r/TrueUnpopularOpinion

Virtually every Democrat policy has been a short term slight of hand to get immediate profits at the cost of long term inflation and debt.

De-industrialization: First Clinton passed NAFTA promising that it would "create union jobs" and then he got China into the WTO and blew apart the manufacturing base piece by piece. Millions of jobs were sent to China and existing industries had their supply chains shifted to a single source supplier because everybody else got put out of business as that single source supplier is a hostile communist state that's waging economic warfare on us. Oh, and they don't invent anything either and didn't know how to build anything really so we handed them 100 years of blood sweat and tears R&D on a silver platter because Democrats thought it was a good idea. People lost their good manufacturing jobs and now have to buy "cheap" products from China on credit because they don't have any money. How "cheap" are those products now by the way? Oh, and the The Green New Scam is the final nail in the coffin for US industry.

The Student Loan crisis: Since we now were in a "service economy" (scam economy) where everybody was supposed sit in an office (not even anymore) and not do any kind of physical labor those people needed to get a college degree first to look very smart. But since most people couldn't afford college the Democrats (Clinton again) decided to start handing out student loans like they're candy. It didn't even matter what you wanted to study or where, somebody would hand out a loan to you for it to the tune of six figures. This created a boom in private colleges filled with mediocre academics as standards were simultaneously dropped to spur enrollment. Then throw in some pseudoscience to really get the victimization train going and give cushy college teaching jobs to ex hippie radicals and you have the current scenario we find ourselves in today. But when arguing with a Republican online be sure to point our how much more "educated" the left is than the right.

Obamacare: The great betrayal that not a single Republican voted for. If you're wondering why healthcare is so expensive then you might want Google something called the "Public Option." It was the only form of cost controls proposed in the bill and was pulled out of the final version. And remember: Not a single Republican voted for the bill.

The Green New Scam: This is really one of the most sinister Dem scams of them all because it relies on the ignorance of the general public of how the critical energy systems that keep the country running actually function. The goal, like everything else, is to make us completely dependent on a never-ending supply of short cycle "green energy" junk made in (of course) China. I've wrote about this in the past but the cliff notes version is that the Democrats use state regulations to phase out reliable on-demand energy sources and then replace them with intermittent short cycle junk that needs continuous replacement and drives up energy costs because they continuously overestimate its capability and underestimate its actual costs. They also use accounting and statistical fraud to shut down viable power plants with nothing to replace them with, thus creating artificial scarcity. The entire thing is designed to be a self-referencing cycle of continuous cost increases that were never supposed to happen. You're already seeing it in blue states' insane energy prices that just keep climbing. The actual goal to to finally kill off any industry the state has left and send to to China like they did with the rest of it. That's because Dem politicians like Hochul and Newsom are Chinese assets. Hochul's Deputy Chief of Staff was a literal Chinese agent.

If the Democrats actually get back into power they will do literally nothing to reduce the price of anything. They'll actually do the opposite because it's what their agenda demands and they'll wrap it up in vague platitudes, virtue signaling and blaming Trump and their constituency will eat it up. Oh, and if they get control of everything it'll be their number one priority to naturalize all illegal and legal immigrants so they can vote in a permanent one party state.

Hot take:
Long standing franchises should not change or introduce modern social issues that aren’t relevant to what made a video game popular and not every “good guy” archetype needs to be secretly evil or corrupt.

Franchises that come to mind:

Diablo (everything is evil, in fact, we need evil’s power to defeat evil now. Also, the church is corrupt and the angels are also evil. Every character that ever defeated evil also becomes evil.)

Dragon Age - this one explains itself. The last great dragon age game was origins.

Gears of War - a game about men in war with aliens and chainsaw guns now has a focus on inclusivity. What.

Castlevania - converting all Christian themed iconology to evil

As a person who is overweight and gender fluid, I don’t want the leading protagonist to be an overweight, gender fluid hero with colored hair, I would feel similarly if a game suddenly had the hero vouching for gun rights and was overtly patriotic. I play video games to experience sci-fi or fantasy, not to experience the issues we have in real life.

Edit: Who knew having this opinion would piss so many people off 🤷‍♀️💅

I have a family member. For the purposes of this discussion we’ll call him Uncle Chuck. For the majority of my adult life (I’m mid 40’s, Chuck is almost 80), I genuinely respected him. He’s a retired chemical engineer. One of the absolute smartest humans I’ve ever known personally. He retired from Battelle in Columbus, Ohio after almost 40 years, and has since then become an almost unrecognizable shell of his former self. He has gone so deep down the MAGA rabbit hole, that nearly all our family has either distanced themselves from him, or in some cases, completely cut off all communication entirely. His daily life consists mostly of watching NewsMax, scouring Facebook, and checking TruthSocial nearly hourly. Then, with whichever few friends he has left that will put up with him, he rams the latest MAGA conspiracy theory down their throats. Most people, including myself, just kind of smile and nod. Like you would to an Alzheimer’s patient.

Based on what I knew of him, I was genuinely concerned he had a stroke, or something else happen neurologically that maybe his doctor missed. The man I know today, is *not* the man I knew most of my life. A couple nights ago, he sent me a screen shot from a Trump “TruthSocial” post, with a written text message attached warning me about the “jihadists in Michigan who have completely taken over the state, and are now getting ready to invade Ohio”. He just wanted me to know, so I could make sure I “had enough firepower and ammunition ready if I needed to fend off the *invaders* myself”. Just completely demented stuff.

As a left leaning independent, I’ve never paid much attention to Trump, because it’s fairly obvious to anyone with half an ounce of critical thinking skills, that the majority of what he says is either a complete lie, or at best, some small version of the truth twisted to fit a very specific narrative. That’s nothing new. He’s been using that playbook for as long as he’s been in politics.

But since I’ve lost Uncle Chuck, I’ve admittedly become more intrigued by the whole apparatus that has turned seemingly regular, normal, everyday folks… into something drastically, and almost always, worse versions of themselves. Because of that, I decided to check out what is coming directly from Trump’s own mouth. I downloaded TruthSocial. (Full disclosure, I actually just followed a Twitter account that reposts each and every “truth” that comes from Trump’s official account. I don’t want to even dream of what malware could be hidden in the actual app).

Anyways. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.

I guess I assumed that his “truths” would be peppered with some lies. And some “rah rah Trump” stuff. And some moderately slanted “reality”. But guys. I was *not* prepared for what I found. And I’m now significantly closer to understanding how people like Uncle Chuck get lost in this alternative reality.

I’ve never been in a cult. The two closest things I can associate with “cult like behavior” are the Methodist church I used to attend, and my love for the Cleveland Guardians. Both of those entities at times would have you getting irrationally upset with an opposing view (or team), but when I say those are *nothing* like Trump’s TruthSocial posts… I mean not even close.

First, let’s talk about the sheer amount of posts this man makes. It’s not once or twice a day. It’s often 12-15 posts a day, with most coming in late night bursts. I’ve heard the expression “flood the zone”, but I’ve never actually seen it in play. Not only does Trump post often, but he posts in a way that I imagine someone like Jim Jones, or David Koresh, or even Kim Jung Un would post.

There are eerily similar themes to literally every post. It usually starts with him calling out a perceived “enemy”. And each group has its own nickname. The “dumocrats”. The “liberal media”. The “deep state”. The “swamp”. The “RINOS”. The “Democrat Communists”. The “socialists”.

From there, he usually assigns blame to one or all of those various groups, for what he wants people to believe are the “real problems” in America. I’m just gonna go chronologically from his last few posts to give you a small taste.

He is celebrating a “deal” that “only he could make” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, saying that he has agreed to release 300,000 tons of diesel now, 500,000 tons next month, and 1,000,000 tons after that. This is supposedly to ease the price of diesel for everyday American’s. The only issue, is that 1. He specifically used 300,000 tons instead of barrels, because it’s extremely misleading. 300,000 tons is actually only 2.25 million barrels of diesel. 2. Americans use on average between 3.6 and 4.2 million barrels PER DAY. So this so called “deal” basically releases a half days worth of diesel, into a global commodity market. Which means 3. The price of diesel won’t budge an inch in the real world. He then claims because of this deal, and “COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ - diesel prices for Americans will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST.” Iran still controls the Strait, ships aren’t passing through at all (or in EXTREMELY limited capacity), and in the end of the post he demands thanks from “great American farmers, ranchers and truckers”.

So, he uses twisted words and numbers, to pretend that he just made some amazing deal, then demands thanks and praise for doing so, while inferring that the democrats are responsible for the high prices in the first place, that only *he* can fix.

I mean what in the actual fuck?!?

Next post? He’s explaining how “he and he alone” got Russia and Ukraine to agree to an “energy infrastructure cease fire”. Which is complete bullshit, as less than an hour after that post, Russia bombed a Ukrainian power plant. And Zelensky immediately put out a press release saying “if there’s a cease fire agreed to, that’s news to us”.

Next post? Some diatribe about his “legendary rallies” that have now “fully energized the GOP base” and he claims that millions have been BEGGING him to do them. And in Ohio where he’ll be tomorrow there are thousands “already in line” waiting for a chance to get in.

Next post? Talking about how Kid Rock showed up at a rally and officially declared the “FAKE NEWS MEDIA” is now “PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE”.

Next post? He claims he has a “99% approval rating with Republicans” which he claims is far higher than the next two closest Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln. He then calls on every “MAGA Patriot” to vote like Trump is on the ballot. Somehow insinuating that he and he alone is the reason to vote.

Next post? Him slamming the “fake news media” for selling the story that he’s so unpopular that he’s going to cost his party the house and senate. He says it’s “just the opposite” and that he is “so popular” that the Republicans are going to “win across the board”. And his “proof” is the “record setting rallies”.

That’s just some highlights for the last 24-36 hours. Now imagine this happening 12-15 times a day, every day, for years at a time. And imagine someone who is constantly exposed to that.

And that; is my Uncle Chuck.

He’s literally been lost to a cult. And talk to a wall if you want to tell me this isn’t a cult. Because it has 100% of the things that make a cult, a cult. Don’t believe me? Let’s look at what makes a cult, a cult

✅ Unquestionable leader. Who deserves and requires absolute loyalty. Challenging them in any way is considered betrayal.

✅ Control of information. Outside sources are completely dismissed. Only the leader provides the “truth”.

✅ Us versus Them. Members are enlightened or righteous; outsiders are dangerous, corrupt, or enemies.

✅ Punishment for Doubt. Questions bring humiliation, guilt, threats, or loss of status.

✅ Isolation and Dependence. Members are pushed away from outside relationships and become increasingly dependent on the group.

I always thought that Trump and MAGA were a threat. What I didn’t realize is that they are an existential threat to not just people like my Uncle Chuck. But to the existence of this country moving forward. Call that alarmist if you want. Tell me I’m overreacting if you like. But I just laid out an extremely compelling case as to why you should be significantly more concerned than you probably are.

I’m starting to resent people who decide they have “less” than me and then make it my problem.

My life is pretty good now. I like how I look, I have nice things, I travel, I have friends. But I was also the weird bullied kid growing up, and I grew up in a very poor family. I was deeply insecure, wanted a different life, and put a lot of time, money and effort into building one I actually like.

What I wasn’t prepared for was how nasty some people get when they decide you have something they don’t.

An older woman at my gym once came up to me completely unprompted and said in such a rude tone “just so you know, I can see your extensions.” I’ve never had extensions in my life. I didn’t even know what to say.

And it’s constantly little things like that. Assuming things are fake. Turning completely unrelated conversations into comparisons. Acting like you can’t complain about anything because they’d rather have your problem.

The weirdest part is I’m usually not comparing myself to these people at all. They’ve decided I’m “above” them and then resent me for a hierarchy they created.

I’ve been insecure too. It never made me want to punish someone else for having something I wanted. At some point “they’re just insecure” stops making me sympathetic and starts making me fucking tired.

This is my take and my opinion on the matter. It probably won’t matter but this is how I see things. If you do things the right way then there wouldn’t be any problems to begin with. I’ve entered the states legally decades ago whilst waiting in another country’s refugee camp for over 6 years. I like others waited on my documents to legally immigrate here. Worked hard, still working, pay my dues and built a life. I don’t see why others feel like they are special or privileged and can just cross the border and do whatever they want.

The stupid comment that Billy Ellish (I find her remarkably stupid and ignorant) made where “No one is illegal on stolen land,” welp, she should give back her house because that land belong to the natives. That whole argument is whack too! And I’ll tell you why. Pre-modern era wars were fought mainly over land, unlike today where culture and religion and oil/resources play a major role. The mongols, Alexander the Great, Nepolean, and countless others conquered and amass vast wealths of land. That’s how it was and how it’s always been. The natives in this country were out powered. They didn’t have the advance technology because they were still trying to become one with the land. If they had the guns, advance ocean exploration, then maybe they would be the ones owning Europe and Africa.

In today’s society you can’t just simply invade another nation. Ask Russia how is that going? The natives fought and they lost. They couldn’t defend their land. Nothing was stolen. It was taken. Ukraine is giving one hell of a fight back. The natives here fought and lost. End of story. Besides we gave them the ability to go tax free and build casinos, I’m almost certain they are doing pretty well. Well the casino owning tribes.

China has their eyes on Taiwan but yet they know what’s coming if they pull that trigger.

Anyways sorry, for the tangent… now the real issue…

Having Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is both good for our country and necessary to maintain the rule of law. Every sovereign nation has the right and responsibility to enforce its immigration laws, secure its borders, and determine who is permitted to remain within its territory.

Laws mean very little if they are not enforced consistently. Legal immigration pathways exist for a reason, and allowing people to bypass those processes without consequences undermines the system for those who follow the rules. I would know I’m sponsoring my wife and my dad is sponsoring his brothers and sisters. It cost money and time.

ICE plays an important role in identifying and removing individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States, particularly those who pose a threat to public safety. Enforcing immigration laws is not inherently hateful or cruel. It is part of the government's responsibility to protect the public, uphold the law, and maintain an orderly immigration system.

We should also remember that immigration enforcement is not a new idea created by one political party. The Obama administration deported millions of people during its eight years in office, recording approximately 2.75 million formal removals according to commonly cited federal figures. This demonstrates that immigration enforcement has historically been a responsibility of both Democratic and Republican administrations. It is contradictory to portray deportations as inherently unacceptable today when previous administrations, including Obama's, also aggressively enforced immigration laws. The real discussion should focus on how those laws are enforced, who should be prioritized, and whether enforcement is conducted fairly and lawfully.

The only thing I see wrong here is the current ICE agents all need more training on how to handle situations. That said, I don’t believe what they are doing is wrong at all. You remove a lot of these illegals, housing market with go down as rent will decrease drastically. Crime will also go down too because they can’t legally work and when push comes to shove, they are going to commit crimes to feed themselves. Not only so, we will have more resources here for our own people, especially our veterans.

When it comes to protests against ICE, there is a major difference between exercising the constitutional right to peaceful protest and engaging in violence, rioting, vandalism, or interference with lawful arrests. Not everyone protesting is necessarily in the country illegally, because American citizens and lawful residents also have the right to express their opinions. However, anyone who assaults officers, destroys property, threatens public safety, or obstructs law enforcement through unlawful conduct should be held accountable. Disagreeing with an immigration policy does not give anyone the right to break the law. We cannot demand that the government respect the law while excusing unlawful behavior simply because we agree with the cause behind it.

Often times I think those with mask and stirring trouble are illegals themselves during these protests.

The same principle applies when ICE officers attempt to make an arrest. Individuals should not assault officers, endanger innocent people, or use their vehicles as weapons to escape apprehension. A vehicle deliberately driven at an officer or another person can become a deadly weapon, creating an immediate threat to human life. When someone presents an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury, officers must be able to defend themselves and others. Deadly force maybe justified when necessary to stop such a threat, but it should not be automatic simply because someone is fleeing or refusing to cooperate.

That illegal with the 5 year old in the back seat of the car knew what he was doing. He endangered his own child by trying to flee the scene.

Finally, supporting ICE does not mean believing every officer is always right. It means recognizing that officers must be able to perform their lawful duties without being subjected to violence or having their lives or the public’s endangered.

Ultimately, supporting ICE means supporting the principle that a nation must enforce its laws and maintain control overits borders. We can support lawful immigration, treat people humanely, protect constitutional rights, and still insist that immigration laws have consequences. These principles are not contradictory. A country that fails to enforce its laws risks undermining public confidence in its institutions and the fairness of its legal system.

I don’t understand what’s the problem? You are here illegally and you need to go the Fawk home! Come back when you have your paper work in order and have paid your dues!

In closing, we should expect accountability from law enforcement, but we should also expect accountability from those who violate the law. A fair immigration system requires both compassion and enforcement, and neither can function effectively without the rule of law.

As someone who’s lived with animals & been around many more, It’s such a weird concept to me that everyone treats animals as non-conscious or less aware. The only evidence that that’s true is based on human standards.

There’s a quote: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Animals are constantly treated and talked about as if they are less aware than humans, but I think it’s only a perceived byproduct of living amongst a species they don’t naturally belong with.

Humans constantly praise modern medicine or technology as what sets us apart from the rest of nature, but again that’s a human standard.

Humans can’t create a neurotoxin that paralyzes its prey. Humans can’t fly or see well in the dark. So by natures standards humans are useless as hell.

Just because different species decided to inhabit ecosystems differently doesn’t inherently make one dumber than the other.

Go into the wild and try to assert your “superior human intellect”. You will find out really quick how ridiculous you look to nature.

All things die & all things present dangers - however animals are smart enough and strong enough to live amongst it all without the need for big daddy government or human-like infrastructure.

I’ll even take it one step further & say that us humans are really the dumb ones for being unable to exist within our own natural habitat/ecosystem without external help. We’re one of the few thousand species out of millions who can’t do that independently.

For every reason I’ve seen people use to justify treating animals as a lesser species, there is a more logical argument against it. Give it your best shot but I’ll be honest and say It’d be incredibly hard to change my mind.

The proof?

Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Countless people were cheering, replaying and reuploading the footage.

It has been made into one of the most psychotic memes of our age.

People treated the anniversary of it like a holiday to celebrate.

Leftists were even demanding it happen more to others who were even remotely NOT left leaning.

So if it came out that Nidal Hasan supported Trump in any way, it’s more than obvious Leftists would immediately change their tune and start hyping it.

I’m willing to bet there would even be a surge in streaming account creations on any website such as KIK that would possibly allow it just so leftist streamers can do live reactions to it to make money off it.

So I've been seeing a lot of people online who are concerned about the fact that Nidal Hasan, an Islamic terrorist who killed 14 people(1 of them a pregnant woman and her baby inside) and injured 30+ others during his shooting is set to be executed on December 3rd, and the execution will be live-streamed on TV. Now I can understand some people feeling sensitive about such execution being carried out, some pro-lifers and Christians don't like this idea and I understand them. I'm a pro-life Christian and I pray for Nidal, but that doesn't remove the fact he destroyed the lives of many and his victims deserve more compassion and mercy than him. It's also hypocritical that many people opposing this are leftists who mocked Charlie Kirk's assassination, ignored Iryna Zarutska's murder whose footage is horrible, have endorsed Hamas, or just last week called for the executions of 7 guys accused of rape and 50+ others on a group chat without due process. Some people have no moral high-ground to oppose this execution.

Now to the point of this post. I've seen many leftists online who claim that Nidal Hasan has already had enough because he became paralyzed after he was shot by an army officer to stop him when he committed his shooting, and that executing someone in a wheelchair would be cruel. Well, this man wouldn't be in a wheelchair right now if he hadn't shot people, the wheelchair is a consequence and karma for what he did and it hasn't been enough karma for the lives he took.

I also have a spinal cord injury from a cheerleading stunt accident 8 years ago when I was 15, and I don't wish for any innocent person to ever have a spinal cord injury because even though I've already gotten used to being in a wheelchair, it's still difficult to move around on the streets, I can't feel my legs which makes me not feel pain in my legs, I get spasms which are annoying, I get sores, I have to use catheters in order to pee, and it becomes difficult to use the bathroom. It's just something I don't wish on anyone, but this terrorist Nidal Hasan deserves to have these complications which he has had for 17 years now. I can see he has suffered a lot, but not enough. Keep in mind that his food and healthcare get paid by taxpayers, so it's just a waste of money from American citizens to pay for this monster's needs.

The feminists who supported Lindsay Clancy also claimed that she didn't deserve to get sentenced because she's now paralyzed, but just like Nidal Hasan, Lindsay Clancy became disabled trying to kill herself after killing her children and I'm also glad she gets to live to suffer with the issues of paraplegia which isn't enough punishment. In fact, I think it'd be fair if she had same punishment as Nidal Hasan. Being disabled shouldn't spare you from punishment if you commit crimes, and if you become disabled while committing a horrific crime, that's your fault.

I actually find it ableist that people will feel sympathy for Nidal Hasan or Lindsay Clancy just because they now use a wheelchair despite their disabilities being a consequence of their horrific crimes. Harvey Weinstein is also pushed in a wheelchair in court due to health issues related to his health, even though he can still walk, yet he deserves punishment for his crimes as well. A wheelchair will never make me feel sympathy for a criminal and if someone does something that justifies the death penalty as punishment, I won't feel bad for that person even if they're in a wheelchair.

Many of us disabled people became disabled unexpectedly due to an accident or an illness. If you become disabled while doing a horrible crime, you don't deserve sympathy because you could have prevented this by not committing a crime.

No this isnt about the 50% stat or whatever. Look up uk unemployment rate and who are mostly unemployed. Is it men? women? those gen z? Millenials? Etc.

No, we shouldnt conclude anything but the results are here. We can ask why, but the out come is more important.

Same thing with the stats on male violence or infanticide. no one is saying every man, woman, senior, teen etc is doing it. But if say, a teen over represents on drunk driving maybe its time to say they are dangerous drivers. If 50% of texas or california (or take whatever state you dislike right now) is on welfare maybe its time to say the texans arent pulling their fair share.

Etc. Again its not propaganda if the stats show which group is not doing pro social behaviour more than their peers and conclude that group is doing something wrong.

There are very bad people who are Conservative (not just talking political figures here), but there are also some equally bad Liberal people (again, not talking just political figures here). There are terrible people on both sides of the coin.

I can’t believe how unpopular this take seems to be the few times I’ve engaged in a political charged discussion here on Reddit.

I'm opposed to the draft and war in general. But if it's already happening and can't be avoided, then it's not fair at all that only men are drafted (like in Ukraine) and then die in large numbers, while women are enjoying the privilege of being women during times of war. If 1 million men died in a war, it would only be fair if that number was divided to 500 thousand men and 500 thousand women.

Ukraine is back in the news because of Trump criticizing Zelensky bombing Russian diesel. This is war and oil infrastructure is top priority in modern warfare. I mean we bombed the shit out of Iranian oil infrastructure didn’t we?

I understand criticizing Ukraine’s corruption, but there are no signs Zelensky is corrupt. He has been a very good war time president. Dude risks his life everyday for his people. You have to respect that. He even just offered to hold elections if there was a ceasefire . Of course they can’t hold elections when they are under siege. How do you expect them to hold free and fair elections with Putin at the door?

White lab coat with sterile rubber gloves levels of passion. Partner? Like lab partner?
You mean like the person you work next to for 8 hours? Who may just be pleasant or not pleasant enough to get through the work day. PARTNER?
To describe the person who makes you all hot & giddy inside?
Whatever happened to PASSION?! Words & phrases like BAE, BABE, BOO THANG, MY B***H, BABY GIRL, BABY BOY, LOVER.

If wealthy people here want to give it to another country, let them send their own money....

Our current system they use their money to lobby our politicians to send American tax payer money overseas...looking at you AIPAC

It's actually disgusting and certainly not the will of the American taxpayer..

Currently the top recipient of US foreign aid is a rich country with universal healthcare and no debt! Make that make sense?!

America has plenty of other allies that don't constantly demand America writes a check.

Forgive me if this comes of chaotic or unorganized, but I’m literally just typing this off the dome.

Everytime I’m on Twitter and I see someone posting about how we shouldn’t support Mayor Mamdani because he went to a 10/7 memorial service, I go to their biography and it’s someone from fucking Sheboygan, Wisconsin who thinks they are an activist because they have a Palestinian flag emoji next to their name. My first thought is always YOU DON’T EVEN FUCKING LIVE HERE.

I’ve always been a very hardcore liberal but I’m starting to realize that the left might be as insufferable as republicans make us out to be - we finally have a mayor who is actively making changes in the city that impact everyone and you expect everyone to turn on him for going to a 10/7 silent memorial when over half of New York City is Jewish?!? Like I feel like I’m living in the twilight zone.

I have ALWAYS been pro-Palestine. What’s happening in Gaza is horrific. But What happened last October was also horrible. People are upset that Mamdani is showing empathy to all human life? AS HE SHOULD. he hasn’t reneged on anything and I feel like he’s made his pro-Palestine stance very clear.

My true opinion is that people want him to come out and say “fuck all Jews” but they won’t admit that. He’s a mayor for all of nyc, not just the folks who align with your belief.

He’s not the president of the US. redirect your anger.

The Constitution was originally written to construct a system that would never allow this level of corruption anywhere near the White House. If you read the founding arguments, they're obsessed with exactly this: factions, foreign money, men who would treat public office as private property. The branches, the veto, the courts, the press they kept free, all of it was scaffolding against this.

For the last 250 years, the loopholes have been found one by one. Money became speech, so donors became buyers. The parties learned the primaries and the maps, so accountability became optional. The pardon power, written for mercy, got quietly repurposed for loyalty. None of it broke the rules on paper, and that's my point, the rules just stopped describing the game.

Then this administration walked through all of it at once. The trades that keep timing the announcements, the donors who buy the meeting and leave with the job, the family deals run out in the open because nobody's even pretending the forms matter anymore. The floodgates aren't just leaking anymore, they're totally blown open.

This is about basic fairness. If a worker breaks the rules, there are consequences. The same should be true for politicians and big donors. Real oversight and independent watchdogs are how we fight corruption and make sure power is not abused, and the only way forward is a complete change of the laws, real limits on the money, real walls between the office and the portfolio, watchdogs who can't be fired by the people they're watching.

Two hundred fifty years later and the Constitution is no longer doing its job. Rebuild it.

I genuinely believe we’ve reached a point where grown adults have confused having a birthday with being the executive producer of a three-day music festival

You’re turning 33, not being crowned King of England.
Why does your birthday require a group chat, a coordinated outfit, dinner reservations six weeks in advance, an Airbnb deposit, and a mandatory $150 contribution from everyone who has ever made eye contact with you?

And don’t even get me started on “birthday month” people.
A MONTH?

You were born on a Tuesday in 1993. Why does that entitle you to 31 days of special treatment? The rest of us have jobs, mortgages, and laundry.

Here’s my proposed system:
Ages 1–21: Go absolutely crazy.
Ages 22–29: Dinner, drinks, maybe a party.
Ages 30, 40, 50, etc.: Big celebration. You’ve earned it.

Every other birthday: Cake, a few drinks, and congratulations on successfully renewing your subscription to oxygen

I’m not saying you shouldn’t celebrate being alive. I’m saying your friends shouldn’t need PTO approval, a payment plan, and a packing list to participate

And before someone says “you sound miserable,” I love a good party. I’ll happily show up, celebrate you, and buy you a drink

But if attending your 34th birthday requires more logistical coordination than an international military operation, you’ve completely lost the plot

Your birthday is special to you. That doesn’t automatically make it a federal holiday for everyone who knows you

And yes, I’m absolutely judging anyone who refers to themselves as “the birthday princess” after age 30.
Tell me why I’m wrong

I can’t agree more with this, but it seems like people think it’s bad? I don’t get why an execution being done in public is so horrible. Here is his statement:

I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.

My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.

This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.

And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.

And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.

"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778

Firstly, this post is aimed at the under 36 crowd because most who are above that age don't think this is unpopular. Secondly, I apologize if I don't have the best writing style. I tend to get paralysis from analysis so this is my attempt at just talking off the cuff.

Let's start from the basics first. It is well accepted knowledge among the under 36 crowd that being single is superior to being in a bad relationship, but what is seldom discussed is that, a stable "boring" relationship with someone that you trust is far superior to being single, even if you guys don't have crazy sparks, or crazy good emotional or sexual chemistry.

I think the true divide between young adults and fully fledged adults is that young adults tend to be very idealistic in their thinking whereas fully fledged adults tend to be very pragmatic in their thinking. They've been around the block a few times and they have the gray hairs to prove it which is why they tend to be a little bit more cold and unsentimental in the way that they think.

That is why the saying was coined "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

I'll use an analogy to better paint this picture for you. What would you say if you saw a young person who stated that they refused to get a job that they were dispassionate about and preferred to remain unemployed because they felt like working a job you don't love was selling out to the system? Most of you would say that this person needs to be a little bit more utilitarian in their thinking and you could point out to them that having a job that pays the bills even if they're not passionate about it is still very valuable.

This is why so many young people balk at the idea of getting into a boring relationship. They feel as though they're selling out. They feel as though if they hold out just long enough they'll find that crazy amazing relationship that is romanticized in fiction.

I will be blunt and say I view these people with a small degree of pity because they remind me of that person at the casino who thinks that they'll hit big if they play just one more hand or one more round. Except in this casino the chips that they're gambling with is time and eventually their bankroll will go to zero.

When it comes to dating, long-term relationships, and marriage, society has very much lost the plot.

We have been so inundated by idealistic thinking in the art and media that we consume that we have essentially suffered generational amnesia and have forgotten what the classical definition of a good partner is. We must never forget though that idealism must always be balanced with pragmatism.

For me the classical definition of a good partner boils down to three things. They're trustworthy, you somewhat enjoy their company (being with them doesn't exhaust you and you have other sources of filling your social battery), and their life trajectory is heading in the same general direction as your life trajectory, even if it's not heading in the exact same direction.

That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

That's what marriage originally was. It was a utilitarian thing. It was two people sitting across from one another and basically saying "life is hard, you don't always get what you want, but we might be able to make our lives a little bit easier and get a little bit more what we want if we have each other's back".

Not to mention the fact that as you age it becomes much harder to make friends and as people grow older they tend to get paired off and couples tend to hang out more with other couples.

This is why so many people hate this topic. An exciting relationship is like a sports car. It's fast, when you're driving it you feel like you're a little bit more alive, but it also isn't very reliable and it costs an arm and leg to repair. A stable relationship is like a normal sedan. It'll get you from point a to point b, it won't break down as often, and when it does break down, it's usually much easier to fix.

That's what prevents so many people from settling down. They want to find their soulmate and to enter into a long-term relationship with someone who isn't their soulmate is essentially them letting that dream die. What they don't understand is that by letting one dream die, they might be able to let other dreams of theirs flourish, just like how a forest fire burns away the canopy and lets sunlight reach down and gives other life a chance to grow and flourish.

I don't buy the whole Overton Window concept when it comes to legalizing drugs. Maybe in the past for things like marriage or civil rights, but something doesn't feel organic at all when it comes to what's being done with drugs.

You started seeing the weed narrative getting pushed very hard in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis when people started losing their jobs and the economy started to turn towards the hell we have today. As things progressively got worse and especially once you hit the police brutality movements, suddenly a ton of states pass marijuana legalization and dispensaries magically open up absolutely everywhere. People suddenly have legal access to all the weed they want, all the gummies and other products too. There's no in-between, no pushback, no debate. Nobody is being stopped, and in fact people are actively being encouraged by popular culture and social media algorithms that peddle all sorts of products.

What has happened in that time? People aren't having these huge, angry protests anymore. You don't see these big coordinated movements. Give me a break on the No Kings protests, which themselves did not feel organic at all and were just peaceful, pointless weekend strolls. How are you ever going to get things like the massive movements and riots in the 60s when people are just kept dopey and inebriated? Where the hell are all the labor and food cost riots we should be having? And now they're talking about legalizing psychedelics. Come on already.

All of this is being done to keep people happy and dumb. They know exactly what they're doing and all of this is planned and intentional. You can't notice things when you're not even lucid and your life consists of giggling and having "bruh" moments.