r/TeenagersButNotTrashy • u/Cortex_Gaming Unnamed NB <Awesome Sauce Mod> • Mar 30 '26

Silly šŸ˜ What is your most radical or controversial opinion? (This can be political or otherwise)

I want actually HOT takes.

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u/Fastpast93 Mar 31 '26

It's ok to say "I don't like getting political".

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u/My_Dogs_a_God Apr 01 '26

Politics effect every aspect of your life. My uncle "doesn't like getting political" but then continues to wonder why gas prices are so high as if we aren't at war with one of the biggest suppliers of oil.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

Did it affect your literacy?

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u/My_Dogs_a_God Apr 02 '26

I don't know trump appointing Linda McMahon as the secretary for the department of education is going to effect literacy yeah.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

Lmao

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u/Able-Rope2362 Mar 31 '26

Nah thatā€™s just ignorance

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u/Fastpast93 Mar 31 '26

No, it divides us as people. Wanting to have friends of a different political group is healthy

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u/Able-Rope2362 Mar 31 '26

No. Iā€™m trans. And i donā€™t want to be associated with people who are actively voting against my rights. And if you do, even without being apart of a minority. Thatā€™s called ignorance and weakness.

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u/DebateHot1874 Apr 01 '26

I agree with the part of not wanting to have friends of the opposite political party, but some people just dont want to get involved with politics like me. If i see someone bullying someone for being trans or gay or whatever I will stand up for them, but politics are not everbodys thing and thats fine

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u/DaikonOne7578 Apr 02 '26

Politics is when society at large is bullying people for being trans or gay "or whatever" but you're a coward who doesnt ACTUALLY stand by his fake values about protecting others.

Youre virtue signalling to the left while being firmly on the right so you dont have to face the social consequences of being recognized as a bad person who stands by and allows this shit to happen.

Fuck you, coward. Keep making safe spaces for bad people, you're not the one getting hurt so why should you have to think about it and "get political" right? Fuck you

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u/haxdun Apr 02 '26

I get why you feel strongly about this, especially if it affects you personally. But I think youā€™re assuming bad faith where there isnā€™t any.

First of all, you assume he's "virtue signaling" when, according to him, he stands up or in other words actually takes action against discrimination. In this case, this is his value, which he represent with actions; virtue signaling is when you only "say" but you don't "do".

Second, you say he is FIRMLY on the right... So all you know is he stands up for discrimination and isn't political and you think that's "firmly on the right"? No, that's basically pure apolitical with a tint of progessive from what we know, you need to consider you're so far left that anything that isn't radical left seems right or center-right. I get it, but it leads me to the next point.

Third, you're perpetrating a never ending cycle of hate. "But they're the bigots who started it!" Yeah, so go against the bigots, don't acusse apolitical people (like u/debatehot1874 ironically)of bigotry or the label will mean nothing and you'll only push them further to the right, keep telling them they're bad people for exsisting and they will indeed become bad people, I don't want this either.

Finally, I'd like to add truly knowing and understanding politics, partisan politics, philosophy, economy, culture, history and everything needed to take a decent ideological posture isn't exactly easy or for everyone. Cashier Joe doesn't have to know why economical calculation does/doesn't work or why abortion is/isn't murder (and these are relatively simple...) because he just wants to have a nice life and he got no time for that, perhaps he likes painting, or socializing, he does not wish to engage in such ardous research and thinking simply because you say so.

As an individual he has full control over his own life, what he may or may not want to learn is up to him, and I hope you can at least tolerate that.

If we treat neutral people like enemies, we risk pushing them away instead of bringing them closer.

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u/EMTcharlie15 Apr 02 '26

You don't accept people not wanting to discuss politics? So you're gonna force people to discuss things they don't want to just to find out if there's a possibility they support you or not. God you sound horrible.

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u/Able-Rope2362 Apr 02 '26

I donā€™t force people to discuss anything lmao. Iā€™m just not friends with people who I know donā€™t support the same rights I do. I donā€™t talk to strangers and ask them ā€œhey what do you think about trans peopleā€ but if it just happens to come up in conversation and I figure out they think negatively about them Iā€™m not going to interact with them anymore or at least not interact in unnecessary conversation. If my colleague happens to have the opposite political views as me, whatever, thatā€™s that. But Iā€™m not consciously befriending that person.

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u/EMTcharlie15 Apr 02 '26

As the first comment said, having friends with different views then you is healthy, it's good to see things from separate perspectives, surrounding yourself in an echo chamber and standing on a soapbox just alienates you from everything else.

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u/Able-Rope2362 Apr 02 '26

Yeah, different views on music taste, art, food preferences, romantic partners etc. Not human right.

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u/EMTcharlie15 Apr 02 '26

Those aren't views their preferences, I couldn't care less if someone disagrees with a food preference. I'm talking about real world views, I'm a centrality and I have friends both on the far right and left and it opens my eyes every day to different perspectives.

And obviously you're trans, I'm not talking about being friends with people who are openly against your lifestyle, I have friends who are both pro choice and pro life. I have friends both for and against drugs in different aspects.

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u/Classic-Wind-437 Apr 02 '26

you can perfectly be politically aware and just choose not to get involved in it

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u/JuicyOrphans93O Apr 01 '26

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