What are you most controversial opinions
Offline I am in the mood to vent. I have opinions that I can't talk openly about at work and in my conservative area, would get beat up for discussing since this is a place where advocating using nuclear weapons against Mecca is not all the controversial.
- As an atheist and a bright, simply admitting that I do not believe in god is deeply offensive to some people, particularly ones whose religious beliefs indicate that everyone should be converted to their religion. The planet as a whole would be better off without religion, especially Islam and Christianity.
- I am a white person and I agree whole-heartly with Kanye West when he said George Bush doesn't care about Black people and all the things he said leading up to that. For five days George Bush did absolutely nothing to help the victims of Katrina, he remained on vacation, even going out to play guitar with some celebrity for a photo op. After the city went to total chaos he ordered the national guard to shoot those looters, meanwhile white families caught up in the disaster were said to be "finding" supplies. We know George Bush doesn't care about black people because we he finally got off his ass to do something, he CONGRATULATED the man responsible for hundreds of dead and dying people in New Orleans as doing a "heck of a job."
- George Bush stole the election by illegally disenfranchising black voters with a list of "felons" that had an absurd number of false positives because the criteria for being on the list was being the same race, and having the same name as a felon. Only we can't talk about this because bringing up this historical fact labels us conspiracy theorists despite being well documented.
-There are dozens of crimes committed by the Bush administration that should warrant impeachment and all of them alone are far worse than cheating on your wife with a fat Jewish intern in the oval office. Republicans are massive hypocrites and Democrats are tiny cowards for not impeaching this fuck head. Bush's overwhelming incompetence is proof that 9-11 was not planned by him or anyone working for him since the towers actually fell.
-George Bush is a liar. His administration lied about weapons of mass destruction. They went by intelligence that they knew was false because they had been wanting to conquer Iraq and its oil for years. Even now the future oil revenue is being divided up amongst the oil corporations and is going to be used not for the benefit of Iraqis but for the benefit of George Bush's friends.
-Our use of depleted uranium is a war crime and I hold the pentagon responsible for every birth defect that happens in Iraq. Someone needs to give shaking the evil out of the pentagon another try.
-Hilary Clinton and other democrats were not deceived by Bush, they voted for the war knowing he was full of shit but were to cowardly to call Bush out on his lies, which is pretty much the same reason they voted for the patriot act.
-Crack Cocaine was intentionally let into this country by the CIA under Regan because we had alliances to maintain with right wing drug lords. The fact that it devastated the black community was convenient source of revenue and labor for the increasingly privatized prisons that tend to support the right wing
-Reagan was a miserable excuse for a president and it is a pity that he didn't spend his last days homeless and alone like the thousands of mentally ill people he threw out on the street to build more bombs, or die penniless and broken like the black single mothers he vilified, or die in a blazing inferno or from chemical burns that would cover 100% of his body like the children of Iran killed by weapons he supplied to Iraq.
-The longest running failure of policy is the war on (some) drugs but no one, once elected, has the courage to admit the nakedness of the king and do something to stop it. DEA agents and the police in general have become increasingly militarized because kicking down doors like jack booted fascists is pretty much the only way to enforce drug laws. The war on drugs had racists motivations as an excuse to lock up Mexicans and Asians, served as a useful tool to lock up young critics of the Vietnam war who had also expanded their minds by experimenting with altering the consciousness, and continues to be used as a weapon against minorities. Blacks account for 15% of the users of pot and about 80% of arrests, and the children of the wealthy are given far more lenient sentences in the criminal justice system.
-Sodomy and Fornication are healthy natural and normal and it is ludicrous to think that we can stop teen pregnancy by teaching only abstanence. We also should teach tolerance of homosexuality and sex ed should cover issues relevant to gay sex.
- I do not pledge allegiance to the flag, the united states, or the god it is under.
Probably besides atheism my far-left socialist views. I basically feel Capitalism is one of the worst ideas of all time and money needs to be redistributed from the top down. I agree Reagan was a terrible president (though comparing him to GWB would be like comparing getting a plunger handle shoved up your ass to getting a running chainsaw shoved up your ass.)
Science works whether you believe in it or not.
I think that most likely the creatures collectively referred to as Bigfoot are in all actuality real. No 100% mind you. However, the evidence is convincing if you really research it. However most crypto animals by far are complete bunk.
Science. It works, bitches.
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
Douglas Adams
Preach it, brother!**
My controversial opinions:
- I agree with virtually everything you've posted, so that shortens my list considerably.
- I am pro-abortion. I'm not just pro-choice. I believe abortion should be encouraged, particularly to underprivileged teens. I think the government ought to pay for anyone below the poverty line to get an abortion. I think people should only have a child when they are financially and emotionally prepared, which is virtually never. To that end, I think abortion is awesome. I love it.
- I believe children should not be sheltered. They should see Janet's boob. (Well, maybe that's a bad example, but you get the point.) They should see human sexuality as a natural part of being human. I don't think we need X-rated tv during daytime or primetime hours, but I've never met a person who was scarred by seeing healthy sexuality, or even healthy sex. (I think people are scarred by their religious reaction to it, but that's different. Seeing it didn't scar them. Their indoctrination scarred them.)
- Speaking of abortion, I believe that humans have already killed themselves as a species, and we're going to take every other major species with us when we go. There will be a mass extinction event soon (in geological time). We will not decrease our birth rates, and our lifespans will stay long. We will not reduce consumption, nor will we construct ecologically sound food production industries. We will fish the ocean until there's nothing but jellyfish left.
- Speaking of extinction, global warming is real. It will kill us. We won't do anything to stop it.
- Speaking of mass extinction, I think it's next to criminal to have more than two children.
- Speaking of mass extinction, I think it's criminal to go to extraordinary lengths to keep babies alive when their bodies are trying really hard to die. Natural selection, bitches. It's fucking selfish to keep a deformed or sick baby alive just so you don't have to cry for a few weeks because your baby died.
- Marriage should be avoided until you decide to have a child, or are getting old enough to think about passing on your things. People should have several relationships, and getting married too young is just asking for unhappiness. Expecting a single relationship to last through your 20s, 30s, and 40s, is naive. If it happens, great for you, but most people are not so lucky. When a relationship sucks, you should leave. You should always practice birth control so that you can leave if you need to.
- Speaking of divorce, the science is clear. Staying together "for the sake of the children" is bullshit. Children are better off in a household where both parents like each other. When money is not a factor, children from single parent families are just as well adjusted as those from two parent families. If you don't want to raise a child by yourself, wait until you're at least 30 to have a child. Marriages tend to last a lot longer when both people are above 30.
- Everyone in America is fucking fat. I am so fucking tired of muffin tops. I am turned off by big asses. I don't like huge saggy boobs. America is fucking fat because the food industry wants us fat, and they keep marketing low-nutrition, high fat foods, especially to children and poor people. Children need to be outside playing. Video games and potato chips are making us fat. The boogie man is not going to abduct your child. Make them play outside.
- The pharmaceutical company is nearly a criminal organization. Their goal is not to make us well, but to keep us sick. Fuck "Restless Leg Syndrome." When there are ads for a psoriasis medicine that has "melanoma" listed as a potential side effect, it's time to reevaluate the industry.
- Alcoholism is not a problem. People have problems and become alcoholics. The legal drinking age should be 18, not 21. Parents, if they were smart, would go have a beer with their children on their 21st birthday.
That's all I can think of at the moment. Gee. I feel much better now. That was a good rant.
** In this context, I mean "brother" in the racial context, with all of its implications of Southern Black churches, Hammond B-3 organs, and potlucks with fried chicken. I'm white, and I love fried chicken. How's that for controversy?
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Let's see.
1. I love capitalism.
2. I'm annoyed when people think I should be impressed that they have a kid.
3. I'm disenchanted with democracy as a system to put the best people in charge of things. I'm reminded of this when I see a top 40 list and see what our voting populace considers good enough music to buy. (and that politicians just win by catering to this bullshit-loving crowd)
Teaching people to blindly think for themselves.
I got in real trouble at a party once when I shrugged and said, "Congratulations. Your dick works."
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Speaking of which, I'm annoyed when people expect special treatment because their genitals work. I'm not a parent. I don't particularly like kids, and no, I don't think your kid is the smartest and most charming thing in the universe. When I throw parties, they're for grown ups. I'm sorry if you can't afford a baby sitter. I can afford to throw the party because I didn't spend ten thousand dollars on diapers. We all make our choices. I'm glad you are happy with yours. I'm happy with mine.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Also to go with what you said earlier.. Marriage could probably just be avoided altogether, and if nothing else wait 'til you're at least 28 so you have plenty of time to figure things out first. I don't see why most people wouldn't just want to have the long term relationship, the family, etc. without the piece of legal paper giving away half your shit to your partner. (over-simplifying of course)
Teaching people to blindly think for themselves.
At the moment the only thing I can think of is agreeing with Hamby's. I don't like kids, and I cannot understand why people insist on having them. We have enough people in the world right now thanks, and there's more than enough orphans for you to adopt. If you can't care for a child just because it doesn't have your genetic material, you'd probably suck as a parent anyway.
Same with marriage. Getting married and popping out a kid sounds great right? Every little girl's dream. Except 10- 20 years later you will more likely than not get a divorce. Said kid's life is about to get pretty screwed up. If you're determined to get married, have some sort of plan.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.- Mindcore
Most controversial?
hmm...
LIFE IS NOT SACRED!!!1!
(pretty much everything stems from that ^_^ )
"You are like a delightful random cruelty generator, master, poisoning all you touch. You are a testament to all organic meatbags everywhere." HK-47
I think what's got me on this little kick at the moment is a RL situation. My GF and I are throwing a party this weekend, and on the myspace announcement, it said something like, "Parents, please try to find a babysitter, as this is a grown up party." Well, one set of uberparents got their panties in a twist about that, as if we're obliged, by virtue of having them as friends, to only throw kid-friendly parties. Don't get me wrong about them -- if anybody is a good set of parents, it's probably them -- but they are definitely caught up in this kind of "I'm a parent. Kiss my ass," thing. These are the people who will show you pictures of the woman's swollen vagina ten minutes after giving birth, as if this is in any way interesting to anyone.
What irks me is when people think it will strengthen their marriage. Shows what they know. There's nothing to drive a man to his secretary like a haggard and tired wife who lost interest in sex after the baby was born, and nothing to drive a woman to resentment like a man who has to work extra hours to pay for all the disposable diapers.
Oh, and speaking of disposable diapers, do you know how long it takes those damn things to degrade? Do you have any clue how much of our landfills is diapers? I'm pretty sure we could build a tower to the moon with dirty diapers.
I'm all for a woman's right to choose whatever career she wants, but the only responsible thing to do with a baby is put cloth diapers on it and hold it enough so that you know when it's got to take a shit. Not only will you save tons of money, but you'll have a healthy child because it will have actually received enough human contact in infancy, instead of always being in a stroller or playpen.
Babies are meant to be held, people. If you don't have time to hold your baby all day, you don't have time for a baby.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
At least after 12 years, they'll have a teenager to fight with instead of each other.
You know, I had cloth/towel nappies as a child and I didn't turn out horribly deformed or anything. And how damn expensive are those things! It's over R100 for a medium-ish sized package. Babies are little money black holes, and middle class people want two? The world really doesn't need them, so kick back and enjoy your money and adult life. Don't worry, there's plenty of other people who will have them.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Life is good, and people who believe in afterlife fail to understand this.- Mindcore
- Presidential candidates should have to submit to a series of televised debates that are completely unscripted and where journalists and constituents can ask them any questions they want. No more hiding behind pre-prepared, questions speeches and scripts. - "No, Mr. Bush, Michelle Bachelet is the President of Chile not some chick you tried to bone while drunk at Yale"
- Anyone under the age of 25 who gets pregnant should be required to take parenting classes (and this includes daddy).
- Ronald Reagan should be remembered as the guy who thought he had experienced combat in WWII until someone reminded him that he was recalling a movie he was in, rather than a great leader.
- Faith healers should have to submit to Randi's challenge (or other reasonable testing process) and when found to be fraudulent, should go to prison like any other common criminal.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
YES!
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
Yes too you all.
Sue the Pope, all evangelists, the FCC, the White House, the FRB, the mega corps, the military, ..... ummm, this list will get quite long .....
I agree with everything that has been said except the capitalism thing. I think there has to be some kind of balance between capitalism and socializing essential needs for a given society. Rampant, unregulated capitalism that increasingly distributes a greater portion of wealth into the hands of a minority with greater access to power because of their financial capital is ultimately an unsustainable system just like communism, it just seems to take longer for the true colors and deleterious effects of the system to emerge.
As for parenting, I remember a few people in high school having kids and thinking that there ought to be mandatory classes on raising children along with extensive sex education to prevent unwanted children. Children and teens should know the options available to young people about how to terminate a pregnancy if so desired, without getting forced by their parents into having a child they didn't want.
The government should not subsidize and tacitly support the Faith Based Initiatives. It is a clear violation of the separation of church and state and really pisses me off.
I'm sure there is more, but thats all I got now.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
I've a couple that get me dirty looks:
Eight years working in juvenile behavior management have really pressed those home for me.
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." --Emo Philips
- No one is as smart as they think they are. This goes double for anyone who reads that statement and goes "yeah, but at least I'm smarter than (FILL IN BLANK)". Yes, even you.
- Americans are fucking pansies. Bill Maher said it best: "We used to win to feel good; now we feel good to win." If the US is ever going to get back on its feet and be the world leader it still thinks it is, this must change.
- A corporation, if it is entitled to many of the same rights as a person, should be subject to the same penalties. If your company kills someone, everyone actively involved should go to jail for manslaughter. Being one of many killers does not in any way absolve you of the guilt of their death; guilt is a state, not an amount to be apportioned.
- I agree with Simone Weil: the idea of rights is inherently destructive. The concept of rights needs to be replaced with one of obligations.
- Catholicism is a total mindfuck, expressly designed to keep its adherents so mentally off-balance they have no time to realize the insanity of the institution and just accept whatever is told to them in a calm, strong voice (even if that voice goes on to contradict itself). People who have taken a vow of poverty should not control the largest land owner in the world. Pre-marriage and sex ed classes should not be taught by anyone who has ever even considered taking a vow of celibacy. People who have taken a vow of celibacy should not expect temporal or everlasting forgiveness after raping a child (actually, that goes for anyone). It's like the whole organization is built on irony and contradiction, and that this is a "mystery" to be "pondered". A virgin mother? "Dr Freud; paging Dr Freud."
- Stop trying to make me not responsible for things. If I fucked up, don't tell me it's because I have Rectocranial Dysplasia Syndrome or because I wasn't breast-fed enough (or too much); it's because I misjudged and/or made bad decisions.
- Adults should not be treated like children, and children should not be treated like adults.
- Childhood is not something to be extended; it is a stage of life, not an ideal. A parent's job is to raise a functional adult who isn't an asshole. Anything more is gravy, anything less is criminal.
- The drinking age is too high and the driving age is too low. If you are legally allowed to sign contracts or get conscripted, you should be able to have a beer to celebrate your mortgage slavery or not getting you nuts blown off by shrapnel. Maybe we wouldn't have such a DUI problem if we addressed people's behaviours as bad instead of a substance as bad.
- Guns and drugs are not evil, but people who use them can be.
(edited; putting articles into sentences increases readability!)
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maybe if this sig is witty, someone will love me.
Wiser words have never been spoken.
While we're on the subject of DUIs and responsibility.
- The way they bust underage drinking is ass backwards and creates an adversarial relationship between bars and the cops. It's a money trap, not an attempt to make anyone's life better. If they really want to stop underage drinking, they should stop trying to entrap bars by sending underage agents into bars. If they would penalize the people who commit the crime, I would give the cops a comfy chair, buy them donuts, and get them refills on their coffee. They can sit outside of my bar and ID everyone who comes out, for all I care. If you're found with an underage or fake license, YOU are the one who is trying to commit a crime, not the bartender who's trying to keep track of a hundred people at once.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
1.We should put every one's social security number in a huge bin and randomly pick out a couple hundred thousand SSNs (every month until the population is more stable than every 4 years or so), and whoever is assigned to those numbers should be killed. If it is ok to kill animals becuase they are overpopulating an area it should be ok to kill humans for the same reason.
2.We should also bring back the Ancient Spartan tradition of discarding babies who are deformed.
3.The UFC should return to its roots of having no weight classes and no rules.
4.If prison inmates show no sign of improvement in psychological states after 3-4 years they should be killed. It does us no good to keep non-functional humans alive.
5.We should figure out a way to power cars off of dead babies as well as full adult corpses (being that on my system there will be alot of these)
6.If you are going to call a show Survivor, the winner SHOULD be the one who didn't die, not the one who was not voted off. Thats not surviving. Thats the Prom. Furthermore, you should have the contestants try to hunt each other as opposed to working together and forming a community. It would be more entertaining due to there being a higher sense of urgency.
7.All Brocoli should be destroyed as wella s brussel Sprouts.
8.Mcg, and similar directors who manage to ruin fun ideas like three secret agent chicks who kick ass, should be burned at the stake without quesiton or hesitation. If you happen to like CHarlie's Angels: Full Throttle, seek help immediatly and if you don;t change your mind in 3-4 years see 4.
9. Wars should be ritualized since fighting for noble causes or for no cause whatsoever only results in utter complete chaos and mayhem and extremely sore losers i.e. Hitler. Also, it will help control the population.
10. Everyone involved with American Idol should be hung and this event should be seen all over the world by people who call in to bet on how long it will take each individual to keel off from suffocation.
" Why does God always got such wacky shit to say? . . . When was the last time you heard somebody say 'look God told me to get a muffin and a cup tea and cool out man'?" - Dov Davidoff
Now that's controversial.
Anyway, I forgot another one of my kid-rants.
- I hate when parents use the whole, "You don't have children, so you are unqualified to talk about anything to do with having children." We don't ask psychologists to do drugs before treating drug addicts, do we? That's because we've got big brains, and we can understand abstract concepts even though we haven't experienced the events behind them. I am qualified to talk about it because I study human nature, via evolution, biology, psychology, and sociology. I know all about cognitive development and socialization, and oddly enough, I've been a child with parents. I know all about childhood. I hate it when people use their parenthood to discount what other people say just because they don't like it. It's just like "Unless you believe in Jesus, you can't understand why you ought to believe in Jesus."
Oh, and my vegan rant...
- Veganism is stupid. It's unhealthy. The reason humans have society at all is that our brains got big because we hunted meat to give to our women so they would have sex with us. You don't have to like it, but it's true. Our entire society formed as a result of hunting meat. We are omnivores. It's very telling that there is not a single natural ecosystem in the world where a vegan diet is possible from indigenous plants. Veganism is only possible in a global economy. If you're a vegan and a neo-primitivist, you're exceptionally stupid.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
I have to object to number 3 on principal
3.The UFC should return to its roots of having no weight classes and no rules.
The UFC is much better than it was in the beginning. The rules are there to gain sanctioning by state athletic commissions as a sport that is averse to serious injuries by and to its competitors. The weight classes create more champions(ie more exciting contender/championship fights), make fighters pick a niche of what size they want to stay at, and if they so wish, can move up and down to win more more belts(breeds more competition).
However, instituting an underground league of gladiatorial deathmatches that don't have to be sanctioned by state athletic commissions could be a fair compromise to this rule.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
High-Fucking-Five! *clears throat* Allow me to expand. Another spectrum which my esteemed colleague did not get into are the other aspects for our species and it's immediate antecedents engaging in the activity of eating meat.
The human brain makes up only 2% of our bodies. However it uses 20% of our calorie intake. This is an ENORMOUS drain on our available energy that we receive from our diet is and one of many reasons why animals of our level of intelligence are so rare compared to other species.
To speak plainly, having a large brain is a very tough sell in evolution. There must be a VERY good reason to do so. And no...it doesn't really look like we need big brains to obtain and eat meat. That currently seems a little ass backwards. Our brains grew large due to social interaction within our group. Pretty much...I hate to say it...the drama...we had to understand the drama. Who was friends with who, who fucked who over in some situation, etc. Humans are the inventors of drama. Shit sucks, eh?
Anyway, as our brains slowly became larger to figure out what the fuck was going on within our little groups we started trying our best to exploit our environment for any available food source. At first this was probably just chewing a few tendons of the lion's or other predator's leftovers. After a while Homo Habilis appears to have started making Oldawan pebble tools to crack open scavenged bones for the bone marrow. Excellant food source.
After another million years or so came Homo Erectus with the Acheulean biface tools that are so impressive at that time. The "swiss army knife of the Paleolithic". Could have been used to hastily hack off limbs of prey or dig for tubers or whatever else.
So now, sitting where we are after millions of years of eating meat, and only having our extremely inefficient brains (calorie wise) achieving so many amazing and horrific things, some smug people want to say that eating meat is wrong. Well shit. Guess you should have been born a fucking rabbit.
However you are a Homo Sapiens with millions of years of a family tradition of eating meat. It's part of your nature and evolutionary direction. Eat it or get out of the species. Otherwise you come off to me as some holier-than-thou, elitist prick.
Meat. Its what's for dinner.
Disclaimer: All information is to be taken as basically correct on current information and theories concerning human evolution and are subject to change at any time with future discoveries.
Science. It works, bitches.
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
Douglas Adams
I'm pretty libertarian except I don't believe people should be able to own nature. We should only be able to own things man- made and not own land, oil, minerals, forests, oceans, etc... Use of natural resources should be the only form of tax. Income and sales taxes are wrong. People should only get rich through work and investment and not exploitation of earth's natural resources.
The only socialism/welfare is support is education. I think the poor should have a way out of poverty through educational opportunities but no other welfare. All other government services should be a pay as you go system.
Stop global whining.