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Confessions 21h
I miss when politics were a private matter.
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Anonymous 19h

Was confused af for a few minutes by this, but I'm assuming you mean like pre-social media, when we didn't have entire forums and message boards dedicated to arguing political points; people didn't base their entire personalities and preferences around their political beliefs; and people were just generally more reserved with certain topics, and civil in public? Because if so, I do also miss those times.

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Anonymous 19h

Politics are important in dictating our everyday life, therefore it's important to talk about it. You don't have to discuss it if you don't want to

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Anonymous 20h

2nd wave feminism coined the phrase “the private is political” to call out social inequalities as much as systemic which since has been used to advocate for human rights movements…you’re literally dumb as rocks for thinking politics is private… they just silenced people

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Anonymous 21h

They most certainly were and politics was treated with more respect and genuine education instead of “I’m 100% right and everyone else is 100% wrong”

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Anonymous 21h

They go hand in hand, people were more civil BECAUSE it was a private matter and didn’t want to disrespect or cross boundaries

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Anonymous 21h

Okay? You shouldn’t, I’m not asking you to

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

Vote however you’d like just don’t force your political beliefs onto someone else when it should be private

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Anonymous 21h

It is though? Are you going to sit there and tell me politics views that cross your boundaries cross every single American in the EXACT same way? Politics being private allows everyone to truly vote how they feel and instead of arguing they can discuss

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Anonymous 20h

So you just agreed politics should be private? I’m confused

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Anonymous 20h

I didn’t insinuate or say we should politely ignore issues, I directly said “…and instead of arguing they can discuss” insinuating privacy leads to productive conversations. We both agree conversations are key for society we may just disagree on how we should get to that convo

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Which is good, we shouldn’t agree on everything:) I appreciate you!

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Really flawed logic. This is why literacy is important pls go do some research

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20h

Technically any discussion is inherently argumentative because you state a point and have to back up your claim. Also that’s def not what your message insinuates buddy

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 19h

Tbh I think this whole discussion is poorly defined in terms of what people are meaning

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Anonymous 19h

Yall are delusional omg putting words in my mouth left and right god damn

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19h

This conversation is gonna send me into psychosis y’all cannot be this slow

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