Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

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Suburbs are weird and bad.

This is a good opinion.
Yay for latte-sipping, condo-dwelling, metro-riding urbanites!

The point is to keep you people in the city, where you belong.

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I believe that black magic*, ghosts, and hauntings are real based on real-life experiences I've had and have had all my life.  I don't talk about them openly because anyone who does is instantly labeled 'crazy.'

*No, I don't practice it myself.

While I don't believe in those things, you couldn't pay me enough to go sit in a supposedly "haunted" hotel room or something at night, LOL ... absolutely nothing to gain.  If I'm right and they're fake, big deal; if I'm wrong, I'm in for a terrible night.  So, I guess while I don't "believe in them," I'm not very confident in my disbelief.   Is this how atheists feel??  LOL.

Sort of a Pascal’s Wager for the paranormal?

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The 'right' of sovereignity is a load of bullsh**te. The only thing it represents is the supposed right for a small national elite to brutalise the ordinary people within their countries on the ostensible grounds that being oppressed is actually a good thing if your oppresser speaks the same language as you and has a vague ethnic resemblance.

I’m confused. Are you referring to this only in situations where there is an already established dictator of a given country? Or does this pertain to elected governments or people’s movements in multi-ethnic, non-democratic conglomeration as well?

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- You can be racist to whites, saying you can’t is a tumblrite excuse for your bigotry and hatred.

Rip me

What a brave man, making such a bold statement ;(

Unpopular opinion: most AZ users (with the exclusion of Cactus and some others) are trash. I don’t understand the issue with you, like I’ve never gone after you, yet you show up randomly and jump on my case.

I think the heat makes the Arizona posters overly aggressive. They always seem to be enraged about something.

Scientific studies have shown that an infusion of year will increase aggressive thoughts and behaviors.

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Globalization is nothing but a force for evil driven by the elites.

Lol.
I'll add: Globalization is an inherent force for good that must continue indefinitely, and it benefits everyone.

Why need it be either absolutely? Y'boy Macron wants a "Europe that protects".

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Democrats need to focus way more on economic issues than social issues in 2020.

I don't think that is particularly unpopular around here.

Except for that fact that campaigning on social issues has won them the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, and the electoral vote in four of them.  (Trump was only the first Republican since Bush 1 to get over 300 EVs.)  Why would they give it up now, when it's worked so well for them thus far?  If anything, it's Republicans who need to drop the social issues, not Democrats.

I don't exactly agree with your conclusion: sure, Democrats have won 6 out of the last 7 popular votes in presidential elections but I think the focus on social issues has really hurt them down ballot and has prevented them from dominating the country politically. I'm no socialist (in Europe I support conservative parties all the time), but let's face it, the GOP's economic policies are ridiculous, social conservatism is the only thing that's saved the party. The GOP hasn't been reasonable on economics for at least 25 years now (the GOP's right wing basically turned on Bush Sr because he wanted to manage the deficit responsibly), if it weren't for the Democrats being so insistent on social issues, I suspect the GOP would have collapsed at least 10 years ago.

Oh and on this, a lot of my European friends originally thought that the Democratic Party was the reasonable conservative party and the GOP were just for crazy people, but after I told them about the Democrats' SJWness and support of open borders (no one here would support the Democrats' open border policy), they now understand why people vote GOP.

Do you really think Macron is some open borders nutjob? Have you read anything about his presidency?

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Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

My brother keeps mentioning him to me, but I’m reluctant to check him out because he’s popular.

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Alcohol should be illegal, but it's too ingrained in society to actually execute the ban without mass protests.  Same thing with tobacco.  And that's my biggest reason for not wanting to legalize marijuana- that we cannot create a third great American drug that becomes readily available and socially acceptable.  I don't think pot is that much worse than alcohol or tobacco (from what I've read- I have never had and will never have any of the three), but they should all be illegal- but it's the only one of the three that isn't so deeply entrenched that it's almost impossible to ban.

A great vision of FREEDOM and LIBERTY!

Not really that bad a viewpoint if you don’t dress up in a Reagan costume.

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Having security cameras in public places is not a violation of privacy.

I prefer to be given a written consent form for me to sign prior to being involved in any photography at all.

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I’m sick and tired of the “your ancestors were immigrants tooz” argument. My only recent immigrant ancestor in my entire family came here from Sicily in the early 1900s. Italy was a respected, stable country at that time as it is now. He wasn’t fleeing crime or repression, as Italy wasn’t one of the sh*thole countries at the time. It’s like watching The Godfather II’s opening scene and assuming it is real life. My great-grandfather actually has something to offer this country when he arrived.

The rest of my family have been here since the days of New Amsterdam.

Regardless of one's immigrant past (mine are slightly more recent, though not by much... I think between the 1860's and 1910's), there is a much more glaring cognitive error: people like to use that snarky comment about Native Americans letting undocumented immigrants into America as a way to somehow defuse anti-immigration arguments. The example of what Europeans did to this continent's indigenous inhabitants is by no means an argument in favor of migration.

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Humans were not meant to live as long as they are living today and that is why most marriages eventually sour.

I’d been having similar thoughts, but not on the marriage end. You have to consider it kind of a cruel joke that reproductive capabilities kick in in the teens, whereas a combination of brain development and our lifespan mean that this is very early to actually have children. Add to thatbyhe fact that we have more resources immediately at our disposal than perhaps ever before, so that, sans certain “corrective procedures” and other profilactics, one would think we might find ourselves in a Malthusian nightmare sceMario.

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Anime sucks.

Your ideology says otherwise.

I was gonna say that his was a pretty ironic comment.

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The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

Why would they go there? AAD is way worse than regular Atlas. Hell, a few months ago people were messaging me on Facebook begging me to join because AAD was dying.

I say, let ‘em crash!

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The election of Trump has caused most of the red avatars' debating skills to lapse.

The attrition of left-wing posters like King, bedstuy, etc. to AAD also likely played a role here.

The latter is also gone from AAD nowadays: Twitter is his preferred mouthpiece (he's a vaguely popular #resistance member).

There’s a joke here, but it’s inappropriate.

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Several decades from now, there will be a future generation that hates the "Millennials" in a similar manner/degree that "Millennials" hate the "Baby boomers".

Well duh. We will all become the Boomers we Loved to Hate, just as Gen X did.

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Ok, now for a less serious one:

The 1970's Hobbit cartoon was better than Peter Jackson's Trilogy.

No reason for this to be bad or unpopular.

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Claiming "Communism is bad and doesn't work" entirely on the results of marxist-leninism inspired dictatorships is dumb.

While effectively the same, I think the claim is more that communism will inevitably stumble into authoritarian dictatorship, if you don't believe it is inherently that way anyway.

There is also the issue of (a) whether or not a non-ML communist revolution could succeed without the sort of top-down manner of party organization involved, and (b) whether a non-ML government could effectively govern. I recall Sam Huntington mentioning that the real effect of communism was to deliver a largely unprecedented level of modern political organization and involvement to the countries where it succeeded. What could we expect of a less authoritarian version of communism? Could it win? How would it—or could it—transform the country/community/etc.?

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The term "gaslighting" when used in the context of online debating is insulting to those who have actually been gaslit in an intimate relationship, and is 99% of the time a deflection from the actual argument.

Isn’t it used simply to refer (online) incidents where an opponent takes a position contrary to their own viewpoint for the sake of humor or confusing the “victim”? Seems no more heinous than Internet activity in general.

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Charlie Baker is an overrated governor who has done barely anything during his first term.

Really, New England has this fetish for electing "moderate" Republican Governors who barely does anything noteworthy.

This is the definition of Good Government.

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People who use the term bourgeoise as an insult or however the  you spell it are probably pampered brats themselves

I like using "bourgeois", the adjective, to describe most things I don't like undertaken by people of comparable or superior means when compared to myself. "White" is a similar term, though I can apply it to all classes. For instance, a bunch of bourgeois whites are ruining Ferndale by bringing in a high-rise apartment building and pricing out the game and comic shops. Nevermind that the previous occupants of the town were both bourgeois and white, and that I am one and aspire to be the other.

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Opposing abortion does not make a person 'pro life.'

This and Supporting abortion does not necessarily make a person pro choice.

I'm really not sure how that second line follows.

Solid is explicitly pro-abortion. Something about deadbeat dads.

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Even ignoring the table:

Trump is to Reagan as Carter is to FDR.

Life does not work like this.

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Ok, now for a less serious one:

The 1970's Hobbit cartoon was better than Peter Jackson's Trilogy.

No reason for this to be bad or unpopular.

Indeed. The Rankin/Bass cartoon is cute and charming despite its flaws. PJ's Hobbit is a bloated embarrassment even if you weren't unfortunate enough to watch it in 48 FPS. It's hard to think of another big movies series that was so disappointing, short of the Star Wars prequels.

That said, I've tried to defend Ralph Bakshi's half-complete attempt at a LoTR adaptation, which I even prefer to PJ's trilogy in some respects. That qualifies for this thread.

I’ve seen both Rankin-Bass Tolkien cartoons, but have yet to see all of the Bakshi film, sadly.

I’m any case, for my opinions:
Atlantis: The Lost Empire and The Black Cauldron are criminally underrated.

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RT, droppin’ bombs.

As for Atlantis, I have honestly met probably no one who used it as a touchstone as opposed to the mainstream Gisney classics. I know it’s just an adapted Pocahontas, but the fictional archaeological foray into an alien civilization, the science fiction technology of the 1910’s, the music, the color scheme, and so on have endeared it to me since first seeing it.

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Pit bull bans are racist, but obviously in the cosmic sense a human life is worth more than that of a dog’s.