Hotter, Badder, and Unpopularer Takes

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

If Biden is completely crashed and burned by Texas (highly doubt it will be bad enough for this) but I'll just say f#ck it and vote for Yang for the memes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Detroit is a better place to live than most of California.

[Badger]

Detroit is a better place to live than most of California.

Assuming you mean the actual city as opposed to Metro Detroit, I'd be really interested to hear this explanation

[OSR stands with Israel]

Detroit is a better place to live than most of California.

Lmao

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Detroit is a better place to live than most of California.

Assuming you mean the actual city as opposed to Metro Detroit, I'd be really interested to hear this explanation

Averroes put it better:

I don't think it's a California thing and don't like the California trashing (it's one of the best states)

median home selling at >$0.5 million
prone to devastating earthquakes
worst homelessness problem in the country
longest average commute of any state outside of the Northeast
extremely vulnerable to climate change
people having sex in the streets, in broad daylight

I'm glad California exists for its political influence but that doesn't mean the state isn't a Florida-level utterly nightmarish hellhole to actually live in.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

BRTD has a much better comprehension of reality than >90 percent of the people on this forum. Not something I could have imagined saying 4 years ago. (Not intended to be a hot take. Just an observed pattern.)

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Warren ahead in RCP, she will be the nominee, been saying it for months that Biden is not going to be the nominee.

[I Can Now Die Happy]

I am being vindicated (yet again).

On May 15, 2019 I made a prediction that was something along that lines of: Joseph ROBINETTE "Bye-Done" Biden will drop out after being unfortunately subject to numerous attacks from the Neo-Red Army.

Unsurprisingly, I am being proven right! Feeble Joe looks like he is going down and is being supplanted by the Awkward Professor from Oklahoma. I keep being proven right, and look forward to being proven right multiple times again next year at the start of a new decade!

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I meantioned that George Harrison doesn't deserve RNR HOF status, and now that this year's nominees are out, I'd say that of all of them, aside from maybe Thin Lizzy, deserve it more than he does.

[McNukes™ #NYCMMWasAHero]

Iceland's policy on downs syndrome should be applied elsewhere.

I'll see that take and raise you the take that Iceland's treatment of Down Syndrome (my understanding is that it can't really be called a "policy") should attract the same level of opprobrium that China got for the one child policy.

If you're referring to the fake news policy I agree. The real one actually just requires (1) disclosure and (2) honesty when a woman requests a test for Down syndrome on an unborn baby. Most are subsequently aborted, but it isn't mandatory to take the test, and it isn't mandatory to abort the child if the child would be disabled.

[Badger]

I meantioned that George Harrison doesn't deserve RNR HOF status, and now that this year's nominees are out, I'd say that of all of them, aside from maybe Thin Lizzy, deserve it more than he does.

Less than Biggie Smalls and friggin' Whitney Houston?

This. Biggie I could see because the Hall of Fame is already de facto included hip-hop as rock and roll. But Whitney Houston? Travesty to to the name rock and roll

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

George Harrison didn't do anything important or significant after Bangaldesh and All Things Must Pass. Comparied to someone who had tons of hits and a great voice, Whitney is superior to Harrison.

As for Biggie, while some might say his career was too short, he did more in that short time than George did in two whole decades.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Iceland's policy on downs syndrome should be applied elsewhere.

I'll see that take and raise you the take that Iceland's treatment of Down Syndrome (my understanding is that it can't really be called a "policy") should attract the same level of opprobrium that China got for the one child policy.

If you're referring to the fake news policy I agree. The real one actually just requires (1) disclosure and (2) honesty when a woman requests a test for Down syndrome on an unborn baby. Most are subsequently aborted, but it isn't mandatory to take the test, and it isn't mandatory to abort the child if the child would be disabled.

I'm aware. I elaborated on (and amended) what I meant here when this was pointed out on the previous page of this thread.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The 2020 Electoral College is tilt Trump, closer to lean than tossup, even though the popular vote is likely D, closer to safe than lean.

[I Can Now Die Happy]

The 2020 Electoral College is tilt Trump, closer to lean than tossup, even though the popular vote is likely D, closer to safe than lean.

I consider them both Likely Trump.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The 2020 Electoral College is tilt Trump, closer to lean than tossup, even though the popular vote is likely D, closer to safe than lean.

I consider them both Likely Trump.

Okay.

[Gracile]

If he were to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders' general electoral coalition would look virtually the same as any of the other potential Democratic candidates in terms of the urban/suburban/rural breakdown. Furthermore, his electoral map would largely track closer to the 2016 presidential map than the 2012 presidential map, with many of the trends we saw in 2016 continuing with Sanders as the nominee.

(And for the record, I don't mean this in a pejorative way as I am a Sanders supporter myself.)

[Antonio the Sixth]

I'm honestly at the point when I'd rather have a moderate neocon (say, Condi Rice rather than John Bolton) than a hard-leftist when it comes to foreign policy.

[Crumpets]

Jimmy Carter was a center-left president. Bill Clinton was a center-left president. Barack Obama was a center-left president. Hillary Clinton would have been a center-left president. Elizabeth Warren would be a center-left president. Bernie Sanders would be a center-left president.

[538Electoral]

Despite Watergate, Nixon was an alright president.

[morgankingsley]

Despite Watergate, Nixon was an alright president.

I would even say great

[BP🌹]

If M4A is ever enacted, those who used to work for health insurance companies should receive no retraining or special assistance of any kind. They're the ones who chose to work for such an evil industry.

[Lechasseur]

I meantioned that George Harrison doesn't deserve RNR HOF status, and now that this year's nominees are out, I'd say that of all of them, aside from maybe Thin Lizzy, deserve it more than he does.

George Harrison was great after the Beatles broke up, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Travelling Wilburys.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Despite Watergate, Nixon was an alright president.

I would even say great

Nope.

[morgankingsley]

Despite Watergate, Nixon was an alright president.

I would even say great

Nope.

Well considering the fact that this is meant for unpopular takes, that is a really good one