Can't tell if the UK's Electoral Commission did this concept better or worse...
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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You better get interested in politics before the politics get interested in you.
I was going to say, the people that vote against your interests are definitely "into politics".
I noticed that most people I bump into that says they are not into politics, they mean partisan politics. Often from places where they are disenfranchised about their civics.
But if you bring up "holly shit, did you see the price of milk is 7CAD?". They will be more than happy to provided their cents on why and think about solutions.
"I hate politics" = "I don't want to get into an argument with some right-wing foulmouth chud who doesn't listen to reason."
"I don't follow politics." = "I am a right-wing, foulmouth chud who doesn't listen to reason and don't want to get fired or put on social media so I will abstain from revealing my feelings at this time."
"I don't understand politics." = "For the love of fucking God, I work 6 days a week and am raising two kids and three dogs, I have to pack my entire personal life into several hours on a weekend when everything is closed, and people are trying to talk to me about the latest Epstein thing and I don't get what I'm supposed to do about it, I just got told my insulin brand isn't covered anymore and need to find a cheaper substitute and the insurance hotline won't return my calls."
And all three of them are either mistaken or lying
That's the point of the comment, and why there are "=" signs preceding the translation of what the term actually means for many people.
I like how your last one is about a person going on a political rant.
I say it at work because it's not of their fucking business. I don't want to be judged by my stance. I come to work for a paycheck and I intend to keep it.
Me and the boys love to bitch about how much money gets stolen off our pay cheques while it gets spent without any accountability as to where it goes.
You should start bitching about how the rich don't get stolen from the same way instead.
Is there a difference between the government and the rich at this point? They all use political influence to fuck us and better themselves.
Yep.
Whole load of people who've thrown the baby out with the bathwater on that.
The flotation device is also politics.
...and ideological!
I say "I'm not into politics" in public often.
It's fantastic, you don't have to argue, and you quickly find out what they really think.
You know, if I'm out for a drink or having dinner or something, I don't want to discuss politics with you, ever.
There are so many fights to get in, everywhere.
In private with friends, it's different. I'll argue and laugh with them. It's a ridiculously hostile topic.
Not being into politics sounds incredibly boring. If you swear off talking about politics, then you can't talk about books, movies, video games, the weather, sports, celebrities, science... what's even left?
So much, as you don't have to view those things from a political standpoint. Sure, you CAN look at everything that way, but it's good to turn that off from time to time
I talk politics and religion (sometimes) with friends, but strangers? I'm usually not looking for that kind of interaction with random people, it's trouble
There are no apolitical ways to talk about movies or the weather.
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Its quicker than "I'm not interested in discussing a volatile subject with a rando who may get violent."
Yeah this is why I say it to anyone bringing up something political to me irl. I live in a deep red Midwestern state and know pretty much everyone around me is full on MAGA or at least leans to the right. I'm not getting assaulted because some random dude in the locker room believes Newsome is covering for pedophiles while Trump isn't (actual thing someone tried to talk to me about at work).
I think the biggest issue is people are trying so hard to get you to think a certain way about politics, that having an actually good and proportional understanding of what is going on and what the real options are, and expressing that effectively, is somewhere between very difficult and impossible. Of course everything is enmeshed with politics, and you might care about that, but if you also know that you are not immune to being manipulated it might be a reason to think engaging in overtly political discourse won't be useful or good for you.
Is there a reference I'm missing?
It's a reference to people who like to ignore discussion of contentious issues by saying they're not really into politics while failing to realize or care that literally every single aspect of their modern life is directly intertwined with politics.
But not being into discussing politics doesn't mean that you're unaware of how politics is directly intertwined with every single aspect of modern life.
In fact, that awareness could be the reason you don't want to discuss it. It's stressful shit that can seriously impact one's mental health.
I think they're saying they ignore the discussion, i.e. don't pay attention, not they they don't want to get into a passionate argument.
Not being into politics sounds incredibly boring. If you swear off talking about politics, then you can’t talk about books, movies, video games, the weather, sports, celebrities, science… what’s even left?
I sort of get that that's what it's trying to be, but I feel like the comic does a poor job of conveying that. The last panel should be something that demonstrates how their life is affected by politics. But it doesn't. It just zooms out further without showing anything new.
They’re in floaties in the water. The last panel shows that the water they’re in, is in fact politics. The word politics is labelling the water that they’re in.
That is…a really weak presentation.
OH!
That was not clearly depicted.
Thanks.
' Did not see that's what it was trying to do. To me it red like it was just stamping "politics" there, like that's a summation of what politics is.
I would've never understood that it's a label on the water if it weren't for your explanation. I second that it's conveyed rather suboptimally
I'm also confused by this one, what is the last frame supposed to be.
They're both swimming in politics.
Oh, that's brilliantly done.
I'll have to start using that in place of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ame0j8jbMY4
Some people try to avoid unpleasant subjects and constantly keep themselves in a bubble until that bubble gets pricked.
And some just want to pick and choose (for their own mental health) how and when they interact with politics instead of mainlining it from every quarter.
https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david-foster-wallace
Or, if that is (understandably) TL;DR, then: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/97082-there-are-these-two-young-fish-swimming-along-and-they
As the comic says, politics (among other things) is the water we live in.
So is it time again to start activating the people for the midterms? Will democracy be on the ballot this time? Will it be too close to call?
Personally, nobody on the ballots has the ability to stop everything wrong in the entire world within the first week, so I'm not voting, and if you are choosing to take part in voting then you're just a fascist child raping genocider.
/s
More like pool-itics
This advert has stuck in my head ever since I saw it
If you don't do politics, you don't do anything
That's not what it said. It said, "if you don't do politics, there's not much you doo-doo." 
Hehehe, good point
But like, really, is it that bad? Because I care about politics it just make me unhappy, and at the end of the day we all have the same shitty candidates to vote, weather you like politics or don't. So I totally get people who are not interested in that.
It's bad to stick your head in the sand and not be aware of what's going on in the world, but it's also bad to let how awful everything is make you miserable. It's a balancing act!
The Sally Bowles Effect
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