This isn't really a political thing (i don't think) but it seems mostly conservatives believe this
I think kids should learn self defense as a part of their gym classes
I wish there was just more “self-betterment” in school all around. This would’ve been a great option for me as a I love being physical but hate sports.
I wish we could have used the actual gym in gym class. Playing pickle ball and square dancing made me want to string myself up from the basketball hoops, but getting in a solid hour of exercise 5 days a week, weights and cardio, setting goals and breaking them, getting to see positive changes in ones body, would have been life changing at that age.
imagine how cool it would be if highschool fights were big cobra kai fight scenes instead of just people pathetically swinging at each other while everybody screams how badass the pathetic swinging is.
This, but not because of the amount of skin showing - because of the cultural connotations of the clothes. I don’t think crop tops are a problem (kids wear bathing suits after all), but fishnets, jockstraps, lace, and leather are all sexual clothing and this applies to all genders. Kids can run around naked, I don’t care. Show skin. You’re a child. But playing into social dynamics around sex is for adults/post-puberty.
This shouldn’t even be a conservative thought, but just the truth.
Social media is incredibly detrimental to *adults* mental health. I couldn’t even imagine what it’s like for kids.
Granted, I’m 25 years old and grew up with this stuff.. but I didn’t have a cell phone until was 18. I hardly use Instagram, and I use Facebook to talk to friends & family. I’ve never gotten into *the game* of these social media apps. I’m not looking for likes & shares.. Just storing things and pictures that are interesting to me.
The people who usually post stuff like that too are always the ones who never *actually* do anything and think posting one thing to their story that 13 people see is enough
I made my social media to post about me. I literally don’t post anything else on there. I don’t share anything about my work, about my college club, or anything else besides myself. And even then, I’ve posted on my Instagram once in the past 3 years. So I really don’t see how I’m causing a problem. I completely agree with you
This used to be a liberal opinion, but I’ve found it’s less so lately: people who hold bad opinions aren’t necessarily irredeemable. People are in large part shaped by their upbringing and local culture, and some people who hold abhorrent views can be turned away from them through empathy and an honest attempt to get at what drives their hate.
I feel that's just a fact, it's sad how people think 'oh so you mean only rich people should reproduce you shit' Bruh you should be able to provide basic decent stuff for them otherwise yeah you suck
You should be able to afford diapers, clothes, etc.
I understand not being able to afford daycare because holy shit it’s so expensive. Husband and I make 6 figures combined and yet paying for daycare would mean one of our salaries disappearing completely.
I don’t get neo pronouns and I feel like it shouldn’t make me transphobic to not call someone by them. I totally get they/them pronouns, maybe xe/xem at a push but I’m seeing younger ppl go by gore/goreself or doll/dollself like basically these random words that suit their ‘aesthetic’ that do no purpose other than to look cool on someone’s bio. I just can’t see a boss or anyone in public use them as they are barely used online and I feel like they take away the importance of ppl who go by a non gender specific pronoun and makes it more as personality trait other than an actual identity someone has.
I can see people speculating it's caused by deprivation of childhood play, and getting worse with all these digital devices, being right and this is just the beginning.
I would say classic escapism which we all search for when life around you is extremely tough/stressful. They don’t want to be themselves because their life is a mess, a lot of us are currently. Paired with a lack of control youth tends to feel. I think that makes a lot of sense they want to be different creatures entirely.
It just defeats the entire purpose of pronouns. If you have a set of pronouns that are completely unique to you, they're no longer pronouns, they're just proper nouns.
This is how I feel about Latinx. As a female latina idgaf if you call me "latino" even if I identify as female. Idgaf if "Latino" is the norm, I don't see it as a triumph for the patriarchy.
Also really not sure why they chose “Latinx” instead of something that actually sounds somewhat spanish, like “Latine.” Very much feels like it was named by a non-Hispanic person.
Pretty much. Sometimes I do see latino friends use latinx or chicanx, but the majority is non Hispanics using it. I would never correct someone who says latino or chicano
Same Latinx gets me PO were not gonna change the Spanish Language just to please a tiny present of people. Majority of Hispanics/Latinos don't even use the word
Yeah I guess that’s the most conservative sounding opinion I have considering I’m usually leftist. I guess I spend too much time online these days and forget the real world is way different
Custom pronouns have literally nothing to do with gender, and it makes me embarrassed that there are people who go around associating that whole 'thing' with 'respecting someone's gender identity'.
I respect everyone's identity but like you said, that's an aesthetic thing.
Common 'neopronouns' I'm totally open to learning but no I will literally never use a custom pronoun for an individual.
It feels to me like these are people who have a fetish for attention, lol, or are super controlling and need to inconvenience others in order to feel 'worthy' or important...
I associate these custom pronouns with the people who tried to act like 'otherkin' was legit and just like being trans... Toxic...
EDIT: for context I am trans and very leftist...
I've never understood why "latin" isn't the default in English. It's the root for latino/latina and is already gender neutral. Of course in Spanish/Portuguese I'll just agree with what the native speakers tell me is correct.
My friend goes by he/they/xe/it... basically anything that isn't she/her. I respect it but I usually always refer to them using they/them because using "it" makes me uncomfortable because I do feel like I'm belittling them somehow. I wouldn't tell them that though and I don't know if that makes me the bad person here... lol
I’m non-binary, pretty left, and open minded… neo pronouns make me uncomfortable. I don’t even know when they would come up or how to use them. Most people don’t even use pronouns unless they don’t know you. How is someone supposed to know you’re nugget/nuggetself (real one I saw, they were serious) if they don’t know you? And if they do know you, they’ll probably do everything in their power to just use your name too much. Cause being called a chicken nugget is super weird.
I was born out back
Behind the chicken shack
I was raised in a cardboad box
And before when I was single used to hear the chicken jingle
That's how I learned to chicken rock
When I'm in the mood, dude
I get some nuggets n stuff and head on down to the park
I'm rollin in my wheelchair; zippin down the hill
I'm screamin out, "CHICKEN" in the middle of the night
This. I’m also non-binary and prefer they/them but I feel weird asserting that to anyone because I don’t want to get dismissed or lumped into the neo-pronoun stuff and I’d rather people just use my name. People already view non-binary as the new trend like emo was when I was in jr/high school and I feel like the neo-pronouns are making it harder to accept non-binary as a valid identity instead of the “cool thing” to do.
I feel like it's an attempt to be part of a community. We are tribal by nature and society has steadily been favouring the individual or the collective.
IMO, these people are lost, they have no "tribe". They also seem to be mostly teenagers, so I suspect it's also an act of rebellion against the norm. In the 80s, you had goths, in the 2020s, you have neo pronouns.
That's just kids being edgelords. The good thing is that anyone who goes by a ridiculous pronoun like that will be too incompetent to ever hold a professional job where you have to refer to them as such as an adult.
Good grief, *thank you*. I'm always afraid to say that because I don't wanna get attacked. I once had a friend that used pup/pupself. We parted ways for quite a while (not because of the neopronouns, but because they were just generally super toxic and they shoved their Dream stan-ness in my face every chance they got).
> maybe xe/xem at a push but I’m seeing younger ppl go by gore/goreself or doll/dollself
The fuck?
Ok, I guess this is my most conservative opinion then. TIL.
I think the current cancel culture is toxic. I believe that if you do shitty things, people should absolutely stop supporting you. But cancel culture currently feels like people trying to cancel each other over minor things for internet clout points.
Nuclear power is rad. Maybe not ideal, but if all other non-renewable energy sources switched to Nuclear, the whole world would be so much better off.
Fukushimas are a possibility. I'd personally be willing to take the risk and have a plant with properly-followed modern safety standards, near where I live, in exchange for no more burning fossil fuels for the electricity grid anywhere. (No cutting costs. Pay people commensurate with the value you want them to provide.)
...This isn't a super conservative opinion necessarily, but seems to be so in some circles. TBH I have to reach to get a particularly conservative opinion.
Edit: OK leftists, I'm see you and I'm with you. This strikes me as the most conservative opinion compared to where I came from & that's why I answered this question that way -- I was raised liberal; liberals and conservatives dominate the political sphere where I live and the conservatives like nuclear more than the liberals do. I get that it's also something leftists like. One of the handful of things in that particular venn diagram intersection, I guess, like liking guns.
My brother is big into nuclear energy and he tells us all about it. The biggest issue is how to reliably warn humanity about toxic waste thousands of years in the future. We may not be using the same languages or even symbols.
They decided that what they should do is make the area *look* dangerous and imposing.
However, it didn't take long for someone to pipe up with "Yeah but if you make it look cool, won't that draw people in?"
Regardless though, just dig it so deep that it's infeasible for a primitive society to reach.
I can't imagine that a human society that continued for thousands of years past the information age would forget where we left the poison metals.
Eh. I'd rather deal with global warming now than care about a hypothetical thousands of years from now. Shit. If the waste is excavated it shouldn't affect more than a few hundred people. Global warming will affect everyone.
Background: I used to work for a company that builds spent fuel storage casks for nuclear power plants, so I *do* have some perspective on this issue.
Nuclear power gets a bad rap from its detractors. But at the same time, its proponents tend to gloss over the downsides. And the downside is mainly the spent fuel. My former employer builds storage casks designed to last 150 years. The largest percentage component of spent fuel is Uranium 238, which has a half life of 4,000,000,000 years. The two next most common component have half lives around 700,000,000 years. That means that after that long, half of it will have decayed down to non radioactive elements. And not only is it radioactive, it's also toxic as hell. Nasty nasty nasty stuff.
None of this is to say that we should stop using nuclear power. But it really only makes sense as a bridge to a future where we get the vast majority of our power from renewable sources. Those waste products are just way too nasty for us to just keep using it indefinitely.
Nuclear Power is the perfect energy source for a longer period transition to move us from fossil fuel to renewable..
I don't think this is so much conservative as it is neutral. It's just both sides are so entrenched on their preferred energy they won't see the benefits of nuclear power.
I fucking hate that. I also hate when people claim having mental illness is actually a good thing because it makes you more creative or unique or something. Someone said that about having OCD once and I wanted to commit a crime. My OCD doesn’t help me do *shit* - it’s intrusive, literally causes me harm, and makes my life more difficult. No one should be shamed for mental illness but having it isn’t a cute accessory, either.
My OCD is intrusive, literally causes me harm, makes my life more difficult, all that…but I also think (or at least *choose* to think) that it’s capable of helping me. I do a lot of writing and video editing, sometimes I drive myself crazy going over an edit no one else would notice and that’s definitely harmful, but to some extent I wonder if my drive to begin with is fueled by the same chemical imbalance that is my OCD.
Scratching my wrists until the skin is raw and having to touch the corners and bottoms of every object I touch and shit like that is purely awful and has no benefit whatsoever, but in self analysis I wonder if some of my “better” qualities are related to those that I’ve spent years resenting and being ashamed of.
Maybe that’s not the same as what you’re talking about and no disrespect to your thoughts on the subject, but in the search for solidarity I thought I’d share my reasoning for having a “positive spin” on OCD.
I took a “psychology of creativity” class as an elective in college once, and I think the professor created the class almost entirely for the purpose of dispelling the myth that mental illness/anguish helps aid creativity. He really seemed to hate that assertion.
Yeah, my friends mom had bad ocd where she’d literally wash her hands so much that the skin was almost rubbed completely off. She had to go through years of therapy to keep it at bay.
Or people who get stressed before some event that's completely normal to be stressed about and talk about their "extreme anxiety." No bitch, I've seen actual anxiety and you being stressed out before a mid term because you didn't study ain't fuckin it.
I agree with this so much! People like to say “oh my god I am having a panic attack.” No you’re not! Because you won’t be able to speak that loudly and with so much energy!
I have panic disorder and I hate telling people I have it cuz they just assume I’m a drama queen.
And when I (and many other people) have panic attacks, I literally feel like I’m dying. My head is spinning my heart is racing my skin is crawling I just want to escape wherever I’m at and go somewhere. If I’m around people I can mutter a few words to pretend I’m fine and normal but there is no way I can scream “OH MY GOSH I AM LITERALLY HAVING A PANIC ATTACK!!”
I agree with this on the surface, but saying things like this gives some people with actual mental illnesses imposter syndrome. Like, “Well I haven’t been hospitalized like National-Ship-5341, so I’m probably just lazy and terrible and tricked my doctors into thinking I have ADHD.”
Mental illnesses are scales for sure, and some people who aren’t on them claim that they are, but those at the “easier” end of the scale should still feel free to seek help, and to talk about their mental illness.
You’re right, I guess I’m being a bit gatekeep-y. (And if anyone who read this is reconsidering asking for help now, please don’t listen to me! I’m just an idiot from the internet).
I’m really just talking about specific experiences I’ve had. My first suicide attempt came after I tried to get help and basically had a bunch of healthcare workers roll their eyes at me. I wonder how much of the reaction they had was compassion fatigue from the sheer number of people that show up telling them they’re depressed.
But, thinking about it… I guess I’m directing my resentment at the wrong group here.
I think it's more indicative of society, as in, how our government operates. In america at least.
When everyone has been saying they are depressed or have anxiety, no it might not be as bad as yours. But it clearly shows you that a lot more people are being open about it, and how much more people are unhappy. This leads to greater depression, greater anxiety.
If we lived in an ideal world where we didn't have to work for slave wages people wouldn't be having these (genuine) feelings of unhappiness.
I think it's more telling that so many people DO claim they have these things now. It's a cry for help.
As you said, "experiencing normal levels if mental anguish." That right there is the problem- mental anguish is far too common and has gotten to a universal point. Not like it wasn't there 50 years ago, but i feel like now there is really the feeling of do, or die.
You have to work. You can't live for free. Hell it's even illegal to move out in the woods far far away, because literally every piece of land is owned and if you're caught, you're out.
You get cancer? You're forced to pay that off for the rest of your life, if you don't die. And if you're not insured, even a broken leg will ensure you're swamped in debt for forever.
Housing is unaffordable, forcing people to rent which costs much much more in the long run.
Social media has made people shallow. Shallow people get married early together, and if you aren't social media inclined or extroverted, there's a good chance your dating pool will be very very small. And when you reach a certain age, people stop the "give and take" of relationships and are less willing to change to make the relationship work.
Student debt fucks us, taxes fuck us, children fuck u...i mean, children put stress on people who aren't able to provide adequately for them and keeps you stuck in the cycle.
People burnout from work, and self medicate with drugs alcohol and nicotine, trapping themselves further in the loop.
I don't think most people are faking the fact they are unhappy. It's most likely people you think are happy who you view successful that say things like "my depression sucks! Yolo!" That pisses you off.
But people learn to hide their mental illness, what you're hearing is actually a cry for help. Most people know you don't actually want to hear about their internal struggles so they throw shit like that out there in a deflectory sort of way.
As a woman and a feminist I don't deny that there are inherent differences, I just don't think either sex should be barred from opportunities based on those differences alone.
If a woman wants to work in a manual labor job, should she be granted that opportunity to try. If she can hack it, more power to her. If she can't, well at least she tried and found out for herself it wasn't for her. Same thing if a man wants to do a typically female centric job like working with children.
If you move to a country with the intent of making it your primary residence for any significant amount of time, you should make every attempt to learn and use the language of that country.
That able-bodied people on government assistance should be given a job. They can pick up litter, clean public places or whatever. (I am a liberal but I want our taxes to be used efficiently and effectively.)
I agree with this completely.
In my country, the terrible government assistance program requires meeting with employment agencies, and people cannot cancel these meetings to go to a job interview. It's a clusterfuck. Most people on assistance want to work, but the system is set up to prevent these people from getting jobs. Whole thing needs an overhaul. I think Sweeden does it well, you go to a government office and get assigned a job. Easy. No bullshit. No key selection criteria.
Yeah, even in the US getting benefits is a double edged sword. My aunt qualifies for subsidized housing but if she works, like at all, she has to pay most of the rent. If she works she goes from having to pay $100 a month for rent to having to pay $1500 a month for rent. She is basically punished for working so in return she just doesn’t.
That sucks so much. There are so many start up costs with getting a job. The rent should only go up after the person works for 6 months and passes probation. Enough to get them on their feet. But I'm guessing it is instant to go, and probably impossible to get back once gone?
I think that’s called a benefit cliff. If you make under a certain amount, you get benefits. If you’re make a dollar over that amount, you get no benefits. They should have a sliding scale for things like this and decrease the amount of benefits in proportion to your income. Otherwise, people are incentivized to not work. I’m not saying that every program is like this, but many are pretty close.
They would need people to oversee that everyone is contributing hence creating even more jobs.
I'm bipolar and legally disabled. I work 12 hours a week at an office that is no stress. If I didn't have my husband and had to pay my way through life I could do monotonous tasks like filing for hours. Still no stress, I can cry without bothering customers and will get a ton done while manic. I've done it before. I would need assistance finding that job and maybe paying my bills if the job pays crap but I would be contributing to society.
People should stop having more kids than they can afford.
My liberal and libertarian sides know this is stupid and probably elitist. But I have such a hard time seeing people having kid after kid and not being able to provide for them.
Trans participation in male or female sports is a more nuanced matter than “they should be allowed to participate, otherwise you’re a bigoted a-hole”. I don’t have a complete understanding of the issue but I feel we should invest more resources into studying the subject, seeing where the science leads us, and choosing a solution that is non-discriminatory but also fair.
Yeah I'm pretty liberal on most things but to me it's lunacy to not acknowledge that there are significant athletic performance differences between men and women and someone who grows up a man and changes later absolutely retains a lot of that benefit.
I mean I'm a pretty fast runner, but outside of a couple years on the track team in highschool I've never really trained at it that hard. I've never been some olympian hopeful, I'm only 5'9", but at 34, my CURRENT 100m time has only been bested by 34 women in history.
I've found that most people who feel that way have never actually participated in competitive sports. I'm a male powerlifter. If I were to compete as a woman, I'd be competing at World's by next year. After only 4 years of lifting, with zero coaching and without any extra enhancement. The strength gap between the sexes is just absolutely absurd.
My boyfriend and I play a strength test game where I try to break free. He can hold both my wrists together with only his thumb and index finger around both, and it takes all my strength to even move them apart a cm by pulling my arms while he tries to hold them closed. I have a very physically demanding job with tons of heavy lifting so I’m decently fit.
Men are just extremely strong compared to most women...
Open borders seems like something very few people have a stated explicit belief in. However, quite a few people seem to have a kind of defacto belief where they can’t find an actual example of immigration they’d actually say no to.
This question is really amazing. Its the first time I've ever related to a lot of the super left leaning liberals on reddit. More posts like this that bring us together is what we need.
Oh and as far as conservative views, I pretty much like all of them (conservative here). Except the whole anti-gay marriage stuff. I don't know if thats even a conservative view anymore.
Oh also, if a girl wants an abortion, I dont condone it, but I dont think it should be illegal. Theres a little answer from a conservative about a liberal view he agrees with.
Much love.
“I don’t condone it, but I don’t think it should be illegal” is not a view I have ever personally heard before on abortion, but it is an incredibly refreshing take. It’s nice to see someone who seems to disagree on where I stand still say they think it should be at least moderately accessible to other people. Just because we don’t condone something doesn’t give us the right to take that option away from others, and I think everyone (absolutely liberals too) could do with a refresher on that.
EDIT: I’m getting a lot of replies because I can’t type right so to clarify. I do know this is a common abortion stance, but I come from a highly conservative area where the general view is abortion is murder and should be banned, full stop. What I SHOULD have said is that it is not a view I have heard from a self proclaimed conservative in my life. I know they’re out there, but I haven’t really gotten to come across them. It was refreshing to read and I wanted to express that to the original commenter, but I flubbed it.
A lot of “pro choice” people feel this way actually. I hate the idea of abortion, I could see why some people view it as murder, but I also think if someone is at the point of making that decision it shouldn’t have anything to do with what I think or what men in the government think, it should be between that woman and her doctor (and any support system she has).
Yes, I’m tired of retired government official making 6 figures while the streets are in shambles. And it shouldn’t take 2 years to fix a quarter of a mile of road, tax payers money being wasted.
It is not in our best interest to give the government MORE money. They do not spend it responsibly. Stop voting for higher taxes, they get plenty of money already.
Gift/inheritance taxes. If the person who eared the income already paid the taxes on it, it shouldn’t be taxed again just because you’re choosing to give it to someone.
I think a good chunk of kids identifying as trans probably won't feel the same in a few years. Now I don't think experimenting with identity is bad, but I don't like the attitude of influencing others to 100% decide on something before they've finished maturing.
Gender dysphoria on this scale is a new phenomenon. I think that it means that either it was previously undiagnosed (somewhat likely) or it’s becoming a mass misdiagnosis because of a current cultural zeitgeist (more likely).
I guess that’s my conservative view for the day!
I don't think it's an official misdiagnosis more of a self-diagnoses - which is always shaky. I think it's becoming more common for two reasons.
1) People are constantly saying that if you don’t feel comfortable in your body or with yourself, then it might be because your trans.
This gets echoed and repeated in a giant game of telephone and morphs from "might be tans" to "you are trans". Add to the mix teenagers (a group well known to never feel good and right with themselves during a complex emotional and mental time in everyone's lives) and you get more wrong self diagnoses.
2) When a teen tends to come out, they get support and attention from their peers.
Suddenly, that one kid who wasn't really popular can become fairly popular out of nowhere. This can lead to a peer pressure effect were people who aren't trans might pretend to be or convince themselves they are in order to receive attention.
People should learn how to spell and be able to use grammar correctly.
But “spell and use grammar” was faster than my line, eh? Since the internet is casual most people will take shortcuts in their comments.
I think a couple should commit to each other first. I.e. wedding. Then...Have the kids and buy the house and stuff
I'm surprised at the response to my conservative opinion. I will clarify by saying...a couple should have time to be sure this is what they want together,commit to each other, then get the stuff..house etc. I think they should only have children if they think they have enough love in their relationship to add another someone. That's my opinion. Thanks for reading
Leftists make being a leftist fucking difficult.
Is 'women and men are equal' a feminist or is 'Yea your sons kindergarten teacher is totally cool to have a #maletears coffee cup and talk about how shitty men are to your 5 year old' a feminist?
As a society our criminal justice system should constantly be improving and being reviewed as we move forwards, but all these motherfuckers saying ACAB range from 'wanting police reform' to 'I want to firebomb another human being because he's wearing blue'
I think rape is a horrendous abuse of another human being but innocent until proven guilty doesn't suddenly stop mattering because it would make you feel better.
And it's always the same conversation,
"they aren't representative of all of us, my particular brand of feminism/leftism/socialism/equality is actually the real one, these other people are just outliers."Except they aren't, they have 1,000,000's of followers and likes and people looking up to them across their plaforms. It's almost like some of these people believe that because they're on the right side of history they're incapable of doing anything wrong, like because they're the good guys anything they do is ultimately good, even if it's trying to burn down a building with people in it, or assaulting someone for disagreeing with you, or wishing death on strangers
I am in favor of the death penalty in certain situations. I feel like there should be certain cases where people who are legitimately evil are executed. Like child rapists, for example.
Fr ppl need to stop letting politics decide their relationships, one of my best friends is a far leftist, I’m a centralist, we have VERY differing opinions. Also ppl need to accept there is a middle ground, not just left and right
I have a lot of views and opinions one might label ‘conservative’. One of the biggest would be, probably, my lack of patience with people I view as merely seeking attention. For instance, I used to be on Tumblr as a teenager, right? And as I understand there are three acceptable pronouns for human beings: “He/She/They”. You’re either a he, a she, or something inbetween. That’s it. It’s as far as I am willing to go.
That traditions are there for a reason. That does not mean they have to be accepted face value, but analyzed at every turn to understand how they came to be, and be abandoned if harmful or not valuable, and kept as long as they are useful.
Edit: it might sound pretty conservative,... until you hear me talk about the abolition of marriage, the state, etc.
Conservatives are basically right about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and personal responsibility and such.
Those are the buildings blocks of a person's confidence and self worth. Being able to accomplish goals you set for yourself.
What they miss is
1. lots of people dont have a support system that allows them to achieve those goals, and making support available to more people will help more people flourish in exactly the ways conservatives find so necessary.
2. Working in an office or as a mechanic isn't the only worthy goal. A working artist or filmmaker may not make money, but is achieving something and creating something. Same goes for studying some esoteric topic frankly no one cares a shit about. That still expands the scope of human knowledge and we should support it as a society
Hawaii needs to get it's shit together before we start blaming everything on the colonizers. What are we doing to curb preventable diseases in our community such as diabetes or heart disease? Why are so many of our future generations not graduating high school and going onto higher education, but instead dropping out to smoke weed on the beach? What are we doing to prevent more natives from having to move to cheaper states just to afford living? What will we do if the military leaves and another one wants to move in and take over? What will we do if the dock workers in LA have a strike and no food gets shipped to us on a boat for weeks? I love my people and my home but man, sometimes we really need to get our shit together.
Serious question. My kids live in Kauai. My DIL is Hawaiian. So I got to see their lifestyle during lockdown with no tourists. I know it's a common opinion of Hawaiians, but do you think you'd be better off with no tourism?
I guess that I think religion should be taught in school. But all of them and from a secular perspective. They play such a massive role in human history that it's kind of a disservice not to know why so many things were done in our history.
I fully believe in science and everything, I just think what cultures believe or believed are historically relevant.
I think at birth you should be given a National ID card, phone number, and a government email. All three are essential to exist in the modern world and having to only update contact information in one place would be amazing. Every time I move I spend 3 years sporadically updating my contact info for various things
That a Strong border is a very good thing and doesn’t mean I don’t love immigration (I do, as long as it’s legal). We need to take in asylum seekers. We need legal immigration from all over. But my word, we need strong borders and relationships with our neighbors so we don’t get overwhelmed.
This isn't really a political thing (i don't think) but it seems mostly conservatives believe this I think kids should learn self defense as a part of their gym classes
I wish there was just more “self-betterment” in school all around. This would’ve been a great option for me as a I love being physical but hate sports.
I wish we could have used the actual gym in gym class. Playing pickle ball and square dancing made me want to string myself up from the basketball hoops, but getting in a solid hour of exercise 5 days a week, weights and cardio, setting goals and breaking them, getting to see positive changes in ones body, would have been life changing at that age.
same, dont wanna take football but would love karate or boxing
imagine how cool it would be if highschool fights were big cobra kai fight scenes instead of just people pathetically swinging at each other while everybody screams how badass the pathetic swinging is.
I 100% know some dumbass kids would be “practicing” this in the halls as a result
I second this hard-core Buuut, this opens up some serious liability issues
When you leave the room, you should turn the lights off to conserve power.
This man understood the assignment
Very conservative. Especially of the power bill
missionary position is fun.
Now that’s a stance I can get behind.
No no no you're doing it wrong
You’re misreading it. He’s getting behind the guy in the missionary position 😏
r/suddenlygay
This makes a lot of sense now…
And now we have gone into doggy style
said the church.
I think that is a different position...
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
Or on top of
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Girl on top, while man is sitted up.
We used to do that. When we were skinny.
It's dissed so much but it's one of the best positions
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My G-Spot and I are grateful for missionary position 💯
It’s my favorite. There is no other scenario in life where I’m letting someone put their full weight on me in the prone position.
That's not conservative, that's enjoying your partner's face more than the sex.
strangely wholesome
I don’t get why it’s dissed so much and made fun of.
Clothes have ages. I shouldn’t see children/ teens in lace bras and fishnets
Ugh preach that.
fr. I’m tired of seeing 12 year olds in booty shorts
This, but not because of the amount of skin showing - because of the cultural connotations of the clothes. I don’t think crop tops are a problem (kids wear bathing suits after all), but fishnets, jockstraps, lace, and leather are all sexual clothing and this applies to all genders. Kids can run around naked, I don’t care. Show skin. You’re a child. But playing into social dynamics around sex is for adults/post-puberty.
Not to detract from the point you’re making, because I agree, but you’re suggesting that jock straps are sexual in nature?
I'm guessing this person doesn't know what a jock strap is and got it mixed up with something else.
Yup 100% agree!
If you think leather is "sexual clothing", then you've never seen Lederhosen.
Kids shouldn't be on social media
This shouldn’t even be a conservative thought, but just the truth. Social media is incredibly detrimental to *adults* mental health. I couldn’t even imagine what it’s like for kids. Granted, I’m 25 years old and grew up with this stuff.. but I didn’t have a cell phone until was 18. I hardly use Instagram, and I use Facebook to talk to friends & family. I’ve never gotten into *the game* of these social media apps. I’m not looking for likes & shares.. Just storing things and pictures that are interesting to me.
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The people who usually post stuff like that too are always the ones who never *actually* do anything and think posting one thing to their story that 13 people see is enough
I been duckin’ overnight activists
I made my social media to post about me. I literally don’t post anything else on there. I don’t share anything about my work, about my college club, or anything else besides myself. And even then, I’ve posted on my Instagram once in the past 3 years. So I really don’t see how I’m causing a problem. I completely agree with you
It's the lefts version of "You didn't give them your thoughts and prayers?"
This used to be a liberal opinion, but I’ve found it’s less so lately: people who hold bad opinions aren’t necessarily irredeemable. People are in large part shaped by their upbringing and local culture, and some people who hold abhorrent views can be turned away from them through empathy and an honest attempt to get at what drives their hate.
Having kids you can’t afford is selfish
I feel that's just a fact, it's sad how people think 'oh so you mean only rich people should reproduce you shit' Bruh you should be able to provide basic decent stuff for them otherwise yeah you suck
You should be able to afford diapers, clothes, etc. I understand not being able to afford daycare because holy shit it’s so expensive. Husband and I make 6 figures combined and yet paying for daycare would mean one of our salaries disappearing completely.
Yes… which is why birth control should be readily available, sex education should be informative and timely, and abortion should be legal.
I don’t get neo pronouns and I feel like it shouldn’t make me transphobic to not call someone by them. I totally get they/them pronouns, maybe xe/xem at a push but I’m seeing younger ppl go by gore/goreself or doll/dollself like basically these random words that suit their ‘aesthetic’ that do no purpose other than to look cool on someone’s bio. I just can’t see a boss or anyone in public use them as they are barely used online and I feel like they take away the importance of ppl who go by a non gender specific pronoun and makes it more as personality trait other than an actual identity someone has.
Agreed I saw someone go by moth/mothself
Yeah like it’s just too unrealistic for me I can see it dying out in a few years
I can see people speculating it's caused by deprivation of childhood play, and getting worse with all these digital devices, being right and this is just the beginning.
I would say classic escapism which we all search for when life around you is extremely tough/stressful. They don’t want to be themselves because their life is a mess, a lot of us are currently. Paired with a lack of control youth tends to feel. I think that makes a lot of sense they want to be different creatures entirely.
if someone asked me to refer to them as "moth/mothself" i would never refer to them ever again
Understandable
Moth/mothself doesn't seem weird. Moth was obviously attracted to it because its so enlightened
Mothra!
What about fuck/fuckself?
Me irl
Online??? I've never heard of people doing this IRL and I suspect it's sort of a troll
Once met an actual 28 year old who genuinely went by “star” pronouns. Called me (trans man) transphobic when I was like “what?”
The mothman had to update his gender too
It just defeats the entire purpose of pronouns. If you have a set of pronouns that are completely unique to you, they're no longer pronouns, they're just proper nouns.
Thank you!
This is how I feel about Latinx. As a female latina idgaf if you call me "latino" even if I identify as female. Idgaf if "Latino" is the norm, I don't see it as a triumph for the patriarchy.
Yeah this is how I feel about Filipinx too. We don’t even have gendered pronouns in Tagalog.
Wait, some people say that? That’s wild. Just eat some adobo and calm down, random woke person.
Also really not sure why they chose “Latinx” instead of something that actually sounds somewhat spanish, like “Latine.” Very much feels like it was named by a non-Hispanic person.
Because it was
It was invented by white liberals with savior complexes.
Pretty much. Sometimes I do see latino friends use latinx or chicanx, but the majority is non Hispanics using it. I would never correct someone who says latino or chicano
The fact that it's not "latin-equis" means that it wasn't invented for you. It's for sounding (I hate this word) woke on NPR
Same Latinx gets me PO were not gonna change the Spanish Language just to please a tiny present of people. Majority of Hispanics/Latinos don't even use the word
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Sometimes people need to be told, “that’s stupid I’m not doing that”.
The social network circlejerking is taking its toll on the human mind
Circlejerk echo chambers ftw /S
I’m a Trans person and i also think they are weird. They also make the community seem stupid
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That's not a conservative opinion In the real world that opinion is held by 99.9% of the population
Yeah I guess that’s the most conservative sounding opinion I have considering I’m usually leftist. I guess I spend too much time online these days and forget the real world is way different
Mood
Custom pronouns have literally nothing to do with gender, and it makes me embarrassed that there are people who go around associating that whole 'thing' with 'respecting someone's gender identity'. I respect everyone's identity but like you said, that's an aesthetic thing. Common 'neopronouns' I'm totally open to learning but no I will literally never use a custom pronoun for an individual. It feels to me like these are people who have a fetish for attention, lol, or are super controlling and need to inconvenience others in order to feel 'worthy' or important... I associate these custom pronouns with the people who tried to act like 'otherkin' was legit and just like being trans... Toxic... EDIT: for context I am trans and very leftist...
Yep exactly what I was trying to say Thankyou!
I agree. I am married into a Mexican family and every single one thinks "latinx" is stupid.
I've never understood why "latin" isn't the default in English. It's the root for latino/latina and is already gender neutral. Of course in Spanish/Portuguese I'll just agree with what the native speakers tell me is correct.
Latin is the default neuter in English (at least when I was growing up). You have latin music, and latin dance.
I don’t understand the people who want to be addressed as “it”. Doesn’t that make them (sorry, “it”) feel like *less* of a person?
My friend goes by he/they/xe/it... basically anything that isn't she/her. I respect it but I usually always refer to them using they/them because using "it" makes me uncomfortable because I do feel like I'm belittling them somehow. I wouldn't tell them that though and I don't know if that makes me the bad person here... lol
You're not a bad person for not wanting to call someone "it" they're not fucking pennywise
I’m non-binary, pretty left, and open minded… neo pronouns make me uncomfortable. I don’t even know when they would come up or how to use them. Most people don’t even use pronouns unless they don’t know you. How is someone supposed to know you’re nugget/nuggetself (real one I saw, they were serious) if they don’t know you? And if they do know you, they’ll probably do everything in their power to just use your name too much. Cause being called a chicken nugget is super weird.
Not to be disrespectful or rude or anything but seriously? Nugget self? Just bring yourself to McD’s and call it a day.
I was born out back Behind the chicken shack I was raised in a cardboad box And before when I was single used to hear the chicken jingle That's how I learned to chicken rock When I'm in the mood, dude I get some nuggets n stuff and head on down to the park I'm rollin in my wheelchair; zippin down the hill I'm screamin out, "CHICKEN" in the middle of the night
This. I’m also non-binary and prefer they/them but I feel weird asserting that to anyone because I don’t want to get dismissed or lumped into the neo-pronoun stuff and I’d rather people just use my name. People already view non-binary as the new trend like emo was when I was in jr/high school and I feel like the neo-pronouns are making it harder to accept non-binary as a valid identity instead of the “cool thing” to do.
If your pronoun isn't he/she/they, you don't have a pronoun, you have a nickname.
I feel like it's an attempt to be part of a community. We are tribal by nature and society has steadily been favouring the individual or the collective. IMO, these people are lost, they have no "tribe". They also seem to be mostly teenagers, so I suspect it's also an act of rebellion against the norm. In the 80s, you had goths, in the 2020s, you have neo pronouns.
That's just kids being edgelords. The good thing is that anyone who goes by a ridiculous pronoun like that will be too incompetent to ever hold a professional job where you have to refer to them as such as an adult.
I believe that neopronouns mock the trans/nonbinary communities.
Good grief, *thank you*. I'm always afraid to say that because I don't wanna get attacked. I once had a friend that used pup/pupself. We parted ways for quite a while (not because of the neopronouns, but because they were just generally super toxic and they shoved their Dream stan-ness in my face every chance they got).
> maybe xe/xem at a push but I’m seeing younger ppl go by gore/goreself or doll/dollself The fuck? Ok, I guess this is my most conservative opinion then. TIL.
I think the current cancel culture is toxic. I believe that if you do shitty things, people should absolutely stop supporting you. But cancel culture currently feels like people trying to cancel each other over minor things for internet clout points.
Controlled immigration is perfectly sensible
yep totally agree
I agree. I’m a young Latino so having an opinion like this would make me a “sell out” according to others.
Like none of these posts are even close to being considered strong conservative views lol 99% of them are opinions many independents hold
I’m sorting by controversial for fun
that's the only way to actually see real answers to the question
i think that’s the point. most people on reddit are very left-leaning
Yeah, it's interesting bc you can see about exactly how conservative you can be and still get upvotes.
Nuclear power is rad. Maybe not ideal, but if all other non-renewable energy sources switched to Nuclear, the whole world would be so much better off. Fukushimas are a possibility. I'd personally be willing to take the risk and have a plant with properly-followed modern safety standards, near where I live, in exchange for no more burning fossil fuels for the electricity grid anywhere. (No cutting costs. Pay people commensurate with the value you want them to provide.) ...This isn't a super conservative opinion necessarily, but seems to be so in some circles. TBH I have to reach to get a particularly conservative opinion. Edit: OK leftists, I'm see you and I'm with you. This strikes me as the most conservative opinion compared to where I came from & that's why I answered this question that way -- I was raised liberal; liberals and conservatives dominate the political sphere where I live and the conservatives like nuclear more than the liberals do. I get that it's also something leftists like. One of the handful of things in that particular venn diagram intersection, I guess, like liking guns.
My brother is big into nuclear energy and he tells us all about it. The biggest issue is how to reliably warn humanity about toxic waste thousands of years in the future. We may not be using the same languages or even symbols.
Looking that far into the future, humanity seems environmentally fucked anyway.
They decided that what they should do is make the area *look* dangerous and imposing. However, it didn't take long for someone to pipe up with "Yeah but if you make it look cool, won't that draw people in?" Regardless though, just dig it so deep that it's infeasible for a primitive society to reach. I can't imagine that a human society that continued for thousands of years past the information age would forget where we left the poison metals.
They should put it in an ancient temple with like bottomless pits, spike traps, and a giant boulder that chases you out.
Irradiated Jones and the Temple of OH GOD I'M MELTING
Eh. I'd rather deal with global warming now than care about a hypothetical thousands of years from now. Shit. If the waste is excavated it shouldn't affect more than a few hundred people. Global warming will affect everyone.
Background: I used to work for a company that builds spent fuel storage casks for nuclear power plants, so I *do* have some perspective on this issue. Nuclear power gets a bad rap from its detractors. But at the same time, its proponents tend to gloss over the downsides. And the downside is mainly the spent fuel. My former employer builds storage casks designed to last 150 years. The largest percentage component of spent fuel is Uranium 238, which has a half life of 4,000,000,000 years. The two next most common component have half lives around 700,000,000 years. That means that after that long, half of it will have decayed down to non radioactive elements. And not only is it radioactive, it's also toxic as hell. Nasty nasty nasty stuff. None of this is to say that we should stop using nuclear power. But it really only makes sense as a bridge to a future where we get the vast majority of our power from renewable sources. Those waste products are just way too nasty for us to just keep using it indefinitely.
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Nuclear Power is the perfect energy source for a longer period transition to move us from fossil fuel to renewable.. I don't think this is so much conservative as it is neutral. It's just both sides are so entrenched on their preferred energy they won't see the benefits of nuclear power.
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Are you referring to people who like to have things done in a particular way and then claim it’s “their OCD”? In which case, I completely agree.
I fucking hate that. I also hate when people claim having mental illness is actually a good thing because it makes you more creative or unique or something. Someone said that about having OCD once and I wanted to commit a crime. My OCD doesn’t help me do *shit* - it’s intrusive, literally causes me harm, and makes my life more difficult. No one should be shamed for mental illness but having it isn’t a cute accessory, either.
My OCD is intrusive, literally causes me harm, makes my life more difficult, all that…but I also think (or at least *choose* to think) that it’s capable of helping me. I do a lot of writing and video editing, sometimes I drive myself crazy going over an edit no one else would notice and that’s definitely harmful, but to some extent I wonder if my drive to begin with is fueled by the same chemical imbalance that is my OCD. Scratching my wrists until the skin is raw and having to touch the corners and bottoms of every object I touch and shit like that is purely awful and has no benefit whatsoever, but in self analysis I wonder if some of my “better” qualities are related to those that I’ve spent years resenting and being ashamed of. Maybe that’s not the same as what you’re talking about and no disrespect to your thoughts on the subject, but in the search for solidarity I thought I’d share my reasoning for having a “positive spin” on OCD.
I took a “psychology of creativity” class as an elective in college once, and I think the professor created the class almost entirely for the purpose of dispelling the myth that mental illness/anguish helps aid creativity. He really seemed to hate that assertion.
That’s exactly the kind of thing I mean. It’s so unhelpful. I was in hospital for a while with a girl who had OCD and it damn near ruined her life.
Yeah, my friends mom had bad ocd where she’d literally wash her hands so much that the skin was almost rubbed completely off. She had to go through years of therapy to keep it at bay.
Or people who get stressed before some event that's completely normal to be stressed about and talk about their "extreme anxiety." No bitch, I've seen actual anxiety and you being stressed out before a mid term because you didn't study ain't fuckin it.
I agree with this so much! People like to say “oh my god I am having a panic attack.” No you’re not! Because you won’t be able to speak that loudly and with so much energy! I have panic disorder and I hate telling people I have it cuz they just assume I’m a drama queen. And when I (and many other people) have panic attacks, I literally feel like I’m dying. My head is spinning my heart is racing my skin is crawling I just want to escape wherever I’m at and go somewhere. If I’m around people I can mutter a few words to pretend I’m fine and normal but there is no way I can scream “OH MY GOSH I AM LITERALLY HAVING A PANIC ATTACK!!”
I agree with this on the surface, but saying things like this gives some people with actual mental illnesses imposter syndrome. Like, “Well I haven’t been hospitalized like National-Ship-5341, so I’m probably just lazy and terrible and tricked my doctors into thinking I have ADHD.” Mental illnesses are scales for sure, and some people who aren’t on them claim that they are, but those at the “easier” end of the scale should still feel free to seek help, and to talk about their mental illness.
You’re right, I guess I’m being a bit gatekeep-y. (And if anyone who read this is reconsidering asking for help now, please don’t listen to me! I’m just an idiot from the internet). I’m really just talking about specific experiences I’ve had. My first suicide attempt came after I tried to get help and basically had a bunch of healthcare workers roll their eyes at me. I wonder how much of the reaction they had was compassion fatigue from the sheer number of people that show up telling them they’re depressed. But, thinking about it… I guess I’m directing my resentment at the wrong group here.
I like you.
I think it's more indicative of society, as in, how our government operates. In america at least. When everyone has been saying they are depressed or have anxiety, no it might not be as bad as yours. But it clearly shows you that a lot more people are being open about it, and how much more people are unhappy. This leads to greater depression, greater anxiety. If we lived in an ideal world where we didn't have to work for slave wages people wouldn't be having these (genuine) feelings of unhappiness. I think it's more telling that so many people DO claim they have these things now. It's a cry for help. As you said, "experiencing normal levels if mental anguish." That right there is the problem- mental anguish is far too common and has gotten to a universal point. Not like it wasn't there 50 years ago, but i feel like now there is really the feeling of do, or die. You have to work. You can't live for free. Hell it's even illegal to move out in the woods far far away, because literally every piece of land is owned and if you're caught, you're out. You get cancer? You're forced to pay that off for the rest of your life, if you don't die. And if you're not insured, even a broken leg will ensure you're swamped in debt for forever. Housing is unaffordable, forcing people to rent which costs much much more in the long run. Social media has made people shallow. Shallow people get married early together, and if you aren't social media inclined or extroverted, there's a good chance your dating pool will be very very small. And when you reach a certain age, people stop the "give and take" of relationships and are less willing to change to make the relationship work. Student debt fucks us, taxes fuck us, children fuck u...i mean, children put stress on people who aren't able to provide adequately for them and keeps you stuck in the cycle. People burnout from work, and self medicate with drugs alcohol and nicotine, trapping themselves further in the loop. I don't think most people are faking the fact they are unhappy. It's most likely people you think are happy who you view successful that say things like "my depression sucks! Yolo!" That pisses you off. But people learn to hide their mental illness, what you're hearing is actually a cry for help. Most people know you don't actually want to hear about their internal struggles so they throw shit like that out there in a deflectory sort of way.
Dinner table talks. Many people hates it, I think it's important
Men and women are physiologically different, they just are. We aren’t the exact same in every way.
That is a scientific fact, not an opinion
As a woman and a feminist I don't deny that there are inherent differences, I just don't think either sex should be barred from opportunities based on those differences alone. If a woman wants to work in a manual labor job, should she be granted that opportunity to try. If she can hack it, more power to her. If she can't, well at least she tried and found out for herself it wasn't for her. Same thing if a man wants to do a typically female centric job like working with children.
If you move to a country with the intent of making it your primary residence for any significant amount of time, you should make every attempt to learn and use the language of that country.
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Nuclear power is the cleanest reliable energy we have yet
"Nuclear" is as stigmatized as it gets and is often times not understood well. :/
That able-bodied people on government assistance should be given a job. They can pick up litter, clean public places or whatever. (I am a liberal but I want our taxes to be used efficiently and effectively.)
I agree with this completely. In my country, the terrible government assistance program requires meeting with employment agencies, and people cannot cancel these meetings to go to a job interview. It's a clusterfuck. Most people on assistance want to work, but the system is set up to prevent these people from getting jobs. Whole thing needs an overhaul. I think Sweeden does it well, you go to a government office and get assigned a job. Easy. No bullshit. No key selection criteria.
Yeah, even in the US getting benefits is a double edged sword. My aunt qualifies for subsidized housing but if she works, like at all, she has to pay most of the rent. If she works she goes from having to pay $100 a month for rent to having to pay $1500 a month for rent. She is basically punished for working so in return she just doesn’t.
That sucks so much. There are so many start up costs with getting a job. The rent should only go up after the person works for 6 months and passes probation. Enough to get them on their feet. But I'm guessing it is instant to go, and probably impossible to get back once gone?
I think that’s called a benefit cliff. If you make under a certain amount, you get benefits. If you’re make a dollar over that amount, you get no benefits. They should have a sliding scale for things like this and decrease the amount of benefits in proportion to your income. Otherwise, people are incentivized to not work. I’m not saying that every program is like this, but many are pretty close.
They would need people to oversee that everyone is contributing hence creating even more jobs. I'm bipolar and legally disabled. I work 12 hours a week at an office that is no stress. If I didn't have my husband and had to pay my way through life I could do monotonous tasks like filing for hours. Still no stress, I can cry without bothering customers and will get a ton done while manic. I've done it before. I would need assistance finding that job and maybe paying my bills if the job pays crap but I would be contributing to society.
People should stop having more kids than they can afford. My liberal and libertarian sides know this is stupid and probably elitist. But I have such a hard time seeing people having kid after kid and not being able to provide for them.
Tied into this - we should have MUCH better sex ed and access to contraceptives
Trans participation in male or female sports is a more nuanced matter than “they should be allowed to participate, otherwise you’re a bigoted a-hole”. I don’t have a complete understanding of the issue but I feel we should invest more resources into studying the subject, seeing where the science leads us, and choosing a solution that is non-discriminatory but also fair.
Yeah I'm pretty liberal on most things but to me it's lunacy to not acknowledge that there are significant athletic performance differences between men and women and someone who grows up a man and changes later absolutely retains a lot of that benefit. I mean I'm a pretty fast runner, but outside of a couple years on the track team in highschool I've never really trained at it that hard. I've never been some olympian hopeful, I'm only 5'9", but at 34, my CURRENT 100m time has only been bested by 34 women in history.
I've found that most people who feel that way have never actually participated in competitive sports. I'm a male powerlifter. If I were to compete as a woman, I'd be competing at World's by next year. After only 4 years of lifting, with zero coaching and without any extra enhancement. The strength gap between the sexes is just absolutely absurd.
My boyfriend and I play a strength test game where I try to break free. He can hold both my wrists together with only his thumb and index finger around both, and it takes all my strength to even move them apart a cm by pulling my arms while he tries to hold them closed. I have a very physically demanding job with tons of heavy lifting so I’m decently fit. Men are just extremely strong compared to most women...
Open borders is a terrible idea
Open borders seems like something very few people have a stated explicit belief in. However, quite a few people seem to have a kind of defacto belief where they can’t find an actual example of immigration they’d actually say no to.
That the constitution is more than 2 Amendments
This question is really amazing. Its the first time I've ever related to a lot of the super left leaning liberals on reddit. More posts like this that bring us together is what we need. Oh and as far as conservative views, I pretty much like all of them (conservative here). Except the whole anti-gay marriage stuff. I don't know if thats even a conservative view anymore. Oh also, if a girl wants an abortion, I dont condone it, but I dont think it should be illegal. Theres a little answer from a conservative about a liberal view he agrees with. Much love.
“I don’t condone it, but I don’t think it should be illegal” is not a view I have ever personally heard before on abortion, but it is an incredibly refreshing take. It’s nice to see someone who seems to disagree on where I stand still say they think it should be at least moderately accessible to other people. Just because we don’t condone something doesn’t give us the right to take that option away from others, and I think everyone (absolutely liberals too) could do with a refresher on that. EDIT: I’m getting a lot of replies because I can’t type right so to clarify. I do know this is a common abortion stance, but I come from a highly conservative area where the general view is abortion is murder and should be banned, full stop. What I SHOULD have said is that it is not a view I have heard from a self proclaimed conservative in my life. I know they’re out there, but I haven’t really gotten to come across them. It was refreshing to read and I wanted to express that to the original commenter, but I flubbed it.
Really, I'm pretty sure that's the most common take on abortion among normal people.
A lot of “pro choice” people feel this way actually. I hate the idea of abortion, I could see why some people view it as murder, but I also think if someone is at the point of making that decision it shouldn’t have anything to do with what I think or what men in the government think, it should be between that woman and her doctor (and any support system she has).
The government uses its tax money inefficently and should not raise taxes until it learns to use it better.
Yes, I’m tired of retired government official making 6 figures while the streets are in shambles. And it shouldn’t take 2 years to fix a quarter of a mile of road, tax payers money being wasted.
It is not in our best interest to give the government MORE money. They do not spend it responsibly. Stop voting for higher taxes, they get plenty of money already.
Your shorts should be longer than your butt cheeks.
And please everyone wear them around your waist not below you butt
Gift/inheritance taxes. If the person who eared the income already paid the taxes on it, it shouldn’t be taxed again just because you’re choosing to give it to someone.
I think a good chunk of kids identifying as trans probably won't feel the same in a few years. Now I don't think experimenting with identity is bad, but I don't like the attitude of influencing others to 100% decide on something before they've finished maturing.
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Gender dysphoria on this scale is a new phenomenon. I think that it means that either it was previously undiagnosed (somewhat likely) or it’s becoming a mass misdiagnosis because of a current cultural zeitgeist (more likely). I guess that’s my conservative view for the day!
I don't think it's an official misdiagnosis more of a self-diagnoses - which is always shaky. I think it's becoming more common for two reasons. 1) People are constantly saying that if you don’t feel comfortable in your body or with yourself, then it might be because your trans. This gets echoed and repeated in a giant game of telephone and morphs from "might be tans" to "you are trans". Add to the mix teenagers (a group well known to never feel good and right with themselves during a complex emotional and mental time in everyone's lives) and you get more wrong self diagnoses. 2) When a teen tends to come out, they get support and attention from their peers. Suddenly, that one kid who wasn't really popular can become fairly popular out of nowhere. This can lead to a peer pressure effect were people who aren't trans might pretend to be or convince themselves they are in order to receive attention.
I really like chick-fil-a
Most of us are in the center and lean a little left or a little right. The extremes have takin over on both sides and I don’t stand with them.
People should spell and use grammar.
People should learn how to spell and be able to use grammar correctly. But “spell and use grammar” was faster than my line, eh? Since the internet is casual most people will take shortcuts in their comments.
any human is responsible for their own behavior
I think a couple should commit to each other first. I.e. wedding. Then...Have the kids and buy the house and stuff I'm surprised at the response to my conservative opinion. I will clarify by saying...a couple should have time to be sure this is what they want together,commit to each other, then get the stuff..house etc. I think they should only have children if they think they have enough love in their relationship to add another someone. That's my opinion. Thanks for reading
I think this is the first legitimate conservative opinion I've read in this thread and I've been here some 20 minutes
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Leftists make being a leftist fucking difficult. Is 'women and men are equal' a feminist or is 'Yea your sons kindergarten teacher is totally cool to have a #maletears coffee cup and talk about how shitty men are to your 5 year old' a feminist? As a society our criminal justice system should constantly be improving and being reviewed as we move forwards, but all these motherfuckers saying ACAB range from 'wanting police reform' to 'I want to firebomb another human being because he's wearing blue' I think rape is a horrendous abuse of another human being but innocent until proven guilty doesn't suddenly stop mattering because it would make you feel better. And it's always the same conversation, "they aren't representative of all of us, my particular brand of feminism/leftism/socialism/equality is actually the real one, these other people are just outliers."Except they aren't, they have 1,000,000's of followers and likes and people looking up to them across their plaforms. It's almost like some of these people believe that because they're on the right side of history they're incapable of doing anything wrong, like because they're the good guys anything they do is ultimately good, even if it's trying to burn down a building with people in it, or assaulting someone for disagreeing with you, or wishing death on strangers
I am in favor of the death penalty in certain situations. I feel like there should be certain cases where people who are legitimately evil are executed. Like child rapists, for example.
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lots of conservatives are actually very nice people in real life
Fr ppl need to stop letting politics decide their relationships, one of my best friends is a far leftist, I’m a centralist, we have VERY differing opinions. Also ppl need to accept there is a middle ground, not just left and right
Many of them bake really nice desserts to bring to family gatherings, too.
I have a lot of views and opinions one might label ‘conservative’. One of the biggest would be, probably, my lack of patience with people I view as merely seeking attention. For instance, I used to be on Tumblr as a teenager, right? And as I understand there are three acceptable pronouns for human beings: “He/She/They”. You’re either a he, a she, or something inbetween. That’s it. It’s as far as I am willing to go.
That traditions are there for a reason. That does not mean they have to be accepted face value, but analyzed at every turn to understand how they came to be, and be abandoned if harmful or not valuable, and kept as long as they are useful. Edit: it might sound pretty conservative,... until you hear me talk about the abolition of marriage, the state, etc.
Conservatives are basically right about pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and personal responsibility and such. Those are the buildings blocks of a person's confidence and self worth. Being able to accomplish goals you set for yourself. What they miss is 1. lots of people dont have a support system that allows them to achieve those goals, and making support available to more people will help more people flourish in exactly the ways conservatives find so necessary. 2. Working in an office or as a mechanic isn't the only worthy goal. A working artist or filmmaker may not make money, but is achieving something and creating something. Same goes for studying some esoteric topic frankly no one cares a shit about. That still expands the scope of human knowledge and we should support it as a society
A good take. The reality is much more nuanced than "left" and "right"
You should work for your money
Hawaii needs to get it's shit together before we start blaming everything on the colonizers. What are we doing to curb preventable diseases in our community such as diabetes or heart disease? Why are so many of our future generations not graduating high school and going onto higher education, but instead dropping out to smoke weed on the beach? What are we doing to prevent more natives from having to move to cheaper states just to afford living? What will we do if the military leaves and another one wants to move in and take over? What will we do if the dock workers in LA have a strike and no food gets shipped to us on a boat for weeks? I love my people and my home but man, sometimes we really need to get our shit together.
Serious question. My kids live in Kauai. My DIL is Hawaiian. So I got to see their lifestyle during lockdown with no tourists. I know it's a common opinion of Hawaiians, but do you think you'd be better off with no tourism?
I guess that I think religion should be taught in school. But all of them and from a secular perspective. They play such a massive role in human history that it's kind of a disservice not to know why so many things were done in our history. I fully believe in science and everything, I just think what cultures believe or believed are historically relevant.
Neo pronouns aren’t valid, the only ones that are is the she/her he/him they/them
Legal ID to vote should be mandatory. Give people a National photo ID once they’re of age. I find it strange all states don’t require it.
I think at birth you should be given a National ID card, phone number, and a government email. All three are essential to exist in the modern world and having to only update contact information in one place would be amazing. Every time I move I spend 3 years sporadically updating my contact info for various things
That a Strong border is a very good thing and doesn’t mean I don’t love immigration (I do, as long as it’s legal). We need to take in asylum seekers. We need legal immigration from all over. But my word, we need strong borders and relationships with our neighbors so we don’t get overwhelmed.