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winston_smith on Nov 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: To do politics or not do politics? Tech startups a...

If everything is political and there's no such thing as neutral, then neither of those words would exist.

It's like the smartass kid who acts like he doesn't know what "clean" means because there might be a molecule of dirt somewhere.

echlebek on Nov 23, 2020 [–]

That's a nonsense argument. Words don't just pop out of existence if there are no instances of the things they describe.

winston_smith on Nov 23, 2020 | [–]

The smartass kid would agree with you. Is your claim that some things used to not be political but now literally everything is?

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