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On Twitter, you don’t say “I post shitty blanket statements in a way that makes me feel smarter than the strawman I invented to get mad at,” you do this. Isn’t that amazing?
She pretty accurately described at least one person I know. It’s not a strawman just because it’s not directly relevant to you.
Your one anecdote doesn’t prove her blanket statement true
Maybe it wasn’t a blanket statement. Maybe it was a statement of her experience meant for people who can understand. Like me.
It doesn’t disprove it either? What are you trying to accomplish here, besides look like an asshat?
I already accomplished calling out the nonsensical idea that people who say they aren’t political think they’re smarter for it
This makes no sense
Made perfect sense to me
Sure it’s maybe a me thing; I just don’t get it
Do you not know any average white people who’ve ever uttered a similar phrase in your presence? I usually hear it as “I’m not really into politics,” same meaning
It’s quite a leap to no empathy. What about fear? Confusion?
I think what they’re trying to say is you’re an ass if you don’t care about others.
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You’re probably one of the people clapping that there’s a petition to draft Barron Trump.
yes, absolutely. now fuck off.
what about so many people from the working class that “don’t care about politics”, is that because of priviledge?
No it could be critical thinking skills
Yes. So far the white US working class has been in a quite privileged position compared to non-whites and people from the imperial periphery.
Capital owners kept the US working class satisfied so they could produce for the military-industrial complex and bomb the rest of the world into submission without risking sabotage to military-industrial infrastructure.
I don’t disagree with anything you said there, but I refered to the working class as a whole.
I’m far from the the US, but where I live, I know people from different minorities that belong to the working class and still say “I’m not political”. Priviledge is obvisouly a reason for many, as I see it, but it’s an over generalization to claim it’s the sole reason for that atittude.
Sometimes I’m frustrated because I want a fast way to say “cishet white neurotypical”. And then I remember I can just say non political.
“Normie”
Get your 4chan garbage words out of here please.
A website adopting a word I’ve used for decades does not invalidate my use.
On the flip side of that, you cannot lord it over people who’ve been apolitical and are now engaging in political opinion. You aren’t better than them just because you woke up sooner. And you can end up just discouraging them from engaging with you whether they are on your side or not.
Or you just realized that the rules have never been written with you in mind. “You” being a middle aged depressed overworked underpreforming loner without a family or future. It doesn’t matter to you whether Jesus himself or straight up Nazis are going to be elected because you’re most likely not even going to see the end of the next legislative period. Best case nothing happens, worst case, you’re going to face the wall with a smile.
Or I’ve just realized that you people don’t want a functioning society or we’d have one. The government didn’t just fuck themselves, the US citizens decided on this. And if you guys can’t fix your fuck ups, don’t even want to fix your fuck ups, it’s mindbogglingly hilarious that you think anything is going to improve. I’m not involved with politics because the human race is beneath me. I try to be a decent person, unlike you guys.
Edit: what really sells it is when the left gets infiltrated by literal nazis and you guys once again decide that any support is welcome 🤦
I think a lot of Americans say this to try to convey that they aren’t some kind of extremist maniac and they don’t want to get in a fight with you over it. Where I live I would be afraid to tell a random person my political views. Yes there are some people who are tuned out because they don’t see themselves as needing to be tuned in. But I do really feel that many people who say this are simply trying to avoid confrontation in an environment where the “wrong answer” to your political views could possibly mean violence
Ya had me in the first half. Ya lost me in the second.
Third option: I’m fine with the way things are going and don’t want to be shamed for it or have my feelings challenged.
Is that your opinion?
Take a look at my post/comment history and see what you think.
