This would be one of the best unpopular opinions posts Lemmy has had yet … if you had provided any reasons. Without reasons it’s just meh though.

Just got one–a good, wide-brim, adjustable bucket hat. Shade during the sun, solid protection from the rain, comfortable, and not too difficult to make look decent, if not stylish.

Don’t get me wrong, education, housing, health care etc have all been pretty important too, but hat wins.

You did get me a little riled up a few posts ago. The switch to rationality vs irrationality was a good one. lol

You seem to have a proclivity for making sweeping generalizations and overarching statements. You’re not actually the God-King of the Universe, though, fyi. Regardless, I apologize for not meeting your standards for explaining my own anecdotal experiences.

Feb 29th. I’m 7 now.

j/k

I’m sorry, but if you want me to remain what you’d define as civil, you’re going to need to be reasonable, not ridiculous. You haven’t answered my question. Where does this belief all things are sourceable come from?

No, that’s a frankly absurd request. What is or is not “good” is not something sourceable, it’s an entirely subjective question. What makes you think everything has some definitive source?

Not if I’m recounting a personal experience, no. Humans are not purely rational creatures, otherwise laissez faire capitalism would solve all the world’s problems.

If I wished to be purely rational, then perhaps. But personally I do not think all feelings are worth disregarding.

If done poorly it very much is. But practice makes you better at it.

It depends too much on way too many factors. Generally I’ll be almost as polite as they’re being.

Convos usually involve turn-taking though, so once you’ve provided evidence or a sound argument, you should not be forced to do it again. It should be their turn to assert something, and then possibly have to provide whatever.

Just don’t let the opportunity pass to treat them exactly, or potentially slightly worse, depending, than they’re treating you. Don’t stay on defense, assert, ask questions, directly contradict, whatever is needful.

Don’t let them dictate the convo. You can assert control as well, don’t let them lead uncontested.

Just call it out and redirect back to the topic. It’s like training a dog.

Just an anecdotal account. I was expressing my own experiences and how they make me feel, for which it would be challenging and largely unnecessary to provide evidence to a random dumbass on the internet, yes?

/not s, an example

It’s a clever method of trolling. But if you come prepared and/or are willing to put some effort in, you actually can wreck them with evidence and sound arguments that shuts them completely up.

This is very satisfying.

Don’t feed the low-effort trolls folks. At least make them put a shred of effort in.

It’s really just not a very good unpopular opinion post. It’s literally the mainstream position of one of our two main political parties.

Which makes it a fairly meh troll post.

That’s what the U part of UBI is for. Otherwise you just have a BI.

Military occupations of active warzones are their own thing. Not everything bad has to be a fascist state.

So far lacks the authoritarian power structure, which is a pretty key trait of fascist regimes.

Very little in its current form, I think mainly just IP address.