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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] Rinnarrae@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most people should at least try to limit their meat consumption IF POSSIBLE. I mostly mean avoiding stuff like McDonalds and maybe limiting it to at least a couple times a week. I'm not expecting everyone to be able to cut it out completely.

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[–] redpen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Houses and similar private property should be owned by the state and be given out to those in need for free, rather than owned by private individuals to sell/rent and make a profit. It's literally a basic human need that's becoming less and less accessible due to greed (constantly rising prices and scams landlords might try to pull), and it's very easy to just lose one if you're unfortunate enough to be unemployed for a longer period of time.

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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Liberalism and socialism aren't entirely incompatible concepts

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[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.

It's great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.

But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it's better to scare the shit out of your self by asking

"what happens to me if I don't do the work?"

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[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anti-natalism makes some good points

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[–] poudlardo@jlai.lu 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Some (not so unpopular) unpopular opinions :

  • Most clichΓ©s about people happen to be true. I won't give any example.
  • Smart Electronics altered our mental health mostly in a bad way.
  • Porn should be banned.
  • Big trillionaire corporations should not exist.
  • We should tend to a car free society
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[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of things around the world were better before the Internet. And they were definitely better before smart phones reached ubiquity.

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[–] Defaced@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Legend of Zelda breath of the wild is the absolute worst Zelda I've ever played. I've played and beaten the following: OoT, MM, SS, ALttP, ALbW, LA, Zelda 2. I've almost beaten wind Waker and twilight princess, so you could say I've played a few Zelda games.

BotW is a mix of assassins creed, Minecraft, and Zelda characters with shit dungeons. The divine beasts are garbage replacements for dungeons and shrines are not a replacement for dungeons either, it's just a terrible Zelda, but a decent open world game.

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[–] joystick@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got removed on reddit for this, but I think the mentally ill homeless should be placed in state institutions where they can get professional help.

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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (14 children)

While companies are bad, that doesn't automatically make things a company produces bad even if the company is trying to price-gouge or otherwise make the most profit out of it. You can oppose the latter while not pushing bullshit about the former.

In this regard, I'm referring to things that people generally try to push anti-science views on and use "company bad" as their purposefully bad argument to conflate the two things.

So, medicine and pharmaceuticals are not bad, even if the companies are bad.

Same goes with vaccines, obviously.

Biotech crops are not bad (and people really need to learn about how all crop cultivars have patents, including heirloom and organic cultivars).

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ironically I foreshadowed one of these on one of my recently previous comments. The Greeks/Spartans are wayyyy overrated as far as history goes, as in I couldn't not understate how overrated they are. None of their claims to fame are wholly true in the least. For example, they were said to have invented democracy, but every two rulers was a tyrant who justified their tyranny with the fact Zeus himself was a tyrant. He and the other gods were always justified in that "they're the gods, they can do what they want", which would make sense if they were creator gods, but legend has it Zeus fought the creator god... and ate him... for power, and then presided over the gods for eternity, because apparently the democratic process (which didn't include women, immigrants, or non-home-owners anyways) does not befit the gods and so you have a mentally ill, Typhon-obsessed role model at the helm. They spend their days indulging themselves at the expense of others in such an extreme way that they make it sound like asexuality didn't exist, because it was the Greek view that human nature was the same for everyone. And this tyranny they tried spreading all over the world because they thought it was what democracy was, which brings us to Alexander the Great, the world's most undeserving "great" conqueror. Imagine trying to enact revenge for a conquest on your land that happened more than two hundred years ago, having the historical records lie to inflate you, and once you get even with your enemies, decide that while you're at it you should conquer people further East, all while being unable to actually properly care for the lands you conquered.

I am currently taking history and get tired of seeing people say "the Greeks were the best". When the Ottomans invaded Greece, the love was so great that people volunteered from random nations to travel to Greece to fight the Ottomans. I don't care for the Ottomans, but where was this love for, say, Iceland, who had a better democracy? Or the Iroquois who also had an actual democracy? Online and in movies, Greece gets all the exposure.

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[–] peto@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The stuffing is the worst part of an Oreo.

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[–] colonial@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Too many people conflate the evils of corporatism and corruption with the general concept of "capitalism"/a market economy.

Now, I'm hardly an advocate of laissez-faire economics. But I'm not a full-on socialist either. I think the majority of problems people attribute to modern market economies can be corrected with aggressive anti-trust and pro-consumer regulation.

(The keyword here is majority. I'm sure it makes sense to socialize some things, but those details are best left to people smarter than me.)

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[–] xyproto@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Pinapples did nothing wrong

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[–] beto@lemmy.studio 20 points 1 year ago (41 children)

Everyone should be vegan. It's great for your health, for the environment, and more importantly, it would save more than a trillion (yes, with a T) lives every year.

In a hundred years we'll look back and be ashamed of what we did to animals.

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[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Dismissing social norms because they're "only social constructs" is ridiculous, because all social constructs are a product of our biological brains. Gender norms exist because sex chromosomes affect brain chemistry, not because some evil global patriarchy cabal in 200,000 B.C decided they should.

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[–] festus@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I greatly despise all facial hair.

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