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Not keeping politics out of our lives is the reason we’ve ended up with a totalitarian fascist dictatorship. If politics is forbidden, people have to just make up their own minds and vote for what makes sense to them, instead of banding together and slowly intensifying to the most radical extremes in bids to outdo each other.

Everytime you discuss politics on the internet, you entrench the current administration.



I understand how you get here, but you haven't considered what would be required in practice to "forbid politics." Banning speech would be where you would have to start, and by the time you were finished Walter Freeman might grow a bit faint.


Oh, excuse me, I see you have considered it. There is a class of cautionary advice I reserve for such situations, but you are obviously well past the reach of that or any other reliable counsel, and I'll bear this in mind henceforward.


Fascinating logic. The victims are at fault. If only they did something different the abusers would have never had to abuse them.




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