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re: What is your most unpopular political opinion? And why.

Posted on 12/3/23 at 7:47 pm to
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31639 posts
Posted on 12/3/23 at 7:47 pm to
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Them fetuses have a heartbeat, but it is a part of the woman's body. Her choice, at that point.


When OP said, “unpopular,” I didn’t read that as “mentally retarded.”
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
91207 posts
Posted on 12/3/23 at 8:30 pm to
Universal suffrage was a bad idea because for the idea of our republic to work it requires high IQ and logical people to preserve it.

People who are low IQ, emotional, reactionary, or poor will vote to be put in chains as long as they’re comfortable and safe. This dooms the republic
Posted by scrooster
Resident Ethicist
Member since Jul 2012
38011 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 6:51 am to
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Unpopular Opinion
__________________


Bitches should have never been granted the Right to Vote.

___________________
Why?
___________________

Is it not obvious? It is historically evident, undeniably-so. Women, if left unchecked, incite total chaos. The moment they were granted the Right to Vote, the country began to spin in a tornadic downward spiral towards total destruction, loss of freedoms, emotionally charged decisions and Marxists' approved validations. Gender fluidity, racism and claims of misogyny abound at every turn. Hypocrisy reigns, logic is chastised and division and strife rules.

Everything is an unwinnable argument, nothing is debatable.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
11198 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 7:09 am to
quote:

Unpopular Opinion


Election finance law should be changed to state the the maximum amount of money a campaign can spend is equal or less than the total sum of money of the lowest candidates war chest.

quote:

Why?


Electing leaders based on who can beg for the most money has proven to be a terrible way to elect leaders.

Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
43145 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 7:16 am to
Women
quote:

should have never been granted the Right to Vote.

regretably, this is correct - I have been scolded many times for this same observation, so I keep my mouth shut about it now.
Posted by LegalEazyE
Madison, Wisconsin
Member since Nov 2023
2946 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:49 am to
I believe in term limits for Presidents but I do not support Congressional term limits. Presidents actually have a good bit of unilateral power to wield by executive orders. It's good to have a change in the face of leadership in that position in my opinion... otherwise your nation starts to resemble a dictatorship. Term limits in congress are a double edged sword. Sure, they help get rid of some idiots but if you have a great Rep or Senator who has ascended to leadership and they arbitrarily have to leave that sucks. You'd like to think if they're terrible, their constituents will vote them out.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 11:55 am
Posted by LegalEazyE
Madison, Wisconsin
Member since Nov 2023
2946 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:51 am to
quote:

“Decorum” is for pussies.

Let them fight.


Been saying this for years. We need congressional brawls in the Capitol. At least it would show they care and truly are "fighting for us."
Posted by Wednesday
Member since Aug 2017
15551 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 11:55 am to
quote:

Women, if left unchecked, incite total chaos.




Posted by CDawson
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2017
16502 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 2:27 pm to
quote:

He's unelectable


Supposed to be unpopular opinion not a gas lighting statement.

Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4447 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 2:28 pm to
quote:

My unpopular political opinion is that all nations are under the obligation by God to acknowledge Jesus Christ as king and submit to Him, and any politician that does not make a credible profession of the Christian faith and live a life consistent with that profession should not be voted for.


That's an unpopular opinion alright.
Posted by Trevaylin
south texas
Member since Feb 2019
6036 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 2:46 pm to
I would agree with this if limited to transgender, guys wanting to be girls
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67288 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 2:55 pm to
Dueling should be legal and sanctioned with rules and appropriate venues for consenting adults.

Concealed carrying of firearms should be illegal for everyone, including police.

Open carrying of firearms should be MANDATORY. Gun safety and marksmanship would be required courses to graduate from high school, and small arms would be required on everyone’s hips like it’s the Old West (statistically the least crime-ridden period and place in American history).

The drinking age is way too high. It should be no higher than 18, maybe even dropped to 16.

Federal administrative agencies have usurped way more power than the Constitution grants them. They should be much more accountable to Congress and the courts. Heck, they often operate rogue, contrary to the orders of even the executive branch. This is the biggest structural issue in our federal government.

We need to pay police and elected state and local officials more to attract better applicants. If that job doesn’t pay enough for a regular person to live and raise a family, then the only people working those jobs will be corrupt ones using the office to profit illegally and dumb ones who have no better options.

85% of the social problems we see are caused by macroeconomic factors beyond the control of any individual person. 10% are caused by social media and popular media distorting people’s perceptions of their place in society and the world in general, and 5% is actually preventable suboptimal choices by individuals which may be driven by religion, philosophy, or whatever.

100% of those problems are exacerbated by federal government policies, most of which come from unelected administrative agencies answerable to no one, not even the President.

Mentally ill people who cannot take care of themselves when receiving proper treatment, and/or commit acts of violence should be locked up and removed from society in some capacity. Closing all of the asylums was a HUGE mistake.

Everything is a ponzy scheme: healthcare, entitlements, environmentalism, hunting licenses, elections, education, the auto industry, real estate, the stock market, etc. Americans are basically getting defrauded at every turn because the economy is collapsing and globalist corporations are trying to bleed every last drop while they can.

All drugs should be legal, tested for purity, labeled with warnings and safety labels, and sold by people you can sue if that product harms you.

HFCS should not be subsidized, nor should the domestic sugar industry be protected from foreign competition. Eliminating these programs would make real sugar more economical than fake sugar, eliminating the need to ban unhealthy HFCS beyond just adding a warning label.

Conspiracy theorists shouldn’t be celebrated, but they shouldn’t be ostracized either. While conspiracies are often proven true, many theorists throw 50 predictions at the wall to get one right. They should get credit and vindication when they’re right, and they should get criticism when they’re wrong.

Illiteracy after 5th grade is the number one predictor of crime and poverty. Illiteracy usually starts in broken homes. These two factors correlate to an alarming degree.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 3:02 pm
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4447 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:12 pm to
quote:

Unpopular Opinion
__________________

Bitches should have never been granted the Right to Vote.

___________________
Why?
___________________

Is it not obvious? It is historically evident, undeniably-so. Women, if left unchecked, incite total chaos. The moment they were granted the Right to Vote, the country began to spin in a tornadic downward spiral towards total destruction, loss of freedoms, emotionally charged decisions and Marxists' approved validations. Gender fluidity, racism and claims of misogyny abound at every turn. Hypocrisy reigns, logic is chastised and division and strife rules.

Everything is an unwinnable argument, nothing is debatable.


Women are not beholden to reason. They are beholden to emotion.

That doesn't mean women can't use reason. They, of course, can. Especially with regard to matters of professional import about which they are relatively passionless. They are just as smart as men, maybe even smarter on average.

But they do not recognize reason as an authority the way men do.

When men argue, they attempt to show how their opponent has misused logic or run afoul of reason. They attempt to make the case the logic and reason are on their side and the opponent is mistaken and has incorrectly applied those principles to the case.

A (real) man will NEVER say—when backed into a logical corner from which he can not escape—"I don't care."

Because a man DOES care.

No, a man will—even if he refuses to admit defeat—go down claiming that his application of reason is the correct one, because he knows that reason and logic are the true authorities by which these debates should be settled. Doesn't mean a man can't get emotional...of course he can. A man can even get emotional to the point that he is incapable of using reason and logic correctly. The difference is that he will not admit that because he reveres reason.

A woman, on the other hand, has no problem...NO PROBLEM, just saying, "I don't care, I still feel XYZ" in response to being backed into a logical corner. She's not ashamed, she's not embarrassed to say that, she doesn't think there's anything wrong with it.

What a WOMAN will never do is subjugate her emotions to logic. If emotion and logic are at odds, she will NEVER take logic over emotion, and she will freely admit it.

Thereby announcing for all the world to see that emotion and not reason is the authority to which she bends the knee.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 3:17 pm
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4447 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:15 pm to
quote:

Dueling should be legal and sanctioned with rules and appropriate venues for consenting adults.

Concealed carrying of firearms should be illegal for everyone, including police.

Open carrying of firearms should be MANDATORY. Gun safety and marksmanship would be required courses to graduate from high school, and small arms would be required on everyone’s hips like it’s the Old West (statistically the least crime-ridden period and place in American history).

The drinking age is way too high. It should be no higher than 18, maybe even dropped to 16.

Federal administrative agencies have usurped way more power than the Constitution grants them. They should be much more accountable to Congress and the courts. Heck, they often operate rogue, contrary to the orders of even the executive branch. This is the biggest structural issue in our federal government.

We need to pay police and elected state and local officials more to attract better applicants. If that job doesn’t pay enough for a regular person to live and raise a family, then the only people working those jobs will be corrupt ones using the office to profit illegally and dumb ones who have no better options.

85% of the social problems we see are caused by macroeconomic factors beyond the control of any individual person. 10% are caused by social media and popular media distorting people’s perceptions of their place in society and the world in general, and 5% is actually preventable suboptimal choices by individuals which may be driven by religion, philosophy, or whatever.

100% of those problems are exacerbated by federal government policies, most of which come from unelected administrative agencies answerable to no one, not even the President.

Mentally ill people who cannot take care of themselves when receiving proper treatment, and/or commit acts of violence should be locked up and removed from society in some capacity. Closing all of the asylums was a HUGE mistake.

Everything is a ponzy scheme: healthcare, entitlements, environmentalism, hunting licenses, elections, education, the auto industry, real estate, the stock market, etc. Americans are basically getting defrauded at every turn because the economy is collapsing and globalist corporations are trying to bleed every last drop while they can.

All drugs should be legal, tested for purity, labeled with warnings and safety labels, and sold by people you can sue if that product harms you.

HFCS should not be subsidized, nor should the domestic sugar industry be protected from foreign competition. Eliminating these programs would make real sugar more economical than fake sugar, eliminating the need to ban unhealthy HFCS beyond just adding a warning label.

Conspiracy theorists shouldn’t be celebrated, but they shouldn’t be ostracized either. While conspiracies are often proven true, many theorists throw 50 predictions at the wall to get one right. They should get credit and vindication when they’re right, and they should get criticism when they’re wrong.

Illiteracy after 5th grade is the number one predictor of crime and poverty. Illiteracy usually starts in broken homes. These two factors correlate to an alarming degree.


Dude, he said one unpopular opinion, not a page full.
Posted by Flyin'Cajun
Wiregrass, AL
Member since Dec 2011
959 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:36 pm to
Hmm…

I like the concept of, you pay no taxes, you get no voter privileges.
Posted by Monahans
Member since Sep 2019
1254 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:41 pm to
America doesn’t exist anymore. At some point it got taken over by commercial interests. We aren’t free, and our political system is just kubuki theater to keep us placated so they can keep shearing the fruits of our labor like sheep.
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4447 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

I like the concept of, you pay no taxes, you get no voter privileges.


Similarly, I think you should have to pass a civics test to be allowed to vote.
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
51100 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 3:54 pm to
quote:

Unpopular Opinion


I think Republicans are being absolute morons on the college loans issue.

quote:

Why?


College loans are a scam that were shoved down the throats of college students at the behest of liberal college administrators. Republicans should have been sounding the alarm when these became fully backed by the US government, should have been sounding the alarm that these should be dischargeable by bankruptcy, and should have realized long ago that all this was doing was creating an unelected liberal bureaucracy in the education system that was always out to destroy Republicans.

Now that this has all come to a head, and we can all clearly see the power that this has given to leftists, these morons have made themselves the bad guys by having literally NO PLAN for how to handle this issue other than "you took out a loan, pay it back." This is easily the biggest political mistake the Republicans are making right now. People want to pretend it's the abortion issue, but it is absolutely not that. It is the college loans debacle. Plain and simple. Joe Biden is forgiving loans left and right while Republicans still just wave a fist at the sky about it and come up with absolutely nothing by way of alternatives.

This issue is so dang simple. If you believe colleges have become bastions of leftist thought that are destroying our country (I agree), then why aren't you putting forth bills to saddle those institutions with the debt they so readily enabled? Turn this issue against them! Why are you allowing yourselves to be the "bad guys" here when you could easily tie this to the very institutions that are to blame for this AND the leftist indoctrination of our children?

Maybe you don't even want to go that far. Fine! There are still other things you can do. Cap the interest rate retroactively and give people credit for what they've already paid. It is ridiculous that people can pay on a college loan for 20 years and somehow still owe more than when they started. That is worse than a payday loan because you can't even discharge this in bankruptcy.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 3:56 pm
Posted by wackatimesthree
Member since Oct 2019
4447 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 4:20 pm to
quote:

College loans are a scam that were shoved down the throats of college students at the behest of liberal college administrators. Republicans should have been sounding the alarm when these became fully backed by the US government, should have been sounding the alarm that these should be dischargeable by bankruptcy, and should have realized long ago that all this was doing was creating an unelected liberal bureaucracy in the education system that was always out to destroy Republicans.

Now that this has all come to a head, and we can all clearly see the power that this has given to leftists, these morons have made themselves the bad guys by having literally NO PLAN for how to handle this issue other than "you took out a loan, pay it back." This is easily the biggest political mistake the Republicans are making right now. People want to pretend it's the abortion issue, but it is absolutely not that. It is the college loans debacle. Plain and simple. Joe Biden is forgiving loans left and right while Republicans still just wave a fist at the sky about it and come up with absolutely nothing by way of alternatives.

This issue is so dang simple. If you believe colleges have become bastions of leftist thought that are destroying our country (I agree), then why aren't you putting forth bills to saddle those institutions with the debt they so readily enabled? Turn this issue against them! Why are you allowing yourselves to be the "bad guys" here when you could easily tie this to the very institutions that are to blame for this AND the leftist indoctrination of our children?

Maybe you don't even want to go that far. Fine! There are still other things you can do. Cap the interest rate retroactively and give people credit for what they've already paid. It is ridiculous that people can pay on a college loan for 20 years and somehow still owe more than when they started. That is worse than a payday loan because you can't even discharge this in bankruptcy.


There is so much dumb in this I'm not sure where to start.

1. No one made anyone go to college.

2. No one made anyone take out a loan to go to college. No, no one shoved anything down anyone's throat or held a gun to anyone's head.

3. People who want to make colleges financially responsible for loans that their customers take out are idiots. First of all, the college dropout rate is 40%. And it's actually higher for the degrees that are better investments because those degrees are more difficult. So how in the hell can a college be responsible for someone dropping out of college? And how can a college be responsible for what someone does AFTER they graduate from college? Having a degree is just one circumstance. It doesn't dictate what someone's life is going to be like. There are umpty-nine other life choices that someone makes that can impact their ability to pay off loans that the college has no control over whatsoever.

And if you don't like the rates, don't take the loan.

If people in your opinion are too dumb to be responsible about college loans, just stop issuing them...period, end of story, problem solved.

And if they're not, then they need to be responsible for their choices, since they are the only ones who can be.

But it's asinine to try to make colleges liable for loans that their customers take out.
This post was edited on 12/4/23 at 4:31 pm
Posted by Wednesday
Member since Aug 2017
15551 posts
Posted on 12/4/23 at 4:28 pm to


I am probably more aligned with you politically and with respect to our voting habits than other dudes on this board.

You are confusing expression of emotion, with control by emotions.

Women cry when they’re frustrated

Men get angry and shout when they’re frustrated.

Same emotions. Both interfere with reason. Just different manifests in different ways. Opposite sides of the same coin dude. One no better, no worse than the other.
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