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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Maybe not jail, isn't that paid by taxpayer money? Instead I'd force them to deliver on their promises. Like when I was 12 and did a sloppy job on my homework. And my teachers and parents would all help me get my priorities right... I mean if they promise something, maybe introduce some government worker who nags them constantly, stops them from starting new projects/products until the old one is done to an acceptable level, looks them over the shoulder in a very annoying way until they behave... Does long, mandatory talks about consequences...
Government workers are also paid by taxpayer money...
Yeah but in the case the taxpayer dollars would be delivering a service, getting the advertisers to deliver on their promises
I believe that's "the secret" to taxpayer money in general. People want some collective return of investment. If that dollar contributes towards infrastructure, education, service to people, everyone gets something in return, ideally something worth more than the money invested... Locking up people also does something. But it's kinda super expensive and the only thing we get is those people not wandering the streets for some time. So not really any monetary return.