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[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 93 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Cyclists, some people just see red when they came across cyclist at the road.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cycle infrastructure, even.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Bike lanes are car infrastructure. We cyclists are perfectly within our rights to cycle in the middle of the lane at a speed comfortable for us. And it's safer for us to do that than hug the shoulder and risk getting clipped by an impatient driver. A bike lane gets us out of your way so you can drive the speed limit. It's for your benefit.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 10 points 10 months ago

That's why it's hate for no reason!

The same hatred from the same haters for public transport too: if everyone else is in public transport there more room for you on the road.

It's a bizarrely prevalent attitude from a bizarrely large portion of car users.

We had some nice mini-traffic island things separating a cycleway on a road, drivers kept hitting them and damaging their cars. They complained and the council removed them despite it being obvious to anyone that they were doing extremely what they were supposed to do: stopping those idiots from hitting actual cyclists!

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[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

That's not "for absolutely no reason". Some cyclists make a bad name for the rest.

Edit: Oh my goodness, you guys. I'm not saying hate for cyclists is justified, that I hate all cyclists, or that "all cyclists do x". Some cyclists ride like they have a death wish. So do some drivers. Anyone, regardless of their vehicle, who is willing to put their life in my hands is someone I want to stay far the fuck away from.

[–] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I know an A-hole driver so all drivers must be A**holes.

No some people just don't have good reason.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

You can say ass on the internet bud, it’s ok.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the thread was titled poorly. Anything that gets a lot of hate usually has some sort of reason, even if it may not be justifiable.

[–] exocrinous@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

There's absolutely no reason to hate on a cyclist when you wouldn't hate on a car polluter, because unlike car polluters, we aren't murderers.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 10 months ago (5 children)
[–] ugh@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

But... bathrooms!!! With the children!!! /s

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[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trans people, seriously, they just want to live their lives in peace. They're not here to radicalise anything or to "trick" anyone. They just want to get on with their lives and be left alone.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the other replies to this comment reaaaally prove your point.

Are people really stupid enough to think that every single trans person is a loud screeching SJW?

Not to mention trans people are constantly under attack in most places and NEED to speak up.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

VEGANISM!
It's great for your health, we'd solve like 25% of the climate catastrophe overnight and it redeems billions of our fellow earthlings from the unimaginable suffering we inflict on them 24/7.
It's a ridiculously obvious and easy step we should take as a species, yet even hardcore leftists turn into irrational idiots and go full Bullshit Bingo when you bring it up. Because they have become accustomed to a taste.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I try to tell people to ditch beef as a compromise. I'm flexetarian myself and try to avoid meat, but beef is by far the worst offender when it comes to climate.

I think the average person doesn't want to give up all meat dairy and eggs all in one go. Removing beef is highly effective and a first step into a more conscious diet.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 37 points 10 months ago

Striking workers.

[–] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 35 points 10 months ago

Living in apartments.

In a lot of cities and towns living in apartments is seen as something that young adults who are renting short term do, and definitely not families or older couples.

Living in an apartment is considerably cheaper for my situation. I drive so much less, I pay for less power, and I have all this parkland around me.

I'm a car guy and I don't have a garage, that's annoying, but I commute by escooter now and drive on the weekends. It's much better.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 34 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Nickelback. I mean they're not good but they're not really bad either, just a complete nonevent. They don't deserve the hate they get, they don't really deserve anything

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, most of the hate is because they were super overplayed for a solid decade. For years the popular radio stations in my area didn't seem to play anything but Nickelback, green day, Lady Gaga, and pink. In a vacuum, they're fine. "How you remind me" is pretty good imo. I don't care for anything else from them. I've heard that their guitar player is actually really talented, but I haven't listened to them enough to know myself

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[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Fat people. There, I said it.

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[–] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 10 months ago

trans people

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Socialism/Communism/Anarchism. Barely anyone who actually understands them and the theory supporting them hates them, but tons of people have been fed Red Scare propaganda on the matter.

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[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] cobra89 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While I agree and have no problem with furries, I think the issue is people seeing, what a lot of people in their own community see as linked to a sexual kink, being brought out into public spaces.

"Sexual attraction to furry characters is a polarizing issue. In one survey with 4,300 furry respondents, 37% answered that sexual attraction is important in their furry activities, 38% were ambivalent, and 24% answered that it has little or nothing to do with their furry activities."

"Another survey at a furry convention in 2013 found that 96.3% of male furry respondents reported viewing furry pornography, compared with 78.3% of female; males estimated 50.9% of all furry art they view is pornographic, compared with 30.7% of females."

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

So like clearly there is a large sexual component to the fandom, and I think it weirds people out and makes people uncomfortable when they see these people wearing their fur suits out in public. Which again to be clear is not something the entire community does or even tolerates, but there's enough people who do so that it's become part of the cultural zeitgeist.

But it's also just the fact that it's so far from normal vanilla experiences. Everyday people think role playing sexually is already adventurous and out there. Now add big animal suits that are typically associated with mascots for entertaining children and I think anyone can see why everyday people think it's weird.

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[–] Rinna@lemm.ee 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Male abuse/SA victims. It's already not taken seriously enough when it happens to women, but when it happens to a guy they get put down even more and told to "man up", sometimes even by people who'd support them if the sexes were swapped.

[–] Baahb@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Being one of those victims, it's honestly worse than that. My (very former) best friend went on to marry and raise kids with the woman that he knew SA'd me.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The idea of using public transportation. It's something for "them" (the poor), not for "me" (rich). Changes significantly from country to country, I suppose, but it's a prevalent thought here.

[–] cali_ash@lemmy.wtf 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

here

That certainly clears things up ...

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[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Pit-bulls. Most of their bad reputation comes from organizations that campaign against their very existence and people will quote pit-bull bite statistics with the same lack of irony as a white nationalist quoting FBI crime statistics about people of color.

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Dispassionate takes on controversial issues.

There's always atleast two sides to each story and more often than not the truth is somewhere in the middle. If you think something is clear-cut you're almost guranteed to be mistaken and misinformed and many of your dearest beliefs are totally wrong.

[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is, of course, a relevant xkcd - it's yesterday's https://xkcd.com/2898/

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Non-monogamists. Not referring to simply polyamorists or even relationship anarchists, but non-monogamists in general. When I saw LGBT equality unfold in the first world, I thought "yay we're finally throwing off those norms" but here we are a decade or so later and polyamory still gets everyone saying "meh". The only time I've ever seen polyamorists in late night media was in an episode of The Resident, and it was used to illustrate the man as a cult leader, which tied into the show like pineapple ties into pizza (I do not miss that show). But you have an LGBT couple in every five episodes.

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago

Optical discs (blu-rays, DVDs, cds, etc...). I hate that I have to justify buying one or having a collection.

[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Age gaps in partners.

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 10 points 10 months ago
[–] TruthAintEasy@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oh lots of things

Women
Ethnicities
LGTBQ+
Drag Queens ( they are so entertaining)
Inconvenient truths
People who hang toilet paper the wong way
The French (cowards? They won more battles than anyone and have mastered the art of standing up for themselves)
Furries
Pineapple on pizza ( its good, Ill die on this hill)
Bronies
Caillou - not, that whiney snot deserves it
Marijuana
Ned Flanders
Bell bottoms
Satan ( the word in acient hebrew that we translated to Satan first appears in the book of Job, and would more accuratly be rendered as accuser of prosecutor. In the whole bible satan only goes after 10 people, and only when god tells satan to do it. Half way through satan is like 'um god? This guys like, broken now. Call it good?' But that rapscallion god was like 'no, he could still recover keep hitting him' and all that because god 'knew' Job was the most loyal and devout of his followers and his narcisism just couldnt help but make a grand display of proving it)

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's kind of ironic seeing people post something here and being downvoted. Kinda just proves their point.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. They could be down voted because what they mentioned is hated for a good reason. Like if someone posts "Nazis" or "cancer".

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Blockchain. Most of the people who have this hate don't know how it works in even the most gross sense, believe that it and cryptocurrencies are the same thing, and have a visceral, knee-jerk reaction when they're mentioned, without being able to explain why.

Cryptocurrency, too, although there are far more examples of bad actors in that space. But the concept of an economy that works across the internet entirely outside the control of 5-eyes surveillance states? Yes, please.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

it’s not blockchain itself, it’s how over-hyped it is for what is a data structure with a very limited and specific use-case.

It’s the fact that ‘blockchain companies’ exist while there are no ‘binary search tree’ companies or ‘weighted directional graph’ companies.

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