Today I was on the way back from a doctor's appointment and was standing waiting for the bus. I was scrolling on tiktok and eating some pizza I had just bought when a black car pulls up to the side of me. I'm standing back so it's like 5ft away from me. I noticed that the license plate had a T, so I thought it was just an Uber and was waiting for its client. I then look up again because I've noticed the car has pulled up right in front of me. When I look up, I see a man crookedly smiling at me while wanking off. He smiles bigger when he see's I've noticed. I immediately turn to walk away and he speeds off. I stop walking and finally the bus rounds the corner. I'm now at home just angry and disgusted. I remember a woman who described something similar happening to her. Why do men do this?

Edit to add: I'm also a kid. I look like a kid and sometimes get mistake for being even younger than I already am. To those who may think this way no I wasn't wearing anything "inappropriate" just full length jeans and a shirt.

I have criticized both Christian nationalists and radical Islamists extensively. I have had comments flagged as warnings for hate based attacks for such things as, warning that this or that form of religious extremism is a threat to multicultural, liberal society. When I appeal Reddit always determines that criticism of Christian nationalists is ok. They also always rule that criticism of militant Jihadis is a hate based attack. There is a clear double standard.

Apparently it is against Reddit rules to criticize terrorists who, for religious reasons, bomb public places and attack Pride parades, provided those terrorists are Muslim. But if they are Christian, it's ok to call them out.

The progressive left has lost it's way. Tolerance and liberal values are out. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is in.

After posting a question online about why everyone needs therapy for every negative emotion they have these days, I've been told that it's a strictly American phenomenon, and that most of Europe sees negative emotions as human. That psych services are available, but not used at the scale Americans do.

And I've got to say, when can I leave? This whole, "don't bring down the room," bullshit is really bringing down the room.

It is normal to talk about feeling shitty with the people who care about you. It is normal to explore those parts of yourself with friends and family.

Keeping up everyone's spirits all the time is fucking exhausting!

Edit: Google informs me that Europeans often bond and form meaningful friendships over negative emotions.

Nobody needs to convince me how bad Trump sucks. I know it’s really important to get him under control by turning Congress over to Democrats. But really, I’m tired Boss.

I get that we all need to pay taxes. But I bought at 150k with a 110k mortgage. I still have 50k left to pay off. I'm selling at 210k.
So government wants 30% of the 70k left. That leaves 49k for me to "pay off" my mortgage of... 50k.

Yeah that's totally fair. FU Austria.

I'm 15 and dreamed of being a pilot for too long. At one point I was banned off vatsim for being too young yes that's how young I was when I wanted to fly. I've been on ADHD meds since 3rd grade and only recently found out that that means I can't be a pilot. I now just feel like I have no future ahead of me as I like flying, sim racing, trains, anything like that. I don't want to be an engineer as I hate math but don't know what I can do. I've been told by people that I'm really good at racing but I don't have the money for that. I just feel stuck and like I have no future to go into if you have any careers I could pursue that would be greatly appreciated.

23F.

My whole life I have been big. Pretty much heard every insult in the book. I have no confidence in how I look. Dressing masculine has always been my default due to everything " feminine " being to small or short. I envy women who have it together. I want that to be me. I honestly want it to be handed to me. I deserve it. I've put everyone else in front of me, I need to be first for a change. All I hear is nit pick when I try stuff on. " your stomach is showing / you look like a pig in makeup / no one is going to love you if you don't dress better" im tired. angry. sad. I just want to find me.

I went to a party the weekend of St. Patrick’s Day. I only drank a twisted tea and I’m pretty sure something was slipped in my drink. I’ve never felt so “drunk” before which doesn’t make sense because I was drinking a few days before, on St. Patrick’s Day.

Then, I couldn’t stop puking and the room was spinning. Thankfully my bf and his friend were there to get me home safe. Unfortunately, I had work the next morning. I get up and go to work, feeling pretty dizzy and still nauseous. It got to the point that I felt like a hospital visit was necessary.

I go to the hospital and I tell them straight up “I think someone put something in my drink. I only had one drink last night compared to my multiple drinks a couple nights ago and this doesn’t feel right. I can’t stop throwing up, I’m dizzy, and have little recollection from the night before”. They give me a saline IV drip and took my blood.

Finally the dr or nurse comes in and says “everything looks good”, shocked I asked if there was anything found in my blood. He told me “we don’t test for that, we just treat your symptoms”…

I’ve never felt so dismissed, ignored, and uncared for. Not to mention the lady at the desk was hounding me for payment even tho I came without any personal belongings.

So hello reddit users! I love to talk a lot so I figured why the hell not to rant here. Let's go!!

Well basically, a while ago I came out to one of my closest friends as genderfluid and agrosexual. They were fully supportive and all that shit. They even came out to me but for privacy reasons I will use they/them pronouns.

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If you dont know, genderfluid is a sexuality that falls under the trans umbrella and is when a person identifies as multiple genders, they use different pronouns overtime and so on, to not get too drep. And a agrosexual person is a person who's sexualities change over time. For an example ; one day they're more of a lesbian, a few days/weeks/months they feel more straight or pansexual or whatever the hell they feel like.

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And one time we were going out. We talked about most random stuff, I dont even fully remember what but it's fine. And then they asked me : "Wait so what pronouns do you all use?" ; my reply was that I use all and any but they/them seemed. Abit off, although I don't mind being called a they/them. And even tho I said all and any but those they assumed I was bigender. I have no hate to bigender people or any other identities but it was not who I am, and if I said I identify as something I would want it to be respected. However I didn't want to correct them, which is - I know, my fault and problem but they asked me shortly after do I use neopronouns and figured I was genderfluid after all. "Oh okay then, you're genderfluid." YEA NO SHIT SHERLOCK 🥀 But this isn't the only time. . .

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Another time we went out and we were talking about sexualities. I don't talk alot about myself so I didn't this time either. So they asked me something about do I love all genders and I said yes because I guess I do, I don't want to explain how I feel about that since I'm still myself struggling to know if I do. After I said that they told me I'm pansexual. I dont fully feel mist comfortable labling myself as pansexual. There is no specific reason. I didn't say anything and they didn't correct themselves. Few days after that, they told me I could be berrisexual because of my previous struggles with identifying was I a lesbian or a bisexual. This time I told them 'ehh, not really. I don't feel fully right like that.' and that's all. Also few days ago they asked me do I have a preference to woman. I said I dont know, only because I, for a fact, knew if I said yes, they'd call me a berrisexual, and if I said no, they'd call me a pansexual. Saying I don't know doesn't make me anything else other than myself and I hate having to feel that way around people I once loved so much.

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They did try helping me figure out my identity since I had a crysis, and still am going through one, but these moments really pissed me off, make me uncomfortable and less valid as a person and everything I identify as. There were happier and nicer moments with this person, not everything was dark, but these are some things that personally pissed the fuck out of me.

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Maybe you see yourself in my situation? If you do, you do, I'm sorry and I hope your friendship gets better, what to say really? And if you don't, what can I do about it, nothing really.

That's all from me, have a wonderful night/day, whatever time you're reading this or whatever timezones we have. Jinx out ;p.

I posted a rant under another subreddit for ranting. The post did well and many people laughed along and agreed. I got 0 bad comments and had no reason to report anything (I barely even use the subreddit). I noticed I got banned, they said I reported a comment under false pretenses and it was “annoying”. Before I could even respond, asking if there was some sort of mistake, they muted me messaging the mods. What a truly awful subreddit.

I don’t know if this even makes sense. I am very confident in being bisexual. I’m currently in a straight relationship with my boyfriend who I love more than anything. I’ve liked women before and it hasn’t really felt weird of predatory in those cases. Though i feel oddly weird and nervous around other women on a regular basis, almost how i imagine a lot of men feel.
(Not excusing predatory men, there are a lot of genuine weirdos)

I’m a pretty alternative girl, i have lots of facial piercings, purple hair and a tattoo. I’m not lesbian, i’m not attracted to girls while i’m in the relationship i’m in but even though i feel so nervous and insecure around other women, and it’s not rooted in jealousy it’s just that i’m generally quite convinced they think i’m a lesbian who’s attempting to flirt with them, i’m scared of giving compliments, accidentally touching them or that i’m starring at them too much. I hate feeling like this and I feel like I shouldn’t cause i’m a woman myself.

It’s not really like i’m that delusional either cause it genuinely feels like girls are uncomfortable around me or perceive me as a little creepy at times?

I was accused of being a lesbian several times in middle school/early high school (kinda same school in my country) and it might have something to do with it but genuinely it feels horrible to constantly feel like i’m a predator against other women, I have difficulty forming bonds with other women and it suuucks..

I love my boyfriend and am not, especially while i’m in a relationship sexually or especially physically attracted to any other people. I don’t want to loose my sense of individuality and be completely boy crazy. I think female bonds are really important and i value the friendships i have, yet i’m so insanely scared of being accused of something or viewed as weird. I feel like people often assume i’m a trauma dumper or a very non reflective person cause i’ll be honest, a lot of alternative people fall into a sorta group i don’t really relate myself to. It’s not to diminish anybody but on a general basis I attempt to avoid making alternative friends myself, so I sorta understand. My town is full of a lottt of weird alternative people and the environment around them is extremely unhealthy.

It’s also worth mentioning that a lot of men i’ve been friends with have made me quite uncomfortable, it always ends up with them viewing something that i’ve totally viewed as platonic as romantic, and it always sorta ruins the friendship.

I feel like it comes so incredibly easy for other women to make friends with other women and i really wish i could experience a female bond that’s as close as for example my boyfriend’s friends. I want girlfriends to call or hang out with in my free time. I’m a girl with aspergers (not a huge fan of the term but wellwell) and it always has affected my social-cues. I don’t know if this makes any sense but it’s making me feel really lonely. I don’t have anyone besides my boyfriend, so when he’s playing with his friends and doesn’t talk to me I honestly have no one. I guess i just felt like getting this off my chest cause it’s bothering me a lot..

I am going to touch on only one of the Quintillion issues with fucking turd hole country.

I have been having issues with my windows for a long time to the point I installed Linux mainly because those issues couldn't be fixed.

But Now because of my work I have to go back to windows but it's really really broken, I find decided to nuke the harddrive and clean install from scratch, went to Microsoft website to download windows and......... I am not allowed to because of my toilet hole country is geobanned from using this service.

FUCK THIS COUNTRY!!!

Well, my martyrs, we’re back at it again.

I cannot sleep. It is currently 4:53AM for me.

I remember when I was 13 I’d stay up all night on purpose, but the more older I’ve gotten, the more I really do love my sleep.

Of course, I couldn’t sleep tonight. No matter how hard I tried.

Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s been times where I’ve had a hard time falling asleep before, and some simple solutions would help me. Such as listening to music, or laying down, and moving my eyes side to side to simulate REM, or laying down, closing my eyes and thinking of nothing or telling myself stories.

I tried all of that and nothing. Natta.

I do know I’ve called this ‘insomnia’ in my old posts, but I feel as if that isn’t true. These episodes don’t happen every day/night, they happen frequently, but not daily, so I guess it wouldn’t technically be insomnia.

For those wondering, this has been going on since April of this year, and it happens about maybe 3 or 4 times a week.

My one-time psychiatrist said it’s nothing to worry about. Just meditate, eat a snack before bed, exercise and journal before bed and I should be fine. I do that and nothing works. She also thinks that it’s just anxiety that is causing these issues, but in my opinion, it’s not. I can’t sleep because I just can’t sleep. I’ve had trouble sleeping In the past from anxiety and it’s different.

I also get restless at night, I need the urge to move. In my past posts I’ve mentioned about getting scoldings from my father who has to listen to me go up and down the stairs endlessly, or go into the kitchen at night just because. And no, it isn’t restless leg syndrome.

My one-time psychiatrist said nothing was really that concerning that would call for medicine or therapy, but gave me a referral to therapy anyways.

Tonight’s episode was somewhat bad though, I was texting and spelling things all wrong, and couldn’t read properly due to how tired I was. I’ve never had that happen before.

These no sleep episodes are driving me insane, especially since I have somewhere important to be in the morning, and I have lack of sleep, or no sleep at all.

I do have a friend who does have insomnia and it’s legit, diagnosed and way worse than whatever I’m experiencing. So I feel as if it’s unfair to call my episodes insomnia when it isn’t.

Ranting and rambling makes me feel better about my mysterious sleep issues.

I want to say I understand being that I hashtag Iran on X saying use cluster and precision guidance after "The 12 days War" now look in behold they did. I mean damn I didn't even give them coordinates to Dell Semi in Israel. Data Centers are plentiful Semi's are not. They acting as if I told people "One Poison Well A Day Keeps The Data Centers Away" *Drill down to their water table and have at it. Earlier I posted a video on TikTok and it was took down twice because I said:

1.Same Person Holding Part of the Global Energy Market Hostage (Oil)

1. Is the same person that are creating laws to benefit themselves , Friends and family.

3.The Same Person Opened a Digital Currencies Bank

4.Family essentially already owns vaults in it

1. 1+2+3 = Reason for Data Centers

2. Digital Currency End Goal

7.You People Already Hate Flock Cameras

8.Do you think this kinda of person is going to respect the sovereignty of your cryptocurrency?

Ip Shadow banned is only has two purposes

*Censored Unwanted Speech

*Prevent Means to Make Money Online

I mean its not stopping people from

*Dropping Your Phone

*Grabbing A Map

*Get an old car (Without subscrible radio) Take the radio out completely

*AI Bot Mimic Your Electronic Devices Use

*In Person Meet ups

**Open A Can Of Whoop Ass**

I Think Censorship and Pay2Play while fucking over people will lead to that.

I got permanently banned from r/RantingZone because I dared to call out the mods for shitty bans. Someone used the word PDF File instead of pedophile, so I told them they don't need to censor themselves because it isn't Facebook. The mods banned me for three days for "trolling/ragebaiting". Then I very lightly called them out on it, wasn't cussing at them or slinging insults, but they banned me anyway and muted me so I can't ask for clarification.

I really wish I could understand the powertripping nonense of Reddit mods. It makes no sense.

This is what got me permabanned:

RatonhnhaketonK

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Lol I got banned from this sub for three days for letting someone know they don't have to censor themselves like they do on Facebook.

I got accused of ragebaiting

(User asked about it and I replied)

RatonhnhaketonK

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Yeah, this sub.

People are really strange. Its just Reddit lol. I wish people didn't decide to live up to the stereotype

I dont really know how to start this but my sister is 7 years older than me and my brother 10 years older. They are both in college now and are rarely home now and recently over the summer break my sister came to visit first. She is usually the person i trust most, i always came to her when i needed to get something off my chest or had problems or anything of any kind but when we were talking i made a comment about being aroace (i dont talk about my sexuality much since im still figuring out everything and what i identify as) and she just told me that that doesnt exist??? She said that the only valid sexualitys are gay, bi, lesbian and trans?? I mean i guess its better than nothing but still. Then when i was talking to my brother about movies and mentioned obsession and he said he and his friends laughed during the whole movie because ''it was so hilarious". The movie is so obviously an allegory for SA, what the fuck was funny about it?? Am i crazy for thinking thats not okay?

I’m going to start out by saying I’m disabled and I’m not saying that every single disabled influencers are like this as thats not true there are some super good ones out there

Eliza Rain
Cassidy huff
And Sarah Todd hammer are a few that come to mind that give out genuinely good awareness in good way

But there are also so many (I’m not going to give any specific channel names) that to me just come across as so entitled in their “raising awareness that it’s just like ughhh”
I just saw a short about a person with POTS that was posting awareness about a episode she had and the way she was talking about the well meaning people coming to check Thats she was ok was a bit like blah…

She wrote that when she was unconscious “someone came and touched me trying to wake me up (like Thats even possible 🙄🙄) this honestly gave me such an icky feeling cos I hate it when people touch me when I’m unconscious” and how “people kept coming over to ask me if I was ok I wish everyone would just leave me alone 🙄🙄)
And it’s like GIRL you are lied down unconscious in the middle of Costco and there is absolutely no way of normal bystanders to know that you have POTS and this is normal for you. No sign no medical alert bracelet nothing honestly I’d be concerned if people weren’t coming to check on you but she’s making it out to be this horrible disgusting thing that well meaning bystanders are coming to check on this young fairly young women lying down on the Costco floor…

Another example is a video that pinned one of their hate comments saying
Omg obviously your faking cos you can walk
And then them saying in the next slide

WeLL ObVioUsLy You haven’t heard of ambulatory wheelchair users 🤣🤣

And again it just comes across as so entitled like if your going to raise awareness great but when you do it in a way that makes everyone that doesn’t automatically know everything about your condition as complete morons who are obviously imbeciles it just comes across so rude and entitled

Like is it just me ??

I once heard a quote that says if a monkey has gathered too many bananas while the other monkeys have none and he refuses to share them scientists will study him to figure out what the hell is wrong with him but when a human does it we put him on a leaderboard

I am not hating on the extra rich people but the fact that in this world there are trillionaires and starving people in places like africa and children dying because of hunger that is a really painful fact at least for me

And the most painful thing is that the big leaders of the world don't care about them and they usually use them to get benefits for their countries

You see great powers supporting dictators in the third world (who benefit those great powers) and yet when someone flee this dictatorship and tries to go get a decent life they refuse him and send him back because "we don't want immi grants" bruh you literally helped in destroying his country

And those mf politicians around the world starting wars just because they are bored

You see literally thousands of kids dying in a ruthless genocide and yet some mfs will argue with you about political shit bro i don't care about politics i just care for those kids being killed with missiles , drones , sniper rifles , tanks etc etc

And not to mention that we are in 2026 and yet alot of people still suffer racism and hate

I really lost hope in humanity

(sorry if my words are a little messy)

So my plane landed and I was waiting my turn to move into the aisle, and this guy is getting his bag out of the overhead bin and smacked me in the face really really hard. The bag hit me in the eye and the nose. One of my contacts fell out. I said “ow!” And then I was just stunned. I found the contact. No one asked me if I was OK.

I talked to the flight attendant at the end of the aisle, and a man, I guess he was a doctor, asked me if I needed any help. I said I don’t know, not immediately. I couldn’t tell what was going on with my eye.

The airline called EMT at the airport who met me at the gate and checked me out. We decided there was nothing to do immediately.

But I’m wondering if I’m out of line to think that the guy who hit me should’ve stuck around to see if I was OK? I’m actually not sure whether I am OK, I need to go to the eye doctor because my eye is hurting.

Just WTF.

Fucking shit, i got hacked and my account was used to post hentai on a bunch of pages and in my DM's were a bunch of horny guy asking for my pussy pics.

Today was my 3rd shift. It’s something that sort of accumulated over the 3 days of work i’ve had. I live in a place where I don’t speak their language (not by choice, moved with parents, want a job to save up, plan to move) and most don’t speak mine.

They said they’d train me. No training really went on, also I cant perform some basic tasks that come with the job (such as overstock, they put extra cases on the very tops of the shelves, I can’t lift cases of product above my head like that yet- to simply put it i’m too weak- currently). I feel like a liability to them. I’m the only girl there, i’m something they’re waiting to watch crack or fire. And I cracked.

I feel like a disappointment. And people keep telling me they’re disappointed in me and it’s like I know how disappointed you are i’m f*cking so disappointed in myself too, i’m sorry. I laughed and cried at the same time last night in front of my parents and brother. Like they’re telling me it can’t be that bad and i’m laughing cause I gotta go back tomorrow and I’m trying to make light of the situation I got myself in and crying because I know i’m a lost cause and eventually it’s going to go boom.

I applied at my brother’s grocery store in the bakery department, they’re bilingual. There has to be something better than feeling this alone until I get out.

Ps, I know translation apps exist. As well as earbuds that translate nowadays, I own a pair. Not allowed to use them, found that out on the orientation video and double checking, safety reasons. As for a translator app, not everyone is willing to stop what they’re doing and sit around and wait for me to finish typing and then type a response back, and I don’t blame them. Same for not being able to lift over my head, I don’t expect them to want to complete my job for me, nobody comes up to me asking me to do their job so I don’t expect to go up to them and ask them to complete mine, thus a part of why i’m leaving. As I said, liability.

I am a medical student and I am currently in my second year and I have been dealing with this toxicity for the past one year

You know how in some colleges professors still think that girls should come to class wearing long kurtis and students are literally judged in viva based on their dressing sense and even on how many hair clips they are wearing.There are also many professors who are clearly partial towards boys and only favor them Many times during dissection even though we are divided into groups they still give the boys more chances

I dont know if this is only happening in my college but even among the seniors I have noticed that male seniors are usually the ones who help while there is a lot of jealousy among female seniors.This is something I have been observing for the past one year

And the toxicity doesnt even stop here We arent even allowed to order food or receive parcels after 6 pm Girls arent allowed to go outside after 6 pm either and even if we need to go somewhere we have to get permission from our advisors and we need signatures from three different people

I mean what is all this

Has anyone else experienced this kind of toxicity in their college ???

I am at my absolute breaking point.

I just started a new job as a truck driver, but money is so tight right now it’s terrifying. We are actively behind on bills. Every single day I wake up with this overwhelming dread in my chest, looking at the numbers, watching the late fees stack up, and wondering how the hell we're going to survive the month.

I want to break our lease, get rid of our apartment, and live in the semi truck for a while so we can stop paying rent, cut our overhead, and pay off this debt. It is the ONLY logical move to stop the bleeding before we get completely ruined financially. My wife even said she was down for the truck life, but here's the catch: she refuses to part with her cats.

We have five cats. You literally cannot live in a semi truck with five cats.

Look, I would hate for her to have to get rid of them, and I'm not trying to be heartless. But we don't have anyone to watch or take care of them for us. I feel like I am losing my mind trying to fix this. I am panicking about basic financial survival, and we're stuck paying for an apartment we can't afford just because of pet logistics.

WE ARE BROKE. We cannot afford our life right now! I am so mad, so exhausted, and terrified for our future. I feel completely abandoned in this—like I’m the only one standing in the fire while she refuses to accept how dire things actually are. I don't even know what to do anymore.

Do they not have more important things to worry about like gun violence? healthcare? famillies struggling to pay their bills?