It's foolishness to believe that politics has no place in daily life when there are people who will make others' entire existences political. It's not a "gambit" if it's patently true.
> I can make a cli tool to deploy something faster and with the boilerplate logging/monitoring.
> What political stance am I taking?
That this thing should be made more efficient for any of multiple reasons like "boss told me to and I should obey him in this". And you'd just have to find someone arguing technological deployment should be restricted to protect jobs to confirm this is political.
> Do you think I intentionally made one?
No.
> Or is this the same as "silence is violence"- by NOT making a statement that I am making a statement?
It can be so. You're still making a choice to ignore the situation and that has consequences too.
> Honestly, it's exhausting. I just want to help where I can personally and have fun, it's not deeper than that.
Whether you're making an intentional political statement or not is besides the point. That's the thing about something being intrinsic. Your intention doesn't subvert the fact.
To add to grotorea's already very good points in response to your boilerplate CLI program: you're writing it on a computer built by certain modes of production endorsed by interweaving political frameworks (industrialisation, neoliberalism, globalisation, capitalism, etc.) You're probably writing it in English which by the very fact of its use situates it as anglocentric, but also brings further attendant ideologies and assumptions with it about its uses/users. You're communicating about it over the internet (hopefully I don't need to explain the historical and contemporary ideological roots here.) I want to be clear that these aren't criticisms, but trying to chase some purity of intent by ignoring them doesn't make them go away. All of your actions are governed by and in response to these structures and unless you try to understand them, you'll always take them for granted.
> I just want to help where I can personally and have fun, it's not deeper than that.
Your position seems to be "I don't want to be bother ever by the problems of others if they don't affect me and my close ones directly". And that's a political position. A RIGHT WING political position.
My position is “not everything has political undertones”, and being coerced to act because you force me into a political spectrum for being neutral otherwise is not the liberal or tolerant ideology you think it is.
I am not saying that I will not take on the worlds issues, I am saying that I am not always making a statement with action or inaction.
characterising everyone who doesn't toe the line to your ideology with every single action is a very easy way to see the entire world as your enemy. Let me know how that goes.
A wonderful facet of Hacker News is the ability to converse with the community-enforced expectation of being taken in good faith. But every now and then I see these snarky, facile replies and I wonder if I'm using the same website as them, and if we're actually trying to make this place better together after all.
