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add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 8:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

That has nothing to do with what "politics" means but it's exactly how people have started using "political" to mean "idea I don't agree with".


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usef-today at 1:14 AM

In software engineering the word has also long meant "a decision not made purely on technical terms"

johnfnyesterday at 9:44 PM

I think there is a lot of overlap between politics and ideology, and an increasing amount of overlap between ideology and emotion.

I think it's fair to call me out for skipping a step, but I wasn't using it to mean "idea I don't agree with".

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