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Would like to keep it non political if possible!

I'll start it off with a couple...

I don't think "Chance the Rapper" is a good artist at all... don't get his appeal.

I like Michael Bay movies, sue me.

I like Chance the Rapper

I like Michael Bay movies
 
Fucking A. Not even close. And Manchester had a scene or two that if you didn't at least tear up you're a monster. Unfortunately, Hacksaw was made by a monster. So no win

Manchester was also a damned good movie...though its sudden ending pissed me off
 
If I do have some, there is no way in hell I am going to drop them here.
 
that if you want to be a "citizen" with "rights" you better own up to some responsibilities. Serving the public (USPS, Military, Peace Corps, VA Doctor, neo-WPA, work at a Food Bank, whatever) at some point. Forget these "I have unalienable rights to (whatever...own a gun, make a baker bake me a cake, go to an Antifa rally without consequence, sue anyone I want)" without putting skin in the game. "I was born here, so you (the other gov't and taxpaying citizens) owe me food and shelter and medical care and ...". The only unalienable rights you have are to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Constitutional rights (those laid down by the government) are for citizens.

From one of rappers I listen to, Spose, "Say free country, I can say what the fuck I want: Sh*t! B*tch! C*nt! Fuck the government! Buy my songs! Some places you say Shit like this and you get your hands cut off."

By being lucky enough to be born here (or to come over a border without repercussions), I don't feel that you have earned all the things that people have served, worked and died for. Don't like it? Feel free to relocate to Mexico, Japan, Russia, China, Egypt, Dubai, Rwanda, Philippines, Sudan, France and see how many rights you get there. What has my son contributed to America that's more than some Guatemalan illegal immigrant, other than the God-given luck to be born here? Or for that matter, what's he contributed to America that's more than what he's contributed to France or Russia or St. Lucia?

Unpopular, I know.
 
that if you want to be a "citizen" with "rights" you better own up to some responsibilities. Serving the public (USPS, Military, Peace Corps, VA Doctor, neo-WPA, work at a Food Bank, whatever) at some point. Forget these "I have unalienable rights to (whatever...own a gun, make a baker bake me a cake, go to an Antifa rally without consequence, sue anyone I want)" without putting skin in the game. "I was born here, so you (the other gov't and taxpaying citizens) owe me food and shelter and medical care and ...". The only unalienable rights you have are to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Constitutional rights (those laid down by the government) are for citizens.

From one of rappers I listen to, Spose, "Say free country, I can say what the fuck I want: Sh*t! B*tch! C*nt! Fuck the government! Buy my songs! Some places you say Shit like this and you get your hands cut off."

By being lucky enough to be born here (or to come over a border without repercussions), I don't feel that you have earned all the things that people have served, worked and died for. Don't like it? Feel free to relocate to Mexico, Japan, Russia, China, Egypt, Dubai, Rwanda, Philippines, Sudan, France and see how many rights you get there. What has my son contributed to America that's more than some Guatemalan illegal immigrant, other than the God-given luck to be born here? Or for that matter, what's he contributed to America that's more than what he's contributed to France or Russia or St. Lucia?

Unpopular, I know.
Booooo, for the most part. If that's unpopular with me you've picked a pretty unpopular one.
 
1. The media should report the news without injecting personal opinion as fact. (This didn't use to be unpopular)

2. Social media is a net negative for society.
 
1. The media should report the news without injecting personal opinion as fact. (This didn't use to be unpopular)

2. Social media is a net negative for society.
I feel like the media has included propaganda and editorial since at least Thomas Paine.
Social media is a great way for government and datamining conglomerates to know what the populace thinks/feels/does. If you're into that.
 
I feel like the media has included propaganda and editorial since at least Thomas Paine.
Social media is a great way for government and datamining conglomerates to know what the populace thinks/feels/does. If you're into that.
Human nature I suppose. I think Buckley vs Gore Vidal somehow opened a can of worms in recent history. Apparently their debates were revolutionary. Now we see that everywhere.

I'm not a huge history buff about the founding of this country by any means but I'm sure they had to sensationalize stuff to get people to follow along.
 
I feel like the media has included propaganda and editorial since at least Thomas Paine.
Social media is a great way for government and datamining conglomerates to know what the populace thinks/feels/does. If you're into that.

But the media had standards that countered that due to professionalism and good taste. For ever "Rag" Hearst started, there would be a new generation of writers who longed to be H.L. Mencken or Edward R Murrow. Now there are no standards as anybody in the profession is told immediately they won't have a career. As far as social media, that's here to stay. I just hope people realize that falling pray to it fucks up your dopamine levels as you strive for peer acceptance, destroyed any type of public discourse and makes people fear the mob mentality. But if we are cool with allowing mobs tactics to destroy any type of free discussion we have under fear of brigading and shaming, I've got no problem with that. Just make sure your opinion is something the crowd will always agree with and you are the one holding the pitchfork.
 
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Eminem's new album is hot garbage and he as an artist hasn't been good since the Recovery album ~7 years ago and even that wasn't what I'd call a great album.
 

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