What I understand from what you are saying, and with what I can agree is, that not everything you do, has to be or should be a political statement. But the poi

What I understand from what you are saying, and with what I can agree is, that not everything you do, has to be or should be a political statement. But the point I trying to make is, that "apolitical" is not the absence of political. It is a political choice. Here a definition of apolitical: "not interested or involved in politics" > Serving coffee is not political. Which coffee do you serve? If you don't care, you are apolitical, but you can either serve coffee with child labour or not. > Planning the network installation is not political. So, it will include equipment from Huawei? Or Cisco? > Code reviews, If someone puts in there a "joke", do you address it? Should you? > cleaning your office, optimizing the VM, Yeah, probably not. > getting a bandwidth deal, negotiating the SaaS pricing, choosing ingredients for the new dish, To which standard do you hold your suppliers? Are they subscribing to any social corporate responsibility standard? Are you? Are you trying to make a vegan dish or not? (Not that I care, I am apolitical there, but I do not think, it is not political) > figuring out how many loads of gravel are needed for the landfill, Probably not. > picking a guy to fix the fence .. Are you rejecting the guy who has a MAGA bumper on his truck? > Google search is barely political, Really? There was just recently a case of republicans complaining about how they are ranked. What about Google in China? Or Hong Kong? > It's 100% fine for you to 'work on something consistent with your political views' but at the same time just 'pick the place' instead of 'making the place' inherently political. Here I think, I can understand that you want to say, that all the points I just made, are likely to be unproductive to be discussed at the workplace. And I would agree. You may say, you are tired of hearing those issues, and I can understand. But I would say, one doesn't make a place inherently political, it is. Being apolitical doesn't make it go away, that decisions have an impact on the public affairs of a country. In a small and intangible way probably, but so does a vote.