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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] CheeseBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Pansexual, polysexual, and omnisexual are all microlabels and are all subsets of bisexual. You don't need more labels than gay, straight, and bi.

Edit: I forgot about asexuals. But I specifically only care about bi subsets. They're dumb, and you only need bi

[–] doggle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If we're splitting hairs, bi should be a sunset of pan.

Also, there is some need for a fourth "none of the above" label...

[–] cosmicsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Upvoted, but I have a slight disagreement. I think bisexual should actually be a label under pansexual. Bisexual doesn’t necessarily account for anyone outside the gender binary.

[–] CheeseBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yes it does. Read the bisexual manifesto.

[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And here I thought pansexual meant you really like cookware.

[–] ougi@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Is that really what you thought, or just an attempt at humor? Be honest ;)

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Most conservatives, however deeply red, are not intentionally hateful and are usually open to rational discussion. People just don't know how to have rational discussions nowadays and the few times they do, they don't know how to think like somebody else and put things in a way they can understand.

People nowadays think because a point convinced them, it should convince everybody else and anybody who's not convinced by it is just being willfully ignorant. The truth is we all process things differently and some people need to hear totally different arguments to understand, often put in ways that wouldn't convince you if you heard it.

It's hard to understand other people and I feel like the majority of people have given up trying in favor of assuming everybody who disagrees with you knows their wrong and refuses to admit it.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nuking Japan was in proportion and in service to the United States' legitimate military objectives.

[–] lukzak@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Is this actually an unpopular opinion? For sure horrible like all things in war, but I understand that the alternative was an invasion with a hell of a lot more casualties.

Should the USA have invaded Japan instead?

[–] Parsnip8904@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yes. Unlike ground war, two entire metro full of people were killed and countless more suffered long term damages. Whatever the strategic value, this isn't a decision that I find ethical in any way.

[–] gabbagabbahey@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Cats are shit ass animals