how you perceive politics affects you is your problem, not ours. and it's not our fault if the global liberal conspiracy is giving you a hard time. i can assure you, i had nothing to do with it, and as far as i know, i'm not profitting from it. i'm not saying you're not entitled to your opinions, or shouldn't gripe about them, or that they are invalid. but officer krupke, we've got troubles of our own.

we all have things we feel very passionate about, perhaps even obsess about, but we can't expect our friends to forget about their problems so they can commiserate with us about ours full time. it would be, at the very least, selfish.

i'm sure there are people reading this who are ill, have legal problems, are economically besieged, have family or relationship issues, or are otherwise in desperate trouble one way or another, and it is natural that they might want to discuss this, or perhaps even talk about something else to get their mind off it. and they are welcome to do so...but not all the time.

"i love my cigar, too, but i know when to pull it out"
--attributed to groucho