Unpopular opinions! V2: I Don't like half life edition.
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[QUOTE=Boookie;46907700]For comedic value[/QUOTE]
exactly, he's a comedic rapper.
People take him more seriously than he takes himself, that's a big reason a lot of people dislike him.
also T.R.U Story was wall to wall bangers
Are black people on twitter the new lolcats or something?
i swear if dis bitch hoe nigga dont bring me my cheesburger, but dat ass do lol smh [img]http://i.imgur.com/fVVfwKy.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/fVVfwKy.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/fVVfwKy.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/fVVfwKy.png[/img][img]http://i.imgur.com/fVVfwKy.png[/img]
It's incredibly obnoxious and I wish it would stop
[QUOTE=OHNOES;46912269]It's incredibly obnoxious and I wish it would stop[/QUOTE]
This roughly translates to: "A specific group of people are enjoying themselves in a way I don't like, [b]please make it stop :((([/b]"
When it comes to memes and fads on the internet, people should stop investing so much anger into being annoyed by lolcats, rage faces and the like. It was a passing fad, people had their laughs out of it, and now a younger generation of internet users have discovered them and they too are enjoying what we once enjoyed. If you see it, just skip over it, move on, stop getting so mad because it managed to pass into your line of sight.
[QUOTE=Dalndox;46912194]Popular opinion can be different depending on geographical region. A popular opinion where you live might be the complete opposite elsewhere. Relax, yo.[/QUOTE]
Leicester, UK (where absolalone111 is from) is a large mostly metro/urban city. This isn't some out-in-the-sticks dump in the US, it's a thriving center. The radio stations play popular/charting music, which Eminem is and has been for like a decade now.
Orion: Prelude is okay
[QUOTE=MoonlessNight;46911710]Statism is evil.[/QUOTE]
But private/privatised autocratic hierarchies are fine amirite?
I'm all for the legalization/decriminalization of certain drugs in the US, but I feel there is little point in doing so if people who have been previously arrested or charged for being in possession of said drugs don't have their charges dropped. It would be unfair and unjust to just forget about these people and have suits enjoy their millions of dollars of weed money, while the little people who simply just got caught with an ounce of weed or whatever have their lives ruined because of a (non-violent) drugs charge.
Since I feel like pissing people off, I'll say something else. I feel that it is absolutely [b]unnecessary[/b] to mention shit like "but what about good cops!" in a conversation relating to something a cop did while abusing their own power. A little warning here, before people jump my bones over this: I am not against the police, but police officers should be held to a higher standard (regardless of their gender/sex or ethnic/racial background) no matter what. I just feel, honestly, that it is truly pointless. Yes, there are good people who are cops that are in that line of work with good intentions, and whenever a cop does something heroic or is charitable, it's reported on the news. But, when an officer does something horrible and it's reported on, to just spew those words "but what about the good cops!" is diverting the conversation away from the fact that an officer of the law committed a crime, and received little to no punishment for it (or in the on again/off again cases of the murder of minorities with no reason at all, [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/19/fundraising-still-stalled-for-darren-wilson-the-ferguson-officer-involved-in-the-michael-brown-shooting/]some have even had donations given to them[/url]), while their victim is either dying or already dead.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;46912745]But private/privatised autocratic hierarchies are fine amirite?[/QUOTE]
How do you know he supports those?
[QUOTE=Dermock;46912312]Leicester, UK (where absolalone111 is from) is a large mostly metro/urban city. This isn't some out-in-the-sticks dump in the US, it's a thriving center. The radio stations play popular/charting music, which Eminem is and has been for like a decade now.[/QUOTE]
And from what I've seen in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs he's mostly irrelevant unless he has a new song out.
Like I said: it's different everywhere
[QUOTE=Deng;46912828]How do you know he supports those?[/QUOTE]
Because the term "statist" is only ever used by insane Libertarians/Anarcho-Capitalists, privatized autocratic hierarchies are exactly what they strive to turn the world into
I find it hilarious how all these crazy assholes want some hyper destructive dystopic society where the rich rule the country because they assume they'd be at the top of the ladder, even though most if not all of them would be the peasants, and they wouldn't have any welfare to keep them fed or clothed on any basic level like the "mooches" they hate so much.
If a Libertarian was teleported to an alternate reality where his dream society was in place, he'd die one of two ways: either starving to death because, due to lack of a regulated minimum wage, is paid pennies per hour and therefore has no money to spend on food, or by dying in a horrible industrial accident working for those pennies, because there are no regulations in place to make sure workplaces are safe for the workers.
[QUOTE=TAU!;46912792]I'm all for the legalization/decriminalization of certain drugs in the US, but I feel there is little point in doing so if people who have been previously arrested or charged for being in possession of said drugs don't have their charges dropped. It would be unfair and unjust to just forget about these people and have suits enjoy their millions of dollars of weed money, while the little people who simply just got caught with an ounce of weed or whatever have their lives ruined because of a (non-violent) drugs charge.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't the principle of legality state that you cannot be charged with something that wasn't illegal when you committed it? Logically, wouldn't that mean the opposite is true too?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;46913135]Doesn't the principle of legality state that you cannot be charged with something that wasn't illegal when you committed it? Logically, wouldn't that mean the opposite is true too?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but, does the government suddenly wanting to sell (currently illegal drugs, legally) remove the stigma towards minorities who have sold drugs/gotten drug charges? No. It doesn't, and likely never will.
[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/04/the-blackwhite-marijuana-arrest-gap-in-nine-charts/]Non-whites are much more often than not arrested for drug charges, or are more likely to be, than white people.[/url]
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/marijuana-arrests-four-times-as-likely-for-blacks.html?_r=0]The disparity in arrests is absolutely massive.[/url]
[url=http://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-minorities]The rate at which non-whites get arrested, or have longer sentences when it comes to drug charges, are extremely disproportionate[/url]
It would be morally bankrupt to cash in on something that minorities are constantly being looked down upon for, while simultaneously sweeping away knowledge of their existence. Yes, they're committing crimes, but what's the usual perspective people take when comparing whites vs. non-whites doing/dealing drugs? Usually polar opposites, and if not opposites, then the latter is usually viewed in a much worse light than the former.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;46913002]Because the term "statist" is only ever used by insane Libertarians/Anarcho-Capitalists, privatized autocratic hierarchies are exactly what they strive to turn the world into[/quote]
The alternative is that he's an anarchist.
[quote]If a Libertarian was teleported to an alternate reality where his dream society was in place, he'd die one of two ways: either starving to death because, due to lack of a regulated minimum wage, is paid pennies per hour and therefore has no money to spend on food, or by dying in a horrible industrial accident working for those pennies, because there are no regulations in place to make sure workplaces are safe for the workers.[/QUOTE]
This might be exaggerated. Life would be certainly different, but to say if it would be worse or better I am not sure.
[QUOTE=Dermock;46912168]ok proving my point that this thread is just people sprouting popular opinions. Literally fucking who thinks eminem is shit other than your parents?[/QUOTE]
literally most of the people im surrounded by. eminem is only really popular with like reprobate chavs, and i dont really surround myself with people like that
[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;46909084]The reaction to the Hebdo atrocity has been an absolute shitfest. I don't remember any candlelit vigils when ISIS slaughtered thousands of civilians in Syria, but as soon as it happens at home the deaths matter. Also our prime minister David Cameron joining a free speech/solidarity march when this country has literally jailed people for offensive tweets.[/QUOTE]
Because we expect it to happen there. We don't expect it to happen in a first-world country, none the less somewhere safe like Paris.
[QUOTE=Dermock;46912168]ok proving my point that this thread is just people sprouting popular opinions. Literally fucking who thinks eminem is shit other than your parents?[/QUOTE]
Just look for the posts that are rated with a bunch of dumbs, there you have the true unpopular opinions :v;
[QUOTE=Dermock;46912168]ok proving my point that this thread is just people sprouting popular opinions. Literally fucking who thinks eminem is shit other than your parents?[/QUOTE]
More often than not, the opinions posted in this thread are posted with the intention of expressing that they are considered unpopular by the general consensus of Facepunch as a community. Not the general populace of the world.
[editline]12th January 2015[/editline]
My unpopular opinion: Purple prose (excessive verbosity in stories) is a good thing.
Okay, here's a big one: I don't think that abortion is a "right", and I think the ideal situation would be for it to be permissible in the event the pregnancy is traumatic or dangerous (rape, incest, potential major health risk to the parent or severe birth defect), but if that's not the case then we have adoption and foster care for a reason.
Abortion should be a right, and just dumping the child into foster care after birth (edited for the slow) or leaving them up for adoption does not guarantee that the child will go to a caring family.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46914672]Okay, here's a big one: I don't think that abortion is a "right", and I think the ideal situation would be for it to be permissible in the event the pregnancy is traumatic or dangerous (rape, incest, potential major health risk to the parent or severe birth defect), but if that's not the case then we have adoption and foster care for a reason.[/QUOTE]
Pregnancy isn't just about the future of the child, it's about the mother's own life (and I'm not talking health risks). I mean, 9 months + the recovery time which can take from 6 weeks up to a year is a pretty long time, think of what that does to a woman who has a prospective career in sports, one who's just had a major job offer, or one who already has a kid and finds taking care of them while not pregnant hard enough?
Pregnancy is a pretty tough thing to go through, and women shouldn't be forced to do so, nor should they be forced to have the child and give it away, possibly giving them feelings of rejection and abandonment, or making them end up in a shitty family. I'm pretty damn sure it should be a right
[QUOTE=TAU!;46914769]Abortion should be a right, and just dumping the child into foster care or leaving them up for adoption does not guarantee that the child will go to a caring family.[/QUOTE]
But destroying them guarantees they won't.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46914836]But destroying them guarantees they won't.[/QUOTE]
An unborn fetus =/= a child
[QUOTE=TAU!;46914929]An unborn fetus =/= a child[/QUOTE]
You're the one who referred to them as children, not me.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;46914951]You're the one who referred to them as children, not me.[/QUOTE]
Are you suggesting that parents give away unborn fetuses to adoption agencies and foster homes? Sounds wicked dangerous and unsanitary. :v:
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Since I feel like pissing people off, I'll say something else. I feel that it is absolutely [b]unnecessary[/b] to mention shit like "but what about good cops!" in a conversation relating to something a cop did while abusing their own power. A little warning here, before people jump my bones over this: I am not against the police, but police officers should be held to a higher standard (regardless of their gender/sex or ethnic/racial background) no matter what. I just feel, honestly, that it is truly pointless. Yes, there are good people who are cops that are in that line of work with good intentions, and whenever a cop does something heroic or is charitable, it's reported on the news. But, when an officer does something horrible and it's reported on, to just spew those words "but what about the good cops!" is diverting the conversation away from the fact that an officer of the law committed a crime, and received little to no punishment for it (or in the on again/off again cases of the murder of minorities with no reason at all, [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/09/19/fundraising-still-stalled-for-darren-wilson-the-ferguson-officer-involved-in-the-michael-brown-shooting/]some have even had donations given to them[/url]), while their victim is either dying or already dead.[/QUOTE]
I think when people begin saying, 'what about the good cops,' they're trying to dispel notions that are encouraged or introduced by news pieces surrounding police misconduct that insinuate that the misconduct is normal behaviour, which it simply isn't. The vast majority of police are actually not saints, nor hitlers, but cops doing their job.
About your point on cops getting no punishment for misconduct, that tends to be a product of how the news treats these cases. While there are clear-and-cut bullshit cases (such as the Eric Garner one), most police involved in misconduct are given leave with pay first during an investigation. That part happens soon enough after an event of misconduct for any news source to report on it. However, due to the vapid nature of news, there is little reporting on the results of the investigation, which can occur months after the initial incident, due to the rigor involved in the investigations. It's not police being given leave with pay, it's news sources only REPORTING on the police getting leave with pay.
Also the Michael Brown situation is a really shit example of a cop murdering a minority and getting paid for it, seeing as the case was incredibly ambiguous from the get-go and was twisted by various spin-doctors to fit their agenda. In the end, the evidence provided by the coroner and such seemed valid and sound, at least to me.
imo, I'd rather spend money to explore our oceans than explore space.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;46915435]Equal amount of money on each. These are extremely important and I don't think people realize HOW important these both are.[/QUOTE]
yeah definitely, I don't want them to take money out of the space stuff but I would love to see more attention drawn to our oceans. It gets me excited to think there's shit we don't know about our own planet.
[QUOTE=Carlito;46915084]I think when people begin saying, 'what about the good cops,' they're trying to dispel notions that are encouraged or introduced by news pieces surrounding police misconduct that insinuate that the misconduct is normal behaviour, which it simply isn't. The vast majority of police are actually not saints, nor hitlers, but cops doing their job.
About your point on cops getting no punishment for misconduct, that tends to be a product of how the news treats these cases. While there are clear-and-cut bullshit cases (such as the Eric Garner one), most police involved in misconduct are given leave with pay first during an investigation. That part happens soon enough after an event of misconduct for any news source to report on it. However, due to the vapid nature of news, there is little reporting on the results of the investigation, which can occur months after the initial incident, due to the rigor involved in the investigations. It's not police being given leave with pay, it's news sources only REPORTING on the police getting leave with pay.
Also the Michael Brown situation is a really shit example of a cop murdering a minority and getting paid for it, seeing as the case was incredibly ambiguous from the get-go and was twisted by various spin-doctors to fit their agenda. In the end, the evidence provided by the coroner and such seemed valid and sound, at least to me.[/QUOTE]
I can't quite come up with a counterargument for this, even though I do know that media/news outlet bias exists and reports on cases like this will drag on and on for months following the initial event. But what I can say is this, there's no point in mentioning "the good cops" because these "good cops" people reach out to refer to are just regular police doing their jobs, because they're [b]supposed to[/b] do their damn job. You shouldn't be getting a pat on the back or commendations for just existing in your current field of work.
I also find it disgusting that police brutality is normalized in the eyes of certain people (trust me, I'm sure we all know someone or at least a handful of people like this). There will be people who believe any form of resistance should be dealt with either death or grievous harm. Even when the person resisting was not originally posing a threat to the police. When discussing things like the Eric Garner case, plenty of people will respond with something along the lines of "well, he shouldn't have resisted arrest" (with responses like this, it should be obvious the person who said it is a piece of shit) when it comes to him being choked to death.
Too many people think we'll be able to colonise space - we won't. 99% of the human population will remain on this planet until we go extinct within the next few millions years.
[QUOTE=Deng;46916227]Too many people think we'll be able to colonise space - we won't. 99% of the human population will remain on this planet until we go extinct within the next few millions years.[/QUOTE]
tell me about your knowledge of the future
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