Wholeheartedly agree. Especially when I come across things like bios or work emails where known-cis people have pronouns listed as "she/they" and "he/they". It feels like a mockery, almost like HR's advertizing they're "diverse" while simultaneously ignoring every complaint of discrimination that couples across their dashboard. Pronouns are not a one-size-fits-all aesthetic to be appropriated and customized like a game avatar. They mean things, which is why people care about them in the first place.
This issue is already resolved in Belgium, and if I'm not mistaken, also Canada in certain cases. Assisted Suicide has been around for a while, and in certain places it's not a controversial concept at all.
Depends on your definition of "controversial", for which I have two.
In the sense of controversial meaning "a mainstream opinion that a large portion of the population finds morally reprehensible": The death penalty.
It's pretty much my singular strongly held conservative viewpoint, and as such one I've been open to frequently challenging throughout the years. I've heard out all the arguments against it: it costs the taxpayer too much money, sometimes people sentenced to death were actually innocent, the state shouldn't be granted that amount of power to begin with, etc etc...
But to me, it's always come down to an argument of morality. "Is it right to take another life, even if that life may endanger or harm others?" And this is usually where I would insert a thoughtful and nuanced philosophical paragraph or two to support my viewpoint...
But ever since all this Epstein shit has gone on to continuously spew out each day I've pretty much just been taking a well-deserved victory lap lol (Btw, I'm out of the loop... did Jizzstain ever end up successfully petitioning for her release after a few months of hugging puppies in max security?)
In the sense of controversial meaning "what have you been smoking and can I have some": A very, very niche conspiracy theory about the nature of UFOs.
So a long time ago, I read a really obscure publication discussing the nuances behind famous "alien sightings", that halfway through makes the bombshell reveal that a majority of the so-called UFOs were mostly Russian spy technology, which coincides with a lot of certain historical events, ie. things like Roswell at the start of the Cold War, as well as "what they're hiding" in Area 51... etc. Essentially, the whole "little green men" / "the grays" mysticism can be chocked up to a cover-up government conspiracy. "Oh no, you can't go in there! There's uh... secret aliens!! And UFOs!! Top Secret."
The only time in my personal life I can ever recall having experienced a genuine UFO sighting (where I saw round lights rotating in a circle above cloud cover right over our building in broad daylight) was once as a kid while visiting my relatives... in Donetsk. So yeah, it kind of checks out. And going off of US history in general, I wouldn't put it past them that it's far more likely that most UFO "abductees" with PTSD were actually abducted and brainwashed by the government, especially since they've done that sort of thing before...
It's kind of a shitty reveal. But hey, don't let me ruin aliens for you, as even though little green men may be a complete fabrication (and seems way more obvious once you stop and think about how simplistic their design is lol...), that doesn't necessarily equate to disproving all possibility of alien life. Just like with religion, you can't really prove a negative. Fermi's Paradox and all that.
So there's technically no real evidence that extraterrestrial life couldn't exist... Even if there's a 99% chance that any strange things you've personally encountered wasn't actually aliens, lol
Based as hell. Glad the youth is finally looking to people like this as role models instead of celebrities with Histrionic personality disorders like Miley Cyrus.
They actually have that in Singapore afaik.