At first glance this tweet seems to say that its author wishes he didn't want to be involved with these people in any manner, that their thoughts are a net negative on his life. However, when you look at the attached image and the highlighted word "Kavanaugh" in all the selected tweets, it becomes clear that these tweets have been searched out rather than forced to be viewed. What exactly does that mean? That there is obviously some desire - even if it is solely for this tweet - for those peoples' ideas to be observed.
Kantbot's point about it being tiring to see what random people think about a political topic is definitely accurate, which is partially why I have taken to blocking most pundits and turning off retweets/muting anybody who interacts with anybody I find annoying or trite. This sort of behavior can be extended to real life, where you simply remove yourself from any topic of discussion you have an expertise in and instead focus on subjects you have less knowledge in compared to the person you are talking to.
To filter your social interactions - both online and offline - in this manner you go from giving to getting, a much more beneficial and pro-social behavior to engage in than trying to spend time filtering through incoherent mass media regurgitations/surface level "analysis" of current events that you are both more understanding of and correct about.
The best part about radical exclusionary behavior is that you will spend less time annoyed, less time sifting through meaningless impure thoughts by deranged people that only serves to corrupt your thought process and ever so slightly passively mold your brain in their direction if you ever let your guard down. Another benefit of this voluntary removal of self from general discussion is that when you do engage with others and talk about whatever it is that you have deemed worth learning about, the more you listen to and interact with them, the more likeable you will be. People love to talk about themselves and rarely get the chance to do it with somebody who's actually asking them about themselves rather than trying to convince them of something under the guise of conversation.
To escape reactive and mind-destroying cycles of arguing whether X or Y is good or bad (never actually changing whether X or Y actually happens in any way), isolate yourself away from anybody actively engaged in negative behavior and continue to do that until you find those you can take actual actionable information from or people who can benefit you in some way, even if that benefit is just pleasant company or positive thoughts.
Stop engaging with your inferiors, wall them off from your mind whenever possible, and start worming your way into the circles of those who have something you want. Let everybody else argue while you enrich yourself. When the time comes for concrete political action, you will then have more resources to do whatever it is you deem needed.
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