What’s something in 50 years from now we will look back and be horrified we accepted as normal?

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What’s something in 50 years from now we will look back and be horrified we accepted as normal?

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  1. ComeTrumpster Avatar

    The first orange president

  2. ghostbbs Avatar

    allowing children to have medical treatments which are not necessary for their health to appease that they feel they are in the wrong body. i truly do believe we will find this to be wrong eventually.

  3. b0yheaven Avatar

    Citizens United

  4. ladytsunadesbutthole Avatar

    Chicken Jockey (im not joking)

  5. ustarion Avatar

    Certain human rights abuses.

  6. Practical-Echo9371 Avatar

    I’d like to say mass/school shootings but I don’t think the U.S. will get their collective shit together to prevent that by then.

  7. MagicBoyUK Avatar

    Donald Trump / MAGA / Project 2025.

  8. thedingerzout Avatar

    Mass deportations without due process

  9. Micojageo Avatar

    I wonder if we’ll feel that way about chemotherapy. At this time it’s the best option we have, but in the future perhaps our descendents will think it barbaric.

  10. Whole_Anxiety4231 Avatar

    Calling LLMs “AI”.

  11. OzzieSlieveGuillion Avatar

    One woman per week being murdered by their intimate partner.

  12. throwra_milaita Avatar

    ICE, cops, gun rights, stripping women of bodily autonomy, oh and MAGA.

  13. Projected2009 Avatar
    1. Smoking.

    2. The banning of natural mental health remedies, like magic mushrooms.

  14. PeterNoTail Avatar

    Letting kids have social media accounts & smartphones

  15. IdiocracyParty Avatar

    Cancer treatment.

  16. Independent-Buyer827 Avatar

    It’s cute that you still think we can last another 50 years.

  17. Exciting_Regret6310 Avatar

    Large scale breeding and slaughtering of animals for their meat, and how they are treated.

  18. Brilliant-Swim2532 Avatar

    Apps with 30-second ads you couldn’t skip.

  19. eloksovrelaluna Avatar

    Palestinian genocide

  20. conestoga12345 Avatar

    Convicted felons becoming President of the United States

  21. Legend_017 Avatar

    People thinking “natural” means “better for you”. Hemlock is natural.

  22. AwayPresence4375 Avatar

    Shitface and his cult followers

  23. Phalharo Avatar

    40+ hour week

  24. Naive_Repeat9904 Avatar

    Putting people in prison for THC

  25. GTFOakaFOD Avatar

    Seriously? You don’t know?

  26. ChiefKingSosa Avatar

    Factory farming and other realities associated with providing cheap meat globally at scale

  27. furscum Avatar

    Real answer is going to be meat/dairy industry. Pretty crazy shit going on there that we accept as a necessity and will definitely be looked back on with scorn

  28. Under_Lock_An_Key Avatar

    We are going to look back in 50 years and be in horror at all the genocide happening we ignored while bitching about really dumb stuff. And we will be judged I imagine just like we judged the people we have judged in the past.

    Tibet anyone?

  29. Low-Willingness-2301 Avatar

    Criminal justice, as we do currently. There is a lot of work to do.

  30. Some_Ad6507 Avatar

    The way the media portrays certain people in an overly positive or negative light

  31. Uncle_Boiled_Peanuts Avatar

    Human controlled cars without any electronic collision avoidance systems.

  32. Alittlebitalexis08 Avatar

    The amount of plastic we use

  33. sunken_grade Avatar

    factory farming

  34. caveal Avatar

    hopfully flooding the country with more guns than people

  35. AtomizedBadgers Avatar

    Honestly, my guess is vaping weed. Clinical studies show that high THC cannabis can cause neurological disorders later in life. Plus cancer, it can definitely give you cancer.

  36. Dude-Man-Guy-Bruh Avatar

    Our criteria for a U.S. Presidential candidate

  37. malephous Avatar

    Our true disregard for the environment.

  38. tpablazed Avatar

    Speak for yourself.. I don’t consider any of this normal.

  39. SafetyCoffee Avatar

    Gastric bypass surgery.

  40. not_John_36 Avatar

    Pacifying kids with technology. Their slack jaws and lack of resilience will definitely bite us in the ass.

  41. thehumanconfusion Avatar

    The ‘EVERYTHING is disposable’ culture

  42. blackhamlet Avatar

    Cheating on a partner.

  43. mandicapped Avatar

    Trump. Hopefully!

  44. AbbreviationsGlad833 Avatar

    Reminds me of That scene in star trek 4 the voyage home when Dr. Leonard Mcoy is arguing with the present day surgeon.. “my God man, you don’t have to enter his skull!! This is barbaric!!! “

  45. BeardadTampa Avatar

    The demonization of Trans people for literally no reason whatsoever.

  46. YaBoiSammus Avatar

    Humans will not be able to survive the coming climate disasters

  47. YourDad6969 Avatar

    Extraction of healthy teeth for braces

  48. unicorns3373 Avatar

    Using plastic for everything, especially with food.

  49. Goldensunshine7 Avatar

    Billionaires buying the Presidency

  50. magsgardner Avatar

    Alchohol consumption, especially by young folks. I think we’re gonna look at it the way we do cigarettes now.

  51. Stunning_Rock951 Avatar

    that the people of the United States elected a convicted criminal to be president

  52. RoundGround79 Avatar

    Having Trump in the Oval Office twice!!

  53. curiousitrocity Avatar

    The amount of food wasted vs the amount of people with food insecurity.

  54. WEIGHTLIFTERRUNNER Avatar

    Minors getting surgery to change their sex.

  55. knedlicek_jahodovy Avatar

    Hopefully that we spend most of the time working instead with people we live.

  56. the-author-0 Avatar

    Medical insurance.

  57. DarthTurnip Avatar

    Burning fossil fuels

  58. helensgrandaughter Avatar

    :::Gestures wildly in every direction:::

  59. poopspeedstream Avatar

    creating a username, password, and verifying an email and a phone number for the most simple things, like looking at concert tickets or buying things or traveling to a different country

  60. CrypticQuery Avatar

    Hopefully circumcision by default in the US.

  61. Special_Basil_3961 Avatar

    Honestly I think it’s influencer, alpha culture right now along with tik tok/reels culture. It’s just horrible. It’s the trendy stuff that never becomes timeless stuff. We glorify “alpha” culture and not “community and art” culture because it’s a symptom of americas sick greedy selfish culture.

  62. WarriorGoddess2016 Avatar

    trump

    THC

    how menopause is approached.

  63. JQuick72 Avatar

    Only fans.

    (Assuming that it’s not still popular in 50 years)

  64. ailish Avatar

    I wonder how we’ll feel about America in 50 years. Will it be a dictatorship hellshole or will it survive the current troubles and go on?

  65. Muufffins Avatar

    Bringing dogs everywhere, and prioritizing them over people.

  66. sciliz Avatar

    Someday driving hangry will be seen as crazy as driving drunk.
    Hopefully, when the robot cars are at least good enough I can eat my dang snickers in peace.

  67. heathkay07 Avatar

    Two-factor authentication.

  68. Upbeat_Range_9669 Avatar

    countries being reliant on cheap labor and imports from countries with bad working conditions

  69. tvtropes_chivalrous Avatar

    Child beauty pageants and those true crime documentaries that exploit the victims, borderline glorify the killers, and give the families of victims no warning.

  70. moinatx Avatar

    Nothing will be horrifying if things keep going the way they are going. In 50 years history will have been santized and rewritten and it will be illegal to consider alternative narratives.

  71. Daggerfaller Avatar

    Letting websites sell our personal data

  72. INTERESTINGGGGGGGGGG Avatar

    ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION! 

  73. Goodlife1988 Avatar

    People excusing criminal behavior as ok to the point they treat them as the actual victims.

  74. InvestigatorSolid861 Avatar

    Umm murdering children by bombing them using American tax payers money

  75. dillberger Avatar

    More things than not probably. If we even make it that far.

  76. razorlatte Avatar

    Single-use plastics

  77. Eradicator_1729 Avatar

    People will be rightfully horrified by how many Americans normalized Trump’s bullshit

  78. Defiant_Elk_9861 Avatar

    Plastic everywhere and everything. In the name of convenience we polluted the entire world and our own bodies. 

  79. Atheist_Alex_C Avatar

    Everything that’s happening in society right now hopefully, but I won’t count on it

  80. drumjolter01 Avatar

    Trump
    (I’d say “pretended” more than “accepted” for a lot of people but this is gonna be an insane chapter of our grandkids’ history books)

  81. Typical_Elevator6337 Avatar

    Treating disabled people as disposable and separate from “normal” people, and everyone constantly getting sick from unclean indoor air (and being forced to work when you’re sick.) 

  82. lawyerwithabadge Avatar

    Trump administration.

  83. notrelame Avatar

    The borderline unchecked proliferation of online gambling/sports betting apps.

  84. Ok-Air-5056 Avatar

    not treating women’s pains as real… doctors and medical professionals just shrugging it off as it’s all in the mind… like having an IUD inserted with no pain relief

  85. Blue85Heron Avatar

    Using a needle to extract blood from a vein for diagnostic testing. In the future, a sensor placed on the skin will tell us the same things.

  86. Seruz Avatar

    Global warming

  87. Monstare98 Avatar

    Gestures Vaguely

  88. Substantial_Gap2118 Avatar

    Unbelievable that’s still such a large percentage of people are backing orange Hitler!!
    scary
    God help us! wake up people. For many it still hasn’t hit home yet. I guess watching state TV you’re being brainwashed. I’m too old for this.

  89. PM_ME_UR_CC_NUMBER Avatar

    broadly gestures at everything

  90. Typical_Elevator6337 Avatar

    Also: Israel (in the US)

  91. agent_wolfe Avatar

    Maybe arresting ppl in one country & sending them to a [redacted] prison in another country, without due process?

  92. _Avalon_ Avatar

    Trump and Maga behaviour.

  93. danyonly Avatar

    Social media prolly.

  94. Bullfrog1991 Avatar

    Umm the recent elections and hyper partisanship in the USA

  95. simondup Avatar

    Antidepressants – they help but we don’t know how or why. Future treatments for mood disorders will hopefully more targeted instead of just increasing neurotransmitters within the whole brain/body.

  96. mootheuglyshoe Avatar

    I think a lot of haircare and hygiene products. Many of them are horrible for us and the environment, completely useless (I started conditioner only washing—shampoo is literally a scam, my hair is so clean for days), and don’t even get me started on superbugs. People are so obsessed with being ‘clean’ they are actually making their skin wayyyy more susceptible to being damaged and infected. ‘Healthy’ and ‘clean’ are not synonymous. 

  97. Informal_Solution238 Avatar

    Factory farming of animals

  98. VendaMel Avatar

    That America allowed Elon Musk to influence government policy and decisions without him being elected official.

  99. Ok-Tooth-8330 Avatar

    Who i am , and what I could have been .

  100. PapaDeE04 Avatar

    In 50 years I’ll be like “I answered this question on Reddit 50 years ago, and like twice in the span of two weeks in April 2025, I’m horrified!”

    Of course I’ll be 105 years old in 50 years, if I’m on Reddit…I don’t know…will that be sad or will I have finally become the Redditor I always wanted to be?

  101. solarwindy Avatar

    On the assumption (keeping fingers crossed) that somehow America survives and overcomes this insane maga crap, we will look back at this period of our history as one if the darkest times.

  102. Different-Excuse5331 Avatar

    Rioting, looting businesses, burning businesses and murdering people who disagree with those committing these atrocious acts, over a drug dealing thug. A violent criminal that now is being worshiped by the liberal left. Statues erected and murals depicting the POS.

  103. BacchusCaucus Avatar

    Transgender surgery on kids.

  104. EaseBig1241 Avatar

    When we didn’t have Skip Intro on Netflix.

  105. Kernal-Anguish Avatar

    With hope and luck, dying.

  106. IkujaKatsumaji Avatar

    Hopefully, human drivers. I’m still really hoping that some car company (please God let it not be Tesla) figures out self-driving cars in a consistent and competent way.