The Animal and the Machine on Nostr: Political posts don’t need to be excused. • Politics is about resource allocation ...
Political posts don’t need to be excused.
• Politics is about resource allocation including facilitating freedoms. If there is £10, you could spend it on flowers, chocolate, beer or anything. This means there is no neutral, just a long list of winners and losers to infinite degrees of how much that matters.
• The idea of not taking about politics is about maintaining the status quo.
• The idea of neutral implies the status quo is normal and everything else is deviant from good.
“Don’t talk about politics here” is just another version of “shut up”. Mentally replace it next time you hear it and determine if it’s appropriate.
I’m a Brit too and I need people to do three things:
1) Shout loudly that we have a great functioning democracy. (* We do, I will explain later)
2) Just because it’s great, doesn’t mean representation couldn’t be vastly improved. It can.
3) We need to go harder on environmental issues. We literally need to save the planet!
Your post satisfies two of these so I welcome it.
*Why our democracy is great:
1) You never need to queue to vote. Ever. Polls are everywhere and easy.
2) Your vote will be counted. It won’t be binned. Everyone’s vote will be counted.
3) Fake votes don’t really exist. Not in any way that matters.
4) Political results will be directly applied to votes in accordance with known rules. No dictator standing up saying you voted for me.
Russia wants you to think your vote doesn’t matter so they can take over our democracy. It counts! Vote! 🗳️
Your voice and vote matters, even if it’s just so I can point to it in the stats and say “millions of people want environmental improvement and clearly we need to improve representation”.
• Politics is about resource allocation including facilitating freedoms. If there is £10, you could spend it on flowers, chocolate, beer or anything. This means there is no neutral, just a long list of winners and losers to infinite degrees of how much that matters.
• The idea of not taking about politics is about maintaining the status quo.
• The idea of neutral implies the status quo is normal and everything else is deviant from good.
“Don’t talk about politics here” is just another version of “shut up”. Mentally replace it next time you hear it and determine if it’s appropriate.
I’m a Brit too and I need people to do three things:
1) Shout loudly that we have a great functioning democracy. (* We do, I will explain later)
2) Just because it’s great, doesn’t mean representation couldn’t be vastly improved. It can.
3) We need to go harder on environmental issues. We literally need to save the planet!
Your post satisfies two of these so I welcome it.
*Why our democracy is great:
1) You never need to queue to vote. Ever. Polls are everywhere and easy.
2) Your vote will be counted. It won’t be binned. Everyone’s vote will be counted.
3) Fake votes don’t really exist. Not in any way that matters.
4) Political results will be directly applied to votes in accordance with known rules. No dictator standing up saying you voted for me.
Russia wants you to think your vote doesn’t matter so they can take over our democracy. It counts! Vote! 🗳️
Your voice and vote matters, even if it’s just so I can point to it in the stats and say “millions of people want environmental improvement and clearly we need to improve representation”.