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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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[–] Defaced@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Legend of Zelda breath of the wild is the absolute worst Zelda I've ever played. I've played and beaten the following: OoT, MM, SS, ALttP, ALbW, LA, Zelda 2. I've almost beaten wind Waker and twilight princess, so you could say I've played a few Zelda games.

BotW is a mix of assassins creed, Minecraft, and Zelda characters with shit dungeons. The divine beasts are garbage replacements for dungeons and shrines are not a replacement for dungeons either, it's just a terrible Zelda, but a decent open world game.

[–] jellyka@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Pasta can be desserts.

I make a delicious Mac and chocolate, but can get very few people to try it :(

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[–] macrocarpa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The rise of feminism has seen the steady devaluation of the contribution of men in those areas of society where they should be most active. Rather than celebrate and recognise what's right, the focus is on attacking what's wrong.

The majority of men are lonely, isolated and uncared for. Many feel unvalued, unsafe and vulnerable. There is less community support for men than there has been in the past, less institutional support, and a continued decline in the tolerance of men being in shared places. The minimisation of value in societal roles is yet another way that men are cut off.

This seems to escape the vision of feminism. There is always claim of ideological alignment, where the empowerment of women directly benefits men, but when it comes to any form of concrete action that helps men that need help, or celebrates men that contribute - it's nowhere to be seen.

Men kill themselves. They kill themselves. In their thousands. Leaving cratered families, trauma, guilt from the survivors, many of whom are female. Because they feel valueless, helpless and can't see a purpose to going on.

Accountability goes both ways. In demanding support from men, feminism must support men.

The majority of men are lonely, isolated and uncared for

Suicide rates are down amongst the youngest, the highest suicide rates are from people over 50 and specifically, white people over 50

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[–] ClockNimble@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I could probably do a better job running your country than the guy you elected since I know when to give the problem to someone more qualified.

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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Houses and similar private property should be owned by the state and be given out to those in need for free, rather than owned by private individuals to sell/rent and make a profit. It's literally a basic human need that's becoming less and less accessible due to greed (constantly rising prices and scams landlords might try to pull), and it's very easy to just lose one if you're unfortunate enough to be unemployed for a longer period of time.

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[–] monotrox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consuming drugs should not be illegal. Doesnt matter what effect the drug has, punishing the consumer does no good for anyone.

Selling drugs can and should in some cases be illegal though

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[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In order to actually fight climate change, we should start by trying to reduce the population in the future. Less people = more resources per person.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago (8 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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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

While companies are bad, that doesn't automatically make things a company produces bad even if the company is trying to price-gouge or otherwise make the most profit out of it. You can oppose the latter while not pushing bullshit about the former.

In this regard, I'm referring to things that people generally try to push anti-science views on and use "company bad" as their purposefully bad argument to conflate the two things.

So, medicine and pharmaceuticals are not bad, even if the companies are bad.

Same goes with vaccines, obviously.

Biotech crops are not bad (and people really need to learn about how all crop cultivars have patents, including heirloom and organic cultivars).

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[–] peto@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

The stuffing is the worst part of an Oreo.

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The average Lemmy user knows fuck all about, security, privacy, operating systems, act like they are unique, and are inclusive despite wanting more people to understand more about the way they see things.

Libertarianism and anarchism aren't cool and don't work.

You are a part of the problem if you hate Nintendo but think you are helping the developer by pirating their games.

You are an even bigger problem to bringing more people to your way of thinking if you are constantly negative about those people buying something they like just because you wouldn't.

Thinking you are alternative because everything you think is mainstream makes you mainstream.

Your choice of FOSS and OS doesn't make that product good by design. Just because you can't operate and OS doesn't make that OS bad.

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[–] pastaPersona@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I hate shrimp, fuck those things they suck and aren’t worth whatever premium BS the going market price is

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Nuking Japan was in proportion and in service to the United States' legitimate military objectives.

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[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Negative motivation is the real way to make changes.

It's great to have goals and positive things to look forward to when you reach those goals.

But to be consistent in doing the hard work to reach that goal it's better to scare the shit out of your self by asking

"what happens to me if I don't do the work?"

[–] 271apple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Old Skuamorphism (correct me if I spelled it wrong) on iPhones were so nice

[–] Philo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mets have been and forever will be the best team in baseball.

[–] RalphWolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Kanye West aka Ye is not a genius. He is a narcissist. He doesn't write most of his music because he has a team of employees that do that for him but he takes all of the credit. He deserves to be dropped because of his comments and statements.

[–] dyslexicjedi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Society and people are really shit. I hate the idea of having to interact with someone/anyone during the day. I really need to build a cabin in the woods.

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