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Re:English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet by Alex_Jiang on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @06:40PM (#6765337)
The added inference I get is "that's just the way it is."

"Because politics" is like saying "because politics are just crazy like that."

It's a flippant way of saying something is simply absurd. Or an issue is pretty much binary.

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Re:English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet by minikomi on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @12:55AM (#6766543)
Yeah, it has an "do you even have to ask?" flavor to it for me.
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