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That’s just a fancy way of saying “I’m fine with the status quo”.


No, that's just a way of saying "I don't care either way, and if the status quo completely changes tomorrow, I still won't care".


It's a hip rebranding of "if you're not for us, you're against us"


> if the status quo completely changes tomorrow, I still won’t care

… and would implicitly be supporting the new status quo.


Indifference ~= I support status quo Q, for any value of Q under consideration.

Indifference is a thing, and it's not a positive statement in support of anything. Attempts to portray it as such seems to be a trick to try to draw people into polarized political debates.




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