Tell an opinion you have that is in the strong minority

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this isn't a minority view by any stretch but in this area and esp on DCUM -- I feel like being religious (any faith -- doesn't matter) is a cause for people saying -- oh you must be dumb or uneducated or you don't have life coping skills and you must be super conservative. No I actually just believe in a faith that's been around for 1000s of years, I'm sorry that so offends you and congratulations on being able to handle every aspect of life without any divine help ever. It's just so super cool to be atheist or agnostic around here that it's simultaneously become ok to bash people with faith.

Were you raised on your religion or did you come to it as an adult?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's quite telling that all those people who 'hate' america still live here in their 30s rather than canada

canada is cold

And they try to keep the riff raff out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's quite telling that all those people who 'hate' america still live here in their 30s rather than canada

canada is cold

But America is racist,sexist, theocratic, war hungry, unhealthy, and badly in debt. I would have thought they would have moved to Norway when they turned 18 the way some people talk about it. 2015 and they're still here

[Anonymous]

1. I hate avocado
2. I think parents who are hyper vigilant about germs have the sickest kids
3. I hate that schools celebrate all the holidays making parents do all this silly crap like wrap a shoebox in paper for valentine day card collection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe no jail sentence should be shorter than 10 years, no exceptions, no plea bargaining out. Too many people commit 'non serious' crime eg domestic abuse, car theft, shoplifting etc etc and are out of jail in months if they ever go

Aaannnndddd you want therefore to raise taxes to 90% of everyone's income to pay for this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know this isn't a minority view by any stretch but in this area and esp on DCUM -- I feel like being religious (any faith -- doesn't matter) is a cause for people saying -- oh you must be dumb or uneducated or you don't have life coping skills and you must be super conservative. No I actually just believe in a faith that's been around for 1000s of years, I'm sorry that so offends you and congratulations on being able to handle every aspect of life without any divine help ever. It's just so super cool to be atheist or agnostic around here that it's simultaneously become ok to bash people with faith.

Were you raised on your religion or did you come to it as an adult?

I don't bash anyone (my husband is a believer) yet I do feel proud that I can handle life without leaning on the "divine". I so think it's a crutch. Yet if it works for you, fine with me.

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I'd like to encounter this "lot" of respectful atheists. Even within this thread people have been very insulting to believers. As a Christian, all I ask is that you give the same respect that you'd want for yourself.

Oh you poor poor Christian. I don't agree with insulting anyone's religion, but I don't think you get it because you are a member of the majority religion. How would you feel if your money started to read "In Batman we Trust", or if every town you drove through had at least three Batman Churches, but only one Christian church every 200 miles? What if you were considered rude for saying that Batman's birthday shouldn't be a Federal Holiday? What if you didn't want your children to have to say "One Nation, Under Batman, Indivisible" in school? What if the story of Batman ended with him being blown up with a grenade and everyone wore little grenades around their necks? What if you had to swear into court on the first Batman comic?
What if you knew, for a fact, that people would elect anyone who believed anything about Batman, but would never elect you because you didn't belong to any of the Batman sects?

Yeah, like that. That is what makes some atheists rude. Because we are swimming in it and can barely breathe. But I would never be rude to you, and I would never play the victim like the Christians do.

+1,000,000

How are you 'barely breathing' exactly. No snark

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe no jail sentence should be shorter than 10 years, no exceptions, no plea bargaining out. Too many people commit 'non serious' crime eg domestic abuse, car theft, shoplifting etc etc and are out of jail in months if they ever go

Aaannnndddd you want therefore to raise taxes to 90% of everyone's income to pay for this?

no

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Anonymous wrote:

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I fully support gentrification in DC. It's time to rid this city of the riff raff.

Serious question: Where is the riff-raff supposed to go? If you kick all the poors out of Anacostia, where do you suggest they live instead?

Not the person who posted this but I agree with them. I really don't give a damn where people "go" once their neighborhood becomes gentrified. It's not my problem. I don't see the issue here in DC yet but the protests against gentrification in San Francisco REALLY upset me. A guy dared to open a successful restaurant in a gentrifying neighborhood and the useless hippies harassed him until he left. And they said he didn't belong there. If poor people moved into a richer neighborhood and were treated the same way, EVERY civil rights activist in the Western Hemisphere would descend upon that city and there would be protests and hell to pay.

I mean, are we really going to stop real estate values from rising and stop neighborhoods from becoming BETTER? And safer with less crime, and with more amenities, and nicer housing stock, and likely better schools? It's such a friggin' backwards attitude, I can't even stand it. Do people realize they're fighting to make their neighborhoods stay semi-crappy?

The bolded statement is kind of hilarious. PP does not seem to understand that poor people *can't* move into rich neighborhoods because they can't afford it. And the rich know that, which is why they put up with high property taxes -- because they want their neighborhood to be cost prohibitive.

So poor people live in cheaper neighborhoods. But then wealthy people move in, and even the poor people who have managed to buy a house and maintain can no longer afford the property taxes and get pushed out, which was the wealthy plan all along. So then where do the poor people go?

And that leads to the elephant in the room. Some people just want the poor to disappear altogether. But they don't actually want to *help* poor people move up the ladder. They just want to get rid of them.

So when people say that gentrification "improves" neighborhoods, they are wrong. Gentrification *replaces* neighborhoods. I have yet to see a gentrification model whereby the people who originally inhabited the neighborhood, the poor people, find their lives getting better with gentrification as opposed to just being moved to some other location.

The poor ruined it in the first place

[Anonymous]

I'm not a vegetarian. But I hate bacon, and its smell. Completely do not understand the craze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. I hate avocado
2. I think parents who are hyper vigilant about germs have the sickest kids
3. I hate that schools celebrate all the holidays making parents do all this silly crap like wrap a shoebox in paper for valentine day card collection.

OMG, yes, PP! 10 years ago, I would've agreed with ALL of these. But strangely enough, I developed a taste for guac in my 30s.

[Anonymous]

I don't hate America - I believe very much is the ideals that we were founded upon. I think we have the capacity to be a great nation.

Doesn't mean I think we've made the best decisions all the time. And I 100% do NOT buy the "We're the greatest nation on the planet" nonsense.

There is a lot to fix, and sadly no one seems to care to do it. And now that compromise seems to be a dirty word, I've pretty much given up on our stupid politicians.

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Anonymous wrote:what's wrong with how the Obama girls act?

The fact that they didn't seem to act fascinated and enthralled about the pardoning of a turkey, and that one wore a miniskirt that day seems to upset a lot of people.

Their dad (The President) was dressed formally, they should take a hint from that that they're not exactly going to the mall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a vegetarian. But I hate bacon, and its smell. Completely do not understand the craze.

I'm not into bacon either. I do love me some sausage, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't hate America - I believe very much is the ideals that we were founded upon. I think we have the capacity to be a great nation.

Doesn't mean I think we've made the best decisions all the time. And I 100% do NOT buy the "We're the greatest nation on the planet" nonsense.

There is a lot to fix, and sadly no one seems to care to do it. And now that compromise seems to be a dirty word, I've pretty much given up on our stupid politicians.

I am curious: Who do you nominate for best nation in the world if not America