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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoNo, voting is only political if it’s part of a political process. Everyone in a group voting what kind of pizza to order isn’t political, and it can merely be informative (e.g. the person ordering the pizza could pick something else). Voting is only political when it involves government.
“Voting with your wallet” a metaphor. It just means changing your shopping habits so a company loses revenue, usually due to a recent change. Maybe it’s a policy you don’t like, or maybe it’s a drop in quality or something. It’s usually not a political act, though it can occasionally impact political policy (e.g. if the boycott is in response to a political change that involves the target company).
bss03@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yes, it literally is. That’s what politics is: how we control group behavior.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
No, politics is specifically concerned with government. Any other use is generally a metaphor for government, like “office politics.” Voting on what food to get for dinner isn’t “politics,” neither is boycotting a store for treating their employees poorly.
bss03@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
“A methodology and activities associated with running […] an organization” – en.wiktionary.org/wiki/politics
Any organizational decision is politics, including but not limited to a group of people organizing a pizza meal.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
You skipped the part that said “government.” If you read the rest of the definitions, they all have to do with politics and power, even if they’re not governments themselves. So think political parties, PACs, etc. Some non-government entities can have enough power to be comparable to that, such as large companies where maneuvering feels like maneuvering in a government.
Here are other definitions:
All of them are principally about government, or things closely resembling a government. That doesn’t leave room for a small laptop manufacturer or small FOSS project, because they don’t resemble governments. The same goes for patronizing a business or not, that’s not a political act, because we’re not dealing with the types of power associated with politics.