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"Political" is when you accidentally engage with entertainment media beyond a surface level.

Watching them fall down can be rough, because I'm one of those idiots cursed with empathy.

It just comes off as "this is a current buzzword I would like to distance myself from" rather than "this is a word that means things and it behooves me to consider that meaning and my relationship to it", see also: "pronouns"

Still hoping to hear someone say "I miss when media didn't have politics like you know, the classics, like Citizen Kane, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca..."

"just say what you mean" works better than I thought it would on these people

maybe they figure it out eventually, but it's honestly enough to provide more friction to widely accepted astroturfed bad opinions that people sometimes just accept as true because enough people said it is