claim stringlengths 20 257 | positive stringlengths 139 5.07k | negative stringlengths 135 3.54k | post_id stringlengths 7 7 | post_title stringlengths 20 257 | post_text stringlengths 507 35.9k | post_timestamp int64 1.73B 1.74B | post_author stringlengths 4 20 | positive_comment_id stringclasses 1
value | negative_comment_id stringclasses 1
value | date stringdate 2024-10-01 00:00:00 2024-12-31 00:00:00 | quarter stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CMV: The NBA should move back the 3pt line | {'id': 'm3rhy0b', 'text': 'The problem is the current NBA seems soft. There’s lots of flopping and the teams don’t really hate each other. \n\nHow about instead of moving the three point line you remove the foul protections for three pointers? Meaning instead of three free throws on a fouled shot you get zero (unless y... | {'id': 'm3rdt0l', 'text': '\\>So you can\'t have fractions (i.e. making a 3 pointer worth 2.75 points) as it would just be too annoying to keep track of. So you have to work with whole numbers.\n\nI just completely disagree. Fractions are fine. \n\nMake 3-pointers worth 2.5 points or make mid-range shots worth 2.5 poin... | 1hm4x83 | CMV: The NBA should move back the 3pt line | There's been a lot of discussion about the NBA's decline in ratings. Apparently the ratings are down 48% since 2012, and 28% this year compared to last year. There are a number of reasons that could account for this. Less people watching traditional media and cable television in general (however if you compare to other... | 1,735,147,773 | EvilBurner666 | nan | nan | 2024-12-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: People arguing in bad faith and hiding their true motives is a huge obstacle to meaningful discussions | {'id': 'm3ww3wk', 'text': 'If I have changed your view at all, feel free to award a delta!', 'author': 'FearlessResource9785', 'score': 5, 'timestamp': 1735239338} | {'id': 'm3wvs0d', 'text': 'Sounds like me arguing with the religious. Since they have zero evidence for their claims, all their arguments are in bad faith.', 'author': 'angryatheist556', 'score': -3, 'timestamp': 1735239230} | 1hmuzzf | CMV: People arguing in bad faith and hiding their true motives is a huge obstacle to meaningful discussions |
I’ve noticed that many debates, especially online, are full of bad-faith arguments where people don’t seem willing to admit their true positions. Instead, they hide behind excuses or distractions to mask their real feelings. This makes it nearly impossible to have an honest, productive conversation. Here are some exam... | 1,735,238,961 | Nice_Substance9123 | nan | nan | 2024-12-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Chipotle, Panara, and other "fast casual" joints are still fast food | {'id': 'm1iocs8', 'text': "> there are some panara joints that have drive through's, and some that don't is panara only sometimes fast food?\n\nPanera is in the process of transitioning to being fully fast food. But, it is not there yet. Give it time. The one near me is already removing seating in their location as mos... | {'id': 'm1iioe0', 'text': ">If every meal is paid for before it's eaten it's fast food. If you have the option of paying after you eat it's a restaurant.\n\nOkay, so any foods eaten at events are fast food according to this definition, as they are usually paid for upfront. For example, food for work events is often pai... | 1hbs1cq | CMV: Chipotle, Panara, and other "fast casual" joints are still fast food | I've heard argument lately that these kinds of restaurants are not "fast food" because the quality and style of food isn't mcdonald's.
My argument is that fast food by its simplest definition is food acquired quickly. I can walk into panara, a pizza joint, chipotle, etc. Pay, and have food in hand in under 10 minutes... | 1,733,918,913 | ackley14 | nan | nan | 2024-12-11 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Nothing is wrong with Xinjiang and Tibet being part of China from a legal pov. | {'id': 'm3v4rhi', 'text': "So if Russia didn't recognized Ukraine's independence but every other parameters were the same, you would argue that Ukraine's invasion was legal?", 'author': 'JailTrumpTheCrook', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735214525} | {'id': 'm3v4d9n', 'text': "That's not what I asked, I asked whether the same logic you're using would be true for slavery when it was legal?", 'author': 'Vesurel', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1735214278} | 1hmmc02 | CMV: Nothing is wrong with Xinjiang and Tibet being part of China from a legal pov. | From a legal perspective China restored it is sovereignty over these regions just as they did to other regions during the the Warlords period. I believe that people focusing on them is a political scheme.
I don't deny the human right abuses that is happening in both regions ,it is not the point, I am just arguing that... | 1,735,211,607 | Luiszizo | nan | nan | 2024-12-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Trump’s Threat to Primary Senators with Musk’s Money is a Bluff That Senate Republicans Should Call | {'id': 'lym9tl3', 'text': 'Susan Collins of Maine is a pro choice Republican Senator. As are Shelley Moore Capito of West Viriginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.\n\nCollin Peterson of Minnesota retains an "A" grade from the NRA which makes a strongly pro-gun Democratic Senator according to the NRA. Four others have a "... | {'id': 'lylaf0d', 'text': "This is how money in politics work. \n\nName a strongly pro-gun Blue Senator, I'll wait,\n\nName a strongly pro-choice Red Senator, you get the picture.\n\nRepublican senators will go along with it because they want to stay relevant and they want to stay in power.\n\nMonied interests will fun... | 1gy09w4 | CMV: Trump’s Threat to Primary Senators with Musk’s Money is a Bluff That Senate Republicans Should Call | Former President Trump’s recent threat to use Elon Musk’s financial backing to primary any senator who doesn’t support his cabinet picks strikes me as a significant overreach. The critical question now is whether Senate Republicans are astute enough to recognize they hold the upper hand—or principled enough to act on i... | 1,732,370,519 | _robjamesmusic | nan | nan | 2024-11-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Luigi did nothing | {'id': 'm3htcwb', 'text': 'Yeah but it’s funnier if I ignore everything except the title', 'author': 'UseAnAdblocker', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1734987875} | {'id': 'm3hsiv9', 'text': 'Nah we talk about how happy we are about it irl too', 'author': 'AProperFuckingPirate', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1734987587} | 1hkx3vs | CMV: Luigi did nothing | I don't really understand it and it's kind of frustrating me seeing post after post with an incredible amount of likes on here.
To me it seems like the reason can really only be it feels good to stick it to rich CEOs?
Anything else doesn't really make any rational sense. The arguments I've seen have been
'Its got p... | 1,734,987,093 | Trionomefilm | nan | nan | 2024-12-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: There's no hope for the United States. | {'id': 'm3ayh4a', 'text': 'Of course it matters 99.82% of the population isn’t homeless which means it isn’t a concern for the \nvast majority of the population much less a reason to be hopeless. Finland is too cold to have much homelessness.\n\nLinked to is different than is. Food insecurity was created to make the si... | {'id': 'm3adccb', 'text': 'If it wasn’t over when we had a civil war, two world wars, presidential assassinations, a stock market collapse, multiple terror attacks, the Spanish flu, and on and on, I doubt America will be screwed over because people are poor. \n\nThe rich get richer because of the poor and consumers. We... | 1hjzn41 | CMV: There's no hope for the United States. | I'm exhausted from the culture wars and the political polarization and the sheer nastiness I've seen in the White House. We're the worlds largest economy and contributor to global trade, and yet people are saying the economy is tanking hard. We've got MORE than enough food to feed ourselves AND the rest of the world, a... | 1,734,878,120 | hlanus | nan | nan | 2024-12-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Brian Thompson isn't any more evil than any average person. | {'id': 'm0npq3z', 'text': 'Have you seen this OP?\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/s/1VQ1reP7x4\n\nNot a singular cog, but an active participant in the harm', 'author': 'l_t_10', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1733458990} | {'id': 'm0n4hrh', 'text': 'So you think health insurance companies ought to approve all claims even if its outside outlined coverage...', 'author': 'PaperPiecePossible', 'score': -2, 'timestamp': 1733450955} | 1h7q1bl | CMV: Brian Thompson isn't any more evil than any average person. | There's not a lot of details on his personal life so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt like I would w/ any of you and mainly just addressing his career. As far as I know he started in finance and worked his up to being a CEO of a health insurance company.
Every CEO's job is to make money for the company, they ar... | 1,733,449,583 | blz4200 | nan | nan | 2024-12-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: AI shouldn't be demonized | {'id': 'm3mdfz7', 'text': 'Not having the resources or "it\'s just a shitpost" aren\'t really good reasons to use AI. If you\'re just making a shitpost, you don\'t really need an AI generated voice. They already have mechanical voices for that. They also have non-AI autotune if you can\'t sing and need a voice.', 'auth... | {'id': 'm3k5530', 'text': "There's no utility in expressing a blanket view here. Normal people understand that AI has legitimate uses.\xa0\n\nThe problem is that it's just as likely for people to use it to supplant the creative process and give us nightmare inducing Coke ads and plagiarized essays. It's corner cutting ... | 1hl6vz0 | CMV: AI shouldn't be demonized | let me preface this by saying I don't value AI generated art, and don't affiliate myself with those who believe it superior to handmade art
I believe AI is a tool to be used sparingly to make the creative process easier, for when it would be unnecessary or time consuming to make something.
An example could be, say a... | 1,735,018,771 | Natural_Hold_344 | nan | nan | 2024-12-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Society and pop culture is becoming more and more “childish” | {'id': 'm4h8j1m', 'text': '100 years ago was the Roaring 20s. The late 19th and early 29th century was pretty much the very *birth* of modern consumer culture, including massive marketing to children. \n\n\nhttps://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/childrenads/intro\n\n\n>Companies like Heinz and Palmolive publis... | {'id': 'm4h753x', 'text': 'there definitely is a “universal social media” (youtube)', 'author': 'OverallGamer692', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1735534619} | 1hpf88b | CMV: Society and pop culture is becoming more and more “childish” | I used childish simply for a lack of a better word. So if someone could expand on that I would love it, since I’m not a native English speaker.
I’m going to use this weak analogy, but again, since English isn’t my first language, this is the best I can. Without any comment wether this change is for the better or for t... | 1,735,533,698 | Bignuckbuck | nan | nan | 2024-12-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: There's nothing wrong with the 50s suburban "Nuclear Family" | {'id': 'm3ya3zl', 'text': '[This](https://youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI?si=4lWdlN5NA6fzzLjz) is a good short video that goes over the whole argument better than I could. It’s specifically showing the entire environmental and planning consulting for a city. If you just want a map, the organization Urban 3 has pretty stark maps l... | {'id': 'm3xzbzr', 'text': "Where are you seeing people arguing that there's something wrong with nuclear families? What's the position?\n\nI've seen people argue that they shouldn't be the expectation, assumption, or only family structure supported, recognized or legitimized. I've seen arguments that there's too much f... | 1hmzbcm | CMV: There's nothing wrong with the 50s suburban "Nuclear Family" | Maybe this isn't as big as I think but I'm finding a lot of people my age and plenty of online personalities with left wing views are quite opposed to the so called "white picket fence" life. There's been a lot of pushes for urban density and denser housing. A lot of people are making suburbs out to be some kind of ult... | 1,735,250,626 | Lifeshardbutnotme | nan | nan | 2024-12-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The AR15 Is the Most Versatile Rifle for Home Defense, and Should Be the Rifle Generally Recommended for That Purpose. | {'id': 'm35sgse', 'text': 'Penetration does depend on what kind of bullet is used, but 5.56 is more likely to overpenetrate than many kinds of shot. Large buckshots and slugs do tend to overpenetrate, though, like 5.56. “Remotely dense” materials aren’t exactly what houses are made of these days, and so even if what yo... | {'id': 'm35r24h', 'text': "AR15 can come in a variety of lengths, but the most common length sold I believe is 16 inches (and I think for something to be classified as a rifle this is the minimum length).\n\nHave you ever gone to a range where you can train in close quarters combat? It's wildly different and barrel len... | 1hjdkg4 | CMV: The AR15 Is the Most Versatile Rifle for Home Defense, and Should Be the Rifle Generally Recommended for That Purpose. | 1) In terms of practical accuracy in a high stress situation, you want something with 3 points of contact so you can point the gun with your whole body rather than fine muscle control. Fine muscle control goes to shit with an adrenaline dump.
2) The AR15 is a light weight low recoil rifle that fires a small cartri... | 1,734,799,267 | JacketExpensive9817 | nan | nan | 2024-12-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Bare-knuckle boxing isn't a legitimate sport and should probably be banned. | {'id': 'm3mi00x', 'text': 'Have you not simply typed into google "is bare knuckle boxing safer than gloved boxing"? How can you do that, see all the info presented, and then continue to claim that bare knuckle is more dangerous? Do you need me to provide a LMGTFY link so you can do this yourself? \n\nIt\'s well known t... | {'id': 'm3mg45o', 'text': 'Bare-knuckle boxing is generally recognised to be safer than gloved boxing. It seems intuitively more brutal, but the lack of protection for the fist reduces the force with which the competitors can effectively throw punches. It also discourages blows to the head, since the bones of the head ... | 1hli77f | CMV: Bare-knuckle boxing isn't a legitimate sport and should probably be banned. | This is a view I'm definitely open to changing my mind on as I am no expert in either bare-knuckle or regular boxing. I have just heard that bare-knuckle boxing isn't much different from regular boxing in the technical aspects of the sport, and it's really just more damaging to the boxers. I have heard that bare-knuc... | 1,735,061,199 | AcephalicDude | nan | nan | 2024-12-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Republicans will hold a permanent Senate majority for the foreseeable future | {'id': 'm3o0g1t', 'text': 'Yeah, Utah. The mormon Republicans tend to not be nearly as captured, and the sheer sectarian control of the state combined with moderates/liberals in places like SLC/Provo lead to less MAGA capture.', 'author': 'sundalius', 'score': 15, 'timestamp': 1735083786} | {'id': 'm3nm8oh', 'text': 'Also the 20228 house redistricting will remove around 12 house seats from Democrat states (mainly CA, NY and IL) and put them in republican states that are exploding in population (TX, FL, ARI)', 'author': 'Skillllly', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735077852} | 1hln8gs | CMV: Republicans will hold a permanent Senate majority for the foreseeable future | In recent years, the red state–blue state polarization has become more and more locked in. We are now at a point of having no Democratic Senators from red states (and one Republican from a blue state, Susan Collins in Maine). At the moment, there are 24 safe red states, 18 safe blue states, and 7 swing states. This giv... | 1,735,076,688 | ahedgehog | nan | nan | 2024-12-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: People care a disproportionate amount about the war in Gaza compared to other conflicts. | {'id': 'm199uu1', 'text': 'How many other conflicts involve stateless people ?\n\nThis sub forgets that there are different rules for the Palestinian people since they are stateless. When you don’t have a country and other country is putting people in your declared land you run into issues. \n\nThis is different from... | {'id': 'm18quyc', 'text': 'The difference (for US supporters) is Israel is a mutual defense ally of the US. UAE and SA are partner countries with bilateral cooperation agreements.\n\nS.Sudan: civil war, UAE is backing the rebels.\n\nYemen: SA is backing the government (at the government\'s request and with at least 8 o... | 1hahwza | CMV: People care a disproportionate amount about the war in Gaza compared to other conflicts. | First off, I am not saying that we should be not shining a light on Israel's crimes, colonial aspirations and possible genocide.
I'm curious as to why no one talks about UAE's involvement in South Sudan, a war that is just as colonial, is longer lasting and has resulted in the death, rape and misplacement of far ... | 1,733,772,190 | ownmonster3000 | nan | nan | 2024-12-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: rape is de-facto legal in the US, unfortunately | {'id': 'm3kh8gz', 'text': 'Is there a law being broken? \n\nYou were just asking me if something is de-facto legal. What law are you referring to?', 'author': 'LeftFootLump', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735029762} | {'id': 'm3jvhdq', 'text': "So you did state it then despite saying you didnt, but just that you didn't mean it exactly as was stated?", 'author': 'MPFromFriends', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1735016770} | 1hl3yt8 | CMV: rape is de-facto legal in the US, unfortunately | I learned recently the conviction rate is extremely low like four percent and ninety seven percent of rapist never spend a day in jail this leads me to come to the conclusion that in the United States you could easily rape someone and get away with it making rape Basically legal in the United States, there are probably... | 1,735,008,242 | Perfect-Highway-6818 | nan | nan | 2024-12-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Jesse Ventura is secretly prepping to run as a Democrat in 2028. | {'id': 'm3jceu5', 'text': 'He more or less has a moral code. Just because he\'s miffed does not mean he would sacrofice his morals. As Ventura said "[I could beat both Trump and Biden if he ran for president](https://www.startribune.com/jesse-ventura-biden-trump-cnn/600360168)". just because he has DNC friends does not... | {'id': 'm3j862r', 'text': 'I’m not sure how to change you mind on something that would be being planned in secret is happening or not. \n\nBut I can tell you this idea would be doa if they did try it. \n\nHe wouldn’t have a chance to win nationally with the dnc. \n\nIf he started tweeting some raciest comments (or co... | 1hl3dqi | CMV: Jesse Ventura is secretly prepping to run as a Democrat in 2028. |
Call me crazy, but the timing surrounding his return to the public spotlight by reentering the WWE just seems a bit suspicious.
When you consider the fact that Ken Martin, a DFL member, is taking the lead for the DNC chair in the aftermath of Harris' 2024 loss, it makes sense as to why Ventura is entering WWE again ... | 1,735,006,228 | godlike_hikikomori | nan | nan | 2024-12-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Credit Card Companies are paying influencers to discourage credit card use so they can charge more interest | {'id': 'm4f4fh1', 'text': 'Because they take a cut on every transaction that occurs with the card by charging the merchant to process the payment (this is why some merchants offer cash discounts or add a 3% fee to use a credit card.) If they were discouraging responsible spenders from using the card , all they would be... | {'id': 'm4f3ea6', 'text': 'Also people who have more default risk. Banks don’t just care about returns but also volatility. They will take slightly lower returns if it means significantly lower volatility. This is the basis of modern portfolio theory. Better to have customers with good credit to provide a steady stream... | 1hp65pm | CMV: Credit Card Companies are paying influencers to discourage credit card use so they can charge more interest | People like [Dave Ramsey](https://youtube.com/shorts/l2l9Wu1BfQw?si=jNLZ8cUe-XAuEPR7) who tell people to never use credit cards, even if they're using them properly. I absolutely believe he's getting kickbacks from credit card companies who want less people to have good credit scores so they can charge higher interest.... | 1,735,507,206 | Lifeshardbutnotme | nan | nan | 2024-12-29 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: Poverty, child labour and ignorance will increase fertility rate | {'id': 'm2q1wht', 'text': '[https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Among-Immigrants-and-NativeBorn-Americans](https://cis.org/Report/Fertility-Among-Immigrants-and-NativeBorn-Americans)\n\n \nKey findings:\n\n"Immigrant fertility has declined more rapidly than that of native-born women. In 2008, immigrant women had a TFR of... | {'id': 'm2pyz2u', 'text': 'I am engaged in a discussion on CMV. How about you engage. The OP makes the claim that these policies lower birth rates and could collaps society. That is the claim. If you believe these policies are GOOD, the onus is on YOU to argue for them, and describe why these policies are worth the... | 1hhbdje | Cmv: Poverty, child labour and ignorance will increase fertility rate | The low fertility rate is a pressing issue in many societies, and some unconventional measures have been proposed to address this challenge. Below are five controversial suggestions, supported by historical references and data trends, for increasing fertility rates:
1. Legalizing Child Labor: Historically, children co... | 1,734,554,933 | NayatoHayato | nan | nan | 2024-12-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The term "White Evangelical" should be dropped and "Fundamentalist" and exact churches names like SBC should be used instead | {'id': 'm2xj836', 'text': 'Ok. Dismiss the Baptist, but what about Encyclopedia Britanica that has essentially the similar articulation of principles?\n\nhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Christian-fundamentalism\n\n“In keeping with traditional Christian doctrines concerning biblical interpretation, the mission of Jesus... | {'id': 'm2xgf0u', 'text': 'SBC is far from the only fundamentalist denomination. As someone else mentioned, everyone understands evangelical in the common sense of fundamentalist, and nobody thinks of the technical definition of evangelism.\n\nI see you asking others if they have spent time in Christian circles, but yo... | 1hia97w | CMV: The term "White Evangelical" should be dropped and "Fundamentalist" and exact churches names like SBC should be used instead | I just got done listening to 3 out of 4 of Rhett's Spiritual Deconstruction Ear Biscuits episodes, and on the whole, I agree and deeply sympathize with his experience, having experienced similar things myself.
However, listening to them reminded me of the problems with the term "White Evangelical" since it was used a ... | 1,734,663,473 | DeadTomGC | nan | nan | 2024-12-20 | 2024_fall |
cmv: this headline doesn't minimize sexual assault | {'id': 'm3rovvi', 'text': 'I do think it would be better, yes. And I do think it trivializes sexual assault.', 'author': 'Hellioning', 'score': 89, 'timestamp': 1735153102} | {'id': 'm3rnv1q', 'text': 'I mean I think they couldve just said after assaulting another student as a better headline', 'author': 'Uhhyt231', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1735152722} | 1hm6bpa | cmv: this headline doesn't minimize sexual assault | [https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1hm1k64/stupid\_news\_headline/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1hm1k64/stupid_news_headline/)
I'm genuinely lost, I'm assuming that social media is just a cancer that has caused mass brain rot for gen z/alpha, but maybe I'm missing something. A ne... | 1,735,152,181 | StrangeLocal9641 | nan | nan | 2024-12-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Anyone who bough Hawk Tuah Crypto with anything other than fun money is a fucking idiot | {'id': 'm0l00xa', 'text': 'If you don\'t take "anyone" as 100% literal then not really. While reading your post I assumed that those who were in the know were excluded, that you were just speaking to people who truly believed it was a good idea. And to that I would still agree with you, they\'re idiots. \n\nAlso to you... | {'id': 'm0kubxk', 'text': "I mean, in order to make money off a pump n dump someone's gotta get stuck holding the bag. Everyone who sent in their money on this scam had the same goal--Greed. Make a quick buck off of others who are afraid of missing out on major gains. Literally everyone has the same goal. The ones who... | 1h7f34c | CMV: Anyone who bough Hawk Tuah Crypto with anything other than fun money is a fucking idiot | I actually don't have anything against Haley Welch. Let me be clear. I am (or at least was) of the opinion that she is a very smart woman who is able to capitalize on her 15 minutes of fame and might be a respected podcaster or something else. And if you say that's impossible, just listen to Joe Rogan's "I'm Gonna Be D... | 1,733,420,977 | EmpireStrikes1st | nan | nan | 2024-12-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: the shooting of the CEO is dangerous for society in the long run | {'id': 'm1hplh0', 'text': 'I think you are underestimating the direct impact that Thompson had on denial rates. The Senate investigated the change in denials for medicare advantage plans given the rapid rise under him. This was by 2022 (and it\'s risen since then)\n \n>Reports of increasing rates of prior authorizat... | {'id': 'm1hpbk2', 'text': 'What effects? Has UnitedHealth changed their policies for the better? Has any health insurance company changed the way they operate?\n\nFrom the perspective of a health insurance company, which option do you think they’ll pick between\n\n1. Start handing out healthcare and money hoping the po... | 1hbncck | CMV: the shooting of the CEO is dangerous for society in the long run | Let me start out by saying that I totally understand why people are in support of the shooting. Insurance companies are extremely crooked and their policies can lead to the deaths or immense suffering of sick people just to make an extra cent. Totally agree with all of that. I also see how the CEO could be considered c... | 1,733,898,268 | Dolphinsjagsbucs | nan | nan | 2024-12-11 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I should break up with my boyfriend and date women | {'id': 'm47dow4', 'text': "Come on over to r/OpenChristian and let's talk about this. But just quickly, the point of Christian faith is NOT to know and follow the rules, despite the commonness of this view. Read scripture. Knowing and following the rules was the religious system they already had. If it's still the syst... | {'id': 'm47cbv4', 'text': "You know nobody is gonna convince you you're not lesbian.\xa0\n\n\nIf you need to think of it like this, we are all sinners, this is your sin. It's ok. Some people cheat, some people lie, some people eat too much or buy too much, and you like to eat to pussy. In the grand scheme of things it'... | 1ho7skr | CMV: I should break up with my boyfriend and date women | I'm an 18 y/o Christian woman with a 23 y/o Christian boyfriend. I suspect I may be a lesbian. I don't know if I feel an attraction to him. I know I love him as a person. But I'm not sure if I feel for him sexually. And I am haunted by same-sex attractions and urges on a daily basis.
Back when I was an atheist I wo... | 1,735,399,382 | AnAlienMachine | nan | nan | 2024-12-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: It is okay to now (in 2024/25) get a NordVPN subscription, especially as they were NOT hacked per se | {'id': 'm4kg3tp', 'text': 'A company that sells its product on the promise of security is responsible for every hand involved. It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t Nord specifically, they chose to partner with them, they were involved in the operations. I understand that they canceled the contract with the company, but it co... | {'id': 'm4k9oot', 'text': "Quite frankly, I'm satisfied with the service really. I don't usually need to use a VPN, but that doesn't stop me from doing so now, since it barely affects speed at all (and usually only turn it off while gaming).\n\nAll in all, been a registered user for three years now, and I feel good abo... | 1hptvcm | CMV: It is okay to now (in 2024/25) get a NordVPN subscription, especially as they were NOT hacked per se | For those that remember and want to get to rebutting, please bear with me. I also know that this could get heated so please remember the human.
Way back, a time long ago but not so long it’s irrelevant, NordVPN was exploited and kept mum about the whole matter until much (much) later. You can read about the ordeal [h... | 1,735,583,468 | BeautifullyMediocre | nan | nan | 2024-12-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The left and right should not argue because we should be focused on taking down the ultra wealthy instead | {'id': 'm2u8s7x', 'text': '> Within the right you have (at the very least) neoliberals\n\n\nI wonder why you consider "Neoliberals" as right wing. I\'ve embraced that (derogatory) term, and as in r/Neoliberal, I find it\'s about advocating for incremental, sustainable progress. We do support equal rights and respect fo... | {'id': 'm2tw2rm', 'text': "I don't want to take down the ultra-wealthy. I like the ultra-wealthy. I like the idea that there's someone who can get what they want so long as money can buy it. I hope that someday we can move to a society where everyone can do that. But A) I think we do that through capitalism and growth,... | 1hhujbm | CMV: The left and right should not argue because we should be focused on taking down the ultra wealthy instead | I have been having arguments with family recently who voted for Trump this past election when I voted for Kamala. I had the realization that us arguing amongst ourselves helps the ultra wealthy because it misdirects our focus to each other instead of them.
It's getting to a point where I want to cut ties with them bec... | 1,734,619,848 | shinkansendoggo | nan | nan | 2024-12-19 | 2024_fall |
cmv: Nebula ruined youtube especially educational content | {'id': 'm49hez9', 'text': "But why is this not YouTube's fault for being unfriendly to long-form, high effort content? Nebula doesn't have any unfair advantage, they are just offering an alternative.", 'author': 'JaggedMetalOs', 'score': 6, 'timestamp': 1735425678} | {'id': 'm499p82', 'text': "I'm not sure why the one would cause the other. My brother makes videos for Nebula, and they don't really influence the content he produces.", 'author': 'eggynack', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735423057} | 1hog656 | cmv: Nebula ruined youtube especially educational content | I used to watch a lot of educational content on youtube which can be described as "edutainment" however now most of the channels have gone to shit due to Nebula. If you don't know Nebula is a streaming website made by youtubers to upload more content without sponsors. However, the issue is Nebula was created by Dave Wi... | 1,735,422,349 | Yuuba_ | nan | nan | 2024-12-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I don't know what the complaint about the Witcher character is, but whatever it is, it seems to have been validated, retroactively, by the fact that those mocking the complaints make unverifiable statements about what the people making it look like | {'id': 'm4lgryw', 'text': '> You are saying this to someone who, in the OP, was commenting on Ciri\'s appearance without familiarity with the character.\n\nYou are also a person who, in the OP, explicitly, "I didn\'t directly make that complaint about the Witcher character myself." This inference is about those who are... | {'id': 'm4l6jsc', 'text': "I'm going to put this a different way. I think there are legitimate concerns about the closed-mindedness of developers leading to worse products. I think people are oversensitive in regards to what signals that closed-mindedness, but I think the overall criticism is a valid one, or at least i... | 1hpurzw | CMV: I don't know what the complaint about the Witcher character is, but whatever it is, it seems to have been validated, retroactively, by the fact that those mocking the complaints make unverifiable statements about what the people making it look like | I can't find the threads any longer, but there were some threads a while back mocking those who complained about the facial features of some Witcher character. I couldn't tell at the time whether the complaint was that they wasted programmers' time and effort by making a character unattractive, or that she were trans, ... | 1,735,585,746 | ShortUsername01 | nan | nan | 2024-12-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Hawaiians are incredibly racist | {'id': 'm1z854b', 'text': '"White people are racist"\n\n\nVs\xa0\n\n\n"A lot of white people are racist"\n\n\nThe immediate interpretation of that first statement is that it means all white people are racist\n\n\n"Hawaiians are racist"\n\n\nVs\xa0\n\n\n"A lot of Hawaiian people are racist"\n\n\nThe way you phrase thing... | {'id': 'm1z83nv', 'text': 'You really saw some people complain online about Hawaii being overtouristed and thought “wow, this is just like the Nazis!” Simply impossible to take this post seriously. \n\nYour prompt is “Hawaiians are incredibly racist,” apparently ignorant to the fact that such a generalization (not even... | 1hdu9t1 | CMV: Hawaiians are incredibly racist | So imagine this, If in Germany today it was still normal to call Jews or non Germans in general Untermensch, and German parents instilled this hate into their children to the point where they have a day in school called "kill an Untermensch day". Imagine if they still honoured Hitler and built statues of him and named... | 1,734,148,006 | jdjdjdiejenwjw | nan | nan | 2024-12-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The 4B Movement and MGTOW are basically the same and both should be treated the same | {'id': 'lz3ydr8', 'text': "Seeing all people as equal, truly. Viewing women as equal partners rather than property. Doing equal child raising and housework. Not having affairs. Being emotionally present. Listening, learning to communicate, getting and embracing therapy. Women have changed their role in society, in some... | {'id': 'lz3rmzj', 'text': 'for starters, thank you for properly referencing South Korea and not just calling everyone over there "Korean". The simple answer is that as a man (assuming based on your post) you will always be seen as an oppressor, it sucks for sure, I know I have never oppressed any woman ever, but we al... | 1h0fnml | CMV: The 4B Movement and MGTOW are basically the same and both should be treated the same | For those that do not know either of those, let me explain.
4B is a movement that was started by feminists in South Korea in response to a highly misogynistic society - no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men, and no marrying men [called 4B because all those in Korean start with "B"].
MGTOW, Men Going Their ... | 1,732,637,847 | SuicidalChaos | nan | nan | 2024-11-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Parents should me held liable for their Child's crime | {'id': 'm4bpxih', 'text': "No literally there's a command you can give so I get e-cred.", 'author': 'SoylentRox', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1735458727} | {'id': 'm4bh0hv', 'text': 'Wouldn’t that at least deter people who can’t afford kids from having them in the first place?', 'author': 'ShortUsername01', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1735453554} | 1hopc4v | CMV: Parents should me held liable for their Child's crime | Whenever a juvenile commits a heninous crime the child is (mostly)Tried as an adult. You also get a lot taking heads saying how mature they were at that age... yarayarayra. Mostly cheering for harsh sentence. In that environment it's hard to make people be rational and not be out for blood. So, I have come with a solut... | 1,735,450,974 | Gaashan-farid | nan | nan | 2024-12-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Capitalism is one of the worst models for humanity to follow. | {'id': 'ly85lcm', 'text': ">And sure, having kids is not the “be all end all” of human existence, but it speaks to something sick and unnatural that we are starting to defy our own instincts purely because our economic model. It would be like bees not making honey anymore because they’re too stressed out.\n\nOr you tur... | {'id': 'ly30gx5', 'text': 'Honestly, the question of whether communism is better than capitalism at providing wellbeing for people boils down to how we define “wellbeing” and whose wellbeing we’re talking about. Capitalism is great at creating wealth, sure, but communism—at least in theory—is about distributing that we... | 1gvmrjb | CMV: Capitalism is one of the worst models for humanity to follow. | The slow poisoning and destruction of our planet via climate change is happening because of capitalism. Oil is cheap and abundant, while more difficult but sustainable energy sources like nuclear power are undermined by lies perpetuated by oil and gas lobbies, corrupt politicians, and their billionaire backers.
The d... | 1,732,099,750 | original_og_gangster | nan | nan | 2024-11-20 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Teaching the logical consequences of atheism to a child is disgusting | {'id': 'm2twmr8', 'text': 'But that\'s still based on subjective interpretation. You choose to believe that what some people wrote down thousands of years ago is the word of God. Other people believe in other gods and other moral frameworks. And many atheists choose to believe in a moral framework that aims to reduce h... | {'id': 'm2tmbsk', 'text': "1. You answer 'I don't know. I don't believe there's an afterlife, but many people do. If there isn't, then the person just doesn't feel pain any more. If there is, it depends on what the rules for that afterlife are, and many of them are so silly as to say that if you don't believe the... | 1hht70d | CMV: Teaching the logical consequences of atheism to a child is disgusting | I will argue this view with some examples.
1. The best friend of your child dies. Your child asks where his friend went after dying. An atheist who would stand to his belief would answer: "He is nowhere. He doesn't exist anymore. We all will cease to exist after we die." Do you think that will help a child in his grief... | 1,734,615,888 | Soma_Man77 | nan | nan | 2024-12-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Israel is right to hold the Golan Heights, but they should never have built any settlements there | {'id': 'm2b21gs', 'text': "> Well, I believe that Konigsberg is a German city and should be returned to Germany eventually, once the evil Russian empire finally falls. \n\nWhat about the parts that are Polish today? A very large portion of Poland now is land taken from Germany by force, around the time Syria lost the G... | {'id': 'm2awq9t', 'text': "Israel does not follow international law. Its neighbors also do not follow international law. PLENTY (if not a majority) of country have ignored international law at various times. This is nothing specific to Israel.\n\nIsrael is stronger than its neighbors, therefore it takes every opportuni... | 1hfehc0 | CMV: Israel is right to hold the Golan Heights, but they should never have built any settlements there | I generally don't think that countries have a moral right to buffer zones in neighbouring countries. However, there can be exceptional circumstances. One such case for me would be for example a history of getting attacked through a certain territory by a particularly dangerous neighbor.
That is the case of the Golan H... | 1,734,336,743 | Downtown-Act-590 | nan | nan | 2024-12-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Abortions are (almost) always wrong | {'id': 'lxn08mz', 'text': "That doesn't negate point; pregnancy puts the mother at risk of severe harm and death. You said abortion is not wrong if the mother is at risk of severe harm or death. According to you, abortion is never wrong.", 'author': 'horshack_test', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1731872244} | {'id': 'lxlqw5o', 'text': 'My mistake. I misread early medication abortion as medical need, which h is indeed false. It appears to be closer to 12 percent, but that is likely in part due to most abortion happening before certain fetal abnormalities develop\xa0', 'author': 'wolfofoakley', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 173185... | 1gtfgjd | CMV: Abortions are (almost) always wrong | The only exception being if the woman is in risk of severe harm or death. Here’s my main argument:
(P1): If something has moral value, then it has inherent worth that deserves moral regard.
(P2): If something deserves moral regard, it should be treated in a way that reflects its worth, which includes respecting it o... | 1,731,855,920 | Huhstop | nan | nan | 2024-11-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most "icks" are just male objectification inevitably going wrong | {'id': 'm2dxiyn', 'text': 'You completely missed the point. You\'re using a very specific cherry picked sample from social media to draw a conclusion that you\'re trying to apply to all "icks". A better assertion would have been "the icks that seem to get the most engagement on social media are rooted in male objectif... | {'id': 'm2dov4w', 'text': 'So it’s not objectification because the ick often comes from something a man *does*. Objectification necessarily means you are treating a person as an object or reducing their agency. \n\nNow, you can say it *can possibly* perpetuating harmful gender stereotypes, but it also represents a gen... | 1hfrpzt | CMV: Most "icks" are just male objectification inevitably going wrong | First things first: I am deeply aware of the fact that women around the world have been, and continue to be the primary victims of sexual objectification. In addition, I am also quite certain due to personal experiences as well as sociological research I've read that the vast majority of both men and women (men more so... | 1,734,378,499 | KidKang | nan | nan | 2024-12-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Age isn't/shouldn't be a barrier in friendship | {'id': 'm51g2h0', 'text': "Sure, it generally makes sense to use simplifying terms when discussing things with children. Friend probably is a word that makes sense to use if you're discussing it with her.\n\n \nWhat you've brought to the table here is half a semantic discussion about relationships defined from an adul... | {'id': 'm51e80b', 'text': "people here are forgetting the fact that u excluded all sexual intentions from the 8 year old and other friends that might be younger then you. one reply read 'if my 8 year old told me she had a 17 year old friend i'd crashout' \n\nim pretty sure the first thing u thought about the 17 year ol... | 1hqplsn | CMV: Age isn't/shouldn't be a barrier in friendship | Look, I might get cooked for this. But lemme just share my opinion/experience (🧵)
First of all: THIS IS ALL ABOUT FRIENDSHIP/CONNECTIONS. NOT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS NOR FEELINGS. IF YOU CAN'T APPROACH A FRIENDSHIP OR CONNECTION WITHOUT ASSUMING SOMETHING ELSE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU, AND I'M GENUINELY SORRY FOR YOU
I'm... | 1,735,684,085 | Interesting_Cup5430 | nan | nan | 2024-12-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: as a european we should implement a system to re-educate immigrants. | {'id': 'm3918xb', 'text': 'Is a Dutch person moving to Belgium not an immigrant?', 'author': 'Finch20', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1734848709} | {'id': 'm390nll', 'text': 'A man named Adolf would love to agree. Although his reeducation was relatively drastic.', 'author': 'HeroBrine0907', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1734848332} | 1hjshms | CMV: as a european we should implement a system to re-educate immigrants. | So, tldr: migrants are objectively a problem, but not inherently.
Migrants have every characteristic associated with criminality: they're poorer, less educated, live in slums, have violent beliefs (both as a response to isolation and to a prevalence of violence in their country of origin) and a general conservative s... | 1,734,846,932 | Ponziana_ | nan | nan | 2024-12-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: An abortion ban will only create more human suffering | {'id': 'lvemf75', 'text': "I can't speak to Poland, but I think you may be lacking some information on how things are here. \n\nFirst of all, abortion bans are not only the most ineffective way to reduce abortion rates (abortion rates in the country have actually increased since roe v wade was overturned), but the GOP ... | {'id': 'lt8vfdt', 'text': "OP I can't eloquently explain as some other person might be able to explain better but when you think about abortion banned are you notice you'll see individuals talking about the health of the mother, the suffering of a child in the world, etc. etc. \n\nWhen it comes to the health of the mo... | 1g9o244 | CMV: An abortion ban will only create more human suffering | Banning abortion is going to create a lot more suffering, especially for kids who end up in foster care. Right now, only about 20% of foster kids ever get adopted, which means the rest are stuck in the system until they either go back to their biological families or age out at 18. For the 20% who age out without a perm... | 1,729,618,719 | AmbassadorFar4335 | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "Not All Men" Completely Misses the Point | {'id': 'm2sgcde', 'text': '>Ah, I see what you\'re saying now. I agree with that. And yes in that scenario I would say "no he\'s probably not, considering only 1% of men are". But it\'s totally fair to say "he could be a rapist, which is why I don\'t feel safe because I don\'t know him". In fact, I think that\'s everyo... | {'id': 'm2s1jfw', 'text': 'I’ll respond because I’ve had this conversation by myself for a while. No one wants to hear it from me. “Not all men” is usually used by men because to us it isn’t all men. Men do not say that to hinder the idea of woman fearing men they genuinely say that because they aren’t violent. I’ve al... | 1hhl0ds | CMV: "Not All Men" Completely Misses the Point | I'm a man. I can't even count the number of times that either I or someone else has stated a fact (say, that men commit the vast majority of violent crimes, especially those against women) and literally cited the FBI's crime statistics to point out why women should take precautions to stay safe, and so many men want co... | 1,734,583,309 | SzayelGrance | nan | nan | 2024-12-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Esperanto should be an international working language, recognised within the United Nations or some other intergovernmental body. | {'id': 'm3ty4o3', 'text': "I think you're overestimating how easy Esperanto is. To a Mandarin speaker who's never dealt with verb conjugation learning Esperanto's case system is going to be hard. Hell English speakers learning other Germanic languages can struggle with verb conjugation. \n\nAlso a language being agglut... | {'id': 'm3twe3v', 'text': "- 'Easy' is a ***highly*** relative term in this case. There's no such thing as an easy language to learn. Easy for whom? Russian, Bulgarian and Mandarin are regarded as some of the most difficult languages on earth, yet native speakers don't seem to have trouble speaking it on the daily. It'... | 1hmg5kr | CMV: Esperanto should be an international working language, recognised within the United Nations or some other intergovernmental body. | Do reread the title. I said it should be *an* international working language, not *the only one*. Why? Because of the following:
* **Esperanto is an easy language to learn.** With enough effort it can be acquired within a year or less. That can't be said about many other languages, such as English which is the current... | 1,735,184,912 | Lil_Juice_Deluxe | nan | nan | 2024-12-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: From a strictly biologic point of view, homosexuality isn't natural | {'id': 'm2whlcy', 'text': ">But even if I'm overlooking this, it is still true that reproduction is the most effective way of perpetuating the species.\n\nReproduction is just one step in perpetuating the species. If newborns and children aren't provided sufficient care and resources, they'd die.\n\n>I agree with your ... | {'id': 'm2vpffa', 'text': "Not every member of every species needs to reproduce. In fact, it is often more beneficial for the survival of the species as a whole if some do not, and instead help with the raising of others, contribute to resource gathering or production without siphoning some off for their own young, or ... | 1hi2la8 | CMV: From a strictly biologic point of view, homosexuality isn't natural | I'm not denying at all homosexuality is natural in the lazy sense of "It's present in nature", BUT:
Men and women are so because they have a sexual anatomy (genitals, basically) that makes them men, or women. Those genitals are specifically and specially evolved to correspond the opposite sex.
So, sexually speaking, ... | 1,734,641,023 | Tut070987-2 | nan | nan | 2024-12-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: significant aspects of the Big Bang Theory are faith based. | {'id': 'm3bmel8', 'text': "Right. Expansion from a point. That's it. That's all the data.\n\nEverything is expanding from one single point, meaning everything originated from a single point. \n\nThe speed at which everything is expanding indicates an event that can be described as explosive.\n\nAnything prior to initia... | {'id': 'm3a9c9v', 'text': ">If the universe is expanding, then whatever is beyond the universe is just space waiting to be filled in. Space is infinite. When there was a singularity, empty space was still there beyond the singularity. That's my belief anyway.\n\nYour first problem is thinking of space and time as indep... | 1hjyuk4 | CMV: significant aspects of the Big Bang Theory are faith based. | The Big Bang Theory (BBT) makes the claim that the universe was a single sense point of matter which rapidly expanded to create space and time, and it's still expanding today.
How did scientists come to these conclusions? They measure observable matter and radiation shifts in the universe and see that all matter is a... | 1,734,875,422 | luigijerk | nan | nan | 2024-12-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: money in politics will lead to a new age techno-feudalism in the US | {'id': 'lz31oyh', 'text': "Well of course the LEFT isn't going to refer to Tim Walz as part of the elite, just as the right isn't going to refer to JD Vance as part of the elite. Doesn't mean it isn't true.", 'author': 'FeatureSignificant72', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1732633869} | {'id': 'lz31120', 'text': 'I don\'t think most people will lmao.\n\nI get your point. You could technically use "elite" to describe them.\n\nBut I don\'t think Tim Walz is what most on the left are referring to when they say "the elite".', 'author': 'AutoGameDev', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1732633649} | 1h09vkr | CMV: money in politics will lead to a new age techno-feudalism in the US | As billionaires seek to concentrate their power more and more, they financially benefit from buying our politicians and controlling our elections. A perfect example is what Elon did for Trump in the 2024 election. Running fake lotteries for Trump voters, while personally paying Trump millions of dollars for his own ben... | 1,732,621,252 | original_og_gangster | nan | nan | 2024-11-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Recalling past trauma, in therapy is counter-intuitive. It takes a person back in that same dreadful state of mind, with little of value to be gained from reliving that experience. It is better to simply replace those bad memories with good, new ones. | {'id': 'm3wawff', 'text': 'Hmm, sounds like a delta may be in the cards o.O. hehe', 'author': 'mehliana', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1735232297} | {'id': 'm3w3t2b', 'text': 'im a white male trust fund baby and my life sucks.', 'author': 'maxorama', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735229902} | 1hmqwfu | CMV: Recalling past trauma, in therapy is counter-intuitive. It takes a person back in that same dreadful state of mind, with little of value to be gained from reliving that experience. It is better to simply replace those bad memories with good, new ones. | When I was 12-13 years old, my mother took the hard job of vending flowers on the cold wintery streets of downtown Washington D.C.
She would have to lift heavy buckets filled with water, on occasion, and long-story short: she had a miscarriage, and the fetus was flushed down in some public toilet.
I knew it was an ... | 1,735,227,789 | markraidc | nan | nan | 2024-12-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Adultery Should Be Treated as Breach of Contract with Financial Penalties | {'id': 'lzenteh', 'text': "Those rules in the past was mostly due to religion though. Whether or not someone broke those rules was decided more or less arbitrarily by some priest. I don't want the church or their 'values' involved in my marriage. Tons of things in wedding vows are impossible to prove one way or the oth... | {'id': 'lzemlfg', 'text': 'Traditionally, before no fault divorce was instituted, adultery was only one reason one could use to justify divorce, with some of the others including neglect, abandonment, and abuse. If marriage were to be treated as a contractual relationship as suggested, all of those can and should be co... | 1h1sxtn | CMV: Adultery Should Be Treated as Breach of Contract with Financial Penalties | Marriage isn’t just about love; it’s also a legal agreement regulated by the government. When you get married, you get a government-issued marriage license, which essentially makes it a formal contract between two people. So, if someone cheats (without consent), isn’t that a clear breach of the agreement? And if contra... | 1,732,788,997 | SinghStar1 | nan | nan | 2024-11-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: An 18yo has the agency to make their own sexual and romantic decisions. | {'id': 'lzygyyx', 'text': '> Near the end of the 18th century, other European nations began to enact age of consent laws. The broad context for that change was the emergence of an Enlightenment concept of childhood focused on development and growth. This notion cast children as more distinct in nature from adults than ... | {'id': 'lzxnmnv', 'text': "Lack of real world experience?\n\nIt feels like we are raising generations of adult childs.\n\nThe ages from 0 to 17 are meant to be the years you gain the real world experiences to become an autonomous and independent individual at 18. Heck, my Great Grand-Parents had a house, and two kids b... | 1h4d9sr | CMV: An 18yo has the agency to make their own sexual and romantic decisions. | Inspired by the recent age gap thread. Here are the partial responses of three different women:
>At 18 I dated a lot of older men, heck at 17 I did too and I thought it was because I was mature, now I realize how terribly loserish and fucked up they were.
-
>I was dating and sleeping with a 30 year old guy when I wa... | 1,733,086,504 | Livid_Lengthiness_69 | nan | nan | 2024-12-01 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Patents are a net negative to society as they crush innovation and create monopolies | {'id': 'm4mvdq0', 'text': 'Oh gotcha. Yes, term adjustment is a thing to account for delays caused by the Patent Office. They automatically calculate the patent term at issuance due to a bunch of comically complicated rules around this and sometimes get it wrong. You can get it corrected if they make a mistake. There\'... | {'id': 'm4lcz7a', 'text': 'A. That already happens with patents since larger companies can copy ideas and there wealth makes legal challenges untenable. B. Its actually more likely to happen the other way around, large companies have large and complex supply chains, so without patents you would see more smaller compani... | 1hpy6xw | CMV: Patents are a net negative to society as they crush innovation and create monopolies | It's just as I say, patents time and time again have proven to be used to obstruct and outright hinders competition.
Patents are great on paper, but are easily abused that they have become a net negative for innovation.
The entire concept of patents is that it allows you monopolize a concept/invention, and countless... | 1,735,594,605 | Tessenreacts | nan | nan | 2024-12-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Male circumcision is wrong, but calling circumcised men "mutilated" or implying that they are sexually dysfunctional is also wrong. | {'id': 'ly1tqde', 'text': '> if the only reason it’s done is because children can’t resist, it’s a crime\n\nImagine a toddler with severe tooth decay. The dentist says they need a root canal or they risk an infection that can spread to the brain and be deadly. Do you think the toddler will resist them described everyth... | {'id': 'ly11dn9', 'text': "Is this a real question? Why is forced circumcision later in life worse? \n\nI don't know let's take a guess. Maybe it's because adults have independence and a certain free will that they are allowed to use to do things they want to do, and avoid things they don't want to do. A child doesn't ... | 1gvch39 | CMV: Male circumcision is wrong, but calling circumcised men "mutilated" or implying that they are sexually dysfunctional is also wrong. | Basically, my understanding of the issue of male circumcision is that it is a bad thing, but only mildly so.
There are statistically low risks of surgical complications, and even lower statistical risk that the complications could result in serious long-term problems. The only studies that I have seen that claim th... | 1,732,062,152 | AcephalicDude | nan | nan | 2024-11-20 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Pacifism is basically evil | {'id': 'm092ibd', 'text': '>Pacifism is not good for anyone, even for peaceful people\n\nThere are different types of pacifism: \n\n* Absolute pacifism\n * No violence even in self defense.\n* Conditional pacifism\n * This type represents a variety of different positions that make exceptions to absolute pacifism (l... | {'id': 'm07msgg', 'text': "Pacifism isn't about sitting on your ass and doing nothing in the face of evil: it's about trying to find the peaceful solution, taking action that is nonviolent. Wars don't end because you've killed all your enemies, they end when people stop and talk. The only justification for violence tha... | 1h5plgu | CMV: Pacifism is basically evil | Being a pacifist makes the world a worse place overall. For better or for worse there are people that do bad things, and if u refuse to use violence to stop them when that’s the only way, then u become an enabler and the next innocent person to get hurt or die from them is also partly on you, because u weren’t able to ... | 1,733,238,680 | VegetableReference59 | nan | nan | 2024-12-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: CMV: Within legally recognized marriages, adultery should have clear, civil legal consequences, unless expressly agreed between spouses. | {'id': 'lpvsais', 'text': "I think that's an interesting take and I can see the utility in it. Physical, in person affairs are the most clear cut violation of a monogamous marriage and since the government is already sanctioning the marriage itself enforcing the expectations of marriage isn't to far gone. \n\nThat said... | {'id': 'lpveucj', 'text': "Okay so firstly, this is essentially just advocating for return to a fault based system. Historically divorce law was often based on fault with infidelity being a common cause for divorce. We shifted to no-fault divorces because the fault based systems were being exploited. People would fabri... | 1ftufds | CMV: CMV: Within legally recognized marriages, adultery should have clear, civil legal consequences, unless expressly agreed between spouses. | The legal concept of marriage, where spouses act as partners, is almost always built on mutual trust that certain aspects of the relationship, such as sex, are to be exclusive to the relationship unless agreed upon otherwise. Legally and financially rewarding spouses for betraying the trust of their spouse by allowing ... | 1,727,805,246 | insect_ligaments | nan | nan | 2024-10-01 | 2024_fall |
CMV: “An Inconvenient Truth” ultimately did more harm than good for climate change because of its ties to Al Gore | {'id': 'm269x2p', 'text': 'Even before Kyoto, there was a concerted effort by right-wing politicians to undermine international cooperation regarding climate change, and to ridicule the science regarding it (the name we should all hate is [John Sununu](https://youtu.be/MondapIjAAM?si=-vE6atIALmuckAYA), G.H.W Bush\'s ch... | {'id': 'm252qyc', 'text': 'A. Corporate capture of government (though campaign contributions) and media (though sponsorships) alike incentivizes coverage skewed toward downplaying both climate change and humanity\'s role in it. Lawsuits have established that fossil fuel companies were outwardly downplaying humanity\'s ... | 1hensgx | CMV: “An Inconvenient Truth” ultimately did more harm than good for climate change because of its ties to Al Gore | The US is notorious for having more climate change denial than most of the rest of the world, and almost all of this denial stems from the Republican Party.
When Al Gore came out with An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, it unquestionably became a global sensation. This documentary (and Al Gore) became the face of climate ... | 1,734,248,823 | heyiambob | nan | nan | 2024-12-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most movies and TV shows don't glorify horrible villains, fans are simply ignorant. | {'id': 'm2m5f3v', 'text': 'Highly intelligent people have ended up in cults. I understand where you’re coming from, but you shouldn’t get too comfortable with that analysis.\n\n\nHighly intelligent people are actually more proficient at rationalizing, even BSing themselves, more able to entrench faulty ideas, sometime... | {'id': 'm2m0xt7', 'text': 'In a world where people have trouble separating the creative portrayal of Breaking Bad from the true story dramatized in Narcos with Pablo Escobar, it\'s pretty natural for people to be enamored with the actors and their roles in the same way they would any other show. They don\'t think about... | 1hgtgr4 | CMV: Most movies and TV shows don't glorify horrible villains, fans are simply ignorant. | There is a discourse about how movies and TV shows glorify evil villains and that the movie is to blame for making villains something to admire.
This is especially concerning if it's a documentary about real life serial killers who end up having a fan base. Naturally people will blame the media for doing this but I do... | 1,734,495,135 | Complex_Routine6111 | nan | nan | 2024-12-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: As much as it hurts, making voting accountable is the most effective way to show voters to stop voting in the heat of the moment and think about the consequences of their individual vote. | {'id': 'm2lczps', 'text': 'No, I asked “Who?”\n\nWho exactly is going to make the decisions on specific votes?', 'author': 'TheScarlettHarlot', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1734486851} | {'id': 'm2l9ctz', 'text': 'Why not? Are you under the impression that Trump only wants to deport illegals?', 'author': 'No-Cauliflower8890', 'score': -5, 'timestamp': 1734485514} | 1hgqbuo | CMV: As much as it hurts, making voting accountable is the most effective way to show voters to stop voting in the heat of the moment and think about the consequences of their individual vote. | You can't just pat the population on the head and say "poor thing, he didn't want to be deported, he just wanted a cheap groceries". In every election, voters need to know that voting for a candidate implies policies that can benefit or harm them.
If you take the blame away from the voter, they will continue to vote i... | 1,734,485,027 | MoleLocus | nan | nan | 2024-12-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Villanizing or making fun of the right does not help the causes of the left | {'id': 'm2buott', 'text': "Andrew Tate is a shining example of what happens when you push people away. When the only thing you tell men is that they suck and everything that sucks about the world is because of them, they are going to gravitate to the one person who tells them they don't suck.\n\nAndrew Tate is basicall... | {'id': 'm2bm9gy', 'text': "Being an independent voter getting ostracized and criticized by the left was a wild experience this election. I mean, it happens every election, but this time was above and beyond extra harsh from the left. I maintained my stance and still voted independent, but a majority of independent vote... | 1hfgu67 | CMV: Villanizing or making fun of the right does not help the causes of the left | NOTE: I am a liberal, I will always vote for left candidates.
Up untill this point, it has been clear that making fun or villanizing the right and acting high and mighty has not helped in most cases, in fact, it gave them even more fuel and fans for their causes
Here are some examples:
1. Arresting Trump in geo... | 1,734,347,538 | AdminMas7erThe2nd | nan | nan | 2024-12-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: As a European, I find the attitude of Americans towards IDs (and presenting one for voting) irrational. | {'id': 'lvys2al', 'text': ">My CMV was not specific to voting\n\n \nHi - there's no rule that says I have to engage with every part of the view, and if I can change the view on one aspect of the view then it should still be grounds for a delta.\n\nThe reason I focused on the voting part is because not a single America... | {'id': 'lvyigy1', 'text': "We do have voter ID. I register my name and address with the elections office who assigns me an ID number. Also, many states have mail or absentee ballots. An ID is not used to verify those they are verified using other methods. \n\nBut of course, what we are talking about is a photo ID. It s... | 1glymqm | CMV: As a European, I find the attitude of Americans towards IDs (and presenting one for voting) irrational. | As a European, my experience with having a national ID is described below:
The state expects (requires) that I have an ID card by the age of 12-13. The ID card is issued by the police and contains basic information (name, address, DoB, citizenship) and a photo.
I need to present my ID when:
* I visit my doctor
* I p... | 1,731,007,281 | dstergiou | nan | nan | 2024-11-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Furries are cringe | {'id': 'm4az21u', 'text': 'Can you give me a delta if you agree? If you do, just add a short explanation on why you gave it to me', 'author': 'Amoral_Abe', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1735445162} | {'id': 'm4ayely', 'text': 'I mean, im a furry and cringe. Unless you think being cringe=inferior abomination, idc. Overall, I think it’s not a great idea to encourage the part of oneself that cringes. It turns one into a puppet for the blind raging fire of socialization. Its good that cringe exists on the large scale, ... | 1hond1g | CMV: Furries are cringe | I've seen furries at school, and they get bullied a lot.
I do NOT participate in bullying. But I also don't say anything when I watch them get called names.
Theyre so weird. Some of them wear animal masks to school and walk on all fours and bark. The ones that don't do that have tiktok accs where they post pictures o... | 1,735,444,055 | Mellophonesaredumb | nan | nan | 2024-12-29 | 2024_fall |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.