c/canada · by RandomCanuck@lemmy.ca · 3y

Great essay from Brittlestar this week on just not being a dick.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brittlestar/p/dont-talk-about-politics?r=gdlvh

I always enjoy Brittlestar’s stuff, but this week’s essay seem particularly apropos.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3y (3 replies)

appropot

You butchered 'apropos', dude.

RandomCanuck@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

My deepest apologies for the typo. Your policing is deeply appreciated.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y

Yay! Good writing is good.

Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y

Bone apple tea

Jason2357@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y

This comes across as apathy apologetics. I can tell that's not where he's trying to go, but that seems to be the outcome.

It's also a false dilema. Not wanting to see state-sanctioned abuse of certain groups, for instance, doesn't mean I need to plaster my car in party-affiliation stickers and join the campaign team as a true believer. It just means I might need to temporarily ally my efforts with other people in that particular goal. And that group of people might have a political party. Because that's a system for large numbers of people to have serious policy leverage. I'm not going to do shit all on my own.

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