I have a friend like that. He didn’t vote for Harris because she “has an annoying voice.” When I remark how trump is turning this country into a fascist nightmare, he say “I don’t care about that political shit.” …and then he bitches about how hard is to get an appointment at the VA, how little his tax return is, and how much gas costs suddenly.
He just has no empathy for his fellow human beings. What do you mean "I don't care about that political shit" when random people are getting kidnapped and sent to detention camps? Why is he still your friend? This isn't a minor disagreement.
To be clear, Harris would not have stopped fascism, fascism is rising because imperialism is decaying and forcing austerity inward to compensate.
To be fair she would not have assasinated the leader of Iran or invaded Venezuela.
Why do you believe that? Just like how Obama didn't "intervene" in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan? Or Clinton didn't "intervene" in Somalia, Bosnia, and Kosovo?
Amerikkkan imperialism is bi-partisan.
Why wouldn't she? Imperialism is a bipartisan project.
"Trolley problem" in 3, 2, 1...
There also wouldn't be gestapo in Minneapolis.
Most Americans don't understand the distinction between partisanship and politics. The phrase "I'm just not political" usually means either "I don't want to hear your partisan bullshit right now." or "I hold objectionable views that I can't articulately defend."
Some people are also genuinely fucking exhausted and just trying to live and can't really change a fucking thing by worrying about it all the time.
People are exhausted because they are already worrying but they're avoiding the issue. Politics affects their lives every day, their inaction makes their lives worse every day, but they've been taught to only think about it in ways that cost a lot of effort without helping, while demonizing all the ways that do help.
Because you can benefit from engaging with politics immediately. Organize with your neighbors to share the tools you only use incidentally, like heavy-duty work trucks and power saws, through a library system. Estimate how often y'all are going to need them and keep that many in stock, then sell the rest and distribute the money.
Congratulations, you just did an anarchocommunism and made your community a million dollars with a couple dozen hours of labor. All that's stopping this from happening is people's willingness to engage with politics, meaning they are stuck thinking of themselves as incidentally indebted independent individuals. That and their willingness to turn down thousands of dollars in cold hard cash rather than consider the possibility communism is better than capitalism.
Kicking the can down the road just gets it entrenched.and harder to remove. Kinda like barnacles.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-Perineum
Perineum
Preach! Wise words from the ancient philosopher space between the anus and the genitals.
I prefer the teachings of the wise frenulum.
Politicians: the immigrants
Them: k, makes sense. never liked them anyway.
still not political though.
(hey get out of here with this political talk of "xenophobia")
Eat. The. Fucking. Rich.
I'll start up the BBQ.
Eating this one Zionist might make a lot of difference
I'm not picky, start slow roasting a few and we will start to see the rest panic in short order.
You may not affect politics but it WILL affect YOU.
"I'm not political", but your boss and landlord are very political.
"I'm apolitical" - a political what?
It's not even being apolitical. Some people are naturally sensitive and easily feel depressed with negativity, so they avoid the news. Or that they are too preoccupied with their personal lives that they don't have time to tune in to the news. I'm sure many of you know someone who are out of the loop with even just the most basic current events. I know someone who only heard about the invasion of Ukraine only two days later after it happened.
Kind of the same thing. Tapping out of world events is easy for people especially pertaining events which don't directly affect them. But in the long term it only leads to ignorance.
There's a difference between disconnecting with media discourse that's overly negative and just metaphorically burying your head in the sand and ignoring what's going on.
I’m into politics and it went up 9p per litre in the uk in a week.
Is that how the supply chain works that we have a weeks worth of oil at any time? Or did they raise the price sooner.
They go up as soon as there is any excuse to raise them.
They go up as soon as there's an excuse to raise them, and they don't go down until there lower prices are actually market value. Welcome to the OPEC scam.
Knowing about naked corporate greed being the source of 2/3rds of all inflation since 2020 is also politics. (The remaining third is due to input costs rising.)
Definitely the immigrants