Your view furthest outside the Overton window?

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Democracy and capitalism are headed for a divorce, and capitalism will be the winner. It deserves the win, too. Democratic ideals are founded on a false idea of equality that has no basis in reality. Any boob can see that differences between individuals are vast and contribute massively to a person's success (or lack thereof). The lie of equality is perpetuated only so that weak-willed people can feel that their own failures were not within their control. I'm not talking about the poor black kid in Compton who never had a lick of economic opportunity in his life here-- I'm talking about people like the ones I went to high school with. You know, entitled, spoiled bratty white kids with helicopter parents who bought them a Lexus for their fifteenth birthday, and who (despite having every possible advantage in life) burned their brains out with weed and ended up moving back in with mommy and daddy after college. They love the idea of everybody getting an equal share because they know they're not bringing anything to the potluck. Tell me that these people deserve a "Freedom Dividend" or even a vote, I dare you.

Voting is ridiculous. American democracy asserts that the subjective, ill-informed, bullsh**t opinion of some uneducated (sorry, "low-information") voter in Frog Balls, Arkansas is worth as much as the input of well-educated, civic-minded people like the ones on this forum. It's just absurd. Majority rule is a wretched, utilitarian way of governing a nation and it deserves to be cast into the dustbin of history. If 51 or 66 or 72 or 99 percent of the public shares the same opinion, that should not affect me one iota if I think they're wrong. They have no right to affect my life through the voting process just because we've all arbitrarily decided that "everybody's vote counts."

I have my own problems with capitalism, but at least it's meritocratic.

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Anyway, for me: lawyers should always work for and be provided by the government. There's no reason why a richer person should be able to afford a better lawyer and therefore have an easier time staying out of legal trouble.

As someone who's hoping to go to law school soon, I'd probably try to find another line of work if this happened.

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7. Iceland has the right idea with regard to congenital disorders. (And most people who object to this while otherwise rejecting the idea that "abortion is murder" are hypocrites.)

I couldn't agree more.

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Devil's advocate: What's wrong with letting women abort babies for any reason they want, ranging from Down Syndrome to hair color? It's not eugenics because it's not controlled breeding. It's simply guided by individual choice.

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Saying that nigh-universal insta-abortion for non-life-threatening disabilities is actively "the right idea" is a significantly more extreme claim than merely saying that one should accept the consequences of women's right to make that choice, and somebody in the (abnormal, sane) minority of people who recognize the value in disabled people's lives might be well-justified in seeing one of these positions as significantly more worthy of respect, agreement, or agreement to disagree than the other. I don't expect much better from creeps (no offense) like Smiling John or posters like TDFB with long track records of reflexively defending and supporting abortion-as-such, but it's heartbreaking and bloodcurdling to see someone like Averroes propounding this callous, dishonest, poisonous false equivalency. Although the position that he's making this point in the interests of defending is vomitrocious either way, I'd be very happy to hear that I've misinterpreted his intent in making it.

If you're implying that I supported mandatory abortions when the fetus has a potential disability, I don't support that at all. My position comes wholly down on letting the woman make the decision and that's that. I do think they should be given all the relevant information as to the health of their child, though.

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Colonization of outer space should be put on hold until capitalism is abandoned as the hegemonic socioeconomic system.

Lol, the future is privately-owned platinum mining asteroid quarries, and there's nothing you can do about it.

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Unpopular opinion: Catastrophic climate change is already locked in. Industrial civilization will not make it to the 22nd century and the human species is in danger of extinction.

Related: Politics over the next thirty years will narrow down to a choice: communism or genocide. Climate change-induced crop failures and extreme weather will push masses of refugees northwards. Already, the hard right is preparing us for why gunning them down at the border will be morally acceptable.

You know, I used to think this. Then I read Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population, and I realized that people have been prognosticating disasters like this literally since the beginning of civil society. We're going to crack nuclear fusion in a few decades, energy's going to become cheaper than air, and if necessary we'll siphon CO2 out of the atmosphere ourselves. The global capitalist system will just keep on chugging.

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We should ban construction of any new golf courses nationwide.

For environmental reasons or what?

Golf courses attract undesirables to my community. I don't have to tell you how these types affect a neighborhood once they move in. It's always the same kind of story; a golf course pops up, and soon half the town is sporting gang symbols-- polo players on their shirts and pleated khakis. White-collar crime spikes the moment those hoodlums start their shenanigans. You know the type-- driving around in their tacky Cadillac Escalades and blasting talk radio. No, we'd be better off without them.

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It's too late to do anything about climate change.

Why so defeatist? Clearly, we cannot press Ctrl-Z on man-made climate change, but that's irrelevant to the goal of being better to the environment.

Cities are already sinking. There won't be any polar icecaps by mid 2020s. Cities like New York and Miami will be underwater by mid-century. oh and then there's the crippling food and water shortages that will come with it.

It's pointless to try and do anything about it. We need to focus on getting off this planet before we all die.

When I read posts like this, it doesn't surprise me that you also liked GoT S8.

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It's too late to do anything about climate change.

Why so defeatist? Clearly, we cannot press Ctrl-Z on man-made climate change, but that's irrelevant to the goal of being better to the environment.

Cities are already sinking. There won't be any polar icecaps by mid 2020s. Cities like New York and Miami will be underwater by mid-century. oh and then there's the crippling food and water shortages that will come with it.

It's pointless to try and do anything about it. We need to focus on getting off this planet before we all die.

When I read posts like this, it doesn't surprise me that you also liked GoT S8.

Yeah, very f***ing funny. I hope you'll be able to laugh when the world boils.

"There won't be any polar ice caps by the mid 2020s?" Not even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the amazing socialist bartender/climate change Nostradamus of our time, is predicting that kind of timetable.

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Been thinking about this, and I have a few to add to this thread:

1) There is no such thing as social, political, or cultural "progress." The only kind of progress that exists is technological. Everything we think of as "social progress" can only happen once the technological foundation has been laid for it-- for instance, women's emancipation was only possible because of lower infant mortality and contraceptives. Because of this, those who pursue technological innovation are inherently superior to political activists and their opinions matter more.

2) As information transaction costs decrease and technology advances, a planned economy will become increasingly easy to administrate. Market coordination will be done using a centralized, sophisticated AI instead of the price system. I wouldn't call this communism, but I do think that something like it is inevitable.

3) Designer eugenics babies are cool and are the future.

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Trillionaires should exist.

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I created a quiz with some of the questions people put down.

Here it is!

(I got 77% normie, 76% leftist radical, and 9% rightist radical).

Wow, nice. I got 84% right-radical, 83% normie, and 41% left-radical.

Thanks for posting this, btw. I have been looking everywhere for a site where I can make my own political quizzes.

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We should strive to become not dependent on nature. Climate change is real, but the solution is not going green, but using science to find a way to eliminate the need for nature entirely. Eventually we as a human race should increase our population by 100x, use asteroids, GMOs and more stuff for resources, and eliminate ALL nature (including parks, most oceans, forests) to replace it with things actually useful for humanity. Again, only once science has progressed enough so it won't cause any harm to do this stuff.

The New Jersey ending

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Money should not exist in any capacity, for any reason, and its very existence is deeply immoral.

Of course...there's nothing I can do about that, and I have to make and spend money. But I sincerely believe it should be abolished entirely.

When your grandmother gives you $100 for your upcoming 13th birthday, you’ll start to appreciate the utility of money more.

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Money should not exist in any capacity, for any reason, and its very existence is deeply immoral.

Of course...there's nothing I can do about that, and I have to make and spend money. But I sincerely believe it should be abolished entirely.

When your grandmother gives you $100 for your upcoming 13th birthday, you’ll start to appreciate the utility of money more.

23, about to finish my Master's degree, working, union member, and supporting myself, but thank you

Oh, so then you must recognize the utility of a fungible and nonexpirable store of value.