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

[HatinisBad]

Children are annoying and I support abortion because I hate kids

 

[ThoughtfulBeatdown]

I have two
1. Hard determinism is very obviously true. All physics prior to Quantum breakthroughs pointed to this. John Bell himself, the guy who created the theorem that everyone brings up when trying to make heads or tails on quantum randomness, wasn't even a believer in quantum randomness himself. And most theoretical physicists seemingly eschew the standard copenhagen interpretation because it becomes more clear that it is an incomplete picture of physics. Within our lifetime, I believe a more deterministic framework of QM will materialize, and prove itself more accurate than the copenhagen interpretation. My money is on many-worlds theory.

2. I have sympathy for people who wish to be religious, but all religions are just silly, and force you to suspend disbelief and logic too much to be reasonable.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I hate modern magic/wizards and I think I finally worked through my feelings on the matter.

Building on this post,
I hate modern ghosts too.

So there was this slow shift over time that it feels like horror became more and more about violence, death and goreporn. Used to be you could make a movie about a spooky ghost going boo and it was enough, "haunting" was a real concept. Now your ghost needs to also tear your limbs off and rape your asshole for audiences to care. Go look up any new horror releases, they all feel the same and they all revolve around the implication that the supernatural entity is a mortal threat.

And it raises the question of WHY audiences ever were scared of ghosts in the first place, and the answer I came to is that this is another one of those casualties of materialist brainrot.

To the materialist, a ghost is inevitably going to wind up just being another critter. You have your stupid gay little ghost detecting scanner, your ectoplasmic vacuum, your ghost goo boots, you have a field manual for classifying 12 kinds of ghost. Oh, sure, plenty of fiction isn't like that and the early works were fresh because of it, but somewhere along the line, ghosts start being a thing that's just another piece of nature which means that, unless they cause mortal peril, they're really hard to take as being anything other than minor pests.

Ghosts used to be scary because they were rooted in the same kind of worldview as magic. As I said of magic:

But magic in its older conception - fiction before the vidyafication of everything, before a million hack imitators of Tolkien ruined everything, when it was folkloric in character - isn't about executing systems, it's about subverting them. Magic isn't something you can teach to people in four years at a school. It isn't something you can read out of a book and just understand. Magic is extremely fucking hard and risky. It's like trying to do chemical engineering, or cooking meth. You're trying to will reality into bending itself around what you want, and reality does have its own will (be it rational scientific principles or a cosmic will or whatever), and so you've got to be like some super-genius to get it. Which is why wizards are exceedingly rare (like, maybe one per kingdom), and very old, and usually they die horribly or something goes wrong (hence why there's so few of them), and they have shitty personalities. You put a magick spellbook in front of a wizard and regardless of what it says on the page, trying to get something out of it is like trying to teach an Education major how to do differential equations. Then that wizard is out there doing, basically, cryptoanalysis on reality. He's gotta crack the Enigma code or do elliptic-curve whatever to hack in to Nature so he can fuck with Nature, and this'll probably hex him in some bad way and drive him mad and make his dick fall off when he gets traced and it's got to be done, bespoke, every single time.

What the wizard is doing deliberately - subverting cosmic order - the ghost does... well, due to exceptional events, or it's just a mystery, whatever, point is the ghost is nature letting itself break in a way.

The scary lady in a shroud that goes boogity boo is no real threat to anybody but you'd piss and shit yourself if you encountered it in real life because your body would be screaming this is a violation of the natural order, and that itself requires you to be able to accept the idea there is a natural order and that it is possible to violate it all the same.

It's violence not against the body but against the universe itself. And I don't think that's an idea that can really live outside of a spiritual people. Both in that the supernatural is plausible (the ghost is at least conceivable) and that the world has a telos (it means something, beyond just epistemological collapse, that such a thing can violate it).

 

[nycifer]

Watching YouTube without engaging in the comments is the best and optimal way to enjoy YouTube. It'll take some getting used to but once you master it, you will find it easier to just watch videos without ever having to care what anyone has said on it. Because youtube comments contain very single-digit IQ level of commentary ever to be read.

People stating the obvious, people having practical orgasms on the keyboard about whatever the video is about, trauma-dumping, half-baked takes, hot takes with no informed opinion and just sheer retardation.

You'll thank yourself later.

 

[Retarded of the Month]

Watching YouTube without engaging in the comments is the best and optimal way to enjoy YouTube. It'll take some getting used to but once you master it, you will find it easier to just watch videos without ever having to care what anyone has said on it. Because youtube comments contain very single-digit IQ level of commentary ever to be read.

People stating the obvious, people having practical orgasms on the keyboard about whatever the video is about, trauma-dumping, half-baked takes, hot takes with no informed opinion and just sheer retardation.

You'll thank yourself later.

If I got a dollar for each "first" and "who is watching/listening this in [INSERT_YEAR]", I could buy the planet just for me.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Just because a wild animal killed a human or put it in danger does not justify killing it in response. There is no justifiable reason to ever kill a rare animal especially if it's on the endangered species list regardless of what it did or could do.

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

I'm not saying to restrict voting rights based on land ownership again

I will say it for you then.

 

[nycifer]

I don't believe every content creator is worth spending your money on. And I've developed this stance that stems off partly from the feeling I get when I've worked shitty jobs. I'm working in a shitty job, in a shitty store to help realize the dreams of others who are higher than me. I'm just a grunt, doing the work they would never have to do because I am helping them make money and all that they'll ever have to worry about, is attending menial board room meetings to discuss how much more they can fuck everyone below them over.

And the same can be said for online content creators, from digital artists to youtube makers. We've seen what even a little bit of power and entitlement can happen to someone who gets supported off of the backs of those who're like me. It's the same deal, we're all earning hard money and we do decide to throw money at other people, so that they don't have to do what we do.

Where their only worry is about what games they're going to play on their channels next, what their next video is going to be about, what their next design is going to be about and whatnot.

I separate content creator from freelance worker, because a freelance worker is someone who is doing some level of labor in exchange for what you pay them for a piece to be done or a service that is applicable by their professional status. They are doing just about everything because they're self-employed, they are their own company.

As much as I have supported content creators in the past, I don't do it anymore because I'm going to get the same feeling I get when I have to go to work every night. I am just supporting your dream at the expense of my mental and physical health, my stability in life just so you can do next to nothing while playing up your starving artist bullshit.

 

[Fats McGee]

Here's one that I think even my fellow Kiwis would disagree with. I believe in most cases, if something bad happens to you and your own action or inaction could've directly avoided that outcome altogether, a responsible, mature adult should assume the majority if not all blame even if the other party is technically or legally at fault. In essence, you should never assume others are playing by the rules or acting in good faith, so you and you alone are responsible for avoiding trouble.

For example: You're lane splitting on a motorcycle in stopped traffic. Shaniqua has been sitting in traffic for an hour and needs to pee, so she throws the door of her Nisan Ultima open so she can squat in the median. You don't have time to react and smack directly in to that that now-open door. yes, Shaniqua should've checked her mirror before opening her door. Yes, peeing in the street is illegal. If Shaniqua was playing by the rules you wouldn't have crashed. Shaniqua is not "right" in this situation. But to assume anyone or everyone will act in your best interest is a foolish, childlike simplification of the world. You, as the motorcyclist, should be aware of how stupid people are. You are making all your own decisions. You chose to lane split and you assumed all the risks which should be obvious to anyone who can think more than one step ahead at a time. When that risk you chose to take bites you in the ass, that is 100% your own fault regardless of whether Shaniqua was right or wrong. She's not the one laying in the road banged up, you are and you could've avoided it. If you'd decided "I'll go with the flow of traffic and not try to cheat the system" you wouldn't have a damaged bike or road rash. It's literally as simple as that.

Another example: You trespass on private property and get your shit blown smooth off by a booby trap. booby traps are illegal, and when you're in court eating from a feeding tube they'll consider the homeowner as having comitted a violation of the law and they'll punish him for it. Regardless of what the law says, the raw reality of it is that if you hadn't been trespassing you wouldn't have gotten maimed. You made a stupid decision, and you suffered the consequence of that decision. you have nobody to blame but yourself.

The amount of videos I see where people are putting themselves in harms way, but whining and blaming everyone else because they "technically" didn't do anything wrong is astounding. Maybe it's just that I have so little faith in people I almost feel silly blaming them for anything, but once I was almost t-boned at an intersection by someone running a stop sign and my first thought was "I'm a fucking idiot for not even glancing in that direction and just assuming the stopsign was a forcefield." Blaming that person never even crossed my mind because I'm fully aware people are retarded and it's my job to avoid that retardation.

 

[agent_donkey]

Another example: You trespass on private property and get your shit blown smooth off by a booby trap.

I agree, tho -as a European- the trespassing example seems excessively extreme (assuming there is no fence hopping involved).
Might not be the best one to bring up.

Reminds me of this one 4cuck post where Anon expressed frustration due to the inability to explain to his gf that she has a duty to look around before taking the crosswalk and she doesn't become blameless just because she wouldn't be legally liable for getting run over.

 

[AbsurdumRideo]

People need to be able to accept that other people do not need to share their own views on politics.
Example A. Germanys public treatment of Members of the AfD. The reason they are getting votes, in part, is protest. If current established politics aren’t working, people will vote for more extremist parties.

B. Whatever the fuck is going on in America. People killing others due to them not agreeing on whatever shitty view they disagree on. Everyone is entitled to their own ahit view. I don’t agree with Charlie Kirk, but I still didn’t want him dead. He still shouldn’t have been dead because he voiced his opinion and made use of his first admendment.

Another point adjacent to this:
People need to be able to tolerate each other. If we hate our neighbours next door than the people overrunning our culture; institutions and countries then we deserve the downfall….

 

[The Foxtrot]

People need to be able to tolerate each other.

Counterpoint, if I have to "tolerate" you, that implies you're actively a detriment to me and others. You don't "tolerate" something that's either benign or beneficial, you "tolerate" something that's harmful.

"You need to be more tolerant!" should really be taken as "You need to have a higher pain threshold!". My response is a flat "request denied".

If we hate our neighbours next door than the people overrunning our culture; institutions and countries then we deserve the downfall….

Your neighbors have a much greater impact on your day to day life than "the people overrunning (y)our culture".

B. Whatever the fuck is going on in America.

Worry about your own doomed island, britbong, before you start bitching about my country.

 

[Fats McGee]

I agree, tho -as a European- the trespassing example seems excessively extreme (assuming there is no fence hopping involved).
Might not be the best one to bring

Americans take trespassing very seriously, and especially rural Americans. When you live in certain areas, everybody knows everyone and they all know not to trespass - so if someone is in your barn without making you aware, they absolutely don’t have good intentions. They’re either there to rob you blind or harm you, and in either case getting their shit blown smooth off is appropriate.

 

[AbsurdumRideo]

Counterpoint, if I have to "tolerate" you, that implies you're actively a detriment to me and others. You don't "tolerate" something that's either benign or beneficial, you "tolerate" something that's harmful.

"You need to be more tolerant!" should really be taken as "You need to have a higher pain threshold!". My response is a flat "request denied".

Your neighbors have a much greater impact on your day to day life than "the people overrunning (y)our culture".

Worry about your own doomed island, britbong, before you start bitching about my country.

My country isn’t an island and I’m dual citizen, so yeah….

 

[The Last Stand]

I do not see the point of having a lot of friends. I can be friendly and cordial with people. But, I do not expect or want to be friends with everybody I meet. I like to have a small circle of friends.

 

[nycifer]

I don't care about buying band merch or some merch off of Temu. I know what I'm getting into with shopping Temu at all. But I also am not some spoiled-ass rich kid living in upper-class suburbs who can afford $40 shirts at a given time. Who the fuck is paying overpriced shirts in this day and age?

I think it's funny how so many people can be picky choosy on the idea of affordability. Yeah, while you're sitting there crying about how broke you are that you can't afford something, I'm over here trying to find cheap deals. Don't guilt-trip me.

 

[umseriously]

Fargo (1996) is a piece of shit flick that's barely a 1/10 that feels like it's written by people who don't understand the human condition and were at best trying to mimic it. If you like the movie, too bad.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

The United Kingdom should be abolished.

 

[Slap47]

Registering to vote in this country is almost TOO easy. I'm not saying to restrict voting rights based on land ownership again. I would think universal civics test and regular background checks would help make the right to vote mean a bit more.

I have the opposite opinion.

Voting should have as few restrictions as possible because the whole point of democracy is to have peoples interests represented. A person may not be smart, but they have interests and concerns that should be addressed.
Whether or not somebody even understands how the judiciary, upper/lower houses and executive works is kinda irrelevant to them voting against a war or against certain people going into women's spaces. They have to live in a world where all of these things happen so they should have a say.
A persons' intelligence also says little about their virtue, common sense or ability to understand the world.

Another issue with restricting voting is that you have to decide on who gets to vote. Having a test of any kind opens the system up to each party inserting their facts into the process. We already see this in the United States with felons not being able to vote. The drug war was partly waged to increase the number of felons so that less people of certain opinions would be able to vote.

 

[Kill Mitts]

fish don't have any feelings or don't know what the fucc going on so we could morally be justified in raping them they wouldn't care at ALL