Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix
thisismyname@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoBullshit. People avoid politics and have loud opinions all the time. I understand your burden, the state of the world is depressing af, but to claim that the ignorant keep their opinions to themselves is absurd.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is exactly what I was talking about though, I’ve told you “I avoid politics” and here you are hounding me about my decision.
What I would prefer to happen is the default response is “oh yeah, okay.” But no, people can’t help but weigh in with their opinions
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Probably because it concerns the literal fate of the fucking world and is something that people have a responsibility to give a shit about. People refusing to pay attention to politics is how we got in this mess in the first place. It is more important now than maybe ever before.
Or, well, it was, round a year or so ago. These days, yeah, might as well just check out, it’s probably not getting any better from here. You missed the boat for that.
People can’t help but weigh in with their opinions because you’re loud and proud about shirking your responsibility as a citizen while the rest of us watch our nation collapse around our ears primarily because of uninformed or apathetic voters just like you.
I don’t want to have to care about politics any more than you do but in our current times we all must care about politics. You don’t have to get so riled up about it that you agitate your heart problems, but you do have a responsibility to fill out a ballot as well as to be informed before you mark that ballot.
I don’t think that you are a bad person, but I do think your demographic is as much to blame as the actual fascists for the problems we face today. I’m sorry to break that to you in such a fashion. If we are allowed another free election in our lifetime, because that is now in question, please pay attention to it.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Glad you got that out of your system. Meanwhile, I’ll continue voting in the primaries, blissfully unaware of Trump’s daily activities.
You’ve built up a whole story about what you assume I think, written a couple of emotionally charged paragraphs about me and “my demographic?” That’s a lot of effort you could be spending on actually working towards the changes you want. And as I already said, I’m still not interested.
I’m gonna do me. Seriously, you’ll be a lot happier online if you learn to chill about other people’s lives.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Right, you’ll remain “blissfully unaware”, how very convenient of you to not be brown, female, or LGBT. Those people and the people who care about them cannot afford to be “blissfully unaware”. Once they’re out of the way and things start impacting you personally then you’ll start to care. By then it will be so far past too late that “too late” isn’t even visible over the horizon anymore.
These things are already impacting you now, you’re just refusing to see it. We are at a point where we cannot progress without collective action. We cannot achieve collective action without a modicum of people looking out their window and seeing what’s going on outside. That’s all I ask of anyone.
This isn’t out of my system, it isn’t going to be out of my system until my nation and preferably the rest of the world is no longer being overrun with fascists. I obviously care about this a lot more than you do and that’s fine. I’m not asking you to get out and march in the streets. I’m asking you (and not necessarily you in particular, I’m asking everyone) to please lose this flippant “I don’t care about politics” attitude because it is getting our nation ruined and it is going to get your neighbors killed. I have family and friends and coworkers that are afraid for their lives and livelihoods right now. This isn’t something I’m just going to “get out of my system” by being condescended to.