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- Modern flip phones (e.g. Samsung Fold) are stupid and gimmicky industrial design failures.
- Humans are not good by nature. They are taught to be good but even babies cry and get angry without anyone teaching them.
- The Cat in The Hat movie with Mike Myers was not as bad as critics claim and actually had good undertones patched together with modern humor that is more profound in recent times than when it was originally released. It was actually ahead of its time.
- Apple/MacOS isn't actually a better platform and is only designed to give the impression that it is simpler even though people still have to learn how to use it.
- Adult services should be legal in all countries and the workers involved should get paid with benefits/protections just like everybody else. This is assuming capitalism cannot be removed from the picture.
- VTubers shouldn't be showing their actual bodies. It defeats the purpose of using the moniker in the first place.
- Education should be free without any debt involved. There is legitimately no good reason why education and knowledge should be pay-walled.
- Euthanasia should be legal where the person no longer wishes to subject themselves to failing health is granted control over their body. Forcing such people to keep living is selfish and pertains cruel and unusual.
- Hollywood should not be idolized and is actually part of the problem with things being f'd up rn. There is no good reason why actors or any kind of artist should be making all that money while the rest of society gets by with the scraps we toss around while the rich get richer. The same goes for any kind of celebrity, really. I don't even leave out sports people in this.
This took me twice as long to finish because every other point I ended up with something political. So this is pretty much the least triggering or offensive I can make my list. Good grief.
I forgot to mention. If you use country balls to explain something I'm not taking you seriously.
I didn't think your original points seemed controversial enough to even be hills, but this ONE! This right here... I don't even have a clue what it is.
The hill upto the finishline on my local park run this morning was way harder than usual, so (almost) that one today!
American cheese is cheese as much as sausage is meat.
Sausage is meat, just ground up. People use the term "american cheese" to refer to a variety of products, ranging from almost all real cheese with a small percentage of emulsifier added, to shit like Kraft singles which is mostly milk protein concentrate and emulsifier with a small percentage of real cheese added (allegedly). The latter is usually labelled "pasteurized process cheese food/product" or something similar, US law forbids actually calling it cheese if the cheese content is less than 95% iirc
It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans
Iโve never heard anyone suggest otherwise. Who are you having this argument with?