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by eps 1989 days ago
Even then it's next to impossible to not have an opinion on Trump.
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You have an extremely obnoxious, narrow view of the world then, like some child whose yet to develop a Theory of Mind and forgivably fails a false-belief exercise.[0] I suspect you're offended the opinions you're emotionally invested in have apparently been trivialised.

My 90-year-old frail Bangladeshi grandmother cared as much about Trump as she did about Bolsonaro—i.e. not at all. She cared very much about politics domestic to her country though, her husband was a politician.

What is your opinion on the Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad—an important political topic in a country of 200 million people? Or the debate on traditional vs simplified Chinese characters? Or Article 9 of the Japanese constitution? These are things people are very emotionally invested in, are these topics also impossible to not have an opinion on?

Some people have other things to think about.

0. https://s3.amazonaws.com/spectrumnews-web-assets/uploads/ima...

Your 90 year old frail grandmother is also not here writing essays about U.S. presidential history. I also find it difficult to believe someone so knowledgeable about such a subject has no opinion whatsoever on Donald Trump
It's impossible to not have an opinion about something you know about.

One can tell themselves that they don't have an opinion, however I don't think that it's true.

If you don't care about something, then that's your opinion.