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You're demonstrating that everything can be made political by those who want to take it on a political tangent.
by justin_oaks 5y ago
You're demonstrating that everything can be made political by those who want to take it on a political tangent.
- baq 5y agoNot OP, but yeah, that was the point. Humans are social, thus political, animals.
- goatlover 5y agoThat just means there’s a political element to human interaction, not that everything is political. Astronomy is about the cosmos, not politics, but astronomers engage in politics like everyone else. There’s an entire world outside of humanity, and some people are not interested in turning that into more human bickering, which you can easily find in explicitly political and news discussions.
- baq 5y agoPeople being allowed to look at stars is a political issue. I’m a big astronomy fan and I’d like more money to go to astronomers to do more research. That’s political…