r/TrueUnpopularOpinion

Basically title.

I never voted for him and don't particularly like him, but wow, he could never be as bad as Democrats claim he is. All the shady things they've done to try (and fail) to being him down just paint more and more of a picture that the left is willing to break all the rules and sacrifice all their supposed beliefs to take this one man down.

One man who, again, has not been the Turbo Satan I was repeatedly told he was. I'd even go so far as to say he's a bad President and a worse man, but honestly, I was made to believe it would be so much worse that this actually seems relatively fine. Makes me wonder why the Democrats/Left felt the need to destroy every shred of trust and dignity they had trying to stop him.

Which isn't a bad bet; the Republicans have spent the last 12 years worshipping a joke candidate - a washed-up show business reality TV clown with zero relevant experience or accomplishments - who's only relevant because he flipped off Jeb Bush in a moment when they wanted someone to do that.

But, bad news for Democrats, even when the Republicans set the bar on the fucking FLOOR like that, they're still 1 for 3 against the worst candidate imaginable.

Democrats' current "platform" consists of two categories: fake and irrelevant.

Fake (they pretend to support these issues, but magically fail to deliver even when they control both houses of Congress and the White House):

• Health care reform (slight credit to Obama for managing to enact a watered-down version of Romneycare after campaigning on single-payer)
• Unions and workers (the timing of how Biden did things like bust the railworkers' strike while claiming to be "the most pro-union President ever" makes me think he was either taunting unions deliberately, or was just having another senile moment)
• ^(wearing dresses that say) tax the rich ^(while attending Marie-Antoinette level lavish parties for the rich to suck up to them and accept bribes)

Irrelevant (they don't give a shit about these issues, but they're cheap or free to their corporate donors, so they might as well pretend to care about them if they get the idiots to vote):

• Rainbow shit: light nonsexual flaccid story time for kiddies, if you don't support it yer a bigot!
• Woke shit: your Congressman is PASSIONATELY defending spiritually-questioning Sagitarriuses born on odd-numbered Tuesdays from microaggressive hairstyles! He just hired FIVE of them to serve as advisors!
• Cultural shit: checks updated patch notes: Uh, lesse, whites are bad, browns are good, men are bad, non-men (careful!) are good, Christians are bad, Muslims are good, Asians are kinda good but we should still affirmative-action them, Jewish people are usually good unless we're talking about Israel (in which case they're Nazis). Please read patch notes before each press conference so you don't end up Rowlinged.

Fortunately for Democrats, Republicans are taking this race to the bottom as a serious challenge, and are managing to be even LESS appealing approximately half of the time.

But the first party to pull its head out of its ass and support, like, A relevant issue is going to be winning landslides.

I think that about 50% of asexual people arent actually asexual. A lot of them are sex traumatised. Wether by parents... Or maybe with traumatic experiences related to ... Rape? From my experience there is two kind of people that i met that call themselves as asexual;

The ones that don't give a fuck about sex because they never felt anything (but may masturbate and even talk about it)

And the ones that panic and straight up start talking like they are in fear with even the idea of sex...

Like i get that asexuals can be slightly disgusted by sex... But it is not the same as getting a defensive panic attack...

Btw yes i am aware this is a banned topic

I have to explicitly say for ethics sake... no this isnt about ALL Americans, okay? Lets continue.

It means what it says :

I see countless examples of people ranting about things in which while some are universal... (cost of living, being broke)

Its just part of how things are, if you're poor you wish you had cash...

if youre a lonely incel you wish you could get laid...

Or my favourite : "iTS ThE BOOmeRs FaULt"

their parent's blamed the generation before THEM for WW1 and 2 aswell... then they became Neo-Cons, Anti-Tradition in response...

Today we see the opposite, etc its relative.

These are things that have existed since the dawn of time, it isnt exclusive to this era nor is corruption etc.

However, there are very very specific things that Americans rant about that are in reality EXCLUSIVELY American problems.

In fact, due to America having a monopoly on media its gotten to the point where people outside America subconsciously repeat American talking points and drama that just isnt relevant in their host country :

Its a very common thing in American politics , Like Marco Rubio (paraphrasing in summary) : "Europe is weak and being replaced as we speak by foreign aliens.

So they should be sympathetic to ICE and our cause"

In reality, America is 45-50% "European White" max when including "White passing Latinx", Europe is over 80-90% "White" (bullshit term anyways), that Isnt even including Russia.

Yet the Americans will rant so much online, people over here begin to believe it when its THEIR woes, their politics being projected HERE.

Which unfortunately messes up politics in other people's countries, including my own.

You have people all the way in the East talking about "Tax-Dollars" 🫠

American right wingers saying "All our women are on onlyfans and its destroying our culture", everyone elsewhere even in Asia hears this and believes it.

Check the stats, you quickly see again thats an AMERICAN problem, and even then its over-stated

"I cant get a job because this foreigner took it", check the stats... again... not an issue here.

I wont make examples all day you get the point.

that's 50% of the "politics" I see, at this point when i see a rant i merely just check "do they spell Realised with a Z?"

If they do? I clock out. Everyone validating, and agreeing with it for over a decade now has given an exaggerated sense of self-importance to them too.

Spending more time talking about what Ben Shapiro said, than your own local officials because American media is forced that hard on everyone else.

America may be "collapsing", doesnt mean the world is, we have our own problems... those similar ? thats relative, what else is new ?

I see a constant narrative especially on social media where they believe that men just want supermodel women. Have I been sad over a good looking woman? Yes because I’m human. Do I feel entitled to one? Obviously not.

Never in my life have I ever felt owed a supermodel woman never mind do I feel even worthy of one.

When you experience years of abuse in how you are rejected it becomes pretty damn clear and obvious that incels just want a single woman who likes them back.

But obviously coming to this realisation requires a scary amount of humility most people would never possess.

Men below a 6 just are not even treated as human.

Edit:

For all the people who say I should just pay if I wanted sex. I’ve done that all my life. It doesn’t replace my desire for genuine connection like everybody else.

Also I’d like to add. If it’s my ‘misogynistic views’ of women that are the reason I can’t find a partner. You should do some research on the just world fallacy and look up what it is. If it were my views that were the problem, there wouldn’t be misogynistic men who get into relationships all the time.

The amount of gaslighting and virtue signalling is strong with these comments.

https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/2057240536986091670

78% of Men disapprove of Democrats, per Quinnipiac. Almost 8/10 disapprove. Makes you wonder who the remaining 2/10 men that approve of them even are - basically a couple effete urbanite men?

Call me crazy, but the exodus of "men" from the Democrat Party is historically unprecedented, and the growing perception that they and their supporters disparage and look down on men (which was cultivated for many years and pointed out in the media for a long time) will be a big issue for them eventually.

As an aside, I walked by a bunch of middle school boys the other day, I heard one of them call another a "Democrat" and the rest of the boys laughed. It was an insult to them.

The funny thing is that this has nothing to do with Trump either - this was entirely their own making.

When it's 30-34°C out (80°F), I'm sweating anywhere. Winter is obviously too cold for many activities, but it's doable even in the worst months (January/February). July and August are too hot for anything. August is better for shorter nights and less bugs but in June and July there everywhere.

In the winter I also have warm layers, warm pants x 2, sweater flece and jacket, even below 0°C or 30°F I can tolerate it, especially for temporary walks.

In many places in Canada, like Vancouver or Niagara Falls, the winters here are short and mild, while our summers are very long, with many extreme heat warnings.

Minnesota is an American state, and Duluth is quite the contrary of warm, same said for Wisconsin and Michigan.

The American Bar Association has voted to repeal the requirement compelling law schools to integrate DEI into admissions, faculty hiring, and curricula.

Lawyers are professional rhetoricians trained to construct persuasive arguments from untenable positions. They routinely succeed in reframing reality itself, up is down, blue is red. Yet this cohort, of all people, proved unable to mount a coherent defense against the straightforward observation that DEI institutionalizes racial discrimination under the guise of equity and operates as a mechanism of exclusion.
When even the legal profession abandons the effort to justify it, the ideological edifice begins to crumble. The precedent will reverberate through corporate suites, universities, and public institutions. The emperor stands exposed, and those best equipped to clothe him have declined. We have reached an inflection point.
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They bring the system to a screeching halt for nothing. All the local no kill shelter in my area are full of these aggressive breeds that nobody wants to bring into their home, rightfully so.

They are a danger to society and shouldn't be admitted to these facilities.

I find the human race funny because we’re constantly talking about the rights of minority groups and different groups of people (which is a very good thing, don’t get me wrong), yet we completely fail to talk about the absolute most discriminated against living creatures: animals.

I don’t think people would necessarily disagree with that fact, but I think it’s rediculous how we focus so much on ourselves and act like we as humans have the worst lives imaginable, when meanwhile, look at how we’ve treated animals. And I’m not talking about veganism and stuff like that; I’m talking about things like deforestation, taking away their homes, causing the Earth itself to be polluted, causing animals to become extinct, etc.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that we shouldn’t focus on ourselves at all. Obviously we have human problems that need solving. But I feel we should also be taking the lives of the animals around the world much more seriously and also checking our privilege as human beings, because there are worse/more difficult lives out there to live. Compared to animals we have it very easy, all of us.

As an Asian who lives in Asia, all this race-swapping in American Hollywood is really weird.

I don't care if Super Man or Spider Man are Black or if 007 is a woman. They exist in the modern world where heroes and villains come in all races and types. And generally, comedy and comics should be taken as tongue-and-cheek.

But whether it's A Song of Ice And Fire or Greek mythology, (neither of which are historical), the casting is inconsistent with the setting.

It would be dishonest to say that A Song of Ice and Fire is not based on Eurasia. And every region in the fictional world is a stand-in for the real world. The Norse. Catholics. North Africans. Byzantines. Mongols. Indians. In such a world, it would be pretty fucking weird if there were Asians integrated in the North. Or shirtless Scandinavians raiding with Dothraki.

Fictional worlds aside. Greek mythology is very much cultural. It's a story of Greeks and their historical neighbors who would've occupied Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa. There are plenty of tan-skinned ethnicities in this area of the world. Casting a Black actress is a far reach outside the boundaries of normalcy.

What even is the goal of this race-swapping? Does it promote national harmony to make decisions you know will stir up criticism?

It is impossible to be "the most LI of all LIers" when he was literally born somewhere else (The Bronx). And sorry LIers, he's not *yours and yours alone*. So stop trying to act all possessive of him. You want to know what celebrities were both born AND raised on LI? Alec Baldwin (and brothers), Mariah Carey, Seinfeld, Stern, to name JUST A FEW.

Oh, and just for the record, Billy is my favorite musical artist of all time. This is just one little "quirk" about him that drives me nuts.

For the people who still support trump, how can you possibly justify the fact that trump's former personal attorney and now acting attorney general todd blanche has slipped into the 1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund (that's made up of taxpayers money) that trump, his family and his businesses can't be held accountable by the IRS for any past tax crimes?

How does this not prove without a shadow of a doubt how absolutely corrupt trump is and why should taxpayers pay any of this anti-weaponization fund, especially since it's directly benefiting trump, his family, his businesses as well as they are not denying that part of this money can be given to january 6 criminals who have already been pardoned?

not sure it even is an unpopular opinion, but i often hear that men are so immature and they should act more like women and that the women actually are mature. Obviously what i mean to say is that some women do it, not all or even most of them and that there are more immature women than immature men

but here is my point of view:

you can find many definitions of psychological maturity online, such as:

the ability and willingness to take responsibility, and a desire for success

the ability to maintain long-term commitments, exercise sound judgment, and express humility and gratitude

and overall its agreed that maturity just means acting like an adult, not a child, and how do kids behave? Emotionally, without rationality and they are controlled by their emotions, they do not communicate and never acknowledge their mistakes, they dont self reflect and if the truth hurts they wont accept it

women are much needier than men, they need someone to open up to, they need to be showered with praise and attention, they need a partner to be patient for them because they know they are controlled by their emotions and never rational so they need their partner to be able to handle their lack of maturity, instead of being mature themselves. This is the biggest thing for me, women being overly emotional all the time and never thinking. They will say a million words but never ask anything because they expect you to know what they want, they have no communication skills at all, all they care about is their emotions and how they feel, no the situation itself

I gave all these exemples of how kids act earlier and i see this behavior in many women, from my family, in dating or any other situation: they are emotional, impulsive, entitled because they excpect you to do everything while they just sit around, when they are angry they wont tell you why instead they will just be mad to be mad, they have no patience and expect you to be patient for them, they want to spend all day socialising instead of working more and be mad if you dont want to bedrot all day long(in romantic relationships) and when you argue with them and they realise they are wrong they will just cry or get emotional and now the argument is about them their feelings and how much attention they want and they wont self reflect or change despite knowing they were wrong, you wont ever see a woman apologising or admitting it

the main reason i think people say men are immature is because they often act goofy but they just know how to have fun, and for some reason women hate to see men have fun without them so they will throw random words at them and call it immature, because if we look at the definition, clearly the average man is more mature than the average woman

now is it a problem? of course not but it just makes me laugh when i see women who fit every category i told you say that men act like babies when they are the type to start arguments because they need attention, and i wanted to see if the subject is interesting to others

thanks for your time

I find it strange that many modern progressives support policies that increase labour competition while claiming to support workers.

If you dramatically increase the supply of labour, wages and bargaining power are weakened. That is not “far right”. It is basic economics. Employers benefit from a larger labour pool because workers become easier to replace, while landlords benefit from increased housing demand.

Historically, labour movements often opposed large-scale immigration for exactly this reason. That was not because workers hated immigrants, but because employers could use immigration to suppress wages and weaken unions.

What is interesting is how effectively modern capitalism reframes the discussion. Instead of allowing immigration to be debated in terms of labour markets, wages, housing and class interests, the conversation gets redirected into culture war rhetoric and moral signalling. Workers arguing about economic pressures are portrayed as ignorant or hateful, while corporations benefiting from cheap labour and endless population growth avoid scrutiny entirely.

I do not think immigration should exist primarily to provide corporations with endless cheap labour or permanently inflate GDP figures. Personally, I think migration should mainly be limited to genuine humanitarian cases and to maintaining population stability in countries where fertility rates fall below replacement level.

That being said, I will never ever ever vote for a right wing party that claims to be tough on immigration because it's just fundamentally against everything they stand for. They will only ever pay lip service to it because their only goal is empowering their own billionaire class.

People always say “Israel is the one that stopped the self determination of Palestinians” which is true in the modern sense but almost no one talks about the fact that modern Palestine probably would not exist either if Israel never existed.

Before 1948, there was no independent Palestinian state. The land was controlled by the Ottoman Empire and then the British Mandate. After the Arab israeli war Jordan took the West Bank and Egypt controlled Gaza. Neither country created a Palestinian state there.

That is the part people avoid discussing. Palestinian national identity became much stronger internationally because of the conflict with Israel. If Israel disappeared tomorrow and history played out differently, there is a real chance the territory would simply be absorbed by neighboring Arab countries instead of becoming an independent Palestine.

I am not saying Palestinians don’t deserve self determination (i am pro 1 state solution). They absolutely do. I am saying that the idea of a globally recognized Palestinian national movement likely would not have developed the same way without Israel existing as the opposing state.

That’s what a lot of people for some reason don’t seem to understand, there is no such thing as “ethical billionaire”, in order to hoard that amount of wealth you have to exploit the planet and its resources, that’s why problems like World Hunger in 3rd world countries, Climate Change, and geopolitical instability exist.

It's the only way. It worked for Trump, it'll work for AOC or Newsom. Trump only ever lost one election because of COVID mismanagement, swing states voters relish and vote for conflict, chaos and threats of weaponizing the justice system otherwise. Learn from what is proven to win at the ballot box, not what idiots in news organizations and social media sites think.

There was a time when racism was a serious problem in the world and in a particularly pernicious way in the USA. Those days are over (in the USA). However during that time calling someone a racist became a very powerful tool. People intellectually and emotionally realized that it was a bad thing. So they would want to avoid being labeled it by others.

However much like many drugs, discontinuing its use after the problem is gone can be difficult. In this case liberals became dependent on it. They could no longer form proper arguments based on anything except race/racism.

Very few people are the racists the left claims exist. People generally treat each other decently. They don't go out lynching people. They have friends of different races, work respectfully with co-workers of different races, etc.

The fact that the left invented such nonsense as "micro-aggressions" "institutional racism", "DEI" is a sign they know they are failing.

Now, when they call someone a racist it is normally because they don't know how else to refute an argument. And it is a sign that your argument has them stumped. So when someone calls you a racist, don't back down, double down. Call them out for their lies. Call them out for their shoddy argumentation. Mention zebras in your reply. Remember it is their burden of proof to show that something is racist. They can't just say "well racist people think what you do", or "well the results of that action would be the same as the result of some blatantly racist action", or "there was this thing that happened someplace sometime that was racist and bad so clearly we have a massive problem". They actually need to show that what you said was racist. They normally can't. Not simply because their brains have atrophied from dependence, but because their is in fact normally no actual racism.

The way the left is behaving now is like if a unicorn hunter declared that they have definitive proof that unicorns are very sneaky. Their proof is that since they have never seen one unicorns must be very sneaky otherwise they would have seen one in the thousands of hours they have spent looking for one.

I think if you’re a cuck you’ve failed at life. It’s the most embarrassing and humiliating thing you can be as a man. You have zero self respect and that’s why no one respects you either. If you’re a cuck, you truly need to reevaluate your life choices.