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The feedback loop is broken though.
“Healthcare CEOs deserve to die” will get 100k likes.
“Health insurers actually hold costs down” will at best, be ignored, and more likely will get gruesomely ratioed.
I think a fair amount of this comes from democratic/electiral culture, where having majority support is often equated with being right/just, and pushes people toward bending over backward to argue/believe their view is popular one, rather than just say it's unpopular but right.
No one knows they’re an extremist. They can see it from the opposition party, but never in themselves.
It goes beyond that.
It is a belief that the unpopular position is so obviously the only moral option, that nobody could ever disagree with you unless they were an absolutely horrible person.
Are you subtweeting yourself and your "Kamala is winning" take in the summer?
Sometimes, I find what I thought was an unpopular opinion to me was actually quite popular, but I just needed to get out of my bubble.
I think some opinions get suppressed within groups because they are unpopular within the loudest subset of that group.
Most single issue voters
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The GOP positions are incredibly unpopular. Voters actually liked Harris' positions better even many Trump supporters yet they still voted for Trump. Don't think you're an expert on what's popular
There are some drawbacks to living entirely by narrative.
I don't disagree but I'm still working through this.
Take Elon Musk and other people with Asperger's Syndrome. One trait of such people is their inability to cue in on their social surroundings.
I agree that it's HARDER if you can't read the room. But if you're RIGHT when
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I think the harder problem is there are a LOT of popular policies, minimum wage or tariffs, but they turn unpopular when they are implemented.
I believe Trump will be more effective and popular if he does 15% of what campaigned on not 75%.
Yes! I have a handful of opinions which fall very far outside the mainstream and I would categorize as "extreme". I still think I'm mostly right lol, but I totally understand it's a fringe opinion and acknowledge it as such, and don't really expect many people to agree.
Which positions are you referring to? I'm sure it should be obvious, but I don't have the context.
It’s not good to hold unpopular positions that are objectively bad and make the country worse. I hope they continue losing on them
Like floppy ass NYC pizza w no topping is actually elite tier pizza? 
He’s trying to get his mother to stop telling people he’s a handsome boy.
And Hitler thought of himself as a smart guy just trying to improve the neighborhood.
Much of the angst on the trans issue is that so many trans gains have come from the admin state (bureau of prisons, WPATH, the IOC, NCAA) and not legislative bodies. So when there is push back, a common response is “why do you care? it’s a tiny group of people.” It’s cope.
You live a charmed life, mind you it was earned you do work hard. But you lost touch with regular people, who want to just live life. Not forced to believe something, the left Is like a woke religion. There’s issues on the right too. But..
Very true. Some Democrats pushing for men in women’s sports and thinking that isn’t unpopular is a deadweight loss.
Silver is nothing more than an average analyst. There were 7-10 Twitter data guys/girls that I follow who were more precise than he was. Guy is so overrated
If it's a moral issue, then you must stick with it no matter the electoral consequences. The Democrats should continue to stand for biological boys playing in girls sports and trans surgeries for illegal immigrant felons.
Unpopular ideas get forced on people all the time. Most ideas are unpopular, just not enough to make people care enough to do something about it.
Trump vowed today to pardon Jan 6 rioters and end birthright citizenship. But Nate Silver has the hottest takes on Democrats. lol gimp
Please mention these “unpopular” positions and let’s see the data and find out whether they’re actually unpopular. Stop lying.
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. on Luigi Mangione and the online reaction: “He’s the asshole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. That's what social media is about this. And I don't know why the media wants to turn that into a
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You should be outraged that a “Top 50” list of dangerous homeless people exists. Every person on that list has been arrested dozens of times. Every one of them has attacked strangers. And the city leaves them on the street for you to deal with instead of locking them up.
Most complaints about capitalism are actually complaints about the nature of physical reality.