Anonymous #2 12w

And there are countless ways you can point to how fitness is political. The fact that I have the time in my day to go to the gym, have a gym close by, am able to afford a membership, have an education on how to workout, can afford a good diet, and can make my personal fitness a priority in my life are all examples of my privilege, and to take any of that for granted or deny that it is political when our environment keeps others from those same resources is simply wrong. I can keep going.

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Anonymous #2 12w

Found one of them

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Anonymous OP 12w

I literally said in my comment that you don’t have to bring up the political aspects lol. I hardly ever talk about the politics involved with fitness, because yeah, it’s annoying and miserable to talk about. I just don’t deny that fitness is a political subject, because again, literally everything is linked to politics.

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Anonymous #2 12w

That’s like saying everyone is related. Like ya it’s technically true but you gotta do a lot of reaching before you connect me to LeBron.

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Anonymous OP 12w

The difference is that Lebron is a basketball player (the goat and my king, but still a basketball player) while politics is literally describing the place everything in our lives has within our society. In other words, fitness’s connect with politics is something that is tangible, while your connection with Lebron isn’t (my connection with my sweet king is very real though 🥰🥰)

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Anonymous #2 12w

DNA is more tangible than politics

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Anonymous OP 12w

are you actually trying to have a discussion?

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Anonymous #2 12w

I made a claim. Feel free to respond to it

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Anonymous #3 12w

Saying exercise is political doesn’t make you look smart or considerate. It just makes you look like a bum that doesn’t want people to bond over common goals

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Anonymous OP 12w

Nah, what I don’t understand is why anyone would say that in the first place

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Anonymous OP 12w

Is it a thing now for people to say exercise is political? I don’t use social media besides Sidechat lol

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Anonymous OP 12w

99% of people who understand how exercise is political don’t bring it up ever lol. I literally never talk about the political aspects of fitness unless I see someone say shit like this, in which case, it makes sense to talk about, since it’s the subject you brought up.

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Anonymous #2 12w

It’s not political

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Anonymous OP 12w

Everything is political. If it has a presence within a society, it’s political.

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Anonymous OP 12w

Because your relation to Lebron is irrelevant lol. Politics are a thing that matter. Also, your relation to Lebron is going to be virtually nonexistent, while I can draw a direct line to how fitness has its place in politics. Hell, we have a whole fucking department of health and human services. How is government sanctioned funding of things like sidewalks, accessible healthy foods, regulations on our food, NOT political?

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Anonymous OP 12w

Like dude, we have a whole fucking department of health and human services who’s job is to educate people on their health, including fitness. Theres like, 2 dots you need to connect to understand how fitness is politically relevant.

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Anonymous #2 12w

And there’s 2 dots you need to connect me to LeBron. We’re both human. Yes everything is related to everything to some extent but you dramatically downplay it. With your argument you could say breathing is political. Just grow up and stop being a bum

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Anonymous OP 12w

There’s also the fact that there’s relevance to stating how fitness is political, while stating how you and Lebron are both human is not relevant. Also, yes breathing is fucking political lol. Look up what the air quality is like in places like China, Japan, Pakistan, India, etc. The safety of our air to breathe is directly correlated to how we manage industrialization and how much our government prioritizes keeping our air quality clean.

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Anonymous #2 12w

Again, I’m not one of those people who brings this shit up, because I’m not a miserable person who loves talking politics in subjects like this. However, if you are going to bring the subject up, I’ll engage with it, and you are SEVERELY ignorant if you believe this shit isn’t political.

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Anonymous #2 12w

and “grow up” you’re being a child buddy. Open your eyes at least a little bit.

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Anonymous #2 12w

Ok dumbass now explain how this is political

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Anonymous OP 12w

is a shitpost your genuine response to what I’m saying?

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