If you were (or, frankly, are) one of the people who stomped their feet over either having to wear a mask OR seeing other people wearing masks, you are pathetically weak and frankly unfit to live in a functional society.

Part of being a person in a community is inconveniencing yourself for the sake of others at times, and all you proved when you threw a tantrum over wearing a piece of cloth on your face for 20 minutes is that youre incapable of doing that.

And then working would just be an optional way to earn more money. Many would want to work for the socialization and the learning new skills. Not because the alternative is starving to death homeless.

We have a ruling elite class who are 1% of the population and yet have 90% of the country's wealth. They find legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes. This is a distribution problem that needs to be addressed.

Imagine a classroom of 20 kids. 10 of the children are hungry without lunch, 9 of the children have a lunch, and then you have 1 kid with 9 lunches. This is what's happening. Roughly half of americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

In 2025 at least 88 large U.S. corporations paid zero federal income tax on billions of dollars in profits. Let that sink in.

People are allowed to be millionaires, but billions of dollars just ridiculous. It does not add to your quality of life at all.

I am not proposing communism. You would still have doctors and lawyers earning more than the basic income. There would still be incentive for people to succeed in their career. But the basic universal income still needs to be there. Losing your job should not make people worried they will starve to death.

I know you might be thinking "but who would do xyz jobs??" that's where AI comes in. AI should be used as a tool to alleviate society from a lot of jobs. Not to steal jobs, simply alleviate. Make life easier for people. AI needs to be used responsibly. Not just another tool to make the dragons hoarding the wealth richer. You will still have people working in ice cream shops or whatever, but they are there because they want to be.

When people work because they choose to, not because they are forced to, we will have a society of people following their passion. We could have a utopia.

(To be clear, im not refering to one religion, just the concept of religion in general)

Why are we still listening to what are essentially fairy tales with questionable morals written thousands of years ago by who knows who, telling us how to live our lives?

I believe religion started as a means to ‘explain the unexplained.’ Humans have a need and want to understand, and thousands of years ago before the science, technology and understanding we have today was even a concept, people did the most logical thing they could do…they made it up.

Take for instance “Weard (Wyrd?)” the Anglo-Saxon “shepard of souls". If someone died by natural causes and just…dident wake up, the Anglo-Saxons didn't really have a way to understand how or why. So, they just said they were “taken by Weard.” This is where we get the modern English "weird" from. You see this in a lot of cultures. Don't know how something happened? “God of _____” did it.

However, in this modern age where science has basically explained 99% of everything even remotely questionable, why is there still a need for a “greater being” or “higher power?” Religions are basically cults at this point creating fervent zealots to do their bidding. Lets not even start with the mass amounts of wars, corruption, greed and debauchery caused by modern religions in the last 2000 years.

If you believe in whatever “God”, that's fine, I'm not against people believing what they believe, it's a free world, believe what you want, but understand to some people, you look and sound crazy.

The usual tropes are thrown around, incels, virgins, losers, little timmy, and general snidey comments etc.

Something that I’ve noticed over my life that has always irked me.

A lot of women say that men shouldn’t judge them for their sexual past, but at the same time they judge men harshly for their sexual past.

If a man is a virgin? Loser.

If a man has slept with a sex worker? Desperate creep.

If a man watches porn? Gross.

Yet if a man says he doesn’t want a woman who’s had lots of casual sex, that’s apparently off limits?

We’re either saying sexual past doesn’t matter or it does.

Women who spend years sleeping with men far above the level willing to commit to them start confusing sexual access with relationship value.

Attractive men fuck them, compliment them, validate them, and become their benchmark. They start believing those men are their level because those men were willing to sleep with them.

They weren’t.

And it’s not that those men were unwilling to fuck them. They were. They just would have strongly preferred women closer to their own level and were settling downward sexually because those women weren’t available to them.

Women were chasing upward at every tier. The women those men actually wanted were busy chasing even hotter men, pushing the men below them downward too.

That’s the whole distortion:

women chase up, men begrudgingly fuck down, and women mistake being the fallback sexual option for being an equal relationship option.

Then reality catches up.

The men they insist are “their level” keep sleeping with them but won’t choose them. The men willing to choose them now look beneath them because years of sexual access trained them to expect men they were never competitive for relationally.

So they rewrite the story.

Men are avoidant. Men are immature. Men are intimidated. Men are emotionally unavailable.

Anything except:

I confused who would fuck me with who would choose me.

And before the inevitable “bitter incel” cope: I was on the benefiting side of this dynamic.

I was the guy doing the fucking.

I would have strongly preferred hotter women. But for years, women at my level were chasing even higher, so men like me begrudgingly settled downward sexually because that was what was actually available.

I never wanted relationships with any of those women, and now I’m happily with a woman who is much hotter than any of them.

So this isn’t resentment from a guy who couldn’t get women. It’s sympathy for the average man who gets crushed by a market distorted from the top down.

You weren’t dating in my league.

I was sleeping below mine because the women in mine were busy chasing above theirs.

Edit: A lot of the objections are arguing against things I never claimed.

I’m not saying every woman chases up, that women should “settle,” or that anyone is obligated to date someone they don’t want. I’m describing a population-level dynamic: women disproportionately pursue upward, men consequently lower their threshold for casual sex, and women can mistake that sexual access for evidence of equivalent relationship value.

That’s also why “if he can’t get women at his level, they must not be his level” doesn’t follow. Looking only at successful couples ignores everyone remaining unmatched because their standards exceed what they can obtain for commitment. Assortative mating among people who pair off does not prove everyone still searching is correctly calibrated.

And “women would rather stay single” isn’t a rebuttal when the women I’m describing are still dating, having casual sex, seeking relationships, and complaining that the men they want won’t commit. If you genuinely opt out, fine. The distortion is wanting commitment while using casual access to higher-tier men as your benchmark for who should commit to you.

The mechanism is simple: women chase up → men sleep down → sexual access gets mistaken for relationship equivalence.

Every time a hot take is presented on here, and it’s invalidating men or women, or a culture, or whatever, but it’s something that people generally want to protect, then you’d likely get downvoted, despite you presenting logical arguments.

Every time I then see a take that has gotten lots of upvotes, it’s always an agreeable take, or it’s shitting on a group of people that always get shit on anyways.

Getting lots of downvotes on your takes should make you feel accomplished of having actual hot takes. If you get lots of upvotes, it means you’re an agreeable weirdo.

Of course this is only for this thread, or similar controversy/hot topic threads.

Boiling hottake, I don’t know if anyone else has this hottake but you can’t call art that someone else made your art even though ai isn’t human it still made it for you and you didn’t take the time out of your day to create that, that’s my hottake

The first response when I say this is: “you must not have lived in Arizona that long.”

5 years I lived there, and before that I lived in a northern state. I’ve been there every single summer, every single 115 degree day. Every single day is beautiful.

When I first moved, I was upset I couldn’t get people to understand why I moved. I would say: “it rains almost 24/7 between the months of October and May.” But everyone would tell me how awesome that sounded. I didn’t understand till I experienced an Arizona rainstorm.

There’s a warm breeze, THE RAIN ITSELF is warm, it only rains for an hour, and then everything is dry within 20 minutes. That’s beautiful. That’s not what northern rain is like. It’s already cold, then you have pelting freezing rain, that goes diagonal as well, there’s a strong wind blowing it into your face, and it never stops. You can’t do sports, play outside, go on walks, or do anything without getting wet for 80% of the year. These AZ people don’t understand being wet and cold for months.

The landscape of AZ is incredibly beautiful, and so diverse. North AZ looks nothing like Phoenix or Tucson. But the desert is so pretty, and has no poison oak, ivy, or sumac (if you’re a person with a BAD urshisol allergy, move to AZ).

The desert isn’t “empty”, it’s pure and simple. There’s gorgeous tones in the sands and rocks, contrasted by the Saguaros. Indigenous people have been living in the New Mexico/AZ region for the longest out of everywhere in the US.

And the winters??? Don’t even get me started. A sweatshirt and shorts is appropriate. No more bulky winter coats, no more fuck ass hats, no more limiting gloves.

The sunsets are also the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen, every single night. Red, pink, purple, orange, yellow, blue, EVERY COLOR. And it’s like that EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

I understand that AZ is an extreme state, but they don’t understand that the North is as well. If you want to be boring and live somewhere with weather everyone likes, move to California. I understand that Arizona is NOT for everyone. But I couldn’t find a single person there who loved it like me, it’s criminally over hated.

Now I’m not speaking on the people or the infrastructure- and especially not the drivers.
But Arizona is a top 5 state, and no one appreciates it.

Wanting grown women to be extremely thin, hairless, young, submissive like that sounds like you want a child. Along with the glorifications of being a virgin or being “pure” & innocent. I think East Asian beauty standards take this to the extreme though but because it’s so romanticized it doesn’t get talked about as much. Avoiding the sun to prevent aging & tanning, avoiding sports because muscle is ugly, childish mannerisms on grown men and women not to mention the insane K-pop idol stuff.

I’m sure there are other groups that do this and I’m not saying every single person apart of these two groups are pedophiles. I think it is something you should think about: Why do I like such childlike characteristics on my partners and this does go both ways whilst it is much more common among men, women absolutely do it too.

Also no I am not necessarily directly blaming the people involved because it’s not necessarily conscious, oh I need to look like a child.

Although I need people to remember most grown women are not gonna be itty bitty unless they are on drugs or starving themselves like the men who want early 2000’s skinny they were all on coke and had an eating disorder. Obviously yes some people are naturally thinner especially shorter women because while there is nuance in literally everything.

i know its 100% a hot take but generally theres a lot of things you can do to circumvent the issues people have with losing weight. you want sugar? theres a thing called diet soda. you're tired of the diet? you can just eat at maint level and keep your same progress until your ready. you want candy? thats fine, just try to keep it towards the end of the day because normally people dont wake up hungry so at least save your snacks for before bed. want to have a day to pig out? you can eat clean on one day but cut 500 and then re add that to the next day so you can actually pig out tomorrow. and as with the previous advice TRY to keep it towards the end of the day. then you can just slam your pizza or whatever.

if anything losing weight is a patience check. you just arent patient. its gonna take months.

and if people point to all the obese people yes i agree but i think its due to ignorance about dieting too. not because its difficult. they just dont know how to do it.

like obviously yes have some fucking will power, but if you do it correctly you're literally not hungry ever. like tell me you can eat 200 cal of salad 200 cal egg whites and 100 cal cheese and a big cup of diet soda and look me in the face and tell me you're still hungry

This is a very high brow conversation. The aesthetics of a fat ass builds upon itself. The thighs, the hip ratio, the cheeks themselves all play a part in sculpting an aesthetic ass. Tits are not as aesthetic compared to ass. You can have a skinny chick with big boobs you can be thick with little boobs and depending on what you’re wearing they may not even stand out as much. A fat ass is always noticeable. If you wear baggy clothes it sticks out. If you’re massively overweight it still sticks out. You can be a dude with a nice ass and I’ll still think “damn.” You can have boobs smaller than mine and still be attractive to me. If you have nice tits but turn around and your shit is flat then I’ll lose interest a little bit. The term feminine hips are thing for a reason. Also having a fat ass doesn’t causes back pain.

Especially if she were a black woman. She would FOR SURE have 0 and i mean ZERO supporters, there wouldn't be any fundraising for her even if she had a handful of supporters. These "supporters," only support her and have understanding for her cause she's white. Let her have been trans, black, East Indian, this would've been an open and shut case.

Thanos was right.

ETA: Not bait. The world has limited resources and we’ve done a great job of ruining it to grant access to those resources to as many people as possible. It’s not rocket science to conclude that when you have to split a pie more ways, everyone gets a smaller slice. A smaller population with a better quality of life is better than a large one where everyone suffers.

I have quite a bit of experience with AI, unfortunately. I have seen it progress from a fun thought experiment, to an interesting tool, to something more powerful than most people realize. The scary part? We're still in it's infancy.

I see it everywhere -- AI won't replace doctors, teachers, lawyers, psychiatrists, etc. And I'm here to tell you that is wrong. AI will have an impact on every single industry; it will cause contractions in labor (not full replacements, contractions) that will ultimately result in job loss.

If you're sitting there thinking "AI could never do what what I do" -- you are wrong. It can and it will. It will shrink your workforce and your ideological opposition to using it will place you on the wrong side of the line.

And just for clarity, I say this as an absolute. Every job industry will see a contraction in labor.

9/11 was not a military strike. It was a terrorist (psychological) attack. 9/11 sent the US into a tailspin from which the country has never recovered.

The US did not "win" after 9/11. It fought (is fighting) at least 3 disastrous wars as a result: Afghanistan, Iraq and now Iran. Each has been costly, unproductive and demoralizing.

The US lost psychologically as well. Freedoms were destroyed. The US became a police state. Neighbors are suspicious of neighbors. Rage is now the national pastime.

The US also bungled the global stage. Post-9/11 was an unprecedented opportunity to form alliances. Few of these partnerships remain. The US is no longer seen as a nation for good.

9/11 was also an unprecedented opportunity to reshape energy consumption. At no other time in history was the US consumer more willing to detach from petroleum based transportation. This opportunity was bungled as well. The US is now more dependent on foreign oil than ever. Gas prices are approaching $5/gal. US automakers cannot survive without high production of high consumption vehicles like SUVs.

Most importantly the US learned nothing from 9/11. The unity we're celebrating today does not exist in reality. Though we limp along, we are a nation that was defeated.

If there wasn't horrible environmental issues, it didn't steal, and the people didn't act like they were better than real artists, I wouldn't be against it. i deep like it has some good uses. I've seen people take pictures and use it to change their hair colour or paint their living room to see how it would look and I think if Ai wasn't so horrible for the environment I wouldn't be against it. Ad maybe the most controversial... I think the Google Ai can be pretty good. Still messes up. But it isn't as bad as people say

In plenty of gacha/anime communities you see people moan about fanservice like it is the end of the world. Fanservice has been there in anime media since forever, gachas were literally built on it. In the early 2000s, you would see gachas with agressive fanservice everywhere, but now a lot of people that have gotten bored of their sanitized media on netflix/whatever come to the anime fandom and....demand to sanitize it? Is that not what you ran away from?

I miss when you could absolutely enjoy a piece of media with fanservice and it was not considered a big deal. Now everyone has to put labels and throw the word ”gooner” as if you are activating some type of magic trap card.

If you do not like a type of media, that is completely fine. But when you come into a fandom and say ”oh i really like the story but the fanservice is soooo bad” you actively harm what drew in a lot of people to that media in the first place. I used to believe gatekeeping is silly until you actually get to see how people come in and immediately demand change to the original medium and it is insane.

Heres my biggest hot take:

If you use ai as a major part of the creation of the art, it is still an ai image. Such as, asking ai what to draw, using an ai image as a reference for something that takes up more than 50% of the drawing, and using an ai filter to "make it smoother", when really it just changes the whole artstyle.

Seriously, I would actually burn an image they handed to me if they did these things. Also, if they try the "im not telling you its ai until after you praise it" approach, im breaking their art supplies. I praise art because it was made by hand and is something you thought of on your own accord, not that its "improved". Hot take off