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Reactionary politics are not what people think tbh. People hear "reactionary" & they think extreme. Sure that can be part of it but it& #39;s not the full story. Mostly reactionary politics is willingly allowing opposing extremists to define your entire political view 1/
& seeing that extremism everywhere. It also by extension tends to make you very extreme. As someone politically obsessed, one of the things I& #39;ve noticed about people, is that they by and large *hate* politics. Put your politics on a dating profile, people run the other way. 2/
Bring politics up on a night out, people say "NO, NO, NOPE, WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING POLITICS TONIGHT, I JUST WANT TO DRINK AND DANCE TORY BOY. NO POLITICS TONIGHT. LOOSEN UP DUDE." They truly hate it. So are they super left-wing or do they just hate politics? 3/
Most people just hate political extremes and aren& #39;t massively into politics. So ppl can sit & whine about how left-wing ideologies are taking over or how transgender ideology is everywhere now or whatever but honestly? I think most of these types need to get off the internet 4/
and go and make friends that have nothing to do with politics. So on the back of both Brexit & a MASSIVE STONKING MAJORITY you& #39;re convinced that all our institutions are left-wing & that left-wing ideology is taking over. Make it make sense. It does not. 
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Frankly these are the types that leave the Tory Party to go join UKIP because the Tory Party UNDER BORIS MOTHERF**KING JOHNSON is no longer right-wing enough for them. No, we just don& #39;t buy extreme right idpol nonsense. Sorry not sorry. 6/
The same can be said of TERFs to be perfectly blunt. I was discussing woke stuff once w/ an older transman & what he said stuck w/ me "to be honest it sounds like you need to make better friends mate". Maybe the woke extremists *were* your friends, well I am here to tell you 7/
the extremists on the other side will cut you off just as quickly when they start testing you out for political purity. You don& #39;t fight extremism with yet more extremism. Stop reacting, go make non-political real world friends who do not give a flying monkeys about any of this 8/
which you& #39;ll find is MOST people. Get a few non-political hobbies too. I like comic books & steam trains personally. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Man shrugging" aria-label="Emoji: Man shrugging"> Mostly if you& #39;re consistent enough you& #39;re going to clash w/ them at some point anyway & then you& #39;ll be distraught that you don& #39;t fit in all these groups 9/
No, you left one extreme to go join another. Maybe now it will finally sink in that actually the problem *is* the extremism. RE your politics, don& #39;t base your politics on a reaction. Build a strong solid foundation of actionable principles & apply them consistently. 10/10
