Political Memes

I don't like to talk about politics. I also don't like working, cooking, taking the trash out, cleaning, etc. etc. I DO it, because it HAS to be done. There is no systemic good which comes that does not in some way come from participating in politics.

I don't talk politics with CERTAIN PEOPLE. People who engage in bad faith, whose highest political priority is fucking over someone else, rather than lifting everyone else up, who celebrate ignorance and cruelty. Any political ideology which is built on such foundational principles can be shut out of all political discussion by those with better, smarter, kinder ones.

Me and you might not agree on how to GET us there, but we share the goal of making things better and easier for the greatest number of people. If we don't, there's nothing to discuss, and so I won't talk politics with you.

I don't like talking about politics with Americans. They have their own political language that barely makes sense. It never gets anywhere because I think I'm just talking to whatever media or social media channels they got trained off.

One could be called a socialist, a capitalist, or even a Nazi depending on who's reading the comment, despite all being fundamentally insane conclusions to land on contextually.

I know you're certainly not all like that, but compared to the rest of the world, the percentages are much, much higher; enough to not even bother.

It means they don’t want to have heated arguments which no one is going to agree on either way. Especially not when the racist uncle is around.

People like this are the reason other people say they don't like politics.

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.

Some people think politics and personal lives are not only separable but are inherently separate ideas. They are wrong.

"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.

But England literally has a King

Sometimes i just no think good. I try to be involved but its really too big for me alone.

also true for a ton of countries

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.

Subtext

What if you are let's say a legal migrant and can't vote. What then?