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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Political? For everyone outside of America that's just common sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Canada it’s starting to become “political” since our morons are egged on by the morons down south.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so exhausting, they treat it like a sport, it's not about making anyone's lives better it's all just about their team winning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s people creating their own victories because they’re lacking their own.

Love your username, btw!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Politics used to be something people engaged in. Now politics is the core to a lot of people's identities, which means disagreement or debate is perceived as a personal attack and people will embrace a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance to avoid being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hello I'm a trans person from the UK here to tell you this is sadly not the case at all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Outside the US this no longer has to be political, is probably more what it really is.