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That is not what the prejorative mean, I don't see the point in making this political.


Everything is political my friend.


When everything is X, nothing is X.


When everything exists, nothing exists?

There are no universal properties?

A non-trivial universal property for a domain asserts something non-trivial about everything in the domain. You think 'political' is a trivial property?


Who knows?

But this is reference to exceptional (low entropy) properties. If you multiply highly informational properties, they stop being informative. And move more towards white noise.


In this case, you have reached a context in which a property is of zero bits (trivial), but still has useful content, which is already recorded in the context.


Everything can be politicized


Yes, but not everything needs to analyzed politically.

Nor making a political assumption about someone.


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I never stated nor insinuated that you shouldn't form opinions about "things", my point was very clear about the fact that you don't need to _always_ analyze something politically and can instead analyze it differently or choose not to because it doesn't serve much interest or benefit for you, the community or society.

Unless you are willing to bite the bullet and agree then that we ought to analyze politically why a ball is round or why birds fly.


The alternative is to oppose the political class that has been manipulating popular opinion for a hundred years now in order to maintain their positions of power. Our current form of representation, although it’s a joke to call it that now, has been obsolete for decades. Examine the principals upon which it’s based, they make no sense with modern communication technology.


You realize that this is all a political choice right?


Being against the practice of politics is still politics huh? That’s kind of a loose definition don’t you think?


Can you write down your analysis of the preceding comments for the benefit of the passing reader?


Nothing to add, __loam's comment is very right.


Indeed. Lets leave politics out of a political labour movement.


Luddites was the precursor to the labor movement, I never dispute this.

It's the attempt made to label someone as "liberal" because they didn't know that Luddites was/is used as a pejorative, to someone who clearly has not stated they identify as such.

Which is just absurd, like labeling someone as a supporter of imperialism because they didn't know that royal means "of having the status of a king or queen or a member of their family".

Not only that but to then also indirectly insinuating this is because they are essentially too sheltered/spoiled to understand the value of goods.

Specifically:

>I understand your point of view if you're from a first-world country and you never experienced the terror of having people interfering with the means of production.

Despite the original poster never stated something that would highlight such a point of view, beyond admitting not knowing the definition/use of a word.




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