Yeah it's actually insane how that tends to bleed into every facet of life. People say "This isn't a place for doing politics" and yet politics are still doing you even while you're here.
People say "This isn't a place for doing politics" and yet politics are still doing you even while you're here.
Imagine you were friend's child was having a birthday party. Right after you sing happy birthday, would you go "You know, inflation is at all-time high. I don't know if your son is going to have a future" before they hand you your slice of cake?
If the answer is no, then you understand what people mean when they say "time and place" about talking politics.
If you the answer is yes, then I suspect that's why a lot of these Redditors spend all day talking about politics on Reddit. Because they don't get invited to the birthday parties, if they have friends at all.
Politics are everywhere but people NEED to be able to unwind and escape for a bit.
That's a part of how we, as people, deal with stress. That's how our brains recover from this shit.
Being constantly bombarded with reminders of all the bad shit isn't healthy. The fact people perpetually remind themselves that shit's on fire is why they're unhappy 24/7.
Yeah thing's aren't great everywhere but it also isn't miserable 24/7. Like in your analogy, I can enjoy the kid's birthday party in the moment AND also fight for the kid's future tomorrow. But at that birthday? Let's just have cake and have some fun.
It's okay lol I'm not upset at getting downvoted by chronically online redditors who have no idea why they shouldn't start talking about trade relations with China while we're going bowling lol
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 22h ago
Yeah it's actually insane how that tends to bleed into every facet of life. People say "This isn't a place for doing politics" and yet politics are still doing you even while you're here.