Republican Bug?

[kanzeon_2040]

I'm waiting to see whether I'll need to register as Republican to vote against Trump in the 2024 primary.  Right now polling and betting markets see DeSantis winning the nomination, but there will probably be a dozen candidates competing for it once they all get going.  The main issue will be whether the non-Trumpers split their votes and allow

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[matrixmann]

I guess it's the same reason for why chat rooms on various platforms often show a "no politics" hint in their rules.
There's nothing better than politics these days to bring people to fight like mad and spread "bad vibes".
So, some people state from the beginning that they don't want to get entrangled with this. They don't want to be part of moderator of mindless fights in their own personal journal.

On the other hand, I find there are quite a lot of folks from the fanfiction scene over on Dreamwidth - so, guess what they're looking out for? Fanfiction and writing, not discussing about politics. It's not the same like the platform here once grew into.
The whole part about politics, criticism of society and philosophical topics of the noughties is missing over there or it died out a long time ago in the initial years.

[kanzeon_2040]

You've spent more time looking at people on Dreamwidth but I have already seen what you've said - a lot of people into fanfiction and fandom, and their own writing, whether poetry or fiction.

I can understand not wanting to get into politics online, I don't follow any political stuff on Twitter, because that would mean endless arguments with stupid strangers. I'm on Twitter to follow particular things. But I think of this journaling format here (and at Dreamwidth) as one where people ought to write about everything they're interested in, like they would with a personal diary, and I think literate people should be interested in politics to some extent in a democracy. So the notion of "I'm keeping an online diary but I don't want to discuss politics" feels to me like a tacitly conservative acceptance of the status quo.

And then I thought about fandom as basically escapism, and that escapism is also conservative in nature. And some people definitely get as exercised about fandom these days as others do about politics.

And then I

[matrixmann]

I don't know what to think about it - I've already had this suspicion too that people practice some kind of escapism over on DW being into whatever kind of fandom so much. 'Cause - it really stands out if you just scroll through the "latest entries"-page regularly once a day.

For the people who just keep a diary and want to talk about everyday life - well, okay, some don't really care about politics or have no foot in the field, so they don't really understand ongoings... These just want strangers as readers who partake a little bit in their daily life.

But the rest...
You know, I also get that kind of bored because the type of audience I'd like to interact with has like... disappeared somewhere into the internet. To places which I don't know or don't want to join because they're the unsafe popular places where you never know how much the platform eavesdrops on your private matters, authorities do which monitor certain scenes because of potential political extremism

[deloric]

I like reading about your politics.

[deloric]

I haven't found many new people to follow on DW.

[kanzeon_2040]

I guess I was never interested in building my follower count anyway ... but LJ does feel empty sometimes, so I head over to DW to look around.

I miss the early days before Facebook sucked everybody away. On the other hand, it is weird that LJ still exists at all after 23 years and that they've never found a reason to censor me.