“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”

Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for.

There is no “other half”.

April 08, 2026 - 17:10 UTC

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“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”
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Well said. Every action is a political action.
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“When did Rage Against the Machine go woke?”
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Nah, they just disagree with the political views you brought up this time. EVERYTHING is political.
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“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”

Translation: "You said something that made me feel like a cunt"

Waah waah
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Trying to stifle your speech
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Between the horrific illegal war of aggression in Iran, the genocide in Palestine, and ICE murdering people in the streets; now is the time to "be political"
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Remember "Go woke, go broke?"

Even if that was real (which it wasn't), I would rather be broke than racist, fam.

Go woke, be able to sleep at night.
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This one always cracks me up because the opposite of woke is "asleep", and these people are so proud to have their eyes closed.
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I was asked “how hard core are you about politics?”
Me: idk a bit?
Them: like what about friends and family who are Trump voters?
Me: oh I don’t fuck with them
Them: oh…
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It doesn't matter how big the population you are 'alienating'.

The community of your fans is what you cultivate. If there's a moral or action you don't want in your community, you have to voice that and enforce it.
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People who say things like that are the ones who think that having pronouns in your bio is a political statement. They will turn literally everything into politics.
And I don't want that in my audience.
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The idea that those rightwing chuds are even worth the trouble, as in, they’re not paying shit to support creatives. They want a product and their people just make trash or scam. Fence sitting cowards too, no backbone when it comes to life or death, why expect them to have your back beyond a moment.
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Exactly. They want slip poured into their trough and that’s where it ends for them.
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Yes yes, this part
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🙏🙏🙏🙂🙂❤️
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🙌 🙌!
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also, you should create for yourself first and your audience second
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The "half" that would be alienated by me being political are the ones who politicized my existence.
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I usually reply to those "it's not FOR you" or "you are not the target demographic"
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I’ve never understood this argument… It’s not even an argument tbh you either have feelings and care or have a dead heart like what is it? It’s coming from a place of privilege… I know some people don’t speak out because of their work settings or aren’t vocal online but they know… I’ve just become
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distant to a lot of people because they don’t care about people like me they don’t care about people that don’t fit in their narrative…
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I do like people who say this as if it's a boon to have anyone who would get mad at you for "being political"

"Aw yea man, I want racists around me" so true oomfie
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The secret is the people who censure "being political" feel the same way as OP but their audience and people is the racists and they don't want to say it out loud because they get their fee fees hurt when people tell them racism bad
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Weird how no one makes the same demand to outspoken Rightwing creators.
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So true.
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We need to stop pretending we don't know that "political" is just a dogwhistle for gay and/or brown
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Wish I had thought to share this here sooner! A friend’s rescue pup could use some support after a very very costly surgery!

ANY amount is helpful!

bsky.app/profile/ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social/post/3mic5ucvo4226
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Carrie Underwood and Nicki Minaj showed their true colours and, well… I predict their story ends with bitter entitlement and obscurity… then a comeback attempt that fails spectacularly in their 60's...

I see an Anita Bryant career trajectory for both of them.
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"half my audience" can eat shit
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Also also, the type of people to say that are just people that haven’t accepted happiness within themselves and want to see others suffer
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"if you keep putting all these gay characters in your videos, you'll lose my viewership!"

"well, see, I don't want you here"
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Right? And they're so self-centered that they don't consider the wider viewership to be gained by being more inclusive.

And to look at it through a shittier capitalist lens that the naysayers love so much: more inclusive of folks who actually support art with their wallets.
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TBH it doesn't take much to be "political" these days. It's a just plain and absolute evil d*ck move to decide peoples mere existence is "political" and then complain when they are "political" (simply by breathing). 🙄
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I still can't believe that gender identity is considered political to some people. It's just a normal fact of life for me now.
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The fact is that people will call Objecting To Cruelty as “bEiNg PoLiTiCaL”
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"Everyone is welcome here" is too political a message for grade-school classrooms, apparently.

www.idahoednews.org/top-news/attorney-general-everyone-is-welcome-here-sign-cannot-be-displayed-in-idaho-schools/
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I've literally been told I put my pronouns in my bios as political statement. Apparently my wish to be addressed properly is political...
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Like the game dev studio who had a Steam comment on their game about it being "woke" and they replied saying "please go through Steam and get a refund for our game. We don't want your money, we don't want you as a customer."
Gotta love good folks like that putting principles over profits
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An infestation of uninvited creeps doesn't get up declare itself as anyone's audience.
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People who get upset about making things "political" are actually upset because their terrible bigoted views are being called out and they don't like feeling bad about being genuinely terrible.
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Audience ≠ Market
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Who keeps saying that? Especially on this site.
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I'm on YouTube and IG as well, and with what I do there's sadly a lot of chuds who are into it. They sometimes get whiny when their regulalry scheduled programming is interrupted, lol.
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"stop being so political about everything"

Bitch I'm trans, queer, and disabled. My entire existence is political
Do I -want to- be loud about it all the time? No, of course not, we like almost everyone else simply want to live and enjoy our hobbies and hang with friends
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Right??
"Stop being political!" <- the people who made us QUIETLY EXISTING get filed under "political".
Smdh.
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Audiences usually pay for the ticket. If you’re following on Bluesky for free, fellow free to follow someone else.
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"The shittiest people in the world don't like you because of this!" Looking for the downside here. Have not found it yet.
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I don't care if I alienate MAGA POS.
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I get occasional emails from MAGA types who keep threatening to stop listening to one of my podcasts because they don’t like my politics.

I never write back, because who the F cares, but if I did the response would be, “Fine, go.”
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Yeah I love to tell those types to fuck off forever and enjoy having less stuff to like. It’s an incredible self-own on their part, lol.
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People who say this have no idea how statistics work. 1st, the voting is more 1/3 for each side and then undecided. Of the 33% that did vote for a specific side only a small percentage care enough to change what media they consume. Taking a political stance is alienating 2% max.
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💯!!
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I'd love to nerd out on fonts or whatever all the time, but I know that a significant portion of the people in my country are monsters so I'll do what I need to weed them out.
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It seems crazy to me what people call "politics" nowadays. We're dealing with literal atrocities and war crimes and rapists, and saying that it's bad is somehow controversial. Tapdancing Christ.
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It's barely a half. It's one or two unhappy bitches who can't handle people different than them.
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Oh yeah, it’s *never* half. They love to inflate their crowd size.
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Applause applause!
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🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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I'm not a capitalist, what I make is not bland shit to try to appeal to everyone, and certainly not assholes.
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as though half the people who could possibly be watching me, a transgender vtuber, will be alienated by the things i say on bluesky dot social
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Would also add that those you, me, we alienate are not exactly ‘readers.’ They weren’t part of the potential market pool to begin with!
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Or maybe they would. A lot of these mofos know the real deal are dumpster fire human beings.
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Exactly. If they engaged with the work at all they would see that it is there. It’s a real “tell me you didn’t read it without telling me” thing.
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Plus. So what if I were alienating half my audience? 1st off maybe that's exactly who needs to hear me be political. 2ndly, there's more to life than appealing to the lowest common denominator. If I lose audience for speaking up, so be it. Being quiet to avoid making a scene is how we got here.
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💯!
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Did you miss the fact I was referencing right wingers, or is your vested interest blinding your judgement?
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They mistake “potential viewers” with “audience”
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My politics is simple. Do the good thing. It’s therefore impossible to write comicbook heroes (or heroes of any media) without being political.
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come to found out a full HALF of the people who are supposed to be your people are actually THEM people?No sir. If a handful of THEM thought they were in a safe space for their nonsense with you, its best that they find out sooner than later
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But wouldn't you rather have slightly more money and be dependent on biting your tongue every time you have to deal with the worst and stupidest people on the planet?
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Hmmm… when you put it like THAT 😂
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Why’s it always even claimed it’s half of my audience? What if it’s just like 10 people out of 1K? Is it worth going silent for 10 people who could leave at any given second over the smallest hint of progressive views?
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Hell if half of my audience were for killing people, I think that’s already a problem
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Not to mention that “other half of the audience” would simply harass and bully your current audience and now your audience and community would both be toxic Nazis and probably a lot smaller
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Meanwhile twitch streamers loving the bigot money
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"You're alienating the hate-watchers!"
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LOL

"If you write a story expressing how awful your oppressors make you feel when they ACTUALLY HARM YOU, you make your oppressors FEEL BAD~"
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Right? They’re soooo close to getting it.
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Bigots truly believe that there are so many of them huh 🤣 Well the recent No Kings protest was the largest in US history so that should tell you everything you need to know lmfao
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even if you were alienating half your audience, um, good? if i had an audience and found out half of them were fascists i would work to explicitly kick them from my spaces, then evaluate what i did to attract them in the first place lol
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Lol, exactly. An they're self-owning by being like "I don't get to enjoy stuff!". GOOD. Fuck off forever, lol.
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If they're alienated, they're not worth having as an audience
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Exactly. They don't realize it's a self-own, too. Like "ok, don't enjoy this cool thing then, see if I give a shit" lol
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I keep thinking back to that Pixar Disney+ show that was supposed to include a trans character/storyline, and conservatives complained, and the story was cut. Because they sacrificed their artistic integrity and removed something unique, I didn't bother with watching the show at all.
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By kowtowing to reactionary bullshit, THEY alienated the audience that wanted to see story lines like that. Meanwhile, I have never seen any conservatives talk about how much they loved the show or anything. The conservatives they tried to appease didn't actually care about the show either way.
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bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsky.social/post/3miy7a3lewk2m
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"Good!" is my answer if I ever hear shit like that
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I feel it's also just usually not a non-political person that's complaining.
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Why do Conservatives think we want them around?
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Right? It’s a real “don’t threaten me with a good time” situation. Lol
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The personal is political.
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I, for one, am more interested in your work because of your political stances
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Thank you, Henry. That’s often a qualifier for the work I engage with, too 🙏🙌
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🎯
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@mattdoyle.bsky.social
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Good tweet
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It's like being upfront in a dating profile. Saves everyone time.
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Only right wing trolls say that, and I doubt they even believe it. They all sound cookie-cutter paid assholes.

Please keep being political, I crave liberatory politics in my media and my socials. 🫂 Thank you brother
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💯🙏🙏🙌!!!
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“It wouldn’t be political if politicians weren’t trying to criminalize people’s existence.”
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Because these fucks only see transactional relationships.
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"You're alienating (half your) your audience by being political." Old line, bogus line - whatever.scalzi.com/2015/03/09/a-book-sale-at-the-cost-of-your-conscience/
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It’s impossible to not be political now. Everything we do is impacted by what our leaders decide. It feels like that’s more obvious now than ever.
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BRO!!!! Thank you for giving me the words to explain this to people! I am not alienating anyone who is worthy of my time, energy, or effort!
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My genuine pleasure! 🫡
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1. everything is political

2. being "not political" is a privilege most of us do not have

3. people claiming to be "not political" actually say "I'm too ignorant to read subtext"
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"Good. That 30% of folks are assholes."
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There’s a reason I put our tagline “good art for good folks” on our convention sign. I don’t want money from willfully ignorant, bigoted, awful pieces of garbage.
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Fuck yeah 🙌
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One of the prime ideals of capitalism is that nothing is as important as taking as much money as you can from anyone you can at all times.
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If half of my audience (that I don't have) got alienated because I got political, then that's not the audience I wanted in the first place.
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And even if, by some weird chance, an artist has a more broad audience, there is no audience where those people make up half of anything. They're either a minuscule portion of overall audiences, or they're the audience, and that's a whole different ballgame.
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Exactly. And even if they WERE half (they're not), it's the shitty half. I'll keep the rest, thanks.
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Nailed it.
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🫡!
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Keep it up
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I wish these know nothings would stay in their own damn lanes.
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That “half” argument is bullshit on face value.
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That’s the other part, right? It ain’t “half” lol
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as soon as people realise everything is political... well nothing will change really, but it would be a start.
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Exactly, it's not that they don't want politics in their media, because that's basically impossible in media that says anything at all about the human condition. What they mean is, they only want media that affirms their political views and nothing that challenges them.
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It means 2 things.

1. That half ain’t my audience then.
2. Their money ain’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
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"You're alienating half your potential audience." "The shitty half, you mean?"
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People saying that are convinced the point of art is to make money
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I probably wouldn't have found your stuff were it not for your outspoken politics 🤷
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I appreciate that! 🙏🙌
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This post put you on my radar and I have joined your audience. Keep alienating those ghouls, my friend!
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Haha I'll take that all day long. Thank you very much!
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Ideally art should only have one target audience in mind - it's creator. Compromising only for the sake of pleasing the widest audience, and therfore the lowest common denominator, makes it content.
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❤️❤️❤️
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🙏🙌🙌!
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bsky.app/profile/mst3k.fan/post/3luyceutrfs2x
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I want to free people from the shackles of capitalism brain. It's not worth it.
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Weirdly they never seem to worry about how many people you alienate by making a community welcoming to hateful, vile bigots.

You can't actually have both. A community welcoming to people who "don't like politics" is inherently unwelcoming to those whose existence they consider to be "politics."
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If me ending nearly every post with

Unfuckable Fascists

makes you feel like you might be in the catagory an you don't like it- change your position don't think I am changing mine.

Unfuckable Fascists remain...unfuckable.
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Well, that’s an instant follow.
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🙏!!
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Tech YouTuber Luke Miani recently made a sobering, well-researched video about the role of Big Tech in the Trump regime and rising American authoritarianism, and he openly called for anyone who sides with Trump to fuck off and stop watching his content.
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Parents - You can’t just assume they’re a bad person because they’re Republican. Not all Republicans are bad people. You should be more accepting.

Me - Voting based on greed or hate makes them bad people. I’m not the bigot in this scenario. I am not the one driven by greed & hate.
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Some ppl vote based on what their parents did, and only listen to Fox Propaganda because that’s what their parents did. I don’t trust the Rs as a whole, but I think they’re the victims of their own noise machine.
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There's a word for people who supported the German National Socialist party because of their economic anxiety or because they found the leader charismatic or because they didn't pay that close attention to the news.

That word is "Nazi."
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🎯 it’s beyond politics at this point. It’s about ethics and morals
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Exactly
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Exactly!

It is not your fault if the ones being greedy and hateful also happen to be Republican
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The people who don’t want to hear about “politics” should be shamed mercilessly for the rest of their days.
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1000%
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You're alienating all the terrible people!!!
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The country is infested with Nazis. If those are the people we’re alienating, they can eat my entire arse.
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(also doesn't them saying that insinuate that the OTHER half are okay to alienate???)
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Right wingers are ok to alienate.
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