Unpopular Opinion About Everything - Rant about your controversial opinion on whatever. This is not Reddit, pineapple on pizza is not deep or funny.

[Ferrari Lamborghini]

Twitter dying would be a bad thing, so long as there is a demand for a platform like it.

If it died, it wouldn't make people suddenly uninterested in microblogging and turn away from social media, as many people seem to hope, but it would simply be replaced by whatever platform would establish itself as its replacement first, and that platform would inevitably be run by another silicon valley soycuck suppressing non-far-left extremist viewpoints and staffing half the FBI. So long as the normie masses and apolitical content creators they are interested in stay on Twitter, the extremists have no choice but to remain there, too, or else move over to obscure platforms where nobody will see what they write or give them the attention they crave. (See: Mastodon.)

If you want the mind-cancer that is social media to die, you have to provide people with an incentive to abandon it or a more productive, less harmful alternative that they end up choosing over it instead. Simply wishing for Twitter to die and thinking it will lead people to reject social media is like taking the crack pipe away from the addict and thinking this will turn him away from drugs. He will just find another and keep going.

 

[Lady Bizness]

If you want the mind-cancer that is social media to die, you have to provide people with an incentive to abandon it or a more productive, less harmful alternative that they end up choosing over it instead.

I wonder if the terrible aspects of it aren't why people use it in the first place. I feel like perhaps there are just people who get roped in by social media and there are those who don't. I muse about the implications of such a division and the future of humanity.

 

[The Foxtrot]

Twitter dying would be a bad thing, so long as there is a demand for a platform like it.

If it died, it wouldn't make people suddenly uninterested in microblogging and turn away from social media, as many people seem to hope, but it would simply be replaced by whatever platform would establish itself as its replacement first, and that platform would inevitably be run by another silicon valley soycuck suppressing non-far-left extremist viewpoints and staffing half the FBI. So long as the normie masses and apolitical content creators they are interested in stay on Twitter, the extremists have no choice but to remain there, too, or else move over to obscure platforms where nobody will see what they write or give them the attention they crave. (See: Mastodon.)

If you want the mind-cancer that is social media to die, you have to provide people with an incentive to abandon it or a more productive, less harmful alternative that they end up choosing over it instead. Simply wishing for Twitter to die and thinking it will lead people to reject social media is like taking the crack pipe away from the addict and thinking this will turn him away from drugs. He will just find another and keep going.

Everything you say is pretty much why the Tumblr. Exodus was a disaster for the internet as a whole, and why 4chan still keeps /pol/ around. Sometimes, you *need* a Containment Board to keep the crazies confined in, because getting rid of it allows them to spread their shit elsewhere.

 

[Doctor Love]

The kiwi farms is more similar to reddit than we'd like to admit, in how we both tend to flood a thread/comments section with people all saying the same popular opinion.

10/10

You'd be amazed at what stupid shit people will agree with if someone drops the right keywords. Even shit from the wrong field, entirely.

 

[Doctor Love]

Autism is the pathologised form of nerd.

 

[SIMIΔN]

I remember it was originally "Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

DIE simply looks like die, no biggy
But DEI makes me think its true meaning, divide ex impera, divide and rule.

Some /pol/acks might prefer IDE Iudea Delenda Est, the Judeans must be defeated

 

[Haftag]

Eastern History is more interesting than Western History

Eastern history is simply just more than Western history. Some even theorize that's why westernerz tried to make their history more "interesting" through hollywoodian means and whatnot ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Gondolindrim]

Puns are funny

 

[AbyssStarer]

People who keep up with and talk about the news suck the life out of everything. The news itself sucks the life out of people and I'm much happier since I stopped reading that swill in 2021. I check the local news about once a week and I'm done.

 

[WULULULULU]

I do not recognize Chinese New Year, in the same sense that I do not consider Chinese as people to begin with.

 

[Meat Target]

Neither Lynda Carter nor Gal Gadot are hot enough to play Wonder Woman.

People who keep up with and talk about the news suck the life out of everything. The news itself sucks the life out of people and I'm much happier since I stopped reading that swill in 2021. I check the local news about once a week and I'm done.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention!"

While that may be true, I also have a finite capacity of outrage, and it does me no good to sit around coping and seething about things beyond by control.

Telling myself "that's not my problem" has brought me truckloads of inner peace. It's like the Serenity Prayer: "Lord, give me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference".

 

[Moon Guy]

Disabled people disgust me and they should be euthanized.

After being a semi (not sort of) tard wrangler for some time yes this.

Here is my opinion. America needs to stop messing with international affairs. You niggers are exporting your bad bullshit hang ups to the rest of the world.
True unpopular option. Free health care (minus troons) is the only way to go. Fight me.

 

[WULULULULU]

Empathy and Sympathy is a double-edged sword to the point that people should be taught not to be either of the two. Many of the worst things happening at the moment, transexualism, hedonism, anti-religion, etc. are all caused because people have lost their guard and accepted the "minorities" as a form of sympathy, not knowing that these movements and trends are built on the exploitation of said values.

 

[AnOminous]

Empathy and Sympathy is a double-edged sword to the point that people should be taught not to be either of the two.

There's a difference between empathy and sympathy.

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

Puns are funny

puns are just a method or tool, they're not intrinsically unfunny or funny, but they are easiest kind of joke to make, so they're also the easiest to abuse by talentless hacks and that's why puns have a bad rep.

The best puns are those where the words have a connection outside of sounding alike. You could say a setup, though some setups are clumsily bullshitted into existence with minimal relation to the real world.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Akira Toriyama died very recently and while I feel a distant "Aw" like some people do when anyone dies, I kinda hate people acting like it's such a horrible personal tragedy to them.

You didn't know this person. You were not the family. You weren't even an acquaintance. They made stuff you liked. Why are you going on and on about how sick you feel and how heartbroken it is and how you feel like a vital person has been taken away from you?

I dunno, I hate it when people are actively mourning dead famous people like they lost someone close to them because they, in their infinite retardation, grew attached when they really shouldn't.

In short, mourning a famous person like you lost a family member is retarded, childish and maybe a little insulting.

Spoiler: Sadness powerlevel

PL here but some twelve years ago, I had a shit summer where I lost a close friend to eye cancer and a family friend to leukemia and that fucked me up for a while. So I kinda get peeved when people take that type of grief and try to apply it to some famous person who made a product for them to consume but there's no deeper bond or connection beyond that. Not even saying that they don't know true deep grief but there's a cynical, probably irrational part of me that finds their behavior insulting.

ETA: To make it less morbid. "The rise of fascism" is needless fear mongering for paranoid mentally ill trannies and retarded furries who think anything even remotely outside of the radical left is a calling sign for Nazi Germany's revival.

 

[doodoocaca]

Fascism, paradoxically, can be really fucking appealing, as long as you believe the lie that it will just be what you want and only go so far, as a means to an end.

I mean, I know that's never the case, but my god the fantasy is appealing.

 

[anon483637]

How you turn out is affected by two things: your genes and your childhood social group. Parents are irrelevant (unless they affect one of those factors).

 

[Vecr]

How you turn out is affected by two things: your genes and your childhood social group. Parents are irrelevant (unless they affect one of those factors).

What does that mean? Either your parents are part of your social group or they are absent, and your parents give you almost all your genes (except for de-novo mutations).

 

[anon483637]

What does that mean? Either your parents are part of your social group or they are absent, and your parents give you almost all your genes (except for de-novo mutations).

That a huge amount of psychology, and basically all of pop psychology, is junk. Parenting style? Doesn't matter. Birth order? Doesn't matter. Generational trauma, systemic racism? Don't exist. You get the picture. A lot of very deeply held beliefs are total bullshit.

You inherit a random set of gametes, further scrambled by genetic recombination, and grow up with a certain peer group. That's what shapes your personality, intelligence, athleticism, and so on. If you're wondering why your sister is popular but you're shy, or why crime rates are so high for certain ethnic groups - genes and peer group, nothing more.

(I should have clarified better - "social group" here specifically means your peer group your own age, not adults. E.g. if your parents move to Italy at a young age, you'll group up speaking fluent Italian because all your friends at school do. But if your Italian parents move to the US, your fluent language will be English, and Italian will be a stunted second language. Peer group trumps parents.)