[milch]

It's kind of hilarious to call 2 single words at the end of a blogpost that you could have read over "pushing politics down your throat". As you said, you didn't even have an idea what it meant. For all you knew before you looked it up, he was complaining about the frigid winter weather.

[himujjal]

I like ZSF and what it stands for.

I don’t like “American” only politics in it. Thats it. In fact I would like zero politics in it. (from anywhere in the world)

Bash the mediocrity in software that we have produced over the years. Slow. Electronbased. Etc.

I can have both the opinions.

Also I will support Andrew Kelley on Mastodon if he says the same.

Separation of Concerns.

[sltkr]

Would you really make the same argument if those two words were “White power!” or something?

[boston_clone]

Hey it’s only the first week of February - isn’t it a bit early to be vying for most egregious example of a false equivalence?

[bigstrat2003]

No, the point is valid. The reason milch is saying "it's only two words what's your problem" isn't because it's only two words, it's because they are expressing a message he finds to be acceptable. The parent poster was attempting to point that out by showing there are "two words" messages he wouldn't support.

[boston_clone]

Advocating for the removal of an abusive government agency that has been around for only a handful of years is very fucking different from professing white supremacist views.

Trying to compare those because "they're only two words!" is textbook false equivalence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence#Examples

[milch]

The poster I replied to made an over exaggerated statement about the prominence of these two words, which I found hilarious, in the same way a teenager saying "I am LITERALLY DYING right now" after the barista spelled their name wrong on their coffee order would be hilarious. This was a very slight inconvenience to the poster's day (at best) that they could have dropped after deciding they don't care about events happening in a country they don't live in.

[self_awareness]

Programmers are curious by nature. So it's not 2 words; it's 2 words + wikipedia article + news articles about it, just to know what he's writing about. All uncalled for.

[boston_clone]

Be a little more curious then, friend. The author lives in Portland, which has been experiencing federal brutalization for months. Same place where the feds are repeatedly violating standards for warfare by using chemical munitions on civilians and engaging in large-scale misinformation campaigns against immigrants.

It’s almost astonishing how you found his statement “uncalled for”, while neglecting these facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/portland-ven...

[self_awareness]

To be honest, I am more concerned about the Iranian government killing its own people.

Iran has already killed half as many people as the estimated casualties in the Israel-Palestine war.

Not everything revolves around USA.

[boston_clone]

I’m distraught by what’s happening there, too. Truly horrifying details emerged in the last week or so.

We must all not be discouraged from speaking truth to power, especially when power is abused - irrespective of country or creed!

ICE must be abolished. The people of Iran must have democracy. But only one of those things is within the author’s relative sphere of influence.