Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[Lord Admirale]

Here are some more

- The Confederacy was within their rights to secede. I don't agree with their reasoning, but I believe they should've been allowed to be sovereign and free from the Union

- Germany/The Central Powers should've won World War I, the world would've been much better as a result

- #TheResistance is much more painful to watch than Trumpets themselves. Seeing Ted Lieu's tweets give me a brain aneurysm.

- I love eating at McDonald's

[Mr. Reactionary]

I'm writing in Robert E. Lee for governor this year.

*Activates stone-proof force field*

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

Sherrod Brown is overrated

In-and-Out Burger is overrated

Fite me

[_]

I'm writing in Robert E. Lee for governor this year.

*Activates stone-proof force field*

You can remove my statues but not my Voters

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

I'm writing in Robert E. Lee for governor this year.

*Activates stone-proof force field*

If Corey Stewart had any principles he would have asked all of his primary voters to do this. #RINO

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

-Christianity is superior to all other religions and people from non-Christian cultures converting is a positive development.
-Liberal values and politics are the only acceptable outlook on life and plan for government. Non-liberal views aren't even worth listening to.
-"The destruction and annihilation of culture" that's tearing through the US now is a very positive development.
-Mormonism is a false non-Christian religion.
-People who care about "cultural appropriation" are stupid.
-People whose gender is blatantly obvious from appearance who state their pronouns are stupid.
-Refusing to have sex with a trans person is a completely understandable and not at all bigoted position, anymore than refusing to have sex with people of the same gender is bigoted against homosexuals.
-American Vietnam veterans and German WWII veterans should not have their service glorified.
-A well kept female foot is one of the most beautiful sites that there can be.

[Dr. MB]

The more pressing problem is that scientists are not looking for a cure to gender dysphoria (and homosexuality, for that matter) out of fear for left-wing PC activists.

Oh, yes, they've tried, they tried for decades, centuries, but it doesn't change much. You can make someone pretend to be straight, but that doesn't automatically convert them to heterosexual. You can shock them and prod them all you want but all that does is shame them into pushing back whatever homosexual feelings they might have, and that's not good for the mental state of anyone.

[Kingpoleon]

I'm a European-style liberal who doesn't like the EU and thinks that the US should pursue policies of fair trade along with free trade.

Doesn’t like or wants to reform? There’s a difference.

[TheSaint250]

I'm a European-style liberal who doesn't like the EU and thinks that the US should pursue policies of fair trade along with free trade.

Doesn’t like or wants to reform? There’s a difference.

Thank you for pointing that out.

I don't like the EU in its current form and would rather it be much less about governing as a legislative, superior body and be more of a trade association.

[publicunofficial]

All of the Kennedys are trash and have been a remarkably destructive force to the left in America.

Preach

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

-American Vietnam veterans and German WWII veterans should not have their service glorified.

My uncle (who came from a poor family) died from all the Agent Orange he breathed in Vietnam while all the rich kids were going to college.  He had no say in the matter and his parents insisted that he go because muh patriotism/his father served too.  They regretted it from the day he died of cancer.

Don't spit at the troops, spit at the thugs that make them into troops.  Spit at the government.  Even most German soldiers (and citizens) had no idea what was going on in those camps.

[AtorBoltox]

-American Vietnam veterans and German WWII veterans should not have their service glorified.

  Even most German soldiers (and citizens) had no idea what was going on in those camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht

[bagelman]

All of the Kennedys are trash and have been a remarkably destructive force to the left in America.

Preach

[AtorBoltox]

Democrats should focusing on increasing minority and millennial turnout and forget about appealing to rural voters

[Xing]

I like the increased amount of cultural influence in the world.

And I don't think everyone in the world should have to learn/become fluent in English.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

-American Vietnam veterans and German WWII veterans should not have their service glorified.

  Even most German soldiers (and citizens) had no idea what was going on in those camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht

I will retract my comment about the German soldiers.

(Incidentally they knew, but some higher-ups, such as Goebbels' personal secretary, did not.  However, I suppose the jury is out on whether she is to be believed.)

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

-Christianity is superior to all other religions and people from non-Christian cultures converting is a positive development.
-Mormonism is a false non-Christian religion.

These, plus a couple others (apart from my stock-issues GOP views):
-I have a strongly favorable view of Silicon Valley and think it is having a net positive impact on our economy and society.
-I think homeschooling should be strongly regulated and all but banned except in exceptional circumstances in the case of parents without a proper education.  

[JA]

-Christianity is superior to all other religions and people from non-Christian cultures converting is a positive development.
-Liberal values and politics are the only acceptable outlook on life and plan for government. Non-liberal views aren't even worth listening to.
-"The destruction and annihilation of culture" that's tearing through the US now is a very positive development.
-Mormonism is a false non-Christian religion.
-People who care about "cultural appropriation" are stupid.
-People whose gender is blatantly obvious from appearance who state their pronouns are stupid.
-Refusing to have sex with a trans person is a completely understandable and not at all bigoted position, anymore than refusing to have sex with people of the same gender is bigoted against homosexuals.
-American Vietnam veterans and German WWII veterans should not have their service glorified.
-A well kept female foot is one of the most beautiful sites that there can be.

My god what an assortment of HP views...

[Lachi]

-A well kept female foot is one of the most beautiful sites that there can be.

o...k... then...
*runs away because of creeps*

[Figueira]

I'm writing in Robert E. Lee for governor this year.

*Activates stone-proof force field*

Ironic coming from someone whose party is called the "Constitution" Party.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Rutherford B Hayes (1876), James G Blaine (1884), Benjamin Harrison (1888) all would have won (both NPV and EC) if not for unconstitutional voter suppression laws throughout many Southern States aimed at African Americans.

Al Gore would have won the EC if not for the butterfly ballot being illegally used in a partisan method to steal votes away from him in Florida.

Hillary Clinton would have won the EC if not for Russian cyber hackers illegally editing the vote counts in WI, MI, PA, FL, AZ, and NC.

Combine these and we never truly had a real EC/NPV split.

[IceAgeComing]

-Transgenderism isn't real, and there are two genders.  Gender and sex are the same thing, and "gender identity" is completely made up.  I go back and forth on whether or not sex changes should be illegal.  The more pressing problem is that scientists are not looking for a cure to gender dysphoria (and homosexuality, for that matter) out of fear for left-wing PC activists.

I feel that the difference between a "bad opinion" and saying things that are factually wrong should be clear with this point, since it contains both.

First you say that "transgenderism isn't real" and then start talking about gender dysphoria in literally the next sentence; which surely is a contradiction, as the latter can't be a thing that exists if the former doesn't.  That just seems like the sort of thing that you'd realise if you gave the issue even the slightest thought.

The next point is altogether more troubling though, this idea that scientists aren't seeking to "cure" GD or homosexuality because of the far left.  Firstly the far left is nowhere near as powerful as you seem to think it is and secondly I'm sure that it'd be pretty big if you managed to find this big proof of political manipulation of science.  However let's look at the real reasons why scientists stopped that sort of research - because it literally does not work.  They've tried all sorts of ways to try and "correct" LGBTQ people from the manipulative conversion therapies that have driven lots of people to suicide to pumping them full of random mixes of hormones - the big one was to try to treat gender dysphoria by giving trans women testosterone and trans men estrogen; I'm sure everyone who knows the science behind gender dysphoria will be shocked to near that this amplified the symptoms of dysphoria and actually increased rates of self harm and suicide.  The fact is that homosexuality isn't something that needs treating and there are no health differences between the average LGB person and the average straight person (and after all that's all that science is concerned with) and as I laid out in this post and later posts in this thread the medical evidence is pretty damn conclusive that the only way to trear gender dysphoria is transitioning - pre-transition trans people have higher rates of self-harm and suicide and other mental health issues and post-transition most of that disappears with there being no significant differences between cis and trans people.  That's why scientists aren't researching this wonder cure you pine for - it already exists!

But I think that the most revealing this is this idea that there's a boogieman that's preventing people from researching the REAL TRUTH about something - that real truth naturally being the thing that you believe yourself to be the truth.  It's something that has risen in both left and right circles increasingly and it's a very bad development since it means that people don't have to question their own beliefs or think about how they defend their position anymore since they can start talking about how there's this cabal of people that's hiding the REAL FACTS on an issue.  To use this example; you clearly believe that there's something wrong with LGBTQ people that needs to be corrected and that logically there must be a cure, an easy fix to make them "normal" (straight, cis) people.  Because no one is researching for one or finding one it can't be that either there's no quick fix or that the best solutions are the ones available or that your positions on the issue are wrong; it's that the FAR LEFT SJWS is preventing scientists from doing research.  To me that sounds like a totally absurd position; in the same way that you'd find it absurd if I claimed, say, that the only reason why America isn't a socialist country is because THE FAR RIGHT control the media and spread false information about the issues and CON people into voting Republican - ought to not need to clarify this but I clearly don't believe that.

I don't know if any of that counts as an unpopular opinion but I felt that it had to be said.

[RINO Tom]

I don't like ranch ... sorry.

[Santander]

I don't like ranch ... sorry.

Probably your only good opinion.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Were some posts deleted from this godawful thread?