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A hot topic right now is a bunch of New York Times enthusiasts shit talking Trump acting like it’s an unpopular opinion. Everyone thinks Trump lost support or he can’t win, stuff like that. So I’m here with the actual unpopular opinion which is only really unpopular here on Reddit.

First of all, he was convicted in New York, the bluest state in the entire country. This shows the trial was rigged. They wouldn’t allow him to relocate or anything. The judge was clearly a leftists and so was the cherry picked jury. Many people including myself see this as injustice. Let’s not forget to mention the reason he was convicted. “Alleged hush money payments to a porn star.” Also how the timing is very convenient. Why are we arresting mp when the real criminals are just off the hook. Obama and the many civilian casualties in result of his drone strikes. How about Bill Clinton and his alleged r*ping of children with his best friend Jeffery Epstein. 26 flight logs don’t lie. Also we already know he likes them young with his Lewinsky scandal when she was 22 he was 49.

Second, even though he is guilty in paper nobody gives a fuck. Within 6 hours after being found guilty he raised 34.8 million dollars in donations on his website. 30% of those people were first time donors. He raised 54 million within 24 hours. Official $50 MAGA hats have a wait list now because of such high demand. Guilty or not he still has the votes. People are willing to donate their money to a billionaire. That shows how much support he has.

Now to conclude Trump will always fight through whatever obstacles he faces and supporters will be right there with him. Enough with the he can’t win bullshit. He’s more likely to win now.

The land that belongs to "Palestine" and "Israel" is the Holy Land, thus belongs to the Catholic Church. This is the land of Jesus Christ. Pope Francis should order a Crusade.

A crusade would bring peace to the region as the Catholic Church promotes peace and justice. There would no longer be a debate between Palestine and Israel.

This Crusade can easily be done due to the very large number of Catholics in the world, standing at 1.4 billion people.

Just 1% of 1.4 billion is 14 million followers, more than enough to take over and occupy the Holy Land.

Afterwards, this land will become a Catholic state and provide an option for every Catholic in the world to immigrate easily, depending on requirements.

The Jews and Muslims living in the Holy Land would also have the option to stay, as long they respect the Catholic Church and don't cause trouble.

Basically what the title says. By making it mandatory for everybody you're not singling anybody out.

And we can ensure the face of women's sports is an XX as it should be not somebody who has Swyer syndrome

for example.

Such a person would still have an advantage over an XX.

Recently in the news, California (where else would you expect it?) has hiked the minimum wage again and everyone is patting themselves on the back as to how progressive they all are. The common liberal response is that this is necessary because the cost of living has gone up and the business owners are greedy and uncaring and users of desperate people, and just have to be forced into doing the right thing. The common conservative response is that the business owner is trying to survive, and the advocates for the wage hikes have no stake in the game and no ability to see two moves ahead. In other words, employers will end up laying off the very people the advocates wish to help, at others expense.

So I do a search and find a paper out of Berkeley University saying that even small businesses do not experience job loss due to the higher wages. Then I find reports that fast food chains are already preparing layoffs due to the wage hike.

But even if there is no job loss, businesses like fast food restaurants that do the most employing of the minimum wage worker are going to have to raise prices to cover the higher wages. OK, who is that going to hurt more? The guy making six figures (in California that is not a sign you are doing well), or the minimum wage worker? Obviously it is hurting the poor the most, as the well to do don't have to eat the low end food. Panera is probably as low as they go when they have a choice. So even if there is no job loss, this doesn't help the low even worker. Cost of living increases hurt the poor most of all.

Previously when the minimum wage came up on this sub, we get comments about how in the past minimum wage was enough to rent a home, a wife and two kids, etc. I got my first minimum wage job in 1977, and it paid $2.65 an hour. Adjusted for inflation, that is $14.20 today. There was no possible way that in 1977 working 40 hours a week, $2.65 was going to cut it, anymore than $1420 for 40 hours a week would cut it today. You are NOT supposed to try to live on minimum wage. That wage is for teenages making a little extra money, not for adults trying to make it in the world. An adult is not supposed to be satisfied with being the fry guy at McD's.

People are trying to excuse this movie flopping awfully by saying that all box office is down because of streaming - which while true doesn’t explain this Furiosa movie doing so incredibly badly.

The reason this Furiosa movie is flopping is the same reason it would have always flopped. It replaces the iconic title male character of an action series with a majority male fanbase with a female character - and gives her a movie which isn’t even a sequel or new story, but rather her meaningless back story.

Do you suppose that if in the 70’s the Bond series introduced a female co star who was actually the real action star of a Bond movie (ala what Fury Road did to Max) and then made a stand alone movie featuring that female co star - and then made that movie a prequel about that female co star which featured her as a girl for half the movie for some reason - that that movie would have been a big hit in its time? No, it would have flopped awfully and people would have been like “wtf did anyone think that would do well?”

Yet today people seem incapable of seeing the very obvious - this is a prequel movie made about a character nobody really cares about, let alone the original movie series fans. I don’t know if people feel the need to defend it because it’s starring a female lead in a formerly male starring series, but it’s blinding them to the obvious fact that making this movie for that high of a budget was a truly stupid idea - in this day and age or any other.

You're asking someone a question in the middle of the night that they haven't thought about since 5th grade that are very much drunk. The audience doesn't know how many people got those question right and who the interviewer chose to post the wrong answers for entertainment value.

A woman shouldn’t taking negative a man approaching her, it’s a normal and good thing.

This is also a reply and is inspired by this post: IN MY COMMENT !!!

SEE THE POST I talk in contrast of that post.

I think I woman should be very grateful that a man liked her and show gratitude. She is not obligated to like the man or wanting to continue the discussion for 1 hour, but she should at least be polite.

On the post it’s mentioned that it’s bad due of women feeling dangerous or uncomfortable. That’s why I think this is a stupid take.

1) It is not even dangerous 99% if the time. 99% of men don’t want to harm that woman they just want to get to know her.

2) Women can learn to protect themselves and control themselves.

3) Its a harmful stereotype for men and gives the idea that men are “dangerous, rapists, murders”. Even though most men are normal people, only a minority does the bad stuff we see on the news.

The other take on the post that is sexist and dehumanizing approaching women for their appearance. I’ll tell you why I think that’s a completely stupid take.

1) We all start from somewhere ! There are 7 billion of us, the FIRST things you are FORCED to see first is how someone looks. We can’t read minds. We have just a pair of eyes to judge.

2) Dating as its nature has appearance as a factor and that applies to ALL people on any extent. Yes I think we should take in mind the personality of someone, very much I could say. But romance is romance or involves kiss, sex etc. it’s romance… you want the other person to be pretty at some extent.

3) For serious loving long term relationships being pretty is not enough. A woman who is only pretty without a good personality will not go more far from hookups. You are not so blessed if you are only beautiful. You may have guys approaching you but when they will meet that hypothetical woman and see how shit her personality is and get bored from having sex with her, he will break up with her. If a pretty woman with a good personality did the same though a man would appreciate that and the woman will experience long term relationships away from pure lust. For actually living relationships you need to have a good personality.

4) Some of us want to do kids and we want our kids to be good looking and not ugly.

Now some things for a man’s perspective.

1) I think it’s sad that some people generalize men so terribly most of us aren’t bad people, it’s not rational to put 3,5 billion people to one basket. Only 1% causes the trouble.

2) Some men (like me) can’t do otherwise. Some of us are to introverted to know people from our circle and he don’t go well on dating apps. It’s the only way.

3) It spreads harmful stereotypes to men, no most men are not creepy murders, we are just normal people.

There's nothing less funny than someone that wants to be funny. Will Ferrell made his name on Saturday Night Live and he sort of represents the most annoying parts of that culture. Exaggerated physical comedy, knowing the right people to get ahead. SNL at its worst reminds me of those annoying theatre kids in middle school that thought that exaggeration meant that they were funny.

hello everyone.

so, one of the most common topics of discussion on this sub is politics. there are still quite a few different subjects that are covered on this sub but politics is the big one.

however, every now and then, there are a few movie related posts on this sub. i've posts quite a few myself.

so, let's take a break from politics and start a thread about movies. people of this sub, whether they be positive or negative, what are your unpopular movie opinions?

I’m sick of hearing bozos say “no we love Ripley, we just want good female characters and we don’t care if every action movie stars women from now on! 🥰🥰🥰” Bullshit.

In genres like action, which has a majority male fanbase, in which ALL the major action stars have been male, it’s a bad idea financially to swap a existing lead male character for a female one, and on top of that, male starring movies are a safer bet financially. That’s because whether consciously or unconsciously these movies serve as a fantasy for a large portion of the male audience, and they can identify with the male lead.

It’s the same in female majority audience genres like romance drama with all those Jane Austen ripoff type movies or shows or books - women don’t want a story about a village dude with six brothers who ends up getting the brooding rich woman with big estate to propose. They want the female starring version because it indulges their wish fufilment fantasy.

People on reddit seem so determined to either be progressive or not to be sexist, they’ll twist themselves into ridiculous knots pretending that none of this matters anymore (or that it never did). It does, and that’s ok.

To use an example - if a Sex and the City movie came out and it didn’t have the four female leads in it, and they’d been replaced by one of the women’s boyfriends, and the female fanbase didn’t show up to see the movie in large number - would anyone be like “well clearly the gender swap had no effect on viewership it must have been something else”?

No they wouldn’t, because it would be ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as it is to pretend it doesn’t effect viewership in male audience dominated series - especially those with a pre existing and iconic male lead.

(Oh BTW since people point to the Terminator movies as a “female lead” series which made money because of this - while Linda Hamilton was a great character in the Terminator movies and I enjoy her performance, no she is not the reason people watched them, Arnold was - that’s why he was all over the posters as a selling point and has a huge action career and she doesn’t, and why the movie is named after his character.)

So I just wanted to put out a thought that currently goes through my mind. So I'm just a 20 year old guy who's not from the US, never been there and most of this is just my opinion based on the picture I could built so far but that's far from perfect.

So you notice a lot of criticism and rejection from the world towards America and I think it's wrong in many ways because people are quite naive and base assumptions on things they don't actually know a lot about and don't really understand because they don't have the full picture/background.

I feel like that many things people perceive as "deficits" about the US actually have very well reasons why they are like they are. First the US is like any country a deeply complex system and judging a whole country especially as big as the US can never be correct in the first place.

Obviously humans have the same mechanisms everywhere and are solely nuanced by external factors and environments. And I think there are lots of complex backgrounds why the US is how it is and just because it's different it doesn't necessarily mean it's bad.

I think a significant explanation is that America went through a lot of complex traumatic and socially tense/overwhelming experiences which among other things made people lose general trust and security and that affected a lot of things such as societal devisions causing a sense of individual surviving.

I think when seeing the whole picture and actual background you will understand the country and people way better and see that most Americans are generally super nice/good people with a lot of great qualities such as social intelligence, diversity, manors and humor and a lot of things about the US are actually way better than people think.

But even I don't know the US well enough to really confidently claim things. Even as an American I assume it's quite impossible to fully understand everything (same with every country else).

On the other hand I still also wanna give some understanding to the people criticizing on other side since the US is such a big and influential country that inevitably affects all these people and my theory is that most of these might come from a place of doubt and some criticism might actually be because they wish better things for the US and many actually feel a deep connection and identification with the US in ways since there are also a wide variety of great things about the country that many people dream of.

The most recent drama on twitter is probably the most blatant example how the dishonesty surrounding JKR's views start and get perpetuated.

We see a twitter exchange in which one person asks a very specific question and she responds in agreement. Now people have dug into that person's background and found them to belong to a far-right group.

Which of course gets spun by dishonest leftists that she now endorses everything this guy believes in, for simply responding to a question with a hand emoji.

When you really dig into it, you see that pretty much every claim made about her follows the same pattern. It's always a major exaggeration or an outright lie. It's just a gross, dishonest game of telephone that leftists are more than happy to keep playing.

Just bc you text someone doesn't mean they have to respond, espeically not right away.
A lot of people do act entitled when it comes to texting, and don't realize it's draining for a lot of people.
I won't deal with the stress/pressure of having to keep in mind that i have to respond to a text.
This is not a face-to-face conversation. You're inviting yourself in their space/time, and on top of that, demanding an answer from them.
If yall are super close that's still different, but even people who you're not close to now think it's a rule of thumb that they get an instant answer.
People who start "worrying" just bc someone hasn't responded to a text also need to get a life, and actual hobbies.

Most folks have fully embraced the digital process but, obviously, companies are unable to secure our data.

This problem grows every day and I think we need to allow folks that take their identity seriously, another alternative of interacting that does not go online.

Paper still exists. Phones still exist. The mail still exists. The first companies that embrace this will make bank. Instead of selling us tools to help us after we get our data stolen, sell us an alternative that keeps our shit offline. I'm in.

What is the natural consequence of actors who behave and act in neurotic and superficially "autistic" ways? Young people are going to identify with these characters and act like them. I'm talking characters like Sheldon Cooper and especially Young Sheldon. Another example is the Good Doctor. These shows are responsible for encouraging eccentricity, neuroticism and celebrating it as part of the grand and unfortunate trend of disability as a badge of honour culture we are currently experiences. These same young people, if given competent and straight forward characters to view and aspire to be like we would have more young people embracing those traits.

Here is a study supporting a correlation between self-diagnosis and media consumption.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374756817_TV_Series_in_Mainstream_Media_Depicting_Autism_and_Self-Diagnosis_of_Autism_in_a_General_Population_of_Young_Adults

Step 1: Elect a Democratic House, Senate, and re-elect Joe Biden in 2024. A Democratic trifecta is absolutely necessary or none of the following steps can happen.

Step 2: California, New York, and Illinois must volunteer to be divided into a total of 200 states. That means liberal cities and towns in those states become states in their own right. The constitution allows for states to be divided, as long as the legislatures of the states involved sign off on it. So these bluest of blue states just need to take one for the team and split up (temporarily).

Step 3: With 200 new states, an Article 5 convention can be called. It takes 3/4 of the states to do this. Because of this, it has never before been done in US history. But with 250 or so states, 3/4 could be achieved literally overnight.

Step 4: The Article 5 convention needs to do the following:

1. Abolish the electoral college. Take away the built-in advantage that the Republicans have every four years. Instead of only needing to campaign in five or six states, candidates must earn every. single. vote.
2. Reverse Citizens United and make it very hard for corporations and billionaires to donate money to campaigns. Make an amendment that flat-out says corporations are not people and spending money is not speech. Corporations have only the rights congress gives them.
3. Establish an affirmative right to vote. Surprisingly, there is nothing in the constitution that says that every citizen has the right to vote. Change that.
4. Enshrine Queer rights and abortion rights into the constitution. No more supreme court decisions and ballot measures deciding fundamental human rights. Once and for all, these things need to be explicitly written into the constitution.
5. Enshrine universal health care and social safety nets into the constitution. Don't wait for public opinion to catch up with Bernie Sanders. Corporations will fight tooth and nail to prevent that. But a constitutional amendment will protect health care and social security for the rest of eternity.
6. Make an amendment that says the US military can only be used to defend US soil against foreign attacks, to meet NATO and UN obligations, and to defend shipping routes. The days of being the world police are over.
7. Reform the Supreme Court. Make retirement mandatory at age 70. Require re-confirmation by the Senate after 10 years. Streamline the nominating process so that the president must pick from candidates chosen by a bipartisan commission. Most importantly, no law can be overturned without a unanimous decision.
8. Institute a national preferential ballot system, which will knee-cap the two party system that keeps us voting for the lesser of two evils every election.

Step 5: Ratify the amendments, along with a final amendment that prevents another Article 5 convention from ever happening again. We can't risk the Republicans using this playbook at a future time.

Step 6: Return the states back to 50, along with the admission of all US territories and the District of Columbia as states. There should be no place on US soil where US citizens are not represented in congress and can't vote in presidential elections.

Like this shit is crazy. In my opinion like people dont even know this shit. Like even for example poland has more people living there than Australia but Australia has like skyscrapers everywhere and beautiful cities that shit is crazy as fuck. Like what the fuck

Yea I am talking to you moms and dads of rеddit.

Eating soup before the main meal is just painful. Like I am starving here and you give me some water with carrots and chicken.

That's the equivalent of drinking water on empty stomach. It's painful...

But eating soup after the main meal is so much better. You are already full and the soup is like good finisher to the meal beacuse it's mostly water anyway.

My Dad did very well as did his portfolio

All of his best investments were based on real world observations and just investing in products and companies he felt would be good bets.

Idk just as an off example, a while ago I took a class focuses on business strategy and it was mostly about acquisitions. I chose Crocs as kind of a joke but it was when they were shifting from In house to third party manufacturing and the CEO was pushing the long-term idea of changing the image of Crocs into a long-term staple product. Also, they had solid cash flow and financials

Anyhow I was like “man, that sounds like a good idea”, I invested like $5k into Crocs stock and kept putting like $20 here and there in and man the price went from $21 a share to idk I believe $122 today.

I’ve picked some duds here and there and understand diversifying but meh

I sunk a lot into dollar general because I live in bum fuck no where and see how successful their business model is filling the voids left behind by walmart and other superstores

I don’t want all my money in some managed EFT, I’d rather feel like an investor even if it means risking some loses

What do we all do it for? Forms of dopamine through sex and senses of accomplishment? What about when that all wears off?

You just search for the next hit. The next thing. Until your final day. Searching. Our lives are filled with searching for the pursuit of happiness, and most pursuits are left unfulfilled.

Why do people value those moments of happiness so highly when they are so ever fleeting? I value the moments where I am able to finally get some sleep. I hope that is what death is like. A long sleep. Isn't that the source of our pursuits? Our dreams?

We aren't even guaranteed life, and our very life brings death. Death will come for us all soon enough. Especially with how we rape and pillage all of the resources available. And to what end? Until what?

Until death. I think I might blow the dust off my glock and have a long talk with it. Before it talks back, and this time I think I'll listen.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t not like T and A, legs clear both by a country mile. They’re significantly taller than T or A are, and move the most when women walk.

Additionally, legs are customizable. Women can choose how much or little leg to show for each occasion, and how to show them off if they choose too, whereas ass and tits are generally expected to be covered.

I'm not talking about being edgy, that's still just attention seeking.

I'm talking about watching people freak out or lie to themselves to comfort themselves knowing that everyone doesn't share their same views on everything.

After hearing a game dev advocate for people not having to grow thicker skin to deal with the harsh realities of life and I've decided society has become too comfortable with being overly sensitive and whining until they get their way.

I'm glad more and more people are refusing to let self absorbed babies guilt trip them into being robots instead of humans.

As a human you have the right to forge your own path through life and you should expect for life to hit you like a truck every now and then. This is not weird, this is normal. It's up to you on how you play the game of life and whether you win or lose.

Being afraid to express your difference of opinion and not standing by what you believe in unless sufficiently proven otherwise is a recipe to become a loser.

You were born free, don't let anyone fool you into enslaving yourself for their benefit.

Look, let me first explain that I support progressiveness tremendously, okay? Pride acceptance, equality for everyone, all of that. Perhaps more than most people, believe me. But I also believe, and many people are saying this, that it's destroying another part of ourselves. We're at a little disadvantage here! We need to figure out how it can coexist. It's a tough, tough thing.

For example, the rise of social media. It's just huge, and allows for quick adaptation and desensitization to new ideals and ideologies, like atheism, for example. You know, some people love it, some people don't. There's a sea of love out there - that's what I like to call it, a sea of love. But let me tell you, that sea, it's extremely shallow, folks, very shallow. And it's getting even more shallow over time. Believe me.

Folks, let me tell you, they say 'oh, TikTok causes cancer,' and I'm thinking, seriously? Nobody has ever seen anything quite like TikTok, it's tremendous to a lot of people. Not me. Anyway, let me tell you, it's just as bad as Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, all of them. They're all a disaster, and yes, even some parts of Reddit.

Either way, we have a situation here that some people are essentially forced into learning and accepting far too much. It’s too much. And it results in cognitive dissonance and even a lack of empathy. You can be smart and have no empathy, you know. Psychopathy, narcissism, all that. I see it all the time. So that creates a lack of social skills, which also leads to firmer beliefs and more divide among people. It’s why there’s such a big league difference between each generation now.

I do not agree that it was an insurrection apart from 'some' people that got violent. They were rightfully arrested and prosecuted. It has not been connected to Trump.

That said, the same people who foam at the mouth over Trump and Jan 6 have called Ferguson, Minneapolis and Kenosha "mostly peaceful protests" because of people rioting and destroying property based upon what they perceive and have been told by the Democrats as 'injustice.'

Democrats also had a totally hypocritical reaction when "CHOP" and autonomous zones were set up in places like Portland where their constituents attacked courthouses and police precincts. Was that an insurrection?

The people whining about January 6 are mostly hypocrites.

The Vatican has not allowed anyone to test the remains of St. Peter which they "claim" is buried at the Vatican. Furthermore, all relics that were "claimed" have been disproven by carbon dating. They tend to be off by 200 years plus or minus. I just find it odd that all 12 are missing.