On facebook, I'm in a group for people who like 50s/60s era of television, and recently the admin banned someone who was trying to discuss lack of diversity in tv shows of that era and racial politics. People were saying it was unfair, but the admin said this group is for a specific topic. Years back I would've seen that as harsh, but now I'm all for it. If only we done that with our hobbies once the usual suspects infiltrated.
The larger point being is that there is always some idiot who feels the need to bring in politics or some other issue into a completely unrelated hobby, and can't just let people have an escape. Recently I saw that the Twister movie was attacked for not addressing climate change, and I remember that Far Cry game got bad reviews for not addressing white supremacy.
Of course, the usual thing we hear is that "(fill in the blank) has always been political" or "it is too important". One of the reasons I rarely use reddit now is because of what happened during the "summer of love". I collect sports cards (baseball/football/hockey) and on a hockey card subreddit you had people who felt the need to have long posts about covid or vaccine misinformation along with the usual racial reckoning nonsense. Then of course they jumped all over me for asking what that has to do with hockey cards and I was told "some things are too important". I had to completely get off the Dallas Cowboys subreddit because they went off the deep end at that time.
Anyway, the mindset of these people who just can't let people enjoy something or feel that their point of view has to be brought into anything and everything even if it is some babies playing with blocks will never cease to annoy me.
I find the inability to “turn off” when it comes to politics to be a highly negative personality trait. Those people who can’t are always the most miserable, unstable people as well. To them everyday is a war but in real life combat troops at the front are rotated out. Men didn’t spend a solid six months or a year in the frontline trenches in WW1. Per the BBC:
At some point the constant stress will break you. Too many people in this country think about politics 24/7. Every issue is the greatest dilemma we have ever faced… until tomorrow’s problem. Sometimes you just need to shut your brain off for a bit and watch a Michael Bay movie.
We are in a war, but that just makes your point even more important. How can you fight effectively when you are unable to rest?
Unless they treat it like a sport. Think about the people far away from the trenches, but can't stop talking about them. That's the people we deal with now.
Or watch Police Academy, Naked Gun, Airplane, etc. Is your username a Schoolhouse Rock reference?
I thought his name was a Babylon 5 reference
Ohh, makes sense. I had that Mr. Morten schoolhouse rock song stuck in my head.
I only remember, "3 is the magic number", "conjunction junction", and of course "I'm just a bill"
"Pussy. You either have David Goggins' toughness and stamina or you're a pussy. RESUME YOUR POST, SOLDIER!"
I hate those types too.
It's hard for me, granted that's due to it infesting everything combined with my spergery, There's a reason I mostly stick to weebshit, it gives me what I want, pvre escapism.