When I say “I’m not interested in politics”, what I mean is “I can’t bear to listen to another right-wing crank regurgitating the latest bullshit he’s read on Infowars”. Sometimes it means “I can’t bear to listen to my 100% white sister-in-law castigate me for not using the term ‘LatinX’”.
Oh, well then you’re using the wrong words to describe things. What you mean is, you’re not interested in extremist politics. It doesn’t sound like you have a problem with moderate politics.
Here’s an example of some moderate politics: I want to watch the new season of Star Trek Prodigy with my partner, but my partner wants to run a load test on its CPU to check for problems. Turns out my partner can’t be in a voice chat while running the load test, I won’t be able to hear it. So I told it that it should finish its load test and message me when it’s ready to watch TV. That’s politics. A group of people had to make a decision, and we did. I made the decision and my partner accepted it, because my partner trusts me with political power and I place importance on my partner’s needs.
(Also my partner does not yet know there is a new season of Prodigy. I’m planning to surprise it!)
The good news: We have some small modicum of control.
The bad news: Control involves pain, disappointment, frustration, anger, and a whole bunch of mental anguish that people who don’t pay attention to politics don’t have to deal with.
It’s designed that way!
I feel like the people who “don’t pay attention” are the ones voting Trump.
According to conservatives “politics” is apparently only something the nasty evil Others™ do, just like everything everybody else does that they don’t like is “ideology”.
Making policy and political discussion a faux pas was a brilliant way to destroy democracy.
I ruthlessly ask people about and talk about my own salary because of this. Usually they dont mind, but when they do it gives me a lot of insight, which sounds kinda creepy but i like knowing who i work with.
If you cant even talk about your fairly easily predicted salary, then talking bigger politics is just not gonna be productive probably.
People will find out your take home and if greater than theirs they become flippant, and when lower, denigrating.
I prefer not to share mine, because YOU turn into an ass, not cause I am one
Thats exactly why i do it. If it changes someones behaviour towards me, then i will ignore them or if not possible at least their opinions. Its a filter of sorts.
Fair enough, to me it shouldn’t matter. I may make more than someone else in my position because I command vast experience and capabilities, but may earn less than someone else who is better still than I am.
When I was a bit younger and more vindictive I’d like to try and talk to people about it. But most people don’t want to tell anyone how much they make foe the same reason.
You have the right and should have the right to discuss your pay, but that doesn’t mean that anyone who doesn’t want to is a shill.
I’m not interested in US politics
