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0 pointsbowsamic1y ago0 comments

Can you give an example of an apolitical topic?

EDIT: unfortunately I can’t reply to the comments as I have been banned

EDIT 2: I have been banned to reply to the commenter, dang told me

EDIT 3: dang has now wiped all the upvotes on this message and given me 2 extra downvotes and suddenly another comment I made mentioning him in a totally different thread has been mass downvoted

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dang1y ago

I don't believe I told you that, because our software doesn't work that way.

Your account is rate-limited though. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. That's probably what I told you.

tim3331y ago

Providing memory safety in computer languages?

darkwater1y ago

You are making governments secret agencies work harder. So, not apolitical.

dpkirchner1y ago

There isn't one. It's the very nature of politics that it affects everything we humans do.

nicolas_t1y ago

I don't think you've been banned. There's some mechanism to rate limit replies in HN to prevent flamewars so maybe that's what you're seeing?

analognoise1y ago

Almost everything can be discussed in an apolitical way - you just don’t talk politics. It isn’t a logic puzzle.

bowsamicOP1y ago

Yes you can decide not to mention the politics inherent in the thing but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I’m wondering if the person I’m replying to can produce a thing where it truly isn’t there

analognoise1y ago

But you can say that about anything. There are people whose whole expertise is one area of, say, film production.

You can talk about films and critically analyze them without doing a deep dive into how props are made. It’s OK to have separate contexts.

It isn’t a “gotcha” that “everything is political” - it just doesn’t matter when trying to do most things. It’s distracting and pointless; it’s a null statement.

You can talk about anything without having to include politics the same way you can discuss literature without examining types of paper.

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0 pointsbowsamic1y ago0 comments

Can you give an example of an apolitical topic?

EDIT: unfortunately I can’t reply to the comments as I have been banned

EDIT 2: I have been banned to reply to the commenter, dang told me

EDIT 3: dang has now wiped all the upvotes on this message and given me 2 extra downvotes and suddenly another comment I made mentioning him in a totally different thread has been mass downvoted

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dang1y ago

I don't believe I told you that, because our software doesn't work that way.

Your account is rate-limited though. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. That's probably what I told you.

tim3331y ago

Providing memory safety in computer languages?

darkwater1y ago

You are making governments secret agencies work harder. So, not apolitical.

dpkirchner1y ago

There isn't one. It's the very nature of politics that it affects everything we humans do.

nicolas_t1y ago

I don't think you've been banned. There's some mechanism to rate limit replies in HN to prevent flamewars so maybe that's what you're seeing?

analognoise1y ago

Almost everything can be discussed in an apolitical way - you just don’t talk politics. It isn’t a logic puzzle.

bowsamicOP1y ago

analognoise1y ago

But you can say that about anything. There are people whose whole expertise is one area of, say, film production.

You can talk about films and critically analyze them without doing a deep dive into how props are made. It’s OK to have separate contexts.

It isn’t a “gotcha” that “everything is political” - it just doesn’t matter when trying to do most things. It’s distracting and pointless; it’s a null statement.

You can talk about anything without having to include politics the same way you can discuss literature without examining types of paper.

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