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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not racist if I say I hate Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Religion is not a race, it's fundamentally an assertion of an ontology based upon the primacy of the god of Abraham/Ibrahim, Yahweh/Jehovah.

The belief in the existence, omnipresence, and infallibility of such a being as described by their texts is a detriment to our species and may ultimately catastrophically destroy civilization.

One chooses to believe or continue believing this. One can't choose their ethnicity. If I say I hate those religions, I'm saying I hate their ideas on how reality works, not where they're from or what they look like.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

You all look dumb when dancing.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Blaming slow drivers for your dangerous driving to pass them immediately and dangerously has the same energy as a rapist blaming what the victim was wearing: The other person made me do it. I have no agency over my own reactions.

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[–] gabbagabbahey@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] beto@lemmy.studio -1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Everyone should be vegan. It's great for your health, for the environment, and more importantly, it would save more than a trillion (yes, with a T) lives every year.

In a hundred years we'll look back and be ashamed of what we did to animals.

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[–] applejacks@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We were the bad guys in WWII and dropping atomic bombs on Japan was the most evil act of war ever done.

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[–] Turbula@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most human males should be castrated.

Men commit almost all rape and murder, but no one seems to think this is a problem we need to do anything about. If any other group committed 90% of serious crimes – let's say immigrants – people would be calling for them to be rounded up and exiled. But when it's men, that's just the way things are, nothing to be done about it.

But we know exactly what to do about it when we're talking about other species. We castrate male cattle because bulls are dangerous and steer aren't. Violent criminals typically have elevated testosterone levels. It doesn't take a genius to realize that putting men on testosterone-blockers is going to make them less dangerous.

What will be the other effects?

  1. Men will be be weaker—Meh, physical strength is less useful now than it was in the past.
  2. They'll have less hair on their bodies and more on their heads—Awesome.
  3. They'll won't be able to get hard—That's what viagra is for.
  4. They'll lose fertility—They can go off blockers while they're trying to have a child. Or you could just have a small number of uncastrated sperm donors.

I'm an anarchist, so I don't want to force this on anyone. But if I believed in prisons or police, I would also believe in mandatory castration.

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[–] airportline@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I don't mind tankies that much.

[–] seumadruga@lemmy.eco.br -1 points 1 year ago

Smell your own fart is a kind of a pleasure

[–] ItsSkyDragonz@poa.st -1 points 1 year ago

@rikudou @asklemmy Sodomy is an abomination

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Python is just as bad if not worse then JavaScript. The fact that if you misspell a variable name, instead of giving an error like any sane language, Python code will still run, but do something different then it looks like it does, creating a hard to spot bug is just awful. The amount of time I have spent debugging python code only to find a tiny typo that any sane language would have caught before the code even ran is several weeks now, I can't imagine how much collective time has been lost over this, and a few other, horrible languages.

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