How about that.
Have you ever heard Tom Lehrer’s music?
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four…
This is an unpopular opinion?? Pffhht. The only one worse than Valentine’s Day is Sweetest Day. The only people who get suckered into that one are high school kids.
So you’re just going to keep dancing around it, huh?
You live in a country with a per capita income that’s 7th in the world, yet: life expectancy is 33rd, 46% of the populace thinks humans were created in the last 10,000 years, and the homicide rate is approximately four times the EU average. You could start with that.
Sweetest Day? 
Much of that is due to American liberalism’s focus on wedge issues and identity politics rather than bread and butter issues thus resulting in the failure of the US to set up a universal welfare state that would ensure universal health care and reduce poverty. But there are also structural differences considering that the US is the only major industrialized country to contain a significant historically oppressed minority population which probably accounts for much of the US’s disproportionately high income inequality and crime rates
I concede the point. I just wish I could think of a happy medium. Maybe government-subsidized birth control. (I know: “Fine, Mr. Democrat, what new tax do you propose to cover that expense?” Again, a good point, and that one beats the Hell outta me, which is one reason I’m not running for office).
:dubious:
I think the “historically oppressed minority populations” of China, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Germany, The United Kingdom, and France might beg to differ. (There is also South Africa, only a generation removed from white rule). All nine of these nations are G20 members.
I also fail to see how “liberalism” can account for nearly half of all Americans being functional retards who believe in fairy stories regarding the origins of mankind.
What? Come again? The only one?
Every citizen in Europe is a descendant of an historically oppressed population. That’s why we had things like the French revolution.
Professional sports, no matter which, are more corrupt than the mob pre-big-money-pro-sports, and their fans don’t have two critical-thinking synapses to rub together in the entire collective.
“You live in a country with a per capita income that’s 7th in the world, yet: life expectancy is 33rd”
More accurately, the US is tied for 4th. When it comes to life expectancy, 79 vs 83 is not a huge gap that leads me to declare the US as a “brutal” place to live.
“46% of the populace thinks humans were created in the last 10,000 years”
I have never put much stock in creationism polls. It flies in the face of all common sense. I can’t explain why people respond to those polls the way they do, but something must be happening to screw up the numbers.
“and the homicide rate is approximately four times the EU average. You could start with that.”
You know what, I agree, the US’s murder rate is terrible. But where does the hypocrisy come in?
Can you expand on that? By corrupt do you mean generally-venal-and-evil? Or are you talking about something like “all the games are fixed”? I can think of plenty of negatives about, say, the NFL, but they can make so much money being “honest” that I don’t see any reason for them to be corrupt. Kind of like whether big Vegas casinos would cheat. They have basically a license to print money not cheating… so what’s their incentive?
One of my unpopular opinions
Unless there are extenuating circumstances- personal disability, disabled parents, temporary unemployment, etc… it’s really fucking weird if you ask me. People in their late20s and older should have their own places and live their own lives independent of their parents, and generally if they don’t, it’s some sort of loserdom related failure to launch that ought not be considered “normal” or “acceptable” by society.
Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about. Only Sony has had a consistent 6-7 year cycle, with the others like Sega and Nintendo having had more like 4 year cycles, and Microsoft having a 4 year cycle then a 7 year cycle.
And those tended to be glacial compared to the PC hardware rat race between about 1988 to 2008 or so, where it was more like a 1-2 year cycle if you were lucky.
True is just a name we give to claims about which nobody wants to argue.
As a PC player, I am eternally thankful that consoles became the dominant platform and ended that nonsense.
That is your unpopular opinion. Very well. Acknowledged.
One of my opinions–how unpopular it is I haven’t the faintest idea–is that such cases should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to determine whether there is good cause for it, as you allow for. It’s like saying, “Don’t judge me before you walk a mile in my moccasins.” You did say, “generally speaking.”
The last time I checked Mexico, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa all had worse poverty and far higher crime than the United States so this doesn’t disprove my point. And France, Britain, or Germany never had ten percent of its population enslaved for centuries before being freed only to face continuous legal and social discrimination.
I never said that. And calling Young Earth Creationists “functional retards” isn’t going to change their minds if that’s what you actually want rather than just get fun out of mocking them.
By that logic you can say that every citizen of the United States had ancestors who were also historically oppressed. I’m referring to the systematic discrimination faced by blacks even after slavery ended. You genuinely don’t think this is a factor in US inequality?
Sort of like the notion that no work of art is ever truly finished, only abandoned.
(Also, if you look far enough – and that usually isn’t all that far! – you can usually find someone who will argue with almost any proposition! There are still Flat Earthers!)
Now that makes sense! If someone starts off by calling people “functional retards” (not to their faces, of course), no wonder his opinion is “unpopular.”