Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I agree. We need every bit of war against fossil fuels, even if we burn with them!
If there's one thing I've come to the hard conclusion of in the last couple months it's this. People don't change shit and will put up with a lot of bullshit until it seriously negatively impacts their quality of life. How does that take shape in capitalism? Everything is fucking expensive. Then things start to change for the better. There is no room for another bailout, the government is bankrupt, it's debt from wall to wall. The change is happening, AI is like crack cocaine for the demise of capitalism.
this is basically accelerationism, and I think it would make a lot more sense if major decisions were mostly made by consumers ... but that's unfortunately not how most decisions are made
you can't ignore the structure and function of power in society - you're just engaging in victim blaming because of your ignorance of how society is actually molded and influenced