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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨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.

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  • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨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:

      • Webster
      • Cambridge
      • Oxford

      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.

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