear about "poor" people from some commie asshole still wet behind the ears and straight out of Folk high school funded by their upper-middle class mommy and daddy.

 

[Broheim]

that there are countries where the people can't ask for a popular vote on important issues, and yet the politicians think it's right that way.
See any EU country about the EU membership.

oh don't even get me started on the EU, Denmark pump more money per capita into that clusterfuck than any other nation but when we want to put cops at the borders to stop eastern european criminals they get all nazi on us but then turn around allow the spanish to do the same thing to keep eastern european workers out...

 

[Acanthus]

that is true, but I'll use an example that was brought up in the media not long ago. Tania is a 28 year old single mother of four, she has never worked a day in her life but after taxes she takes in almost $60k/year, she has a large apartment (about the size of your average danish house), the family has 3 cellphones, internet and cable tv, they go on vacations each year (last year it was turkey, the year before that bulgaria), she smokes and from pictures of her apartment I could see plenty of bottles of white wine hanging from a wine rack (not that cigarettes and white wine is reserved for the rich, but they are "luxury" items). She herself has said she is not poor, in some countries she'd be a 1%'er with that income for god's sake, but I still have to listen to bleeding hearts talk about how bad people like her have it.

our welfare system has served us well for a long time due to our small size and demographics, but I feel like punching a dolphin right in the mouth every time I have to hear about "poor" people from some commie asshole still wet behind the ears and straight out of Folk high school funded by their upper-middle class mommy and daddy.

Honestly, I would move to Denmark in a heartbeat if i had the ability. Beautiful countryside, awesome people, substantially better government, better economy... the list goes on and on.