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People who like to talk politics absolutely everywhere have ruined every single social network I know. "No politics" is probably the most intelligent way to go.
by vdaea 3y ago
People who like to talk politics absolutely everywhere have ruined every single social network I know. "No politics" is probably the most intelligent way to go.
- actualwitch 3y agoYou'd fit right in on habr, in a society specifically built to not discuss politics. Complimentary tumbleweed in comments included!
- layer8 3y agoThe problem is that what is considered “politics” has vastly expanded over the past decade or so. Most controversial topics today wouldn’t have been considered “politics” in the past.
- vdaea 3y ago>Habr is a Russian collaborative blog about IT, computer science and anything related to the Internet, owned by TechMedia. In this context, demanding the staff makes public where they stand in the conflict in Ukraine is toxic.
- actualwitch 3y agoIn context of habr, even asking "why'd my internet/corporate vpn stopped working?" or "why did I suddenly get summoned for a medical checkup to enlistment office?" are politics.
- fweimer 3y agoNo politics is only feasible if your life or your existence isn't considered political in itself, or maybe if you can hide how you challenge the status quo without harming yourself.
- vdaea 3y agoI don't see how that changes anything. Even if you feel that way, a forum about computing is not the place to spread your political ideas.
- shagie 3y agoKeep Your Identity Small - https://paulgraham.com/identity.html https://paulgraham.com/identity.html Which begins with... > I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions. > As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums? > What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone's an expert. > Then it struck me: this is the problem with politics too. Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoI don't want to hear about your "no politics" politics ;-)