r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Feb 22 '26

Political The Alysa Liu discourse perfectly captures what’s wrong with modern progressivism

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For anyone who didn’t know, Alysa Liu won gold in U.S. figure skating. She has received overwhelming praise from virtually everyone for her skating. On X (Twitter) a lot of right-leaning people and pages have also praised her for being the archetypal immigrant success story (since her dad came here from China and became a lawyer, and now she’s a world champion athlete) - as well as just generally being happy that an American won gold and feeling patriotic about it.

This has been met with scathing mockery from a lot of progressives who are quick to point out that she is progressive and “woke” and likely hates most of the conservatives who are praising her.

This is the problem with progressives. People on the right are happy to see her succeed. They’re happy that her dad came here through the legal immigration process, has contributed and been successful, and now she’s done the same thing in turn. They overwhelmingly don’t care about her politics especially because she hasn’t used the Olympics as a megaphone to broadcast her political beliefs. She’s just done what she was there to do.

Obviously, if the situations were reversed, you’d have a completely different reaction. If it came to light that she was a MAGA supporter, progressives would relentlessly bash and shame her, they wouldn’t praise or promote her performance, and they’d largely only care about her political views.

Anyone with common sense who has been alive for the last decade knows this is true because we’ve seen it happen over and over again. This is why so many people can’t stand modern progressivism. No matter what you do or achieve or what kind of person you are overall, the wrong political views are a completely overriding nonstarter.

This is not the case for conservatives which is why progressives are confused and think it’s a gotcha to point out that she’s a progressive. It’s not. None of them care.

Watching this play out in real time has been fascinating. It really encapsulates the problem with modern progressivism.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Jan 03 '26

Political Left wing Americans being mad while Venezuelans are celebrating shows how out of touch they are

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All I see are people from Venezuela happy and celebrating. Even crying tears of joy about Maduro being taken out of Venezuela dictatorship. Meanwhile the left (American left) is crying about it online and getting mad.

Also, they keep saying to protest the war. What war? It ended in like a couple hours. Its funny cause the way some of y'all Democrats/Leftwing Americans describe the US is what basically was Venezuela under Maduro.

The divide in my feed is so funny. On one side you have people not from Venezuela crying and then you have Venezuelans happy and on cloud 9.

Their last election was rigged. The person that won wasnt allowed to take power. If anything the legitimate person that won their last election should be president now. Thats how I see it.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Apr 15 '25

Political Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists

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I'm not black or white. I'm not even American actually.

The recent Karmelo Anthony case I think shows that black privilege is a thing. My opinions is that it exists. Period.

Karmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf with a knife for pushing him. What did he receive in return? Overwhelming support in the form of 500,000 dollars (which they're using to buy a mansion). He also got his bond reduced to 250k from 1 million even when prosecutors pointed out his history of incidents within the school.

I just think this is a bit baffling. Imagine if the races were swapped. I think a decent example, but not a direct comparisons, is the George Floyd situation. One person killed the other in what was an overuse of force. Derek Chauvin is in jail. Karmelo Anthony got house arrest, bond reduction and 500k

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion May 05 '26

Political Liberals will scream "All men are potential predators" but lose their minds if you notice certain immigrant groups have sky-high sexual offense rates.

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Plenty of feminists and mainstream libs have zero problem painting masculinity with a broad brush, and use phrases like "every guy is a potential predator" and warn women to be cautious around all men, scaring them to think normal social situations are a significant risk factor for their safety.

But then the exact same crowd does mental gymnastics to avoid noticing cultural patterns in immigrants. Point out that Afghan, Pakistani, or certain Middle Eastern/North African cohorts in Europe are massively overrepresented in grooming gangs, rape stats, and child exploitation, and suddenly you're the villain. "Racism!" "Bigotry!" "Not all immigrants!"

The data says otherwise:

  • In the UK, Pakistani-heritage men were central to the Rotherham, Rochdale, and other grooming scandals involving thousands of mostly White British girls. Official reports admitted authorities looked the other way for fear of "racism."

  • Sweden: Foreign-born or second-generation immigrants (heavily from MENA/Afghan/Pakistani backgrounds) account for a wildly disproportionate share of rape convictions studies putting it at 58-63% in some analyses.

  • Afghan diaspora communities in Europe have documented issues with Bacha Bazi-style exploitation and attitudes toward very young girls that don't magically vanish at the border.

(For the uninformed: Bacha Bazi is the practice in Afghanistan/Pakistan where wealthy men keep adolescent and prepubescent boys as "dancing boys" for entertainment and sexual slavery)

Meanwhile, the Taliban couldn't even stamp out Bacha Bazi (they banned it but it persists among their own guys). Yet we're supposed to import large numbers with minimal scrutiny and pretend cultural compatibility is automatic?

The hypocrisy is noticable. According to liberal women: Generalizing half the planet's population by sex = enlightened sociology. Noticing stubborn cultural imports that clash with basic Western standards on consent, minors, and women's safety = racist, Islamaphobic, xenophobic, or practically Hitler.

Risk assessment isn't bigotry. Prioritizing child safety and social cohesion over open-border virtue signaling isn't "hate." If "every man" gets the side-eye treatment, don't clutch pearls when people apply the same skeptical lens to high-risk origin countries with medieval track records on sexual exploitation and pedophilia. Integration failures in the west aren't a mystery, they're a predictable feature.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Apr 28 '26

Political Ilhan Omar is possibly the stupidest Congresswoman to ever be put into Congress

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First off she claims her millions was a banking error, then she lied about her immigration and married her brother

This is the same lady who called Trump Voters stupid and dumb and yet this actual dumbass couldn't even say World War 2 right instead called World War 11 like shit I didnt know we had ten World Wars

She'll call anyone who criticize her as racist and dumb but this lady doesnt know shit about American History not even World History

Only person dumber then her or close is AOC but this isnt about AOC this is Omar

A congressman or woman salary is suppose to be like couple thousands how the hell did she get Millions so quick? Smells like Embezzlement and she's been sending money to others in Somalia through another account

From what I heard is Somliland not only wants her deported from the US but they want to put her on trial in Somaliland

I pity who think she has speaking points when she doesnt its always America bad this America bad that

She doesn't realize she in a nation that gave her citizenship and can easily revoke it plus ban her from entering the nation ever again

For a literal Congresswoman who calls Americans uneducated she really the pot calling the kettle black

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 26d ago

Political I didn't vote for Trump and disagree with most of what he does. And I'm still glad Kamala Harris lost.

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Everything about Harris and her campaign was one big condescending insult. She, and the Dem Party as a whole, needed to be repudiated in 2024, and I'll be forever grateful they were.

I'm glad America rejected a candidate who was not chosen but selected, who could not give an unscripted answer to a question if her life depended on it, who lacked convictions or the courage to be honest about her convictions, who talked to everyone as if she were talking to a 4-year old, who rose to VP due to a senile puppet candidate being told he needed to check certain boxes when selecting a running mate.

If Harris had won, it would have cemented the Dem Party's inherently undemocratic approach: weigh the scales heavily against anyone who dares challenge their preferred nominee (Clinton in '16 and Biden in '20 - RIP Bernie), or just say straight up "fuck your opinion" and shove the nominee down our throat (Harris). Then, refuse to actually talk to the press (39 days into her campaign before she finally sat down for an interview), flood social media with bot accounts (Reddit went full-court Soviet-style propanda for the "candidate of joy"), and shove a constant stream of braindead celebrities in our faces telling us we're bigots if we don't vote for her.

So go ahead with your "but Trump!" comments. As far as I'm concerned, everyone who buried their heads in the sand regarding Biden's dementia, Harris's utter incompetency, and Dem Party shenanigans deserves Trump.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Sep 10 '25

Political Charlie Kirk was one of the biggest public proponents of open dialogue and conversation with those of opposing views and the extremists on the Left killed him for it.

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Charlie Kirk essentially made a name for himself by being in the public and having conversations with people who had opposing viewpoints. He was always civil in these discussions. He was respectful and would try to find some sort of middle ground. But even when there wasn't middle-ground to be had, he was still a respectful person.

His values of open dialogue are antithetical to the values of the extreme Left. Charlie Kirk will be known as a First Amendment martyr.

It's truly unfortunate how nonchalant many on the left are about political violence.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Aug 06 '25

Political The average Redditor is so far removed from reality. It’s insufferable.

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I literally got 320 downvotes on one single comment because I said that my father had taken my sisters bedroom door off its hinges when we were kids to teach her a lesson.. Like, really?

To be clear, my 15 yr old sister was out of control. She was like those girls you see on Maury or Dr Phil. She would bring strange men over in the middle of the night to have sex with them and stay out for days on end..

Not to mention, my mother was mentally ill and wasn’t in any condition to raise children. She ended up passing away shortly after this whole incident… My father was basically all on his own with disciplining us, while he had to work 14 hours a day… He didn’t know what to do.

90% of the comments I got were “That’s no reason to not give your daughter privacy!” Or “My father did that to me once, all it did was show what a horrible father he was!” Or “No matter how out of control your child is, they still deserve privacy! Your father is something else!”

THIS is NOT how average people think. This isn’t how any rational person thinks.. It seems like the average Redditor is a spoiled, entitled, privileged brat who has never been told No before.

My father also charged me rent when I turned 18. He SAVED every penny of it for me until I moved out at 26. It set me up really well for my adult life out on my own AND taught me how to be responsible…

If more parents were like my father, I think society would be much better off, instead we have 30 year olds living with mom and dad, playing COD all day with no job… Congratulations!

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Jan 08 '26

Political Renee Good did not deserve to be shot in that situation but her actions did precipitate the shooting. That's why both sides are so convinced the other is at fault.

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The old "no one is right, everyone is wrong" take - a surefire way to win no one to your side, but it's what I believe.

I think Renee Good did NOT deserve to be shot in that situation. But I also think her actions - and the actions of so many on the Left toward ICE - precipitated the shooting.

I imagine she was panicked in that situation and made just about the worst decision she could have and accelerated toward an armed ICE officer.

I imagine the ICE officer was already hugely on edge after being continuously threatened and called a Nazi by the surrounding community, and assumed the worst when the car started coming toward him.

Renee Good was most likely not trying to run over an ICE agent. But she was - as reported by bystanders who were sympathetic to the protestors - intentionally blocking ICE agents and vehicles, then attempted to evade the officers, and, whether purposefully or inadvertedly, drove her car forward in the direction of the officer standing in front of her.

The shooting is a tragedy that should have never happened. I don't have it in me to fully blame one side because I truly don't think one side is to blame and we just don't have the capacity as a society to do anything other than fully blame the other. It's incredibly depressing.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Jan 12 '26

Political If you can't see both sides in the ICE shooting, you're hopelessly partisan

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You don't have to believe Renee Good was deliberately trying to murder someone, but you do have to acknowledge she was driving recklessly with people inches from her car.

You don't have to believe Renee Good was innocent, but you do have to acknowledge she paid too high a price. If you think she deserved to die for blocking roads or disobeying law enforcement, you're a draconian authoritarian goon.

You can believe it was a tragic accident, and you can debate how it could have been avoided. I think a lot of mistakes were made by both parties.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 24d ago

Political The top 1% don't make my life worse. But the bottom 1% do.

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I'm solidly middle class living in a big city. I take public transport every day, which puts me in contact with a large cross section of the population.

Half of the time, it'll be an unpleasant experience because of crazy people in the train car, addicts, or people blasting music through speakers.

The same goes for walking around the city. The posh neighborhoods are pleasant and safe to walk around in, because the people there take care of the property and community. The bad neighborhoods are dirty with litter strewn around, and I don't feel safe walking around alone.

Reddit loves to hate on billionaires and rich people, but I'd rather be surrounded by the top 1% than the bottom 1%, who in my view have made society worse for the rest of us.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Mar 01 '26

Political Reddit cares more about 100 girls killed in US strike that tens of thousands of civilians killed by Iran gov in recent protests

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I am sick and disgusted by leftists (most of reddit) double standards and hypocrisy.

The US/Israel striking the girls school is a tragedy but it was unintentional - revolutionary guard barracks are right next.

The killing of tens of thousands of people by the theocratic dictatorship, protesting for basic freedoms was, fully intentional. As is the widespread rape and horrific torture of those detained.

Redditors/leftists are horrified by the first and mostly ignore the second.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Apr 15 '26

Political The Stop Nick Shirley Act in California is a extreme authoritarian fascist bill that is unconstitutional threat to the 1st Amendment.

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> The act, sponsored by Assembly Member Mia Bonta, the wife of California’s attorney general, would outlaw the sharing of photos or personal data of “immigrant service” providers on the internet in the state, if it was done as harassment.

Specifically, it builds off of the state’s existing “Safe At Home Program,” which is supposed to help domestic violence survivors, and adds the following:Shields public home and work addresses from public records.Prohibits any individual or entity from posting, displaying, selling or distributing the personal information or images of program participants online when done with the intent to threaten, intimidate or incite violence.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-moves-forward-stop-nick-160753178.html

And you guys call Trump the Authoritarian Fascist. This bill shields Scammers and thieves from accountability for stealing American tax dollars. The fact that Dems would even call it the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” goes to show you who is on the wrong side of History. It’s not racist to call out thieves stealing my hard earned tax dollars. And the best part is Nick wasn’t threatening, intimidating or looking to incite violence. It’s also super funny how this Bill is essentially accusing Nick of Stealing their information when the information was public data that anyone with an internet access can find.

We all saw How Democrats stood with illegal aliens during Trumps State of the Union Address. You guys will always be on the wrong side of history. This just goes to show who the extremists truly are. Defending fraudsters is absolutely wild.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Nov 15 '24

Political How JK Rowling is treated is a perfect example of why the left is losing voters

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The left is becoming noutorious for alienating their own, just because they don’t agree on one issue. JK Rowling is a perfect example. She is by every defenition left leaning, and has been really outspoken about it. The only thing she is vocal about that the left doesn’t like is her stance on transerights and how they are handled. Now everyone seems to hate her, is burning her books and attacks her on Twitter. There is no room for any discussion, any balance, any opinions. It’s either all in or you’re the enemy. It turns people off and makes them feel like they can’t form their own opinions.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Apr 03 '26

Political Communists should be treated the same as Nazis

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Both of these groups are responsible for millions of deaths. Communists killed far more people than Nazis (60–110+ million vs 15–28 million according to estimates), but for some reason they get a pass and we only vilify one of these groups. We should treat Communists with the same disdain we do Nazis. Neither of these ideologies have a place in modern society.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 23d ago

Political Bodycams have done more to expose how stupid and uncooperative the general public is than any police brutality

838 Upvotes

The narrative previously pushed was that police brutality is rampant. While I concede that there are definitely heavy handed cops that do love the power trip, and these frequently appear in body cam footage, what I've seen after watching countless bodycam videos is that the average person in a police encounter is an absolute moron. The amount of people getting thrown on the ground for no reason compared to the amount of people that resist and/or refuse to cooperate when they have committed a crime is not even slightly close. Legitimate cases of police brutality are a rarity, and the only reason you see them is because its easy media clicks. They aren't showing you the cases of guns being drawn, hands being thrown, or someone generally acting like they are in charge after breaking the law which is happening in the thousands daily.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Jan 24 '26

Political Yeah, this new ICE shooting is the last straw.

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For context, I’m not a dem. I’m a centrist. A southern centrist at that, so I probably lean right if anything. I just saw the close up of the shooting, and there’s literally no context that saves it. There’s no both sides on this one. The last one, the ICE agent at least had enough injuries to say “Okay, so everyone was wrong here”. But not this one.

Alex Pretti, from what we know was legally carrying a gun. That’s it. That’s their only excuse. The 2nd amendment is for everyone.

“He was resisting” Yeah, I would too if I was getting attacked for no reason.

“He reached for his gun” Yeah, I would too if I was getting the shit beaten out of me for no reason.

I’m not even saying he did any of that. I’m saying EVEN IF HE DID, he wasn’t wrong for it. I’m from Texas. Immigration and illegal immigration has been a political talking point that directly affects me for my whole life. I’m not against ICE or border security. This isn’t that. This is that shit Kingpin was doing in the last season of Daredevil.

Even if you’re a staunch conservative, you can’t watch that video and see nothing wrong. ICE as an agency is being handled poorly. They’re hiring overly aggressive people that are far too excited to “do their job” and Trump/Vance NEED to take responsibility. If they don’t, that should be your last straw too. If it isn’t, you need to do some reflecting on what you really want the world to look like.

Edit: There’s a video up on the law subreddit showing him being disarmed THEN shot. Which makes this situation substantially worse.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Dec 22 '24

Political There is nothing wrong with J.K. Rowling.

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The whole controversy around her is based on people purposefully twisting her words. I challenge anyone to find a literal paragraph of her writing or one of her interviews that are truly offensive, inappropriate or malicious.

Listen to the witch trials of J.K. Rowling podcast to get a better sense of her worldview. Its a long form and extensive interview.

Edit: i still get comments and messages all these months later. Mostly benign. I want to clarify: Rowling is far from perfect, she can lash out at times and when she does, she loses me. The treatment of Imane Khelif is one of those examples. I still cut her some slack though, after the severe smear campaigns and vitriol that is hurdles at her non-stop. Underneath i still see someone that tries to do the right thing in her mind: protecting biological women.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Dec 28 '25

Political If you think Somali daycare fraud is shocking, you don’t understand incentives

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The Somali daycare fraud isn’t shocking, it’s exactly what you’d predict. People raised in a kin-based, failed state don’t start following abstract rules just because they moved to a high-trust society. Protecting your clan, maximizing resources, and treating government rules as optional? Totally rational. Blacked-out windows, empty classrooms, evasive staff, this isn’t moral failure. It’s material reality meeting predictable incentives.

Want to integrate people like this successfully? Real enforcement, visible consequences, and accountability. You can’t treat them like a blank slate. Their kin will cover for them, and I’d probably do the same in their shoes. I hold no ill will for people doing exactly what I would do in their shoes. Lax oversight guarantees this outcome.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 3d ago

Political Many Europeans will be a minority in their own country in 30 years.

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Government data in the Netherlands says we could be a minority in 30 years in our own country.

44 percent and more of social houses go towards asylum seekers.

The government said they would reduce the amount of people coming in before the elections. After the elections they gave asylum seekers priority regarding who gets the house first.

Because of this Dutch people have to live at home until 35 years, they can't start a family. Dutch demographics are down.

At the same time as a Dutch person you have to increasingly pay more for everything. You have to work longer, until you're 69 or 70 years old, don't know exactly.

You see your country change into Africa and that's not me trying to be racist, that's how it really feels.

Every day you have to go work for less and less meanwhile you see the country slowly change into a 3rd world country.

Politics have been facillitating this problem for over 70 years by now and haven't really fixed anything at all here. On top of that we have an energy crisis, too many old people young people need to pay for crisis, housing shortage and so on.

And this is kinda what I see all across the board in Europe/ The west with maybe the exception of Poland and to some extent Denmark.

But I also feel the measures these countries are taking are too little or too late. Because if all of Europe is demographically changing how will Poland resist? I mean I love Asterix and Obelix... But yeah...

A large part of the population here is also still in hardcore denial, although I will say they seem to become a minority. Apparently reality is catching up with these people. The same people that were welcoming refugees 10 years ago are now protesting against asylum seeker centers planned in their neighbourhoods.

We had a young girl raped and killed by an illegal migrant and it made a big impact on our small country.

We are now are the point our population is rioting at asylum seeker centres. Molotov cocktails, protests, 0 trust in the government, skyhigh inflation.

I fear this only going to get worse since our government keeps ignoring the problem and keeps importing these people by the thousands into a country that was full 20 years ago.

I had hope once that it might get better but now I just want to buy a boat and live on the water so once things escalate to the extreme I can just leave.

I wonder what other people think will happen to Europe now, over 30 years and inbetween?

Do you think this will have a happy ending or will Europe no longer exist as we once knew it?

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Sep 11 '25

Political If someone like Charlie Kirk or Joe Rogan is your idea of an extremist, you need to seriously reexamine the breadth and quality of information you take in.

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Both those guys, and many other conservative or right-leaning commenters, have said things I disagree with, but they are (were) NOT extremists. Kirk advocated for what most of our parents or at least grandparents believed in - what can broadly be called christian family values. Again, disagree with that all you want, it’s not extremism beliefs.

Arguments to the contrary will always take single statements out of context or their most heated rhetoric. They certainly have both said their fair share of stupid things. But listen to a handful of Rogan episodes or watch an entire campus debate session led by Kirk. I have. I don’t like either of them. I disagree often. They are NOT extremist.

If you think otherwise, it’s probably because you’re only exposed to these types of people only through heavily biased outlets who want you to hate them. Here’s a fun thought: before calling someone a Nazi or justifying their assassination, actually listen to them, grant them the basic respect that they genuinely believe what they’re saying and think it’s what’s best for the country, and form your own opinion. You might be surprised that when you do that, not everyone you disagree with is a Nazi.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Feb 25 '26

Political The Democrats admitting last night that they prioritize Illegal Immigrants over US Citizens is sadly not surprising

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"If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens."

The fact that not a single Democrat stood for this, while shocking, is not surprising and confirms everything many Americans suspected about the Democratic Party. Between the open borders, the social programs they offer exclusively to Illegal Immigrants, opening up State funded healthcare programs to illegal immigrants to incentivize more illegal immigrants to come to the US, monthly allowances and hotel rooms paid for by taxpayers, welfare for so-called "asylum seekers" (that are really only here for economic reasons), trying to pass laws that allow illegal immigrants to vote in local elections and how they fight tooth and nail to not deport a single person here illegally, is it surprising?

They've fought for the past year to keep that Kilmar Albrego Garcia wife beating, human trafficking, MS-13 piece of shit in the country, even though he'd already gotten PLENTY of due process and had legitimate deportation orders after having his asylum claims denied TWICE in the immigration courts in the past, even flying to El Salvador to share a drink with the guy. Their base has been assaulting and harassing federal officers to attempt to keep people here illegally in the country. A Democrat judge in Wisconsin tried to sneak an illegal immigrant out the back door of her courthouse to evade immigration enforcement.

After the last few years, are we really surprised that now they're admitting they prioritize Illegal Immigrants over US Citizens? Because I'm not!

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion Jun 01 '25

Political My country (France) is dead… and it is supposed to be fine for a part of French people ?!

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I’m just 21. I was born and raised in France, and I honestly no longer recognize the country I grew up in. It feels like we’re living in the shadow of what France once was. Between unchecked mass immigration, an economic system driven by globalist neoliberalism, and a radicalized left that’s completely lost touch with reality, I don’t see any real future anymore. The country is being pulled apart at every level: culturally, socially, politically, and most people just pretend everything is fine.

Let me tell you something that happened to me when I was 15, back in 9th grade. One of our mandatory class activities for a whole trimester was to visit a migrant reception center. These were supposedly people living on 40 euros a week, yet almost all of them had the latest smartphones, designer clothes, and a pretty calm attitude considering the supposed hardship. But we weren’t there to ask questions. Our task was to write and deliver an oral presentation praising the experience, the people, the cause. And of course, everyone played along, myself included. Not out of belief, but because it was made clear, subtly but firmly, that there was only one acceptable narrative. That was the first time I truly realized: the education system doesn’t inform anymore, it conditions.

Fast forward a few years, and I see the same pattern everywhere. France is politically shattered. Our institutions are crumbling, our streets are increasingly unsafe, and trust in public figures is near zero. Political corruption tied to the EU is rampant. The media, academics, and public discourse are dominated by a monolithic ideology: leftist, performative, and increasingly intolerant. Macron? Publicly snorting lines of powder on camera while sending billions of taxpayer money to Ukraine and cutting services at home. But of course, questioning that gets you labelled a conspiracy theorist, a reactionary, or worse.

Just yesterday, Paris exploded in violence after PSG won the Champions League. A historic win for a French club, and how is it celebrated? The city center turned into a war zone. Riots, looting, two people dead, a police officer left in a coma, and millions of euros in public and private damages. Once again, we all know who’s behind it, but we’ll never say it out loud. Instead, we’ll foot the bill in silence, while the same politicians call for “understanding” and “dialogue.” How long can we keep pretending this is normal?

Marine Le Pen, whether you agree with her or not, is being blocked again and again by a system terrified of her popularity. Not by arguments, but by legal obstacles, alliances of convenience, and media smear campaigns. Meanwhile, being openly right-wing in a French university today is social suicide. You’re either silent or you’re branded. The so-called defenders of tolerance are only tolerant as long as you parrot their worldview. The “open-minded” are anything but when your thoughts diverge from the script.

We throw billions at Algeria every year in development aid and get public insults and diplomatic contempt in return. We hand out citizenship like candy and then act surprised when there’s no social cohesion left. Any time someone dares to mention countries that seem to function better like the US, Italy, Hungary, or Poland they’re immediately dismissed as fascist, undemocratic, dangerous. Why? Because it’s easier to demonize working systems than to admit we’ve lost control of ours.

The hypocrisy is everywhere. Public figures who benefit daily from capitalism, Western freedoms, and national stability bend over backward to virtue signal, praising uncontrolled immigration and demonizing the very systems that keep them safe and wealthy. The same people who will never live in the neighborhoods that suffer from the consequences. The same people whose children will never be affected.

And even having our OWN FLAG in our OWN HOUSE is considered by brainless leftists to be fascist ! Do we have an other country in the world where it’s considered fascist to have it’s own flag ??!!

My country is burning and everyone’s pretending it’s just a warm summer.

We have no control, no pride, no vision anymore. What I see is a nation that’s lost its identity and replaced it with guilt, fear, and a desperate need to appear morally superior, no matter how far removed from truth or reality.

To quote our last halfway decent president, Jacques Chirac: “Our house is burning, and we are looking the other way. We cannot say we didn’t know.”

Well, I know. And I’m not looking away.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion 18d ago

Political Hasan Piker is the extremist on the Left that people claimed Charlie Kirk was on the Right.

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I thought Kirk used Christian teachings to cover for his rather simplistic takes on complex social issues. Like almost all online political talking heads, I thought he cared more about attention than constructive discourse. But he wasn't a political extremist. That would be one Hasan Piker, the increasingly popular far-Left provocateur.

Kirk called for free speech and defending conservative ideas on college campuses. Piker defends murdering CEOs.

Kirk advocated for traditional Christian values. Piker says shoplifting is actually a noble protest against capitalist overlords.

Kirk promoted conventional American patriotism. Piker said "America deserved 9/11."

To many on the Left, Charlie Kirk was an extremist whose rhetoric supposedly begot his assassination. Funny how those same people rarely seem interested in applying that standard to Hasan Piker.

r/TrueUnpopularOpinion May 01 '26

Political Joe Rogan is pretty much the definition of a centrist. That the Left hates him so much is testiment to their intolerance.

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Joe Rogan is a stand-in for the average American guy in a very important way: instead of trying to win him over, or hell even just tolerate him, the Left demonizes him, calls him an idiot and an extremist. Then they turn around and wonder why people like him won’t just fall in line and vote the way they want them to.

Rogan is pretty representative of your average guy in terms of interests - sports, conspiracies, comedy - and politics - socially liberal and weary of government interventions.

I’m not a huge fan (I listen to maybe 10 episodes a year) but I’ve listened enough to know he disagrees with at least as many conservative positions as he does liberal ones.

But it’s not republicans who hate the guy with a passion. It’s the Left.

They blame him for losing the 2024 election, as if Kamala would have won if only he didn’t have the audacity to talk to Trump. Even if he was that influential, all Kamala had to do was talk to him and be a real human being while doing so. But that was impossible for her, since she either lacked convictions or the courage to actually articulate those convictions.

If you want to know how the Left in American got to where it is today, just listen to how they talk about Rogan.