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You better get interested in politics before the politics get interested in you.
The flotation device is also politics.
…and ideological!
I noticed that most people I bump into that says they are not into politics, they mean partisan politics. Often from places where they are disenfranchised about their civics.
But if you bring up “holly shit, did you see the price of milk is 7CAD?”. They will be more than happy to provided their cents on why and think about solutions.
I say it at work because it’s not of their fucking business. I don’t want to be judged by my stance. I come to work for a paycheck and I intend to keep it.
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I like how your last one is about a person going on a political rant.
I say “I’m not into politics” in public often.
It’s fantastic, you don’t have to argue, and you quickly find out what they really think.
You know, if I’m out for a drink or having dinner or something, I don’t want to discuss politics with you, ever.
There are so many fights to get in, everywhere.
In private with friends, it’s different. I’ll argue and laugh with them. It’s a ridiculously hostile topic.
I think the biggest issue is people are trying so hard to get you to think a certain way about politics, that having an actually good and proportional understanding of what is going on and what the real options are, and expressing that effectively, is somewhere between very difficult and impossible. Of course everything is enmeshed with politics, and you might care about that, but if you also know that you are not immune to being manipulated it might be a reason to think engaging in overtly political discourse won’t be useful or good for you.
Is there a reference I’m missing?
It’s a reference to people who like to ignore discussion of contentious issues by saying they’re not really into politics while failing to realize or care that literally every single aspect of their modern life is directly intertwined with politics.
I’m also confused by this one, what is the last frame supposed to be.
They’re both swimming in politics.
Some people try to avoid unpleasant subjects and constantly keep themselves in a bubble until that bubble gets pricked.
And some just want to pick and choose (for their own mental health) how and when they interact with politics instead of mainlining it from every quarter.
But like, really, is it that bad? Because I care about politics it just make me unhappy, and at the end of the day we all have the same shitty candidates to vote, weather you like politics or don’t. So I totally get people who are not interested in that.
It’s bad to stick your head in the sand and not be aware of what’s going on in the world, but it’s also bad to let how awful everything is make you miserable. It’s a balancing act!
This advert has stuck in my head ever since I saw it
If you don’t do politics, you don’t do anything
That’s not what it said. It said, “if you don’t do politics, there’s not much you doo-doo.”
Hehehe, good point
So is it time again to start activating the people for the midterms? Will democracy be on the ballot this time? Will it be too close to call?
Personally, nobody on the ballots has the ability to stop everything wrong in the entire world within the first week, so I’m not voting, and if you are choosing to take part in voting then you’re just a fascist child raping genocider.
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To me, politics is like my dick: I don’t whip it out in front of strangers.
More like pool-itics
If you don’t keep an eye on politics, it only keeps an eye on you
Can’t tell if the UK’s Electoral Commission did this concept better or worse…
