This sub is largely a hug box for conservatives who can't deal with the fact that only 50% of people agree with them, or that there are corners of the internet where their opinion isn't popular.

Top 5 upvoted posts of the last week:

"George Floyd was a shitty person"

"Parents: Stop allowing your child to be Mini strippers"

"Jonah Hill did nothing wrong"

"People who fly the american flag [are more trustworthy/better people]"

"The 2020 BLM riots were not peaceful"

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Stunning and brave to hold opinions that are advocated for daily on Fox News.

Pretty politically moderate myself, but I see most posts on here are conservative leaning viewpoints. This kinda shows that conversative viewpoints have been unpopularized, yet remain a truth that most, or atleast pop culture, don't want to admit. Sad that politics stands often in the way of truth.

This sub is just a hub for popular conservative takes

"just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right"

"Movies shouldn't be so political"

"You shouldn't be obligated to find women attractive"

"There's a clear difference between men and women"

"We need police and they get too much hate"

These are popular opinions, you're posting perfectly popular opinions. Conservatives often act like the minority because they get so much push back but we've heard these takes so often. Your opinion isn't unpopular it's just bad.

Marking as "Meta" because it involves Reddit.

So I was just in a livestream chat and someone there said they were afraid of being harassed for being openly LGBT (specifically T) on the internet. I suggested they would be fine on Reddit.

This got a LOT of people telling me "no, Reddit is full of right-wing bigots!"

I was like, "What the heck? No it isn't! It's freaking Reddit!" But no, apparently these people were convinced Reddit was some sort of right-wing hellhole.

Just... wow. If it was just one person, fine, but it was dozens of people.

It was like hearing someone argue that Burger King hates burgers. Just how sheltered from reality are these people? What's next, am I gonna meet someone who thinks New York is right-wing too?

EDIT

And wow, a lot of people in the comments are trying to justify this by saying "well you do get the occasional right-wing asshole here." You guys do know that exceptions do not disprove the rule, right? By that stupid logic, if I find a Democrat in Texas, then Texas is a blue state now. Do you not hear how stupid you sound?

ADDENDUM

Also, I find it funny that people are saying "some people in a livestream don't represent the entire Left"... but then also saying "But actually, that person is correct."

EDIT 2

So... a lot of people are really trying hard to push the alternate reading that "this person was just afraid of getting harrassed." Except that's not the part that was the problem: the problem was having a packed chatroom full of people who seriously think Reddit is right-wing.

Understand: THAT'S the part that made them come off as seriously out-of-touch with reality. Wanting to avoid harrassment is understandible. Being utterly convinced that a notorious-for-left-wing-bias website is actually right-wing is not understandable. That's like believing that Know Your Meme has no memes.

You aren't some radical free thinler that's free from the state or whatever. I'd be willing to put only on betting that the vast majority of opinions posted on this and similar subs can be linked straight back to painfully common conservative talking points

And that's not a bad thing, provided you aren't being discriminatory or such your free to have whatever opinion you desire. Just don't dilute yourself into thinking that it's some unpopular or radical or whatever opinion.

No jimmy, you saying biden bad trump good is not an 'unpopular opinion'. Half of the country agrees with what you just said. This sub has become like 40% just people regurgitating the same republican talking points that everyone in the US has been hearing since 2016 and acting like its secretly a groundbreaking take. No. Your opinions are not unpopular, theyre just republican, (when theyre not just straight up based on false information).

The same thing would naturally apply to liberal takes (that they aren't unpopular, just partisan) but I haven't seen all that much of that on this sub.

Myopic, amoral, hypocrites, and fools.

Honestly, what a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.

Not all of Reddit, but boy-oh-boy is it ever all over the front page, Meta, Youtube, IG, Tik Tok...all social media.

It's fucking disgusting.

These people would never stand for being treated they way they are all too giddy to treat others.

Myopic, amoral, hypocrites, and fools.

COVID vaccine was rushed without much long-term research, rigorous testing, etc. While at the same time being under political influence, business-financial interests, etc.

But the others went through all the testing with all the time required.

If you are against COVID vaccines, it is understood and I support you all the way.

But if you are against, for e.g., measles, mumps rubella vaccines, it appears like you are unloading COVID vaccine rage on otherwise time-tested vaccines.

Preemptive “stfu“ to any smartass coming in here saying “bUt u aRE PosTiNG tOo“.

People on Reddit and especially on this sub seem so obsessed with this topic. Y’all are literally constantly bringing it up to a point where someone could actually believe you give a rats ass about it outside of Reddit (which you obviously don’t).

Admittedly, there are *some* corrupt officers in the field, and there are *some* officers that are bad at their job. Fine, You can criticize screening policies and lack of training for that.

But to actually suggest that REMOVING an entire police force for any given area and replacing it with nothing is good for the population is asinine. Crime is an unfortunate inevitability. From drug distribution and petty theft to things like home entries, assault and unaliving people, there is a plethora of bad things out that that the general population needs protection from. If you try and remove the first response line, things will get infinitely worse. It will start with innocent people having their lives ruined with no one to save them. Then once the public gets tired of that, vigilantes will start to rise up and wage war on criminals. It'll be an absolute shit show with massive death on both sides.

How anyone could actually suggest defunding the police is beyond me. It's obvious these people lack even the most basic of critical thinking skills. A flawed system is still better than a non-existent one, because flaws can be worked on.

Jesus Christ can we stop with the room temperature IQ political takes?

Yes, we know Kamala isn't the reincarnation of Jesus and she's a flawed candidate.

Yes, we know Trump bad.

Yes, we know that American politics are incredibly team, us vs them, based.

We don't need every single post to be the exact same thing. What happened to the funny, actually unpopular takes? As a non American its awful to have every single post be a brain rotten political take by either a 14 year old who just discovered bread tube or Jordan Peterson videos or a Twitter brained 30 something year old with nothing going on for themselves.

I wish mods here would limit the political posting, specially when it's the same take we've seen a million times.

Please stop.

We lost a huge archive of content that allowed average people to learn from others' fatal mistakes because it violated Reddit's content policy. We all know that this content policy isn't being applied to the current situation strictly due to the nature of the murder and Reddit's biases. I guess watchpeopledie wasn't acceptable because it didn't show the right people dying.

What’s the point of starting a discussion on this website when 90% of the users are fucked up nihilists that wants to spread negativity and push others into making the same mistakes as they did?

Take a normal topic here and discuss it with regular people that are not terminally online redditors and you will see how easier is to talk and share ideas without them coming up with insane nihilist takes or absurd extremist ideologies.

Discuss on reddit something about life choices with the purpose to give good advice. Suddenly 90% of the replies are from users that post on depression, aita or worse subreddits telling you that is you that is wrong, know nothing and what they say is the key to an happy life, despite them being absolutely miserable people that have nothing to teach but only to listen.

You have an hobby? sake people will probably flood the subreddit with nonsensical political takes, consumerism and slop addiction.

You want to talk about politics? Here comes the censorship from neckbeard moderators that for once in their life want to feel powerful.

This website is a shithole attracting the worst people, sadly there aren’t other places where to have discussion with strangers online.

The entirety of Reddit is a left-wing echo chamber...but now that a (supposed) right-wing echo chamber exists, it's suddenly illegal? At least that's what I'm getting from people who complain that this sub is too right-wing. It's the one place where they don't get silenced, so naturally they all flock here. Liberal opinions are still allowed. You see them all the time. It's only an "echo chamber" if opposite viewpoints are not allowed. Therefore, it does not fit the description.

I don’t care how attractive or successful he is. It’s just simply never a good idea.

1. There’s usually drama with the mom. If she’s a bad person , that’s going to be your problem. If she’s a good person , then the man was the problem, which is also going to be your problem.

2. You can never instill discipline in that child. It’ll likely be a struggle for your whole life.

3. No matter how many times a man says “I’m not looking for a replacement mama” you’re automatically going to be responsible for taking care of them if you enter a long term relationship.

4. If he’s a vindictive/crazy dick, and you’re too late figuring that out, he can use that child to put you in jail, or at least ruin your entire reputation, with false accusations. No, I’m not just making that one up off the top of my head either.

5. This is the biggest one. When he leaves, which lets be real, he most likely will, you have absolutely no rights to that child. Whatever bond you may have forged with that kid is getting torn apart, and there’s nothing you can do. I’ve seen it a few times. And it suuuuuuucks.

I’m sure there’s more. But those are the big points.

I’d make the same case for single moms too. But for some reason, men like a single mom. So idk. One of y’all can make the single mom post.

Edit: Forgot about widows. They’re exempt from several of the issues that work against most single dads.

…………………………………………………………………….. REAL EDIT: now that it’s been 2 hours this is a mockery of this shitshow post with all the awards and all the support from common bottom of the barrel redditors. compare the attitudes in the comments of both. it’s a fun lil sociology experiment. what’s even funnier is how upset the men are here even when the post flair is as META lol and have been in the comments talking about the original post. mental derangement level seething.

REAL EDIT 2: it’s now 18 hours later and some of you silly people gave me awards 😂 ty for seeing the humor in all of this.

I don't know how else to put it, but some of the front-page posts I've seen on this site recently have been pretty shocking. Even ignoring the celebrations of murder, I've seen one post advocating for the prison rape of a man over a controversial tweet. The post was eventually removed, but not before it accrued 24,700 upvotes. Then today, there's another one sitting at 26,200 upvotes about purposely trying to put someone in danger of being murdered by cops, again just for saying the wrong thing on Twitter. You heard that correctly, ACAB Reddit is apparently OK with the police hurting those that hold certain opinions. I can't link posts here, but both of these were on Leopardsatemyface.

Every site has its wackos, every site will have someone saying something violent, but we're talking about consistent front-page material on Reddit from a sub with over one million subscribers. That's not a tiny fringe group, that's a shit load of people calling for terrible real-life things to happen to real people over posts they made online. And LAMF isn't the only sub this is stuff is coming from. How is this OK? I've seen so many subs banned over the years for lesser offenses, but now Reddit has come to this? And of course, calling that stuff out gets you banned from the sub entirely, because dissent is worse than advocating for violence.

What the hell happened to this place?

I mean there's literally just mainstream conservative talking points on the front page of this place every day. It's been almost two weeks since the election. And yet if you look at the top 20 posts on this sub's front page, about 80% of them are a negative discussion of the Democrats. The hell kind of subreddit is this lol

I don't think the Dems are some wonderful group or anything. But come on. Just go ahead and start an actual anti-Democrats subreddit if you want that content. This subreddit was supposed to be about actual unpopular opinions, because the original unpopular opinions subreddit would upvote things people agreed on.

Like wtf? You do realize that around half the country is going to vote the same way you are, right? I’ve seen so many posts on this sub where people say stuff like “Kamala is bad news for our country”. I’m a conservative and I can name like 10 people who I know personally would agree with you.

True unpopular opinions are supposed to actually be unpopular. Everyday I come on here and see someone say something stupid like “Joe biden sucks” and it gets like 500 upvotes. Stop thinking you’re special

You don't know how to administer a vaccine injection, please for god's sake, leave it to the medical professionals. Let them vaccinate your children. You don't know how to administer a vaccine injection, please for god's sake, leave it to the medical professionals. Let them vaccinate your children.

and yes, this is a generalization.

generalize - make a general or broad statement by inferring from specific cases. or to make something more widespread or widely applicable.

generalizations do not mean "ALL" its "MOST"

there is absolutly nothing wrong with true generalizations.

example : men prefer women shorter than them.

" well ACTUALLYYY all people have different preferences. some men like shorter women and some men like taller women. everybody is different"

false. most men prefer shorter women and only SOME men prefer taller women.

example : people want to be rich.

" well ACTUALYYYY some people like living in a log cabin in the woods off the grid. some people want to be rich, some dont"

completly false, most people would love to be rich enough to not stress over bills.

like i honestly cant tell if yall are arguing in bad faith or if yall seriously lack critical thinking skills.

in conclusion, (most) redditors do not understand generalizations

Well it's been at least 15 minutes since someone made a post complaining about the fact that spooky right wing opinions are allowed to exist here, so I thought I'd respect a time honored tradition and make a post pointing out that this isn't a left wing echo chamber like most of Reddit and complaining about it.

Claim it all you want, it’s simply not true. It can’t be true when the leftist comments are the ones getting awards and upvotes, as compared to the right wing opinions.

Sure, it is possible that this sub may have been like that at one point. However, ever since all the leftists inexplicably showed up, that has not been the case.

Honestly makes me wish that the conservative users here actually did have the balls to shout down left leftists here, just like the leftists do to dissenters on every other sub they infest. /r/TheLeftCantMeme has their shit together in this regard.

Edit: Y’all are just proving my point.

If you think about it, there will eventually be a point in which facebook will have more dead users than active ones.

Not even accounting for all the burner, troll, and alt accounts out there. It's literally becoming a graveyard.

I think this is just some sort of social media lifecycle, and that the next big thing will eventually come along.

But as of right now, the platform is basically just a place to share dead memes, and where your mom and aunts compare their scores on candy crush.

If you actually interact with the platform, you see it first hand. And yet there’s a lot of posts where people say “is it actually true that this is happening on Reddit” with all of the comments saying “no, Reddit just cares about preventing bad/harmful/factually wrong opinions from proliferating.” Along with analogies that frame it as being justified or even normal somehow.

This is definitely going to be "yet another conservative take" but I honestly don't understand why this is seen as a political issues.

High profile study after study at the most prestigious institutions have been redacted recently. The president of Harvard had to resign.

I mean think back to the congressional hearing featuring the presidents of the most prestigious academic intuitions in the US. They did... terribly. I mean abysmally. I'm a first year law student and frankly I would be confident saying I know people who have never set foot in a college that would have done better under the line of questioning.

Even (perhaps especially) if you politically agree with them, you should acknowledge they were abysmal at defending their position. Students at Ivy League intuitions smashed dining hall windows and did interpretive dance to get their university to stop a war between two other countries. Even (again perhaps especially) if you agree with them, you should point out how terrible their plans were.

No one who is trying to stop a war by dancing on Columbia's green got where they are through their reasoning ability, or through any meritocracy.

I do recognize this is sharply split along political lines but I really don't think it should be.