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These constant attempts to assert that "everything is political" are getting really old. All people have the capacity to be political. Nothing else is. I wish
by throwajay87492 8y ago
These constant attempts to assert that "everything is political" are getting really old. All people have the capacity to be political. Nothing else is.
I wish I could understand who taught you people that insistence of stupid horseshit is the key to achieving your goals.
- johannes1234321 8y agoFirst of all I didn't say that "everything is political" but that in each organisation there is a degree of politics. Maybe the issue is in the word "politics" - this is not about left vs right, but social collaboration. Some people like each other more than others, some are more trustworthy to others and often the way I propose a change and whom I talk to has impact of the change being accepted - those are politics. Also technical decisions have an impact on different people and in subtle ways impact users (i.e. if a kernel switches to a high-res framebuffer mode to print boot messages and developers assume they have the width for formatting messages this impacts visually impaired people, willingly or not -- just made the example up to show subtle things) Politics aren't bad and are an effect of different people being present in the same space, while of course there is a difference between FSF/GNU/RMS with a strong focus on a political mission and some other projects primarily focussing on a technical mission.