I’ll start with mine. clears throat
“65% of Hazbin/Helluva fan comics, fan animations/animatics, fan fiction.etc are unironically better than anything Vivziepop has ever made in her career!”
Feel free to down vote me and called me a sleazeball douchebag troll.
“65% of Hazbin/Helluva fan comics, fan animations/animatics, fan fiction.etc are unironically better than anything Vivziepop has ever made in her career!”
I’ll do you one better. Vivziepop fans were some of the most annoying people I ever had the displeasure of interacting with. And that was before her animation stuff went mainstream and she just did this annoying animation meme shit. I was a moderator in an Art Community on Amino at that time and somehow Amino paid her to shill it to her fans (the community had no say in this). So they showed up in droves, ignored all community guidelines and just posted the dumbest things imaginable. I still personally dislike Vivziepop because of that.
Pedophilia is ok in the united states and we all just collectively agreed to pretend it isn’t. It’s clearly not a crime or we’d make more of a deal out of prosecution. It’s certainly not a deal breaker when your favorite politician or famous person does it. I used to think it was a coincidence that everyone I know was molested as a child, that maybe we gravitate to each other as an unspoken solidarity. The Epstein situation has made that hard to believe.
It’s not about any one crime, although the one you mention is a pretty hot topic. The real problem is that all crimes are null and void if you have enough money. Sometimes that money is from someone who thinks it’s beneficial to them to save your bacon, but nonetheless, it’s legalised bribery that nullifies the crime.
Sure it’s not “bribe a cop on the street” levels of corruption that you (allegedly) get in some other countries, but it’s corruption all the same.
That’s the thing, I already accepted that crimes are legal of you pay for them, that’s something I learned in elementary school, but when you start opening up about sexual abuse, you find that more people have experience than not. It’s not just the famous or powerful, it’s older cousins, uncles, aunts, babysitters, friends or their families, grand parents, teachers, strangers at the park, neighbors, and every other possible connection.
There’s 27 people I can think of that have candidly told me about the abuse they experienced and only one of them lead to legal reprocussions. We’re taught to keep it secret either because we don’t truely understand it until it’s far later or when we bring it up we’re told that it didn’t happen. When we hear about those arrested for it, they were often victims in their own time.
CPS investigates about 300,000 child sexual assault cases annually and experts suggest that as few as 10% actually get reported to begin with. If those numbers are accurate then around 37% of children in the us will be molested in their lifetime. 1 in 13 Americans is a molested child.
In comparison, Jews are 1 in 42, muslims are 1 in 91, Pacific islanders are 1 in 333, transgender adults are 1 in 167. In a general dispersal, for every 11 Mexicans you’ve met, you’ve likely met 8 children that have been sexually assaulted. It’s not money that lets you molest children, it’s the culture. It’s fine as long as no one else has to know about it. So the crime isn’t the act, it’s being bad at doing it.
Also, that’d only using the 2025 data for active cases so that’s just children currently being molested. Adults that were molested as children aren’t even factored in. Even more, only 24.5% of cases are actionable, 2-5% are false, and the remaining fail because they investigation is self assessment at best. So of those 8 molested kids, maybe 2 of them will get justice. The rest get to live with it.
It’s clearly not a crime
If you are rich. Just as with most other crimes.
It’s not OK for you, it’s OK for them because they are powerful.
I agree. There’s very little funding for services that protect children. Foster children are commonly sent out of state due to lack of resources and are completely lost out in the system somewhere.
Mandatory homework needs to be done away with for students. Studying after school is one thing, but assignments that can’t be finished during school hours shouldn’t be given out. Give them 1 free hour a day at school to work on assignments if you need to.
Not every student has a home environment set up for being able to concentrate. Plus it’s just training kids to work off the clock and having no separation of home and work life, something people already struggle with. We should be teaching them boundaries about these things.
I hated school but I would have preferred to stay one extra mandatory hour at school instead of ever having homework.
I actually think that “schools of the future” will do this. Especially when mathematics are concerned. It does no good to get feedback a week after you have done the homework and already moved on to the next topic. Feedback should be immediate so that any errors in understanding can be corrected. The exception would probably be writing a paper, which can occur over at least several days.
Idk about the future, but we used to do like 10 math problems at the end of class, and they were supposed to be finished by tomorrow, where we would review them. It’s a day of margin only, we did have 10 mins to do most of them, and lazy people like me did them in recess right before class. The teacher didn’t check them 1 by 1, but if you were picked to present the problem in the review and you didn’t have it done, you were fucked.
For context, this is like 15 years ago already. Spain.
De hecho eso suena re útil.
Yup. I struggled in school because my dad didn’t respect public education and always filled my afternoons with chores and tasks. If I was lucky I could do homework on the bus, or at lunch, or in earlier classes, but typically not. Despite having the highest test grades in most of my classes, I generally had the lowest overall grades, especially in particularly homework-centric classes like history.
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Political violence is acceptable.
When the actions of a dictator or party directly worsen the lives of citizens, I believe it should be a legal right for the citizenry to execute those in power.
hot in general but definitely not on lemmy
I think cars should be outlawed in population centers with exceptions for product deliveries, mobility scooters and e-bikes. If you want your ikea furniture into your apartment you need to either fit it into a cargo bike setup or get it delivered by a company with a delivery license.
I hate cars
I hold that view quite publicly and have recieved minimal disagreement.
Oh I have a good one for this
I am an introverted loner who enjoys time spent solitary.
But I do have a social life, date, work. So I am aware that there are other people who spend every day doing something social with others and get frustrated if they have to spend any amount of time by themselves just in their own company.
I believe(d) that time spent alone with yourself and your thoughts is psychologically healthy, helps you figure out who you really are and lets you sort out your beliefs and desires.
So I thought society should change in such a way that there was a mandatory month out of every year where we all spent the entire time locked away in our homes getting essentials delivered.
Now imagine my surprise in 2020 when I actually got what I wanted and it drove a significant chunk of the population absolutely insane.
I love introverts and I personally enjoy my time alone once in a while. But it has to be voluntary. There’s a reason being locked up and alone is society’s standard go-to punishment, and solitary confinement, even in lush and luxurious conditions, can be considered torture.
But we weren’t alone, I still could contact all my friends as usual via voice chat and game together. I saw people at the store, I say colleagues while working remotely in video chats (still do, WFH ftw).
I guess people not adapted to an online life felt isolated, but those were the same criticising my style of life so… Skill issue and get fucked.
Yeah I get it. But, socializing online is not the same as socializing in person. Online there are at most two senses involved, sound and sight. Socialization also has proprioceptive, tactile, and even olfactory dimensions. There’s also a do-together dimension, not about doing the same thing but doing something in the same physical space that is psychologically distinct from occupying the same virtual space or doing the same digital activity online.
Again, I get it, I can personally function socializing mostly online. But that’s not typical. Most humans need to socialize in person to stay mentally healthy. It’s OK if you don’t want to, but just accept that you’re probably in a minority. There’s a fundamental biological reason the Meta universe crashed. Existing mostly online, although it could be healthy for some individuals, is considered pathological by most.
not necessarily disagreeing with you just providing my personal experience/perspective/knowledge, there is a very tangible sense of proprioception in VRChat. it kept me sane during lockdown.
there is also a study (I can dig up if anyone’s interested) that shows that your brain stores memories experienced in VR in a way that it doesn’t with flat screen gaming.
now meta horizons was an absolute disaster and I don’t know where that blame lies, it’s strange that despite everyone in VRChat being An Anime you can apply a level of suspension of disbelief and it really does feel like you’re sharing the space with other people.
Agree. The lack of market penetration of VR during the pandemic was a factor. However VR is not for everyone. I always remind how VR presence in novels, even when romanticized, is always in a dysdopic context. Rarely interpreted at a positive. People tend to have a rejection to online only VR interaction. Humans need touch.
Dogs are incredibly annoying and a not insignificant number of people that want them actually subconsciously want children, but either can’t afford them, or don’t have a partner to have them with so they adopt a permanent child.
I think it’s rather coincidental that 90%+ of women’s dating profiles in my area (very high cost of living) all mention some form of “I’ll steal your dog. I love your dog more than you. Dogs are life. Live love dog” etc etc…
Can I make a suggestion? It seems like it’s not dogs themselves that bug you. What seems to get your goat is people who performatively like dogs instead of having an actual personality. Which … yeah, you’re right.
The proper way to eat salad is with chopsticks. Ever tried to pick up a flat piece of lettuce with a fork? A chopped carrot? A crispy crouton??
Chopsticks are the perfect snack food implement to keep your fingers snack-dust/grease free. Chips? Chopsticks are perfect. Popcorn? Chopsticks even help you eat it slower. Fries? You guess it. Chopsticks.
My brother started eating salads with bamboo chopsticks because it bothered him that a vinaigrette dressing brings out the metallic flavour in a fork. Then he realized they are much more practical for the reasons you mention and has become a huge advocate. They have become my preferred implement as well.
I had a Vietnamese student some years ago teach me this and I never looked back.
I keep trying to tell people this. People are so set in their ways it hurts.
I’ve been trying to avoid using chopstick for everything, but I’ve just had that final straw of validation
I think many dv situations (definitely not all) amount to kidnapping and you should legally be allowed to kill the person holding you against your will in order to escape.
Dv?
domestic violence
Isn’t self defense already legal?
Another said: “He had us scared, both [my children] and me, that if I told anything to the police and they arrested him, he was going to get out and kill us.”
I think it’s fine that she killed her abuser, even if it wasn’t the exact moment a threat was made. In a way, I think it’s good if the killing happens in kidnapping cases like this one when the kidnapper is vulnerable, because the victim is more likely to survive. Poison, stabbing while they’re asleep, stealing the gun they used to threaten you and hitting them in the back - it’s cool. You tell someone they can’t leave or you’ll kill them, you are allowed to live exclusively on the whim of the person you threatened. That’s where my opinion gets a bit controversial, I think.
I started looking for cases where victims of rape were thrown in jail for killing their rapist as it was happening, and I immediately found several different incidents and got depressed.
Hope this explains why I think my view would be unpopular.
What you’re describing are direct threats of violence against the victim. If the victim responds with violence, that would be considered self defense, which I don’t believe is either unpopular or illegal. The legal system just so happens to be flawed, where victims are thrown in prison, but that’s a separate issue that needs to be fixed.
The Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) aren’t “religions of peace”.
Socialist economic systems are also easily corruptible.
People are perfectly fine with letting strangers suffer so long as it doesn’t inconvenience them.
No religion is all about peace and more importantly, no religion is real. Gods don’t exist, they’re all human made.
Religions are real, as much as countries are real. They are social constructs. Someone can believe in something that is factually incorrect. Flat Earthers are real, even though the earth isn’t flat
I’m intrigued, can you elaborate on the socialist economics point?
“One can give you a great recipe. You can still fuck it up.”
I always expect something intense from these threads like “blind people should be culled” but it’s always boring trite stuff that 80% of gen pop already believes in. No one is going to get executed for saying homework sucks.
I don’t have a stance on blind people, but I do think deaf people shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
Part of that belief is the obvious practicality: not being able to hear sirens or honks mean they’re likely slower to react in an emergency situation.
But I lived near a deaf college for a few years, where I learned the real terror: deaf people will talk to their passengers while driving. In a language that is entirely visual and mostly dexterous. So drivers are taking both hands off the wheel to gesture, then taking both eyes off the road to get a response. The number of near-misses I’ve had with deaf drivers is harrowing.
I remember a user on Reddit talking about how his parents were deaf and the danger he felt when they started arguing with each other while his father was driving. From what I remember, because of the emotions involved, it was a lot of wild rapid gestures.
Robert A. Heinlein like to throw out different ideas to improve politics.
Two of my favorites. “Starship Troopers.” In order to vote you have to do two years of service. In the book it’s explicitly stated that most people are physically/mentally unsuited for actual combat and that they spend their time cleaning streets while being harassed by tough bosses. If a blind person in a wheelchair wants to serve they’ll find them a job commensurate with their abilities.
In “Double Star” all representatives are elected by self identified groups. Instead of representing New York or London, they represent ‘farmers’ or ‘small business owners’ or ‘gamers’ or whatever group has enough members to qualify. And the same way you can move from California to Idaho you can change your group.
We have the second one already, we just call it lobbying.
In Europe, we call them “political parties”.
Germany has a party for punks, one for satire, one for senior citizens, one for animal rights, one for vegans, one for people of Sorbian origin, etc.
He was a good writer and a solid philosopher. Less focused than Clarke or Asimov, less wacky than Dick, and less manipulative than Hubbard. He presented ideas in a clear way.
Allow me to introduce you to Ross Thomas.
He was a WW2 veteran who became a Washington political reporter. His crime novels always have an interesting political slant.
“The Porkchoppers” is about a Nixon era Union election. Giant cast of characters and slime by the tankerload.
“The Fool’s In Town Are On Our Side” is about an ex-CIA agent’s sttempts to clean up a small Southern city by making it 'so corrupt even the pimps will vote for reform."
some countries already have the second one, they’re called non-geographical constituencies
Could you provide some examples?
I tried a search but couldn’t figure out how to filter all the information into a usable form.
The Hong Kong LegCo had some back when it was still democratic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Kong#Functional_constituencies
Also, the City of London (the small historical core of London which is politically independent from the greater London aglomeration) still retains its ancient voting arrangememt, which lets local businesses vote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation#Elections
Conveniently, much of the London global financial hub falls within its perimiter.
Thanks.
I appreciate you.
No worries. Thanks for inquiring about my Special Interest ;)
The second one just describes political parties, in countries with voting systems that don’t enforce 2 camps.
I wasn’t familiar with either, and I now love them too. However, you think you’ll be horribly executed and shunned for them!? I doubt we’ll see a more popular idea in this post…
A lot of people here will hate on Heinlein for being a fascist.
He went to Annapolis and was strongly promilitary and anti-Stalinist.
He also had some of the first trans characters in science fiction. [ “…All You Zombies” and “I Will Fear No Evil.”]
“… All You Zombies” is really about his connection to his dead sister.
And…?
I read that story in middle school. I’ve read it a dozen times and saw the movie. [Predestination with Ethan Hawke]
I never heard this story. Even if the author himself said it, it’s irrelevant because it wasn’t a part of the story.
Moreover, you should acknowledge that when it was published anything involving trans people would be censored in most magazines.
This is bait. I’m tired of these bait posts.
They’re bait posts because they’re preying on people to drop some really spicy unpopular opinion that nobody, even including the OP, will handle. It’ll create a scuffle, arguments and there will be calling for post removals and report wars will happen.
Also, it reeks of Reddit too, including to the last line.
Most single people are single for a reason
Plenty are unlucky (they live somewhere full of backwards hicks, like 'Murica) or some other misfortune, but there are so many people who deserve to die alone and lonely, and they’re blind to the fact that they’re single because they’re just shitty people
Some people understand why they’re single, and accept it.
I’m all of the above and more! Hell, my unpopular opinion that will get me executed is that dogs are annoying and overrated. I’m literally worse than Hitler.
But I do recognize it at least so there’s that.
It doesn’t mean they can’t improve.
Maybe you can fix them
Sure, give it a try
Representative democracy was specifically designed to have oligarchs be in charge of society and it should be abolished in favor of smaller, direct democracies.
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Nope
Do you know how to run a military? Do you know what environmental regulations should be needed for chemical plants?
I can go on for a while but you get the point
- I’d say I want a democracy where at the least it’s a requirement that those who are temporarily in charge, actually studied the subject matter they’re in charge of. I’ve seen too many ministers be in charge of areas they have no fucking clue about.
You’re in charge of healthcare? Then at the very least you must be a doctor
You’re the minister of justice? At least be a lawyer, or better yet, a judge.
- get rid of political parties, require each minister to be independent. Yes, we need to do more voting and yes, we need to read up on each minister but then lets make voting a holiday so that people can take their time with it. Require that ministers actually implement the things they claimed they would
Do you know how to run a military?
Does the president know how to run a military? A president (in the US) can legally go to war with any country they’d like for up to 60 days without any congressional approval. Every war the US has entered post-WWII has been disasterous, both for the countries we went to war with, and for the US domestically.
environmental regulations
I’m not saying we should abolish regulatory agencies. We should still have them, and instead of having their leadership be appointed, have them be elected. Also give people the ability to create new regulatory agencies as needed for novel technologies. For example, the use of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity is a relatively new idea. The effects (both positive and negative) of any novel (and old) technology should always be studied, and unbiased, peer reviewed scientific research should always be taken into account when creating such policies.
in charge of healthcare
What does that even mean? Healthcare should be considered a human right. Public institutions, such as universities or publically funded pharma research institutes would still develop new medicines, and doctors will be able to perscribe whatever the patient needs without mafia insurance corporations getting in the way and without private pharma corporations pushing drugs to be perscribed.
I don’t disagree with the point about a person in control of, say environmental regulation should be qualified in the subject matter. I wouldn’t mind making it a requirement to at the very least have a degree from a university in that subject matter in order to run for the position, so long as higher education is provided to everyone free of charge for anyone who chooses to go down that route and so long as the people who design the cirriculum do not have ulterior motives.
Also, you mentioned requiring ministers actually implement what they promise. How would that be enforced? Would it not be more feasible to just have the ability to vote them out and replace them with someone who would actually do the job they promise, if, that is, the position even needs to exist to begin with and cannot be replaced with a direct, democratic vote.
US is a very flawed democracy, it’s a bad example. Unlike most European countries you can’t just vote both out so if both parties agree on something the public opinion doesn’t matter.
There are oligarchic elements in all democracies but the purpose of a rep democracy is that you can elect the most qualified person to do the job of sorting all the governing out full time.
To further illustrate the point, most votes for the presidency of the US just flat out don’t matter. You can’t even vote for your preferred candidate since there’s no runoff/ranked choice election in either primaries or presidential election and each state is a winner takes all so republicans in New York don’t get a say nor do Dems in Alabama.
All representative democracies are flawed by nature since they all allow for an elite class to exist and likewise allow for corruption to exist. I just use the US as an example since I am the most familiar with US politics, but the US spread its ideas about representative democracy to the entire western world.
The most “qualified” person is not always the right person for the job. Some people take qualified to mean experienced, for instance, which is what many neoliberals in the US touted in their campaigns, but they were experienced in maintaining a corrupt system and serving their donors. The Republicans are experienced in also serving their donors while pushing the needle further right.
Say there was ranked choice or some other system that allowed for more than two parties. As we see in EU countries for example, the elite are still allowed to rule there, and corruption still exists. Denmark isn’t pushing for Chat Control for fun. Germany isn’t supporting Israel for fun.
Nah, the general public doesn’t have the time or patience to properly research this stuff or consult the experts. They’ll just vote on vibes and we’ll just be trading one kind of bad for another.
Keep representatives, just don’t elect them. Sortition is the best of both worlds; you still get a sample of the population, but with people who take the responsibility seriously and actually have the time to do the research/due diligence.
I watched a video on sortition a while ago. It’s definitely better than the existing system, but it is still ultimately possible to outright rig the process via bribery, rigging the election process directly, etc. and for power-seekers/oligarchs to gain power. It’s just much more difficult to do so.
And it is especially true in the digital age. States made some sense centuries ago when direct democracy was limited by the speed of communication, but why should we be following those same models of government that were made when you could only communicate as far as you could shout or a horse could take you now that I can talk to you, random human somewhere?
