ShowerThoughts

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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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showerthoughts is a better unpopularopinion than unpopularopinion (midwest.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The reactions to most posts are overwhelmingly negative and critical. Ironically, posts to c/unpopularopinion tend to argue that they agree with the post, and are consequently more supportive.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nice showerthought

Tho they are different things I think. When the person here says a less racist country would have more of a problem with spies or I say there would be less crime with a religion sacrificing prisoners to a death god, that doesn't mean we are supporters of those things; it means we had a thought unusual enough to share that makes sense in some way. We could want the opposite of what we are talking about. unpopularopinions implies someone has a minority stance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think it's more that people like to be contrarian, more so now that a lot of Reddit has moved to Lemmy. If someone says they have an unpopular opinion, crowds of people will jump to say it's not really unpopular; if someone posts a shower thought, it seems like you get a lot of responses contradicting the thought, or simply claiming it's not a shower thought. TBF, there do seem to be a significant number of posts in c/showerthoughts that aren't; like, long political posts, or whatnot.

Still, contrarian responses are becoming the norm.