illegal immigration isn't really a big deal.

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4/20/2012 9:21:58 AM

But they are taking the construction jobs we are all applying for!!!

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4/20/2012 9:22:36 AM

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"illegal immigration isn't really a big deal."

The ability to live in whatever nation you chose should be a fundamental human right. For everyone.

4/20/2012 9:23:55 AM

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"The ability to live in whatever nation you chose should be a fundamental human right. For everyone."

How about the ability to take part in public services? Or should non-citizens have to pay for public schools, etc?

4/20/2012 9:27:06 AM

miracle whip > mayonnaise.

4/20/2012 9:30:03 AM

hell to the fucking no. for this whole page

4/20/2012 9:31:27 AM

Keanu Reeves is a good actor.

A benevolent dictatorship would be preferable to our current form of government.

If the earth's population were to shrink to about a quarter of it's current level we'd all be better off.

4/20/2012 9:32:07 AM

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"miracle whip > mayonnaise."

As in you put Miracle Whip on sandwiches?

4/20/2012 9:41:25 AM

I am down right ashamed of this...but here goes

I think we waste a lot of money saving the starving kids in Africa...just so they can grow up and reproduce and create MORE starving kids.

4/20/2012 9:43:24 AM

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4/20/2012 9:44:23 AM

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"miracle whip > mayonnaise."

Get the fuck outta here.

4/20/2012 9:45:35 AM

Never mind, I'm being a moron this morning. I had in my head that Miracle Whip was Cool Whip

4/20/2012 9:48:22 AM

Obese people should be taken away and put in prisons

4/20/2012 10:04:05 AM

i don't care for the beatles

4/20/2012 10:06:27 AM

^^talk about prison overcrowding...

4/20/2012 10:07:27 AM

well I was going to say cages but then I thought prisons might be better

4/20/2012 10:08:17 AM

George Clooney is not attractive.

4/20/2012 10:08:21 AM

My opinion is that we should quadruple the budget for NASA and set up permanent infrastructure to support colonies on the moon and mars. I know that it's expensive, and as a fiscal conservative it seems that i'm contradicting myself, but the benefits of humans expanding beyond earth is very important in my opinion.

4/20/2012 10:09:59 AM

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"I think we waste a lot of money saving the starving kids in Africa...just so they can grow up and reproduce and create MORE starving kids."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

Sad but true.

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"Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. In addition, development aid weakens the local markets everywhere and dampens the spirit of entrepreneurship that we so desperately need. As absurd as it may sound: Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid. "

Of course he was at the G8 summit...

4/20/2012 10:13:37 AM

Bruce Springsteen does nothing for me

4/20/2012 10:25:26 AM

2^I dont feel so bad about it anymore.

4/20/2012 10:28:30 AM

Men are better at everything than Women.

4/20/2012 10:29:14 AM

metallica sucks, really bad

4/20/2012 10:36:49 AM

Nicki minaj sounds like MC Pee Pants

4/20/2012 10:38:02 AM

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"How about the ability to take part in public services? Or should non-citizens have to pay for public schools, etc?"

The system of pooling resources for public services is unstable anyway. Public schools and everything like it is predicated on the existence of sufficient wealth in the pool of people it draws from, much like being a member of a rich family - this is exactly how the modern nation-state functions.

I think that it's perfectly fine to allow exclusively requirements, like having to pass an exam, or having a lifelong audit of contributions and withdrawals to social programs (and adjustments of entitlements if that's what they decide). But these would need to have audits to insure that they're applied equally for all people trying to enter the country, and that bureaucrats aren't making decisions about people's lives. This is a far far cry from what we have today.

Plus, immigrants living here illegally today use social services like public schools. We screw it all up by not addressing the issue in the first place. Governments should be forced to make a policy and apply it fairly instead of not addressing it and then allowing application of the law randomly at best, and in a corrupt nepotistic manner at worst.

Even if someone can't get citizenship, they should be entitled to the ability to move anywhere they please and have basically permanent residency, with protection from eviction or deportation. I wouldn't make any statement about what services they should be entitled to, or what tax structure they should be subject to (only that the tax/entitlement rules be applied equally to all and subject to public scrutiny). My belief is one of freedom of association. I should be able to buy land in Montana and create a commune and recruit globally for members, and deny governments the ability to obstruct such action.

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4/20/2012 10:39:59 AM

Professional sports exist only for our entertainment and as such I do not care about athletes' well being or safety (unless they're on my team )

4/20/2012 10:45:32 AM

Oh HOW COULD I FORGET?

Basketball sucks
Football sucks
Soccer RULES but I will be the first to admit it can be boring to watch sometimes

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4/20/2012 10:48:37 AM

you can dislike a certain group of people/race/class/etc. and not be a sexist/racist/elitist etc.

4/20/2012 10:51:10 AM

The second you are unable to provide everything for yourself with no help from anyone, you should be MURDERED.

4/20/2012 10:55:14 AM

Another unpopular opinion... The massive campaigns to fight breast cancer. I like breasts and dislike cancer, but people forget that there are other types of cancer too.

4/20/2012 10:56:34 AM

Since black people are disproportionately poor, they should all be MURDERED

4/20/2012 10:57:06 AM

comfortable underwear is soooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than "sexy" lacy, tight, barely there panties

4/20/2012 11:03:13 AM

My experience as a privileged white engineering student makes me well qualified to talk about poor assholes.

4/20/2012 11:04:49 AM

sports are a giant waste of money, tv, time, etc. all of them.

4/20/2012 11:05:29 AM

I could give a shit about the World Trade Center on 9-11.


The Pentagon is what truly upset and shook me.

4/20/2012 11:06:35 AM

oh and weddings are a giant huge stupid waste of money

4/20/2012 11:21:26 AM

I don't think that's a particularly unpopular opinion. I'd say about half the population thinks that.

4/20/2012 11:26:15 AM

i don't think that comfortable panties > "sexy" panties is an unpopular opinion either.

4/20/2012 11:28:35 AM

There is no inherent bad quality to UNC
There are no more gays at UNC than at NC State


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4/20/2012 11:35:26 AM

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"sports are a giant waste of money, tv, time, etc. all of them."

the good thing is that if you don't want to waste your money on them, you don't have to.

although i will say that this opinion is dead wrong. I've seen sports make a difference in many lives over the years, and i'm not talking about the few people who go on to make a living playing pro sports.

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4/20/2012 11:36:04 AM

okay, well that's your opinion then. i still think there's absolutely no reason to pay people millions of dollars to play ball (of any kind). and i have no desire or care whatsoever to watch sports in person or on tv, have never understood loyalty to a team (even if you went to the school), etc. sports just aren't my thing.

and this is an opinion thread. my opinion is not wrong, it's just not the same as yours.

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM. Reason : ]

4/20/2012 11:41:17 AM

The economics involved pretty much demand it. The skill set required to be a professional athlete are among the rarest in the world and millions and millions of people watch and are entertained by it.

Your opinion has no weight in determining player salary and is poorly thought out to boot.

Examine the economics of sports and then try to come up with a less stupid opinion.

4/20/2012 11:44:40 AM

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"I've seen sports make a difference in many lives over the years, and i'm not talking about the few people who go on to make a living playing pro sports. "

wut?

Oh, you mean people playing sports. In other words, not professional sports.

4/20/2012 11:45:02 AM

the amount of money they make is disgusting and can in no way be justified.

4/20/2012 11:45:10 AM

^^^LOL this is ridiculous! i think sports are stupid & a waste of money. you can argue with me all you want but you're not going to change my opinion on it. i don't like them, never have.

4/20/2012 11:46:58 AM

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"The skill set required to be a professional athlete are among the rarest in the world and millions and millions of people watch and are entertained by it."

this has to be a joke.

4/20/2012 11:48:32 AM

I don't like sitcoms, but I can't say that the actors involved don't deserve to make a boatload of money, same thing.

4/20/2012 11:49:20 AM

i realize that your opinion is that sports don't matter, and maybe they don't to YOU, but they absolutely do matter to (and benefit) many people, and that is NOT an opinion.

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4/20/2012 11:51:11 AM

Please give us some examples smath of how the money put into professional sports could not help people in a more effective way if sports were not there

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4/20/2012 11:52:22 AM

I think we would be a lot better off if we would hold mandatory community meetings, also having a free form part where you have to actually introduce yourself and talk to your neighbors.

At the same time, I hate HOAs. I'm not talking about property owners - I'm talking everyone who has residence in a certain city block.

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"but they absolutely do matter to (and benefit) many people"

I'm with you until the part where it benefits many people.

[Edited on April 20, 2012 at 11:56 AM. Reason : ]

4/20/2012 11:55:47 AM