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Just walk away. Unless you are in politics or sales you aren’t forced to convince stupid people of anything. Don’t cast pearls before swine.
by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Just walk away. Unless you are in politics or sales you aren’t forced to convince stupid people of anything. Don’t cast pearls before swine.
- kgwxd 4y agoWhen swine have the ability to vote, everyone is in politics regardless if they want to be or not. Just ignoring them has major consequences.
- JasserInicide 4y agoNah, fuck this "everything is politics" attitude. Politics is everywhere because you make it everywhere. It's a big part of the reason why discourse is as fucked up as it is. Every discussion/encounter has to be won/lost based on your ideology.
- ParetoOptimal 4y agoViewing everything as win-loss is bad, but politics does inform or creep into the majority of things. Especially if you aren't part of the majority.
- synu 4y agoThe only reason I don't walk away instantly is that very occasionally someone does engage in good faith and it's an opportunity for me and maybe them to learn something, and that makes the rest (for the most part) worthwhile.
- haswell 4y agoThe collective consciousness of a society only changes through open dialogue. Leaving it up to the politicians is a good way for such dialogue to be inherently political. There are plenty of issues of basic human decency that can only be changed by talking to the people around you. Stopping entirely can only entrench people in their beliefs and validates the narrative that there are “sides”, and that the other side doesn’t listen. Referring to an entire group of people as swine is case in point. Politicians have their place, but so too the common conversation on the street.