no, i don’t poop at work. is pooping in my own house a political act too?
i ride my bike in the road with cars. riding on the sidewalk is illegal and dangerous.
public transit is often falling apart where i live. it has been underfunded for 50 years. it’s very unreliable and nobody wants to fix it because that would mean raising taxes.
Pooping itself, no. Probably not political. But getting to the point where you have indoor plumbing, provided by a utility company you probably pay significantly less than the actual cost of said utility? Yeah, that’s the direct result of politics.
It’s not about sides, in this context. It’s just -political-. Whether you vote conservative, progressive, anything in between, you, me, and the whole rest of the world has to deal with that decision.
No. Politics isn’t just about voting. It’s everything
Every action. Every shitty post on the Internet. Everything you buy - you’re voting with your dollars. Your attention. Your time.
No, you individually probably don’t contribute that much to the direct decisions, but your voice reaches others, helps mold their opinions, change how they see and interact with the world. Then they go and do the same thing. That’s all politics.
I’m against self-righteous twats who declare they know best for everyone and anyone who doesn’t agree with them is an idiot or bad person.
I am actively politically involved and have been my entire life. I just missed the memo where that gives me the right to browbeat and harass and lecture other people for not choosing to do that. Am I being irresponsible for not lecturing you about going to local town meetings like I do? Or writing your city councilmen, or voting in in local referendum elections?
And yeah, I do think politics is about direct impacts. being politically involved on an abstract level is nothing more than mental masturbation. It’s ego stroking. hence why people on the internet love it so much. they get to faff off how superior they are to other people in the abstract, without dealing with any of the real world specifics that complicate their moralizing of their own superiority over ‘apolitical’ people and how ‘stupid’ they are.
my brother in law can’t vote. he’s not a citizen. he can opine all day, but literally can’t vote for anything or affect any real change. he has no rights to do so. he is effectively apolitical, as he’s not allow to participate in the democratic process by law.
do you ever ask yourself why does it upset you that other people are different than you? have you ever asked yourself that?
or is it that if people think differently than you, they are bad and wrong, because it invalidates your personal choices and thoughts? and you need yours to be validated by other people’s agreement?
and why you must insult and demean anyone who doesn’t validate your views, rather than consider their validity as their lives, experiences, and knowledge are very different than yours?
You’re American, aren’t you?
Politics isn’t sports ball. Especially on a local level, it usually isn’t “us vs them”, it’s a bunch of people with different opinions about how things are supposed to be done. Politics is more complicated than red vs. blue.
Although the US “red” and “blue” parties do everything they can to convince people like you it’s that simple.
Yeah I am. Where I live it very much is sportsball. Even on the local level.
I am involved in my local cities politics. It is not very complicated. Most people believe in winners vs losers and most every debate is framed that way. it has nothing to do with red vs blue. my city is like 90% blue, but still very anti-progressive on many issues.
for example in my city bike lanes are super controversial, because while the city has been adding them, many residents feel that bike lanes are theft from cars and car owners. many of these very same people are progressives, who have BLM stickers on their lawns in multi-million dollar homes, but think bike lanes are for ‘privileged white people’ and their are just poor struggling folks!
Everything you do, at home or work, is shaped by God. God made you, whether or not you want to be directly involved in the making up of his world is up to you, but you’re still part of the God by using it and benefiting form his generosity and existence.
my line of questioning is to point out the absurdities of what you are saying that derive from such a vastly over generalized as to be totally pointless and any generally broad concept can be used. God, nature, the Force, etc.
You seem to think politics is anything and everything, sort of like how religious people see God, or natural spiritualist see nature. You are imposing a generalized belief structure on everyone, without realizing a lot of people just don’t believe in what you believe in. And you deem anyone agree with your belief structure as heretical and ignorant.
I don’t believe anyone does anything ‘in my name’. But I don’t see myself as part of some grand unified force you seem to believe in and call ‘politics’. I’m only a part of the systems I choose to be a part of, by my own desires. I vote for certain things, support certain things, and not others. It’s all very specific to me and sometimes I don’t have any views or concerns on the topic because it has no impact on me…
no, i don’t poop at work. is pooping in my own house a political act too?
i ride my bike in the road with cars. riding on the sidewalk is illegal and dangerous.
public transit is often falling apart where i live. it has been underfunded for 50 years. it’s very unreliable and nobody wants to fix it because that would mean raising taxes.
Pooping itself, no. Probably not political. But getting to the point where you have indoor plumbing, provided by a utility company you probably pay significantly less than the actual cost of said utility? Yeah, that’s the direct result of politics.
which politics though? is that progressive or conservative?
It’s not about sides, in this context. It’s just -political-. Whether you vote conservative, progressive, anything in between, you, me, and the whole rest of the world has to deal with that decision.
So I vote for Harris and she doesn’t win, it’s my fault she lost? and i’m personally responsible for USAID being dismantled?
No. Politics isn’t just about voting. It’s everything Every action. Every shitty post on the Internet. Everything you buy - you’re voting with your dollars. Your attention. Your time.
No, you individually probably don’t contribute that much to the direct decisions, but your voice reaches others, helps mold their opinions, change how they see and interact with the world. Then they go and do the same thing. That’s all politics.
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I’m against self-righteous twats who declare they know best for everyone and anyone who doesn’t agree with them is an idiot or bad person.
I am actively politically involved and have been my entire life. I just missed the memo where that gives me the right to browbeat and harass and lecture other people for not choosing to do that. Am I being irresponsible for not lecturing you about going to local town meetings like I do? Or writing your city councilmen, or voting in in local referendum elections?
And yeah, I do think politics is about direct impacts. being politically involved on an abstract level is nothing more than mental masturbation. It’s ego stroking. hence why people on the internet love it so much. they get to faff off how superior they are to other people in the abstract, without dealing with any of the real world specifics that complicate their moralizing of their own superiority over ‘apolitical’ people and how ‘stupid’ they are.
my brother in law can’t vote. he’s not a citizen. he can opine all day, but literally can’t vote for anything or affect any real change. he has no rights to do so. he is effectively apolitical, as he’s not allow to participate in the democratic process by law.
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do you ever ask yourself why does it upset you that other people are different than you? have you ever asked yourself that?
or is it that if people think differently than you, they are bad and wrong, because it invalidates your personal choices and thoughts? and you need yours to be validated by other people’s agreement?
and why you must insult and demean anyone who doesn’t validate your views, rather than consider their validity as their lives, experiences, and knowledge are very different than yours?
You’re American, aren’t you?
Politics isn’t sports ball. Especially on a local level, it usually isn’t “us vs them”, it’s a bunch of people with different opinions about how things are supposed to be done. Politics is more complicated than red vs. blue.
Although the US “red” and “blue” parties do everything they can to convince people like you it’s that simple.
Yeah I am. Where I live it very much is sportsball. Even on the local level.
I am involved in my local cities politics. It is not very complicated. Most people believe in winners vs losers and most every debate is framed that way. it has nothing to do with red vs blue. my city is like 90% blue, but still very anti-progressive on many issues.
for example in my city bike lanes are super controversial, because while the city has been adding them, many residents feel that bike lanes are theft from cars and car owners. many of these very same people are progressives, who have BLM stickers on their lawns in multi-million dollar homes, but think bike lanes are for ‘privileged white people’ and their are just poor struggling folks!
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my line of questioning is to point out the absurdities of what you are saying that derive from such a vastly over generalized as to be totally pointless and any generally broad concept can be used. God, nature, the Force, etc.
You seem to think politics is anything and everything, sort of like how religious people see God, or natural spiritualist see nature. You are imposing a generalized belief structure on everyone, without realizing a lot of people just don’t believe in what you believe in. And you deem anyone agree with your belief structure as heretical and ignorant.
I don’t believe anyone does anything ‘in my name’. But I don’t see myself as part of some grand unified force you seem to believe in and call ‘politics’. I’m only a part of the systems I choose to be a part of, by my own desires. I vote for certain things, support certain things, and not others. It’s all very specific to me and sometimes I don’t have any views or concerns on the topic because it has no impact on me…