It means “I don’t want to hear your politics, I don’t want you to criticize my politics, I just want to keep acting like my support of shitty things isn’t my responsibility.”
Yeah… When I was on the dating apps I pretty much treated “centrist” as “conservative” for a filter
I much prefer Catherine Tate.
That is a sign natural selection has selected them for the male loneliness epidemic
So, nobody here actually used online dating? Here in the deep red South, “not political” means liberal and don’t talk your MAGA shit at me.
For the uninformed, what happens if you put liberal?
Not on any dating apps, but people I know who describe themselves as non-political are just so sick of it they can’t bear to talk about it anymore, which I totally get. Especially since any good discussion always ends up ruined by someone who’s very “political” but only gets their news from Facebook or something worse.
The chud losers know they won’t get any women if they put the truth on their profile. Who wants to go out with someone who doesn’t respect you as a human being? Who sees you as lesser, as an object? Who wants to take away your rights?
Their only option is to lie and hope they get someone without a spine or someone too nice to tell them to fuck off, then they take advantage them.
its also very obnoxious when conservatives talk, they will keep ranting nonstop without fail.
Mental exercise:
There is a serial arsonist going around
A house is on fire
You meet a stranger who says they don’t like to discuss whether the fire should be put out or not, nor whether the arsonist should be stopped.
If this person isn’t the arsonist, their actions (or lack there of) benefit only the arsonist. They are, at least, an arsonist supporter.
Most people I talk to like this, in the analogy, used to be firefighters, but realized for every fire they put out, some literal idiot lights 3 more, and to them, they end up feeling like they’re the only one who cares. Pun intended, but they’re literally burnt out.
What if they are fed up with how many people support the arsonist in their area while personally feeling the arsonist should be publicly executed, avoiding discussion on the fire is their way to avoid getting overly angry with every single person they talk to who keeps insisting on talking about their support for the arsonist.
Or everyone keeps on talking about pro-anti arsonist, and they are one of the few that think dealing with the fire first might be a good idea instead.
Complacence is compliance.
If everyone in your town was pro-dog rape, would you prefer to never speak up? Would you prefer to stay silent while your dog lives every day at risk?
If I’m angry at someone I just say swear words at them. I don’t hide it and I don’t try to avoid getting angry.
“I don’t want to think about politics, but when I have to I lean heavily right.”
Trump rallies and conservatives in a nutshell
another favorite is i dont do look up anything on his policies, or i dont like politics in this or that show.
Undercover Trumper. You shouldn’t talk politics, but announcing it is a red flag.
You can’t have no stance on social constructs you’ve been introduced to. The moment it’s existence has been made aware to you by other people, you now have a stance, even if that’s to dissociate from it. “Not political” doesn’t clearly say anything, but I’m inclined to think they don’t like hearing the stance of other’s—what political discourse is—implying they may actually have a very strong and unwavering stance but they don’t recognise it.
This puzzles me especially when it’s a trans or enby person on a dating app… I’m like: girl wtf
That’s called lateral violence
I guess no one here has ever lived in a red state
I’ve lived in two and spoke towards progressive politics all the time. 90% of the time people are receptive if they’re a smart and genuine person. Obviously I’m not approaching or hanging around someone with the maga hat with Trump flags and punisher stickers.
The culture wars exist for a reason. The actual policy decisions of the Right and their consequences are not especially popular. Stirring up fear and hatred for the other and encouraging blamelessness and self-righteousness amongst the base allows the oligarchy carte blanche to do whatever otherwise unpopular things they wish.
Well, than ~90% of people I know are idiots.
Does the punisher symbol alone associate a person with maga?? Damn.
It’s a red flag for “approves of police brutality against those people” at the very least, but context is important. Single Punisher skull on their Dodge Ram? MAGA gun fetishist. If there’s at least one other comic reference the odds are way better of them being fine actually.
Mine was just a custom punisher logo with a Subaru symbol inside of the head portion. Idk I always liked Punisher, long before the cops started touting it… but that’s a shitty thing about getting old I guess. Things that used to be cool are now symbols of hatred. I wonder if this is how the Buddhists felt when the Nazis hikacked the swastika.
Just generally the not terribly smart conservative tough guy demeanor, not even using the symbol correctly is a dead give away.
On my old Subaru wrx, I had blacked out the entire thing, and in the small windows in the back I had a punisher logo on either side with a Subaru symbol inside of it. I thought it looked neat haha, am very far from maga though. I always liked Punisher, long before dude was co-opted by those turds. I can see how it’s a bad look though.
There are three options really
- The person is so far right they don’t see their views as political
- The person is filled with apathy and has enough privilege not to care about anything or anyone
- The person is the most uninformed unmotivated milquetoast liberal who doesn’t really care about anyone else but vaguely supports values like “being nice” and “respectability politics”
Or they recognise that identifying themselves as right wing could have a negative effect on their dating prospects, so try to disguise that fact.
Unless you mean reasons they might genuinely consider themselves non political, in which I agree with you.
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the last one also applies to conservatives, they also can be super uniformed, most of them are.
I’ve never met someone who says they’re not political who is actually not political. They just prefer to think about the things they care about as “above politics” or don’t want the heat for their opinions.
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I’m not political, I just think you should work your whole life for rich people and get a small fraction of that in return.
I say not political because I haven’t studied our politics and I know basically nothing about it. Otherwise I’d get “What’s your opinion on what [name I never heard of] posted on their Facebook profile yesterday morning?”
Perhaps not so specific, but I don’t know the people and what’s going on.It’s a lot of history, specific events, constantly something new, and I have to study other things too.
Don’t sell yourself short. Politics, at its core, is just the description for group dynamics and decisions. Those impact all of us, and we all care about at least some subset of them. The dramatics and window dressing most media focuses on is just a small portion of the whole.
It’s totally understandable that you may not be super knowledgeable about certain topics that are getting a lot of attention, but your values are worth being represented as a meaningful political issue.
Real talk, it’s what I used to put in my profile maybe 2 years ago.
I didn’t watch the news much, I had always stayed out of the discourse and I had refused to apply a 1-dimensional label to my beliefs.
Put plainly, I was privileged enough that politics rarely affected me directly, and I think until recently there were a lot of people like that.
One day in 2023, I took a political alignment test and found out I was a democratic socialist and it just so happened I was living in one (UK). Hence why I never felt the need to mess with things.
Of course, no country is perfect, and as I met more people, especially trans and disabled people, I discovered that there was a lot of terrible shit going on in my country and that’s where I finally got my awakening. I also started watching more political YouTube.
Since then, I’ve veered slightly further left I’m involved in advocacy and I’m proud to wear the “Left” label as someone who cares for others and believes we can all do better.
I still believe that left and right are a bit reductive, but I understand now that it’s more like the more of the things you believe in, the further on that axis you go. For example, the UK’s Green Party is bringing together some conservative environmentalists with leftist progressives in their interests to keep our green spaces and maintain traditional trades and crafts.
Anyway, the point is some “non-political” people are just sheltered. That said, you have to be extremely sheltered in the US to not experience the upheaval currently happening.
I took the test and I’m not particularly surprised at my result.
I’m strongly of the opinion that a lot of people simply do not have the bandwidth to be deeply involved in politics, even if it is in their best interests. We have so many people in the US drowning in debt, stress, unresolved mental health crises, and uncertainty about how they can afford the next big repair on their house/appliances/car/body that they do not have the luxury of spending time and energy advocating for the changes that would improve their lives.
I think of it like the airplane oxygen masks - you need to secure your own before you help others. It’s hard to expect people to organize and push for monumental change when they are a paycheck or two away from homelessness. I don’t see an easy way forward unless a lot of people are willing to sacrifice.
It could also mean they’d rather talk about pretty much anything else.
You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you.
Because if they talk about politics they dig their tombs
