Apologies to Ron Pearlman

    • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Apolitical = Ignoring the bullshit, living locally, planting a garden, dancing drunk, etc. Nothing to do with maintaining the status quo if you aren’t a part of it. As far as the ruling class goes we all gotta serve somebody.

      • itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        2 个月前

        Lol dude you live in this society whether you choose to believe it or not. You’re literally on the internet right now.

        The fact that society allows you to do those things but not Palestinians shows that you’re happy with the status quo so fuck them.

        • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          That’s quite a stretch there, bucko. Is it society that allows me to be what you say I am, or is it just you? I’m anything but happy with the status quo but, go ahead, keep on flinging those attributes around if it makes you cope better. We all need a pretend enemy sometimes because that is our nature.

        • melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          I don’t feel called out and I don’t support the ruling class. Try again, you’ll hit the nail on the head eventually, because I’m certainly no saint.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      “Apolitical” isn’t reinforcing anything, therefore it’s not conservative.

      If you don’t participate in, say, watching the Oscars, you’re not “reinforcing the Oscars.”

      If you don’t participate in America’s sport, say, baseball, you’re not “reinforcing baseball”

      If you don’t participate in Sunday school, you’re not “reinforcing Catholicism”

      … and so on.

      • merdaverse@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        2 个月前

        If you are neutral towards baseball, it means you’re fine with it as a sport, aka reinforcing its acceptance in society (I don’t give a damn about it). If you are not fine with hare coursing existing as a “sport”, you protest against it. Being neutral would reinforce its existence, if it’s already being practiced.

  • shameless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 个月前

    I know someone at work who is often “a-political” and tries the whole let’s hear out all sides. This is am excellent reason as to why you just need to pick a side, because now he’s probably alienating people on both sides.

    That said, there will always be Ed Sheeran fans, just like some people still like Harry Potter. I’ll never understand why.

    • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
      30·
      2 个月前

      My issue with apoliticism is that, IMO, it’s impossible: it just endorses the status quo, and is simply a fachade to hide that.

      Paraphrasing Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.

      And it’s fine if you want to conform to the status quo, not every single discussion we have every single day should be this huge decision-making take-a-stand and die-on-that hill and so on, but just be transperent and honest about it, instead of hiding in that “apolitical” image.

    • Godort@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      2 个月前

      I know someone at work who is often “a-political” and tries the whole let’s hear out all sides.

      I tend to be this guy when I am mostly unfamiliar with an issue, largely because I want to know the whole situation, and more importantly, the reasoning behind each side’s arguments before I publicly take a position one way or the other.

      In this case though, it’s pretty obvious to see who the oppressor is.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayBanned from communityEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      you know hes likely a right winger, when he says hes not “political”, why do republicans have to pretend they dont like politics.

      • tmyakal@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        why do republicans have to pretend they don’t like politics

        Because the alternative is admitting to friends and family that they actually wanted all this, and that mask-off villainy may complicate some relationships.

  • Ertain@feddit.onlineEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    Ugh, genocide was practiced a century ago, and is still being practiced to this day.

    War never changes. 😮‍💨

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      That last one “I spy” I really feel was the weakest yet. Like I know the art department put in a metric fuckton of work into it, but I feel Ryan and Sam really didn’t put in a whole lot of brain power into the gimmick(s). Same with the jury episode this season too.

    • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      45·
      2 个月前

      Edit Sheeran has historically chosen not to take sides on political issues. Recently he dropped Macklemore from some tour dates under pressure from billionaire Robert Kraft, who owns an arena he’s booked at due to Macklemore’s vocal opposition to Israel’s genocidal actions in Palestine.

      Ed Sheeran is influential enough that choosing to speak out would be beneficial towards raising awareness about the issue. Even though he has the platform to help people by speaking up about important issues, he chooses not to. Even though he has hundreds of millions of dollars and could easily afford get a few dates cancelled just to make a statement he chooses not to. Most likely because he is a straight, white, wealthy, well-connected man who doesn’t have to worry about the threat of oppression and would rather stay silent than risk his ability to make even more millions of dollars.

    • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 个月前

      for the original clip that the images come from, you don’t really need any context other than what’s shown here in order to get the point of this particular meme: an explicit statement that you are not taking a stance on a particular issue is itself an explicit stance on that issue

      but to give the context that’s not really needed, it’s a game show, and the objective of this particular part of the episode is “don’t acknowledge Ron Perlman,” but the twist is some players don’t know the objectives, and just walk into the room and see Ron Perlman with no instruction given