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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by dragonwriter on Monday October 19, 2020 @03:21AM (#24824005)
> I'd like being politically illiterate, but morally and ethically educated.

> If politics is manufactured outrage

But it's not; politics is everything concerning government.

Manufactured outrage is a common tool for manipulating the politically illiterate.

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Re:Reading too much political news is bad for your well-being by hanche on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:03AM (#24824194)
I would state it even more broadly: Politics is everything concerning how society is organised. Of course, government is a big part of that, but it is not the whole. For example, how mutual trust in society is created or eroded is a political question in my mind.
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