Like the Palestine-Israel conflict which a lot has happened since it started, you can barely argue or talk about it if you are literally out of the loop without mistepping because its just a too complex situation for us westerners.

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    I think that reflects the biggest conspiracy of the modern age tbh. As long as everyone’s focused on specific aspects of American politics (as they do worldwide) they aren’t focused on areas of their own lives where they can make positive change, political or otherwise. And here in the US, our political leaders actually love it that everyone’s obsessed with one person in one branch of our government because it’s the politics that affects their lives the least and they can do the least about. It’s actually smarter to focus on yourself and managing your own affairs.

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      Yeah there’s nothing we can do in politics, its all rigged by billionaires. What you can do is organize in your community. This at least helps somewhat.

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      agreed. most of the advocate types and extremists i know are just… miserable people who hate their lives who want to use their political beliefs to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

      most happy people i know have political beliefs. they just don’t shove them down everyone else’s throats and they aren’t totally beholden to them as some measure of morality or worth.