#political discussion

[the-planet-mercury]

I never feel more redpilled than when people say "I watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, I don't care about football." Like if you're watching for the halftime show, fair. Football fields are for band practice, after all. But like hooolllly shit talk about consumerism/sucking up to corporate. Talk about cultural capture. I think that everyone is capable of being good and that acting superior for sociopolitical issues is bad on many levels, but in that moment I have seen the glory and you all are sheeple. Sorry

#super bowl #nfl #capitalism #political discussion #consumerism

[potterzilla]

Top 10 saddest anime betrayals

[personal-blog243]

People do NOT respond to guilt and shame very well, especially when it comes to political activism.

On one side, people do not respond well to being told that they were wrong to vote for a candidate that wasn’t left wing enough because they didn’t have any better candidate options and don’t have the time, energy, resources, or courage to risk getting arrested or killed for doing direct action. It causes feelings of guilt, shame, and resentment.

On the other side, people don’t respond to being guilted into voting for a shitty candidate out of desperation for damage control. It makes you look like a pretentious snob. They don’t like feeling as though they are being gaslighted into praising mediocrity.

#political discussion #political discourse #resist #politics #political #leftists strategy #swing left #vote blue no matter who #communism #socialism #anarchism #democratic socialists #democratic socialist #democrats #leftist not liberal #liberals #white liberals #liberal #communist #socialist #anarchist #eat the rich #election year #midterms

[hawkswjnter]

my nephew is copying everything i say. i’m gonna make him call people sluts

#political discussion

[shyfrog-says]

I just debated with my stepdad about minimum wage work in the US.

I said, "Minimum wage should be a liveable wage."

He responded, "Why should someone fresh into a new job earn more money than I make?"

Immediately, SO many assumptions were made and SO many points were missed, but literally all I had to do was emphasize the fact that HE wasn't paid nearly enough and that he should be making way, WAY more money, and suddenly he was kinda on board. Or at least he didn't argue against it as passionately.

A few points to make:

1. He currently makes WAY more than the minimum wage AND the liveable wage, so his "point" was already nonsense.

2. He immediately made it clear that he doesn't actually care about what other people do or make, he only cares about himself, which is understandable on the surface, but it also makes anything else he says about other people's situations completely irrelevant because his stake in the matter is going to be entirely selfish no matter what.

3. He went on to say that people who work fast food "and stuff" have their place, but that they don't deserve a comfortable life until they work longer and harder at it. Literally said the words, "Why do they deserve a comfortable life?" And regardless of whether the question was rhetorical or not, I knew I wasn't going to be able to convince him.

I could have said so much about how he is exactly the kind of sadistic bastard that is making this country such a hellhole to live in, but I was raised to know how to manipulate people into calming down, so I just showered him with praise for how hard he works and we ended the conversation agreeing that billionaires and the government both suck ass and that people need to stop printing so much fucking money.

#politics #economics #eat the rich #political discussion #rant #tw unstable home environment

[asspenis22]

just copying and pasting this from my twitter but,

Transphobes are so deeply scared of trans people because they know as soon as we try to show them the real facts of being trans, their whole facade of extremism falls apart.

There’s also the issue of peer pressure within those spaces that genuinely wish harm on us, because as soon as you start to see what is right, you will get pushed down and ridiculed and suspected as “going down the wrong path”.

I was going thru a repost on a anti trans account on twitter, of trans women using tomato juice to simulate having their period, which is totally fine and was posted on a (most likely) trans(fem) centered forum. And I saw a guy who was like “can we focus on the real issue here guys? Puberty blockers”

He immediately was bombarded by people being like “but they’re sick in the head!” I think that he would be really easy to convince/change his mind on certain trans issues, but he’s so deeply intertwined with transphobe “culture”, that it would be next to impossible to pull him out of that space of hatred, which is why I think that the far right wing pipeline is so real. This guy was probably a normal dude, and yet he somehow ended up in such a negative space that he can’t even go back to his own true morals.

#leftism #transphobia #leftist #socialism #politics #right wing politics #right wing pipeline #leftisbest #political discussion

[hacked-wtsdz]

People on here advocating for communism really make me chuckle. Tell me you weren’t raised in a post-socialist post-Soviet country without telling me you weren’t raised in a post-socialist post-Soviet country. Because most people who do that live in capitalism and hate capitalism so they turn to the alternative — socialism and communism but they either 1) choose to ignore what communism really was and is or 2) genuinely do not know the history of communism and support it so fiercely out of a certain ignorance. They imagine theoretical communism, where everything is fair and bright and all people are equal. But communism so far has been much more and much more complex and much much darker than that.

#capitalism #communism #socialism #tumblr #politics #political discourse #political discussion #marxism #history #soviet union #united states of america #usa #ussr #Europe #consumerism

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#congress #local government #news stories #open for comments #political discussion #president

[dreams-poetry-art-therapy]

This will always be something between me and my friends [13.10.2023]

The next day started with me sleeping in (of course) and finally starting to unpack my bag. I'm still pissed that S canceled for the weekend, especially so short noticed but in the morning, I was glad to have some hours between meetings to myself and for my room. When I arrived on Wednesday, I promised myself and my room to never let it go like that again. It's my space for recovery and recharging, after all.

Ever since I saw the news about the Hamad incident on my mom's phone in holiday, I had a feeling. One of my first thoughts was my wonder how my friends here feel about it and the uneasy sensation that they probably have a very different option than me. I made a lot of efforts to befriend "unpolitical" people ever since I got over my political phase at age 16. Of course, no person is ever truly unpolitical but I made a point to avoid overly politically active or opinionated people. For the most part, my friends obviously come out of the same political corner as me, but there are also some times people comment on something with a different opinion. My strategy to keep the political part of any conversation as small as possible was to just say nothing. But with the Hamas happening and the following demonstrations also in Berlin, I had an icky feeling about it.

In the evening, I met with Y for the festival of lights. Soon enough, she made a comment on a flag hanging from a building. I just turned away and said "We will not talk about this." and that was the end of the story. I don't even know how much she got what I meant because she was also kind of high in that moment.

The rest of the evening kind of felt tainted by that small interaction. It made me realize that this thing, this political disagreement will be something that will always between me and my friends. As "unpolitical" as they may be, our different upbringings has us have different opinions on some issues like this.

I had the clear intuition that my strategy of "ignore it and say nothing" would not work for an event as big and impactful as this. Damn the Hamas for everything they did and also driving me away from my friends. I love them just as much, of course, especially cuz this disagreement is 100% the reason of us growing up in different contexts but I feel like there is something between us now. I started imagining situations when more people would talk about it or the discussion would continue longer and mentally practiced turning around and walking away as neutrally as possible. I still worry about it.

Later, we met with other friends of Y and chatted by the river. But I can't forget this disagreement, it feels like a real danger to our friendship. It makes me question the whole relationship, the whole basis of us hanging out. It felt like suddenly I noticed so many differences between me and Y that never bothered me or that I didn't even notice before.

On the way to the birthday party of a fellow student of me, we got drunk (or I was drunk at least, now for the 7th or so time, really starting to like it) and I was able to forget about it a bit. Also because we talked about gossip about other friends instead which was dramatic enough to make me forget random political differences.

At the party, I was act happy to see my other fellow students again. We may not be the best friends but they are part of my university experience, a bit of home for me. As usual, I was talking most of the time and felt like I'm the entertainer for half the party, but it's not like I don't enjoy it, lol.

The party was slow and calm and we went home around half past two. It made me actually look forward to the beginning of university next week. I'm looking forward to learning again, being a student again, spending time in my office and the library again, feeling like I'm feeding my brain again.

Also, J from my old job texted me again about some related event. I don't know if she forgot I don't work there anymore or if she really thinks I wanna attend random events like these by myself. Whatever, I didn't answer her yet and I'm for sure not going.

#d2 #diary #life diary #friend group #friendship #political discussion #disagreement

[shallcarvemaam]

#art #bad art #drawing #marker pens #political discussion #swan

[tenth-sentence]

Five years later these political discussions, which really only took place on the margin, so to speak, of conversations on physics and general philosophy, were to have an important influence on the course of global history.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

#book quote #brighter than a thousand suns #robert jungk #james cleugh #nonfiction #politics #political discussion #conversation #physics #philosophy #influential #global history

[potuzzz]

I don't see why it is impossible to even entertain the idea of astrology.

The gravitational pull of the Moon affects rates of violent crime. This is to say nothing of Circadian Rhythms. Is it crazy to wonder if the subtle pull of celestial bodies in different combinations might have some sort of tiny effect on highly sensitive, impressionable, developing fetuses?

Forget the stars. What about here on Earth? Fetuses and infants are extremely susceptible to their environment. How does experiencing cold weather the first week of your life subtle affect you in a way that hot weather might be different from? What if in the first trimester your mother was eating holiday leftovers, huddling by campfires and getting colds, versus out on the beach snorting saltwater and listening to music? What sort of subtle social and cultural ebbs and flows that share similarities throughout our very structured years might be affecting babies in some fashion?

Of course, much of my interest and willingness to believe in astrology comes from spiritual feelings and beliefs that aren't easily quantifiable. I don't expect that to be taken seriously by an uncompromising atheist and strict materialist. But to act like there is absolutely no material basis--even if it is relatively minor compared to other physical, social, and cultural forces acting upon children--is a little overly dismissive.

I guess I'm just frustrated in general that even daring to entertain something like astrology (I'm not even a super firm believer, just always open to its lens, you know, trying to make sense of this absolutely bonkers reality) quickly paints me as stupid to many people. There are many aspects of astrology as a cultural body that are absolutely poisonous but the same can be said for any niche in this society. I wish we could just agree to disagree on this one.

#astrology #spiritual beliefs #political discussion

[stealingpotatoes]

luke who do you think you're hiding this from

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

#ahsoka's getting flashbacks to another skywalker saying he's going to 'discuss politics' with a certain senator #dinluke #luke skywalker #ezra bridger #ahsoka tano #my doods #the last (4) jedi #star wars

[hawkswjnter]

kaz brekker is a fucking capricorn.

#kaz brekker #when will he leave me alone #i want to be an individual. #political discussion

[shyfrog-says]

*uses the r-word and makes fun of your pronouns in your bio even though we were in a political debate that had nothing to do with neurodiversity or gender expression*

Look at me! I'm someone you should block and ignore!

#debate #political discussion #pronouns #neurodivergent #dumb af

[politics-not-my-thing]

You know what, it is rare for me to agree completely with any work I read

They can be talking about major political issues and it still be okay to not completely agree with an author

The one thing I have learnt doing my degree is, you can gain valuable insight even from the people you think are wrong, let alone the people who you mostly agree with

Just because they are wrong doesn't mean the information they have gathered is not still valuable, doesn't mean the way they approach something isn't still insightful, and it doesn't mean their work can't provide a perspective

The important part is not deriding the work for being wrong and calling it trash, it's reading it critically

Critical reading skills allows you to keep your disagreement in your head whilst recognising any value a work might have

Sometimes a works only value to you might be enforcing or enlightening you to your position against the work, others it might make excellent points but on some details you think are key be wrong

I am currently reading a work which points out the issues with pathologising all types of mental divergences (both those causes by trauma and those inherent to the person), I think it goes too far in saying a diagnosis is always bad, but I also think it raises many valuable points about the importance in recognising that mental health diagnoses can cause more harm than good, and that a diagnosis can lead to the trauma that caused a mental divergence being downplayed or ignored in an effort to "cure" the person of their divergences

The work is still valuable to expand my knowledge about the issue around mental health issues, even if I don't fully agree with it

And me reading the work does not equal an agreement with it

#politics #political discourse #political discussion #political divide #political disagreement #binary approach to politics #moral stance assumed by the texts you read