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Re:The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News by rexpop on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:49PM (#19630114)
> Politics aren’t the only way to change the status quo.

The status quo is a political arrangement. It's just a way of referring to the state of power's distribution across institutions and people. That's political.

There is literally, definitionally nothing apolitical that affects the status quo.

Changing the status quo is--inescapably, apodictically--political.

Uber and AirBnB are highly political institutions.

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Re:The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News by malvosenior on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:53PM (#19630148)
By this definition literally every interaction with the outside world is political. Is a definition that broad really useful?

When people talk about politics they’re almost always talking about interfacing with the government. Taking an Uber is definitely not a political statement in most people’s minds.

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Re:The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News by rexpop on Saturday April 13, 2019 @12:49PM (#19654126)
It may not be a political _statement_, but it has political _consequences_.

Ignoring nth-order consequences doesn't make them go away.

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