Or, they are politely telling you to bugger off 🤷♂️
This. I care about the wellbeing of our society and its health via policy. I'm not interested in having conversations about it.
Yeah as it can be a way to have an argument that can taint a good social time when there are other aspects at play. Like ok we’re having an outing for kids to play is that really where you want to air your grievances about how you feel about reproductive rights? Is that the situation that presses this needs to be discussed right now?
There are times and places where it’ll be applied accurately to the point when that the primary goal. But too often it’s introduced as a ‘talking point’ just to have some bullshit drama and feel right about something while someone else can feel bad. That’s not delivering the same message, goal or intent as OP.
On the flip side, some really stupid people are really into politics and we're all worse off for it
Fun fact: many of them only pretend to be stupid, and are actually completely malevolent, evil beings!
I did not ask you to describe Congress
I hate that I have to pay attention. Sometimes I feel like if I took a ball peen hammer to my prefrontal cortex I’d be so much happier.
A just world wouldn't require us to exert so much mental energy on securing our basic needs. It's exhausting. Just remember to step away now and then to avoid burnout
If I do that then I’m being bad and letting fascism win.
I just want one election where the fate of the world doesn’t hang in the balance.
I understand what you mean. Just remember that beating the fascists requires all of us. No single person can defeat fascism. As long as you still show up when needed, mental breaks are ok.
Move to Australia. We vote on every'fucking'thing and its rarely end of the world type shit.
I'm thinking that's my way out. Find a country that's not an empire and move there. Then my actions won't allow a hospital to be bombed with impunity.
Remember: It's okay to check out for a little bit and take a break. Just don't do it for so long that you come back not being able to catch up.
Exactly. People that get fed up with politics are usually the empathetic, moral people we literally need running, voting, volunteering, and donating! So take care of yourself, but please come back when you can...
"Non-voters" vote too. They vote for what everyone else chooses for them, then they complain when they don't get what they wanted.
I know quite a few people who say this because they don't want an argument. People can care about politics and not want to talk about it with you.
Very true, and those more inclined to engage should be respectful. But the refusal and shutting down of the dialogue is damaging in itself.
It turns people into lone rocky outcrops buffeted by an ocean they inevitably fall to.
To be fair, I think what they're really saying is "I don't want to talk to you about it so i'm shutting this discussion down as politely as possible"
So I feel like if you actually responded to someone saying that with this, they would just walk away. Cause most of the time I don't think it's actually the politics, it's the person they're talking to about it with.
I'm sure this is the case for some people, but I personally know many people that actively avoid all politics. It's difficult to get them engaged with it, but I'm slowly seeing success
I'm not interested in playing the game they made to convince me I'm well represented.
You don't get to choose to not be involved in politics.
Moral outrage against corrupt leaders is not an isolated historical phenomenon but a common precursor of change. It happens again and again whenever one era gives way to another. . . . This widespread revulsion comes into evidence well before people develop a new coherent ideology of change. As we write, there is as yet little evidence of an articulate rejection of politics. That will come later. It has not yet occurred to most of your contemporaries that a life without politics is possible.
Fuck yes.
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A grayscale image of Martha Gellhorn is shown with a quote under it.
People often say with pride, "I'm not interested in politics." They might as well say, "I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future." ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
Martha Gellhorn
novelist, journalist, war coorespondent
(1908 - 1998)
I sometimes use this when I dont want to to talk to someone. I have a co worker who still brings up covid and how we're going into a lockdown again any day now. I just say in not interested in politics and she will usually drop it. She one day pushed it and I just said your style of politics is unappealing to me and she pushed more I said your coming off as a looney. She took it personally and I said well you should listen when people don't want to talk about politics.
RIP Joyce Summers
I'd like to know if she had the same opinion today. Post citizens united and our orangutan ex-prez
To be honest, if it were just me, I might not be so interested in politics. I honestly want everyone else's life to improve so maybe we can all enjoy each other just a bit more.
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