So, I need to annoy people more is what i'm hearing?
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Yes, but just annoy someone slightly taller than you. Then they will annoy someone slightly taller than them.
Edit: I apologize, I didn't click to enlarge the graphic so I didnt see the words. All I saw was the picture of the bunny with the dominoes.
And I was reading down the comments and wondered why everyone's getting political about this bunny-dominoes picture 🤣
105% of the time when someone in a public space says "Let's not talk politics" or "Let's not make this political" they are horrible MAGA-aligned morons or incel chuds who have outrageously stupid or hateful ideals.
That's really curious isn't it. I don't think I've ever seen the reverse, you absolutely never see someone start spouting anti-equality BS in a game subreddit and all the leftists go "whoa whoa, this isn't the place for that, can't we all just enjoy our games without making it political."
I've said it when I know I'm next to some maga idiot and it's we either don't talk politics or SippyCup catches himself a felony
105% of the time when someone in a public space says “Let’s not talk politics” or “Let’s not make this political” they are horrible MAGA-aligned morons or incel chuds who have outrageously stupid or hateful ideals.
Might just be where I'm from, but they're more often neoliberal "don't rock the boat" ghouls who care more about profits than any kind of ideological mission. Shit can suddenly get very political when it scratches their personal itch. They just don't want anyone else arguing about politics when they should be putting up billables.
you absolutely never see someone start spouting anti-equality BS in a game subreddit and all the leftists go “whoa whoa, this isn’t the place for that, can’t we all just enjoy our games without making it political.”
Not in those words, but I definitely hear the periodic "okay, tone it down, this is different" whenever a hobby treads into the problematic. The fall-back line of "No such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism" was a balm for whatever it is you were doing that wasn't ideologically kosher.
On the flip side, I've seen people blow up at one another over a political divide - even a purely rhetorical one (arguing whether Dark Elves or Orcs are a racist trope, complaining about the implications of Monopoly or Catan, getting on a high horse about a popular movie or song). The debate over whether "Let It Snow" condones date rape is a popular college age struggle session.
Eventually people just don't want to hear it rehashed for the thousandth time.
On the flip side, I’ve seen people blow up at one another over a political divide - even a purely rhetorical one (arguing whether Dark Elves or Orcs are a racist trope, complaining about the implications of Monopoly or Catan, getting on a high horse about a popular movie or song). The debate over whether “Let It Snow” condones date rape is a popular college age struggle session.
Oh my god! Yes, you can look at orcs and goblins as racist tropes and stand ins, and those can be fun campaigns to run and explore alternative takes and deep reflective moments, but sometimes it's just easier to say the group wants a kick-in-the-door style dungeon crawl and the enemies are evil.
Also, wasn't the debate over 'baby, it's cold outside,' not 'let it snow?'
Excuse me, that was it
the whole idea that discussing politics is lame is a neoliberal brainworm.
Don't discuss politics with your family, just enjoy the time! — okay weird but sure
Don't talk politics with your friends — what the hell why not
No politics at work — that's a deeply political place wtf are we doing
When people say no politics, that means no arguing. This applies to office politics, family politics, and of course government politics.
The no arguing thing is key. Everyone eventually finds a topic that they don't agree on, because politics, in the greek philosophy (aristotle based) sense of the word (I actually loved nicomachean ethics), is about the pursuit of the good life writ large. The chances of two people believing in the exact same life goals is almost zero, so there will be a fundamental disagreement at some point that, because we are talking about using governmental authority as a cudgel (in the modern sense of the word politics) to bring about a 'good life' for society, will cause a lot of friction.
In environments where we can't control who we interact with, and that are semi-public with an 'audience,' such as work and family dinners, it's just easier to say no politics and focus on the agreed areas of shared interests. Otherwise those little frictions can build into socially driven, highly charged arguments.
Keep political discussions to where everyone can easily walk away, where it's one-on-one, or where everybody comes wanting to talk politics, and things are fine.
The only place to discuss politics is the same place we're supposed to talk about gun violence.
A concrete, soundproof bunker that you need to climb a 60-foot ladder down to seal yourself inside, ensure nobody is around, and whisper your grievances into a small vinyl bag, then tie the bag up with a zip-tie and place it inside a mason jar and return it to the shelf inside the bunker.
This is how you protest as an American if you want to follow established societal norms and etiquette. Anything else and it's between 4 and 10 gunshots to the chest, face and back.
Don't yell about politics in the work place. Just complaining about straw men is tiring.
no way im going to talk politics at work, i have work to do.
The cranky unhappy politics wonk endlessly droning on about the evils of the world are a drain on everyone else’s joy.
This may be because I'm autistic, but I think apoliticals are the most boring people in the world. Apoliticals always want to talk about the weather and their favourite reality TV show and what they did while drinking on the weekend. But My political friends talk about political stuff like science fiction, history, cool movies, fun gossip.
Politics is what humans are best at in all the animal kingdom. If a human wants to be apolitical, well they're just not living up to their potential. I'd get just as much engaging conversation from a dog, and it would be cuter.
People like this are usually very timid and weak in emotional fortitude for talking about difficult topics, and have probably had too many arguments with people even less intelligent and it created trauma. To say nothing of the actual deliberate campaigns by many internal and external forces to poison the wells of dialogue so that everyone feels lost and afraid of politics.
I think along with the autistic spectrum comes an internal dialogue and information organization system that makes people care about more abstract concepts and ideas, which are inherently political if they involve more than one person, real or imaginary.
I don't mind politics wonks if they have moderation and aren't doomers.
Doomers or do-nothing liberals are the worst kind, I will take an outspoken conservative over liberals and doomers any day. At least an outspoken conservative chud I can talk to and understand and eventually break. Because I am smarter than most of them. So are you. We all are. We're just afraid of confrontation but you can shape conversations so that these people let their guard down and actually become receptive to new perspectives if you can change their feelings.
The “safe space” sticker I have on my car has invited road rage more than once from big truck drivers. Back in GA a man just stood behind my car waiting for me to come out of a store. I have front and rear dash cams now. I don’t even think it’s that political, but I’m not taking it off.
Yes! My FUCK ICE sticker has been inspiring conversations everywhere I go. Some folks on the highway tailgate me, shaking their heads, and drive by in a fit, staring at me. I smile warmly and give a thumbs up. My neighbors are all talking to me more openly. Little tiny things can definitely sow change. Do it. I don't give two shits if someone keys my car, America is boiling.
Back in GA a man just stood behind my car
According to ICE, you're justified in using lethal force in this situation.
Only if it's a lesbian who dyes her hair.
The biggest part I had to cry abt was the Fox News anchor (probably Jesse Walter) saying she had pronouns in her social media profile so she of course is Antifa and a domestic terrorist for informing the public she was she/her. She is a martyr and we will remember her and all those ICE has killed
Is this not a victim-blaming meme telling me to shut up and stay at home? The last domino is going to hit the rabbit.
I think it's more something like if you don't confront bigotry it'll grow and eventually crush you.
Yeah, my first thought was that it’s a reference to how facism has grown by allowing people to discuss it in anonymous echo chambers.
Ah, OK I see that. I thought it also looked a bit like it would apply to the downward slope of social media and polarization of everyone into hate-filled groups where "no one is wrong."
Thanks for explaining your perspective!
Hah, bunny suicides.
Forgot about this book. Was a coffee table staple in my late teens.
This makes fuck all sense.
If people don't speak about politics, nobody ever sees any criticism
I criticised the OP without mentioning politics at all.
I disagree
Then politics for you is a meaningless concept, and not the same one that people mean when they say "don't talk about politics in [x]" (where x is never "public", for the record).
Actually, it's the other way around. I have a coherent and useful definition of politics, while most people are being manipulated by a harmful meme that shapeshifts its definition so it matches whatever they don't personally like.
It's not useful if it causes you to misunderstand people, which you obviously have done.
If your employer's office policy is "no politics in working hours" are you able to not get fired?
I'm perfectly capable of understanding you, I simply disagree with you.
You understand the meaning of the word politics but disagree with it? Good how does that work?
I understand the meaning you assign to it and think you're wrong. I think you haven't thought through the logical and ethical consequences of your meaning.
Meanings are arbitrary. They don't have "ethical consequences". It's only what you do with the concepts you have at hand that have ethical consequences.
If we changed the definition of murder to be "eating strawberries" but kept all practical actions the same, there would be no ethical consequences. We would no longer say, "murder is wrong" though (because eating strawberries is perfectly acceptable) or "if you are found guilty of murder you'll go to jail" (because what we now call murder would not be illegal)
So, what you object to is not a world in which politics means "decisions and activities concerning the governing of a population", but a world in which certain things which are labelled politics are suppressed.
I'm glad for this opportunity to clarify your own position, but it was weird that I had to do it...
I already clarified My position on My blog, not once, nor twice, nor even thrice, but quice, each time building upon the ideas and exploring the definition of politics in a new context.
But it will not take Me an entire blog post to dismantle your claim that definitions can't have ethical consequences. I can simply point out Trump's definition of gender, or Albanese's definition of antisemitism, as definitions with the potential to cause a great deal of harm. We choose how to construct our understanding of the world around us, and with this power comes a responsibility to do so wisely.
I don't remember the exact definitions they chose for those terms, so I don't want to comment on those without knowing them precisely.
Domino effect surely
Butterfly: a rectangular playing piece with dots indicating the numbers to match.
Not to be confused with Dominoes, which is, of course, a pizza place.
A small silence can snowball fast — that’s the scary part of the dominoes. Quiet moments matter more than they seem.