r/complaints • • Feb 18 '26

Announcement Update to Rule 6: Self Promotion is Allowed Within the New Rule

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Self promotion of user generated content is permitted provided it is presented as a complaint, critique, grievance, or documented problem, rather than as pure advertising. The content must centre a substantive issue, failure, or harm, with the creator’s work used as context or evidence, not the point. Posts framed primarily to solicit clicks, sales, or followers will be removed.

If you have a question, feel free to ask here.

In summation, if your personal content on a platform like, but not limited to YouTube, Substack, DeviantArt, or Medium, then you may post it here if it conforms to the above rule. Basically, any form of something resembling a complaint, is allowed.

As always, if this is abused or gets too spam like, it can be removed under moderator discretion.


r/complaints • • Feb 04 '26

Announcement Major Changes to Rule 10: What IS and IS NOT Permitted When Posting About Other Subreddits

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in reviewing how other similar subreddits to ourselves operate, we are completely overhauling Rule 10.

You now may post complaints about other subreddits, issues you have with them, and even complain about moderation decisions. So long as the below Rule changes are followed in full. The moderation staff here has authority under Rule 5 to remove posts they feel can endanger the subreddit itself.

Please feel free to respectfully ask questions here about how this rule will be applied.

And now the new rule:

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Criticism or discussion of subreddit moderation, rule enforcement, or community conduct does not constitute harassment when it is directed at actions, policies, or outcomes rather than at individuals for the purpose of intimidation, abuse, or coercion.

Harassment under Reddit policy requires targeted abuse, threats, or behaviour intended to cause distress or silence participation. Good faith discussion of moderation decisions, including dissatisfaction or critique, is a form of platform accountability and does not meet the threshold for harassment when conducted under the restrictions outlined below.

The inability of a subject to prevent discussion of their public actions does not itself render that discussion harassing.

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r/complaints • • 7h ago

Politics Dept. Justice says --- the president could DESTROY every presidential record, leaving the incoming administration without information about terrorist threats, national security..

105 Upvotes

,ongoing wars, or critical economic negotiations. Because the president owns them...

The trump administration even argues he could sell secret presidental documents on EBAY..

The DOJ attorney also argued that transferring control of records to a future president could allow that successor to release communications embarrassing to Trump's administration.

What the fuck is this country now???

FUCK YOU MAGA FASCISTS

Most telling, Congress passed the Presidential Records Act after Watergate, partly because Richard Nixon sought control of records documenting his own administration's misconduct. The Trump administration is now challenging that very safeguard...

https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/constitutionality-presidential-records-act

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2026/10/16/doj-to-dc-circuit-presidential-records-act-is-unconstitutional/


r/complaints • • 14h ago

Politics Hey Israel, most of the world, especially the Irish, is disgusted with what your country is: a land-stealing and genocidal ethnostate that supports apartheid. While not all Israelis are Zionists, there are still enough of them to sicken the world.

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Let us never forget that Zionism means supporting land-theft, apartheid, oppression, occupation and racism (as per the Green Party). It means supporting grave injustices to humanity or, more specifically, the dreaded ‘brown people’. The cold hard truth is that if you want to be a true humanitarian, you cannot be a Zionist.

Israel’s genocide has gone on for three years now. The suffering! The destruction! The starvation! The displacement! The slaughter! The amputations!

The people of Palestine have suffered too much for too long. Israel shouldn’t even exist as a country if things went as they should have. The innocent Palestinians have been paying the price for the land that Israel has stolen. Never forget the 1948 Nakba, the time when Israel was founded where around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes, and where about 15,000 of them were murdered by Zionist militias. And many anti-Zionists speak about this, where most Zionists tend not to bring it up as it makes them look bad.

The IDF has murdered more than 21,000 children. Gaza has the highest concentration of amputees in the world, many of which are children. It’s so sad! It is estimated that 20% of Gazans have been murdered if we consider the mid-2024 Lancet report that projected at least 180,000 Gazans have been killed. Remember, the current death toll is for verified bodies, which doesn’t include bodies still under the rubble and bodies that have been vaporized. All of this points to genocide, which all respectable humanitarian organizations and genocide scholars have concluded to be the case. To deny genocide is bonkers and cruel. Ireland knows a thing or two about genocide. Its population never recovered from the 19th-century famine.

Most of the world knows what Israel is about. It is an illegitimate genocidal ethnostate where Jewish people are considered to be the chosen ones (which is reminiscent of how Nazis considered themselves to be a part of the ‘master race’). Jewish Zionists believe that they are entitled to land that was never theirs because their ancestors used to live there thousands of years ago. These Zionists believe they are entitled to mistreat Palestinians, which is sickening.

And dear Zionists, get mental health counselling. Most of the world knows how deranged you are. Seriously, get help. This post is not meant to stir up hatred towards you all. Anti-Zionism does not mean antisemitism, so stop using that lame excuse so you can avoid answering the tough questions about Israel.

I have said it before, and I will say it again. If you want to be on the right side of history, you cannot support Israel.

Down with Zionism!

Free Palestine!


r/complaints • • 4h ago

Media / Pop Culture Elon Musk's supposedly flying car is just a bullshit publicity stunt designed to bump up Tesla's stock price.

51 Upvotes

A flying Tesla with thrusters underneath isn't going to be available for sale to consumers anytime soon. They can't make a car like that street legal and imagine all the red tape and regulations required for rolling out something like that. You can't have people flying around willy nilly all over the place and crashing into shit. It's essentially an airplane then. So wouldn't you have to obtain a pilot's license to operate a flying Tesla? Ain't no one getting a flying car for the foreseeable future.


r/complaints • • 13h ago

Politics The Republican party is proposing looking at 6 year old girls genitals for sports related reasons...

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WHOOPS it's already allowed to look at prepubescent girls genitals for "sports related reasons" thanks to Republicans already!!

2025 Idaho Code Title 33 - EDUCATION Chapter 62 - FAIRNESS IN WOMEN’S SPORTS ACT Section 33-6203 - DESIGNATION OF ATHLETIC TEAMS.

https://law.justia.com/codes/idaho/title-33/chapter-62/section-33-6203/?utm_source

Washington Initiative 638, Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Initiative (2026)

The party is disgusting beyond belief.


r/complaints • • 1h ago

Politics To everyone out there in America complaining about getting phone calls, texts, and knocks on your door about the election...very likely, YOU actually are the problem! STOP COMPLAINING AND GO VOTE SO THEY'LL LEAVE YOU ALONE!

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As someone who used to work in politics, hearing complaints about being bugged by campaigns is MY biggest complaint, because I know the truth: at this stage of the election, the complaining voter is the reason they're being contacted so much.

The reason these campaigns keep bugging you is because you haven't gotten off your ass and voted yet.

The vast majority of states have early voting or some type of mail ballot program that you can utilize. Campaigns regularly get updates about who has voted and who has not. If they are a well run campaign with up to date data, then they will stop bugging you when they learn that you have voted.

So why the hell haven't you voted yet? The choice when voting is easier than ever this year. Trump is President and has fucked shit up. Republicans are sitting on their hands and not doing anything. And at every level of office--federal, state, local--the Republican politicians in office or aspiring to office are in his cult. If they didn't support Trump, they would have left the Republican party by now.

Ask yourself: is there literally anything that will happen between now and election day that will cause you to suddenly love Trump?

No?

Then you already know how you're voting.

So go vote.

All you have to do is look up the endorsed Democratic candidates in your area (google your state and county name and "Democratic Party" and you'll likely find this info), then request and fill out your mail ballot and return it. Or go vote in person at an early voting site, taking that info with you. Again, you can use Google to find out how.

And if you are in a state like California, Colorado, Oregon, or Washington with universal vote by mail...you probably have a ballot sitting in your pile of mail already. Take it to a drop box or a voting location to turn it in.

Oh yeah, and a final point about mail ballots: if you're voting by mail or absentee, drop off your ballot. NOT just because the USPS might be doing sketchy stuff this year, but also because any mail takes time. The sooner your local Registrar of Voters (or equivalent local entity handling voting) gets your ballot, the sooner it gets processed, the sooner campaigns stop contacting you.

So please, stop complaining and just go vote already! Make life easier for everyone, including yourself.

TL;DR: SHUT UP AND GO VOTE!!!!!!!!


r/complaints • • 12h ago

Politics These elections are yet another reckoning for MAGA, & America

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About 77 million voted for Trump in 2024; Harris got about 75m, and about 1.5m voted for a third candidate. (CFR)

Almost 90m were eligible, but did not vote (US News & World report)

Only about 30% of the 77 million identified themselves as extreme MAGA. A majority (if not all) of that 30% is Trump’s core base – the Proud boys; the KKK’s; “my neighbor has eaten my cat” & the like.

The rest were:
i) Republicans, who believed that they have vote for their team because that seemed like the loyal thing to do.

ii) Believed that Trump was better for the economy; immigration or whatever.

 iii) Trump was the best of bad alternatives, and they could not possibly vote Democrat.

 iv) Believed that some of what Trump says, had to be said. ‘They did not always agree with his methodology or how Trump said it, but*…..”.*

The Republican party today has three big problems:

  • The Party is totally dependent on Donald Trump and
  • Trump is too much of a narcissist to appoint an heir apparent.
  • The economy is the ‘tail that wags the dog’ and while one liners like “short term pain for long term gain” are cute on a TV show; they seldom pay the mortgage. There is not only nothing to suggest that it is turning around anytime soon. It is in fact likely to get worse, at least in the next few months.

The question that that every Trump voter in the i - iv category above have to ask themselves is, are they willing to own all of this, & if so at what price. There is no, “I do not agree with Trump on everything*, BUT.. anymore”. There is no ‘BUT’.*

The immorality; the reprehensible behavior; the sheer embarrassing illiteracy; the self-aggrandizement; the open corruption; the Epstein stuff; the fraud indictments; the sexual molestation allegations; the threats to allies; the cuddling up to despots; the particular draw to Vladimir Putin; the Iran war; the juvenile posts; the grifts; the good people on both sides; his part in the insurrection; the assaults on our democracy; the separation of nursing babies, you have to own it all.……& no gas & diesel prices; inflation; the UD debt; consumer confidence is not Obama & Biden’s fault. They are a fall out from a Trump created, bizarre tariff war, & a never ending war in Iran.

Also, hugging a flag on stage does not make Trump a patriot; nor does blanket pardoning insurrections or building monuments for yourself or saying John McCain was no hero “I like people who do not get captured”; calling veterans who sacrificed life & limb suckers; or excluding wounded veterans from public events, because “nobody wants to see” amputees. (American Progress.org) or calling Gen John Kelly a lowlife & a bad general.

It is more reflective of a coward, who himself avoided the draft 5 times, & is now trying to hide his cowardice, by criticizing those who actually served.

So, just to be clear: It is not his economy; it is not his no war policy; it is not his morality; it is not his transparency on Epstein; it is not his great health plan, that replaced ACA; I presume it is not the ball room &, it is not his sense of patriotism.

It also cannot be sense of loyalty – just look at the 20 or so advisors in Trump 1.0, or Marjorie T Green; Pam Bondi, Joe Kent, or virtually every US ally, (in Trump 2.0) who either went from the best of the best to scum, or (in case of allies) found a knife, in their back.

The core MAGA base never had the numbers to elect Trump (ism). He knows that the only way the Republicans win this November, is if he can deter us from showing up, to vote. Sure, he will try other tricks to cry foul, after election day, but all his paths become much more complicated, if the margins are not close. These elections are literally the most significant, in generations. What we want America to look like, is up to us. We cannot afford the luxury of being complacent. Please vote.

 

 

 


r/complaints • • 2h ago

Politics List of things that are responsible for all my problems

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Billionaires

Capitalism

My boomer parents (all boomers really)

Right wingers

landlords

Corporate executives

Politicians


r/complaints • • 19h ago

Politics tRUMP admin reverse engineering a law to protect food insecurity. Stores are getting in trouble for trying to reduce the cost 10%, for the needy!

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There‘s a law that prevents stores from price gouging people with empty SNAP/EBT. The cruelest administration, of our time, is going after stores who REDUCE a grocery bill 10% for EBT holders, without food credits.

Stores reverse engineered the law to help the needy. The admin , of cruelty, found out and reverse engineered the law, AGAIN, to prosecute any store, that helps a SNAP recipient.

Key Details of the Action

  • The Rule: The USDA cited the federal Equal Treatment Rule, which mandates that authorized SNAP retailers must sell eligible food items at the exact same prices, terms, and conditions to all customers, regardless of how they pay. [1, 2]
  • Why Stores Tried to Help: During a federal government shutdown and temporary freeze/interruption of SNAP funds in November 2025, several independent markets, farm stands, and grocery co-ops (such as the George Street Co-op and Maryland-area farm initiatives like the Farm Alliance of Baltimore) attempted to offer special discounts, matching dollars, or credits to help food-insecure families. [1, 2, 3]

r/complaints • • 23h ago

Politics Could there be any more of a pointless war for Russia than the Ukraine War?

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They invaded them for no discernible reason and now it's too late for Russia to win. Just for the sake of argument, how does Russia expect to fully occupy and force Ukraine to become part of the Russian Federation after five years of killing them, their children and their families? Yeah, I'm sure the people of Ukraine will be just thrilled to be annexed and forced to become Russia. It's going to have to continue to the point where Russia collapses and ceases to exist as its own nation and Moscow is in ruins and Putin is dead.

And no one's protesting or trying to overthrow anything, so they deserve what they get. No sympathy.


r/complaints • • 7h ago

Media / Pop Culture If Shane Gillis was a boomer telling “the joke” at the dinner table, at best he’d get an uncomfortable groan, and at worst, “Dad, you can’t say that!”

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His joke wasn’t funny, and sounded like 80s-90s hack comedy.


r/complaints • • 18h ago

Politics So Trump can just decide which laws or rules to follow! That’s where we are folks!

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Russian sanctions (no) Epstein File Release (no) Renewable energy (no) Civil Service Employment laws (no) Justice Department guidelines (no) Document protections (no) Security Clearance (no) Foreign Corrupt Practices (no) etc…


r/complaints • • 10h ago

Businesses Dystopia

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I just walked into a brand new McDonald's and my god. This is enshittification. If you haven't seen one, you should. It's depressing. Why does it have to be like this? I know it's cheaper to run but come on. Greedy corporations doing stupid cheap stuff. It was disorganized and wasteful while being unwelcoming and cold. Are they purposely trying to stop people from coming into their establishment?


r/complaints • • 1h ago

Lifestyle Why is the internet search so fucking useless

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They say to be SCARED of the internet because it’s so powerful. Yet when I break my frame, I cannot for the LIFE of me find a frame ANYWHERE online.

Like I promise if I had to find this frame, ANY COLOUR, ANY WIDTH, ANYTHING even resembling what I want in 10 minutes, I would DIE.

Why the fuck is the internet search so fucking useless.

So I go “hmm.. I guess the frame is fine, maybe I can just buy custom glass. I know that’s possible.” Apparently fucking not. Not a single place in Canada has a website that displays their custom glass work. Not a single other person has ever broken their frame glass.

And let’s not forget, let’s say I do find this frame from god knows who, it’ll probably be.. hmm.. let’s say $2,000,000,000?


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

Thumbnail telegraph.co.uk
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r/complaints • • 19h ago

Politics Brilliant Elon! what the world needs right now is a car that escalates faster and can hop around other cars! /s

20 Upvotes

Not to mention another corrupt ass hole like Ken Paxton selling out America for personal profit!!


r/complaints • • 16h ago

Meta: Complaints about complaints in r/complaints Flying cars

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Elmo sucks hes so smart why does he make things like flying car. You want to do something that makes me go WOW elmo. Cure CANCER then I'll be impressed


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Businesses Walmart makes me angry at life

67 Upvotes

A cesspool of fluorescent shit, sold on sale through lies and inflation.

No cashiers. Just forced self checkout, where you're treated like a thief for buying maxi pads or food for your child.

The employees wear the eternal expressions of souls long since departed, enslaved in Santa's workshop while Santa himself cracks the whip.

The self checkouts scream for mechanical mercy, while poverty stricken customers beat the machines in desperate attempts to make them work.

Oh, look. A worker dropped. Prices went up. The shareholders cheer.


r/complaints • • 16h ago

Lifestyle Joking, Jokes, and hurting people

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If you say something funny, but it’s maybe a bit critical, a bit risqué, or even controversial it is incumbent upon YOU to say it in good company, in good context, with a solid delivery.

If you make a joke that is, in its substance, racist, demeaning, violent, or otherwise explicitly vile, then you are expressing those things. Maybe the joke could still be funny, but you still expressed those sentiments. You, at a minimum, view those topics as laughing matters if you expect a laugh.

If you tell a joke poorly, but can quickly explain it, then it does not magically suck the humor out of an otherwise humorous comment. Sometimes people don’t have the requisite background to understand “the joke.” That’s a misstep in choosing your company/context, but it’s solvable. Nor is there anything wrong with letting people in on inside jokes, which is a similar concept.

Now—and I don’t know why I have to have lived a life where this needs to be repeatedly asserted—if you tell a joke that is gesturing towards, pointing out, recalling, or repeating things you were explicitly told not to comment on or joke about, then you have displayed a basic failure to consider other people. I don’t see why it is a flaw to view this failure as indicative of someone’s empathy or ability to view boundaries.

And finally, no, I am not fun at parties. I prefer to hang out quietly with small groups of friends or be the host so I can keep everyone fed and entertained with games and drinks. I love everyone’s smiles and laughs, they’re so lovely to be around. My own are a bit rarer when I’m not performing socially and pretending this isn’t how I view humor.


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics As corrupt Republicans get wealthy and enjoy premium healthcare for life they fear monger that healthcare for ALL will be a Socialist hellscape!

98 Upvotes

Only fools fail to see the grift!


r/complaints • • 3h ago

Lifestyle I hate myself so much rn

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I wanna buy baldurs gate 3 but i dont wanna spend money for it. Not because i dont have it, not because i could buy something else instead. No. Just because i fucking dont wanna spend money. My own greed is pissing me off sooo much. I got like 350€ and my priviliged ass is too stupid to just pay the 70 bucks.


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics ‘Naza’ is an acronym in Hebrew that means collateral damage. IDF soldiers have said that they got approval for up to 500 naza (innocent civil deaths) for one target. This is sickening! Dear Zionists, how is this not proof of genocide? How is this not proof of brown people being treated like garbage?

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160 Upvotes

Let us never forget that Zionism means supporting land-theft, apartheid, oppression, occupation and racism (as per the Green Party). It means supporting grave injustices to humanity or, more specifically, the dreaded ‘brown people’. The cold hard truth is that if you want to be a true humanitarian, you cannot be a Zionist.

Israel’s genocide has gone on for three years now. The suffering! The destruction! The starvation! The displacement! The slaughter! The amputations!

The people of Palestine have suffered too much for too long. Israel shouldn’t even exist as a country if things went as they should have. The innocent Palestinians have been paying the price for the land that Israel has stolen. Never forget the 1948 Nakba, the time when Israel was founded where around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes, and where about 15,000 of them were murdered by Zionist militias. And many anti-Zionists speak about this, where most Zionists tend not to bring it up as it makes them look bad.

The IDF has murdered more than 21,000 children. Gaza has the highest concentration of amputees in the world, many of which are children. It’s so sad! It is estimated that 20% of Gazans have been murdered if we consider the mid-2024 Lancet report that projected at least 180,000 Gazans have been killed. Remember, the current death toll is for verified bodies, which doesn’t include bodies still under the rubble and bodies that have been vaporized. All of this points to genocide, which all respectable humanitarian organizations and genocide scholars have concluded to be the case. To deny genocide is bonkers and cruel.

Most of the world knows what Israel is about. It is an illegitimate genocidal ethnostate where Jewish people are considered to be the chosen ones (which is reminiscent of how Nazis considered themselves to be a part of the ‘master race’). Jewish Zionists believe that they are entitled to land that was never theirs because their ancestors used to live there thousands of years ago. These Zionists believe they are entitled to mistreat Palestinians, which is sickening.

This video shows how cruel the IDF and Israeli officials can be. It’s disgusting!

Free Palestine!


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Politics Katie Zacharia Out After Less Than A Week, Lol

22 Upvotes

One down, about 8 to go. Americans are tired of the president putting under-qualified, boot-licking candidates in prestigious roles. It's a freaking circus.


r/complaints • • 1d ago

Reddit’plaint Reddit users are aggressive

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I've had so many people on this app get ridiculously angry at me for misunderstandings they've had about my posts, and it sucks. It feels like no matter what you say on this stupid site, someone will misinterpret it. And I shouldn't even bother, but I'll try to re-explain what I originally meant, and I apologize for upsetting them, genuinely, too! And they'll be like, "No, you believe (thing I am actively clarifying, I don't believe), and I HATE you for it." And no matter how much de-escalation I try, they only escalate, it only gets worse. People on this site just love to fight and argue. Like, I can't tell if there's just something about the way I talk that seems hostile, or if It's just the way it goes on here, or what, but it drives me crazy.

Not to get too personal, but I struggle a lot with self-esteem and shit. And nothing makes you wanna self-isolate more than when every attempt to de-escalate only makes things worse. They're probably just bots, or whatever sadistic jerks get enjoyment out of just arguing online all day. But for me, it's just depressing. I used to enjoy Reddit somewhat, but nowadays, for the sake of my mental health, I see no reason to continue using the app. From my experience, it's just a bit too toxic for me. It's sad, but it might just be better to go full-time lurker or straight-up delete for me.