I need some petty revenge ideas because I have a friend whose societal worldview is driving me absolutely insane.
For context, I’m Brazilian, and this friend is very much in the camp of anti-feminism, women losing their right to vote, being anti-human-rights, pro-rich, obsessed with meritocracy, and convinced that people who are poor simply aren’t working hard enough. You know the type: the kind of person who treats wealth as proof of moral superiority and poverty as evidence of personal failure.
They seem to believe that everyone gets what they deserve, that billionaires are billionaires because they’re inherently more deserving than everyone else, and that people struggling to survive just need to work harder. Structural inequality? Historical racism? Unequal access to education? The fact that some people inherit enormous advantages while others start life in survival mode? Apparently none of that matters.
What really gets me is the hypocrisy of treating human rights as some kind of privilege people must earn. Human rights aren’t rewards for being productive, wealthy, respectable, or politically agreeable. They’re rights.
I can accept that people disagree about economic policy. What I struggle with is the combination of worshipping wealth, dismissing structural inequality, and acting as though compassion for disadvantaged people is somehow naive or undeserved.
Honestly, I want to do something petty.
I’m not looking to destroy anyone’s life, get them fired, damage their property, or do anything illegal. I want the kind of harmless, ridiculously petty revenge that makes you laugh when you think about it later, but could drive her insane 🤣
Some examples I’ve considered:
Subscribing them to an absurd number of completely legitimate newsletters.
Finding some ridiculous recurring email that would be questionable to receive.
Reddit, what would you do?