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Okay? I like politics too, but I don't like it being literally everything I engage with. Sometimes I want a break, I know that's hard to imagine for people that in order to be a good person and follow on stuff, that your online activity doesn't have to be over 80% political content.
This may seem wild to people, but maybe I engage with politics in a different manner like through commentators on videos and podcasts. I can curate my feed there to have an equal balance, it's a lot harder to do here and have things still be worthwhile because it's a smaller platform, and the majority of the time someone makes a new account and new communities, posts, or comments here, they decide to contribute politics and just about nothing else.
Oh, and bonus points if it's really low-quality stuff like this where it's literally months behind with the news just to say "Trump bad", where nothing of substance is added to the conversation.
I like video games with women in them. I like movies about rebellions. I like art that makes me think about society. I like science fiction that uses allegory to explore controversial issues. I like queer joy. I like books about feudal power struggles. I like Mass Effect. I like Mistborn. I like Aliens. I like Jurassic Park. I like Avatar, both of them.
You know what I don't like?
Sports.
There's no politics in sports.
It doesn't matter if the Red Bears or the Blue Tigers win the Ball Cup this year. They'll just play again next year. It doesn't matter. It doesn't make me think. It's not controversial. It's not meaningful. It's boring.
Women in games is not political. Accurate depictions of history are not political. Queer people being happy is not political.
Just because right-wingers say they are doesn't make that true. By stating that they are because they claim them to be, you give into them and find yourself playing a game in which the rules are dictated by them and what plays into their advantage.
That's how we got here with trans rights to begin with. They were not political, and they still aren't, but because some freaks with nothing better to do with their lives than complain about others decided to say that trans rights were political, and because some people decided to follow that up with "debates" rather than outright saying "this is not political", trans rights have been eroded to the point where "left wing" politicians like Gavin Newsom are now seen in good light despite anti-trans policies.
Also "there's no politics in sports". You are right, but if you're going to work on that same pattern of logic, there's literally a huge nothing burger over the Super Bowl halftime show right now that people are pretending is political. Like congrats, by following Republicans in saying this is now a political issue, you're basically just allowing them to say "see, they're confirming it's political, therefore let's get rid of rights for Puerto Ricans" or something along the lines.
I think you're the one who's playing the right wingers' game on their rules by choosing to agree with them that politics is bad. I've transcended their bullshit by deciding politics is good actually. Now you're trying to convince me to agree with the right wingers that politics is bad so I can argue that Game of Thrones and Arcane don't have any politics in them. That feels like losing to me. Why do I have to agree with fascists so I can disagree with them?
Show me a right-wing content creator who has claimed games aren't political. I'll wait.
They always say that it's political because a minority is in them, or because they didn't make a woman eye candy.
I'm not gonna bother anymore.
EVERYTHING is political.