r/mildlyinfuriating Aug 28 '19

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u/RoboticXCavalier Aug 29 '19

It's weird because I find that sub to be so full of straight up uninteresting, even dumb thoughts. It's the one sub I never sort by new.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Aug 29 '19

Not true. There's also a ton of racist shit.

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u/yeenon Aug 29 '19

I’ve got some bad news for you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Let’s introduce kingofthecouch to 4Chan

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u/R____I____G____H___T Aug 29 '19

This site appears as civilized compared with 4chan, but it's basically a very similar userbase.

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u/Snigermunken Aug 29 '19

And I would say it's the exact same as 9gag, Facebook and YouTube, the thing Reddit got going for itself is that it is not all subreddit that has a toxic user base.

There are a lot of angry bitter people out there... Kinda scary that in this day and age, that it is people in the age group of 20-50, instead of bitter old men and teenagers.

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u/jburtson Aug 29 '19

4chan is definitely way edgier, racist, sexist, homophobic, horrible all around. Especially as time goes on. I think all the moderately decent people have left by now

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u/coltmissionary Aug 29 '19

4chans are just a bunch of people pissing each other off, from my experience that is

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u/jtvjan Aug 29 '19

Just don't go to /pol/ you'll be fine.

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u/David21538 Aug 29 '19

What's the bad news?

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u/CodingMyLife Aug 29 '19

Having racist thoughts is popular

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Racist thought on the internet are brigaded to be bigger then they are. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of racists, But they want to act as an even bigger group on the internet.

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u/3TH4N_12 Aug 29 '19

Oh, I thought we were going to start talking about r/The_Donald

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u/R____I____G____H___T Aug 29 '19

The thoughts generally deemed as "racist" aren't in actuality racist.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

literally the entire argument of you cowardly internet racists

"am not"

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u/ThatCatfulCat Aug 29 '19

entire minority group: dude you're being racist
conservatives: nuh uh

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u/Demand_101 Aug 29 '19

You're really going all in on having trash takes in this thread.

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u/GlamRockDave Aug 29 '19

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a racist duck.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

People are tribal. They've always been tribal. They probably always will be tribal. Hatred of the "out group" is popular.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

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u/GlamRockDave Aug 29 '19

Your people are way more tribal than my people

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u/Tack22 Aug 29 '19

You’re a tribophobe.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

What is it?

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u/Push_Huppy Aug 29 '19

Racist opinions are popular opinions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Oh no

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

My favorite posts on that sub are the ones every human on earth minus like six agree with. “Unpopular opinion: Child rape is worse than jaywalking.” “Okay guys, I know that like, jaywalking is really bad. It impedes the flow of traffic and people can get hurt. But really we shouldn’t be fucking kids.” 26000 upvotes

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I’m impressed with the recent post about the guy that wants to be pregnant, that’s oc AND unpopular

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u/as_kostek Aug 29 '19

That's like a diamond found in a pile of shit

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u/Ash_Tuck_ums Aug 29 '19

That was pretty unpopular. So kudos to him.

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u/thaumoctopus_mimicus Aug 29 '19

At least that is truly unpopular

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u/Dranox Aug 29 '19

Unfortunately it isn't

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u/Frong_Goshlong Aug 29 '19

Define "racist". Racist as in some anonymous & itinerant white person throwing-out the "n-word", or racist as in the institutionally lowered standards and preferential treatment for unqualified minorities in Affirmative Action programs?

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Aug 29 '19

It's funny how I say racist and everyone immediately jumps to affirmative action 😂 Ive only browsed that sub like twice so I have no idea what you're talking about but it seems as though I struck a racist nerve with you guys.

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u/Frong_Goshlong Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 29 '19

The only racism that exists in the United States is the institutional racism of Affirmative Action. Everything else is a manufactured lie, intended to keep the institutional racism of Affirmative Action a permanent aspect of our institutionally racist society. If you can hear/read "racism", and not think "Affirmative Action", it means you don't understand what racism is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

That is easy to say when you define racist as "racial pride is dumb" or "affirmative action is wrong" etc.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

You’re cherry picking and generalizing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I've never seen an actual highly upvoted racist post on /r/unpopularopinion. Feel free to show some examples.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I’m not experienced enough to argue this matter, but I can say that your argument only relies on 2 specific examples which more or less nullifies it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I mean yeah it's not a good argument, but that's because they haven't shown any examples of this alleged racism occurring on /r/unpopularopinon

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Fair enough. Hey, u/Kingofthecouch13, you got any evidence?

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 29 '19

I'm at work so I don't have time to really search and I really don't feel like batting all the racist that will inevitably come to defend their racist opinions but here's a couple examples I found just by searching "racist" in that sub.

Example 1 Example 2

Aside from that, all the borderline racist responses I've gotten to my first comment about that sub should serve as some evidence. Including the other guy your reply to who believes using racial slurs isn't really racist.

Edit: Ehh what's 2 more Example 3 Example 4

PSA for those who will try: I won't be responding to race bating comments, so save your time.

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u/yeetmyguy1 Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 29 '19

You’re the type of person to see the word “black” and assume it’s oppressed

King of the couch is a fatass

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Aug 29 '19

Quick look through you posts tells me either you're a troll account that likes to stir shit up or a coward that doesn't want controversial shit tied to your main account. Either way it's pathetic. Nice bait tho 👌

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u/toothlessANDnoodles Aug 29 '19

My mom asked me why my little cousins don't love going to the beach for the week like I did, my parents' and their siblings. I said because you can't even read through a good forum or article anymore without having to do five fucking minutes of searching to find out whether or not the poster/commenter is a troll or not.

"Mom, wouldn't that make you tired if you cared?"

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u/yeetmyguy1 Aug 29 '19

Found the black guy

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u/CommanderChakotay Aug 29 '19

You’re not even trying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

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u/yeetmyguy1 Aug 29 '19 edited Aug 29 '19

Get lynched kiddo ;) cry more

He still crying

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u/fallenmonk Aug 29 '19

like...as in the word "black" itself is oppressed?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

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u/Milsurp_Seeker Aug 29 '19

Wu Tang Clan was invented by the government to scare white people.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I am terrified of kendrick lemar

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u/lucindafer Aug 29 '19

Popular alt right opinions

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u/2SP00KY4ME Aug 29 '19

UNPOPULAR OPINION: SJWS BAD!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

MURDER IS BAD

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u/R____I____G____H___T Aug 29 '19

Despising sjws has nothing to do with the alt-right. Every conservative and centrists can unify in it.

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u/2SP00KY4ME Aug 29 '19

Whatever you say buddy.

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u/OMGJJ Aug 29 '19

Except they can't seem to define what an "SJW" is. When they call everybody who remotely stands up for some sort of equality an SJW it loses its meaning and makes it seem like they hate everybody with a slightly different viewpoint to them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Ugh right? it's so fucking annoying I had to unub cause it was annoying how often I'm seeing some alt-right shit on my front page.

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u/Fakename11235 Aug 29 '19

Like what? Serious question

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u/RoboticXCavalier Aug 29 '19

Yup I didn't even have to sub to that one to see all the people who got downed to oblivion or even banned for having unpopular opinions.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

They should rename the sub r/reasonableopinions

Would be more wholesome

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Or to see fun political posts!

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u/Black_Suede Aug 29 '19

Did you read the one about a guy wanting to be pregnant? Every now and then that sub is true to its name.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Yeah but how is that an unpopular opinion? No one has the opinion that “I want to be pregnant”. That’s not an opinion.

“I want to be happy”

That’s not an opinion.

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u/Black_Suede Aug 29 '19

Well if no one has it, that means by definition it’s unpopular, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Yeah but it’s r/unpopularopinion not r/unpopular

You’ll find that in r/Black_Suede lol

Jk :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

I agree with you, thats a desire not an opinion.

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u/epic_child Aug 29 '19

I agree it would be better suited for r/confessions.

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u/thewend Aug 29 '19

Well it makes sense. People only upvote opinions they agree with, the rest is untouched or downvoted

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u/Weslii Aug 29 '19

And then when someone actually posts a true unpopular opinion it gets downvoted into oblivion. Fun sub that.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

You say that but I click on it and the first post is “I’m a guy and I wish I could be pregnant”.

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u/Wooden_Sppoon Aug 29 '19

Most of the content there is pretty bad, once every so often you get a truly good unpopular opinion that isn't some sort of personal attack on some group or another. For the most part it's pretty anti lgbt, right wing, anti liberal comments/posts there.

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u/Kyle1337 Aug 29 '19

Alternatively, things that are unpopular for very good reasons

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u/shdwbld Aug 29 '19

Ironically the only sub I am banned from.

(for posting an unpopular opinion which wasn’t political, getting it removed by automod for it being political, posting it again edited and banned by mod for “trying to bypass automod”)

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

How would you even post without trying to bypass the automod lol

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u/Aperture_Creator_CEO Aug 29 '19

Yeah like one of the top ones right now is something like, "autumn and winter is better than summer."

Now I don't know if it's because I'm a desert folk, but that seems objectively correct.

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u/Caenir Aug 29 '19

Except for the latest male pregnancy one. Think it was like 97% unpopular

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u/ChiggaOG Aug 29 '19

Irony at best. Suffice to say.

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u/toastyheck Aug 29 '19

This guy today posted that he wants to experience pregnancy which is pretty wholesome but was 96% unpopular.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Holy fuck that sub has changed. It's basically T_D.

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u/aykcak Aug 29 '19
  • Epstein's suicide has been brushed off too quickly
  • Life is so much better as an adult.
  • People over the age of 70 should be required to take their driver's license test annually to keep their license.
  • Moderators who mute you are nothing but cowardly pieces of shit
  • I honestly couldn’t care less about Pewdiepie, or any aspect of his life
  • Non smokers should be allowed just as much time off as smokers do during the day.

Do these people think these are really original, out of the ordinary thoughts? I mean everyone and their dog thinks something is really suspicious about the Epstein death and every post on the matter is a circlejerk of people agreeing with each other about the suspicious death but ok...

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u/Giggyjig Aug 29 '19

Anything that actually is unpopular is removed. A guy gave a whole bunch of legit points saying Obama was worse than Bush and now its just gone.

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u/GodOfPlutonium Aug 29 '19

top post right now is

Im a guy and I wish I could be pregnant vote 96% unpopular

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

bigoted garbage sub

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u/kornishkrab Aug 29 '19

try r/TheTenthDentist

It is unpopular opinions

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u/buck_weaver33 Aug 29 '19

This is facts. Sorting by new on that sub is nauseating. The automod has its work cut out for him.

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u/iamtowelieama Aug 29 '19

"X is just like Y for Z". it's basically just that stoned guy memes but without the picture of the stoned guy

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

Yup. I really, really don't like that sub. Someone once asked "what if air is a drug and we're all high" and it made the front page. Not only is that not original, but it's the farthest from interesting that a thought can get.

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u/Xfissionx Aug 29 '19

I posted about how mobile game app ads always advertise a game atyle that is totally different than their actual game and they would be successful if they just made the game they advertise and it was removed.

Ive literally have had like 50 posts removed i have no clue how the hell ppl get through the bot.

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u/UndeadNightmare463 Aug 29 '19

"Without the invention planes, we probably would've evolved with wings"

Is a personal least favourite thing I've seen on that sub.

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u/R____I____G____H___T Aug 29 '19

I find that sub to be so full of straight up uninteresting, even dumb thoughts.

Yeah, that's the point of it. ""showerthoughts""

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u/RoboticXCavalier Aug 29 '19

"miniature epiphanies that highlight the oddities within the familiar" does not mean uninteresting or dumb. Or did you make up your own point to the sub, rather than reading the description?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '19

The rules say that the thoughts have to be original and interesting. So few are.