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homeonthemtn 5 hours ago

Nah, politics is a cancer that's infected everything. Let the addicts get their fix someplace else

b40d-48b2-979e 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hand-waving everything as "politics" is not healthy. It's necessary for us to be able to make collective decisions on societal questions which is what "politics" are.

AznHisoka 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I remembered when politics used to be called “current events”.

bavell 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HN is the wrong forum for this.

buellerbueller 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is what the biggest names in the VC class want you to think as they continue to enrich themselves, while (in the USA at least) they support a regime that is growing in its authoritarian output.

Thiel, Musk, et. al., support, for example, Curtis Yarvin, who believes that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with an all-powerful "CEO"

ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Thiel, Musk, et. al., support, for example, Curtis Yarvin, who believes that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with an all-powerful "CEO"

These guys all benefit when the No-Politics Purity Brigade drives by and flag-kills every article pointing out their wrongdoing as "political." By flagging this stuff, they're actually making HN more political: They are defending billionaires, their agendas, and their status-quo politics.

hobs 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The idea that hackers are non political is very silly and very unbacked up by evidence.

fzeroracer 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So I, as a software engineer, have to deal with the impacts of this administration both making my employment harder as well as terrorizing the city I live in. Where do you suggest I would go to share these issues other than the site that is specifically for hackers and tech workers?

I get that people want to make the place 'non-political', but a lot of us in the US live in major metropolitan areas and are very directly impacted by all of the shit going on.

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JKCalhoun 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"Let the addicts get their fix someplace else"

Open to suggestions from anyone.

a-french-anon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Seeing the kind of discourse you get here, how about Reddit?

rune-dev 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everything is political. Including ignoring politics.

homeonthemtn 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Only if you make it political.

nathan_compton an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is such a weird idea. Everything is political because there are no universally agreed upon values. Humans literally do not always agree on what the purpose of society is, what is good and what is bad, how much power we should have over one another and nature. And, as far as I can tell, neither god nor philosophy seems willing to descend from heaven in order to resolve our differences. Thus, we are stuck discussing things amongst ourselves and deciding how to move forward, a process called politics.

b40d-48b2-979e 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is coming across to me as "things I don't like are 'politics'" if I'm being honest.

pixl97 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"I'm not political, I stay out of politics and I don't vote"

... time passes ...

"What do you mean the people that I didn't vote for are sending me to war to die?!, I'm not political, why am I involved in this" --Modern day Russia.

hobs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Its a tired trope, but you are wrong. The haves and the have nots define everything about our society and Not Addressing The Situation is a very active choice, thus politics.

buellerbueller 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When is the last time that ignoring cancer has stopped it from metastasizing?