Politics is the mindkiller.
I've long ago completely given up on pretending to take politics seriously. I don't want to hear your unique contribution to political science, I don't care what special interest group you represent, and I have no damn interest in re-enacting a word for word argument older than writing.
Yes, I do have political beliefs. But no, you won't hear about them directly.
See, for me politics is an $ENV variable that I only care about when it completely screws something up. It's something I believe you can and should be able to safely ignore if you have actually have a life.
Programmers are known for having political opinions that would get us tarred and feathered if made publicly known. This is because, after bashing your head against the wall of complexity the human brain was simply not evolved to handle, you tend to regard political beliefs as the amateurish moves of people who couldn't debug a loop if their lives depended on it. We are not interested in Position X for the same reason actual physicists are too fascinated studying real mysteries to devote much interest in your pet mysticism.
People who devote their time to figuring out how complex systems will bite them in the ass, have no time for people who don't understand Murphy's Law.
So, no glorified ape dominance hierarchy gossip. I will delete any comments containing needless political snark. You know what I mean: if my post is about the Y Combinator and you just have to make a witty comment about that damn Foo party, kill yourself. Please.
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