r/TrueUnpopularOpinion

I know everyone is going to pretend they don’t know what I’m talking about.
But the internet got noticeably worse when it stopped having any kind of barrier to entry.
And before someone starts typing their dissertation about poverty or infrastructure or colonialism or whatever, that’s not my point. My point is that every open platform eventually turns into the same thing: spam, low-effort comments, scam messages, bot engagement, stolen content, fake tech support, “sir please” DMs, and comment sections full of people who seem to have discovered the internet five minutes ago and immediately made it everyone else’s problem.
You can’t even say this without people acting like you personally want to unplug a hospital. That’s the trick now. Any criticism becomes racism, even when everyone can see the pattern. YouTube comments, Instagram reels, gaming chats, freelancing sites, customer support scams, Quora, Reddit, crypto groups, dating apps. It’s everywhere. You don’t have to be some kind of extremist to notice that when a billion people come online all at once, the average quality of the internet drops.
And yes, I know, “not all of them.” Obviously not all of them. There are smart people there. There are normal people there. That’s not the point. The point is scale. If even a tiny percentage of a billion people are annoying, dishonest, or socially clueless online, that tiny percentage is still enough to ruin entire websites.

The worst part is that nobody is allowed to talk about it honestly. We have to dance around it. We can complain about “bots” or “spam accounts” or “low-quality engagement,” but the second you point out where a massive amount of it is coming from, everyone clutches their pearls.
I don’t hate anyone. I don’t care where someone is from if they act normal. But I’m tired of being told I’m imagining something that has made the internet objectively worse.
Maybe unlimited access wasn’t the humanitarian miracle everyone pretended it was. Maybe giving the entire world a microphone just means the loudest, dumbest, most shameless people get heard first.

I thought this sub was supposed to be a realer version of the subreddot UnpopularOpinion . But it really isn't, most topic that one can have a harsh stance on are banned. This at least should bet the one subreddit where all Reddit rules are purged to let Anarchy flourishing!

The performance of a family unit depends on protection and resource allocation. A husband who feels appreciated and fulfilled operates at peak utility; he channels his energy into wealth creation, home maintenance, and collective security. To achieve this high-output state, a wife's duty is to provide consistent validation, respect, and physical intimacy at all times. Constant nagging about this or that is very bad. Creating unnecessary emotional turbulence drains his battery and fractures his focus. When a husband returns from external competition to a peaceful home, his capacity to provide a secure environment increases exponentially. When she submits to this order, the family anchor holds. A family cannot survive if the primary foundational pillar is neglected or running on empty. Focus entirely on the husband's fulfilment; the rest of the family dynamics will stabilise as a direct consequence.

First of all, what happened was wrong and there is no justifying what happened. R.I.P to all the victims of this tragic incident.

The public discussion surrounding the recent tragic shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego completely ignores the massive cultural friction building beneath the surface of the city. While the media paints a one-sided narrative, no one wants to ask what deeper societal pressures drove those teenagers to snap and do something so extreme.

A major part of this tension comes from how the local Islamic community operates as an incredibly tight-knit, insular echo chamber that intentionally isolates itself from the broader public. This self-imposed segregation stands in direct opposition to San Diego's deeply rooted, loose beach culture and open secular dressing habits. When an ideology so extreme and backwards that demands strict modesty and insularity establishes a parallel society in a city built on freedom and assimilation, it creates an environment of perpetual friction that people are finally starting to react to.

We also cannot ignore how the public’s anxiety is constantly heightened by high-profile Islamic extremist attacks, like the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando or the San Bernardino shooting, which make local communities deeply fearful of radicalization within these insular spaces.

Leftists have this big chip on their shoulder against anyone who points out flaws with the younger generations. They deny it, say "ok boomer," and often remark "it's always been like this" to try to make you feel dumb.

But go look in any sub about being a teacher. It's nothing but complaints about how bad the kids are these days. It seems like because teachers are culturally adjacent to much of leftist culture, they get a pass for complaining about the kids getting worse, getting more disrespectful, getting harder to teach etc.

Why is it only ok to criticize younger people if you're in a leftist adjacent profession? That's a double standard.

Why are you treating your skin like a doodle book. Not cool. Just a waste of money and a shows a lot of disrespect towards how you present yourself. Why do you think you even have the right to assault people's eyes with your sh*t? You're probably why a lot of people are hiding from the world around them 😅

If you haven’t dated during the age of social media and dating apps, your advice is pretty useless. The dynamics of dating have changed in ways no one could have fathomed, and only people who have experienced both eras truly understand the shift.

​For example, I’m in my early 30s. When I was in high school, if I got a girl's number, I could be fairly certain I was the only guy she was talking to. It was pretty much the same throughout most of my early college years. Nowadays, getting a number just means you’ve entered a massive competition with tons of other people.

​The same applies to women. If a guy is good-looking and has high-quality pictures on Instagram or a dating app, he is likely talking to dozens of people at the same time. What worked 15 to 20 years ago simply doesn’t work anymore.

As stated above. For whatever reason, people love to parrot this idea that businesses exist to make money, and use this to justify all kinds of immoral, unjust, and greedy practices. They are not only expected to operate this way, but even encouraged.

No, a business should not ever exist to make maximum profit at minimal expense. A business that operates this way is nothing more than a parasite, sucking the joy and quality of life from any and all who come into contact with it, lowering the quality and availability of the services it pretends to aim to provide.

Businesses should exist to provide a service or product to society, and to create good, stable jobs for their communities. Profit should be used first and foremost to improve a business's ability to do these two things, and assuming there is anything left after doing so, things like raises and bonuses should be distributed equally amongst all staff, regardless of seniority or position.

Thanks to their insufferable virtue-signaling intolerant behavior, they are now going through a well-deserved decline and I think it’s about fucking time and good. They have done nothing but ruin this country with their fake “progressiveness”, their insufferable and intolerant attitudes towards anyone who shares remotely different views from them. We’ve always had to walk on eggshells around them because if you dare state a remotely conservative opinion, they call you all sorts of buzzwords and cancel you.

Then Trump came along and with his charisma, his personality, his actual competence compared to that geriatric fuck Biden, and how he makes liberals seethe with his presence is why we’re winning. Because we don’t care. He’s the catharsis to prople who sere afraid of cancel culture and mob mentality. We are now speaking up more and more and because of thst, we’re winning more and more and liberals and Democrats are losing and losing. He made it ok to ask questions, and always assert ourselves no matter what. And they have no one to blsme but themselves. I have voted for Trump twice and god damn it I will vote for him again, though he might be too old. Perhaps Vance, Gabbard, or even Nick Fuentes would a better younger option and might even be better at advertising the campaign.

If it wasn’t for Trump, the conservative party wouldn’t have gotten as far and successful as they are now. Thanks Trump, and a very big thanks to the liberals who made all this possible.

Genetically, historically, and anthropologically, Greeks are significantly more closely related to Germans than to Sub-Saharan Africans.

When looking at genetic data, the relationship between Greeks and Germans is exceptionally close, while the relationship between Greeks and Sub-Saharan Africans is more distant.

On any global genetic map, all European populations—including Greeks and Germans—cluster tightly together on a single, distinct branch of the human family tree (the Western Eurasian branch).

The genetic distance between a Greek person and a German person is very small. They sit on the exact same continental genetic gradient.

The genetic distance between any European population (including Greeks) and any Sub-Saharan African population is significantly larger, reflecting thousands of years of geographic separation and independent population histories.

I genuinely, for the life of me, can not figure out how this platform (Reddit) became like this. What I mean is that if a man complains about women or his relationship with one or even slightly says something negative about women in a comment, then he gets attacked or gets a passive-aggressive comment and is immediately in the wrong, even if it is true or accurate. If a woman were to make a similar post about men, then she gets all the comments agreeing with her and telling her how right she is. I genuinely, for the life of me, can not figure out how this sort of odd behavior on this platform emerged. I've seen this in so many posts lol, and find it such odd behavior as to how an entire platform can be this heavily skewed when it comes to such topics about men and women. I kind of want to know how this came to be.

Edit: The funny thing is, I can't post links in this sub, so I dm the people who are asking for evidence/examples, and have also notified them that I DMed them in the comments here, and yet most don't reply back. Lmao.

The current US immigration system is fundamentally flawed because of how broadly it defines family sponsorship, leading to what is commonly known as chain migration. Right now, the ability for an adult citizen to sponsor not just immediate family, but parents, adult siblings, and extended family members creates a cascading effect that strains resources and hinders integration.

To fix this, we should strictly limit family sponsorship to only two categories: the spouse of a US citizen and their minor children.

Here is why this change is necessary:

1. It eliminates the "Anchor Baby" incentive

Under the current framework, a child born on US soil automatically receives citizenship. Once that child turns 21, they gain the legal right to sponsor their parents for green cards. This 21-year loophole is the driving incentive behind birth tourism and undocumented individuals having children here to secure a future foothold for the rest of the family. If we restrict sponsorship so that a child *cannot* sponsor a parent, the practical incentive for "anchor babies" completely disappears overnight.

2. The fiscal reality of aging immigrants

From a purely economic perspective, older, aging parents are exactly the demographic that a sustainable immigration system should limit. Most sponsored parents arrive late in life without having paid decades of taxes into the US system. Yet, they immediately or eventually become eligible for heavily subsidized healthcare, social services, and public infrastructure. An immigration system should prioritize working-age individuals who maximize economic productivity; importing elderly dependents creates a net fiscal drain.

3. Better assimilation and fewer cultural enclaves

Restricting sponsorship to just spouses and minor children forces a structural shift toward better integration. When entire extended family networks move into the same geographic area, it naturally forms dense cultural enclaves.

Older immigrants, in particular, tend to be far more culturally entrenched and resistant to assimilation. Because they arrive later in life, they are statistically much less likely to learn English, enter the local workforce, or socially integrate outside of their immediate community. They rely entirely on their existing cultural framework.

By limiting sponsorship to spouses and children, immigrant households would be smaller and more dynamic. Spouses and younger children are far more likely to enter the workforce and the public school system, accelerating their English proficiency and adoption of local norms.

If we want an immigration system that actually prioritizes economic stability and cohesive cultural assimilation, we have to end extended family sponsorship.

As a bisexual woman, yah, it can get BAD in lesbian spaces. Which really sucks because I lean way more towards women, so I tend to gravitate more towards lesbian spaces.

The biphobia in the lesbian community, both online and in real life, is the worst I’ve seen and it even tops the biphobia of straight people. It’s crazy and only sets the LGBTQ+ community backwards.

I say this as a Polish person who's lived their life in the UK.

Everyday I wake up to see some bullshit on my phone, hating on Americans. Yes, there's a lot to dislike about the country and it's okay to moderately poke fun at a countries annoying habits from time to time but I've noticed an influx in comments on American posts that just isn't valid and is coming from a weird sense of superiority.

In the past two days I've seen two videos FLOODED with these comments. One was an American who is on holiday in Poland and was showing what she bought in the local shop. She put the price on screen and gave a haul, not once did she complain about the price. Her haul came from Zabka, a convenience store, but at the beginning of the video she said "We went to the grocery shop!" and every comment was something of "This is a CONVENIENCE shop!!! Not Grocery!! Stupid American!! It is SO MUCH more expensive!!!" like okay... She's on holiday and she either didn't know or didn't care. I don't know about other people but when I'm abroad, sometimes I do just buy stuff from the convenience shops. She didn't even buy 'groceries', it was like milk and cheese but the rest were crisps, easy pastries, drinks and snacks etc. The few 'grocery' items she did buy wouldn't be ridiculously cheaper in a big shop either. I also assume she's in a big city, where grocery shops are often further out or not in the 'prime' touristy locations.

The other video I saw was an American living in the UK who was talking about going to a shop on a Sunday. Here the shops close earlier and open later because of trading laws. She complained a bit, acknowledged it was a rule, and said she went to a shop at 10:30, picked up what she needed but was told that it's only browsing hours until 11 (which also, what's the point?). She vented, nowhere did she blame the workers or the shop, or demanded the hours to be changed on Sunday but the comments were once again flooded with "Go to the shop a different day/time!! Stupid American!!!". One comment said something like, "Airports are open early! Go there and get out." Chill. As a British person, I often complain about the whole shops on a Sunday situation, yes it's poor planning on my part but who cares? It's just a complaint (NOT to the shop, NOT to the workers, NOT even in hopes of change), it's just a "Sundays are so annoying" type of thing and I bet if me, someone with a British accent, made that video, the comments would be agreeing.

Another example I can think of is the whole "I went to Europe for the summer!" thing that happens every once in a while. If an American gets on social media and says something along those lines, the comments are filled with "Ugh, you know that's a continent, right? Did you go Bradford or Rome? Dumb American doesn't know about different countries". I get the whole point that each country is so different, but most people who say that went to Italy, the UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal etc. in one trip so it'd just be annoying for them to list those or pedantic to expect them to say "I traveled around Europe for the summer", when we all know what they mean and we're not being graded. Let's also not pretend that this is strictly an American thing. Since coming to uni and meeting people who are more well-traveled, I have heard "Yeah, I went to Asia on my gap yaaaaaar" countless times. It's the same thing but no one has a problem with it when it's a European saying that, because did you go Japan, or did you go Kazakhstan? If you were actually interested in where they went, the next line from you should be "Oh cool, where did you go?"

A lot of us need to step off our high horse and stop acting like we are smarter than every American. Don't even get me started on the whole "I'm too European for this" thing.

Im Gen Z myself, born in 2001

I’m constantly seeing Gen Z make fun of millennials. That millennial burger joint trend, making fun of the buzzfeed era/personality, even just the type of bars and social places they enjoy. It will be labeled as a “millennial” bar or restaurant.

I mean I see it. When millennials were in their 20’s and 30’s, fandoms, Harry Potter, tumblr, MySpace, etc were all the craze. It was cool to be quirky and weird in like 2009-2015ish. I don’t know.

But Gen Z is just so afraid of being “cringy”. Everything is considered cringy. And you’re considered old so quickly. We’re calling people in their mid 20’s “unc”, making fun of anyone who doesn’t fit this social media norm or acts a little funny or quirky. It’s not just Gen Z making fun of millennial or other generations, we’re making fun of ourselves to an extent where you can’t even have fun. And we’re so anti social too, in the generation where social media is so popular ironically.

Anyways just my rant. I understand this is just a generational thing, but with social media becoming more popular and younger people taking it so seriously (everyone needs to be a model or influencer), you can’t be quirky or weird anymore. I feel like millennials embraced their weirdness and when they were young they probably went out more, dated more, had more friends on average, etc.

For years, the World News sub had a mod known as Maxwellhill as one of its top mods for many many years, and as it turned out, that mod was actually the notorious child trafficker Ghislane Maxwell, who was basically the number two person to Jeffery Epstein. That sub has never experienced a reckoning or been made to atone for that attrocity. Under a different user name many years ago, I was also a mod of that sub during that time that Maxwellhill was at the height of their power. The degree to which that sub bent over backwards for her and catered to her every whim and fancy disgusted me then, before I even knew who she was, and it disgusts me even more now that this information is well known at this point. I made it a point during my time there as a mod to always fight against her power grabbing and her efforts to turn that sub into her own personal political soapbox. We constantly butted heads as she tried to post various rule-breaking posts of her own to the sub, and screamed at any other mod who tried to remove them.

The World News sub has never directly acknowledged this atrocity nor has it attempted to atone for this disgrace in any way whatsoever. The fact that they are still allowed to operate and have never taken responsibility for hosting as one of their top mods this criminal is beyond imagination to me. That sub really should have been shut down and reorganized after it was figured out who she was and that she was controlling that sub for so long.

When it comes to guessing a person's political affiliation, there are some very obvious signs. For example, if someone has a funky hair color, is overweight, and has tattoos, they're likely liberal (and often not straight). However, if a person has "normal" colored hair, is overweight, and doesn't have tattoos but is dressed in "Walmart"-esque clothing, they're likely conservative. Similarly, if a person is fake blonde and in "Tommy Bahama" style, they're likely conservative. Or if they're decked out in Vietnam veteran clothing and/or American flag clothing, they're likely conservative.

Then there's the "average" person who doesn't really fit any of those molds. Those are harder to pinpoint, but could be one or the other... or they could be somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum and have various opinions on different topics.

Thoughts?

Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK with a population of over 1 million people. Currently, around 30% of Birmingham's population are Muslims, a number that has more than doubled over the last 25 years. With Christians making up only 34% of Birmingham's population Islam will almost certainly become the plurality religion in Birmingham within the next couple of years. And beyond that it is actually realistic to assume that Birmingham will eventually become a Muslim-majority city within our lifetime.

Now, I am personally left-leaning. But what I absolutely hate is that a lot of people on the Islamist-aligned left will tell you that anyone who is concerned about this development must be a hateful bigot and a racist. Which I think is absolutely crazy. It's crazy that British people who grew up in Birmingham, and who lived there for generations and shaped the local culture would be called hateful bigots and racists simply for making their voice heard that they do not wish to live in a Muslim-majority city.

And to think that this would not radically change the local culture for the worse is absurd. According to a 2015 poll, for example, 39% of UK Muslims think wives must always obey their husband, 23% would like sharia to be introduced in parts of the UK and 31% think it's acceptable for British Muslim men to have more than one wife.

Also, the UK has already experience significant problems with Islamic extremism. There have been major Islamic terrorist attacks. Or a British teacher has been in hiding in their own country for several years after showing his students a drawing of the prophet Muhammed during their religion class and receiving countless death threats from British jihadists. Or, for example, the Muslim Brotherhood, a proscribed terrorist organization in several countries, is freely roaming college campuses in the UK and radicalizing British Islamic youth.

And of course there are countless jihadist extremist preachers freely preaching in mosques across the UK. People like the infamous Anjem Choudary who once advocated for the killing of apostates in a BBC interview live on national TV, and who founded the since banned jihadist organization Islam4UK which publicly advocated for sharia law in the UK. Choudary has thankfully since been jailed for life for directing a terrorist organization. But not before he was freely travelling the UK as a jihadist preacher for almost 3 decades, and being allowed to freely promote his batshit crazy jihadist version of Islam in mosques across the country. And many others like him will continue on with his work, and unlike Choudary will probably never face legal consequences for their promotion of jihad and sharia law in the British Islamic community.

So the fact that Europe will quite realistically see its first Muslim-majority city with 1 million+ population in the coming decades is very worrying. And it's crazy that some people will call those who grew up there, and who don't want to live in a Muslim-majority city hateful bigots and racists.

This is an opinion of mine! I am not saying this as a fact and I’m not generalizing! Of course everybody’s experience is different from mine, this is just a random thought that came to my head in the middle of the day, I’m a 23 (F) who has already failed a lot in her life and made a lot of shitty decisions that could’ve ended my life someway or make me end up on the streets. I’ve been on the army for a short while, I’ve changed a lot of jobs, went through a lot of shitty decisions against my parents, despite it all I’ve been given a lot of chances multiple times to change my ways by my male supervisors who work above me, be it on the army, school, and work. They all tried to understand me, work their way around me so that I wouldn’t get fired or kicked out of my apartment, or get a failure on the class I paid for (I was a lazy pos) I was always a trouble maker to my mother and stepfather, I almost ended up multiple times on the streets if not for my stepfather who got mad at my abusive mother every time she wanted to kick me out. Every money I got was from my step father. at this point all women who was above me in any community was cold, strict and was strict with giving second chances. I’m now trying to pick myself together so I can be independent and not disturb anyone, but I’m just happy for the men in my life who had helped me find my way and never gave up on me.