Unpopular Opinion
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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:
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- 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.
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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.
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"The problem is that it's legal to offer such shitty prescription plans and that insurance is based on employment. So maybe the government is liable if I can't afford prescriptions."
That happened because corporations lobbied to keep the standards for insurance that low. Our government is really only as liable as a zombie can be, because that's what it is, fully captured and continuously bribed legally (thanks citizens united) to legislate for shareholder's GREED against your NEEDS.
In practice, this is a plutocracy.
Absolutely agreed, but I'm not going to give our elected representatives a free pass just because they were bought out.
That's competely fair, and I agree, but that's also going after the manager of the accounting department at Meta instead of Zuckerberg. He does the dirty work, but he's just a cog, not the one behind the controls.
Im just talking about efficacy and going after the source. If you manage to shame someone out of office, 8 more will vye to get the golden seat that gets all that sweet sweet bribe money they got into politics for because that's how deeply the American greed disease has rotted us.
Sorry, Im not a little ray of sunshine today apologies if I'm bringing you down.
Oh no, I'm with you. Our government has long since been captured by business interests, to the detriment of almost all of the rest of us.
It was that way before, now it’s just anchored in, ftm.