What if you are let's say a legal migrant and can't vote. What then?
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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I was ready to argue but damn. I love your thaught process.
Geniuenly great take. I am gonna think more like you from now on.
also true for a ton of countries
I don't like to talk about politics because many people gets unreasonable when it comes to politics. So I basically lose the motivation to talk about it. That doesn't mean I lose all my opinions.
"Everything is political" is a terrible way to convey that you should care about politics. It conflates the broadest dictionary definition of "politics" with the narrow, collaquial one, and it overwhelms the layman.
How about "take an interest in politics, or it'll take an interest in you?" It centers the interests of the individual you're conversing with, and doesn't leave the implication that politics should be the only thing they care about (contrarily, it posits caring about other things is why you should care about politics.) I see this phrase repeated within the Vtuber community, which is normally a very politics-resistant space, in light of tarrifs driving up merch prices.
It conflates the broadest dictionary definition of “politics” with the narrow, collaquial one
Actually, it completely erases the narrow, colloquial one. I think the colloquial definition of politics is completely unacceptable to use, and I refuse to legitimise it. Words have meanings and I'm going to treat people like they used the correct ones. If they have a problem with that, they can say what they mean instead of what they don't.
Treating politics like something you can escape is a microaggression against BIPOC people whose identities are politicised every day, and is therefore racist. I'm not going to legitimise racism. If people want to act like politics is avoidable, they can go do it at the klan rally.
A definition of a word that your audience doesn't understand is pointless. Language is defined from bottom up, not top down.
You'd better be nonwhite to be typing that second paragraph, because I'm not white either.
Telling me "everything is political" when my identity is politicized unfairly sounds more like an excuse for it than defending POC. You sound like you're making an excuse for culture warriors who bitch and moan whenever a non-white character shows up. LGBT people in my experience tend to correctly insist that their identities are not political. That makes more sense, it correctly puts the onus on the right wing assholes that politicized it.
Everything is political. You can't win an argument with a bigot by saying your identity is political, because it's not true. We have to erase the stigma against politics. And you're not helping with that.
There is no phrase clever enough to convince any american who doesnt already say they care about politics to say they care about politics. The people who say this only care about themselves, and will not change until it directly affects them. What we should be striving for is ensuring it affects them.
My use of that phrase was inspired by it's use in the Vtuber community, a community that is normally extremely hostile to discussing politics (this is one of the things I like about it, but because I already spend a lot of time on politics, not because I'm running from it entirely) after it was affected by tarrifs. So yeah you're right about that.
Some people think politics and personal lives are not only separable but are inherently separate ideas. They are wrong.
Can we just skip to the AI overlords stuff? Human leadership is getting kind of stale and repetitive lately.
Watch Psycho Pass and get back with me
That's what happens when AI is the judge, jury and executioner.
You really saw all of those fucked up nightmare hands and thought, "why can't this be in charge?" What makes you think having a failed artist for a dictator is a good idea?
Sometimes i just no think good. I try to be involved but its really too big for me alone.
People make decisions for you despite not living in a monarchy.
I didn’t decide to make Trump president, but it happened anyway, and no amount of talking about it will change that.
Talk to local revolutionary groups about insurrection.
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