For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.
That homelessness is a choice and the people sleeping on the ground and being nibbled on by rats are somehow gaming the system.
I got hit with this by an elderly person one day. They went on about how there’s so much food out there that they could just forage for, but they choose to beg for it. I was working, so all I could do was smile and nod, but that smile was just frozen in place like a grimace.
During this whole rant my boss and I kept glancing at each other like they were insane. I can’t remember the exact details, I cleansed my brain of that garbage, but there were a few times my boss’ eyes flashed and I thought he was going to flip out.
They left like they were the avatar of mercy and understanding. I may have forgotten what they said exactly, but I’ll never forget how they looked, because that went right down in my mind under “people I’ll never become”. I mean… you have to actively try to become that ignorant, right?
…Right?
Remember that their generation were the same ones who beat black protestors and spit on drafted Vietnam vets. They’re also going to die off soon and the world will be better without them
Unfortunately that generation is doing a pretty good job of screwing up everything so there won’t be much left to enjoy when they die off.
Even if people did choose to do so, it should be a huge red flag to happen then. If people would rather sleep on the street than participate in society, maybe shit is fucked up.
Diseases of Despair
Just because someone choose something does mean they deserve to be in that position in the first place
Think that one, the opinion itself, varies in boring/interesting depending on where you live. Likewise varies in truthfulness.
What do you mean by “depending on where you live?”
It (edit: the idea you’re quoting) has more credence or less depending on your town.
- Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use? Couple that with a notably generous population and you might see actual wilful homelessness.
- On the other hand, I don’t think homelessness is ever a choice or comfortable in very car centric city with gang violence.
I suppose nobody is “gaming the system by being homeless” because even if it’s comfy, you’re not gaining more than you would be by not gaming the system of homelessness. But i think it’s undeniable that, in certain places for various reasons, people choose/pretend to be homeless.
Are there a lot of charities and free services that homeless people can use?
Depends on the type of homeless. Folks who were just evicted and need someplace safe so they can get back on their feet? Sure. People with severe mental health issues or drug addictions? not so much.
Going to a shelter involves giving up certain freedoms that living outside affords you. If you’re dealing with a heroin addiction, they won’t let you bring your drugs in. Got a pet dog companion? No dogs allowed. Going with a friend or partner? Expect to be split up. Also shelters often fill up and the next shelter with space may be an hour walk away.
It also doesn’t help that the shelters are all separate charities and don’t really coordinate.
So as miserable as it is, many people prefer living in tents and won’t even accept a shelter when they’re offered help as their tent encampment is being cleared by authorities.
As someone who works with homeless people in an area with a generous population, lots of charities, and free services, you are repeating one of the most dangerous types of misinformation. It’s the kind that draws our attention to 0.1% that is technically true, while diminishing the conversation about the actual problem.
The “tourists”, as we sometimes call them, are the 0.1%. They come and go and there is always one or two around, but they are not the ones with the serious problems. Some might think of them as outliers in the group, but I wouldn’t even group those 0.1% with the other 99.9%. We still make sure they are okay, but they are not the problem when people talk about “homelessness”.
I’m assuming you are good hearted. All intelligent good-natured people have mistakenly repeated points before understand the nuances. I just hope you and anyone else reading might consider a different way of thinking. Repeating this talking point makes it very hard for the people trying to fight homelessness. Funding drys up and people die because public discussion often focuses on the “tourists” and not on the actual problem.
Responding to any kind of misfortune with “They deserved it.”
eg. People struggling to pay their rent should have budgeted better. People whose uber eats wasn’t delivered shouldn’t have used uber eats. People with medical debt should’ve had health insurance. etc. etc.
Isn’t the just world fallacy a pretty popular opinion?
Popular is not the same thing as interesting. It’s boring in an ancient and odious way, but there is something interesting about how every time people bring it up they think they’re giving a hot take.
I wasn’t talking about people bringing it up as a psychological theory, I was talking about people holding it as an actual belief.
There are tons and tons of people who subscribe to it. It’s a pretty good hint as to why people support billionaires and villainize the poor.
No, I understood you. I was referring to the same thing as well. They just usually can’t help but tell you when they believe it
Not even an opinion, but the response of someone callous and deeply ignorant about how the world and people work. 😔
People killed by political violence
Edit: I’m adding to the e.g’s because political violence is where I most commonly observe “they deserved it” remarks
Pediatric cancer
Clover lawns are pretty.
Seems kinda unpopular based on just the sheer amount of pristine lawn grass there is. But is also so incredibly low stakes it’s boring
In my experience there seem to be four types of people: those who don’t have a lawn; those who have never heard of clover on lawns; those with clover on their lawns; and those who live under the unrelenting glare and iron thumb of a homeowner’s association.
Clovers are great, they give bees something to land on in the barren wasteland of lawns that is my neighborhood. I also usually let whatever random plants/weeds that pop up grow in the peripherals. If they can manage to thrive in my nonexistent gardening then they deserve to be there.
PiNeApPlE oN PiZzA eWwW!!!1one
I’m so sick of pretend pearl clutching over this non-issue. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it. If you do, that’s fine too.
And for the record, my stance on pineapple on pizza is… drumroll
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Who the fuck cares!
That’s not a boring unpopular opinion. It’s a boring popular one.
Charred fresh pineapple is completely different than pale bland lumps from a can too. Hawaiian style pizza can be good but blandness is death.
I’m about to do ham and eggs on a pizza.
The one thing I tried on pizza that was unexpectedly gross to me was broccoli. I actually really enjoy broccoli but on a pizza it made the whole thing taste nasty.
Tell me more. How’s the egg cooked? Whole?
Crack them right on top of the ham. We used two this time because one is not enough. Got the idea from a Neoplitan pizza place in Florida.
My mouth is suddenly all watery. Looks so good.
That’s called an Aussie, and it tastes great.
My wife likes pineapple on pizza. This is absolutely not a non-issue for me! We get half pineapple and half pepperoni and sometimes I get a pineapple on my side of the pizza!
“Marvel/DC movies BAD.”
They’re products aimed at children with the intention of selling other related products. The fact that some biological adults love them excessively in certain communities/cultures says something about those groups, but doesn’t change the nature of the films themselves. What exactly did you expect?!
Eh I think they are more aimed at adults just by the way they are marketed including the toys which mostly make money in the adult collectors market. They just give the excuse to bring kids.
Hi,
I’m only commenting to show something… Seconds ago I read a comment about Ukraine and pornography with which I completely disagreed. I left the thread, came here, read a comment I completely agree with.
Both are made by the same commenter.
See, we can agree on some things and disagree on others. There’s more than two personalities available.
There might be three even, but that’s it! 😅
Maybe it’s just me, but I also find it weird to see adults with t-shirts or stickers on their cars of what are essentially kid’s shows and comics.
They weren’t originally written for children. The writers were writing their trauma and what they were experiencing at the time for other adults. In fact the readers back then were average of college aged. You may think these comics were written for children because you think their writers were good at writing but actually they were mostly weak writers. Like Stan Lee originally wrote romance. He was a weak writer. Excellent worldbuilder, though.
Comics now are still mainly written for adults.
Source for the writers?
“Originally” was near a century ago. What has that got to do with today?
I mean yeah i think that’s evil to market towards kids and use them as a hook to make parents overspend, that’s like the primary definition of “bad”. It’s bad for the kids they market to and it’s bad for society too.
I agree wholeheartedly but I didn’t mean “bad” in that way, I meant it as “of poor artistic quality”. ✌️
Agreed, with the caveat that the Zack Snyder DC films were genuine trash. Not even on a comic book reader and fan level, just on a Zack Snyder level, we need to stop letting that asshat write and make movies.
I really liked Watchmen (perhaps my favourite superhero/comic book movie still) and 300 was very alright, I guess some executives felt the same way… but yeah, everything else he’s touched is varying degrees of shit, he’s the anti Midas. 🥲
I’m not a fan of Watchmen in general, because I’m also just not a fan of Alan Moore in general, but they are the kind of people who work well together, so I’m willing give it to him, Zack Snyder is the guy for those movies. Same goes for Miller. He could also do a good job with the works of Garth Ennis. Regardless of my personal feelings on all of those folks.
Edit: Also, just like what you like and enjoy it, I have my opinions, but don’t let some douchebag on the internet make you question what you like. The heart wants what the heart wants. (With caveats, nothing is universal.)
That edit is very wholesome but entirely unnecessary, lol. Maybe I AM a simpleton who enjoys shallow things, who knows? But what I do know is that it is even more pathetic to be both a simpleton AND a coward who can’t accept it. And I don’t know much about comics in general but I’ll take your word for it! 😅
Great username btw! ✌️
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And so should the deadlier gun but at some point you risk becoming a danger. Ofc if you have no morals you won’t care but if you do, then you’ll think about it at least twice.
Pineapple Pizza is just another pizza, get over it. it’s fine.
To be fair, i just hate pineapple as food in general.
I don’t like pot.
Nothing against it, really. I just don’t like the feeling.
You wanted boring.
Yeah I also don’t like pot. Mainly because it smells bad tho… I’ve never actually used it before since I can’t imagine putting something that smells like that near my nose.
Any hobby that makes you smell like you filled your pants is one that needs to be re-evaluated.
Sounds boring to me. Not boring would be “I dont like pot so I am going to craft a bipartisan police state and erode nearly every civil liberty in a pursuit to enforce my way of life upon others from a barrel of a gun.”
Same. Cannabis just makes me fall asleep.
This is happening more as I age. Maybe its the strains I get these days, maybe its me.
Plain black coffee = best coffee
I kinda feel that “plain black coffee” in it’s various forms - Americano, drip brew, whatever - is the only way to actually drink coffee. That’s not to say I don’t approve of milk coffee or lattes or whatever - I love them - but they’re drinks which have coffee in them, even if it’s a dominant flavor. A banana smoothie isn’t a banana.
People tend to think that dark roasts/more bitter coffees are “stronger”. They actually have slightly less caffeine, as the longer the beans are roasted and higher temperatures they are cooked at naturally cooks off some.
For the most part a lighter/darker roast is all about what one likes to taste.
Ah. I see we found a masochist.
The most boring, I dunno. My most boring unpopular opinion? Licorice is absolutely delicious.
Also - music now is certainly as good as at any time in the past.
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Oh but Fontaines DC, Leon Bridges, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Waxahatchee and Big Thief and Idles and Wunderhorse and Doechii, Charley Crockett, Jason Isbell, Steve Lacey, there is such an abundance of very good music, we go to concerts and see live bands and really, there is so much great music being made. And I’m older than 50, lol. AI ‘art’ of any sort can rot in hell, yeah.
Modern music is fine.
I think one of the least self-aware thoughts someone can express - and that I hear often - is that “music now isn’t as good as it was in <decade of my youth>”, then they’ll go on to name the top five acts of that decade. Go back in time and listen to the track that was at number 53 in the charts on some boring week in mid-August in that decade and it’ll almost certainly be absolutely tepid mediocrepeice made by a forgotten artist and no better than the song that was playing on the radio that caused the comment in the first place. By the time that Josephine was coaxed onto that Flying Machine pop music had long been established as a commercial product to be produced at industrial scales. No-one alive today grew up in a generation that had exclusive access to “real music”, and if anyone tries to use that phrase to describe Motown in particular you have my permission to stab them in their eyes with a spoon.
Motown is real music.
Real music, made by real people, at the very least. Is all of it great music? By no means, but I’ve got piles of 45s that prove it is real.
Unless… I’m not real, that is. A distinct possibility, to be sure.
Meh. I don’t have this. Just feels like modern music hasn’t evolved since 2008. I’ve listened to annoying pop songs from back then, and annoying pop songs from today, and it’s just… The same.
There’s a distinct difference between 80s, 90s, and 00s music that also seems to follow what technology is capable of. That has grown stagnant.
But then hey, my favourite genres are jazz and funk. Those can get wildly creative with limitations.
Most of our heros in movies actually kind of suck. They are for the most part only able to solve the world through violence because by some magical or supernatural or just bad writing, in an absurd position to do so.
I blame this on why I have more people willing to literally kill or die for me in my life then willing to engage in uncomfortable dialogue or eat more fiber for me.
The first one that comes to mind is the one where fat people should stop eating fast food.
Because we live in a country full of food deserts where the only option is fast food.
This is just such a bad way of thinking.
Why does everyone thing that fresh fruits and vegetables are the only way to eat healthy? Fresh is good, but there are plenty of healthy foods that are not fresh. Until we had refrigerators, humans didn’t eat a lot of fresh fruit or vegetables for half of the year.
You can be healthy eating rice and beans, using frozen or canned vegetables too add even more nutrition. All of which can be obtained pretty much anywhere, including food deserts, and stored for long periods of time easily.
You can literally dump a bunch of shit into a crock pot, go work a double shift, then come back and have dinner ready. So don’t give me “it’s too hard to cook.”
It’s cheaper than fast food by a significant margin.
People buy fast food because it tastes good, full of fat and salt and sugar. Food deserts exist BECAUSE people choose not to prep their own food.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t do their own grocery shopping.
I do ALL of the grocery shopping for my family of 5, not sure why you think I wouldn’t.
My wife and I put on about 12 liters of Chili to cook this morning. We regularly batch cook from scratch, and I regularly make extras at dinner just to set aside as freezer meals for the kids to reheat anytime they want.
We both work full time, have a side hustle, and all of our kids participate in sports. Our days, nights, and weekends are hectic as hell.
Without prepping, we’d be eating fast food all the time. Except… we don’t.
I mean thats not a bad opinion its just a false statement/premise from every angle.
Correct, and that’s what pisses me off.
Right, which makes it a bad opinion.
How about…
“I don’t like politics.” Proceeds into political rant about why.
It almost always means “I don’t like to have to defend my lack of morals/humanity” but since they feel found out they feel pressured to lie about it to keep up appearances.
“Unpolular” is relative to the target audience. I’ll relate to my own social circles here:
I actually like Nickelback.
Sure, they’re not exceptional, but mediocrity is hardly a sin (unless it’s AI slop; fuck AI slop). Sure, their music is made to be safe, commercial rock, but that just fills a neat, chill gap in my music taste where LoFi should be (but isn’t; never really vibed with it).
It’s not the extent of my music taste either. I like Drumstep, Deathcore and plenty more. I just also appreciate some “boring” rock occasionally.
Lol fair enough but I’d literally rather never listen to music again
