Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Real racism is 100000000000 times worse than reverse "racism".

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Real racism is 100000000000 times worse than reverse "racism".

Thread title says unpopular. Did you forget that part?

[Ban my account ffs!]

Real racism is 100000000000 times worse than reverse "racism".

Thread title says unpopular. Did you forget that part?

She had to virtue signal, and she had to do it RIGHT NOW.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Perry O Hooper Jr. is even better than a disciple of Jesus.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Real racism is 100000000000 times worse than reverse "racism".

Thread title says unpopular. Did you forget that part?

She had to virtue signal, and she had to do it RIGHT NOW.

Because it's apparently impossible to believe that making jokes about white people being dumb and silly isn't a big deal.

(also lol at the idea that its a popular opinion).

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Also virtue signalling is a dumb term.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

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.

Not really Atlantis, since that movie has a good reputation even though it initially failed. The Black Cauldron, on the other hand, has a small following but very few people who have seen it like it.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Real racism is 100000000000 times worse than reverse "racism".

Thread title says unpopular. Did you forget that part?

She had to virtue signal, and she had to do it RIGHT NOW.

Because it's apparently impossible to believe that making jokes about white people being dumb and silly isn't a big deal.

(also lol at the idea that its a popular opinion).

Your disapproval fills me with such shame.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Also kind of s**ty to insinuate that someone has a mental disorder to insult their opinions.(esp. considering that I actually have some pretty nasty mental health problems).

[Technocracy Timmy]

It’s good that scarlet has this thread to post directly into.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

dril is not funny. The Krassenstein brothers are WAY better.

[President Johnson]

See my sig. I like Andrew Cuomo.

[Deblano]

While I believe people should think more carefully before deciding whether or not to have children, I find anti-natalism to be a pretty disturbing ideology.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

While I believe people should think more carefully before deciding whether or not to have children, I find anti-natalism to be a pretty disturbing ideology.

Anti-natalists are probably good people who are simply suffering from untreated depression.

[Deblano]

While I believe people should think more carefully before deciding whether or not to have children, I find anti-natalism to be a pretty disturbing ideology.

Anti-natalists are probably good people who are simply suffering from untreated depression.

I agree with that, and I feel that browsing antinatalist forums can lead to a radicalization of sorts for those people (considering the positive feedback loop of misanthropy for said forums).

It's one thing to believe that humanity should have less kids as a means of sustainable development (an opinion that I share). However, these communities that I've lurked upon almost seem to celebrate the idea of voluntary human extinction (by means of no longer breeding) as a means of putting the human race/society out of its misery.

At least that's how I feel about antinatalist communities.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

It wouldn't surprise me if every major CFB and CBB program has Louisville-level (well, apart from the prostitution stuff) violations, and I don't think that's a bad thing.  It doesn't matter whether it is the US Government, a state government, or the NCAA, no organization should put restrictions on capitalism, and a basketball or football player who is worth $20,000,000 to a school should be paid that much over the table.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Almost all of the Radical Republicans would still be Republicans today.

[Torie]

I don't think there should be any qualifications for elective office, be it residency, age, nationality etc. Voters should be free to vote for whomever they want. For example, I would like to be able to vote for Cameron or Macron as POTUS. Thank you.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Also kind of s**ty to insinuate that someone has a mental disorder to insult their opinions.(esp. considering that I actually have some pretty nasty mental health problems).

When it shows itself, people will call it out.

[RINO Tom]

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.

Not really Atlantis, since that movie has a good reputation even though it initially failed. The Black Cauldron, on the other hand, has a small following but very few people who have seen it like it.

Those people are DUMB.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

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.

[Lord Admirale]

I don't give a damn about Colin Kaepernick. I don't give a damn about football in general. I really have no opinion on the Nike nontroversy.

I'll bet 5 dollars someone is gonna sh1t on me for being a MOdeRaTe hErO

[Santander]

Racism is not bad.

[IceAgeComing]

It wouldn't surprise me if every major CFB and CBB program has Louisville-level (well, apart from the prostitution stuff) violations, and I don't think that's a bad thing.  It doesn't matter whether it is the US Government, a state government, or the NCAA, no organization should put restrictions on capitalism, and a basketball or football player who is worth $20,000,000 to a school should be paid that much over the table.

I think that we've had someone that we can agree on!

Although my position is a little different and I think that it comes from a position of not being American and so finding the whole College Sports thing really quite weird.  I'm of the opinion that the system as it is now is incredibly unfair to the players and  - especially when it comes to American Football which is an incredibly dangerous sport with many people getting seriously injured at a young age: or causing long-term issues that will affect them later in life.  Perhaps a more formalised minor or feeder league system where players could be professional (hopefully better than the way that Minor League Baseball works where players earn starvation wages for a years, with most never making it to the Majors) and get paid for doing what they do would help to mitigate that a little bit.  But the idea where an organisation can market a sport using the famous players to help push it; market them in video games and the like and then not only not pay those players anything but also forbid them from marketing themselves in a way that at least ensures that they've got some money to support themselves in the future if something goes wrong - especially since the NFL doesn't have guaranteed contracts so they can get cut easily.

Although another part of your post is interesting since it seems to be arguing against the whole structure of American sports in general.  They are designed to be... socialist in a way - you have the Draft which limits rich, large teams from taking all of the best players: most of the sports have a Salary Cap or some kind of system to prevent rich teams from outweighing everyone else with the power of money alone; player Free Agency is often restricted earlier in their career which gives teams effective control over their young players (again to limit the power of larger, richer teams) and many other systems that are designed to try and ensure long-term parity, and theoretically make it so that unless you have a team that is as stupid as the Marlins or the Browns, they go through phases of being very good followed by getting worse.  I read that as you preferring the way that things work in more European Sports; where a rich Qatari businessman can buy a mediocre Manchester-based Football team, spent billions of dollars buying players from various teams and therefore build one of the best teams in the world entirely through buying players and not through developing any.  Although you have things like Financial Fair Play (designed to make sure that you can't just have a rich owner spending $300 million a year on players as some were; making it so that you can only spend a certain amount of money based on your revenues and if you exceed that you get transfer embargoes preventing you from buying anyone) designed to try and limit the excesses those are frankly toothless and you have the same five or six teams winning everything since they have rich owners that can get any player they want through force of money: its basically a free-for-fall; almost unregulated capitalism.  If that was the case; then it'd be perfect for this thread I think since most Americans would probably hate it!

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

There is nothing logically inconsistent with acknowledging the economy is doing well and pointing out that the sitting President is a bad President.