Political Memes

I remember being in school and having posters with things like "Ask Why?" To encourage critical thinking.

I also remember it being controversial because kids should listen to their parents.

That controversy is the answer.

As an American this is also why I don’t like talking to Americans about politics.

I avoid talking about with family members or friends, because they often discuss it from a very low information point, and is very adamant they are right, then they get mad if you try to debunk which is true or not. i know a family member that recently became a trumper and he gets hostile when asked why he voted/supported trump. basically he doesnt want to think about it as well.

Americans tend to be kept from learning what socialism actually is, because then they might like it. I remember reading a 50’s World Book encyclopedia which essentially defined socialism as an autocratic dictatorship.

I was told in school that if you lived in a socialist society, your job was picked out for you, basically from birth.

No, the reason people say they don't like politics is that they've been brainwashed by the owning class into thinking politics is government drama. They don't realise everything is political.

As a transgender man who was chased out of my profession, subsequently experienced an intensifying period of relationship violence, was unable to find any form of support or help (no domestic violence shelters, no low income legal support, nothing), and experienced physical abuse on the female ward when this broke my brain so much that I told the nice person on the crisis line I wanted to die -

My life is political. I’m driving around with a license that might not count anymore, despite having followed all of the rules to get it changed 10 years ago. I don’t get to opt out of politics. I’d love to! I’d love to do nothing but focus on my career and hobbies, enjoy art and relationships.

But I can’t. The world I live in is actively hostile to people like me. Politics invades my life.

or arguing with a MAGAT who is low information,.

Yeah it does. Politics is your entire personality. You've just been brainwashed into thinking certain parts aren't political, when they are.

There is no phrase clever enough to convince any american who doesnt already say they care about politics to say they care about politics. The people who say this only care about themselves, and will not change until it directly affects them. What we should be striving for is ensuring it affects them.

It conflates the broadest dictionary definition of “politics” with the narrow, collaquial one

Actually, it completely erases the narrow, colloquial one. I think the colloquial definition of politics is completely unacceptable to use, and I refuse to legitimise it. Words have meanings and I'm going to treat people like they used the correct ones. If they have a problem with that, they can say what they mean instead of what they don't.

Treating politics like something you can escape is a microaggression against BIPOC people whose identities are politicised every day, and is therefore racist. I'm not going to legitimise racism. If people want to act like politics is avoidable, they can go do it at the klan rally.

Who is no longer allowed to make decisions for the people.

Not making a decision is also a decision.

Talk to local revolutionary groups about insurrection.

You really saw all of those fucked up nightmare hands and thought, "why can't this be in charge?" What makes you think having a failed artist for a dictator is a good idea?