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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The more extreme someone's views, the more likely they are to talk about them.

People with moderate views generally avoid talking politics as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plenty of people with moderate views are passionate about politics and love to talk about it. Its just that they talk about boring stuff like policy positions and numbers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's also that the more you talk about and involve yourself in politics the more you get radicalized, it works both ways

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not necessarily, being around people who are obsessed with politics is a good way to put you off politics.

Being on Lemmy is bad enough sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fucking amen to that. I thought Reddit was shrill with the politics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's ridiculous, everything is political. There's no such thing as people who don't like politics. You're just a politics lover in denial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I just don't like the arguments"

"Oh, so you wanna get along with bigots and fascists?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loving his argument. If you don't partake, you're an afficionado in denial. 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or maybe you just claim you don't like politics because you don't wanna get called out for your objectively wrong opinions 🤨

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

I hardly have educated opinions on politics as I'm not interested enough to partake. So yeah, my opinions would probably be wrong as I simply do not know better.

So I do the logical thing, and don't attempt to talk about something I'm not educated in.

That doesn't make me a fascist or a "politics lovet in denial".

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

I think mostly people claim they don't like politics because they've been brainwashed by propaganda into thinking that anything normal can't be political. That's why the measure of how political a thing is depends on how normal it is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've done all kinds of abnormal things that aren't remotely political, like eating pizza crust first, drinking hot water with cream and sugar, walking around in an armor costume outside of Halloween, and entering meetings with bizarre camera mods.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everything weird is political, but everything political is weird.

Also, drinking cream is political because a cow had to be enslaved and sexually assaulted for you to have that cream.

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

That’s ridiculous, everything is political.

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

I think mostly people claim they don’t like politics because they’ve been brainwashed by propaganda into thinking that anything normal can’t be political.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the person and how well they are aware. Ive had discussions with people who were all over the place on the political spectrum. In the end with some i had a calm talk and exchanged ideas, that have made me realise things that could lean both ways and in others i left angry, but not changed because i was aware what was happening with me, emotionally, because of the discussion.

It isnt for everyone, ill grant you that, but self knowledge and being open to new ideas is key when talking about mundane politics ( and not extreme topics )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but self knowledge and being open to new ideas

That's already ten steps ahead of the average political discussion.

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