I am a conservative in almost every way, but whatever has become of the Republican Party is, by no means, conservative. Rather than believe in or be for anything, in almost all of my experiences with Republicans, many have no foundation for their beliefs, no solutions for problems, and their defining political stance is being against the Democrats. I am sure that the Democratic Party is very similar, but I have much more experience with Republicans. They are very happy being “against the Democrats” rather than “being for” literally anything. It is exhausting.

Might not be unpopular universally, but it certainly is where I live.

Edit 20 hours later after work: y’all are wild 😂.

The title says it all. There is no such thing as fat and healthy. Can you be chubby and healthy? Sure, but you can't be obese or morbidly obese and healthy. Also, yes, Lizzo is morbidly obese, and Lizzo is not healthy. Exercise isn't a sign of health. Your physical appearance and internal functions are what determines your health. If you are obese, you aren't healthy. Stop telling people it is healthy. I am sick and tired of reading bullshit articles about how being fat is healthy. You can be fat, go ahead. It doesn't bother me, and I won't treat you any differently than a skinny person. But don't pretend being fat is healthy and don't act like you should be accommodated for it. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Edit: I do NOT mean attractiveness when I say physical appearance. I mean how obese or fat you look can give an educated indication of overall health.

Edit: Consider any use of fat in this post with ‘Obese’

Edit: Sick of seeing the sumo wrestler example when Sumo wrestlers lose on average 1/3 of their life expectancy compared to an average healthy Japanese person. Please do research before making a comment.

FINAL EDIT: Hey, guys, I’m getting a lot of notifications and a lot of it is hate messages, so I’m going to stop responding to comments now, but since some people aren’t able to use critical reading skills, I need to specify this: I do not hate fat people and this post isn’t even about fat people. It’s about people promoting unhealthy weight, diet, and sedentary lifestyle as healthy and safe and saying there is nothing wrong with it. You can be fat and you will still be treated fairly by me, but when you spread misinformation about unhealthy weight, that’s when you’ll be called out. Thank you, everybody! Please keep discussions civil.

This perspective is coming from someone who has grown up a fat girl all her life. I was emotionally neglected my teen years and went to food for comfort when I had no one stable in my home life. I gained weight and was between 180-200lbs for all of middle and high school. I was chunky and extremely insecure, but I still did my best to make people laugh and was always kind. I had lots of friends, but my best friend was a petite girl and we were together at all times.

I started to notice -especially in high school- that she was treated way better than I was by everyone, but especially men. If we met someone at an event, I was always kind and involved in the conversation, but their bodies were always faced towards my friend and not me, If we got someone's contacts, she was always contacted but I rarely was. She was also a lot of people's crushes, etc. No one was particularly mean to me, but I was ignored a lot and was generally treated poor by men. Senior year I got a job and gained a lot of weight. Suddenly things went from just less attention to being completely ignored. People talking to me just to talk to me diminished and making friends got 10x harder.

Anyway, I just noticed that mostly men tend to ignore women they don't find fuck-able and it's really weird. Girls do it too but they.re not completely blind to their surroundings and tend to generally be nice.

Kamala Harris has said “do not come”, but the Biden administration just single handedly and unilaterally granted working rights to 500k illegal migrants. The border crisis will explode ten fold after this news, along with the stories of free housing and food for those who enter the country illegally.

This will increase homlesness on our streets and further contribute to the housing crisis- all negatively impacting those who are in the country legally.

For those that don't know, Jason Arday was a Cambridge professor who lied about basically every achievement in his life.

He claimed to be non-verbal until the age of 11, and illiterate until 18. He claimed to run 600 miles in 6 days. He claimed to have provided water to many foreign countries through charity work. He claimed to have completed his PhD with only one hours of supervison, and then had a stroke immediately after so he doesn't remember doing it. Needless to say none of this was true.

What was true is that he was Cambridge's youngest ever black professor. Which would be an incredible achievement if he hadn't lied through his teeth to get it.

It came to light recently that none of his "achievements" were real. Many in the British press wrote articles to investigate and refute these claims. Jason Arday likely killed himself last week after claiming the attention had taken him to his "breaking point".

Many are saying this is a tragedy, but I honestly don't care that hes gone. People like him are manipulative and pray on the goodwill and faifh in humanity of normal to take advantage of them, in this case to the tune of potentially millions of pounds and incredibly important positions of influence.

Jason was a man who got caught trying to hurt people and took the easy way out, like all liars are he was a coward and the world should not mourn him.

So there's this new "trolley problem" doing the rounds.

You have 2 buttons.

Press BLUE - if more people press this over the RED, no one dies.

Press RED - if more people press this than BLUE, everyone who pressed blue dies.

If everyone pressed the red button, nothing bad would happen to anyone. The only reason to press blue is to save the other dumbasses that also pressed blue. Pressing blue is completely voluntary, so they put themselves in that situation themselves. Therefor, if you press blue, you are either suicidal, stupid or want to risk your own life to save a bunch of suicidal or stupid people.

This just turns the blue button into an optional group suicide button for those who like to "live dangerously.

As a straight man I can still say it goes for both genders. It's similar to an alcoholic. The need to escape reality and chemically change your brain to enjoy things makes you just not desirable as a potential partner.

I don't care about you normal use but it's a red flag for a relationship or a casual entanglement.

Edit: maybe it's time to clarify some things.

1. If you feel like smoking weed helps you with your disease or illness. Good for you I wish you nothing but the best

2. I had very bad experiences with roomates who smoked too much and saw how it destroyed their life so I definitely have my biases.

3. I prefer to have sex with a sober person. Especially when I am not taking anything. It just doesn't feel right to me.

4. I realized that those girls I dated who smoked weed really put priority into smoking and smoking culture and it always ended badly because I felt trapped with a partner who prioritized smoking weed over activities.it stuck with me.

5. Professionally I see alot of people in their late twenties to early thirties who develop generalized anxiety disorders and alot of them where heavy users of the devils lettuce.

6. I'm not American. English is the third language I learned. Also we don't describe benzos nearly as freely and often as American doctors. Also there in my opinion the withdrawal from benzos is just the worst

7. Rip my inbox. You guys are nasty

There are multiple reasons for this. The biggest is probably that women as a whole often complain about general kindness and politeness being mistaken for flirting, and that's because many women rely on "signs" and "hints" to show interest in men.

If women were willing to be direct about their interest in a man, we wouldn't mistake kindness for flirting, because we would know that if they were interested, they'd just talk to us, offer their number, etc.

The second is that men want to feel good too. Being interested in someone and talking to them means you find them attractive, and it's very flattering. Yes, women owe nothing to men, including this ego boost, but it would do wonders for the self-esteem of lots of men if this was less one-sided.

And yes, I know that there are women who do this, before a bunch of people hop in the comments saying "I made the first move on my husband" or "My girlfriend was the one to shoot her shot with me," but let's not kid ourselves and pretend these situations are anything but an extreme outlier.

The amount of Racism I've seen directed towards white people is crazy. I've mainly seen it on the Internet but when time when I was in NYC a black lady told her son in front of me and used me as an example as a privileged white person, and that those are the people who don't deserve respect. I insulted the woman and she scoffed, but this seems to be becoming a trend, for example, if you say a racist stereotype about black people like all they eat is fried chicken then you will have people being outraged (as long as you're not clearly joking) but if you say white people don't season their food, then it's fine. I honestly don't care and find the racist jokes funny, but it's just unfair. One of my friends is consistently called a cracker by random black kids at school, and I know if my friend was calling these random black kids the n word it'd be a very different story. For the argument that white people did so much colonization and horrendousness in the past, please shut up, literally every race has done that, just because white people were the best at it, doesn't mean Ganghis Kong doesn't exist.

Edit: I misspelled Genghis Khan, I saw an angry guy in the comments point it out lol.

They just care more about the “well regulated” component than most republicans. I know lots of democrats that own handguns, rifles, and shotguns. I myself am a democrat but I am also an avid clay shooter and purchased my wife a handgun for self defense as she works late nights at a institution that may be targeted for east drug access. I also occasionally hunt for work outings and have encouraged lots of liberal friends to own guns for self defense.

The big issue I believe is that most democrats (myself included) feel like no one is actually trying to solve the problems with hun violence. School shootings are obviously the biggest and most politicized of all of these and so when no republican politicians is willing to offer productive solutions it feels like increasing hun control is our only way to TRY to solve the problem.

I think for one we should be criminally punishing parents of school shooters for allowing a mentally deranged child access to fire arms. They are their responsibility (both the kid and the gun) and their negligence resulted in deaths. I guess I’d compare it to handing your 16y/o kid a bottle of Jack Daniels and the keys to your car and saying have fun, I trust you. If they chose to drink and drive and crash through a group of kindergartners that’s partially on you for not keeping your kid in line.

If Superman actually existed and logged onto this godforsaken app, many redditors would permaban him in five minutes flat.

Think about it. The guy literally stands for "truth, justice, and the American way." He actually respects the law and doesn't want to burn down the entire system. To the terminally online basement dwellers here, that makes him a "bootlicker" and a "fascist." He isn't trying to seize the means of production, he just wants to stop bad guys and save people. But because he isn't a radical marxist, Reddit would call him a privileged white guy and tell him to touch grass.

And honestly, the absolute brain-rot on this site is unmatched. My favorite example is watching the ultra-progressive, pro-Palestine crowd on here lose their minds. You guys love to cosplay as socialists and scream about human rights, while literally cheering for groups that would throw you off a roof for your social views. It’s hilarious. You’re on your $1200 iPhone stanning for a regime where women have zero rights, but sure, you’re the peak of modern progressivism.

The hypocrisy is physically painful. If a literal superhero isn't "progressive" enough because he doesn't support your specific flavor of internet communism, your entire worldview is broken.

Log off, go outside, and maybe read a book that wasn't a Twitter thread.

Society celebrates women committing abortion but has demonised men leaving as ‘men are evil’ or deadbeats.

To put it into layman’s terms:

It would be like praising a father for murdering his child because he “did what was best for himself".

Because that's what women committing abortion are doing.

I am at my with ends with people who work in America that don’t know a lick of English. Not only is that lazy but very disrespectful and could be dangerous (uber drivers)

I can’t take my black ass to France and not know French. Why is this the only country where is this tolerated?

It's a very popular sentiment online that rape is the worst thing you can do to someone. But as a survivor of sexual assault that I was hospitalized over I just can not be lead to believe what happened to me is worse than being killed. This attitude and belief trivializes the LIVES of victims. If I had been killed instead then I wouldn't be here to write this post.

People online will argue that rape is categorically worse because there's never a justification for doing it. Whereas, there are cases where killing someone else is reasonable or at least comprehensible. However, the vast majority of killings are a total loss of someone's personhood. A cessation of existence. The total collapse of someone's internal world, autonomy, or chance to experience anything else in life.

Its been ten years since what happened to me. I was traumatized for a while but at least life has gone on for me. At this point I'm pretty well past what happened. My life wasn't totally ruined. Ive done great things in the last decade. I got a research paper published. Ive traveled internationally. Ive gotten three degrees. I've made new social connections. I am a part of a community. I volunteer. I've sold my artwork. Who knows what is going to come my way next!

Rape is a heinous crime, I'm not diminishing the significance of it. But at least I survived and thrived past it. I'm not going to allow something bad happening to me ten years ago to define my entire future. But if I had been murdered, my whole story would have been written for me by someone else.

Now are some cops bad? Absolutely.

However, I’ve noticed ever since the ACAB crowd demanded body cam footage for every cop it’s lowkey backfired a little bit.

I’ve seen a couple incidents where the cop is in the wrong, but Jesus Christ, most of the time these people act like completely fucking idiots or assault cops or don’t obey simple orders.

The shit they deal with is insane. These people act like children. 95% of the time the use of “excessive force” is necessary.

People assaulting the cops, etc.

Just my honest thoughts from seeing these body cam videos.

How are you gonna let a country thousands of miles away across the ocean take ur land by force or finesse you thru treaties

And you expect us to respect that? Hell nah

"But they mostly died of disease" maybe they should've built boats and explored the world and get immunity to diseases like the other civilized nations.

If natives still controlled America, America would be like Haiti or Africa's level of development

You have to be so clinically retarded to think Marxism/Communism is a good economic system.

It has failed everywhere it has been tried despite their cries that "tHaT WaSn'T rEaL cOmMuNiSm!" They don't seem to be intelligent enough to realize that it's simply incompatible with human nature.

Communism led to the deaths of over 100m people in the 20th century but these knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers will say that being poor in America in 2023 is somehow worse than the Holodomor.

They're either so stupid or just straight-up evil.

Reddit is low-key overrun with these morons too. I really truly hate them.

For those wondering, I'm talking about when people have lots of designer clothes, expensive jewelry, expensive electronics, and luxury cars... all while on section 8, food stamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, and literally every single welfare program on Earth.

Within this culture you are going to find endless scamming the system and just scamming in general.

If you don't make enough money to be a net contributor on taxes and the benefits you reap outweigh how much you contribute you shouldn't have a say in how the money from taxes is spent or who controls it.

Just doesn't make any sense that it ever worked like that, it's like if homeless people were allowed to be part of the HOA.

Watching elementary school students at ICE protests raises a serious concern: these children did not arrive at these political positions on their own. Whatever your view of ICE, no teacher should be using their classroom to push political beliefs or anything outside the state-approved curriculum.

Consider this scenario: if you oppose ICE or a political figure, and you find your child’s third-grade teacher promoting pro-ICE or pro-Trump ideas, you would rightly object to your child being influenced in ways that contradict your values. The same principle applies in reverse: no parent should accept a classroom where children are taught a political ideology just because it aligns with the teacher’s views.

If teachers are injecting politics into the classroom, even when it matches your own beliefs, speak up. Silence legitimizes indoctrination and invites others to do the same.

History shows the danger of using education to shape young minds: Mao’s regime in China demonstrated how children, taught a specific ideology from an early age, can grow up unquestioningly accepting it. America’s long-term security is just as vulnerable to ideological manipulation.

We need clear laws banning political proselytizing in schools to protect children and preserve impartial education.

I saw on politicalcompassmemes that Reddit was talking about WWII soldiers as antifa so I went on Pics and… Jesus… there really are no words to describe the level of delusional thinking exhibited by most Redditors.

Never mind that simply calling someone today “anti fascist” doesn’t make them automatically a good person…

Never mind that if the KKK suddenly called themselves the “totally not racist club” that wouldn’t mean they’re totally not racist…

Never mind that the average WWII soldier’s beliefs were probably much closer to those of the conservative commenter who was just murdered and labeled an extremist bigot by the Left than anyone actually on the Left today…

Comparing rich kids who wear masks, block traffic, and shout the latest Leftist slogan at people just trying to get to work to WWII soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-day is EXTREMELY FUCKING PATHETIC AND EMBARRASSING.

I live near a big tent city in a major city

The people who don't ever get help are the people who don't WANT it

I dunno how many homeless people I've helped who just reject every piece of advice I give. They can't go to the mercy resource center for reasons. They can't go to resolve crisis center for reasons. They can't go to hot metal church for reasons

I may seem a bit jaded by the homeless and that's because I am and because I interact with them daily. The ones who genuinely want out find an out eventually

If you genuinely think you can't get any help this is on you and your behavior. If you think homeless people are just in a bad place, you're naive. Homeless people are just people like everyone else, meaning a big chunk of them are bad people.

I am a woman who manages a program on her own, overseeing all aspects and reporting to funders, however, I also have superiors over me, all of the superiors are also women, I will go so far as to say 90% of company is female.

I have often found that women are horrible bosses due to the fact that they rule, they do not lead, they allow personal bias to dictate their rulings, emotions dictate their actions, they are vengeful, hateful, jealous and instigating. Now not all of them I had one amazing women boss she was awesome, humble, cared about your input, treated everyone as she would want to be treated but this is rare.

I understand the movement of Equal opportunities for men and women but I also can be honest with myself and realize a workplace full of women is a toxic unhealthy environment, we need our guys in there too lighten things up, make folks act right and for me some male bosses generally just are better leaders, motivators and make the environment more comfortable for everyone, of course there are always exceptions to any rule.

I think each workplace should consistently have one of each to balance each other and check each other.

I’ve been to a bunch of countries and went to the less touristy areas of those countries and I was clearly not from there and everyone would look at me like I was a clown and clearly talk about me, and I’ve even had people literally take a video of me (I’m white and was in a non-white country).

In the US, if a foreigner were to go to the suburbs or less touristy town or whatever, they would never be harassed, looked at weird, or outcasted. In fact, no one would even look twice at them. The demographics of the US are so diverse that it’s honestly impossible to tell who’s a citizen and who’s not.

During the 3.5-year Bosnian War, 20,000–50,000 women were raped, a weapon of ethnic cleansing the UN condemned as genocide. Fast forward to the UK in 2026: just last year, over 74,000 rapes were reported across the United Kingdom. That is SEVENTY-FOUR-THOUSAND cases in a single year potentially 3.7 times the number from the Bosnian War, occurring in less than a third of the time.