If anyone is looking for an unpopularopinion sub here, check out opinionhavers which I’m trying to get going.

There is also this one but mods took it offline for a while to protest something or other, so I figure it’s good to have alternatives. The mod drama over there if you care.

That seems fine, if distasteful? Like I’m in support of free expression

What is with hexbear and lemmygrad…why are people calling these out

This is the twitter and reddit ethos. Everyone is Super Smart and You Are Wrong Ha Ha.

On reddit you can find smaller communities where people are more normal and it’s closer to having a discussion at a bar than it is going on to /r/politics or something.

People DEFINITELY don’t like showing up at a new place and posting stuff and people piling on with snark and stuff.

At a certain point you’re at a local maxima and incremental changes just don’t work. They have to be big changes to knock off the hill to another valley and then society has to do the hill climbing again. Sucks and painful but no other way IMO.

Okay, so Luigi didn’t cut healthcare costs. Did you working with people locally cut healthcare costs?

I volunteer in a few things in my neighborhood but I basically do it for warm fuzzies and because I want to make/keep my neighborhood nice. I don’t have any aspirations that it’ll become grander.

When you allow people to buy things freely - in this case a limited resource - this was inevitable. Nothing to do with capitalism, i.e. private ownership of means of production. It would have happened under any system in which people can spend their money on whatever they want.

People don’t want to organize around homeless outreach, that’s why the huge, costly, and incessant efforts in most cities never turn into literally any useful political action. Most people are more selfish than that, and it’s also unclear how giving away donated food and socks translates to anything, anywhere else, in society.

Parents/teacher groups and labor unions are a lot closer to the mark because that stuff has actual impact on the people involved. Although I’m skeptical - the parent/teacher zeitgeist is now one of conflict after the COVID school closures. But it’s a place to get traction.

The old school anarchists used grand acts of violence, i.e. propaganda of the deed. Luigi tried that, seems to have dissipated.

Everyone’s just rich enough to not care about shit like this any more.

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Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it’s marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe

I recommend therapy.

Poe’s law detector fail

chill

Nazism is a very small subset of fascism, they are not equivalent. Nazi also carries VERY heavy baggage which is inapplicable to Trump. Use the right terms.

It’s dumb to call Trump a nazi and the populist wing of the Republican party nazis.

It’s not even clever at this point, maybe it was edgy and transgressive like 7 years ago.

The reason it’s dumb is that you are wasting all of your powerful language and you will have no more if things get worse. Boy who cried wolf. Just like people did to racist which used to carry great power and now is basically meaningless as a powerful descriptor.

reasonable

Did you want the genocide to end or not

Least sensible discussion I’ve been in in a while

We could do laps on this all day. In the end if a trans person says they’re trans and this is what it means to them, I’ll take them at their word.

Imagine confusing gender and sex in 2025