> that's what you're wagging in their face with some of the CoCs.

I never mentioned codes of conduct in my comment.

Those are orthogonal to the observation that communities are fundamentally political.

> Leave it at "don't be an asshole". It's that simple.

Sure, and "don't be an asshole" is a political statement. The subjects and objects of that sentence are people and the intent is to affect how they interact.

If you feel that that's the kind of thing that community members should write down and say to each other, then you're implicitly agreeing with my claim that politics is what communities do.

I suspect you think you and I would disagree with what politics a community should espouse, but that's not my point at all. All I'm saying is that every community, every group of people coordinating together, is a political beast. It's true of an anarcho-syndalistic art collective from Portland who only communicate through crypto-signed commits on their self-hosted fork of Fossil, it's true of a gang of skinhead bikers meeting regularly at a dive bar, and it's true of the Rust community.

When people regularly interact with each other and communicate about how they should interact... they are politicking. "Politics" has become a bad word for some people, but it's the less bad word we have available to describe what it is people are doing when they are establishing the norms and practices of their regular repeated interactions.