Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I do use woke unironically, but in a prideful way. Eg, Brooklyn 99; “He means he was arrested for being black! Get woke, Scully!!”

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        Fair enough! I always thought that “woke” should be a good thing.

        Same with SJW – it’s actually a positive thing to fight for social justice! Like, thanks for the compliment, I guess…

    • @[email protected]OP
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      362 years ago

      They also have a real affinity for the time-tested “BOTH SIDES ARE BAD” argument, the absolute most sure-fire tell of a right-winger.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        252 years ago

        They also have a real affinity for the time-tested “BOTH SIDES ARE BAD” argument, the absolute most sure-fire tell of a right-winger.

        South Park “centrist” ideology. Not even once.

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          Yes! Let’s put stickers on people

          Yes, because more often than not, the sticker fits, like right now for smug bootlicking centrists like yourself.

          Here, have this sticker. bootlicker

          Great to know there are ignorant people here :)

          The smiley doesn’t hide your reactionary rage.

        • CMLVI
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          Let’s live like a community.

          Unless you’re gay or trans or non-religious. While you’re doing community activities with me, I’m going to spend every other waking moment trying to get your human rights taken away.

          But when I have time, we’ll schedule some of those community things.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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          192 years ago

          Edit: this comment was meant to say that labeling people does more harm than good. Great to know there are ignorant people here

          Like the person who made the above comment

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Careful. Hexbear caught your scent.
          Now you’ll get a whole bunch of them replying to you nonstop for a couple of days.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          Lmao yes, arbitrary generational divides are exactly the same as political divides over who should be allowed to live and thrive in a society. It’s easy to say “let’s all chill and live as a community” if you’re not among the people that the right wants to remove from existence. And even if you’re not, how could you bring yourself to hang out with hateful fucks who would put you on a kill list without a second thought if you were a little darker or a little more neurodivergent?

          Trust, nobody wants to just chill and live as a community more than leftists. That’s our whole deal. But as long as capitalism and it’s immune response called fascism exist, everyone outside it (and those of us inside it too) must fight for their survival or be subsumed.

          • @[email protected]
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            What you’re talking about are extremists. Nobody in their right mind would live in a community with them. What I was trying to say is, that labeling people “leftist”, “right-wing” and any of the other names does more harm than good.

            • huf [he/him]
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              202 years ago

              how can you identify extremists if you’re not supposed to talk about people’s politics? how can you even tell what constitutes extremism? this is such a “let’s get back to brunch” take.

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              232 years ago

              What you’re talking about are extremists.

              There are currently around a hundred thoudand people in concentration camps at the souther border. As of 2018, the DHS reported that they had “lost” 1,488 children. The FBI itself, years ago, published concerns about nazi inflliltration of police and federal organizations. US police forces contain an entire ecosystem of cop gangs, many of which are nazi. These same police forces operate blacksites and execute civil rights organizers. We are currently sending another several billion dollars of weaponry to arm guys with sonnenrad and swastika tattoos. What the fuck have you been smoking if you think the mainstream isn’t extremist.

    • SomeDude
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      The people who politicize everything cry about too much politics. They even politicized fucking pronouns.

      They are addicted to politics, they just can’t handle seeing different opinions.

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        Exactly! “Why are you making everything about politics?”

        I’m a gay person in a red state with first-gen immigrants and trans people in my family. I don’t have the luxury not to “make everything political.” The fact that I exist is political to these people!

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    My main problem is that most of the memes aren’t even funny.

    Make memes that are funny and then we can talk

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah, it’s literally just circlejerking the same dumb political views with different variations of “if you don’t agree you’re stupid”

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    If I wasn’t a slave constantly in fear of malnourishment, illness, homelessness, police violence, jail and/or pain, I might not care so much.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    262 years ago

    When I go for a walk, the car-based infrastructure makes everything a nuisance until I get on a trail some distance from where I live. Turns out politics is everywhere.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    You guys are exhausting. My entire existence is political, I don’t need my social media to be political too. On the bright side, it has me coming on here less and less and less.

  • Lightor
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    Politics impact our lives, of course we talk about it. In the US basic human rights are being fought over. I bet if you were in danger of losing some civil rights you’d be interested in how it’s going lol.

  • TawnyFroggy [she/her]
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    Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called stop supporting people who want me dead.

    Like I genuinely get mad when people say stuff like “I don’t want politics in my x” or whatever, because YEAH. ME FUCKING TOO. Do you know how much I would love not feeling on the defensive at all times due to the pending casual extermination of people like me that you are either supporting or ignoring??? If all the libs wanted me to be a lib like them they could have simply not made me life hell.

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      It’s always this sub… with the stupid Joe Biden memes. I don’t care… stop showing me politicians.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve been here a couple of months and I don’t think I’ve seen but possibly one Biden thing

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    And the other two thirds are politics posts.

    You don’t have to make everything political. It’s okay just to have fun and like things.