Unpopular Opinion
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Vote the opposite of the norm.
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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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This right wing masterbatory bullshit.
Why do you want the US to be 50 Independent countries? So you can win the war against Wokeness?
Haha, no. Quite the opposite. I would love for the west coast states and New England to be unburdened by the mouth breathers in the south. It feels like California and other like minded states could at least move the needle closer to a democratic socialist system without having to drag along the red dead weight.
It's just not true that the south is dead weight.
The mississippi-missouri river system is a vital transport corridor that enables cheaper exports and transport around the country. Breaking that up across multiple countries would make everyone poorer.
Large parts of the US would lose easy access to the gulf, the atlantic or the pacific.
The naturally defensible boundaries of the continent represent a massive advantage that would go away and drive up defense spending for all the nationlets.
All of us benefit from the US being a single country in huge ways.
I’m tired of paying taxes to people who don’t appreciate it, why can’t that money go to the things I actually want? If anything the Trumpites should be happy to be able to continue without the “damn libs”anyway Edit: added quotations around damn libs because I imagine someone could interpret this literally