I like politics. I don’t like being blasted with US politics, despite my* inability to do anything about them, especially when they circumvent my* extensive word blocklist. I guess that makes me a bad person ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t live in America, but I’ve been doing lots to help with US politics. I’ve been comforting my trans friends who live there, campaigning for refugee visas in my country, talking to Americans on the internet and asking them to vote Democrat in the midterms, and warming my local community up to the idea that we might have to fight against USA in world war 3.
I can do all that because I’m a kind, smart, determined, and creative person. You said you can’t do anything about US politics? That’s a shame.
There are important issues in my own country that I focus my spoons on, yet despite that I am working on getting a creature to my country on a refugee visa from the US. Which is far more meaningful than looking at memes on Lemmy.
What is a shame is that you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home. I would rather work in my community to encourage people to vote for the Greens or the Socialists than to convince USians to vote for a party that does not work for them.
you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home
It’s not a zero sum game. I don’t have to forsake my friends in America and become a national isolationist in order to make change here. Gods, you sound like Tony Abbott with the “my country first” rhetoric.
I like video games with women in them. I like movies about rebellions. I like art that makes me think about society. I like science fiction that uses allegory to explore controversial issues. I like queer joy. I like books about feudal power struggles. I like Mass Effect. I like Mistborn. I like Aliens. I like Jurassic Park. I like Avatar, both of them.
You know what I don’t like?
Sports.
There’s no politics in sports.
It doesn’t matter if the Red Bears or the Blue Tigers win the Ball Cup this year. They’ll just play again next year. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t make me think. It’s not controversial. It’s not meaningful. It’s boring.
I think you’re the one who’s playing the right wingers’ game on their rules by choosing to agree with them that politics is bad. I’ve transcended their bullshit by deciding politics is good actually. Now you’re trying to convince me to agree with the right wingers that politics is bad so I can argue that Game of Thrones and Arcane don’t have any politics in them. That feels like losing to me. Why do I have to agree with fascists so I can disagree with them?
I like politics because I’m a good person.
I like politics. I don’t like being blasted with US politics, despite my* inability to do anything about them, especially when they circumvent my* extensive word blocklist. I guess that makes me a bad person ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t live in America, but I’ve been doing lots to help with US politics. I’ve been comforting my trans friends who live there, campaigning for refugee visas in my country, talking to Americans on the internet and asking them to vote Democrat in the midterms, and warming my local community up to the idea that we might have to fight against USA in world war 3.
I can do all that because I’m a kind, smart, determined, and creative person. You said you can’t do anything about US politics? That’s a shame.
There are important issues in my own country that I focus my spoons on, yet despite that I am working on getting a creature to my country on a refugee visa from the US. Which is far more meaningful than looking at memes on Lemmy.
What is a shame is that you do not care enough about your neighbours to meaningfully try and address issues at home. I would rather work in my community to encourage people to vote for the Greens or the Socialists than to convince USians to vote for a party that does not work for them.
It’s not a zero sum game. I don’t have to forsake my friends in America and become a national isolationist in order to make change here. Gods, you sound like Tony Abbott with the “my country first” rhetoric.
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I like video games with women in them. I like movies about rebellions. I like art that makes me think about society. I like science fiction that uses allegory to explore controversial issues. I like queer joy. I like books about feudal power struggles. I like Mass Effect. I like Mistborn. I like Aliens. I like Jurassic Park. I like Avatar, both of them.
You know what I don’t like?
Sports.
There’s no politics in sports.
It doesn’t matter if the Red Bears or the Blue Tigers win the Ball Cup this year. They’ll just play again next year. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t make me think. It’s not controversial. It’s not meaningful. It’s boring.
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I think you’re the one who’s playing the right wingers’ game on their rules by choosing to agree with them that politics is bad. I’ve transcended their bullshit by deciding politics is good actually. Now you’re trying to convince me to agree with the right wingers that politics is bad so I can argue that Game of Thrones and Arcane don’t have any politics in them. That feels like losing to me. Why do I have to agree with fascists so I can disagree with them?
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EVERYTHING is political.