Hotter, Badder, and Unpopularer Takes

[Hindsight was 2020]

Force Awakens is a good movie

[John Dule]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Health care is the only good welfare program.

[THG]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

Speaking of Star Wars:

None of the Star Wars movies are even legitimately great pieces of cinema on their own except for Empire. You can also argue Episode 3 and 4 have their moments too, however.

[John Dule]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

Speaking of Star Wars:

None of the Star Wars movies are even legitimately great pieces of cinema on their own except for Empire. You can also argue Episode 3 and 4 have their moments too, however.

Is this even a hot take?

[THG]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

Speaking of Star Wars:

None of the Star Wars movies are even legitimately great pieces of cinema on their own except for Empire. You can also argue Episode 3 and 4 have their moments too, however.

Is this even a hot take?

People get furious when I say A New Hope isn’t a very good film and that Revenge of the Sith is arguably the second or third best Star Wars movie.

[DaleCooper]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

Speaking of Star Wars:

None of the Star Wars movies are even legitimately great pieces of cinema on their own except for Empire. You can also argue Episode 3 and 4 have their moments too, however.

Is this even a hot take?

There's a lot of love for Return of the Jedi these days, which absolutely baffles me.

Star Wars was a landmark film that's fun and exciting, but ultimately it's more notable for its technical accomplishments related to visual effects than it is for being a great artistic feat. Unfortunately a lot of those accomplishments have been ruined by the 90s CGI version of the movie that's available now. Empire is a great film, but everything after that was questionable at best and often outright disastrous.

[Schiff for Senate]

First of all, I think Star Wars is very overrated. I watched all 9 of them, unfortunately, but they were a poor use of my time and were, for the most part, nonsense.

Politically, my hot takes are that OH and IA shift leftward in 2024 (Trump in 2020 is a stronger candidate than any generic Republican in 2024 and even Trump in 2024, since January 6 probably won't just go away). Also, that GA doesn't shift that far to the left - a large amount of the leftward shift came from white, suburban moderates who were Romney/Biden voters, and I can see some of them supporting a Republican as long as that Republican isn't Trump or too closely associated to Trump. I know most of them are gone for the GOP now, but enough of them are probably left over to offset new, Democratic votes that come from demographic change so that even if GA shifts leftward, it doesn't do so by much. Lastly, I don't think FL is necessarily gone for the Democrats, and those who suggest otherwise are doomers. If Democrats work to regain Hispanic voters, there's absolutely no reason the state "can't" flip. Yes, it shifted rightward, but it still went red by just 3.5% - which is, theoretically, very much within striking distance for Democrats if they put their mind to it. The exception to this would be if DeSantis is the nominee, in which case it will be very difficult for the Democrats to flip FL.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

I stand by what I said 😤

[THG]

Force Awakens is a good movie

Hands-down the worst opinion in this thread.

I stand by what I said 😤

I disagree with you more heavily on this particular topic than anything related to politics, and I’m THG.

[VAR]

Health care is the only good welfare program.

This is semantics, but I’m not sure if I would call universal healthcare a "welfare program." To me, the goal of welfare programs is to lend a hand to the disadvantaged. I wouldn’t say the same about universal healthcare, since its goal is to ensure coverage for everyone regardless of economic status. In that regard, it’s more comparable to public education than programs such as SNAP.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Health care is the only good welfare program.

This is semantics, but I’m not sure if I would call universal healthcare a "welfare program." To me, the goal of welfare programs is to lend a hand to the disadvantaged. I wouldn’t say the same about universal healthcare, since its goal is to ensure coverage for everyone regardless of economic status. In that regard, it’s more comparable to public education than programs such as SNAP.

I was referring to UHC.

[VAR]

I was referring to UHC.

UHC stands for universal health care.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

I was referring to UHC.

UHC stands for universal health care.

I'm aware of that.

[VAR]

I'm aware of that.

Then why did you feel the need to clarify that you were referring to universal healthcare? I knew you were referring to universal healthcare; my post was a criticism of your assumption that universal healthcare is a welfare program.

[GregTheGreat657]

Soda/Pop/Coke is overrated. I don’t like it because of the burning sensation the carbonation gives me.

[FT-02 Senator A.F.E. 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦]

water is kinda overrated tbh

[Hindsight was 2020]

The Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age collapse came from Spain and Morocco 

[Xing]

Based on another thread, bringing this back to say multiple choice tests are the worst kind of test (commonly used in modern education, that is.)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Since it's Taco Tuesday everywhere I'll just say I hate tacos.  Kthxbye.

[RINO Tom]

The Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age collapse came from Spain and Morocco 

I'd love to hear what this is based on.  I am a pretty big proponent that academic historians tend to "dig their heels in" on theories and be irrationally resistant to rewriting our historical timelines, but I had never heard this suggested.  I do find it probable that if "Atlantis" was based off of a distant memory of a (relatively) advanced civilization suffering the effects of the Ice Age ending, it was likely on the western coast of Spain or Morocco and not actually "in the Atlantic" (though it very well could have seemed that way to ancient sailors).

[kyc0705]

I really don't like the prevailing online assumption that the best/only way to evaluate TV shows and movies is by how many plot holes you find, overanalyzing every plot twist, and trying to "explain" stories and endings like they're crossword puzzles. Obsessing over plotting is such a fundamentally uncurious and formulaic way to think about art.

[Hindsight was 2020]

The Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age collapse came from Spain and Morocco 

I'd love to hear what this is based on.  I am a pretty big proponent that academic historians tend to "dig their heels in" on theories and be irrationally resistant to rewriting our historical timelines, but I had never heard this suggested.  I do find it probable that if "Atlantis" was based off of a distant memory of a (relatively) advanced civilization suffering the effects of the Ice Age ending, it was likely on the western coast of Spain or Morocco and not actually "in the Atlantic" (though it very well could have seemed that way to ancient sailors).

Primarily because there is research that shows that thanks to a volcanic eruption there was a climate shift in the Iberian Peninsula during the late Bronze Age. On top of that during the late bronze age the Iberian Peninsula had many well established coastal civilizations that had extensive trading with the Mediterranean. So combine a sudden cold front entering Bronze Age Spain, with the fact the people there were really good at sailing the Mediterranean, and the fact these “Sea people” caught the bronze age world off guard and it is not a leap to theorize that the sea people may have been from bronze age Spain

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

I could totally see a scenario in say ten years where backlash against it from the Latino community will finally result in "Latinx" being canceled (and what a wonderful thing that'll be!) and it'll be regarded as a racist term and the wokies of the time will condemn anyone who uses it, and/or where a megacorp uses "bodies" as a synonym for "people" in a tweet referring to their workers or something and it comes across as just as creepy and dystopian as it is, and then backlash results in that phrasing also falling out of favor, and now people need to apologize for old writings where they used it, etc.

The obvious solution is to just speak English like a normal person and not use these silly terms and spellings to begin with.

The left needs to understand that there are two things that will always be losing issues. Those are: controlling how people think, and controlling how people talk. Those things either happen naturally or not at all. Unfortunately the left seems to care more about social engineering than bettering people's lives.

Liberaltarian take: Social engineering is good if it involves shaping consumer behavior (e.g. incentivizing public transit and biking instead of driving everywhere, eating less meat and junk food, etc.) that betters their lives. Attempting to control how people think or talk, on the other hand...

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

Women shouldn't be judged negatively in any way for being sex workers.

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