Hot, Bad & Unpopular Takes

[GlobeSoc]

I am a moderate Techno-Marxist, before it's going to be cool, and we need to accelerate the development of technologies that would make the ideology viable.

We need an NHS system in the United States, right now.

Suburbs are weird and bad.

For this reason, I hate Eisenhower.

I have more, but these are my top 4.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Suburbs are weird and bad.

This is a good opinion.
Yay for latte-sipping, condo-dwelling, metro-riding urbanites!

The point is to keep you people in the city, where you belong.

[Torie]

There is some truth, too much truth, in the above post unfortunately. To engage in some hyperbole, I find both parties to be in a state of intellectual and moral bankruptcy.

[muon2]

My unpopular opinion is that coarseness in public discourse is the norm in American politics, with the mid 20th century being the exception. Coarseness comes in part from a fragmented news media which allows people to stay within an information bubble. This was the condition both before radio and since the rise of cable and then the web.

[TheSaint250]

Unpopular here: Ed Gillespie isn't racist.

[The Govanah Jake]

Unpopular here: Ed Gillespie isn't racist.

Damn. How dare you make such a offensive and outrageous comment!

[White Trash]

Andrew Jackson is one of my favorite Presidents.

[RINO Tom]

My unpopular opinion is that coarseness in public discourse is the norm in American politics, with the mid 20th century being the exception. Coarseness comes in part from a fragmented news media which allows people to stay within an information bubble. This was the condition both before radio and since the rise of cable and then the web.

Huh, that is really interesting!  As always, if muon supports, I support!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=1477;sa=showPosts

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

My unpopular opinion is that coarseness in public discourse is the norm in American politics, with the mid 20th century being the exception. Coarseness comes in part from a fragmented news media which allows people to stay within an information bubble. This was the condition both before radio and since the rise of cable and then the web.

Huh, that is really interesting!  As always, if muon supports, I support!

+1 I seem to like Illinois Atlasian Republicans.

[RINO Tom]

My unpopular opinion is that coarseness in public discourse is the norm in American politics, with the mid 20th century being the exception. Coarseness comes in part from a fragmented news media which allows people to stay within an information bubble. This was the condition both before radio and since the rise of cable and then the web.

Is the unpopular part of this the opinion that "coarseness" once was as common as it is today, or the opinion that the politics of the mid-twentieth century were unusually civil?

I interpreted it to mean that the unpopular opinion is that we shouldn't necessarily be alarmed by the "coarseness" of contemporary politics and should expect it?  I don't know.

[muon2]

My unpopular opinion is that coarseness in public discourse is the norm in American politics, with the mid 20th century being the exception. Coarseness comes in part from a fragmented news media which allows people to stay within an information bubble. This was the condition both before radio and since the rise of cable and then the web.

Is the unpopular part of this the opinion that "coarseness" once was as common as it is today, or the opinion that the politics of the mid-twentieth century were unusually civil?

I have found that people don't want to hear that the public political civility they grew up with is not the normal state of affairs. The implication is that if my sense of cause is correct, returning to civility may be much harder than people want to believe.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Harvey Weinstein should be executed or sent to Guantanamo Bay.

[Torie]

Christmas is the most horrible holiday imaginable, an orgy of mass consumerism and trite music. and often tasteless decorations, and urchins whining for loot. I have the whole sordid affair on ignore. Thank you.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Christmas is the most horrible holiday imaginable, an orgy of mass consumerism and trite music. and often tasteless decorations, and urchins whining for loot. I have the whole sordid affair on ignore. Thank you.

That's the best Unpopular/Bad Opinion I've read here, El Toro!   Bravo!

You did forget the part about everyone being nice to you for about a month, but on January 2 everyone goes back to being raging assholes.

[Dr. MB]

an orgy of mass consumerism

Isn't everything like that nowadays?

[IceSpear]

Unpopular in the MSM: The GOP uses white identity politics just as much, if not more, than Democrats do other forms.

This is a fact, not an opinion.

[Torie]

Those who bash Christmas were unloved as children.

Go do a search for my posts about my Dad. Thanks. But thanks also, because I did a LOL. Cheers.

[muon2]

I have found that people don't want to hear that the public political civility they grew up with is not the normal state of affairs. The implication is that if my sense of cause is correct, returning to civility may be much harder than people want to believe.

It baffles me that older Americans can look back over the past several decades and convince themselves that they lived through a time when our politics were more civil.

From WWII through the early nineties, we are talking about an era when political violence was more common than it is now. Domestic terror incidents and political assassinations were more frequent. More people were killed in riots and protests, and more property was destroyed.

I am not a political optimist. But does it make sense to say that we are more callous just because our Congressional representatives are playing fewer golf games together? I guess I would place less weight on shouting and more weight on shooting when it comes to assessing public civility.

Most of what they have lost is a comforting illusion, one that was packaged by a mass media that has now fragmented, compounded by nostalgia.

And we are talking about older Americans whose siblings and peers were the ones leading the protests at Selma, Chicago, and Kent State. The difference is that you never heard from Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News the language LBJ was using privately in the WH. They picture political discourse framed by Huntley and Brinkley, not by secret tapes.

[Lord Admirale]

I support Dianne Feinstein for reelection

[they don't love you like i love you]

Two more of mine:

-Family Guy is the crowning achievement in entire medium of television.
-I love Jesus Christ.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Christmas is the most horrible holiday imaginable, an orgy of mass consumerism and trite music. and often tasteless decorations, and urchins whining for loot. I have the whole sordid affair on ignore. Thank you.

I'm in the "put Christ back in Christmas" camp precisely because I despise mass consumerism and trite music.

Christmas is the most horrible holiday imaginable, an orgy of mass consumerism and trite music. and often tasteless decorations, and urchins whining for loot. I have the whole sordid affair on ignore. Thank you.

That's the best Unpopular/Bad Opinion I've read here, El Toro!   Bravo!

You did forget the part about everyone being nice to you for about a month, but on January 2 everyone goes back to being raging assholes.

Yup!

[Kamala]

-I love Jesus Christ.

You are so brave.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

I don't like it when people decorate/prepare for, play music of, or even think about Christmas before December. Decorate you housing with a giant turkey in November, if you must.

[they don't love you like i love you]

-I love Jesus Christ.

You are so brave.

It's an unpopular opinion here.