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by kelseyfrog 1326 days ago
Everything is politics. It's a matter of how much head-burying I'm up for at any given moment.
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Everything is politics to only those who want it to be and love arguing to feel superior.
Tech is heavily heavily impacted by politics.

If you work in a publicly traded company, you are super impacted by politics. Look at your compensation.

If you work in anything that requires access to semiconductors, you are super impacted by politics. (Tell me TSMC shutting down will only impact "those who want politics to impact them".)

If you work in a company that is trying to acquire other companies or engages in regulatory capture, politics impacts you.

If you work in a company or technology that has the interest of government, it impacts you (ask blockchain companies, ask social companies, ask tech security companies, ask app stores).

If you work in a company that depends on Section 230, GDPR, etc - politics is a huge impact on your job.

If you are part of a group that is a target of campaigns to create division, you are impacted by politics.

If you go and buy things at a grocery store, you're impacted by politics.

If you want to acquire a competitor, politics impacts you.

If you want to sell your goods to people in another country, politics impacts you.

If you work at Boeing (based on your username), you are 100% impacted by politics.

I'm going to throw it back at you, what isn't impacted by politics?

You're not wrong but you're really not proving him wrong by not arguing or trying to feel superior.
How was the creation of the Milky Way political?
Rather than talking past each other, why don't you share what you think I'm saying and we can take it from there?
I side with Trump for his creation of the Space Force when the media made him the object of mockery. The U.S. politics behind space technology is frienemy nasty.
You probably don't want to investigate the history of the space force then.

   Everything is politics.
Often asserted, never proven.
Happy to engage if you state the evidentiary bar that would change your mind.
Are you familiar with Hitchens's razor?
No sorry. If I don't look it up then I can feel justified in dismissing it without evidence.
You made an assertion that everything is politics, without providing any evidence. Every time someone repeats that nonsense they get called out, refuse to back it up with any shred of evidence, and then have a cute response.

Like clockwork.

Simply state the evidentiary threshold that would change your mind and I'll be happy to provide it. I've been down this dialog tree so many times before.

Also be happy to remind you to have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. :)