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> You simply can't separate out politics like this. Wrong pronoun, you mean "I." Most people have no problem interacting with people having terrible political
by SamReidHughes 11y ago
> You simply can't separate out politics like this.
Wrong pronoun, you mean "I." Most people have no problem interacting with people having terrible political beliefs.
- vacri 11y agoNo, I meant the rhetorical 'you', and now I mean 'you, SamReidHughes', because it's clear that you don't understand human politicking. Did you notice that I did not say "terrible political beliefs", I just said 'politics', making no value judgement? You're putting words in my mouth to put me in my place, but I'm not accepting it. You're not attacking the merits of what I said, but distorting it into something that's easy to attack. Right here, this is politics in action. So yes, you personally, SamReidHughs, demonstrably have trouble separating politics from technical merit. If you want other examples, just have a look at any time an article about technical abilities comes up here on HN when the person is Jobs or Stallman or Torvalds. Most of the discussion goes political, with little in the way of technical comment on what they might be talking about.