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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by qlk1123 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:45AM (#19561558)
> I got up early this morning to look at the fog that had rolled across the city. Politicise that.

If you have been in Seoul or Beijing, this sentence automatically politicises itself. Not fog but smoke though.

Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by oraphalous on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:59AM (#19561630)
Lol - I wrote that expecting the flimsiest of retorts to roll in - knowing they would be good for a laugh.

I mean - it doesn't even achieve what it's aiming for. I haven't been in either of those two cities - so by your own logic, my statement isn't political.

And either way - it can't be true that my statement would politicise itself. Statements just represent states of the world. It is humans and their beliefs that politicise them. No statement can politicise itself.

BUT EVEN IF THEY COULD...lol - this just gets better... You just got done saying that my being in another city is what is somehow causally related to the politicisation.

Your response is so far from being an intelligible thought... you need to tear it all down and start again. Go slow... maybe test it out on a family member first. Workshop it.

Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by qlk1123 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:17AM (#19561697)
> ... by your own logic, my statement isn't political.

No. NOT P does not necessarily imply NOT Q.

> it can't be true that my statement would politicise itself.

Environments matter. That's why I pointed out those two cities, where your statement can deliver totally different meaning and depth, and cause totally different consequences. Does that make any sense to you?

> Your response is so far from being an intelligible thought... you need to tear it all down and start again. Go slow... maybe test it out on a family member first. Workshop it.

Thanks for the feedback.