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Not caring IS political. It's a political stance to be so disconnected from reality that one would prefer to bury their head in the sand and ask for advice on how to bury it further.
Not caring about the state of the world doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to it. It just makes you a negligent parent not wanting to talk about your kids every time you go to the bar.
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So? What are you going to do about it?
If you want to make any difference (which, let's be honest, it's mostly shitposting here), you get on an auto-masturbator next to them, and mention a thing or two when you're both recharging. Maybe, just maybe you'll plant an intellectual seed.
Do you think I'm trying to convince you to become political or to change your ways? Or are you just imagining my responses without reading them? My entire point is there's no such thing as being apolitical in a political world. Every single action you take or doesn't take reinforces or undermines the current system unless you're in kindergarten in a heated discussion about your favorite color. Assuming you're not in kindergarten, you should be able to handle a bit of how various topics are impacted or are connected to politics regardless of your own participation in those discussions.
Me? I'm pretty heavily involved in IRL politics and have been for years.
I was nice to OP. That's it.
I guess it's on me for expecting you to finally respond to my actual point after trying to restate the same thing over and over, but seeing as that never actually happened, I'm out.
Alright.
To answer your question before you go, no, I don't think you're trying to convince anyone of anything. Which is the problem; what are you doing, and how can anyone engage with it? I read what you wrote, it's just not relevant to what's going on in this thread.
Like what, was I supposed to fly off the handle and say "politics doesn't effect anything", or agree and say "yes we're both very woke, much better than most people"? That would definitely be a waste of time.
You came in here saying that OP would be getting less judgement in .world because it's less political than ml. I agree that they'd get less judgemental comments over there, but not because it's less political. World's politics just align more with the kind of politics OP desires- hence less judgement. If directly responding to your claim is irrelevant, then yours was as well.