What non political controversial position do you hold?

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Anonymous wrote:Pitbulls should stop being bred
I am liberal but restorative justice/not holding kids accountable is a terrible idea
Kids need to meet certain minimum criteria to graduate high school. Not just in theory.

Agree with all three

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Tipping should go away. restaurants should pay their own employees a decent wage and close up shop if they can't make ends meet.

Social media should be banned.

People should only be allowed to travel by plane 2x a year.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids should be able to play in the park alone without parents hovering from around 8 on.

What do you mean hovering? By 8 my kids walk to the playground by themselves. I stop hovering at the playground once they’re about 3 and watch from a bench unless they want me to join in playing.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids should be able to play in the park alone without parents hovering from around 8 on.

What do you mean hovering? By 8 my kids walk to the playground by themselves. I stop hovering at the playground once they’re about 3 and watch from a bench unless they want me to join in playing.

Where I reside, there are parents who won’t let their kids go to the park alone until their teens. They insist things are just too dangerous!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone with a divorce is damaged goods.

I think anyone who stays in a shitty marriage as some kind of a martyr is not all that smart.

Both things are true.

No, not anyone with a divorce is damaged goods. Are you really going to say that to a person who was cheated on, for example? Or a person who was physically abused?

Yes, something is wrong with that person's judgement for marrying a person that would do that to them. They made a huge mistake in what was probably the biggest decision of their lives.

And then they are damaged goods for having been cheated on or abused. It's an awful experience for them that of course has negative impacts.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone with a divorce is damaged goods.

I think anyone who stays in a shitty marriage as some kind of a martyr is not all that smart.

Both things are true.

No, not anyone with a divorce is damaged goods. Are you really going to say that to a person who was cheated on, for example? Or a person who was physically abused?

Yes, something is wrong with that person's judgement for marrying a person that would do that to them. They made a huge mistake in what was probably the biggest decision of their lives.

And then they are damaged goods for having been cheated on or abused. It's an awful experience for them that of course has negative impacts.

My opinion, which I suspect is uncontroversial, is that you’re lacking in humanity. (I’m trying to think of a nicer phrase than “total ass.”)

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone with a divorce is damaged goods.

I think anyone who stays in a shitty marriage as some kind of a martyr is not all that smart.

Both things are true.

No, not anyone with a divorce is damaged goods. Are you really going to say that to a person who was cheated on, for example? Or a person who was physically abused?

Yes, something is wrong with that person's judgement for marrying a person that would do that to them. They made a huge mistake in what was probably the biggest decision of their lives.

And then they are damaged goods for having been cheated on or abused. It's an awful experience for them that of course has negative impacts.

And women are asking to be raped by wearing provocative clothes, amirite???

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Anonymous wrote:Women under the age of 24 should be offered safe, semi-permanent BC at age 16 (IUD or Norplant, etc). Boys should be given some sort of equivalent. The minimum of age of parenthood should be 25. You need to take a 3 month training course before having the BC removed.

And provide evidence of financial viability and stability. Not saying you need to be rich or even middle class. But you need a stable job and a decent apartment that you pay for yourself, and with enough of a buffer to also pay for childcare.

This is a terrifying opinion. The government should be in charge of who can and can’t have children. That’s what you’re saying.

Sorry, I don't want my tax dollars paying into subsidized housing, WIC, subsidized child care, food stamps, heating and cooling, etc. all because some poor lady wanted babies.

They already are, though

Yeah I know. Which is why I said what I said. People should have to pay for their own offspring and not foist in upon taxayers.

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Anonymous wrote:Women under the age of 24 should be offered safe, semi-permanent BC at age 16 (IUD or Norplant, etc). Boys should be given some sort of equivalent. The minimum of age of parenthood should be 25. You need to take a 3 month training course before having the BC removed.

And provide evidence of financial viability and stability. Not saying you need to be rich or even middle class. But you need a stable job and a decent apartment that you pay for yourself, and with enough of a buffer to also pay for childcare.

This is a terrifying opinion. The government should be in charge of who can and can’t have children. That’s what you’re saying.

Sorry, I don't want my tax dollars paying into subsidized housing, WIC, subsidized child care, food stamps, heating and cooling, etc. all because some poor lady wanted babies.

They already are, though

Yeah I know. Which is why I said what I said. People should have to pay for their own offspring and not foist in upon taxayers.

Do you also think only people with superior intelligence, blue eyes and blond hair should have children and everyone else should be sterilized?

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Anonymous wrote:I think ADHD is caused by poor or neglectful parenting.

That isn't just controversial, it's so ignorant. I have ADHD. Damn, I wished I had been diagnosed in my youth and gotten proper treatment. My life is night/day with treatment.

How do you explain how many more kids have it today? It is SO many more kids and not just because of additional diagnoses. It has to be environmental somehow.

There are as many poor and neglectful parents as there have ever been. You can't explain a change (increased incidence of ADHD) with something that hasn't changed (parenting quality). Science 101.

False. Screens and screentime have increased by orders of magnitude.

And there are many who believe it has negative results, especially for kids.

Researchers found by age 5, children who spent two hours or more per day, looking at screens, were 7.7 times more likely to meet criteria for a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, than children who watched screens for 30 minutes or less each day.

OVER SEVEN TIMES more likely to show symptoms of ADHD!

https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2019/07/18/preschooler-screen-time-linked-to-attention-problems/

It was also found the kids that were Not allowed to look at a screen or play video games had such bad hand eye coordination they make terrible surgeons.

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Anonymous wrote:Winter is a better season than summer

I second that emotion

I think people that like Winter better than summer are introverts

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Children should not be charged as adults.

DC should charge a large fee to MD and VA to enter the District (like London’s congestion fee). I’m tired of out of state people speeding through my neighborhood.

White shoes before Memorial Day is still a no.

I hate grass lawns in yards. Passionately. Lawn grass is not native to the US among many problems.

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Anonymous wrote:Women under the age of 24 should be offered safe, semi-permanent BC at age 16 (IUD or Norplant, etc). Boys should be given some sort of equivalent. The minimum of age of parenthood should be 25. You need to take a 3 month training course before having the BC removed.

And provide evidence of financial viability and stability. Not saying you need to be rich or even middle class. But you need a stable job and a decent apartment that you pay for yourself, and with enough of a buffer to also pay for childcare.

This is a terrifying opinion. The government should be in charge of who can and can’t have children. That’s what you’re saying.

Sorry, I don't want my tax dollars paying into subsidized housing, WIC, subsidized child care, food stamps, heating and cooling, etc. all because some poor lady wanted babies.

They already are, though

Yeah I know. Which is why I said what I said. People should have to pay for their own offspring and not foist in upon taxayers.

Do you also think only people with superior intelligence, blue eyes and blond hair should have children and everyone else should be sterilized?

Don't need the blue eyes and blonde hair, but people with high intelligence, people skills, and practical capabilities should be allowed to reproduce. Everyone else can be sterilized. With AI, we just don't need many lawyers and consulant.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading non-fiction is no different than surfing the net.

It’s drivel, I get it’s enjoyable but so is the Internet. People use it to escape just like reading the internet.

Any argument you can make for reading non-fiction you can say the same about surfing the net.

People who get their ego from grammar and spelling are the same people that are having a heart attack reading my opinion.

Yes, there is no difference between the words of Shakespeare, or Toni Morrison, or unhinged posters on DCUM.

PP said NON fiction, not fiction.

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Anonymous wrote:Jose Andres isn’t some great humanitarian, he's a self-promoter.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Lol. See: Mother Teresa

Her hey worth at death was double that if Jose andres right now.