Far Right extremists cannot be allowed to live

Rap music is the least aesthetically appealing music genre in general. I simply can't stand rap songs with a lot of swear words in lyrics, supporting street chaos and sex activity in lyrics, fast and high pitched vocals. Just not my style at all.

People who use doordash and food delivery apps extensively, without a disability, are some lazy ass people, who deserve the shitty experience and high price it costs. Just go fucking get it yourself if you want it hot and fresh and not thrown on the ground.

We need less beauty pageants and drag races.

Drag queens and Trans people are a way of life, and some of the talented, quirky and elegant individuals I've ever seen

RuPaul is a diva

Black licorice tastes amazing

Epstein didn’t kill himself.

There is a conspiracy. The fact that he was taken off suicide watch, nobody was watching him, and he was given the tools to kill himself was 100% deliberate. That’s the conspiracy.

I think most conspiracies are stupid, people stepping over $20 to pick up a dime. There are background actions driving events that they ignore but instead people look for UFOs, assassinations, or “second shooters” like they’ve got it all figured out.

Rap music is the least aesthetically appealing music genre in general. I simply can't stand rap songs with a lot of swear words in lyrics, supporting street chaos and sex activity in lyrics, fast and high pitched vocals. Just not my style at all.

Are you ready for a super unpopular opinion? No holds barred? You asked for it:

Dogs suck. I don't like them. Glad if you do, please enjoy. But they slobber, shed, smell and are generally mostly a nuisence. They can be fun for brief periods, but they're way more work and hassle than they're worth. My brother is thinking of getting a big dog and I hope he doesn't because it would make me reluctant to spend a weekend at his place. I can't believe the number of people who seriously admit to loving their dogs more than their kids. I can't believe people consider themselves their pet's "parent". I can't believe how forcefully the online community backlashes to the idea of kids or judgemental of "ill-mannered" and neurodiverse kids, yet will happily say "it is never a dog's" fault, no matter how "bad" the dog is.

Cats can sometimes be ok, if they're not noisy and don't shed too much. But generally having animals in the house isn't great at all.

Thank you for your attention. Future Lemmings will look back at my comment history from unrelated threads and judge me for this, even though I've posted in the context of the current thread.

We need to bring back testing to vote. No, not the intentionally obtuse Jim Crow kind. Basic civics knowledge like what year it is, what are the branches of government, etc...

You want unpopular? I'll give you unpopular. No-kill animal shelters are ultimately more harmful to animals than kill shelters.

Instead of euthanizing one violent or chronically ill or old or otherwise unadoptable animal, you spend your limited space and resources keeping it alive while you turn away a dozen perfectly healthy and well-behaved animals who could have been adopted but were instead let loose on the street or were euthanized elsewhere.

Even euthanizing otherwise adoptable animals is a net positive, because there are more companion animals in need of homes than there are homes willing and able to take them in.

As long as it's legal to make your animals make more animals, culling their populations will remain an ecological necessity. Which brings me to unpopular opinion #2: it should be straight up flat out illegal to own a pet that isn't spayed or neutered, no exceptions. I don't care if you think your munchkin cat's fucked up tiny legs are cute. The state should be able to seize your animals and have them fixed with or without your consent.

I enjoy cleaning the gross hair and gunk out from the shower drain, especially after I've moved into a new place. I am easily grossed out, so I find it stomach turning, but it feels so cathartic. The grossness is a part of that, I think. And then you have the immediate satisfaction of things draining much better.

I recently spent a year crashing in a friend's spare room, and I found myself weirdly satisfied that, being a household of 3, the shower drain would need cleaning much more often than when I lived alone. The fact that it's a gross chore that's rarely thought about until it starts getting quite bad means that I liked being able to handle this chore. Who else would be weird enough to enjoy the task, even as they're trying not to puke?

Ah, the natural fate of unpopular opinion communities.

The Þ dude is alright and Lemmy users have an irrational hatred for slightly-special characters. I wonder how many people are using automation to downvote every comment of his that contains a Þ, it's way too consistent accross instances and communities to be entirely organic.

Pineapple on pizza is not only valid but slams.

Fight me.

Human euthanasia should be legalized and normalized, both medically assisted suicide and euthanasia when the person is suffering but unable to make decisions for themselves. If it's an act of mercy to euthanize a pet who is suffering, then we should be able to have the same compassion for our fellow humans.

unpopular opinion: AI can be extremely useful for programming and productivity if you use it in moderation

Whatever just say what you think and eat a couple downvotes every once in a while.

I think nuclear power is good.

America was a terrible hegemony but better than the alternatives, as we'll soon learn.

The Fediverse doesn't need to become wildly popular with billions of users, and if it ever does, that will probably end up ruining it somehow.

There's a sweet spot. Unpopular opinions that get upvoted need to be trivial enough to not make anybody uncomfortable or angry.

Something like "Toilet paper orientation doesn't matter" is far more likely to be upvoted by somebody who disagrees with it than "Everything bad that happens to your children is your fault because you knew it was a possibility and had them anyway".

I feel like deep down we all know this:

The Devil’s fiddle solo in “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was actually better than Johnny’s.

Edit: thanks to these responses I’m gaining a whole new appreciation for the musical and spiritual symbolism in this song.

Watermelon and gravy tastes good together

Here's an unpopular opinion for people to upvote because we're supposed to upvote the opinion we think is unpopular:

Linux sucks more than the users want to admit and it's fans are the worst.

If you have to learn to program stuff to fix something in your OS, then it's not a good OS. This isn't the case for most modern Linux, but there's many examples of just having to learn all sorts of crap just to make it functional. With the other two mainstream OS they are plug and play. Lately they have done shitty choices with AI and everything so that's not as much of the case, but at least there you don't have to go in and fix the code to make something functional.

If Linux was that great, you wouldn't have to do any of that. I find it's a weird parallel to owning a crown vic, where you have to pile sandbags in the back so it'll drive in literally any snow, and then when you talk about it people say it's a skill issue because they are hardcore fans of a dumb cop car. If you have to do something special to make something functional, that's not a feature, that's a bug.

And then, ye gods, the Linux fans. I know of someone who was berated for almost an hour over not using Linux. The person getting yelled at was like, 7. They are the smug Internet atheists of the tech world. They won't shut up about Linux. Their solution to anyone looking up how to fix something with their computer is to uninstall everything and switch to Linux, even if it's unrelated. If someone has a criticism for Linux they have a meltdown. They feel smug and superior in their choice of OS, euphoric and enlightened with their own intelligence.

That being said I'm probably going to switch to Linux anyway. Because fuck the changes windows made.

I think the whole unpopularopinion stuff is stale and a bit unnecessary. Some opinions are unpopular for a reason and don't really deserve a podium.

Anime is 95% shit and is only popular because it's from Japan.

We should try a worldwide intermediary period of 25 years where men would be barred from participating in politics. No mandates, no votes.

How real are we getting?

My unpopular opinion is that French food is pretty mid.

Tobacco use is a character flaw.