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cmv: Why Pizza is Overrated and Tacos are the Superior Food | {'id': 'lt47fi4', 'text': "Thank you very much, I'll take that delta good sir. You need to actually comment with a delta to my comment, you can find one to copy paste in the sidebar.\n\nAnd I agree, it is best to stop and ask whether we ought, even if we know that we can. Blurring dessert and pizza is perhaps a step be... | {'id': 'lt41n1g', 'text': 'No, it’s a soft taco. Fajita filling is different. Tacos are typically hot meat with cold toppings. Fajitas are grilled meat and veggies.', 'author': 'H1Ed1', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1729564182} | 1g96h3f | cmv: Why Pizza is Overrated and Tacos are the Superior Food | Hey everyone,
I’ve been thinking about the food we all claim to love, and I have to say—pizza is seriously overrated. It’s just a cheesy bread circle!
Tacos, on the other hand, are the true culinary MVPs. They’re versatile, portable, and you can customize them however you like. Who wants to eat something that require... | 1,729,560,378 | Fabulous-Ad-2458 | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: You should never donate to animal charities when human charities exist | {'id': 'luqyd8i', 'text': "Yes and yes. Obviously I don't love them more than my immediate family but I prefer animals overall to human beings.", 'author': 'Revanchistexile', 'score': 7, 'timestamp': 1730404273} | {'id': 'luqv5jo', 'text': 'Does someone giving to the ASPCA make it somehow more likely that there will be a meteor strike or nuclear war?', 'author': 'peachesgp', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730403254} | 1ggmmld | CMV: You should never donate to animal charities when human charities exist | I'm by no means claiming that animals aren't important, but whenever I see charity events for aquariums and the like I can't help but feel like it's such a waste of money.
Human lives could be saved with the hundreds of millions of dollars that go into saving the lives of animals. I agree that it sucks that various ec... | 1,730,402,378 | thesuperssss | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: In terms of execution, the Jan 6th Riot is a better form of protest than most. | {'id': 'lv4x7lv', 'text': "That's possible, but it's also possible that if Trump loses the election because of it that's a larger blow than any ground they got culturally by almost accidentally attempting a really sloppy insurrection.\n\n\nI think we'll see over the next few years whether Republicans get more bizarre o... | {'id': 'lv4rd8x', 'text': ">There's a big difference between a protest and a riot.\n\nIs it not a riot when people are throwing bricks through storefront windows?", 'author': 'Livid_Lengthiness_69', 'score': -2, 'timestamp': 1730607886} | 1gie0tp | CMV: In terms of execution, the Jan 6th Riot is a better form of protest than most. | Regardless of whether you agree with the motivations behind it, I believe that the January 6th riot is a better form of protest than most other leftist based protests.
The criteria I am basing ‘better form of protest’ off is: 1. General achievement of intended goal and 2. Accuracy of where protest is targetted.
While... | 1,730,604,460 | JabbaTheBassist | nan | nan | 2024-11-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Corporal punishment not ideal or great, but it's also not terrible and is better than a severe lack of discipline. | {'id': 'lv71pvz', 'text': "No, it is because reinforcement doesn't work that way. You are thinking of the human mind in terms of consciousness, but this is not the level that most of the human experience occurs on. \n\nConsider the fight, flight, and freeze response. This response is present in all humans, it's origins... | {'id': 'lv69qfk', 'text': 'Where we have common ground is that I agree that parents need to discipline their kids, and it’s irresponsible to provide no discipline at all and just let kids find out consequences by cause and effect (ie nobody is going to want to be around you and you may even get in trouble with the law ... | 1gim003 | CMV: Corporal punishment not ideal or great, but it's also not terrible and is better than a severe lack of discipline. | I believe that the best form of parenting is to give your kids clear and fair rules, being consistent in punishing them when they break them, and using some combination of loss of privileges and extra chores when they do break the rules (along with talking to them and making sure they understand why your rules importan... | 1,730,637,829 | WiscyPete | nan | nan | 2024-11-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: USA of today isn't even close to the same country of 10 years ago | {'id': 'lv2zjdt', 'text': 'Maybe no one would have thought to attack the capital for that specific reason but attacks on the capital are not that uncommon. Weather Underground bombing 1971 - protesting the US actions in Laos. 1983 Armed Resistance Unit bombing because of US actions in Granada/Lebanon. So the idea of ... | {'id': 'lv2v3me', 'text': 'You can actually blame Obama and the Democrats for that. The Democrats straight up lied through their teeth about Romney being a racist sexist monster that doesn’t pay taxes. Romney, the most milquetoast moderate Republican.\n\nAnd fucking Harry Reid wasn’t even sorry about it. When confronte... | 1gi44fn | CMV: USA of today isn't even close to the same country of 10 years ago | I didn't want to believe it. Not just listening to political debates and what the candidates are saying on the campaign trail. Not just what people say about the candidates and why they support them. Tonal shifts, arguments made, the justifications told all spoke of something much more fundamental.
Ten years ago we ha... | 1,730,575,247 | Cirrious | nan | nan | 2024-11-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: protests are supposed to disrupt order. | {'id': 'ltwls1j', 'text': '>\xa0So while technically correct that JSO has "oil money"\n\nSo you admit I was correct. You claimed JSO has no money. I informed you that was wrong.\xa0\n\nYet you are still complaining. Strange.\xa0\n\n>\xa0So you have no proof it was specifically the Green Party then?\n\nDo you understand... | {'id': 'ltw71uu', 'text': 'The source you cited says this;\n\n>The co-founder,\xa0Aileen Getty, is the granddaughter of J. Paul\xa0[Getty](https://www.artnews.com/t/getty/), who founded Getty Oil \n\\[...\\] \nThe heiress, Aileen, has never worked in the oil industry and is an active philanthropist. In 2019, she co-f... | 1fzmfoc | CMV: protests are supposed to disrupt order. | It seems that protests, by their very nature, are meant to cause disruption to make a point. Yet, it feels like whenever a protest takes place, we’re expected to get clearance and permission. This approach doesn’t seem to have the same impact and often only reaches those already involved or aware of the cause.
It feel... | 1,728,461,539 | dezorg | nan | nan | 2024-10-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Scientists have no one to blame but themselves for the record low trust Americans place in them now | {'id': 'lv3ghd8', 'text': 'Not their problem. That\'s on the "public" for being lazy.\n\nIf you think all that is fine, then your view has been slightly changed.', 'author': 'BillionTonsHyperbole', 'score': 9, 'timestamp': 1730589499} | {'id': 'lv3fext', 'text': 'Which would point to the media as the true culprit, and thus something that scientists could blame instead of themselves, succinctly countering the OP.', 'author': 'KipchakVibeCheck', 'score': 8, 'timestamp': 1730589125} | 1gi8p5e | CMV: Scientists have no one to blame but themselves for the record low trust Americans place in them now | There's a lot of faux confusion from scientists on the political left on why these "stupid, ungrateful" americans usually on the politcal right-don't appreciate or respect the work of researchers trying to improve out collective understanding of both ourselves and the world around us. They put it down to media illitera... | 1,730,587,953 | nowlan101 | nan | nan | 2024-11-02 | 2024_fall |
cmv: eating meat is morally equivalent to abusing animals for fun | {'id': 'lvdjidg', 'text': '1) I’ve changed your view then as your post said you couldn’t see a distinction between the two.\n\n2) Seeing how far you considered use of an animal in entertainment “abuse” and therefore how far you stretched that to killing.', 'author': 'viaJormungandr', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1730740295... | {'id': 'lvdgt70', 'text': 'Where do things like Halal and Kosher meat prep slot into this?\xa0\n\n\nSure, animal suffering is “natural”, but taking the steps to minimize suffering is a uniquely human thing. I just don’t see how that’s the same as abusing animals for fun\xa0', 'author': 'arrgobon32', 'score': 2, 'timest... | 1gjidr3 | cmv: eating meat is morally equivalent to abusing animals for fun | im not making any normative judgements regarding the morality of eating meat; depending on your worldview, you might value the lives of animals more or less than the average person. however, i fail to see the distinction between the consumption of meat and the use of animals as entertainment. if you dont respect an ani... | 1,730,737,647 | Ok_Operation1051 | nan | nan | 2024-11-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: A banana phone only works with the pointy stem to the ear | {'id': 'lv9z3l4', 'text': 'Telephones are not typically inserted into the ear canal so I don\'t think how well the stem fits is relevant. Obviously banana phones are patterned after corded telephone handsets, and if anything the stem would represent the start of a cord.\n\nWhat orientation children normally hold a bana... | {'id': 'lv9v8gd', 'text': ">Matty is clearly holding a traditional banana phone receiver.\n\nBanana phones work both ways but if the banana is a fixed phones receiver, the stem looks like a cord input.\n\nWhen the banana is a portable phone the stem looks like an antenna, which is what a banana stem most closely resemb... | 1gj1odj | CMV: A banana phone only works with the pointy stem to the ear | In the recent feature for The Observer, Matty Matheson is seen holding his banana phone, IMO, upside-down.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/nov/03/you-only-get-one-shot-so-why-not-the-bears-matty-matheson-on-cooking-addiction-and-making-the-most-of-life
First off, I have to admit that I’ve been talking on a ba... | 1,730,679,983 | LiliVonSchtupp | nan | nan | 2024-11-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Embiid is starting to become more of a problem than he's worth. | {'id': 'lvjg8rp', 'text': 'C’mon dude, you serious?\xa0\n\nMy uncle who’s 200 pounds overweight can dance on a stage. Literally anyone can dance on a stage. If you can stand, you can dance. Hell, I can dance on a stage. Can I play in the NBA? Hell no.\xa0\n\nIf you’re not gonna meet me and acknowledge the difference in... | {'id': 'lvjg1x5', 'text': 'You\'re missing a major reason as well. He literally got French citizenship by promising to play for them and then said "too bad" when he didn\'t think they had a chance vs. the US.\n\nThat\'s like saying I\'ll marry you if you give me that Lamborghini and then going "nahh"', 'author': 'Indy... | 1gk8xcx | CMV: Embiid is starting to become more of a problem than he's worth. | After 10 years, I'm getting tired of him lazy ass to the point where he's getting investigated a second time.
First time because he's always "injured" and the sixers feel the need to lie about his condition.
Now, he gets into it with a reporter because he had the balls to speak the truth about your work ethic.
[Arti... | 1,730,819,560 | BunnyPatrol2001 | nan | nan | 2024-11-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: those who don't vote because of a single issue (e.g. Gaza) don't care about any other issues | {'id': 'lvijtj8', 'text': "Yes, that's correct, they are still caring, just not as much as other issues", 'author': 'corbynista2029', 'score': 19, 'timestamp': 1730811577} | {'id': 'lviirt8', 'text': "I don't vote and the reason is the majority is too high toward one side in my state. Meaning there would have to be a larger group of people who wanted to vote for the opposite. So I don't waste my time when my vote isn't going to make a difference, if I wanted to vote against the majority.... | 1gk5r4y | CMV: those who don't vote because of a single issue (e.g. Gaza) don't care about any other issues | Many have strong opinions about certain topics, such as wars, inflation, or others. Some view both US presidential candidates as equally apathetic to their top issue. This is not a good justification for not voting, because there are [many more issues](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/harris-trump-stance-... | 1,730,810,511 | James_Fortis | nan | nan | 2024-11-05 | 2024_fall |
cmv: If you’re voting for Jill Stein you’re a privileged person that has nothing to lose, and you don’t care about Palestinians more than you care about your moral high ground | {'id': 'lucmx25', 'text': 'I don’t disagree with that. \n\nTo try and tackle your main premise, I’ll give my perspective as someone who, while not voting for Jill Stein, will not be voting for either mainline candidates. \n\nThe main reason people advocate for Kamala over Biden is because they tend to believe she is a ... | {'id': 'lucjuox', 'text': 'As a Harris/Democratic voter, do you genuinely think that being disdainful and judgemental is the best way to convince Green Party voters to change their vote to Harris? \n\nAssuming the threats posed by Trump are true (and I’d say some,if not most,legitimately are) why is the onus on the pro... | 1geu08a | cmv: If you’re voting for Jill Stein you’re a privileged person that has nothing to lose, and you don’t care about Palestinians more than you care about your moral high ground | 1. Downplaying what’s a stake here doesn’t make it any less true. You’re either a white privileged person with nothing to lose, or so you think.
It’s not too far off to imagine an autocratic term if Trump wins.
He has admitted that if Christians vote for him, they won’t have to do it again.
You can try to downplay... | 1,730,206,787 | fluffypotat096 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Edward Snowden is an American hero w/o an asterisk. | {'id': 'lqcncfo', 'text': "I'd say this refutes much of your 2nd point: \nhttps://www.vice.com/en/article/exclusive-snowden-tried-to-tell-nsa-about-his-concerns/", 'author': 'motavader', 'score': 5, 'timestamp': 1728071128} | {'id': 'lqc83o4', 'text': 'this is my understand or a lot closer to it', 'author': 'Dense_Tackle_995', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1728066205} | 1fw4wqq | CMV: Edward Snowden is an American hero w/o an asterisk. | My view is based on:
* What he did
* How he did it
* The results of his actions
* Why he did it
* The power of the antagonist(s) he faced.
What he did: Does "what he did" represent a heroic feat?
* Snowden exposed the existence of massive surveillance programs that violated the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Consti... | 1,728,063,246 | nhlms81 | nan | nan | 2024-10-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: It always makes the most sense to vote for the candidate you most prefer, as opposed to voting strategically. | {'id': 'ltmebb4', 'text': "So the dictatorship condition doesnt apply in US elections.\xa0\n\n\nThe two option condition applies if there are no third parties, in which case there can be no voting strategy regardless.\n\n\nWe're therefore talking about the third case. Where a rational vote requires considering other op... | {'id': 'ltmdc66', 'text': "I think this doesn't take into account that:\n\n- The electoral college means that while votes might not matter much in some states, in some Presidential elections it can come down to a single state and that state can be close. Take 2000 where the winner was decided by 269 votes.\n\n- You hav... | 1gbj0pr | CMV: It always makes the most sense to vote for the candidate you most prefer, as opposed to voting strategically. | America specific post here but we have a well established two party duopoly here. One or the other almost always wins the election. Especially for bigger elections.
There is also a stigma with voting third party. People see it as a wasted vote or (somehow) as a vote for whomever it is they like the least. It's interes... | 1,729,820,282 | Zephos65 | nan | nan | 2024-10-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "National Pride" is a lie peddled by governments and jingoists worldwide. | {'id': 'lqjfahf', 'text': 'Chauvinism, jingoism, ultranationalism...there\'s a lot of words for the "we are the best and you suck" type of thought, but essentially, when people say nationalism, they usually mean ultranationalism. Nationalism has become associated with ultranationalism due to A. WW2, and B. the fact tha... | {'id': 'lq5cs7f', 'text': 'Yes, its a propaganda tool to unite everyone into one tribe for the purposes of making them available to recruit in a conflict.\n\n\nNationalism is just a predjudice against everyone not in your nation. Also often includes local nationals who are culturally or ethnically different, which is w... | 1fv9luj | CMV: "National Pride" is a lie peddled by governments and jingoists worldwide. | For context. When I see someone say they're proud of their country/nation, or proud to be a citizen of their country/nation, it gets my goat, because when you say that, in my view, you're saying that you're proud of everything that your country/nation is/was. I'm a UK citizen myself and knowing Britain's part in the sl... | 1,727,967,120 | AintMisMehefin | nan | nan | 2024-10-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Left wing people should just admit to being woke | {'id': 'lvfk1am', 'text': "Right, they are dissasociating from the idea of wokeness. That doesn't mean that some aspects of a label don't apply, it means they reject the label.\n\n\nIt's like how some don't like being called feminist because it's a different feminism than the views they actually hold. It's the ideology... | {'id': 'lvfjrug', 'text': "Public perception changed based on their perception of the SJW and woke cultures, amplified by social media. There are a ton of examples of expressions of this leftist culture, some of which made national headlines (e.g. Evergreen St). It's not strawmanning if the culture itself is actually e... | 1gjrol2 | CMV: Left wing people should just admit to being woke | That was a deliberately engagement baiting title - but I do have an actual opinion here and I'm open to it being changed...
We live in an increasingly divided society where people identify as either "left" or "right". Yes these terms have complex, vague and ever changing meanings. But they are good shortcuts to two la... | 1,730,760,463 | furiousdonkey | nan | nan | 2024-11-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The demonization of the conservative ideals by the left primarily contributed to Trump winning the election | {'id': 'lvpbh2y', 'text': 'If what I said is a bigger issue, then what I said is the primary issue that contributed to Democrats winning the election', 'author': 'Fluffy-Fly6853', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730898425} | {'id': 'lvpagje', 'text': 'Dems lost this election because more than half of the country is too stupid to understand that the COVID pandemic caused global inflation.', 'author': 'ManOverboard___', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730898098} | 1gkxlr6 | CMV: The demonization of the conservative ideals by the left primarily contributed to Trump winning the election | I think one of the main reasons why Trump won, was because the left kept demonizing the right and their beliefs. Isolation and unwilling to comprimise on issues, especially by those online, further pushed moderate voters to the right.
Motivation for this opinion:
PREFACE: I'm getting the sentiment mainly from what ... | 1,730,896,951 | Cptcongcong | nan | nan | 2024-11-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Donald Trump is currently the best choice for President. | {'id': 'lu694lk', 'text': "1.\xa0 He is being prosecuted.\xa0 The trial was delayed first by his lawyers, than by the Supreme Court, and now is finally set for 2025.\n\n\nHe was not found guilty of being a rapist, he was found liable for sexual assault basically.\xa0 So he probably did it, but it hasn't been proven bey... | {'id': 'lu66x5e', 'text': "> I do worry that the dems will just keep plowing away on social issues at the expense of the common good.\n\nEveryone being able to live a life that they choose without fear of reprisals from the government is the common good. \n\nBlaming the state of the nation on a few extreme minority gr... | 1ge113y | CMV: Donald Trump is currently the best choice for President. | I (M28) have been an undecided voter this election. I voted Trump in 2016, and Biden in 2020. I included my age to show that those are the only two presidential elections I have been able to vote in.
I literally just got done telling my mom the other day that I had finally decided to vote for Kamala, and then the Trum... | 1,730,119,314 | Last-Photo-2618 | nan | nan | 2024-10-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: We ought to have a national firefighting service. | {'id': 'lvxs1yv', 'text': 'Just FYI. I work with the federal government and deal with aircraft. Yes. It can literally take weeks to get approval to fly across country. Also, look up how much the fuel for these military cargo planes costs. It can be tens of thousands in fuel costs alone.\n\nFEMA gets around this by lite... | {'id': 'lvxhfl0', 'text': 'Where are you from? I can tell that you’ve only seen the CA wildfires on TV if you think 20 guys is what they send out. 15-30 guys is one crew and they send out anywhere from 8-10 crews or more on big wildfires. \n\nWant to know another problem here? Cal Fire, the agency in CA specifically de... | 1gltv66 | CMV: We ought to have a national firefighting service. | My view is basically this: we ought to have a national firefighting service in the United States that has the resources, expertise, and ability to rapidly deploy to these large fires that come up from time to time.
Here are my reasons (in no particular order)
1. A fire does not always respect the boundaries of munic... | 1,730,995,352 | DifferentAd4968 | nan | nan | 2024-11-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Title IX should not include sports that are self funded | {'id': 'lvm5qqi', 'text': 'No you said you wanted self funded sports to not count towards title IX. The most likely outcome is for schools to cut unprofitable programs not add more unprofitable programs. I agree with your sentiment but I don’t think that solution will work. As an alternative, “for every student getting... | {'id': 'lvkx8en', 'text': "It's a wording problem. Football has 85 scholarships at the D1 level. If you don't count those yes women get more opportunities. In OPs example, Vandy has 6 mens sports to 9 women's sports.\n\nLike you have 200 scholarship spots if you don't count 85 that go to football men get almost half as... | 1gkex7t | CMV: Title IX should not include sports that are self funded | Title IX requires an equal number of athletic spots for men’s and women’s sports. The issue here is that sports like men’s track and men’s soccer are disproportionately cut to accommodate the size of football rosters.
Granted, this doesn’t apply to every school, but many schools, Vanderbilt for example, do not have m... | 1,730,834,614 | CapableWrongdoer221 | nan | nan | 2024-11-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: All forms of bigotry are equally wrong, including ableism and stigma towards neurodivergence as a whole | {'id': 'lwboi1i', 'text': "Specifically, it's worse systemically. In the US, where my viewpoint is based, SSI keeps disabled people poor, espeically those who have been disabled from birth. You cannot get married, have over $2000 to your name, and max out at under $1000/month in benefits. SSDI, which I'm in the process... | {'id': 'lwbmxsa', 'text': 'Abuse by mental healthcare workers is illegal and is covered by laws. Saying something like that is proof that people don\'t care about ableism is like saying "crimes happen all over the US so clearly nobody cares about crime". In both cases, it\'s already illegal. \n \nActing on crimes w... | 1gnkwn8 | CMV: All forms of bigotry are equally wrong, including ableism and stigma towards neurodivergence as a whole | For clarification, I do not in any way mean to minimize issues like racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. However, from simple observation, it does seem as though a popular and socially acceptable view is that dislike or prejudice towards disabled people or people with neurodivergence is either morally different from racism... | 1,731,188,975 | Representative_Way46 | nan | nan | 2024-11-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Board gaming is a better hobby for people who work on a computer all day than video gaming | {'id': 'lw5783s', 'text': 'The first post in this chain mentioned that "solo playing is boring" and I agree. I have games like the Ultimate Edition of Mage Knight that is often touted as one of the best single player games, but compared to playing even a two player game, it\'s boring to me. The best board games seem to... | {'id': 'lw3xb1v', 'text': 'I agree with you generally, but I think there’s definitely some cases for nuance.\n\nIn situations where you live far away from your friends, video games are more social experiences because it is easier to connect with friends over a voice call playing a video game.\n\nIn my experience playin... | 1gmlhrm | CMV: Board gaming is a better hobby for people who work on a computer all day than video gaming | This was me for a couple of decades. Google Slides by day, Playstation by night. When you spend your whole day overstimulated by screens you feel tired. But my mind loves stimulation, and puzzles, and the feeling of making a smart decision and seeing it pay off.
So there I went, playing video games into the night. Th... | 1,731,080,630 | pyros_it | nan | nan | 2024-11-08 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Muslims and the Qu'ran itself have too many non-democratic and unacceptable standpoints to be supported in secular western countries | {'id': 'lua17s6', 'text': ' I didn\'t say what premise it is but it is bombed. And the bombing started way before 9/11. But of course everyone rewrites their history to fit them\n\n>About the second part: I said arabs and turks here, not muslims, because I don\'t know if they actually were muslims.\n\nSo they have noth... | {'id': 'lu9ydk7', 'text': 'Islamism and the religious right that dominates a lot of these countries was created in reaction to the colonialism of the middle east and the economic and military domination by secular countries in the 20th (and 21st century). Extreme homophobia is an example of a viewpoint that was shaped ... | 1gehf05 | CMV: Muslims and the Qu'ran itself have too many non-democratic and unacceptable standpoints to be supported in secular western countries | Before saying anything else, I'm going to tell you that most of my viewpoints are based on empirical evidence that I and those around me have collected over the past years and not on looking deeper into muslim culture and reading the Qu'ran, which I'm planing to do at a later point.
I live in Germany, in a city that h... | 1,730,160,592 | RetepExplainsJokes | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Raygun did nothing wrong | {'id': 'lvy8x3r', 'text': "Of course it’s not a crime to be bad but Olympics aren’t a fun competition open to anyone but meant to be a serious event for world class athletes and Raygun like Swaney simply don’t have world class level and just managed to get there by gaming the qualification process.\n\nNow you seem to ... | {'id': 'lvx6185', 'text': '> I\'m not familiar with anything she said to that affect.\n\nShe did, despite you being [unaware.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonpu/2024/09/06/raygun-responds-on-controversial-olympic-breakdance-performance/) "In the Channel 10 interview, Raygun says that some people don’t understand the... | 1glsm5y | CMV: Raygun did nothing wrong | In honor of Raygun's retirement from the sport of breaking.
I've seen a lot of hate directed towards this woman and I don't think she ever deserved any of it. The Olympic committees were not trying to make Breaking a permanent fixture in the Olympics, the home country chose it as a featured sport to highlight "youth-f... | 1,730,992,150 | DrSpaceman575 | nan | nan | 2024-11-07 | 2024_fall |
cmv: most game devs don't intend players to 100% their game | {'id': 'lw7oa7n', 'text': 'Oh ok gotcha; I think I agree with you in most cases on that. However, if I was part of the reason you ended up disagreeing with your original title, consider awarding me a delta cuz it makes me happy!\n\nAlso thanks for checking it out!', 'author': 'TheVioletBarry', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': ... | {'id': 'lw7n8ii', 'text': 'Then it sounds like those people gave an unhealthy relationship with those games. The same way someone who felt like the had to finish a book they weren’t enjoying out of a sense of obligation. If you don’t enjoy the game then you can stop.', 'author': 'Vesurel', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731... | 1gn0zwg | cmv: most game devs don't intend players to 100% their game | I've fully done Skyward Sword HD, Kirby's Dreamland, Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe, Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda, and Sonic Unleashed. I've come to realise that game devs don't intend you to complete their game half the time.
Most games don't have a reward for 100#. In Breath of The Wild, the reward for g... | 1,731,122,865 | Ifyouliveinadream | nan | nan | 2024-11-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "Piracy isn't stealing" and "AI art is stealing" are logically contradictory views to hold. | {'id': 'lrtq6fs', 'text': 'It\'s always difficult to find freely available scholarly sources, but here is one. It states that piracy will cause companies to raise prices when there is little competition, but it does not reduce revenue. Essentially, when piracy is an option AND purchasing other products is not, some peo... | {'id': 'lrtn0er', 'text': "Gonna start off by saying that for the piracy side, I'm referring mostly to video games, though arguments probably carry over. \n\nFirst, piracy sits in a morally grey area. Some of it I find unethical and some I think ethics don't apply to. It's usually simple to figure out, if it's no longe... | 1g33ili | CMV: "Piracy isn't stealing" and "AI art is stealing" are logically contradictory views to hold. | Maybe it's just my algorithm but these are two viewpoints that I see often on my twitter feed, often from the same circle of people and sometimes by the same users. If the explanation people use is that piracy isn't theft because the original owners/creators aren't being deprived of their software, then I don't see how... | 1,728,864,486 | RedFanKr | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Californians should not be obligated to pay federal taxes for policies that are directly harmful to us. | {'id': 'lwb100n', 'text': "This is not a unique situation. As I've said, taxes have always been a contentious issue. So, perhaps a more parallel example might work a bit better. \n \nFlorida enacted a new law that prevented Unions from automatically taking money out of paychecks. Florida argued that people should ... | {'id': 'lwatexo', 'text': 'What exactly is the problem if the referenced industries in California were to lose their undocumented immigrant labor force? Those industries could hire documented immigrants and/or US citizens to supplement the workforce. Obviously, these types of individuals would be “on the books” and the... | 1gni00j | CMV: Californians should not be obligated to pay federal taxes for policies that are directly harmful to us. | I understand that everyone pays federal taxes, and there will always be disagreements over how those taxes are spent. People may oppose funding war, policing, or social services, yet these expenses can often be rationalized: war efforts can be profitable or have strategic foreign policy benefits, for example. However, ... | 1,731,180,956 | Scary-Ad-1345 | nan | nan | 2024-11-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Violent video games may cause desensitization, I believe this because the majority of studies believe so as well | {'id': 'lu14tmi', 'text': 'By replying to my post with a few lines and adding !delta', 'author': 'Eastern-Bro9173', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730047187} | {'id': 'ltzpt4x', 'text': 'Yes, but that\'s not necessarily meaningful. Why does simulation desensitize to reality then? How do you know when/if anything\'s "real," what\'s the difference in the brain?', 'author': 'Brrdock', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1730027126} | 1gd81me | CMV: Violent video games may cause desensitization, I believe this because the majority of studies believe so as well | Title, I’m a big believer of science and will base my beliefs on it as well. I love violent video games as well and have been ruminating on the topic of desensitization, I don’t believe that is causes violence(due to a recent meta analysis showing no correlation) but I fear it might cause desensitization
The studies... | 1,730,025,101 | Girlincaptivitee | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: One of the biggest flaws European Liberal party’s made the last decade was not combating islamist extremism. | {'id': 'lvtfizy', 'text': "So you've changed your view on the idea that they didn't do anything, and now you are just saying that they should have advertised their accomplishments more?", 'author': 'AcephalicDude', 'score': 28, 'timestamp': 1730940468} | {'id': 'lvtcgol', 'text': "But it's not insane to blame Muslims for all this? And 'read in a long time' implies you've been told this before but choose to blame Muslims anyway", 'author': 'BioPsych120', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1730939477} | 1glc7i8 | CMV: One of the biggest flaws European Liberal party’s made the last decade was not combating islamist extremism. | I know titles like this leave room for interpretation so before I start some information. I’m a 19 year old, Atheist, bisexual dude who is very left-leaning on social issues and more centrist on economical issues. No I don’t think people from Muslim countries or Muslims are inherently evil or that religion in general i... | 1,730,935,150 | Kyaruga | nan | nan | 2024-11-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The first thing on the vast majority of governments agendas should be the climate and biodiversity crisis andhow to improve it. | {'id': 'lwlxclw', 'text': 'Missing the point. \n\nTo the vast majority of the world, climate change is scientists arguing about tenths of a degree. Its also a "left" position in the western world and being used to push other agendas. \n\nPollution is easily measured and seen. You can point to it.\n\nIf you want pro cli... | {'id': 'lwlu4vf', 'text': "> \n> \n> \n> \n> 3) you have to keep religion away from the state, religion has caused a lot of unneeded wars, we don't need any more\n\nRemoving religion from the state has generally caused even worse issues - the largest examples of removing religion from the state in the past hundred year... | 1gowsfz | CMV: The first thing on the vast majority of governments agendas should be the climate and biodiversity crisis andhow to improve it. | Let me start with this, if your country is in a severe crisis, for example war or famine, this does not apply to them. However there are very few countries who apply to this and the vast majority don't.
the climate and biodiversity crises are extremely severe. There are risks of 50% of species are at risk of extinctio... | 1,731,343,869 | Eragon089 | nan | nan | 2024-11-11 | 2024_fall |
CMV: identity politics is the generalized version of class struggle | {'id': 'lwjquqy', 'text': "I think we agree about what is good or bad about these things. \n\nBut, I don't agree that identity politics is more generalised than class struggle. 'The working class' is a very general umbrella that captures 75% of people. 'Transgender person of colour' is a very narrow one, and identity p... | {'id': 'lwjqg00', 'text': 'I\'d argue they are two separate things. One stems from being nothing more than a cog in the machine and feeling used.\n\nIdentity politics are a whole nother ball game, which I believe stem from our lack of identity in youth. So people start grasping at any shred of an identity that the can.... | 1gom117 | CMV: identity politics is the generalized version of class struggle | The initial intention for class struggle was noble as well to lift the proletariat out of poverty and overturn the corrupt ruling class. When the proletariat became the ruling class, they continue the class struggle and everything is centered around it. Land owners were killed, artists were arrested, in short, anyone... | 1,731,306,945 | long_arrow | nan | nan | 2024-11-11 | 2024_fall |
CMV: there is nothing wrong with being anti immigration. | {'id': 'lq6q1fb', 'text': 'I think you can respond with **! delta** but without the space in between.', 'author': 'teaisjustgaycoffee', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1727983938} | {'id': 'lq67lak', 'text': "Still can't tell. You are either a genius or in a completely different category.", 'author': 'cat_of_danzig', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1727978113} | 1fvcm4q | CMV: there is nothing wrong with being anti immigration. | Immigration is not a moral issue. An immigrant is seeking a better life for themselves and so their decision to immigrate is inherently selfish. They’re not immigrating for the good of the country, it’s a decision made with their interests in mind.
A Zimbabwean immigrant who illegally crosses the border into South Af... | 1,727,975,025 | SydHoar | nan | nan | 2024-10-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: It Is Unwise for Supporters of Kamala Harris to Mock Undecided Voters | {'id': 'lsf88sv', 'text': 'I didn\'t say anything about mouthpieces. I posted an explanation of the joke. \n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/s/ZsgTpTJwMR\n\nI can explain the joke even more. Bryant Rosado was on a CNN panel of undecided voters in August \n\n*Did Vice President Harris\' speech at the DNC move the... | {'id': 'lseupyu', 'text': "Frankly, I believe Harris is a more tangible threat to more important things than Trump is.\n\nThe Biden administration - and Harris by extension - have been incredibly hostile to the first amendment. Tim Walz in an interview spread misinformation that the first amendment doesn't protect misi... | 1g5y5nf | CMV: It Is Unwise for Supporters of Kamala Harris to Mock Undecided Voters | I was inspired to write this by an exchange I had regarding this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/s/E2Mj2dgkA8. As you can see the OP made a big hit. Over 1000 upvotes at the time I write this.
But take a second to consider the implications of that meme: it suggests that there are only two groups that exi... | 1,729,190,685 | BluePillUprising | nan | nan | 2024-10-17 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: when Trump enters office the Republicans will have 100% of the blame and credit. | {'id': 'lwb4v9w', 'text': "Yeah, if facts would matter the US wouldnt't be in that situation.", 'author': 'chefkoch_', 'score': 5, 'timestamp': 1731186606} | {'id': 'lwb3ftz', 'text': 'People said that there was no way Trump would get elected and it happened **twice**.', 'author': 'Hikari_Owari', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1731186136} | 1gnjfnz | Cmv: when Trump enters office the Republicans will have 100% of the blame and credit. | When January occurs the Republican party will control the House and Senate as well as the Executive branch with a conservative Department of Justice. It is literally a complete control of all branches of government.
While a lot of people are scared of the future, I think something that isn't being said much is that a... | 1,731,184,885 | IndyPoker979 | nan | nan | 2024-11-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: specific airports should be required to have all weather tires on all rental cars | {'id': 'luewhcq', 'text': "So then your real issue isn't requiring them to use winter wheels, it's that many car rentals companies don't provide any option for safely navigating snowy mountains.\n\nThat's a reasonable concern. But it is different from what you originally said.", 'author': 'Aezora', 'score': 2, 'timesta... | {'id': 'luel8ec', 'text': 'I mean the reason would be some base level of safety... It might not be as big of an issue in the US becaue 80% of the states dont see snow, but its a massive issue in Canada where its winter 8 months of the year.', 'author': 'VforVenndiagram_', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1730232229} | 1gf3enf | CMV: specific airports should be required to have all weather tires on all rental cars | As someone who skis, i don’t want to fly into an airport to get a car that isn’t ideal for driving in the state other than in town. People fly to places for many reasons and having a car with all season tires in Colorado to go ski or see family in the mountains isn’t the most ideal. It isn’t safe for people to be drivi... | 1,730,230,699 | Thegiantlamppost | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The Death Penalty is a Good Thing and Should Not Be Abolished | {'id': 'lwpx0sn', 'text': "While you noted that there are 2000 escapes from prisons in the US every year, during some research I found that there are almost NO escapes from maximum security prisons in the US.\n\nThere's not a lot of numbers out there, but in the US from 2009 to 2013, there was a single escape from a ma... | {'id': 'lwpo8ol', 'text': 'A few problems:\n\n1. Carrying out the death penalty in a humane way for all involved can be more expensive than just keeping the inmate alive. This increases the burden on the state. \n\n2. Eyewitness accounts are unreliable. Video accounts are unreliable. DNA evidence being present is unrel... | 1gpef04 | CMV: The Death Penalty is a Good Thing and Should Not Be Abolished | Let me start out by saying that I am not a vengeful person, nor am I a forgiving person. I don't care about "they need to rot in prison for life and suffer for what they've done," nor do I care about "they need to be given a second chance and repent and be rehabilitated back into society". But what I do care about is p... | 1,731,392,329 | SzayelGrance | nan | nan | 2024-11-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Kamala not going on Joe Rogan is cowardly and foolish | {'id': 'ltu9tp0', 'text': "One of the things Rogan is actually most criticized for is not challenging people enough. He does laid-back type interviews, where they switch often to different subjects, from politics to even some esoteric shit. Going on Rogan is not some herculean task. Unless she's actually a robot posing... | {'id': 'ltu4v38', 'text': 'I think it’s a tension to say it’s cowardly *and* foolish. Say it’s cowardly; why? Presumably, because she wouldn’t be successful in that interview. In that case, it’s not foolish—she doesn’t want to tank her campaign with the biggest podcast in the world. Or if it’s foolish—well, why? Becaus... | 1gcj1o6 | CMV: Kamala not going on Joe Rogan is cowardly and foolish | We got confirmation yesterday that Kamala is not gonna go on Joe Rogan, after a lot of rumors about it over the last couple weeks
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-will-not-appear-joe-rogan-podcast-her-campaign-says-2024-10-25/
Trump just did an interview there yesterday. It is the biggest podcast on Earth by a... | 1,729,942,449 | original_og_gangster | nan | nan | 2024-10-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Without other-wordly knowledge, values are firstly arbitrary | {'id': 'lx4pdo1', 'text': "I don't think it does. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I agree that initial values are fundamentally arbitrary. My point is that even even 'otherworldly' knowledge can't change that. You've held open the possibility that an external framework could provide non-arbitrary values, and I think that's th... | {'id': 'lx4m8yt', 'text': "It's not arbitrary as to whether to choose to be life affirming. It would be arbitrary if it made no difference to the things we cared about or had no relationship to given facts. But basically everyone, as a brute fact of being an embodied evolved living thing, does value their continued exi... | 1grauzi | CMV: Without other-wordly knowledge, values are firstly arbitrary | When I was around 14-16 I resolved a lot of that existential dread stuff with the usual suspects of Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, etc. Now, mid-20's, I'm trying to go back to more deeply reflect, and make coherent, my value system.
They all give it different names, but Camus' is probably most famous with "there is only on... | 1,731,607,119 | AtomAndAether | nan | nan | 2024-11-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The U.S. Should Have Open Borders | {'id': 'lubqtki', 'text': "Thanks for the Delta!\n\n>I would argue that there's no reason to believe that the place we currently draw the line is right. My hypothesis is that an order of magnitude more people who would benefit the country and the communities they move into if we allowed them the chance.\n\nI Kind of ag... | {'id': 'lubovtg', 'text': 'So let’s move away from the abstract and consider what is going on at the Mexico-US border. There are issues that need to be solved before that border can be considered safe and open (racism and xenophobia aside).\n\nOne, we need to stop the drug trade which is fueled not by our own organizat... | 1geq9o1 | CMV: The U.S. Should Have Open Borders | Hi, everyone! I’d like to share my view on why the United States should adopt an open-border policy and welcome any and all challenges to this perspective. I understand this is a complex issue with many sides, and I’m hoping to spark a thoughtful discussion.
My View: Open Borders Could Benefit the U.S.
I believe that... | 1,730,193,099 | a1j9o94 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Not paying the TV Licence fee is now a perfectly reasonable consumer choice (UK Post) | {'id': 'lwqjhv3', 'text': 'So then I would say there is not a perfectly reasonable consumer choice. The ability to watch sports is predicated on funding the BBC.', 'author': 'SANcapITY', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731413525} | {'id': 'lwqingo', 'text': "Yeah, that's based on **usage choices**. So a TV licence guy can't just roll up to your property and fine you just because you own a computer. Everyone owns a computer. By this logic it may as well be mandatory.", 'author': 'Skavau', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1731413106} | 1gphnas | CMV: Not paying the TV Licence fee is now a perfectly reasonable consumer choice (UK Post) | For anyone not from the UK who hasn’t got a clue what I’m talking about the TV licence is something you need if you want to watch broadcast television in the UK. Predominantly it is used to fund the BBC across television, radio and the internet however some of the costs go to support infrastructure that other broadcast... | 1,731,406,880 | Subtleiaint | nan | nan | 2024-11-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If Biden believes Trump is a threat to American democracy, he should use ALL the tools in his disposal to stop him from taking power. | {'id': 'lx06sh5', 'text': 'Sorry to be that guy, but the great fire of London stopped the plague epidemic in 1666.', 'author': 'dreadful_name', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1731542325} | {'id': 'lx04q73', 'text': "**So you're doing exactly what you've been fighting against this whole time. That's rich. You're about to FAFO...**", 'author': '-Fluxuation-', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731541604} | 1gqqsio | CMV: If Biden believes Trump is a threat to American democracy, he should use ALL the tools in his disposal to stop him from taking power. | Trump is elected democratically, normally I'd be bummed a Republican won but would move on.
This seems like a special case. I'm sure the Democratic party/courts/etc has mountains of evidence pointing to Trump is a threat to democracy. (An attempted coup/insurrection for example)
If you are currently in power in a... | 1,731,540,356 | Rowboat_Cop7 | nan | nan | 2024-11-13 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Weather apps should use dew point instead of relative humidity | {'id': 'lxgprxp', 'text': 'relative humidity tells you if things will dry out, and how much.', 'author': 'S1artibartfast666', 'score': 7, 'timestamp': 1731779587} | {'id': 'lxgo5gx', 'text': 'RH alone is not informative. 70% RH at low temperatures is nothing.', 'author': 'bearsnchairs', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731779071} | 1gsqwnn | CMV: Weather apps should use dew point instead of relative humidity | I have been learning a bit about meteorology over the past few months, and it seems to me that dew point is a much better measurement of humidity for the average person than relative humidity, and yet many weather apps prioritize relative humidity. Dew point is better for the following reasons:
1) It is objective. I d... | 1,731,774,427 | SteelyFan77 | nan | nan | 2024-11-16 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: there is nothing Trump could do that could justify a 40% increase in tesla’s market cap | {'id': 'lws0axe', 'text': 'Tesla is the least reliant on subsidies. They did not have any until the other manufacturers requested them.', 'author': 'Green_Cloaked', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1731432335} | {'id': 'lwreaad', 'text': "Once Chinese carmakers catch up to Tesla's battery technology, will car makers use Tesla patents or Chinese?", 'author': 'GrandAdmiralSnackbar', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731425450} | 1gpmctq | Cmv: there is nothing Trump could do that could justify a 40% increase in tesla’s market cap | Tesla stock has experienced a 40% increase in the last week following Trump's victory. Elon was a very public and vocal advocate for Trump's presidency, and was a big financial backer.
The broader stock market (aka S&P500) has experienced around a 1.5-2% increase in value following this development, presumably off th... | 1,731,422,847 | original_og_gangster | nan | nan | 2024-11-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Buffets are Glorified Cafeterias | {'id': 'lv81ero', 'text': 'No, all you can eat at other restaurants is typically limited to one type of food. The 5the plate of the same food is burning. Buffet has variety', 'author': 'Nrdman', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730660386} | {'id': 'lv7whzb', 'text': 'My JV football team went to a Cici’s pizza buffet and lots of them were eating 30+ pieces of (small) pizza, it was pretty funny to watch.', 'author': 'Jugales', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730658950} | 1gitcjf | CMV: Buffets are Glorified Cafeterias | I used to love buffets when I was younger. Now that I'm older, I feel like buffets are nothing more than glorified cafeterias. Everyone stands in line waiting to get food that would taste so much better fresh from the grill/stove to your table at a restaurant. Everyone is touching the same utensils to grab food and it ... | 1,730,657,890 | PresentEuphoric2216 | nan | nan | 2024-11-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Anyone who demands “allyship” from others is incredibly naive or a narcissist. | {'id': 'lun96uw', 'text': "Even what I describe requires some degree of going out of one's way and personal inconvenience. Like if I'm sitting in the office and I overhear one coworker being homophobic to another I should step in - that's still going out of my way and inconveniencing myself. But unless I'm misunderstan... | {'id': 'lun86uk', 'text': "Yeah I was going to make precisely this point. Effective devotion to any political cause necessarily involves some level of reciprocity, which is best captured by solidarity. To respond to OP's example, any feminist that thinks that men should not expect anything from allyship is misguided. B... | 1gg5grw | CMV: Anyone who demands “allyship” from others is incredibly naive or a narcissist. | The entire concept of "allyship" in modern social justice discourse is that someone actively devotes themselves to addressing the cause of a group that they don't belong to. This necessarily seems to imply a certain degree of exclusivity, since it's not realistically possible to actively devote yourself to every single... | 1,730,345,560 | Gilbert__Bates | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If you think cousin marriage should be illegal, you should believe the same for disabled people reproducing | {'id': 'lxgmbxb', 'text': 'That would be eugenics. The problem with eugenics is that a lack of genetic diversity is bad for humans. Which is why we don’t breed with our cousins', 'author': 'EnvironmentalNature2', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1731778494} | {'id': 'lxfv4aq', 'text': '“Hey, for health reasons, don’t have sex with these 1-20 or so people.”\n\n“Hey, for health reasons, you should never have sec with anyone, ever.”\n\nYup, same same. /s', 'author': 'critical-drinking', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1731769461} | 1gsom1j | CMV: If you think cousin marriage should be illegal, you should believe the same for disabled people reproducing | People are against cousin marriage because it breeds children with birth defects which can find it difficult to integrate into society. Most people (except for those from the Middle-East and South Asia) accept this as the norm.
However, most people are against banning disabled people from reproducing because they thin... | 1,731,767,942 | Any_Donut8404 | nan | nan | 2024-11-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: We are in the midst of US political alignments shifting. | {'id': 'lxqe9m2', 'text': '"Coal Ash Kills Workers. Trump Kills Coal Ash Regulations." Title of the article.\n\nBro he appointed supreme court justices that were anti abortion. What? You believe the words of a liar? A con artist? A rapist and pdfile? \n\nHe fully knew what they planned to do and he lied to you and you ... | {'id': 'lxqduji', 'text': "That's not what it's for.\n\nThe DOGE exists to recommend people to fire.\nFor example, here's what one of it's leaders had to say :\n\n>Anybody in the federal bureaucracy who is not elected … if your Social Security number ends in an odd number, you’re out. It ends in an even number, you’re ... | 1gu0ntv | CMV: We are in the midst of US political alignments shifting. | Just like the common factchecked \["democrats founded the KKK" argument,\](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/30/fact-check-democratic-party-did-not-found-kkk-start-civil-war/3253803001/) political alignments are appearing to shift from where they once were. Republicans are shifting to more, often th... | 1,731,920,509 | Sairry | nan | nan | 2024-11-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Toxic negativity is infinitely worse than toxic positivity. | {'id': 'lwyylga', 'text': 'How about "here, let me help you by raising awareness to your situation so that people in your area can see you and help"? How about starting a GoFundMe? How about just saying "I\'m sorry that I can\'t help you, but you deserve better"? Do NOT tell them "just look on the bright side!"', 'auth... | {'id': 'lwsu1gj', 'text': "For sure. \nYour topic is inherently difficult, and that's okay. \nIt oftentimes takes a hundred page thesis to get a solid set of ideas across to others. \nSaid, you did your best, I'm sure. \nI did feel compelled to say my piece, considering the topic is incredibly important and worth talk... | 1gpra2v | CMV: Toxic negativity is infinitely worse than toxic positivity. | The premise of my argument falls into three major components:
1) The things people are calling toxic positvity are at worst useless advice and nothing else.
2) Toxic negativity encourages complicity and self-destruction along with the destruction of others and often people who challenge toxic negativity are accused o... | 1,731,435,224 | No-Politics-Allowed3 | nan | nan | 2024-11-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most Pro-Choice Arguments are Dumb | {'id': 'lx8l515', 'text': "Preterm birthing is not an option past viability, at least not legally.\n\nShe can only object to the continued use of her body until the legal deadline. In a number of countries even before viability, i.e. at 8, 12 or 14 weeks.\n\nIf personhood really didn't matter, then (elective) preterm b... | {'id': 'lx8hhz3', 'text': "You are deciding for that person that a fetus is not a person. \n\nYou don't get to make that decision for everyone. \n\nIt is 100% logical to say that personhood begins at conception. \n\nWhy do you get to just completely dismiss this?\n\nWhy couldn't I make an argument that personhood does ... | 1grpwd4 | CMV: Most Pro-Choice Arguments are Dumb | What I mean by this:
I am pro-choice, however there are multiple arguments from the pro-choice side of this debate that aren’t even convincing to *me*, someone who is already pro-choice. So how on earth would they convince a pro-lifer? I think the only good argument (and the one reason I’ve always been pro-choice) is ... | 1,731,650,831 | SzayelGrance | nan | nan | 2024-11-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Republicans will continue to win both the Presidency and Senate continually till 2036. | {'id': 'lxl7qei', 'text': '>Trump has been present before and Harris hasn’t, so wouldn’t Harris be the change?\xa0\n\nA lot of people considered a Harris administration as just a continuation of the Biden administration.', 'author': 'YuenglingsDingaling', 'score': 6, 'timestamp': 1731849793} | {'id': 'lxl6irg', 'text': 'well, if the economy doesnt get better in the next 4 years, and then it doesnt goes better in the 4 years after that, why should people vote republican *again* in 2032?', 'author': 'ProDavid_', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1731849236} | 1gtd4qy | CMV: Republicans will continue to win both the Presidency and Senate continually till 2036. | The Republicans are clearly on top electorally. I think we all knew that a Republican win was a possibility, and I did predict it outright, but we also were not expecting that kind of margin of victory.
My prediction is things will stay this way until 2036 at least for the Presidency and Senate.
My first reason is ... | 1,731,848,727 | Early-Possibility367 | nan | nan | 2024-11-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: International Military Law is appropriate and realistic | {'id': 'lxryweh', 'text': 'The conventions have a definition.\n\nFrom Protocol 1 article 49:\n\n1. "Attacks" means acts of violence against the adversary, whether in offence or in defence.', 'author': 'sicilianbaguette', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1731947353} | {'id': 'lxb2r3t', 'text': 'Okay and what is the UN going to do about it? Also bomb the terrorists and the civilians they hide behind?', 'author': 'Morthra', 'score': -2, 'timestamp': 1731696223} | 1grx575 | CMV: International Military Law is appropriate and realistic | This topic is specifically about one pushback I see in discussions around international military law (IML). The crux of the argument that others make is that the standards militaries are held to under international military law are unrealistic and unachievable.
I don't believe this is true and believe there is quite a... | 1,731,679,683 | Toverhead | nan | nan | 2024-11-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: There's no reason marriage should only be between romantic couples | {'id': 'lxfjg49', 'text': 'I’m not really trying to change your view but I married my platonic best friend because she had a medical issue and needed insurance. We both assumed we would just get divorced at some later date in the future when the medical issue was dealt with.\n\nBut we both really loved being married an... | {'id': 'lxfiii4', 'text': 'Traditionally, the ONLY reason for marriage as a concept existing and overarching most human societies IS children. Marriage, as a legal social construct was the man taking responsibility for a woman and her children. This is also the reason for the historical legal provisions around marriage... | 1gsn54f | CMV: There's no reason marriage should only be between romantic couples | I am going to keep it simple. think friendship is an amazing bond, and some people would love seeing their best friend every day. Friends who live together should be able to access the benefits of being married.
I know that nowadays, (I believe) they can marry, but I have never seen it happen in my life so far.
Yes... | 1,731,763,298 | INFPneedshelp | nan | nan | 2024-11-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: People were never equal, in modern world are not equal and will never be equal. | {'id': 'lxit3dt', 'text': ">Yes, I give the benefit of the doubt since years ago we didn't believe we would have technologies like the ones we have now, right?\n\nThanks for conceding you don't know the future.\n\nI am glad you changed your view, even if it was a little bit.", 'author': 'BaronNahNah', 'score': 3, 'time... | {'id': 'lxis654', 'text': 'People aren’t equal. That’s life. You have those that settle and you have those who want to inspire to be something bigger. Creativity…outward thinking. \n\nI remember those days of depending on welfare and WIC. It becomes a generational mentality and government dependability. I don’t think ... | 1gt18dl | CMV: People were never equal, in modern world are not equal and will never be equal. | It's basically explained in biology but in my last posts I argued with a lot of lefties (as a lefty too) saying we are equal.
Yes, there are general few things like health services and safety and laws that should be applied on everyone.
However, life in general is not fair.
Even you like someone and dislike another ... | 1,731,803,326 | imyana13 | nan | nan | 2024-11-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Anyone who votes for Trump is completely lacking in moral fiber because they are voting for a known rapist | {'id': 'lv0eeh0', 'text': "There's a wide and important gulf between disagreeing with someone's reasoning and believing that they don't actually believe their reasoning just because you don't find it persuasive.\n\nIf you insist on flatly disbelieving the strongest argument against your view, I don't see how it's possi... | {'id': 'lv0d2zo', 'text': '>It’s goes without saying anyone that the Clinton’s endorse or “hang with” are just as bad( Including Harris)\n\nNo, you definitely have to explain that one. The Clintons would endorse virtually any Democratic candidate for president. You don’t get to just blanket the entire party with the ac... | 1ghvjyr | CMV: Anyone who votes for Trump is completely lacking in moral fiber because they are voting for a known rapist | Ever since the court found that Trump raped Jean Carroll and ordered him to pay a restitution fee for defaming her when he said he didn't rape her, Donald Trump should have been automatically disqualified as a candidate because no one would vote for him. Rape is one of the ugliest crimes imaginable and it speaks to the... | 1,730,551,333 | Cannavor | nan | nan | 2024-11-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Ghosts are real | {'id': 'lvdfc62', 'text': "If you can see or hear them so can your smart phone, no special equipment required. If they existed, we would have plenty of evidence by now. But we don't, so they don't.", 'author': 'Dennis_enzo', 'score': 12, 'timestamp': 1730739072} | {'id': 'lvdc6y0', 'text': 'It is entirely possible that there is something environmental in specific areas that causes people to have similar visual hallucinations. That does not mean that the souls of dead humans are inhabiting our world.', 'author': 'p0tat0p0tat0', 'score': 11, 'timestamp': 1730738136} | 1gjiezp | CMV: Ghosts are real | I need to clarify first that I am thai., and ghost stories are pretty much ubiquitous in thailand, and my mom also was a kind of shaman so I quite firmly believe in it.
I think there's a few reasons that ghosts can be real and is just not investigated enough. 1. We don't know what are ghosts even in general sense, th... | 1,730,737,735 | Sigmamale5678 | nan | nan | 2024-11-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Financial liability should be capped at national averages for what you damaged | {'id': 'lugmauh', 'text': 'Yeah- like I am all for social change- but if one idea required another ideal for it to be more good then harm- why not advise the pre-requisite ideas first?', 'author': 'ForgetfullRelms', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730256016} | {'id': 'lugjamq', 'text': ">**So instead we should punish the owner of an expensive object** because someone else's brain glitched?\n\nYes, that's what OP wants to do.\n\nThat's why we hear a hell-of-a-lot about 'taxing the rich' but never about what the additional money would be spent on. It's about catharsis, not hel... | 1gfbuub | CMV: Financial liability should be capped at national averages for what you damaged | The human mind is a fickle and faulty beast. While we do need a deterrent to disincentivize preventable accidents, everyone is capable of getting in an accident at some point in their life.
If I have a 1/10000 chance of getting in a car accident in the next year, why do I have to be responsible for replacing your bug... | 1,730,253,665 | snogo | nan | nan | 2024-10-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I think art is more of a talent than a skill. | {'id': 'lxwlhz7', 'text': "If your last sincere attempts at drawing were ten years ago, describing yourself as a hopeless case is, frankly, silly. You have no idea what you're capable of - you haven't tried since you were a *child!* \n\nI started drawing for myself fifteen years ago, randomly, because I felt like it. I... | {'id': 'lxwgsue', 'text': "This line of argumentation doesn't line up with the fact that there are 5 year olds out there, who draw better than a normal person would, if they trained drawing for 2-3 years. The idea that drawing is just motor control is also unsubstantiated. If that were the case we would expect the peop... | 1gusun1 | CMV: I think art is more of a talent than a skill. | I don't think that art; drawing, sculpting, painting, is something that just anyone can learn how to do and that everyone who's good at it has a natural talent. Sure they can develop that talent, but they need to have that foundational talent to begin with.
Ever since school, I've been around people who liked doodling... | 1,732,006,241 | Express_Proof_183 | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Both pro-life and pro-choice are equally virtuous stances and entirely dependent on your perspective on life | {'id': 'lus573o', 'text': 'I think this is a great argument for why we should be empathetic to them and understand why they do what they do but the strength of their convictions doesn’t inherently make them righteous. They certainly think they’re doing something holy but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to feel th... | {'id': 'luryfjz', 'text': "I don't think the two arguments have anything to do with each other. The Bible says all manner of things that the average Christian would never subscribe to, particularly in the Old Testament.\n\nIf what the \\*average\\* religious adherent takes away from the book is a bias to NOT harm other... | 1ggrel2 | CMV: Both pro-life and pro-choice are equally virtuous stances and entirely dependent on your perspective on life | I personally am pro-choice. Please don't make this screaming about assumptions regarding my personal views. This isn't even really primarily about choice vs life, it's about how both sides treat and view each other. I understand that the choice vs life debate is part of that discussion though.
Pro-life people are ofte... | 1,730,415,329 | Great_Big_Failure | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: All edited images on social media should have warning tags | {'id': 'lxvwwsm', 'text': 'The incentive would simply be people trusting the authenticity of your image. For instance, maybe newspapers and TV news stations start agreeing to only buy images that are proven to be authentic. There is no way to enforce a demerit of any kind - you need to create a marker that people actua... | {'id': 'lxvubcx', 'text': 'I think you’re intentions behind it are fine, but there are so many logistical issues with enforcing something like this that it’ll likely lead to no progress, or at best minimal progress, in solving your issue. Even if it was isolated to social media, would it be self tagged as edited, or wo... | 1gupisb | CMV: All edited images on social media should have warning tags | I was discussing this with my wife, but I'm of the opinion that every single image on social media should come with warnings if they are photoshopped, AI altered, filtered, etc.
It seems young people can barely see what's real and fake anymore and it's creating a massive problem where they think people with certain bo... | 1,731,992,366 | bbongal_kun | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Bear 399 should have been euthanized a long time ago | {'id': 'ly09pfl', 'text': 'Wild animals that are endangered or not considered viable in the wild end up in zoos all the time for perfectly good reasons. Also, it seems to me that a bear famous for being calm around humans would be an ideal zoo animal.', 'author': '86thesteaks', 'score': 14, 'timestamp': 1732056686} | {'id': 'ly07au7', 'text': "It's human nature to domesticate animals, in 1000 years we will have pet bears. There is no stopping it, once bears evolved to be adorable their fate was sealed.", 'author': 'flagellat-ey', 'score': 7, 'timestamp': 1732055912} | 1gv9vgk | CMV: Bear 399 should have been euthanized a long time ago |
Like many people, I did not know about Bear 399 until her death a few weeks ago. But ever since the news broke, I have learned all about her and the one of a kind life she lived as a bear.
For anyone who is not aware, she is famous for intentionally living in human populated areas as a (theorized) defense mechanis... | 1,732,055,203 | ChebaButt | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The best way to tax corporations would be to base the tax rate on the CEO to Median Worker ratio. | {'id': 'lxcqurh', 'text': 'so even if the CEO earns a very reasonable salary with very reasonable stock options, and they bank up decades of stock options working that the job, and then in a single year they execute all those options, it bumps the income up for that single year, increasing taxes to 40% revenue, which a... | {'id': 'lx75sds', 'text': '“You know that there’s actually only three titles that actually mean anything for a corporation? It’s president, secretary, and treasurer. And technically they can be the same person. And all these other titles are just basically made up. So CEO is a made-up title, CFO is a made-up title. Gen... | 1grm7tk | CMV: The best way to tax corporations would be to base the tax rate on the CEO to Median Worker ratio. | The boiling frog in the US is the middle class. A few stats for context:
In 1972, towards the end of the New Deal era, 61% of households were considered middle class. By 2023, that dropped to 51%.
In 1972, 70% of households were single-income households. By 2023, that had dropped to 34.7%.
That means with 35.3% mo... | 1,731,638,121 | megadelegate | nan | nan | 2024-11-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Random ballot is a actually an excellent voting system | {'id': 'lv1kkkn', 'text': ">It's all about incentives. I was going to try to avoid specific examples as to be unbiased, but from what you have said I am going to assume you are not a trump supporter. Trump can be extremely conservative, such as denying LGBTQIA+ rights, stances on immigration, etc, and still have a chan... | {'id': 'lv1ebfy', 'text': "1. I don't see how they don't work with each other. Let's say that I am a mainstream Democrat. Let's say that RFK Jr. gets elected. I'm not going to feel represented in that election, or for the next four years. If you are a member of a mainstream political group, then you are much, much less... | 1ghzo63 | CMV: Random ballot is a actually an excellent voting system | Hello,
[Random ballot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_ballot) (Wikipedia) is a voting system wherein a ballot is randomly selected and the choice made by that ballot is elected. Said another way, any candidate with nonzero votes can win, with probability proportional to the number of votes. In one sense, this so... | 1,730,563,226 | MediumLog6435 | nan | nan | 2024-11-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Had Bernie Sanders not been thrust out and won the Dem nomination in ‘16, the US would be pushing Left today, as opposed to Right | {'id': 'lvqb56a', 'text': "That's a very different view though, isn't it? I'm thinking a straight talking midwest populist is probably the best bet for Dems, with center left-leaning economic policy paired with downplaying social issues.", 'author': 'fossil_freak68', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1730908688} | {'id': 'lvq9e1f', 'text': 'Doubtful. Unless…\n\n… if Bernie would’ve been good for the economy the. We would go more left.\xa0\n\n… if Bernie tanked the economy America would still vote for a party change.\xa0', 'author': 'Beginning-Comedian-2', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730908228} | 1gl1dsp | CMV: Had Bernie Sanders not been thrust out and won the Dem nomination in ‘16, the US would be pushing Left today, as opposed to Right | The 2024 election has taught people, myself included, a lot about what wins elections, for better or for worse: authenticity and a “like us” mentality. Coastal elite Democrats don’t have either of these whatsoever by default. Your Hillary Clintons, Kamala Harrises, Gavin Newsoms, Chuck Schumers, and more, repping perce... | 1,730,907,665 | mattr1198 | nan | nan | 2024-11-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Bluetooth headphones are a health risk | {'id': 'lxyrv30', 'text': "It doesn't. The study itself points out that the data merely suggests there may be a link, and that it shouldn't be taken as evidence.\n\n\nIf you keep looking, you'll find all manner of other studies showing no link whatsoever. You can't just cherry-pick the one study that kinda aligns with ... | {'id': 'lxynlvc', 'text': 'I’m saying let’s assume that using Bluetooth earphones for say 2 hours everyday for 50 years was the health risk equivalent of a transatlantic flight every month for 50 years- in other words the two activities have the same effect on your health. \n\nI think it’s reasonable to say that the ri... | 1gv0tk7 | CMV: Bluetooth headphones are a health risk | I've held out using Bluetooth headphones out of fear that it will increase my risk of cancer years down the road. Finally I have a cell phone that has no jack, so I never use it for music. The thing is I really want to bring it to the gym and stream.
Bluetooth is said to have lower radiation than cellphones. I totally... | 1,732,032,777 | luigijerk | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Saying Whites or Europeans are responsible for colonialism as a whole and should apologize for it is blatantly ignorant. | {'id': 'ls6gzug', 'text': 'Good point well made. How do I put a delta here?', 'author': 'bluntpencil2001', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1729074218} | {'id': 'ls3zjfq', 'text': 'That’s called recency bias. It’s not a correct line of thinking.', 'author': 'Dramatic_Reality_531', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1729030451} | 1g4f1jh | CMV: Saying Whites or Europeans are responsible for colonialism as a whole and should apologize for it is blatantly ignorant. | First, only a handful of European countries were involved in colonialism in the first place. Another thing to also consider is the colonialism of Latin America is entirely different from the colonialism of Africa.
If you were to choose a colonizer you’d probably pick the Spainards. Now, they went to Latin America and ... | 1,729,017,755 | Different_Salad_6359 | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Voters in economically disadvantaged states who support the Republican Party are voting against their own self-interests. | {'id': 'lxxn40k', 'text': "I don't think you established that they are voting against their own self-interest is a true statement. You can't just state as a Democrat, Democrat policies are better for people. Obviously they believe they are voting for what they think is best for them. It can't just be you saying you are... | {'id': 'lxwrmjw', 'text': '> If you’re correct in that all the big corporations and billionaires supported Harris… she would’ve won\n\nHow are you so sure about that? Let me see your reasoning.\n\n> But overall they like the GOP and it’s a reason the market rallied after the race was called\n\nMore like because they re... | 1gurq0i | CMV: Voters in economically disadvantaged states who support the Republican Party are voting against their own self-interests. | A diagram or “meme” is circulating online that shows a red map of Oklahoma with some of that state’s economic and social characteristics listed, along with a blue map of Massachusetts and a similar list. Its title is “In 2024 Only 2 States Voted Unanimously—Let’s Compare.” That diagram is generating a long and fascinat... | 1,732,000,992 | lambchop-pdx | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Cutting off family/friends over who they voted for is valid | {'id': 'lvvmv9k', 'text': 'I can certainly empathize with this, I understand that these issues are very sensitive and do impact a lot of people, but I believe the underlying motivations for a Trump vote were simple, when people are out of work for a year without any prospects or underemployed and are fighting everyday ... | {'id': 'lvvmhee', 'text': 'Bingo! As much as people like to pretend there are single issue voters they must contend with the fact that if I vote only on abortion I also have to vote against business and for socialism or if I vote against socialism I also have to vote pro abortion.\n\nIt also explains why third parties ... | 1glmwfw | CMV: Cutting off family/friends over who they voted for is valid | I believe cutting out family, friends, co workers etc over the choice they made at the polls is completely valid and no one should feel bad for it. Let me explain.
I’ve cut several people out of my life over their support for Trump over the past few weeks, and cut even more out when i found out the voted for Trump. T... | 1,730,972,992 | young_comrade_ | nan | nan | 2024-11-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: White, Evangelical American Christians have the biggest persecution complexes in this country. | {'id': 'lxzqux4', 'text': '> I wouldn’t say they’re the most persecuted\n\nYour view to be changed is "Evangelical American Christians have the biggest *persecution complexes* in this country." Not, evangelicals are the most persecuted. To me a "persecution complex" means that you are giving more weight to the amount ... | {'id': 'lxzq1rh', 'text': '1. Prove something that is non-falsifiable? \n2. Don’t define what “legitimate” means in terms of opression? \n3. Make another claim that is not empirically provable given you snuck in the word “unjustified”? \n\nNo one will be able to change your mind given your list of demands.', 'author': ... | 1gv7sd3 | CMV: White, Evangelical American Christians have the biggest persecution complexes in this country. | I believe in America, the people with the biggest persecution complexes are white evangelical Christians. They consistently talk about how they are oppressed because other people are slowly receiving equal treatment under the law. (More rights for others doesn’t equal less rights for you, it’s not pie). They say that t... | 1,732,049,950 | Ihbpfjastme | nan | nan | 2024-11-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Donald Trump is less like Hungary's Orbán or Russia's Putin, and more like Andrew Jackson. | {'id': 'lyn671b', 'text': "And by 'rampage' you mean that he was upset that he won a plurality of the votes but lost the presidency due to the nature of the electoral college. You understand that is fundamentally a different thing from putting together seven false slates of electors and attempting to have your VP decla... | {'id': 'lymwles', 'text': 'I agree with you that Trump will be very unlikely to install a dictatorship.\n\n\nI disagree with you insofar as our guardrails will stay intact.\n\n\nOur well being as a country will be weathered survivable but we will be significantly worse for it. But one of the worst things has already ha... | 1gy68hh | CMV: Donald Trump is less like Hungary's Orbán or Russia's Putin, and more like Andrew Jackson. | I understand the fear that those whose believes lie with the American left has, but fear not, Donald Trump is more like Andrew Jackson and less like the authoritarians of the modern age. In fact, he is not a wannabe dictator or authoritarian at all. Our guardrails will remain intact.
I believe that those who compare T... | 1,732,386,404 | godlike_hikikomori | nan | nan | 2024-11-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: American Democracy is Over | {'id': 'lwcueu7', 'text': 'The GOP was not in charge of all three branches of government. \n\nPolitics were different but the systems are still there. \n[Military officials are prepared to push back against illegal orders](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/nov/08/us-election-live-donald-trump-cabinet-house-... | {'id': 'lwcqsu2', 'text': "Isn't this opinion contradicted by history? Can you name a single time this has happened in U.S. history (not a 3rd term, that's fairly recent. But rigging elections etc.)? Didn't he fail with his false electorate scheme and wasn't there multiple assassination attempts against him? I guess I'... | 1gnqo05 | CMV: American Democracy is Over | Trump spent a significant amount of energy in the last term firing staffers, judges, election officials and other importantly ranked individuals across the country and replacing them with loyalists. His mar-a-lago classified documents case was about as dead to rights as any case could ever possibly be and it got kille... | 1,731,206,367 | conn_r2112 | nan | nan | 2024-11-10 | 2024_fall |
CMV: A weighted coin is a better way to elect the president than the electoral college | {'id': 'ly27g8g', 'text': "I too support a popular vote over the electoral college, but I support either over a weighted coin.\n\nPeople will simply not accept the legitimacy of an outcome based on a game of chance. The current system of basing it on swing states is stupid, but at least comes down to actually appealin... | {'id': 'ly1zn0e', 'text': "No. Hell, I'm not even talking about this specific election. I am just using those two votes as an example to illustrate that when push comes to shove it isn't actually about any of the excuses you use, it is about power. \n\nYou don't care that the senate is unequal for absurd reasons, you c... | 1gvh1fe | CMV: A weighted coin is a better way to elect the president than the electoral college | So, before I make my argument, I want to get a few things out of the way: I’m a liberal, and I voted for Kamala in this election. And she lost fair and square. Personally, I prefer popular vote (she lost there, too) to the weighted coin, but I think the weighted coin is just a better overall option to the electoral col... | 1,732,075,856 | Orang-Himbleton | nan | nan | 2024-11-20 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Youth Tackle Football Should Be Banned | {'id': 'lwslnce', 'text': "Okay i see long term non head injuries, while yes they can pose significant risk, are less likely to occur. The reason concussions and traumatic-brain-injuries are the main issue I'm making a stink about is that concussions go underreported until they are causing issues in the injured parties... | {'id': 'lwpl7h1', 'text': "Oh my God bruh it ain't that deep. \n\nSports are significantly less dangerous than other activities which are banned for minors, for example, Marijuana, driving, hard drugs, and smoking.\n\n Tackle football is the only sport that is available to play at an organized level in certain areas. \... | 1gpcs4n | CMV: Youth Tackle Football Should Be Banned | To clarify my stance, I believe tackle football should be banned for children until at least middle school or high school. The primary reason is that, by that age, kids can make an informed decision about whether they want to play tackle football.
It is extremely detrimental for younger children to play tackle footbal... | 1,731,386,292 | Key_Beautiful6318 | nan | nan | 2024-11-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If the script was flipped and it was “men’s rights” being fought for then Kamala would’ve won. | {'id': 'ly3gr6w', 'text': 'Yeah, I get it. I just think a lot of men\'s issues could not conceivably be "on the ballot" the same way women\'s issues are. At least, not while maintaining the overall environment similar enough that the thought experiment would make sense.', 'author': 'Giblette101', 'score': 3, 'timestamp... | {'id': 'ly3cljz', 'text': 'If it were men’s rights at stake. Most women would have either stayed home or voted based on their perception of the economy, just like men did. If anything, Trump would have won even more votes in this scenario.', 'author': 'Gilbert__Bates', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1732107862} | 1gvox13 | CMV: If the script was flipped and it was “men’s rights” being fought for then Kamala would’ve won. | This might be my cognitive bias speaking, but if you look at the numbers of women who voted in prior elections vs. this one (exit polls) they all stayed the same. This is especially with women of color who are more likely to experience poverty and thus the economy wasn’t their main concern as everyone is spitting out. ... | 1,732,107,568 | E_EQL_MC2 | nan | nan | 2024-11-20 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Having sex with your family home if you know they can possibly hear it is weird | {'id': 'ly9k2ov', 'text': 'so did I change your view that it can not be weird?', 'author': 'tanglekelp', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1732206244} | {'id': 'ly9bkfh', 'text': "And that's why all the fun ends once you have a child.", 'author': 'Objective_Ad_6265', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1732200584} | 1gwhk8x | CMV: Having sex with your family home if you know they can possibly hear it is weird | I've always felt like this but I made a post about this yesterday and got tore into so I thought I would make this here. I think it's weird how some people have normalized having sex with their family members home, especially if they can hear you. I see jokes about people walking out of their partners room knowing thei... | 1,732,199,364 | Accomplished-Fix1204 | nan | nan | 2024-11-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: We should find short-term solutions to climate change and throw future generations under the bus so that current young generations get to live as good as the boomers did | {'id': 'lynun12', 'text': 'For the first one: this is why I wrote about demanding from your governments. What you wrote need to be mandated and enforced by them. \n\nFor the second one: this is just a detail. Once you force governments to actually care, it is easy to design a system that would punish corporations for e... | {'id': 'lynqr0d', 'text': "You mean like coal-power air conditioning? Bring it on.\n\nOr do you mean you want to be able to venture outdoors and enjoy cooler temperatures? Perhaps you'd be interested in a Swedish device known as a *Volvo*.", 'author': 'npchunter', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1732405933} | 1gybkuo | CMV: We should find short-term solutions to climate change and throw future generations under the bus so that current young generations get to live as good as the boomers did | We, the current young people (20-30 or so) find ourselves willingly or unwillingly paying for the ecological and economic debts made by those who have lived before us on this huge ball commonly called Earth. This usually means we have to get used to living for the rest of our lives in a significantly worse economic and... | 1,732,400,607 | CapoDiMalaSperanza | nan | nan | 2024-11-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The United States should abolish the income tax. | {'id': 'lwfw3k7', 'text': "pre-16th amendment, the government was making most of its money from tarriffs, which fucked over poor people considerably, since the cost burden was being passed onto them. Introducing progressive federal income tax didn't just help the poor, it also opened up international trade by replacing... | {'id': 'lwfw0qw', 'text': '>they tend to vote for limited government anyway while accepting a ton of federal dollars relative to their populations\n\nI had a feeling this was the root of the issue. You should look into those numbers more closely.\n\nThey include military and other spending that doesn\'t actually benefi... | 1go53i6 | CMV: The United States should abolish the income tax. | I'm pretty solidly liberal, but I've recently (within the last few years) come around to the idea that the U.S. should abolish the income tax.
Originally in the Constitution, taxes were required to be directly apportioned among the states with respect to their population, such that each state had dollars in the game ... | 1,731,257,793 | Able_Buy_2499 | nan | nan | 2024-11-10 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I don't think prequels work fundamentally. | {'id': 'lyqpgwj', 'text': '> In Shakespeare, we don’t know what will happen to specific characters\n\nIsn’t that the same for prequels? In Rogue One, we know that the Death Star plans will be safely delivered to Leia, but we don’t know what will happen to any of the individual characters.\n\n> We read Shakespeare for t... | {'id': 'lyqlrv0', 'text': "Isn't this already the case for like more than 50% of movies though?\n\nWe don't know plot details and specific developments, but most people can correctly guess the endings and outcomes. Nobody watching mission impossible, fast and furious, most superhero movies, harry potter movies, die har... | 1gyr3ti | CMV: I don't think prequels work fundamentally. | The entire point of a prequel is to show what happened before the events of the book/movie/ TV show unfolded. But the thing is, *we already know how the entire story will end*. I think this forces the writers to make up entirely new storylines for characters who appeared in the original movie/book/TV show, but this com... | 1,732,455,372 | Fun_Protection_6939 | nan | nan | 2024-11-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Liberals and Conservatives are all contradictory. | {'id': 'lwixvgq', 'text': "It often is. Consider the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. Iran blockade the Persian Gulf and began sinling civilian oil tankers. This drove gas prices up in the United States, which led to the US sending the Navy to ensure shipping lanes went unmolested. Iran mined the waters, badly damaged a USN vess... | {'id': 'lwirzph', 'text': "This is the first time I've actually seen a view in this sub that I think I can change. \n\nWhat you're describing aren't liberals or conservatives, they are Democrats and Republicans. Liberal and conservative are both political ideologies that are often conflated with something called party ... | 1gohilu | CMV: Liberals and Conservatives are all contradictory. | I see liberals talking about love and peace then threatening to kill people over hunting. I see Republicans talk about oil and how important it is to our economy then advocate war with the middle east who are some of the largest oil producers.
I see both sides blame the other for the state of the economy when that is a... | 1,731,291,400 | Lanky_Wait_2219 | nan | nan | 2024-11-11 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Israel is more dangerous to the USA than Iran | {'id': 'lrnfrb4', 'text': 'So you’re saying that someone accidentally harming someone else is less ethically wrong than someone intentionally directing another person to harm a person. Please explain with that in mind how Israel’s accidental strike on the USS Liberty was more ethically wrong than Iran’s use of its prox... | {'id': 'lrna1sk', 'text': 'Premise 1 can potentially work if you take the position that Israel has killed more Americans in armed attacks than Iran, but if you consider the arming and funding of proxy groups such as Hamas, Ansar Allah, Hezbollah, etc. as a form of killing, then Iran has very likely killed more American... | 1g2d5n5 | CMV: Israel is more dangerous to the USA than Iran | To argue that Israel poses a greater danger to the USA than Iran, I'm going to base my argument on three primary premises (as described below). To be clear; this is the argument that Isreal HAS BEEN and currently IS more dangerous to the USA than Iran, and not a argument of what WILL be the case in the future; although... | 1,728,777,268 | SaberiSixRealtor | nan | nan | 2024-10-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Buying a purebreed cat when you are surrounded by homeless cats is unethical | {'id': 'lvk3y86', 'text': 'She’s an amazing little cat! Fortunately her disability isn’t super debilitating (she was originally intended to be a breeding cat, she acquired nerve damage that would prevent her from giving live birth) but I would absolutely purchase a Bengal in the future if I couldn’t rescue. \n\nBeing a... | {'id': 'lvjgx1f', 'text': "I think you'll have to either extend this view to cover more things or you will have to walk it back and I'll try to explain why.\n\n>Most people's motivation to buy a purebreed cat is simply their looks\n\npeople buy lots of things simply for their looks. And I think its a bit more then loo... | 1gk4rl5 | CMV: Buying a purebreed cat when you are surrounded by homeless cats is unethical | If you live in an area where there are tons of stray cats or if there are shelters full of cats waiting for adoption, and you still choose to buy a purebreed cat, it's unethical act.
Most people's motivation to buy a purebreed cat is simply their looks which is not a valid reason when there are tons of cute cats wait... | 1,730,807,032 | Party-Background8066 | nan | nan | 2024-11-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The blanket idea that child support should be forced even if abortion is legalized falls apart with the concept of SA | {'id': 'lymd3il', 'text': 'But laws banning doctors from performing abortion don’t violate bodily autonomy. Bodily autonomy only gives you the right to do things to your body by yourself. It does not give doctors the right to perform abortions.', 'author': 'Relative-File-1321', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1732388939} | {'id': 'lyl8f8k', 'text': "Because it's not about the victim of tape, it's about the child. You wouldn't bee rewarding a rapist for assaulting a man, but providing financial support for the kid that had nothing to do with it.", 'author': 'Domestiicated-Batman', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1732375767} | 1gy1uxk | CMV: The blanket idea that child support should be forced even if abortion is legalized falls apart with the concept of SA | This is one concept that I've never heard discussed or seen come up and it popped into my head while reading a different post about a prisoner who apparently impregnated like 5 people who worked for the prison.
So the argument I see regarding forced parenthood is usually this:
**A:** If women have the choice to have ... | 1,732,374,990 | Shak3Zul4 | nan | nan | 2024-11-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If you don't know the culture of a country well, when faced with a controversial topic you should first ask questions and then form an opinion. | {'id': 'lsq1t36', 'text': '>Obviously, in extreme cases it is okay to say "no", even if we don\'t have much context\n\n>Well, that\'s not a cultural thing. We\'re talking about science here.\n\nBut aren\'t there some "cultural things" that are as clear cut as "science things"? Like "should people in interracial relatio... | {'id': 'lsq1sva', 'text': 'So in my country we have this amazing tradition of Saint Nicolas, which was stolen from us and rebranded into Santa Claus. Like Santa Claus our Sint Nicolas has helpers, to be specific he has blacked faced helpers. The face of the helper turned black (que people wearing black face is seen as ... | 1g7dxhv | CMV: If you don't know the culture of a country well, when faced with a controversial topic you should first ask questions and then form an opinion. | I see this a lot from people who have an opinion about my country (Argentina) without having any idea of the idiosyncrasy, culture and customs here.
Every so often a controversy arises because someone internationally recognized makes a comment that is offensive: It happened with the racist chants of the Argentine na... | 1,729,358,692 | AestheticNoAzteca | nan | nan | 2024-10-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Everyone shouldn't be expected to know about the Holocaust | {'id': 'lvwxwb1', 'text': 'THe issue is that u dont understand the need for the UN if u dont understand the specific evil of those things.\n\nDid i earn a delta?', 'author': 'Wintores', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730995155} | {'id': 'lvwx46f', 'text': '\\> *and*\xa0they kept records of what they did too\n\nWhat records are you speaking of?', 'author': 'irespectwomenlol', 'score': -2, 'timestamp': 1730994901} | 1glt1km | CMV: Everyone shouldn't be expected to know about the Holocaust | As a Thai history nerd, I have an extensive knowledge of history and an obviously aware of the horrors of the Holocaust. However, I see many Westerners criticizing Thailand and other Asian countries for not teaching their kids about the Holocaust. I feel like this is just hilarious and hypocritical of them.
How many p... | 1,730,993,297 | Any_Donut8404 | nan | nan | 2024-11-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Provided one have a different password on every website, there is no real point in complicated, hard to guess passwords | {'id': 'lyylvy0', 'text': '> Your own source shows almost all of those are social engineering phishing attacks, not password cracking.\n\nThose are just a different form of password hacking. Like, if your password is complex, you may not even remember it. But, if it is simple, it will pop right to the front of your min... | {'id': 'lyyk74y', 'text': 'i guess it depends on what you define as a "password". is a passkey a password in your view? passkeys are comprised of \\~1400 bytes that are generated each time you request the passkey from your keychain. it is incredibly complicated, incredibly hard to guess, and single-use. \n \nthe bene... | 1gzqxyb | CMV: Provided one have a different password on every website, there is no real point in complicated, hard to guess passwords | Obviously pretty much any website will limit login attempts and they're not going to let any account get bruteforced. The reasons for a complex password are in the case of security leaks, when attacks get access to the database and hashes and can get far more attempts per second than the website would normally allow. H... | 1,732,561,694 | muffinsballhair | nan | nan | 2024-11-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Politicians who vote against policies on religious grounds are no different to those who use pseudoscience to justify their stances. | {'id': 'lyxqp3e', 'text': 'So? It is certainly obnoxious and prejudiced, but contrary to popular belief, not all obnoxiousness and prejudice is religious.', 'author': 'hacksoncode', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1732556297} | {'id': 'lyxbao2', 'text': 'Thats all people. Everyone does this, atheists included. They have ideas on the world and they force others into it.', 'author': 'Haunting-Tell-6959', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1732551550} | 1gzmh12 | CMV: Politicians who vote against policies on religious grounds are no different to those who use pseudoscience to justify their stances. | This might not be popular, so I'll preface this by saying that people should 100% be allowed to practice any belief system they choose - provided that their practice doesn't harm others.
This should not, however, be allowed to be used as an excuse to vote against policies such as assisted dying, abortion or vaccines, ... | 1,732,551,153 | TBK_Winbar | nan | nan | 2024-11-25 | 2024_fall |
cmv: "Objective" Journalism isn't real and never was | {'id': 'lx9auzv', 'text': "Trying to do three times as much work in the same space of time has two effects. One is that they spend less time checking the accuracy of their stories to make sure they’re true and the other is that they are having to rely less and less on their their own investigative journalism and more a... | {'id': 'lx9ae76', 'text': "Objectivity is like justice. Both are pretty impossible in a subjective and amoral existence, but those don't mean you shouldn't strive for both ideals, it does mean that you need to act like you don't have either.\n\nYou will never have a whole story, you should strive to have the whole stor... | 1grvl12 | cmv: "Objective" Journalism isn't real and never was | This past decade or so, there's been a lot of talk regarding "biased" journalism : journalism that is deemed too partisan by either side. To name the USA only, FOX News being deemed a conservative propaganda outlet by the Democrat side, and Republicans thinking the same of democrats with CNN. Let me be clear right now ... | 1,731,674,855 | CommunicationTop6477 | nan | nan | 2024-11-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Germany wasn't evil in WW1 | {'id': 'lz7j4c4', 'text': "And the Serbians accepted it, mostly. Of course, the parts you're leaving out, and the parts they rejected, would have meant giving up their sovereignty as an independent state.", 'author': 'Whydino1', 'score': 18, 'timestamp': 1732691654} | {'id': 'lz7h1st', 'text': 'Did my point about Kaiser Wilhelm being *the* major contributor to the conditions that led to a conflict between A-H and Serbia spiraling into a wider war change your view at all?', 'author': 'Morthra', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1732690422} | 1h0xtfa | CMV: Germany wasn't evil in WW1 | WW1 was started when a Serbian terrorist murdered the Austrian Archduke and his wife. Shouldn't Germany have the right to defend her ally against a country that endorses such acts. The dispute between Austria-hungary and Serbia only spiralled into a european war when Russia and France decided to help Serbia. So it was ... | 1,732,688,067 | RandomKidssss | nan | nan | 2024-11-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Neoliberalism Perverted Our Society And Destroyed Democracy As We Knew It. | {'id': 'luqxbpb', 'text': 'So let’s just make things easy and use the start of the Reagan administration as your point of delineation. Your post makes the following claims regarding alleged impacts of neoliberalism, such that we should expect to see measures of these increase starting with Reagan’s inauguration:\n\n1. ... | {'id': 'luquzj0', 'text': 'Although I agree to a point and this was really well written and touches on important social and psychological nuances of how we react to these systems,\n\nIt’d be really great if you guys researched the actual economic model that we use that makes these abuses possible, that’s the shared fou... | 1gglp0a | CMV: Neoliberalism Perverted Our Society And Destroyed Democracy As We Knew It. | Neoliberalism has perverted our society and destroyed democracy by promoting the idea that human relations are defined by competition and that citizens. The ideology advocates market mechanisms over traditional institutions of political democracy. It suggests that the individual choice in the market place is better tha... | 1,730,399,949 | OasisLiamStan72 | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The issue with many people today is work-ethic related, but generally instead of generationally. | {'id': 'lslfeph', 'text': '>Perhaps mismanagement has a part, too. While I\'m not management, I\'m expected to manage the back end while being front-end.\n\nDo you work in a kitchen? Where is it you work or what industry? \n\nIt\'s hard to know what kind of things you\'re referring to not getting done. \n\n>but I\'m no... | {'id': 'lsl8naz', 'text': "There have always been outliers in every generation, the ones that worked harder and achieved success. \n\nModern workplaces often report genuine measurable performance differences between generations in general. So there is a generational change in work ethic, but even then there are always ... | 1g6sav8 | CMV: The issue with many people today is work-ethic related, but generally instead of generationally. | As the title surmises, work ethic is an issue, but from the standpoint of people in general instead of generationally.
I see many lauding Millennials/Zoomers as lazy and not worth hiring/working with due to a perceived lack of work ethic. It's not an age or generational issue though in my opinion. What I have witness... | 1,729,284,376 | cood101 | nan | nan | 2024-10-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Serving sizes are inherently dishonest | {'id': 'lxckzk4', 'text': 'It’s not intentionally misleading bc it isn’t really supposed to be leading anything. It’s meant to inform you so you can decide how much you want to eat. It just defines a unit of measurement so you can do the conversion. It isn’t a conspiracy lol companies can set the unit as whatever they ... | {'id': 'lxci9he', 'text': "Maybe it would be more accurate to list the nutritional information for a whole bag of chips, but let's say that you do want to eat 20 chips.\n\n\nYou have to divide the amount you want by the total amount, and that's too much math for most people. It's easier if it gives the information for ... | 1gs8ksn | CMV: Serving sizes are inherently dishonest |
Serving sizes are made out to measure the calories and nutrients/contents of your food, by a certain amount of volume or weight. Or amount.
But I often see food with serving sizes listed in blatantly misleading ways. We all know 7-12 chips (~28 grams) is roughly 120 calories but who in their right fucking mind is goi... | 1,731,709,713 | Nubian_Cavalry | nan | nan | 2024-11-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I'm never going back to a doctor again | {'id': 'lyyq4wg', 'text': "> All I've encountered is neglect and indifference. \n\nI fully understand and have experienced this myself with my son. I have empathy for you. \n\nBut, you have to see that giving up could lead to a significant reduction in your quality of life if these issues continue to present or get wo... | {'id': 'lyypehh', 'text': 'that is incredibly frustrating and i’m sorry to hear that that has been your experience\n\ndo you think it has anything to do with where you live or the medical resources available? the medical professionals you’ve interacted with seem wildly *unprofessional* to a point that i have to wonder ... | 1gzsxck | CMV: I'm never going back to a doctor again | I called 911 two days ago because I was unable to move, experiencing extreme vertigo, and vomiting. I was in and out of consciousness. They discharged me while I was unresponsive, after a nurse screamed at me for "throwing" myself at her while she tried to force me to walk, when I'd barely been able to lift my head for... | 1,732,566,460 | nosleeptillnever | nan | nan | 2024-11-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If I pay for YouTube premium, the web/app should automatically skip all sponsors within the video | {'id': 'ltiftdr', 'text': 'Check the link in the edit. It was announced for Premium on Android in June, and I confirm I have the feature on iOS 18 in October. I think what you’re asking for is already in place.', 'author': 'uiucfreshalt', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1729777756} | {'id': 'ltielmk', 'text': 'you are paying so that youtube doesnt show you youtube ads.\n\nyou are not paying so that youtube skips non-youtube ads, or otherwise censoring parts of the video you want to watch.\n\nwhat you want is not what youre paying for. dont like the deal, dont take the deal. (or use regular adblock)... | 1gb2rvm | CMV: If I pay for YouTube premium, the web/app should automatically skip all sponsors within the video | I'm already paying for an ad-free service, it makes no sense that if I pay to not see them, I have to see them anyway.
"But YouTube can't detect them if they're in the video" -> Bullshit can perfectly detect banned words or copyrighted products, it can detect this without problems. Plus there's already the SponsorB... | 1,729,776,906 | AestheticNoAzteca | nan | nan | 2024-10-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: tax cuts for the rich people, and aggressive tax minimization practices, although legal, are morally wrong | {'id': 'lyu9ro1', 'text': "Appreciate the partial concession on the parent. I would think the obligation if anything would be stronger to our parent than a state because a parent does a lot more for us by these metrics. But we generally don't think that obligation is high enough that the parent has a largely content-in... | {'id': 'lys3lle', 'text': "The argument for a progressive tax system is that it's based on the amount of pain caused by lacking the money you give up on tax. A poor person is injured by even a little bit, so they pay very little. A rich man is only injured when you dig pretty far into his pockets, so you can charge a l... | 1gywb0e | CMV: tax cuts for the rich people, and aggressive tax minimization practices, although legal, are morally wrong | So this topic has been on my mind for many years. I talked about it with several people that believe in the opposite view over the years. But so far I haven't heard an argument convincing enough to me.
I strongly value understanding both sides of a debate - independently of your own beliefs - and the vast majority of ... | 1,732,469,167 | akaPointless | nan | nan | 2024-11-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I've Found Myself Becoming More And More Disappointed With Gen Z/Culture Catering to Gen Z | {'id': 'lycrs0j', 'text': '>What sort of economic model does Gen Z seem to gravitate towards these days?\n\nLike all generations, Gen Z has the whole spectrum of ideas on economic policy. The guys who wrote the books everybody reads, like Hayek, Friedman, Keynes, and Marx aren\'t going to be writing new ones any time s... | {'id': 'lybel36', 'text': '> One thing I\'ve noticed too is a rise in "tech bro" culture that seems to participate in the derision of artistry, and particularly advocates of its erasure for AI. \n\nI dont care about modern western art.\n\nI am a 27 year old accountant. I play video games and watch anime. \n\n3 days ago... | 1gwquju | CMV: I've Found Myself Becoming More And More Disappointed With Gen Z/Culture Catering to Gen Z | I want to preface this by saying, I have always loathed and bemoaned inter-generational slander, especially since Boomers/X consistently ostracized my generation (Millennials) as being the generation "killing" all that's good. I have detested narratives like "This new generation is rotting themselves doing all those v... | 1,732,224,512 | Phi1ny3 | nan | nan | 2024-11-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: NATO can't just rely on drones and F-35 is a great programme overall | {'id': 'lz7r1vv', 'text': "I think that highly depends on whether ECM jamming drones is easier, equally difficult or more difficult than radar detecting a stealth plane. \n\nAnd how expensive it is. \n\nOne reason I think stealth may be better is that radar systems seem to be very very expensive. So a country cannot ha... | {'id': 'lz7mvxd', 'text': "> That doesn't really matter that much if the F-35s engage first, shoot and disengage first. They suffer much lower losses and the gap quickly narrows over the conflict. Moreover, the J-10s have rather limited utility as they can't really come anywhere near US ground based air defense.\n\nAnd... | 1h0y1d1 | CMV: NATO can't just rely on drones and F-35 is a great programme overall | Recently, we saw quite a few "tech bros" attacking the F-35 and saying that it is obsolete because of drones. For example, Elon Musk called the F-35 builders "idiots" and Marc Andreessen said that drones are "far superior" during an interview with Joe Rogan. I believe that these people are completely wrong.
When we a... | 1,732,688,950 | Downtown-Act-590 | nan | nan | 2024-11-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: CMV: Women have all the social and legal power over men, young women have more financial power than young men and it's illegal for men to use any of their physical power over women even in self-defense. In short women have all the power over men. | {'id': 'lxgyt9x', 'text': "Your claim doesn't differentiate between different types of men. There's a wide array of men and women, young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight, black, white, brown. There's no evidence to support these mass blanket claims and overgeneralizations.\n\n\nIf you're open to having your min... | {'id': 'lxgn5n9', 'text': 'Yeah obviously we\'ll always have the situation of a hiring manager\'s personal bias. What makes DEI and AA different is that it\'s written doctrine. \n\nLike, imagine if it was written down somewhere that you can only get the job if "you know somebody who knows somebody"? Rightfully, everyon... | 1gspztx | CMV: CMV: Women have all the social and legal power over men, young women have more financial power than young men and it's illegal for men to use any of their physical power over women even in self-defense. In short women have all the power over men. | When people say men are privileged or women are oppressed in the west I have no idea what they are talking about. Women have all the social and legal power over men, young women have more financial power than men and it's illegal for men to use any of their physical power over women even in self-defense. In short women... | 1,731,771,932 | FlyingFightingType | nan | nan | 2024-11-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Revealing clothes does increase chance of harassment | {'id': 'lz7pzxs', 'text': 'Probably because you raised it at an inappropriate time, or at least it reminds people of when people say this. If someone gets harassed (or worse) and your response is to say "well you shouldn\'t be been wearing that" then that\'s a shit thing to say and you shouldn\'t say that. It\'s insens... | {'id': 'lz7pv7d', 'text': '"Don\'t be pretty to not get raped. It\'s just common sense."\n\n"Don\'t have an obviously nice house to not get robbed. It\'s common sense."\n\n"Look as white as you can to not get stopped by the police on every corner. Common sense."\n\nYou said you\'re not blaming the victim, and then you ... | 1h0zbpj | CMV: Revealing clothes does increase chance of harassment | Before someone posts the link to “what you were wearing” art exhibit, I want to make a point: I’m not saying being fully clothed makes you immune to harassment, but it increases the chances of it.
Yes. Some harassment are perpetrated by relatives and families so my “revealing clothes” argument may not apply since in t... | 1,732,694,352 | No_Record_60 | nan | nan | 2024-11-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I have some significant distrust of the Democrats because of their response to Covid. | {'id': 'lyt1osl', 'text': ">I'm very suspicious of any numbers that are thrown out. During the height of covid panic, there were people angrily asserting that 3 to 5 percent of the population was going to die. In the end, the death toll was a fraction of a percent.\n\nWhile I'm sure some quack did this, I want to raise... | {'id': 'lyszziw', 'text': "I worked in the ICU when Covid hit as a nurse. We knew nothing of Covid. How it spread, ill effects it had, or possible long term complications. \n\nAll I knew was that people were dying. We literally had refrigerator trucks because the morgue was full. \n\nPhysicians and nurses were working ... | 1gz1bkt | CMV: I have some significant distrust of the Democrats because of their response to Covid. | I think Covid-19 was a serious disease that definitely killed some people. But, I think its severity was exaggerated. The Democrats acted like it was going to be a new black plague. We all now live with Covid, and it hasn't been world ending. Most of us got sick, and then we got immunity. Now, its just like a strain of... | 1,732,481,816 | damndirtyape | nan | nan | 2024-11-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: In a war between NATO and Russia, NATO should focus fighting in Eastern Russia | {'id': 'lz4p9p9', 'text': 'Can you provide sources for that claim that NATOs strategy is not to use a first strike?', 'author': 'Twenty_twenty4', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1732652174} | {'id': 'lz4djwi', 'text': 'Does having all your major cities reduced to ash by russian nuclear armed ICBMs because they have nothing to lose count as winning?', 'author': 'all_hail_michael_p', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1732648571} | 1h0jjhn | CMV: In a war between NATO and Russia, NATO should focus fighting in Eastern Russia | This isn't a traditional CMV. More like "I know I am probably wrong but please explain why." I am imagining a hypothetical scenario in which the current Ukraine conflict somehow spills over into a NATO country, provoking the alliance into war. This is a scenario in which nuclear weapons have not yet been used, but Puti... | 1,732,647,207 | Prince_Marf | nan | nan | 2024-11-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Abortion is more than a bodily autonomy discussion and framing it in such a way is disingenuous. | {'id': 'lz98zl8', 'text': '> No human should be forced to use their body to help another human survive for such a long period of time. No human should be forced to risk their life so another human can live. No human should be forced to risk their health, earning potential for the life of another human.\n\nThe draft i... | {'id': 'lz98nm0', 'text': 'Just trying to be objective here, but at what point would a fetus also have the same level of autonomy?\n\nAnd perhaps a bit of a silly argument because it\'s not possible, but interesting to me nonetheless, what if women laid eggs?\n\nI think it\'s actually an important point to consider for... | 1h16mg1 | CMV: Abortion is more than a bodily autonomy discussion and framing it in such a way is disingenuous. | When on the subject of abortion and whether it should or should not be legal, all paths of conversation will likely be forced to go to the bodily autonomy argument. I find this to be disingenuous, intellectually dishonest and likely just leads to ad hominems, strawmans and red herrings.
Framing abortion as just a bod... | 1,732,720,595 | TheAverageBear132 | nan | nan | 2024-11-27 | 2024_fall |
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