Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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It's quite the classic how it is so often assumed that one holding a discussion on the internet (not just about American politics) in English must be American. But I'm sure even knowing that I'm not it won't take you long to come up with a readymade label for me like you do and put on display somewhat overbearingly. Trust me I've been to the ol' Reddit rodeo before it bit the moral dust and I've been so to the tune of over a decade. Not trying to flex I'm just saying whatever it is you're trying to accomplish (and I'm not assuming bad faith at all here) it's not worth what you're willingly forfeiting in terms of potential connection with other people. I've been that guy you're currently choosing to be. I've lived inside that quote-by-quote-rebuttal brain.
You've arranged your space of neat little drawers and boxes of attributes and analytics so you can have the "correct" opinion on virtually anything at a moment's notice. Let me be the guy to tell you that all you're doing is playing yourself, cheating yourself out of god knows what it is that you truly seek. You think the reason no one is meeting you on par in your place is because next to none possess equivalent clarity when looking upon the world and its affairs. The reality is that most people - regardless of eloquence or level of reason - just aren't going to have that conversation because it's not worth what's given up in the process. As humans we strive for connection with our peers. But no one ever said that it's a contest of whoever has the least peers in verbal exchange gets a master debater placque on top.
If you want to see entire groups of people as beneath you or label them domestic terrorists or what have you, of course no one's gonna be able to stop you. But maybe also apply at least some amount of self-reflection here and there along the way. Through countless points made you don't have but one solution in store. All you have are subjective conclusions to say that X is bad and Y + Z are to blame. And if Y or Z try to have a conversation about it then they are surely just as bad as X, which they caused of course. I unsarcastically hope that people of your intelligence find the right channels to focus their energies on.
Yeah, I started to read your novel of a reply to a 4 day old post, but then realized it's not worth my time and effort. Find someone else to lecture at after the fact.
Sorry that my usage habits don't conform to your recency standards of holding a bilateral conversation. Wondering at what point after the latest (greater than zero effort) comment in the chain criticism becomes a one-way street for you.