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I don't like talking politics at work. I imagine most of them don't either

It feels weird or upsetting doing anything right now. Everything is political. Everything is woke. Everything is Left vs Right. Everywhere i look someone has an opinion about something, and everyone else is wrong.

I'm so tired of hearing about it all the time. I just want to enjoy what i can from life without someone dissecting what I am or am not doing and tying their political beliefs to it.

Edit: a word.

Not weird at all. Not everything has to be political commentary. You could argue that politics has such a huge impact on our lives so it's unavoidable, but the same is true of food and streamers don't have to talk about food at all.

I think it you want politics, you listen to politics. I tend to listen to comedy, except I prefer it from people who will also bring up politics since I'm not in it for an escape.

However, I fully understand people who need the escape. One important advice I heard is, if you're really at your limit and life is getting harder and harder, you have every right to take a time out and join back in when you're recharged. We'll need you at your best if it ever gets to the point that folks are having to hide in basements to avoid the gas chambers.

The few streamers I do watch have addressed it in the past and typically they want their stream to be a place where you can go to escape reality rather than be bombarded with hate and vitriol for the entire time. It's not like people don't see it literally everywhere. It's forcing her face all the time everyday. We need a break honestly sometimes.

Watching streamers does help to temporarily escape from the cruelties of the world so I'd rather not hear about politics then. Many of the streamers I watch have commented on it, but not frequently, some only once after the election results came in. I think they understand people are watching them to get away from politics.

I wouldn't want my streamer to talk about current politics. I'm there to escape that talk. It's the same reason I'm not subscribed to any political communities, if I want that news I'll go to all.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

Sadly, 99% of people - wherever they live - won't really do or say anything until it affects them personally.

What are they supposed to do? Tell their audience to run into the woods and start a protracted people's war? Get in non-productive arguments with even less-informed chatters?

I imagine what would the world be like if streaming was available during Hitlers rise. Would people just be living in their bubble of “thanks for watching, hit like and subscribe, and if you use this code on simplisafe you’ll get 20 percent off!” winky face

Almost certainly. The majority of people just kept living their normal lives in Hitler's Germany as well. Until the war at least.

Times like the ones we are living in often do not feel abnormal for most people. Solzhenitsyn talked about this, getting transported as a Gulag prisoner through a civilian train station, twenty feet away from families pleasantly chatting waiting for their train to go on holiday, having a chance to watch them for an extended time while he was in transit from one hell to a different hell.

In 1953 Mayer interviewed ten male residents of "Kronenberg" (in reality Marburg) to understand how ordinary Germans felt about Nazi Germany.[2][3][4] The town, located in Hesse with a population of 20,000 and a university, was controlled by the United States during the postwar period of occupation.[5] The interviews occurred during Mayer's term at Frankfurt University's Institute for Social Research as a visiting professor.[6] All ten were in the lower middle class.[4] The author was not a German speaker and the men did not speak English.[7]

The interviewees had the following occupations: baking, cabinetmaking, clerking at a bank, collecting of bills, police, sales, studying, tailoring, and teaching. Walter L. Dorn of the Saturday Review wrote that the interviewees were from a pro-Nazi bloc that was the "anti-labor, anti-capitalist, and anti-democratic lower middle class".[5] The tailor had served a prison sentence for setting a synagogue on fire, but the others were never found to have actively attacked Jewish people.[5] Mayer read the official case files of each interviewee.[2]

The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule,[8] with the exception of the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

Yes it's simultaneously understandable and disgusting. Not helped by the financial disincentive to avoid alienating people as you say. Reminds me of how much airtime sports get vs the rest of the news of the world. Ostriches gonna ostrich.

That dog is hilarious, well done

You don’t have to say things explicitly, although there’s certainly value in that. Just maintaining an environment where you consistently shut down chud shit says as much as a long winded political rant. Saying vs doing, you know?

If things keep going the way they have been, they might regret not speaking up while they were still able/allowed to. Seems some things are just too big for some people to deal with, till it smacks them in the face one day and they have no choice anymore.

P.S. Very cute dog, by the way!