Man goes to the doctor “doctor, I’m depressed because I was banned by a power tripping bastard”

Doctor says “treatment is simple. Go to db0’s community and complain”

Man says “but doctor, I was banned by db0”

I personally think we should be seeking a military alliance with Palestine because their soldiers could provide invaluable training to ours on resisting fascism. I don’t agree with Hamas ideologically, but from a practical point of view they have more experience dealing with American bombs than anyone, and we’re all gonna need that experience soon. And of course the Palestinian Authority have nearly as much experience and are much nicer people, so there’s no question of the value of an alliance with them.

Elon Musk is vegan. Eating him causes zero net suffering

Albert Joseph.

He was a maintenance worker at the World Trade Center

I’m a wizard and I’m trying but things have gotten really bad

Looking at the modern world from traditional or ancient values. “Sailors these days don’t even make an offering to Poseidon before they go on a journey, they’re going to get themselves killed!”

I’m pretty sure that’s Japanese

I’ve seen that video. He sexually harassed his students, faced professional consequences, and blamed it on Woke.

Unc is AAVE for a beloved elder role model. Making fun of people for being old is for white kids

Por que no los dos?

(America and Russia have the same values)

Well, My gender is a social construct created from the ideas of the society in which I live. My gender arises from the politics of a particular time and place, informed by all of the culture and myth and history that came before. My gender is part of the memetic evolution of the zeitgeist. My gender is incredibly cool because of how political it is, and if it weren’t political, I’d be so so bored with it.

You shouldn’t see politics as only the bad things in the world. Politics is your gender too, and your gender is great. Politics is great stuff too.

Yes, that irony was on purpose. I know you won’t reply, but I’ll explain. You want a space free from politics, where your political viewpoint is enforced. That’s hypocrisy. We want a political space for our ideology, where our political viewpoint is enforced. That’s logical and consistent. What I’m saying is, what you want is impossible, because you broke your own rules. You’re already on our side of this debate, you’re just struggling against yourself and hurting your own aims. And I hope one day you get on the same page as yourself.

I hate the way the upper crust of society abuse these animals

I do value safe spaces. For example, MULTIVERSE is a safe space for minorities such as otherkin, and I am currently having an internal debate over whether the users here should have to see your apoliticism. Your political ideology is something we consider dangerous and do not want to see. So I am weighing the cost-benefit of allowing the users on this website including Myself to rebutt your political viewpoint against the cognitive burden of feeling a responsibility to do so.

Obviously there would not be any issue if you simply avoided expressing your apoliticist politics.

The nature of our society is that we are always actively participating in governance of the social groups in which we participate. The common definition is My definition. Even at this very moment, we are arguing over how to govern your community, and you are through well-intentioned carelessness poorly governing My identity, by accidentally misgendering Me. Our every action is political. I ask that you be aware of this fact, rather than retreating from responsibility.

Wikipedia says:  
the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals  

Merriam-Webster (My personal favourite) says:  
competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership (as in a government)  
and:  
the total complex of relations between people living in society  

Collins says:  
the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society.  
and:  
the ways that power is shared in an organization and the ways it is affected by personal relationships between people who work together  

So, anything having to do with power or decision making within a group of people is politics. When you and your mates decide which takeout place to order from, the decision follows a political process. When your parents told you it was bed time, they used political power. When you come to trust someone’s opinion in guiding your personal decisions (like whether you should really include the chapter on bird mating calls in your work in progress fantasy novel), you’re engaging in politics.

Politics is all around us. It’s ridiculous to have a negative opinion of it. If there were no politics, there would be no societies, no families, no friendships, and no romantic relationships, because there would exist not a single mechanism for any group to have unified purpose or choice.

Unless you misdefine politics. That’s the trick. And it’s a very easy trick, you can do it without noticing. All you have to do is think in the back of your mind “politics is anything I disagree with”.

Boom. So long as you have the rhetorical skill or the social power to defend this assertion, you can take advantage of the propaganda of the ruling class for your own ends, and attack any goddamned idea in the world you want. You have an intrinsic claim to legitimacy in proportion with your ability to normalise your own opinions, and anyone who disagrees with you is committing “violence”. You have a terrible and destructive power to silence any and all dissent. What you say will go. Nobody can stop you.

What I have described just now is the worst extent of the power of belief in apolitics. Most people who believe in apolitics won’t act this way… if you don’t push them. If you keep agreeing with what they say in a vague sense, or phrase your disagreements charismatically, they won’t use this power. But it’s still there. And there is no sense at all in leaving around terrible powers that reinforce hierarchies of norms. Especially not if you are queer, neurodivergent, disabled, of colour, otherkin, or anything else that goes against the status quo. Because in a battle to attack the political, that which can claim legitimacy through normalcy will always win.

I’m people who try to influence the way a country is governed. I’m a political activist. In fact, if you vote, you’re people who try to influence the way a country is governed too. So everything you and I do is politics, and the term has very little meaning.

But that definition is kind of bad, I much prefer the various other definitions I analysed on My blog. I could make the same arguments over again, but I don’t want to.

TL;DR: Everything is political.

If you choose to use a different definition of a common word than everyone else, you’re gonna have to reckon with semantics. If you made a community called c/aryanmemes and explained you’re using “aryan” to mean “nice person”, people would call you a Nazi for using a Nazi dogwhistle. “Politics” as a negatively loaded word is also a conservative dogwhistle. I’m upset with you for using a dogwhistle and expecting people not to be offended.