Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[KingSweden]

Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé are both profoundly overrated

You are correct here. I think that all rap music is trash, as well as all pop and hip-hop music (of 2018 that is, not of the way distant past).

well i don't like her solo stuff as much as destiny's child.idk,doesn't really grab me

The song “Halo” is outstanding because it’s one of the few where she really leans into her strengths as a singer - she has otherworldly pipes, not quite Aretha or Whitney level but close - but her most recent output is just not that good. “Lemonade,” as an album, is especially bad.

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Here's my own...

Teachers should be paid six figure salaries. There, I said it.

I mean, I think they *should*, too.  I think people shouldn’t cheat on their spouses, too!

They do here (in Illinois), when you factor in the value of the pensions.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Game of Thrones has sucked since season 5

[Burke Bro]

Avengers: Infinity War is overrated.

[KingSweden]

Game of Thrones has sucked since season 5

This is not a bad take, indeed it is corrext

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Much of the opiate 'crisis' in the United States is driven by hysteria and this has hurt pain patients more than it has helped addicts, the vast majority of which were not legitimate pain patients.

[RINO Tom]

Game of Thrones has sucked since season 5

This is not a bad take, indeed it is corrext

Both of these are just wrong!

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Wind farms are, in terms of aesthetics, extremely elegant additions to the landscape.

[KingSweden]

Wind farms are, in terms of aesthetics, extremely elegant additions to the landscape.

Agreed.

Game of Thrones has sucked since season 5

This is not a bad take, indeed it is corrext

Both of these are just wrong!

If you’d read the books you’d know that S5 coincides with A Feast For Crows and Dance with Dragons, which not coincidentally is when the books start to suck, too

[Hindsight was 2020]

Wind farms are, in terms of aesthetics, extremely elegant additions to the landscape.

Agreed.

Game of Thrones has sucked since season 5

This is not a bad take, indeed it is corrext

Both of these are just wrong!

If you’d read the books you’d know that S5 coincides with A Feast For Crows and Dance with Dragons, which not coincidentally is when the books start to suck, too

I disagree I say the opposite the problem with S5 is all the changes they made from the books and that AFFC and ADWD are great

[CatoMinor]

Infinity War is a good ending point for the whole MCU.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Getting a double masectomy to prevent breast cancer does not make someone “brave” - going through and actually surviving breast cancer does.

Preventive mastectomies aren’t a bad thing in and of themselves of course, I just find the hype around the issue to be strange.

[Politician]

A federal jobs guarantee is not a bad idea.

[Skunk]

Inspired by all the current backlash in this thread, rap and hip-hop are currently the most meaningful and impactful genres of music right now.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Most of the sitcoms currently on are awful except The Middle (which is getting cancelled anyway).

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

- China is not an evil country, and its economic growth has been the best thing to happen to humanity since the Industrial Revolution.
- Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is an evil country. (Wonder which country is the US ally?)
- Free trade is good; it has been the main driver for economic growth for the past half-century.
- Cultural exchange can and should be encouraged, but that doesn't mean cultural appropriation isn't a thing.
- Multiculturalism is a good thing, and is totally complementary with womens' and LGBT rights.
- Western culture is not the best culture out there. Yes, the West espouses democracy and human rights, but is not the only culture to do so; likewise, the West brought on colonization and the Holocaust (though other cultures have committed genocide too).
- To go off of the above, there is no objective best culture; each has their strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow with history.
- Atlas is honestly a toxic place for everyone, though especially so for women and minorities.
- In-and-Out is overrated. (Have I said this before?)

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

- China is not an evil country, and its economic growth has been the best thing to happen to humanity since the Industrial Revolution.
- Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is an evil country. (Wonder which country is the US ally?)
- Free trade is good; it has been the main driver for economic growth for the past half-century.
- Cultural exchange can and should be encouraged, but that doesn't mean cultural appropriation isn't a thing.
- Multiculturalism is a good thing, and is totally complementary with womens' and LGBT rights.
- Western culture is not the best culture out there. Yes, the West espouses democracy and human rights, but is not the only culture to do so; likewise, the West brought on colonization and the Holocaust (though other cultures have committed genocide too).
- To go off of the above, there is no objective best culture; each has their strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow with history.
- Atlas is honestly a toxic place for everyone, though especially so for women and minorities.
- In-and-Out is overrated. (Have I said this before?)

I think you meant to post all of that into this thread.

I would think the very last line would be somewhat controversial.

[RINO Tom]

- Western culture is not the best culture out there. Yes, the West espouses democracy and human rights, but is not the only culture to do so; likewise, the West brought on colonization and the Holocaust (though other cultures have committed genocide too).
- To go off of the above, there is no objective best culture; each has their strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow with history.

Though your second point is certainly agreeable, I find your first point odd.  One Western country - in the instance of the Holocaust - was MAINLY responsible for genocide and several other Western countries (and non-Western countries) banded together to defeat them ... I don't think that World War II can be attributed to "The West brought on the Holocaust" ... no more than humans as a whole did.

[courts]

- Atlas is honestly a toxic place for everyone, though especially so for women and minorities.

maybe some male posters say weird things about,idk,sex workers or something..but i'm not really seeing it

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

- Atlas is honestly a toxic place for everyone, though especially so for women and minorities.

maybe some male posters say weird things about,idk,sex workers or something..but i'm not really seeing it

I see plenty of Islamophobia, racism, etc. being thrown around on this forum. I can name examples if you wish, though you can also go see the Absurd and Ignorant Posts thread for a more complete list. To be fair, it's a small handful of posters that say 90% of this toxic garbage, but it's enough to make people feel uncomfortable. And yes, you are right that some male posters do say creepy things, though that has improved with TexArkana's banning.

Not to mention that as a politics forum, even if you take out the racism and sexism, you'll still have a toxic place by nature, as it is the nature of modern politics to be inherently toxic.

[Unapologetic Chinaperson]

- Western culture is not the best culture out there. Yes, the West espouses democracy and human rights, but is not the only culture to do so; likewise, the West brought on colonization and the Holocaust (though other cultures have committed genocide too).
- To go off of the above, there is no objective best culture; each has their strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses ebb and flow with history.

Though your second point is certainly agreeable, I find your first point odd.  One Western country - in the instance of the Holocaust - was MAINLY responsible for genocide and several other Western countries (and non-Western countries) banded together to defeat them ... I don't think that World War II can be attributed to "The West brought on the Holocaust" ... no more than humans as a whole did.

The Holocaust is only the most egregious example of the West doing horrible stuff. I also mentioned colonization in the same sentence, which obviously had very bad consequences for many people. And, going off of what you said, just because it was Germany that perpetrated the Holocaust doesn't mean that other Western countries weren't very anti-Semitic historically.

[Wells]

The music takes in this thread regarding hip hop are actually bad. In fact, most takes in this thread fall under the category of really bad. But music is my favorite thing so those takes are killing me especially.

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Nick Saban isn't even the best coach active right now, let alone of all time.

Recruiter? Yes. Coach? No.

[P. Clodius Pulcher did nothing wrong]

Infinity War is a good ending point for the whole MCU.

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Nick Saban isn't even the best coach active right now, let alone of all time.

Recruiter? Yes. Coach? No.

Who is?

Chris Petersen at Washington. Followed closely by Bill Snyder at Kansas St. and Gary Patterson at TCU.