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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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I hate the idea that what could be a normal conversation about opinions has to be dictated as valid or not based on how "controversial" or "unpopular" the opinions are.

Deep.

Thanks. I’ll be here for all of five seconds. Try the veal.

Are you always this defensive or do you just not have any actually unpopular opinions?

I’m not defensive.

[She kinda is.]

As someone who was shoved the “unpopular” label through school, I just think the term when it comes to most things is subjective.

You kind of are.

I see what you're getting at. I do. But whether or not something is unpopular seeeeeems. Pretty quantifiable.

[This might be a touchy subject for her but like she was going to admit that fully.]

So? If you’re opening with your opinion being unpopular then aren’t you welcoming potential unnecessary discourse?

Plus, there’s that fine line. If the definition of “unpopular” here is where you look like a bigoted ass, then it’s less about having an opinion and more about just being an ass.

What's wrong with that?

That... doesn't seem to be the going rate.
Are you just holding out on us because you're anti-kittens or something?

I’m pretty sure being anti-kitten is akin to being such an asshole.

Yeah, that's the point I was making.
That you're just having this meta conversation to avoid showing everyone what an asshole you are.

You want me to be the asshole then? Sounds like you want me to be the asshole.

I mean, I think you already are. The only question is what flavour of asshole.

[She knew she was being challenged for her stance she took here but she wondered just how much she wanted to take that bait when she was so dismissive of the whole thing to begin with.]

Maybe the kind that doesn’t like to participate in much because I don’t like that kind of stigma in the slightest.

What stigma is that exactly? The participation stigma?

That asshole that has controversial opinions, or probably does.

[From her language, she sounded like that was mostly all she was comfortable getting.]

If I want a debate, I’d rather come forth honestly instead of walking in bringing in that kind of attention.

And yet... you couldn't resist that kind of attention. At least a little.

What's it matter anyway? Whether you're being honest or just in it for some kind of controversial attention, the outcome's the same.

[Maybe a little...if only to say just how much bs she thought this was.]

Attitude can be different but the outcome is the same. Sounds almost like this whole thing is even more pointless.

Most things are. Making this about as equally as valuable as anything else you were going to do today.

I look at it as an opportunity to find out who the really unpleasant and possibly dangerous people are, while engaging in harmless debate about issues like rocking chairs and Rodimus Prime's aft end, which is a topic of great interest to numerous persons who are not me.

I've argued with several people here about the relationship between lost privilege and unhealthy nostalgia.

I've also just explained to someone that as a person with a tail, I can't agree that rocking chairs are better than recliners.

Mmm, I guess.

I guess I would just rather have that debate instead of walking in touting; I think differently, probably, debate me for my controversial statements.

It's a valid perspective.

I think it's easier to get more people to play that way. A lot of these "unpopular" opinions seem to be pretty common, even here, where there are multiple species communicating with one another from multiple parts of the multiverse.

Some people are probably attracted to it because they want to oppose something. Others, because they feel that their opinions are unpopular, and they're looking for people to share them.

Before the revolution, I used to throw parties. We were all very poor, so people brought what they could, and we read poems and debated things. Sometimes, we danced. If you're not invested in only the things that the humanoid frame can do, I am actually an excellent dancer.

People like to be excited about things. Especially when they're angry, and they know they have reason to be, and they're not really sure what they can do about it.

Some of the people here seem to come from places that are relatively safe and secure, though I don't know if their worlds are better than mine or if they're just relatively privileged in their societies. Some of the people here are just ...tired.

I'm all for whatever it takes to get people talking.

[She hummed at this, there was quite an interest in her tone.]

So either you're exasperated for being the outcast, want to be the outcast, or make other people into outcasts.

When you put it that way, just sounds like life, huh?

Probably, but then we are alive, so technically it is a part of life?

I think we'd be friends if you lived in my world, as long as we met after the Decepticons stopped invading your planet.

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