Maybe I just want to eat what tastes good, and not have to worry about how what I chose on the menu is going to support a politician, political party, businessperson, etc.

The "everything is politics" meme is old and annoying.

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samtp an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Just because you choose to ignore the externalities of your choices doesn't mean they no longer exist. It just means that you value your personal well being and comfort more than being informed about the results of your actions.

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JuniperMesos an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a poltical act to eat food that tastes good, in defiance of the activists who think that the food yiu find tasty is immoral and want to make it illegal for you to do so. Something is a poltical act if other people want you not to do it and want to enforce this through law, which you have no control over.

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vrganj an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, you can. But don't pretend that's not a political choice.

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irishcoffee an hour ago | parent [-]

This is so tired. Give me a topic about personal food preferences and I can spin is 6 ways from Sunday towards whatever (or against) political bias you want.

“If you don’t participate in politics you’re evil” is an opinion that is judgmental, aggressive, frames the speaker as a bully with self-appointed moral superiority.

It’s not nice to tell people “you’re selfish and part of the problem if you just want to live a quite life away from all the crazy people who link politics to their self worth” and calling it “not nice” is a wild understatement. I see it as harassment. “Care because I think you should!”

Fuck that haha

	▲	samtp an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		“If you don’t participate in politics you’re evil” is an argument that you completely made up. You don't like to be called selfish for not considering how your actions might affect others, but others are supposed to care about how their actions might affect you? Seems like a pretty self centered attitude to have.
	▲	pixl97 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You're almost there and then you give up on original thought at the last minute. >“Care because I think you should!” Welcome to politics. Not only do I demand that you care because I think you should, but I will smash you with the full force of the law if you don't. Now, if you decide to do nothing, well, you're getting your ass smashed by the full force of the law and whining like a little bitch saying "I'm not political, why did this happen to me". "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice". And "There are no neutrals in the reality, entropy forbids it".
	▲	vrganj an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood my point. I never said “If you don’t participate in politics you’re evil”. My point is that there is no not participating in politics. The lack of participation is a political choice in itself.