Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[mvd10]

I'm a proud neoliberal who hates corporate taxes (and to a lesser extent capital gains taxes), Bernie Sanders, excessive spending, and financial regulation. Fite me irl m8.

[mvd10]

Despite thinking her ideas are horrible, I actually kind of like Nancy Pelosi.  She's not a hard-lefty, and I hope she remains the leader of House Dems.

I really admire Nancy. Tough and smart!

You're a Democrat though. Admiring Nancy Pelosi isn't weird for a Democrat

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I don't really think I'm hot

[mvd10]

I don't really think I'm hot

I'm sure that's a lie

No, it's an unpopular and bad opinion

[mvd10]

I don't think I should talk about my opinion of this Dutch tradition on the Atlas, even though most Dutch people probably agree with me.

[mvd10]

I probably shouldn't say this, but I do have a VERY unpopular opinion...
Viewing child porn should not be illegal, however obviously making or distributing it should be highly illegal as it already is.

What the  is wrong with you?! If there is demand for something, people will produce more of it.

There will always be a demand for this kind of thing, as repulsive as it is.

And if you make consumption legal, demand will only go up. Legalizing consumption of underage porn would open the floodgates, perhaps not of like, pedophile child porn, but for shady foreign-produced porn of girls in their mid teens.

All I'm saying is I don't think we should be putting people in jail for simply viewing it, as long as they're not actually harming any children in their personal lives.

Well, they are because without people like them these children wouldn't have been abused like that. And why the f**k would anyone want to watch child porn anyway? Seriously?

[mvd10]

"Stable genius" is one of the least amusing Trumpisms and I hope it's forgotten about in like a week.

It's as strong and stable as strong and stable .

[mvd10]

-Mayonnaise is the most revolting condiment in existence

Amen.  If the Dutch really do dip their fries in it, they are disgusting.

KOM VECHTEN DAN! I'm willing to die on this hill.

(I prefer ketchup though)

[mvd10]

The suburban Democratic trend is temporary. A more diverse U.S. will force the Republican Party to move back to the center socially, and along with that, the suburbs will shift Republican. Especially with the growth of democratic socialism within the Democratic Party.

America is suburbanizing in general though. Where would Democrats derive their electoral power? You'd have to be more specific. If Republicans controlled rural areas and suburbs in general, that wouldn't leave a whole lot else outside of urban cores.

There are even less people in rural areas so if Republicans are relegated to rural areas they're going to have trouble cracking 30% in the future. I imagine Democrats will be dominant in urban areas and urbanized suburbs while Republicans win rural areas and the majority of suburbs. I don't think much will change at all tbh. Democrats could be an alliance between the (upper middle-class) 'creative class' and poor urban minorities, Republicans could be an alliance between middle-class voters and upper-class voters. Basically what we already saw in past elections with some changes (I imagine most Romney-Clinton suburbans will eventually go back to the Republicans).

[mvd10]

The euro was a fundamentally flawed idea from the start, and while incredibly convient for consumers, has resulted in sustained economic damage to the second tier economies in the EU, due to their inability to inflate their currency at a rate independent from their neighbours.

Quote from a Spanish time-travel show (El Ministerio del Tiempo):

19th century Spaniard: The was during the Spanish War of Independence.
16th century Spaniard: Spain had to fight for independence? Absurd!
21st century Spaniard: We all serve the European Central Bank today.

Eesh. Harsh but not unfounded. At any given moment it seems like half the EU states are being called upon to raise funds for the next bailout. Don’t get me wrong, I’m disappointed we’re leaving, but there are a lot of aspects of the Union I won’t miss.

Y'all need a dual mandate central bank and orthodox Keynesianism. I never understood austerity. It's like trying to start a fire by dumping CO2 all over it.

I'm not entirely sure about that. Sure, most countries were way to eager to slash spending as if the world depended on them getting the deficit to 3% of GDP, but these cuts probably should have happened at a later stage anyway and we all know what happens with political will to make tough choices when the economy is going well. Austerity actually was a good excuse to do some things that should have happened regardless of the economic situation. I'm also not really sure how orthodox Keynesianism would have helped France and Italy, whose main problems always have been hilariously rigid labour markets (and add a criminally outdated law system in Italy's case). Besides, their debt to GDP ratios are in excess of 100% already. I do agree that the EU was too hard on some countries though, I believe they should have focused less on austerity and more on structural reforms.