Let’s play a commie game. The title of this post is a frequently asked circle jerk questions on many a commie internet space. Just like, famously, the subreddit unpopular opinion is full of popular opinions, the controversial commie beliefs are quite uncontroversial if you are a commie and if you are not, the sound like standard commie shit. But, to be fair, their point is controversial in the wider society.  It is usually a variation of “I believe you should not have to work if you don’t want to and have everything provided” and “Anyone not my preferred flavor of communism is stupid and evil and a poopyhead”. “Oh and send everyone to reeducation camps”. Boiler plate stuff, really.

Now here we are in our very own little circle jerk space, a rag tag group of sort of libertarian, or people of various identifications that are not good old commies. So the question is what are controversial opinions around here. This is off course a matter of personal opinion, so what opinions do individual glibs hold that they believe are controversial in the wider society. Bonus points if they are highly controversial among wider society and most glibs.

I am not sure how controversial mine are, but I have a few.

Let’s start light.  I think there should be next to no welfare, and if someone lacks the money and cannot find it via voluntary charity, sad but such is the world. I believe that one is not owed a living just for surviving birth.

Some people deserve nothing more in life than to starve in a ditch and it is a matter of justice to allow them to do so. There should be properly placed ditches and parents walking by with their children should point and say “look honey, you watch what you do in life or you may end up like that”.

I consider all government pension systems to be deeply immoral. Old age does not come as a surprise and one should plan for it.

I believe democracy as currently implemented is an idiotic system of government. I believe that less than 20% of the population has a real capacity to understand the issues and control their bias when voting.

I have a very strong tough on crime stance for a libertarian, and I think there should be fairly short but harsh punishments – e.g. one month in solitary – for first offenses, to nip things in the bud. I think attitudes like “a young person making a mistake lets be lenient, first offense etc” are bad in the long run. Also, I think that corporal punishment should be brought back, though by choice: you get 3 months in jail or 5 lashes in the public square, your choice.

I believe when it comes to your primary residence at least, self defense should be absolute. If someone break into your house and you catch them you should be able to shoot them even if they try to retreat / run  away.

I think it is actually correct that children of responsible parents have advantages over children of less responsible parents. People try to get the best for their children, and that is to be encouraged. I do not believe birth is random soul incarnation, each individual is the result of his parents and that same person could not have been born to any other people.

I believe men and women are different and should not be expected to have identical roles in society. I believe feminism is overall a wrong, rather toxic and unnecessary ideology, if one properly applies libertarianism.

There is really no such thing as market failure as long as markets are allowed to work. Almost everything the government touches it makes worse. As long as the markets are not distorted and people make their money fair and square in the competitive space, there is no such thing as undeserved wealth. It is right that those with more money afford better stuff – including healthcare, education, food etc – than those with less.

Any and all calls for reparations for the past are horseshit.

There is no such thing as positive rights.

I believe intelligence is highly genetic and some people are plain stupid. I believe most people are not suited to high level education, but they do not need it for good lives – Albert Jay Nock may have had a small point here. I believe a good deal of modern education is just another attempt to create the New Man and alter human nature, mostly from people who strongly scream their belief in evolution, though evolution always stops at the neck.

Something good rarely to almost never comes without competition and from consensus. In most cases consensus is bullshit.

Being fat is neither healthy nor aesthetic.

Men should do hip thrusts in the gym.

I have a feeling that those opinions are not really controversial enough. So let’s get real. I believe that people who eat hot chilly peppers and spicy foods in general are genetically superior to people who don’t – people who allow a plant to make them their bitch. I think people who like sweet things have primitive, childish tastes. I honestly believe that Belgian beer styles are mostly shit, many overly sweet, overly alcoholic, or both, and does not make up in flavor. Good beer is English ale and Czech pilsner. And most people do not know how to eat and drink. Scotch>Rye>Bourbon>Irish though all are good. Wine > Beer. Coffee should have two ingredients: coffee beans and water. Anyone who adds a third does not really drink coffee. Ass > Tits, though both are great.

BONUS question: another commie favorite is “what would your job be under communism” and the answer is often something to do with teaching the children communism or writing commie songs or something. No one says “I would be an industrial electrician in communism”, because you can be an industrial electrician now and make a good living. This applies to any serious job. So if we lived in libertopia, what would your job be?

I for one, in Europe at least, I noticed that there is a lack of establishments that have specialty coffee, good wine, good beer, good whisky. Now you find places that have one or two of those but rarely all 4. So I would make such a place. But Pie, you will say, you can make it now. Yes, but in libertopia I could make it with blackjack and hookers, so much better. The whorehouse for the person of distinguished taste, one might say. With a nice poker room also and cocaine. Lots of cocaine.