chuds and non-chuds debate what it means when people (chuds) say to keep politics out of their hobbies ft. paradox of intolerance and sitting at a table with a nazi
I think most people just do not want to deal with actual real politics, when engaging with their hobby that is meant to reduce stress. Obviously, the table politics of my Oath group does not affect my mental health as much as my actual governments recent decisions.
This! Games are often an escape from reality.
I don't stop being a trans person in Mississippi while I'm playing Ark Nova. My very existence has been made political.
Reddit becomes the most insufferable place as soon as Trump becomes President
I'm not sure how it would even be possible. People can talk and interact freely.
"Keep politics out of XYZ" is such an inherently political thing to say too lol
Ten times out of 10 it's really "keep the politics I disagree with out of XYZ" with the person saying it not realizing that they don't view the things they agree with as political.
I always thought when pekole talk about politics or work, their friendship is oretty shallow and have nothing else to talk about.
My buddies and I play board games all the time and politics hasn't come up in 20 years. We have fun and interesting things to talk about.
I don't know. If you and your closest friends don't feel comfortable discussing your deeply held beliefs and the concerns you have for the direction some people want to take the country in your name... Maybe they're just buddies.
Politics are almost as boring as religion.
We have other interests that keep the conversation going.
You are grabbing at straws.
ohhh good point and straws are super bad for the environment and sea turtles. i'm sorry.
Unironically, this comment is pretty much what your post looks like.
No it's not, there's a difference between playing a game and yelling at someone about something political. That's what people mean.
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MY EXISTENCE IS POLITICAL, CHUD
IF YOU DENY POLITICS YOU ARE DENYING MY EXISTENCE YOU BIGOT
IF YOU ARE "APOLITICAL" YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF ME GETTING GENOCIDED
WHY DO YOU WANT TO GENOCIDE ME BIGOT?
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The funniest are the "my mere existence is political" people. Like, if they're playing with people who are somehow declaring they don't have a right to exist, I'd say you're 100% justified in telling the person to shut up and leave. But...have they literally ever had that happen, or is it just that someone sometime told them that they don't need to tell everyone at the table about how their HRT has made their nipples super sensitive, and they decided they meant they wanted TTD?
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yes and it isn't happening
fast enough 
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REEEEE EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL REEEEE A BOARDGAME ABOUT A PANDEMIC IS POLITICAL REEEEE
i fricking hate these people. when they say keep politics out you know exactly what they mean. they don't mean things that are vaguely sorta political. they mean current modern political issues. get fricked. i hate redditors so much.
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I also hate when they're like "oh so it's only issue when it's MY political views". Like no, I don't want to hear about an abortion discussion in a video game about cars. What the frick does that have to do with the game? Nothing. I don't want to hear how you're for or against it. KEEP THE DISCUSSION ON TOPIC YOU STUPID CUTE TWINKS.
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They'll claim politics is their life because they're gay or trans so they can't not speak about it.
Which is r-slurred. You can still say you're gay if it ever comes up in a convo and not talk about your opinions on gay rights
Which is i think what people that set the no-politics rule want. They just don't want people arguing about politics or having 1 group grandstanding against 'nazis' all day by inserting trans flags everywhere
I've never seen the opposite happen. Imagine joining a groomercord and half the announcements are:
I'm sure you can think at least 100 servers with the opposite. I actually had some difficulty making up examples because it's so ridicolousy loopsided
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I wont
And you cant force me
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Lol most video game communities are on groomercord primarily
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I'm already not on groomercord, you don't have to convince me
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Doesnt change the facts
In fact, only reinforces my opinion
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Yeah maybe everything touches politics in some way but everything touches religion in a more substantial way
Yet you don't hear people saying "all art is religious" and expecting people to put up with christcuck shit
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A lot of these people don't realise that their politics is their religion though.
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Same people what get awkwardly silent when their own waves nazi flags at pro palestine rallies.
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"the paradox of tolerance is keeping nazis out of the where's waldo fandom" - what these neighbors sound like to me
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If you're sitting at a table with actual real Nazis and are cool hanging out with them on a regular basis, you're probably a Nazi.
If you just have some Republican friends, who fricking cares?
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Oh, you're burned out? YOU'RE burned out?!
Motherlover, I've spent the last 16 years listening to you and people like you scream the most vile, moronic, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic shit imaginable while you prostrated at the feet of the worst possible people on the face of the fricking planet and constantly vote against your own self-interest, despite the fact that your entire worldview is wholly based on your own cruel selfishness, all because we rightfully made fun of you mouth-breathing dipshits for supporting Peepee Cheney's useful idiot for 8 years and the literal propaganda you lack the cognitive capacity to realize is lying to you nearly every second of every minute of every hour of every day, convincing you that the black man who actively did shit to benefit you was tantamount to the literal devil and you smooth-brained, lead-addled, weak fricking crybabies whined and moaned every time we rightfully called you on your half-witted hypocrisy, all while you learned nothing because you lack the capacity to learn anything, all in service of LITERAL NAZIS and we've had to watch it in slow-fricking motion, all while screaming at you, "Stop! You are doing very dumb and bad things!" and every last window-licking one of you glass-eyed numbskulls threw us to the fricking wolves rather than admit you might be wrong about anything ever.
To whoever wrote that they were burned out because they had their fricking fee-fees hurt in a board game subreddit? Go frick yourself with a Monopoly board. You don't get to be burned out when it's your fricking fault to begin with.
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I genuinely hope this latest mod spergout results in another crackdown by the stragmins.
none of them will ever leave reddit either even if it does happen and they get the mop broken/put down the protesters etc.
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