• timicin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    the “no politics” crowd is speaking from a place of intense privilege and i know this because politics and fucked my life and seeing people support politicians who are responsible for those politics is maddening.

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      1 year ago

      indeed. there are states in the US that are nonviable for me to live for discrimination reasons. I don’t have the ability to be ignorant

    • pinkdrunkenelephants
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      1 year ago

      One of my best friends almost died because of the abortion bans so I can’t afford to sit this one out either 😞

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      1 year ago

      I engage with politics quite a bit, and do my best to try and stay informed about current issues. However, being bombarded with it 24/7 is a great way to make people numb to politics and stop caring. It’s good to be able to choose when you have the energy to engage with it, and being able to filter it out at times is part of that. Yes it is privileged, but that doesn’t make it negative.

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        1 year ago

        The people that stop caring are privileged enough to not be impacted by politics. If laws being passed are actively making your life harder, you care. You don’t have the option not to.

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      1 year ago

      I get what you’re saying, but I still think it’s a seriously outsized response to someone asking to categorize memes better lmao.

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        1 year ago

        Not allowing political memes here wouldn’t be categorizing, it would be censorship on a popular community while pushing that content to a smaller community with less visibility.

        You always have the option to just keep scrolling.

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      1 year ago

      So because politics screwed up your life that means online communities that do not discuss politics are not allowed to exist?