• Whyherro@lemmy.world
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    Why does everything need to be politicized? No one gives a flying fuck if you’re a leftist, unless you’re a Leftist and no one gives a fuck if you’re a right winger unless you’re a right winger. Jesus christ the US Politics are absolute fucking cancer.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s considered ‘left’ to support queer and trans rights, and there are a good number of people that seem to have a problem with that whether my queer self is political or not.

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        Guaranteeing that every individual has the same rights independently of their sex, sexual orientation, race, skin color and so on… Shouldn’t be neither left nor right. It just should be. It’s just common sense.

        There are plenty of another topic for the left vs right to debate. Leave identity politics out of it and just let people live like they want.

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          But like if people keep intentionally misgendering someone, trans people aren’t gonna wanna be in that environment. Those people will feel more safe here than reddit

        • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world
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          “Leave identity politics out of it” you do realize the modern Democrat party revolves around playing victim and identity politics? They’re not going to let it go now. Need more victims.

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            The Republican Party also plays identity politics, especially white and Christian identity politics. A lot of Christians base their identity around the idea of needing to feel persecuted.

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              Or the need to hate someone or something. The irony of modern day Jesus worship.

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        I wouldn’t consider that a left-right issue. China’s government would certainly be classed as leftist, but they engage in LGBTQ oppression. It’s been getting better in some ways recently, but they’re no friends to LGBTQ people.

        I usually put such issues somewhere along the line of socially liberal/progressive to social conservative.

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        Yet I see a lot more anti liberal rhetoric on here. Also these people getting off on wanting a civil war… because destabilizing a country always worked great.

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          People are angry, and rightfully so. The opportunities in chaos are often seen as preferable to oppressive order.

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          Irony: living in a country that has destabilized more countries than any in history and fucking those countries for generations. Meanwhile wanting destabilization at home. Lol.

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      Why does everything need to be politicized?

      Because everything is political or adjacent to it. Everything in this world is either impacted by or is a reflection of politics.

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        I mention this to my friends all the time. So many issues we’re dealing with derives from politics, so of course discourse will always return to it.

        Money Rent/housing costs Grocery costs Stagnant wages Retirement

        School shootings Police brutality Systemic racism

        Medicine Insurance R/d for treatments Quality of life

        Etc. Etc.

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          My issue is that I’m trying to implement a new app in my home server. How is this political?

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      I find posts like this so confusing. Does politics, i.e.the policies organisations across the world implement to actively change the way the masses live not directly or indirectly affect your life? Whenever someone says something like this I just assume you’re not within a marginalised group because there’s no way you’d make an enlightened centrist post like this otherwise.

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      Most people (especially in the US) can’t even define what they are IN FAVOR of politically. All they do is denigrate what they think they don’t like, even when it is against their own best interest. Bunch of fucking lemmings we humans are, just waiting to be taken advantage of by the sharks.