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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[โ€“] Gallardo994@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody is obligated to accept anyone's lifestyle or beliefs.

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[โ€“] deathbird@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USA: Personal cars should be banned, and commercial vehicles should be tightly restricted.

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[โ€“] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't care about data privacy. I care about consent and freedom of choice, so I care if someone else cares about privacy for whatever reason and cannot get it, but me personally, I care very little if at all. I personally do not feel a sense of "creepiness" or whatever from knowing that companies or the state know stuff about me. So I don't see much value in my personal privacy. On the other hand, we're barring ourselves from great technical advancements. I'm saying this because it feels like Germany is 10y behind other countries in digitization solely because regulators think I'm too stupid to give me the agency to opt in to sell my soul to our digital overlords.

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[โ€“] timelighter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The office of the presidency should be abolished

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[โ€“] PR_freak@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

My unpopular opinion is that the reason for the upvotes in an unpopular opinion post is often that comments are explaining why the OP thinks that way, changing the view of the reader and making it agree with the OP and therefore giving him an upvote

[โ€“] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

All roads in the UK that are currently 30mph limits should be lowered to 20mph, and those at 40 lowered to 30. There should be a systematic review of those at 50 whether they should be 40. National speed limit should be lowered by 10mph.

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[โ€“] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my country (Australia), they should increase the number of seats in government.

It hasn't been done since the early 80s when the population was half of what it is now. Your member therefore can be more active, a smaller electorate means less emails and letters to sift through, less stress from staff, and more representative of a progressive voting base.

But this gets so easily dismissed as increasing bureaucracy and big government.

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[โ€“] PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Water is wet.
Because of cohesion.

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[โ€“] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We should be boycotting so many things

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