exocrinous

Yes. I believe in all gods and myths, and I hadn't consciously thought that I believe in Krampus before, but now thanks to you, I realise I do.

Honestly I might just go back to Reddit at this rate. Yeah, it's giving content to a capitalist, but it also means not subjecting myself to as much transphobic and ableist abuse

Moderation on Lemmy is so miss or miss. I once got banned from an "inclusive" comm for sounding "pompous". I have NPD, pompousness is a symptom. And it wasn't a situation where I was causing any problems, a power tripping mod just didn't like my tone of voice.

The summary is a lie. The crisis isn't over it expanding differently in different places. It's that two measurement methods give different results.

Well technically it would be skepticism

See, and again I'm making a point about clearly observable facts, with the implication that trying to sense others' mental states is a normal part of communication between all people. But you're trying to make it all about me. I want to have a conversation about facts and universal habits of communication, but in the conversation you're trying to have, it's all about me. You're clearly very laser focused on me, to the point you won't listen as I try to talk about something other than myself, and you're lying about it. Why do you like obsessing over me so much?

So conversely, a drop in activity at a gay bar (which does not deliver to the Pentagon), also means shit is going down?

Can someone explain this?

That's only ever happened to people with antisocial personality disorder, because being sick of politics is a disordered and unusual mental state. It doesn't happen to neurotypicals. Neurotypicals always like politics. The ones that think they don't like politics, for any length of time, are wrong. Remember, all participation in society is political. And human beings are naturally hardwired to participate in society. When that hardwiring is damaged, we call it ASPD. Neurotypicals who think they're sick of politics are actually just sick of conflict, and have accepted a racist lie that politics means conflict.

The reason they want a break from politics is racism. You're trying to tell me "they're not racist, they're just doing the thing racist propaganda wants them to do and feeling the way racist propaganda wants them to feel". That's not two different things.

BP told me it was my fault they were emitting carbon, because I was paying them to do it. So I stopped paying them. No car. And I want the government to ban cars among other reforms so nobody else pays them.

No, I fully understand that the word politics is a racist dogwhistle that few people use meaningfully, and I understood it at the beginning. You presented a bunch of different theories as to the word's meaning, I pointed out the problem with each of them, and we arrived back at the beginning, the headline of this article we're all replying to.

I use the logical definition of politics, which implies everything is political, as a starting point for these conversations which always end in the conclusion that people don't know what they're saying. I've had this conversation dozens of times.

I'll tell you why people don't know what politics means. It's because the rich don't want them to know. Those who own the government and who are threatened by democracy do not want people realising that participating in politics is a good thing. So they use the media apparatus to teach people that politics is no fun, leads to hurt feelings, and never fixes anything. And people swallow that trick hook, line, and sinker.

The ideal case for the rich is that most people hate politics, a select brainwashed few vote conservative while starting horrible culture wars, and nobody actually participates in democracy. And that's what everyone who hates politics is supporting. The end goal is simple. It's voter suppression. And along the way, there will of course be genocide as the cost of doing business.